1967-12-13; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
VOL. 19, NO. 14 ~ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1967
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[►First TV
Tapes Made
At Jensen
Televised education began
this week in the Saline school
system, when the first local
tapes   were   made  and   shown.
The school district has purchased monitors for all four
schools, plus the equipment for
making tapes here. The tapes
will be used for in-service
training for teachers, for wider
dissemination of science instruction, and for a number of
other   educational   purpose's.
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The first tape, made Tuesday
at Jensen School, starred first-
graders in Pat Ritsema's and
Mary Scharp's classes; Kay
Burr, reading supervisor for
both elementary schools and
the Junior High; and Ruby
Kuhl, Jensen principal. Superintendent Harold Hintz operated the camera.
Unrehearsed   and   completely
spontaneous,    it    demonstrated
methods   of   teaching   phonics
and  other  procedures  used  in
teaching beginning readers.
The  youngsters  in  the classes
were aware that they were "on
camera" . . . said Kay:   "The
kids loved it!"
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The film was shown Wednesday to the children who were
in it, and was shown to Jensen
teachers after school. It will also be shown at Houghton
School, as soon as the monitor
is installed there.
"TV will be a real help for
teachers," Kay enthused. "It's
a real learning experience for
us!"
Industrial Education Dept Excels City's Appointive
Positions Shuffled
School Advisory
Lodi Petition
For Re-zoning
Withdrawn
' A petition to re-zone a Lodi
Township site to "commercial"
for a greenhouse has been withdrawn.
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Turner,
owners of Turner Lodi Greenhouses and Nursery, had asked
that their property, at 4431 S.
Wagner Rd., be re-zoned to allow for  expansion  and  assure
i their right to reconstruct the
buildings in the event of any
disaster.
At a public hearing on the
petition, their attorney indicated that their petition would be
withdrawn if a study of the Lodi
zoning ordinance and Michigan
statutes showed that expansion
tdjjtpfi. reconstruction were j>oss-
;d_Hj||e under present laws.
."""Their decision to withdraw
file petition was conveyed to
Township Attorney William
Delhey in a letter last week.
. Township residents, about 200
of whom signed a petition a-
gainst the zoning change, specified at the hearing that they
had no objection to operation of
a greenhouse . . . which has existed on that site for many
years . . . but only to the
change of zone classification to
"commercial".
One of the High School's six hydraulics trainer panels is demonstrated by a
student, Billy Levleit, and the instructor, George Agin. Similar trainer panels are
used by Washtenaw Community College, and many of Saline's courses are. credited by the college.
,g Year
Committees   for   the   coming
year  have  been   appointed -by
Dorothy Crim, chairman of the
^Saline   Area   Schools   Advisory
^ibouncil..
, Two new membefsf have"~_c.___-
~e_i the group: Mrs. Aaron Girbaeh will represent Pttsfield
Township; and Mrs. Cecil Ford
is one of the city representatives.
The council's financial committee will be headed by Allan
Grossman, with Ken Clark, Don
Kraushaar, George Bonich, and
Elaine  O'Connor.
Chairman of publicity and
membership is Barbara Lamberson, with Joanne Berry and
Eleanor Ross.
Barbara O'Brien is in charge
of the education committee;
members are Una Dicks, Michael Genik, Jim England, Alton
Finkbeiner, Nancy Mida, Sally
Hatfield,   and  Marilyn  Renner.
Bill VanderYacht, vice chairman of the council, will be co-
chairman of the facilities committee with John Livingstone.
Members are Martin Vila, Ruth
Vila, Kit Young, Woodie Merchant, Thelma Klapper, Scot
MacDonald, and Jane Ann
Wanty, who is secretary of the
council.
The community committee is
headed by Don Clary, with Ron
Voigtman, Dick Cole, Richard
Payeur, and Albert Gall.
The Rev. Robert Nelson, pastor of Saline Baptist Church, is also instructor
in the High School machine shop ... three classes each afternoon. Two .of his students, above, are Gerald Seeger and Gregg Nortley. .."■■':
Christmas Programs Abound
Programs Set
The public is invited to the
annual Junior High School
Christmas Concert, to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday,
at the school gymnasium.
