1967-10-11; Saline Reporter

              jto VOLUME 19, NO. 5  ~ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1967
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Schools Council       Navy Gets Warm Welcome
Urges Earlier Start
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On Negotiations
Phone Books
Will Come Out
Seventeen members of the
School Advisory Council have
signed a resolution asking that
next year's teacher contract negotiations begin 90 days before
the end of the year.
- The resolution cites a section
of the current master contract
which provides that negotiations
must begin if either party requests them, any time after the
90-day period begins ... or,
the first week in April.
The Council, which usually
has one non-member guest and
sometimes two, as its meetings,
last week had 14 visitors. The
sudden surge of public interest
may have been due to the up-
FAIR BOARD
TO BANQUET
The October meeting of the
Saline Community Fair Board
will be a banquet at 7 p.m. October 25, at the Masonic Temple, for board members and
their husbands and wives.
Methodist Group
Plans Smorgasbord
A Harvest Smorgasbord sponsored by the Methodist Church
will be served from 5 to 7 p.m.
Saturday, October 28, at the
High School.
Tickets will be available at
the door, $2 for adults and $1
for children four to ten years
of age. Children under four will
be admitted free.
Committees for the event include Carolyn Beal, chairman
of the kitchen committee, with
Dorothy Frederick, Ann Coe,
Evelyn Myers, Elizabeth Davis, and Mary Toth; Nona Au-
rand, chairman of the serving
table, with Verna Holmes and
Marcia Luttman; Dorothy Ved-
der, dining room, with Harriet
Lake; Nancy Ferguson, hostess
and table decorations; and
Dorothy Stimpson and Betty
Parsons, tickets.
coming resolution on negotiations, members felt. All meetings are open to the public.
(The Council has added another word to its name, which
now reads, in full: "Saline Area
Schools Citizens Advisory Council.'7)
The resolution on negotiations •
"recommends that the School
Board, or the SEA, make a
formal written request that negotiations for the 1968-69 school
year begin 99 days prior to the
end of the contract year as provided for in the current master
contract, and that if one of the
said parties fails to make said
formal request, the other should
make said request".
It was signed by Alton C.
Finkbeiner, George J. Bonich,
Allan W. Grossman, Daniel S.
Lirones, D. L. Clary, A. E. Gall,
R. C. McNally, Carl D. Miller,
Elaine D. O'Connor, Ruth Vila,
Kristeen R. Ciark, Barbara J.
O'Brien, Mrs. William Klapper,
Una Dicks, W. C. Vander Yacht,
John E. Livingstone and Doro- ■
thy H.  Crim.
The Council also approved a
resolution to forward a report
of their Educational Facilities
Investigating Committee, o n
needs of the new high school,
to the School Board, and also
resolved that the board be requested to "give public notice
of the date set for consideration
of this report".
New members and officers of-
the Council will be elected at
the annual meeting on the first
Wednesday in November. The
Council consists of 30 members
from the townships and the city, plus one, from each parent-
organization.
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PACKED BLEACHERS ECHOED APPLAUSE as the Navy musicians went
through their half^-time routine, during their stop-ovejr in Saline
m- if ,     *■"- - • ". *.
Union Voted
Down at R & B
R & B Tool Co. employees
last week rejected the UAW-
CIO as a bargaining agent by
a vote of 41-25.
The company employs about
105 persons; 73 of these were
eligible to vote in the election.
Although R. & B. Tool Co. has
been established here since
1942, last week's election was
the first ever held at the plant.
School Fluoride
Program Requests
Due Here Monday
Final requests and fees are
now being accepted for the annual topical fluoride program
in the schools. The program is
sponsored by the Saline Room
Parents Organization in cooperation with the Michigan department of Health.
The fee of $3.75 and consent
card must be returned before
Monday, October 16, in order
for the application to be accepted.
For further information, parents may contact the fluoride
committee chairman, Mrs. Paul
Hale,  429-9094.
iU.
There won't be any 1967 telephone books here; instead, they
will come out early in 1988, a-
bout two months later than usual.
The major reason for the
change is that the SaUne and
.Ann Arbor listings will be com-
-Hned into one book, Kenneth
Conway, district manager of
Genera1. Telephone Co., said.
Each exchange will be listed in
its own section of the book.
