1967-12-27; Saline Reporter

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VOL. 19, NO. 16 ~ WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1967
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DETROIT'
Jaycees' Projects
Include
Decoratl
TELEVISION INVADES CLASSROOMS NOW
Wilson, Schmidt
Take Top Honors
A committee of Jaycees
made the rounds of Saline
Wednesday night, this week,
to pass judgment on residential   Christmas   decorations.
Winners in the annual event:
Best over-a*!l: Th. John Wilsons, 380 Hollywood Dr; honorable mention, the William Mehr-
lings, 392 Mills Rd.
Most original decoration: The
Bruce Schmidts, 218 Tower Dr.;
honorable mention," the Frank
Brittains, 351 Pond View Dr.
A specialty award went to
the Dennis Setteringtons, who're
the residents of Apt. 7, at 276
Clark St.; and honorable mention in this category went to
Mrs. Phyllis Douthat, 302 E.
Henry.
The Jaycee judges this year,
headed by'Robert Yuhasz, were
Mrs. Yuhasz, Bob Daisher, Mr.
and Mrs. John Snook, and John
Peterson.
Saline Jaycees will put a-
way memories of past years
and prickers in fingers and
faces . . . and will hold their
regular pick-up of tired
Christmas trees on Saturday
of next week, January 6.
The round-up will be held
in the afternoon. Salinians
can get this free Jaycee service simply by parking the
tree at the curb.
When the town has been
covered, and all trees picked
up, the '67 crop of evergreens
will be taken to Curtiss Park
and burned . . . making a
fine show for the spectators.
SEEK D. S. A. CANDIDATES HERE
Saline Jaycees this week 17 issues, can be used to en-
launched their annual man- ter candidates,
hunt ... a search for the Nominees must be between
man best-qualified to get the 21 and 35 years of age . . .
Jaycee Distinguished Service need not be Jaycee members
Award. . . . but should be chosen on
All Salinians are irivited to the basis of service to corn-
participate in the hunt, since ' munity during the past-year,
maximum participation will Nominations can be made
help make sure that the best by filling out the blank and
man gets the high honor."- Ac- mailing it to Setterington by
cording to Dennis Settering- the deadline date,
ton, chairman of the award * * *
committee, nominations for Announcement of the win-
the Distinguished Service A- ner will climax the' 1968
ward must be submitted by Bosses' Night banquet-meet-
Thursday, January 18 . . . ing to be held the evening of
and judges will choose the the 23rd at Leutheuser's Res-
winner from among the nom- taurant. Last year's Bosses'
inees in time for the D.S.A. Night, held here as part of a
man to be announced Janu- nation-wide Jaycee celebra-
ary 23. tion,  produced  a turnout  of
Nomination blanks printed more than 100 Jaycees, boss-
in The Reporter this week, es . . . and D.S.A. winner
and in the January 3, 10, and Dave Cobb.
Jaycee Distinguished Service Award
NOMINATION BALLOT
I hereby nominate 	
(name
(address) • (age)
to receive the Jaycee Distinguished Service Award. He meets
all requirements and deserves public recognition.
Reason's for nomination:   	
(Mail ballot to: Dennis Setterington, P.O. Box 254, Saline)
Relief Drain Project Set
To Start Next Week
Residents of Detroit St. Dav-     But the big floods, as usual,  spots  to hold the  millpond in
enport St. and Clark St., almost  occurred along Detroit and Da- place.   The   situation   was   the
overwhelmed by last week's
floods, were encouraged by this
week's news that next week the
Eddy Construction Co. hopes to
start actual operations on a
long-awaited relief drain for the
area.
venport.  The  overflow rose to worst I   can  remember  in   at
curb level  by  mid-week  .
spread  to  residents'   doorsteps
.  .  . and inundated basements
for hundreds of feet in all directions.
The  DPW  started ' round-the-
Mayer    George     Johnson,  clock pumping operations 'when
members  of City Council,  and  the flooding first started . . . but
the DPW crew, who also were the pump wasn't up to the job the high water kept a weather
almost overwhelmed by the . . . and the water kept "rising. eye on the sky . . . and the
flood and the complaints of ir- Detroit St. was flooded until other eye hopefully on Eddy
ate residents, were hopeful that Christmas Eve. After working Construction and the planned
finally  the  end of  the  years- long  hours  through, the  week, relief drain
least the last five or six years."