Music "appropriate to the
holiday season" will be played
bv the 7th ff'-ade band, directed
by David Wolter, and the 8th
grade band, directed by Malcolm Danforth. The concert will
last a little more than an hour.
Concerts are slated at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday at both elementary schools. Bands and choruses will perform. Directors
at the Houpthton School event will be David Wolter, instrumental, and "Mrs. Donald
Kraushaar, vocal; at Jensen
School, the band will be directed by Mac Danforth and
■the chorus by Shirley- Cochran. ,
The. High School Christmas
Concert will, feature, for the
first time, the chorus of 150
voices directed by Lester McCoy.
The 75-member High
School Band will be directed
by David Wolter, and Mac
Danforth will direct numbers
by the 35-member woqdwind
choir. Finally, a student di
rector will appear for the
last time here; he is Dennis
Johnson, senior in the University school of music, who
will direct the band in the
overture to Handel's Messiah.
The High School cdttcert is
also scheduled at 7:36 p.m.,,
on Wednesday, December 20.
Club Plans
Carol Sing
.The Saline Child Study
Club will hold a carol-sing at
Ypsilanti State Hospital, on
Tuesday evening.
Members will meet at 6:30
p.m. at the home of Mrs. Ormand Jedele and will return
there after carolling, for a
business meeting.
SUBDIVISION CAROLLERS
REHEARSING NOW
A Christmas carolling
group from Rolling Meadows
subdivision is now rehearsing on Wednesday evenings,
and will go out carolling on
Friday .evening, December 22.
The time is to be announced.
The group now has 1Q
members and "can use more".
The next rehearsal will be at
the home. of Mr. and _V_rs.
Robert Beaucliaihp, 47 Tower
Dr., ou Wednesday evening,
December 20.
Church to Present
Christmas Story
In Music Program
"The Christmas Story in Candlelight Carols", arranged by
Don Hustad, will' be presented
at 7 p.m. Sunday, at the Saline
Baptist Church.-
The program will open with
a prelude with Joyce. Dieterle
at the piano-and Hannah Geddes at the organ. The choirs
and congregation will sing: "O
Come. All Ye Faithful".
"Call to worship and invocation" will he given hy the choir
and the pastor, the Rev. Robert
Nelson.
The first narration, "The
Foretelling", will be given hy
Joe Ferris. Later narrations
are "The Nativity", by Guy
Hedrick; "The Shepherds and
the Angels", by Alton Ealy;
"The Wise Men", by Carl Wilson: and "Simeon and the
Child" hy Don Hatto.
Special numbers will include
a trio by Hannah Geddes, Belinda Ealy, and Lois Dieterle;
a vocal duet by: Carol Esch
and Barbara Monty; a flute*
duet by Robin Morrow and Cindy Ferris: "and soloists Ruby
Kuhl, Ed Monty, , Gerhard
Heim, and Charles Geddes.
Both the senior and the junior
choirs will take part.
GETS COLLEGE'S
RECOGNITION
FOR ADVANCES
The fastest expanding department at the high school is industrial arts.
The department is bursting
out at every seam with new
equipment and more and more
students ... and it has already
made a name for .itself throughout the area." It offers more
courses than any other high
school in Washtenaw or Livingston counties for instance;. . .
and one of them is hydranilics,
or "fluid power", which is Only
taught in six high schools in
all  of Michigan.
Credits from Saline's industrial education course ... up
to 12 or 13 credit hours ...
are accepted by Washtjenaw
Community College. One: student, for instance, Ron Fee-
man, has been' creditejd with
'12 hours at the college 'toward
his degree as a fluid! power
-.technician.
.. Equipment, here includes six
hydraulics trainer-panels, built
•by George Agin, head of the
department, and students including Feeman. Similar panels
at Washtenaw Community College cost around §3.000- "our
.total 'package here was about
§.75f apiece"," said 'Agin. Donations" for the panels came from
$;*,'&' B. Tool Co/, Double A in
rSJancheSter, and Krueger Hydraulics  in Ann Arbor.
The panels here1 are also unique in design ... commercial panels are hot electrically
operated; Valine's are.
A trainer panel for pneumatics is in the offihg.