Listings for the next Saline
telephone directory will close
en January 5; and the books
will be mailed by the directory
company on February 23, directly to the customers, Conway said. In previous years,
listings have closed in October
for the book to be mailed in
late November.
The new book, however, will
contain yellow pages only for
Saline.
The Saline exchange now has
2,372 accounts, a gain of 187 over 2,185 accounts in October,
196S. But the number of accounts does not reflect the
number of telephones and extensions, Conway pointed out;
for example, the Ford plant,
with "200 to 300" telephones,
is  listed  as  one  account.
Each account gained indicates around six movements of
subscribers in and out. he said;
and it may reflect as many as
11 changes in the course of a
year.
leadline Nears -
Two Withdraw,
ne Undecided
With the filing  deadline owner  of   the  Corner  Drug
only a week away, the city Store for 25 years, he is now
still  has   no   candidates   for employed in the'pharmacy at
the three council seats to be  Saline Community Hospital.
filled in the November election.
Two of the incumbents will
not seek new terms; the
third has not announced a
decision.
Expiring terms are those
of Ormond Jedele, William
Meister, and Hugh Keveling.
Jedele, a Ford Motor Co.
employee  who   lives   at  245
He has "not decided" whether or not he will run again,
he said this week.
Nominating petition forms
are available at City Hall;
they may be filled out and
returned to the city clerk no
later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, October 18.
The petitions must carry
at least 80 signatures of registered city electors, and "it
more" to provide against
signers' errors, City Clerk
Maurice Doll said.
Lawson, will have completed * ouM he begt tQ ^^ a few
one two-year term as councilman. But he apparently
cannot be a candidate for reelection because he is in Europe for three weeks; he is
not expected to return until
midnight of. October 21 . . .
three  days   after the  filing
Petitions cannot be filed in 1* QY iiOOQ
his behalf in his absence, Saline's "Railroad Street",
since the charter requires which neyer really existed any-
that they must be accom- way> has now entirely vanish-
panied   by   the   candidates ed      d residents would be well
"Railroad St."
sappear
written consent to the nomination.
Meister, a group vice president of Hoover Ball & Bearing Co., was recently appointed to complete the term vacated when Councilman Don-
to   try to   drive
advised   not
through it.
Although it had been used as
a public thoroughfare for nearly 100 years, it was owned by
the New York Central Railroad
,. ^   ,     , ,   .    _ and  was   staked   off  occasion-
aid Dechert moved to Dear- aUy tQ prevent a fo)m faUing
Kick-off Dinner
Slated Thursday
With a goal of $23,724, the
Saline area.Uiiited Fund, campaign will he launched Thursday evening, at a 7 "p.m. dinner
at the American Legion hall.
CKLW disk jockey Dave Schaf-
fer will be the speaker.
The event, for all United
Fund captains and their aides,
is sponsored annually by Universal   Die  Casting  Division.
Drive chairman this year is
Don Church.
born.
He said today that he can ^^oTa^St^ it
not  serve another term  because "it would interfere too
much with my job". He would
be unable to  devote the a-
into the public domain. An ex-
runs
east and west near the tracks.
It has been leased by the city
but was never claimed by. em-
mount of time required for ™nt d°main- Jt .wai ^improv-
the city's interests,, he said, ed> and "? recent years , jt has
arid* "you  can't  be  a' _Ja_-t-
titne councilman arid do the
job right."
Keveling is completing his
second term as a councilman.
A pharmacist and former
Centennial Board
Issues Last Call
HONORED GUEST AND RECEPTION COMMITTEE: Midshipman Boh
Still, a poised upperclassman at the Naval Academy, was slightly shook by the
welcome awaiting him and his shipmates last Saturday. On hand to greet the!
marching musicians were Legionnaires Robert Todd and Post Commander Jack
Moranville. The Navy men's luncheon was financed by the Legion, Rotary, and
Kiwanis clubs of Saline . . . and volunteers from the Legion Auxiliary helped'
serve and clean up.
GOP TO PLAN
1968    CAMPAIGN
Local Republicans will begin
work on the 1968 campaign
plans at a meeting at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, October 25, at the
bank community room.
Invited to attend the reorganization meeting are Congressman Marvin Esch, State Senator Gilbert Bursley, Representative Thomas Sharpe, and all
Saline   area   Republicans.
carried very-little traffic.