This week, with the flooding
problem ended, possibly until
the spring thaws, the DPW
turned to the business of salting streets and routine pickup
of Yuletide trash.
But  all  persons   affected  by
What's the tv show that has those
Jensen School students all wrapped up
and wide-eyed? Captain Kangaroo? The
Lucy Show? Soupy Sales? Disneyland?
All wrong! It's a video lesson in
phonics, taped by their teacher, Mrs. Pat
Ritsema, using television and iimnling
equipment, recently bought by the school
district for 'educational purposes. Pat
appears ori. screen below, as Mrs. Kay
Burr, elementary reading supervisor, sets
the screen for optimum viewing.
old flooding problem is in sight.
Actually, Eddy's equipment
moved into the area last week,
to commence work on the relief drain . . . but the heavy
machinery bogged down almost
immediately in the rain-soaked
soil at the . drain's beginning
point, eas.t of Jensen School and
all operations ceased until the
ground firms up enough to carry the equipment.
Hopefully, that'll be next
week.
Meanwhile, city crews and
administrators, along with the
flood-stricken Saliniahs, can
look back on the past week as
a record - breaker.   Basements
trying to bring the torrent under control, DPW crewmen
continued on the job all day-
Sunday and all day Christmas
. . . and when the temperature
dropped, the rains stopped, and
the skies cleared somewhat, the
Detroit St. pond finally disappeared down the drain.
Walt Moore, Pete O'Mara,
Skip Dechert, Dean Theurer,
Dick Cole and Mike Strait, were
cited by Mayor George Johnson for the long hours they put
in on the week-long emergency.
Johnson   also   praised   Randy
Said Strait this week: "Our
policy will be just to try to
get those people by until that
county relief drain is finished."
Said Johnson: "I want to emphasize that the City has done
all it can do in this matter.
It's out of our hands, and has
been, ever since Saline City
Council voted authorization of
the relief drain, in October,
1965.
"It's regrettable that several
of our present and incoming
councilmen are being subjected
Karr and Mike Rapp, college to criticism and abuse in this
students who came home for affair . . . when they obviously
Christmas   vacation  ...   .   and had nothing to do with it ... .
were flooded in "widely scatter- were "drafted" instead to help  and  especially  in light of the
hold back the flood. fact that our   Council   of   1965
The   DPW's   job   along   Det- took action which should have
roit St. was complicated by the  led to a remedy of the problem
fact that the  dam   and  earth- long before this." ^v,
works  on W:   Michigan   had      .-   ■ *   *   *
some uneasy hours last week     The  relief  drain  may   very
S\'„-_Kith>nev.er.;,a.,drop of»w_ater be-   too. "It got kind of.rough Thurs.-, well'be  completed in time to
*' "*     fore, got their first floods dur-  day  night,"   says   Strait.   "We  cope with spring floods, Strait
ed parts of town . . . not.just
in the Detroit St. neighborhood
. . . and City Administrator
Mike Strait notes that many
• homes which had been high and
dry" fhrbughout Saline's history.
ing the. long downpour.
had   to   saxjdbag
Strait.
a   few
weak  declared this week.
Oh, By the  Way!
Ah impressive and beautiful ed down 'to the Mercantile to Salinians even to lay hands on
concert by alumni of Les Mc- furnish* bags for the sandbag-
Coy's Musical; Youth Interna- ging .operations" at. .the dam.
tional, last Saturday," was im- • **"* *
pressively and beautifully cli- Several, other unsung- heroes:
maxed when the MYI. youths Mr. and Mrs.* Harold * Gage,
presented Les and his wife with Dwight Reynolds, Howard Mc-
a card and gift for their 40th Cann and Robert Howard, who
wedding anniversary.-The con- served as chaperones and ob-
cert, held in the. Saline High servers - at the Junior High
gym, featured band and-choral Christmas Hop last week-end.
numbers by members and ex- With-twc local rock bands fur-
members of MYI. Admissions nishing-music; the experience
for the event" will go1 into the wa_',sO "de'afening, that the five
MYI scholarship fund to help
qualified young musicians take
part in the"" group's yearly concert tour of foreign laiids.       .