Agin "is planning to add a
pneumatics course this year
(90 per cent. of.. the machines
; in industry - are ope r a t e d
hydraulicahy or pneumatically)
. . . and when the new high
school is ready ..for occupancy',
courses in electronics and
building Jxades. will „ alsb^he of-
fered...There will." also 'Be"* ah
automotive "gafage.* _4gin teaches   auto  mechanics  here  now.
The high school no longer offers wood-working , . . that's
been moved to the Junior High
level, where industrial education is a'so aval'able. But jthere
is mechanical drawin.., taught
by Steve Benediqfc; 'and machine shop I and. IT ."*•<» taneh"-
bv: the Rev. Robert Nelson in
the afternoons. ..
. Another industrial education
coyse that has i;ar-outgrown
itself" is graphic- arts,, which
now boasts a full4im instructor for the* first time, Jim Roth.
It• "teaches. Photography arid
printing, offset, letterpress, and
silkscreen, it has its own off-,
set Dress,.'a camera for reproduction, reproduction pro 6 f
press,"and strip-printer for cold
compostition.
There are four .classes, one
of theni two lours long; each
class., includes from 11 to 18
students'.
The graphic arts > department
started about eight years ago
when half the cost of some used
equipment was donated by The
Reporter . . . there were two
job presses (letterpress), a paper cutter, and some foundry
type. You wouldn't recognize
it now. With well-kept' mpder'n
equipment and a well-supplied
stock room, earnest students
and an enthused instructor turn
out all the school's job printing
. . . athletic, programs, the Hornet, stationery, and printed
forms.
Many of the students will go
on to further training. But if
they don't want to, they'll still
find jobs ... printing is the
third largest industry in Washtenaw County, in numbers of
people employed, Roth points
out.
City appointive posts were
shuffled, in a special council
meeting Monday, "to streamline city government, re-distribute the work load, and
provide better service to the
public".
Robert Ha r r"i son was
named city treasurer. He will
continue to serve as city assessor and representative to
the Board of Supervisors. He
is vice chairman of the Board
and chairman of its ways and
mepns committee.
Maurice Doll will continue
to serve as city clerk. He was
employed a s clerk-treasurer
in October, 1966. before the
retirement of the former
clerk-treasurer, E. J. Muir.
Constance Hertler is deputy
clerk-treasurer.
Dick Cole, city building inspector, was given the additional duties of supervisor of
the Department of Public
Works. Cole was employed by
the. city as electrical inspector, part time, for several
years, before becoming full-
time building inspector last
July.
His new role for the DPW
will relieve City Administrator Mike Strait of some of
the duties in street work,
parks, rubbish collection,
drainage, snow removal, etc.
But Strait will retain super-
Volunteers Aid
Ford Blood Bank
Nineteen local women
worked as volunteers at the
Red Cross blood bank at the
Ford Motor Co. Saline plant,
tHiPsday.
There were 170 donors.
•with,-13^pints'collected and
3_. 'deferred. ■■■•■->-•
Assisting were Mrs. Harold Armbruster, Mrs. Kenneth Auten, Mrs. Owen Armbruster, Mrs. Edgar Barrett,
Mrs. Joe Bondie. Mrs"., John
Finkbeiner: Mrs, Fred Haarer
afiri Mrs. 'Glenn Gordon. '
Others were Mrs, Karl Bredernitz. Mrs. Glenn W. Clark,
Mrs. .Edward Fi^fher, Mrs.
Ray •Hf'mt. Mrs. V^ni Ostor-
hoiit,- Mrs. Sam Lambarth,
Mrs. B e r t Rasmuson. Mrs.
Edward Rogers. TVlrs. Roper
Luttman, "Mrs. Georpe Austin
and Mrs, Edwin Hering.
_' Doctors "Pauk Gerigk and
Raymond Bernreuter aLso
worked "at the blood bank.
vision "of the water and sewer departments: he holds
four State Health Department water supervision licenses, for fluoride, chlorine,
phosphates, and bacteriological control. He is also a licensed sewer-treatment plant
operator, as is Harry Bishop,
superintendent at the city's
treatment plant. Walt Moore
is DPW foreman.
The increase in city service
needs required distribution of -
the work, according to Strait,
who will continue to act as
administrator and city superintendent.
State Library Expert
To Inspect Schleh Bldg.