Two years ago. the.,city abandoned the tip of it, at Harris
Street, to Uniloy Division; and
the lease on the entire stretch
ran out .this summer and was
not renewed.
Some years ago, the railroad
depot was purchased by Saline
Mercantile Co., along with an
adacent stretch of the so-called
"street". Another section is
Centennial   last now owned by Hull's  Grocery
Remember?
We had   a
year. And Saline area Centennial,   Inc.,   will  be  dissolved  in
for additional parking lot,  and
Uniloy owns the section behind
the very, near future,  as  soon its buildings, part of which was
as the board is certain that al recently paved as a parking lot.
its work is done.
Said Chairman Lauren Wild:
"To the best of our knowledge
everyone   has   been  paid.
this   is   the  last   call;   if
Barricades have been placed
at both ends of the Uniloy property; a sign at the east end
but will warn drivers that no street
any exists there; and a fence, now
bills have been overlooked, they under construction at the west
should   be   submitted  no  later end,  will be  marked with re-
than Friday, October 20."
fleeter strips.
Jaycees Run Cool Contest
Striking Ford Workers
Attend Classes Here
Torrents of Ford Motor Co.
employees, on strike, pour in
and out of the Masonic Temple
building every Thursday and
Friday, to attend classes on the
union's history  and  objectives.
Their UAW constitution requires that they participate either in the classes or in picket
duty, in order to receive strike
assistance checks . . . and a
total of $35,000 a week in strike
assistance comes to SaUne plant
employees.
Four classes every Thursday
and four each Friday are conducted by Larry Harbolt, UAW
Education Department coordinator, and Emerson Baringer, of
Jackson, who i s connected
with the Detroit office. Approximately 150 "students" attend
each class, for which they must
come from their homes in Manchester, Brooklyn, Adrian, Tecumseh, Milan, Ypsilanti, Ann
Arbor, Belleville, and as .far
away as Toledo. All are employees of the Saline plant.
With 1,610 Ford employees on
strike in this area, about 1,410
are drawing assistance.
On duty at the Local 892 headquarters in the Hagen building
are seven persons working as
"community service" without
pay. They spend 20 to 30 hours
a week to issue checks, file
IBM cards, and provision the
strike trailer at the Ford Mptor
Co. parking lot.
Of the $35,000 in strike assistance issued here, about 96 per
cent is cashed in local banks,
Charles Gorham, financial secretary of the local, said. He
estimated that "better than 40
per cent" of that sum is spent
in local stores and pointed out
that "at least $2,000 a week
is expended" by the community
service committee for meals,
gas, equipment, and supplies
for the strike trailer.
Local businessmen, however,
reported a noticeable drop in
business since the advent of the
strike, since employees of the
Saline plant have always cashed and spent a large proportion of their checks here.
Union members are reminded that they may sign up for
food stamps at union headquarters, a program- that began a
week ago. Mrs. Mary Lou Ran-
d o 1 p h, commodities service
chairman of the Washtenaw
County Council, UAW-CIO, is
assisting in the program.
(The Ford strike has produced "no lay-off so far" at any
of the Hoover plants, which produce parts for Ford Motor Co.,
and "we are continuing at the
moment on a satisfactory basis of production," a spokesman
said.
At R. & B. Tool Co., "no effect whatever" was reported.)
_ttEPRESENTING JENSEN SCHOOL CLASSMATES, Judy Herter gave fan
mail written by 3rd and 4th graders .to one of the Corps officers for distribution
to the members of the marching group. Along with her bulging satchel of let-!
ters, Judy and her family also brought "Little Joe", their pet goat, to the Navy
reception at the High School.. Shown above, left to right, at the presentation:
L. Z. Still, CoTpsman Bob Still, Arleene and Suzie StHl,' Judy, and Corps Officer
Otto. *
SALINE JAYCEES, HELPED BY HORNET QUARTERBACK JRXCK BERRY, put on another successful Punt, Pass and Kick contest last Saturday. For
contest results, see sports page. -
Shown front row left to right: Don Clingersmith, Jaycee President Jack Keliey, Rick Berry, Bob Dobson. Back row: Dean Collins, Bill Sfihaaf,- Joe Graf, Jim
Martiny, Paul Wagner, Jan Losee, Bill Garpo, Bob Higdon. Jan and Dean were
chairman and co-chairman, respectively, of the project.