1967-09-13; Saline Reporter

              e Saline
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 1 - WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 13, 1967
1 •.        #      #      #
10c PER COPY — $4 PER YEAR
Bobbi Dons the Crown
.s*
y -
Pert and personable Bobbi
Politz (nee Roberta) vijas
crowned "Miss Saline",
Thursday evening, in a flurry of excitement that didn't
end until after her mother
had telephoned both sisters,
long distance, from the fairgrounds.
Bobbi is the daughter? of-
Mrs. Edward Politz,. of 330
Mills -Rd., and th£ late Mr.
Politz. The queen's two sisters, Mrs. Jim Wakefield of
Romulus and Mrs. John Ur-
sery of Wayne, got the news
via telephone almost at once
. . . "and they were so glad!
We never expected it!"
.Also singled out in the
crowning ceremony were
Bonnie Guenther, daughter
of-the Robert Guenthers, who
was elected by her fellow-
contestants as "Miss Congeniality" ; Sharon Burkhardt,
daughter of the Dean Burlc-
hardts, who was second* runner-up; and Janice Kemp,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Frank .Kemp, first runner-up.
The winners were chosen
from a roster of 24 contestants.
Bobbi, who maintains an
A minus average i n high"
school, is a member of the
Spanish Club and the FHA.'
of which she is president and
regional chairman. This summer, she spent a month in;
Mexico. in the Youth for Understanding program.
She\ plans to attend Mercy
College, in Detroit, to major
in languages.
When.she had collected her
thoughts after the crowning,
she answered again the three
questions. which judges had
asked all contestants; she
.■cited her ..views on: ... ,.„  '■,.,■'*.
Mini-skirts: "On trie' proper person, they can be like
shorts, worn most for sports
... as long as you have
something underneath them.
Tennis dresses, and so on."
Viet ■ NamY, "We have to
remain there,' since we've
been there 'for so long. We
have a responsibility to the
other' peoples of the world
who look up ■ to the -United
States a s a leading .world
power."
. The teacher stay-out: "I
don't know the exact raise
teachers want, but with all
prices going up, they should
get some sort of pay raise.
All these people on strike
(the Ford plants, too) mean
a lot of people out of work,
which might cause an economic problem in the state.
Wi
mners
Miss Congeniality, Bonnie Guenther; Miss Saline,
Bobbi Politz; and the queen's court, Janice Kemp and
Sharon Burkhardt.
Fact-Finder's
SENIOR  CITIZENS'
MEETING SLATED
Senior Citizens of the Sa- RepOI"t AppeaFS
line area will meet at 8 D.m.  s\     *rs _ A
Monday, at the Junior High Ull ■ _T Sg6 1A   "
School, at the corner of McKay and N. Ann Arbor St.
•Anyone .,interested  is  welcome.     ::-"•.
JU.
USE PLAN
43 Junior
Deputies Steer
Fair Traffic
The smooth movement of
hundreds and hundreds of
cars, in and out of the fairgrounds parking areas, was
directly due. to 43 Saline
chanter Junior Deputies, led
by Sheriff Deputy Erwin Henes.
All members of the Saline
group worked, in the course-
of the" Fair; boys directed
traffic there from 5 to 9 p.m.
from Tuesday through Saturday. They also marched in
the Fair parade, on Saturday,
with the Ann Arbor group,
which is only two or three
members bigger . . . the total contingent in the parade
was about 90.
Seven or eight new members will be added to the Saline list tonight, at a "recruiting meeting", Henes
said.
The Pittsfield Township
Planning Commission, assisted by _b° Washtenaw County
Metropolitan Planning Com-
."foissionTlias cqmplefed.aprelim inarv land us_ plan ^for
1985, designed to guide 'the
township through the present
"dynamic period of rapid
growth".
A series of public meetings
has been scheduled, to acquaint residents with the
background and details of the
■plan., and different areas of
the township will be discussed at each meeting.
All of the meetings are
slated, at 8 p.m. at the Town-
shiD Hall. Area A will come
under discussion on Monday,
September 18: Area B on
Tuesday, September 19; Area
C on Wednesday, September
20; and Arpa D on Monday,
September 25.
Purposes of the plan include: "to encourage the use
of natural resources . . .";
"to deter the overcrowding.of
land by buildings and people"; "to alleviate congestion
on public highways, roads,
and streets"; and "to relate
the development of Pittsfield" to surrounding cities
and townships.
Problems to be dealt with
by use of the plan are the
present inadequacy of roads,
the township's "apartment
boom", and annexations of
parcels of land to all of the
surrounding cities.
The State Labor Mediation
Board fact-finder's report, on
which settlement of Saline
school issues was based, appears complete on page 1A of
The Reporter, today.
(Because of the deluge of
letters-to-the-editor concerning; teachers' pay, this week
"Mailbag" also appears on
page 1A, as well as in its
usual location on the editorial page, 2.)