.. *  *y    - - .'     -
Rusty's General Store/ a familiar, friendly' landmark for
years in Bridgewater, hfis closed . . . but the miniature U.S.
Post Office at the Tear of the
store, serving the people of
Bridgewater, continues its operations   as   usual.
*   *   *
One of the city's unsung heroes is Lyle Phillips, who was
called out of church last weekend by the DPW . . . and hustl-
adults; probably 'couldn't care
less whether they're "unsung"
or not,  "The One-Way Street",
it long enough to read it. But
Ann* herself has come to the
rescue. In response to a frenzied plea from The Reporter
(we haven't seen the story yet
ourselves), Ann has promised
to get extra copies from the
publishers for us. As soon as
they arrive, we'll move them
right around the corner to the
SaUne Library, where Eilie's
copy has disappeared. Hopefully those extra copies will remain in the library collection
from then on ... as a permanent   record   of   Ann's   and
headed by Chris Carman,  and  Saline's days of glory in 1967.
"The'  Oqtkasts",   master-mind- *   *   *
ed by Steve Wild, took turns
belting out the sound, and the
total effect was obviously pleasing to' all teens on hand.
The November Issue of Mc-
CalFs     magazine,,     contaifiing
Comes a note from former
Salinians: Oh! By The Way:
There was quite a SaUne Reunion at the "Knot Hole Bar"
in Commins during the deer
season. George and Theda Conner,   former   SaUne   residents
Ann-. PeUegreno's   story of her^jand now owners of the bar sure
famous flight, was snapped iijp enjoyed seeing you aU. Included
in a hurry ... and already
it has become such a coUect-
or's item in the SaUne area that
it's  been impossible for many
Local Man's Kin
Died Saturday
At Howell H/C.
Lacking only a few days of
reaching his 83rd birthday,
Fred C. Rieckhoff, Sr., of Howell, passed away last Saturday
at McPherson Health Center,
after a long illnses.
Born and raised in the How-
eU - Brighton area, Rieckhoff
was weU - known as a Howel"
jeweler and optometrist
through most of his' adult life.
*. He remained in the area except for only a period of 1C
years spent in Silver City, New
Mexico.
Family Night Potluck Climaxed St. Paul's 60th
V.
Married December 12, 1923,
in Ann Arbor, he and his wife
Ina raised a family of three
daughters, two sons . . . one of
whom, Fred Rieckhoff, Jr., is
a SaUne resident. His wife and"
aU their children . . . plus three
grandchildren . . . survive.
Funeral rites were held Wednesday at Schnickenberg Funeral Home, HoweU, with the
Rev. Allan Gray officiating.
Burial was at Fairview Cemetery, Brighton.
• Year-long  ceremonies marking  the
60th anniversary of the founding of St.
Paul's Evangelical and United Brethren
Church were climaxed this month with a
family potluck in the church basement.
Former ministers and sons of the church
who have entered the ministry were feat-
ured  guests and  speakers,
(and we hope aU of you went
home with your big buck) were
Glen Hamlin, Roily Goltz, Ray
Riggs,   Pete   Desbrough,   AUie
Burkhardt, Neal Haarer, Rudy
Wahl,   Ralph   Bowen,   Smitty,
Ted Ormsby, Clarence Haarer,
Ray Carlton, Tony Schild, Dee
and Edna  Richards and some
cf their wives and others. Hope
to see you all again next year.
George & Theda
Conner and Son
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And from Dave Cobb, whom
SaUne remembers as a hard
worker for community causes
. . . and winner of the 1967 Jaycee Djstinquished Service A-
w?rd.
Things going well with the
displaced Saiine-ites. We both
confess to a good deal of nostalgia* when reading through the
Reporter weekly, but readily
admit preference for shortened
drive (from. 70 miles to 3 miles
per day). Dearborn has excel-
lefi': activities available, but so
far its been difficult to identify
with the city as we did with
Saline. Best of luck in the coming ye§r.
Dave,.  Janet   &  Eric
V   Cobb
Private Robert E. Armbruster, 19, son cf Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Armbruster, Jr., 323 N. Ann Arbor" St., Saline, completed a
field radio mechanic course
December 15 at the Army Armor School, Ft. Knox, Ky.   •"