ROTARY MEET SET
• Jameson Ford will be the
program chairman at Thursday's noon; meeting of the
Rotary Club, at Leutheuser's
Restaurant.
A Michigan Library buUding
consultant, Miss Elizabeth
Lindsey, will visit Saline Thursday morning to look through the
Schleh building and study floor
plans proposed for turning it
into a library.
The Saline Public Library
board has taken an option on
the building, with a view to.providing expanded facilities for
the local library, which has far
outgrown  its   present  location.
Purchase- of the Schleh building for the library -was unanimously recommended by members of the United Fund board,
at a special meeting last week;
and the proposal will come before the full United Fund membership for a vote at the annual
meeting Thursday evening.
The meeting is scheduled at
7:30 p.m. Thursday, at the Saline Savings Bank community
room.
Miss Lindsey is; one of the
consultants whose services are
avai'able to assist local libraries in a number of fields. Her
visit here was requested by the
Saline Library board and she
will be accompanied on her
tour .of the building by Mrs.
Charles Kern,' president, " and
other board members. Her recommendations in the matter
are expected to be immediate-
ly available so they can be presented! at-the .Thursday night
meeting. "„,;: '.'- I
•Although Saline's city population has doubled since, the. 1960
census, library usage has tripled . . . from 8,365 books circulated in 1960 to 23,976 circulated in 19S6. In-I960 the Saline
Library was' open only about
10 hours a week; it is now open
39 hours a -week . . . and it
has run out of space for more
bo'oks or more patrons.
Said Librarian Eleanor Todd:
"The demand fqr_increased usage oflibrary service is in" part
due to the kind of new people
moving into the area. Also, as
each generation has a better.
education, it requires a different kind of library service . . .
its tastes are more sophisticat
ed, of a much wider range,
and it wants the stimulation of
a variety of materials."
The present building, in use
since 1917, has only 700 square
feet of floor space. The Schleh
building . would provide 2,844
square feet including a proposed balcony and not counting
the basement, which would add
nearly that much again. It has
been inspected by an engineer
and declared structurally
sound.
The lot size is 13,500 square
feet, which would provide ample parking. The building, now
owned by John Schleh, is located at the corner of Henry
and S. Ann. Arbor Streets, one
block from the center of town.
If the building can be purchased, it is expected that
costs of remodelling can be defrayed by sale of the present
library building, providing a
clear title is available; and the
library fund has 85,100 which
could be  used for furnishings.
With minor remodelling, the
Schleh building would also provide public restrooms, a pubhc
conference room, an audio-visual room, and space for use by
the Salihe Historical Society,
the board has pointed out.'
Masons Set
Installation
Saline Lodge 133, P." &
A.M., will hold a public, installation of officers at 8 p.m.
Tuesday at the Masonic Hall.
Installing officer will be Barney Wilson of Ann' Arbor,
with his staff.
• To be installed are Worshipful Master Robert Harrison; senior warden, Harold
Wilson: junior warden, Harold Smith; secretary, Carl
Kraus; treasurer, Arthur
Heininger; senior deacon,
Don -Church; junior deacon,
Jerry Gutekunst ; senior
steward, B. K. MacDonald;
junior steward, Richard Lo-
sey; and tyler, Howard Des-
brough.
Senior Citizens
Plan Potluck
_The Senior Citizens group will
meet Monday, at 6:30 p.m., for
a pot luck supper. Everyone is
to bring his own table service
ancl a dish to pass; and a "white
elephant". ..
A short program and games
will be the entertainment.
An invitation is extended to
"all who feel they would like
to join us" for this. Christmas
meeting. , ■  • ■
Anyone needing transportation .; please caE 429-7025, or
429-7471.
TOWNSHIP MEET SET
" Saline Township Board will
meet at 8 »p.___v Monday, at
the Township Hall.
Do you turn your Christmas tree lights off by j mikini; out a plug? Or is the
scenery blotched by an ugly utility switch? The High School Band can fix all that
with the decorative Christmas tree switch which they offer for sale in a fund-,
raising project fpr band camp trips. The young people launched their sale by putting up the area's earliest Christmas decoration, a handsome tree in a booth at
Saline Community Fair last September. But the switches are still available from
any band member, including those above: Joe Bassett; Pete Klein, Gilda Wedemeyer, and Kenton Miller.,
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