The fact-finder was Morris
Milmet. attorney with the
firm of 'Milmet" and Vecchio,"
Detroit, one of about 10 factfinders appointed by the Mediation Board this year to
deal with the widely scattered school negotiation
break-downs, as well as industrial contract talks. '
He has not worked with
the Mediation Board before
this year, but he has a background in labor-law. Originally, from Holly, Mich., he
graduated from Eastern Michigan University in 1946,
and from the University of
Michigan law school in 1949.
In school mediation, he assisted at Harper Woods,
where a settlement was worked out without need for factfinding recommendations; he
is assigned now to Oak Park,-
where mediation was still in
progress, at- last report.
Teachers Ballot
87-3 to Accept
Contract Terms
Agreement Reached
In Midnight Session
Saline children will go to school on Friday . . . and
they'll be there one week longer next June.
After a negotiators' session that lasted long past
midnight, teachers voted 87-3 today to accept the contract terms that had been worked out. They will report
to the schools for orientation on Thursday.
The agreement was based on the opinion from a State
Labor Mediation Board fact-finder, which recommended the
board's proposed starting salary of §5,900 for degreed but
inexperienced teachers . . . but it also suggested steps that
go up faster and reach higher maximums than those proposed by the board.
Both minimum and maximum salaries are lower than
those sought by SEA, the teachers' bargaining agent.
The fact-finder's salary schedule was accepted without change, but some adjustments were made in other
areas of contention. Board negotiators agreed that the
school will pay for individual medical insurance coverage, $110 for each teacher . . . $100 was suggested by
the fact-finder . . . but they also will provide $5,000 in
life insurance per teacher, which the fact-finder did not
recommend.
Other concessions were
made by both sides:
SEA "gave an allowance"
for the board to employ industrial arts teachers at up
to two steps above their normal place on the salary
schedule, because "they are
hard to get", explained Hal-
lie Mehler, SEA president.
The allowance was only for
teachers in that field. The
factfinder had recommended against deviations from
the salary schedule, with the
note that they would be "a
matter of negotiation".-
Summer employees are to
be paid at the regular hourly rate.
Teachers will receive a
sabbatical leave, one year at
half pay, after seven years.
Sick leave will be increased to a day each month ior
the first 10 years of employment here; iy2 days up to 20
years; and two days a month
after 20 years. Four teachers
have been with the Saline,
school system for 20 years
or more.
SEA will also administer a
"sick bank", operated like a
blood bank, in which teachers
will "deposit" a sick day so
that anyone with, a prolonged
illness can  "draw from  the
bank".
Teachers will have one
"personal business day" a-
bove sick leave; they have
had two in the past, but both
came out of sick leave.
The new contract will provide, as did . last year's,, a
half hour lunch period free
of duties.
The; exact cost of the final
agreement has not yet been
calculated, said Superintendent Harold JHintz, but he estimated $794,000 for salaries
only, not counting fringe benefits. The - figure does not
include longevity, for which
one teacher alone will receive an additional $1,135, he
noted.
Neither does it include necessary upward adjustments
for teachers who have recently obtained masters' degrees, he said. "I was notified by two,, just this morn-
ning, that they have OVIA's
now."
Although a meeting of the
School Board is scheduled tonight, the final agreements
will not be ready for ratification at that time, Hintz
(Continued on Page 3)
oni€S
"Children and Pets" are always the most photogenic departments at-the -Fair.
Above, just a few of the ribbbon winners. More Fair photos next week!
Float Note: Who
Entered Winners?
Fair Board members have
been unable to determine who
sponsored two of the winning
floats in the junior division in
the Fair parade-. . .and so they
don't know where to send
prizes.
Unknown are the sponsors of
the sailboat float, which placed
second, and the "Litter Poppin-
up" float, which came in third.
First place in the junior division went to the Saline Lamb
Club, -in senior competition,
winners were the American
Legion float, first, and Ypsilanti
Township, second.
Pastor to Get
Honorary
Degree Sunday
The Rev. Robert Nelson
will receive an. honorary Doctor of Divinity degree, from
Landmark Baptist College,
Hayward, Calif., at a service
here Sunday. -
" The degree will be present-
fid at the 11 a.m. service at
the Salihe Baptist Church,
where the Rev. Mr. Nelson is
pastor, by Dr. O. C. Harris,
vice president and trustee of
the college.
It is to be given in recognition of Mr. Nelson's home
missionary work and literary
service to Landmark College;
he has written a number of
articles for' their magazine.
He has also traded pulpits
with Dr. Harris in the past.
Mr. Nelson, a graduate of
•Geneva College in Beaver
Falls, Pa., and Grand Rapids
Baptist Seminary, has done
graduate work at Eastern
Michigan University. He has
served as a home missionary
for 13 years and has helped
to found three churches in
Michigan.
"A farm without a whinny is a farm without a horse," observed Marion
Crisovan^ 7, and that bit of sage philosophy won a pony for "the Russell CrisoVan
homestead _on Willis Rd. She selected the name '-W__inny-loi>Me'' for the pony
given away at the Fair, and judges quite agreed. So did her brother, Mike, 9,
at right. Saddle, and martingale were given by Westside Hardware, Estes Drags.