1968-01-10; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 19, NO. 18 ~ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1968
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f68 March of Dimes Drive Opens
i.
Members of the Junior Child Study
Club gathered Monday evening to complete plans for the 1968 March of Dimes
campaign here:
Back row — Lee Cummings, Karen
Thoss, Joann Pearsall, Carol Zeeb, Pat
Lehtonen, Mary Mancari, Dixie Briegel,
Pat Woods, Norma Keller, Marie Graf,
Pam Losee.
Second row — Elsie Gransden, Gayle
Burmeister, (not showing: Paula Haarer), Carlene Sell.
Front row — Ardela Erskine, Judy
Mullin, Cheryl Nothdurft, Betty Dobson,
and Roni Logan.
Council Elects
. Two Salinians
,..-   *._• Two   Salinians   were   elected
r_^^' to. office  by„members . .of_J:hs
'"-\fjjl   Washtenaw    County ""AFL-CIO'
""" ■. .Council,  at a meeting Monday
Evening in YpsUanti.
Second highest yote-gstter of
the entire slate was Charles
Gorham, who was tabbed as financial secretary of the county
organization, with- 59 votes.
Gorham is also financial secretary and treasurer of UAW Local 892 (Ford Motor Co. Saline
plant).
Elected by acclamation as recording secretary of the county
council was Beverly Ford, cf
Saline, who has served for four
years as recording secretary of
Local 4011, CWQ (Michigan
Bell Telephone Co.) She has
been a council delegate for six
years and a council trustee for
two years, and is a member
of the organization's state bargaining committee.
' • Troy Shepard, of Local 512,
Ann Arbor, was re-elected as
president with 66 votes. He has
served as delegate to the council for 10 years.
Other officers: Bill Plom, Local 849, first vice president;
Dick Watson, Local 154, second
vice president; Ken Beer, Local 512 and former president
of the AFL-CIO Council, now
trustee; Floyd Kersey, Local
1666, trustee; Henry Mason, Local 898 (Rawsonville), trustee;
Wilbur Baggett, Local 849, sergeant - at - arms; Jos Waj-
towics, Local 14, guide; and Art
Wood, re-elected by acclamation
as COPE chairman. Wood, a
charter member of the council,
served as vice president for
eight years and has been COPE
chairman for 10 years.
LIBRARY BOARD
TO ELECT OFFICERS
Officers will be elected at
the annual meeting of the Saline Public Library board, at
8 p".m. Tuesday, at the library.
First Savings
Association
Elects Estes
apan
. Police Officer'
Resigns to. Take
Another Post
Police Officer Lawrence Tilford has resigned to accept a
position on the Livonia Police
Department.
Council accepted his resignation,   effective January  20,   at
Monday's meeting.  Tilford will
begin his duties in Livonia on
j^f January 22.
" t?M Tilford joined the Saline
'(force on August 3, 1964, having
moved to Saline late in 1963.
Before joining the local force,
he was employed at Chrysler
Proving Grounds.
He expects to keep his home
at 159 Elmwpod C t. "for a
while",   he   said.
Pfc. Jim Griffin, recently
wounded by fragments of an
enemy mine^ in Viet Nam, talked to his 'parents * by phone
from his hospital bed in Japan,
Sunday evening.
His "spirits are very good,"
his" mother reported later. "He
will be in bed for a week or
two, and then up on crutches.
He figures he'll return to the
States the last of February or
first of March."
Griffin is undergoing skin
grafts for his multiple injuries;
and he wiU receive eye treatments after his.return to this
country. But doctors have to"d
him the eye injuries are "nothing .to worry  about".
His account (relayed through
his mother) of the battle in
which he was wounded: "We
got about 1500 yards from a
bunker- and unloaded 400 rounds
of ammunition . . . the last I
remember is hollering,. 'Put
out that fire!' . . . they hit
me good from the knees up'.
I laid on the ground for about
45 minutes and then the doctor
filled me fuE of novacaine.
They got me out in a chopper,
and  that  was  it."
His present address is Pfc.
James W. Griffin, US 54966851,
U. S. Army Hospital, Zama,
Japan, APO San Francisco,
Calif. 933_3. But he has everything he needs and has requested, "Don't send packages."
After Mr. and Mrs. Clvde
Griffin called their son, they
sooke to Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Starlin?, Sr., of Saline, whose
son, BiU is in the Military Police and stationed at Camp
Zama, three milft. from the
Army hospital. The Starlings
then nlaeed a caE for Bill . . .
talked to him . . . and discovered that he already knew that
Griffin had been brought to
Zama and was preparing to visit Jim  at once.
The 1968 New March :|o'f
Dimes campaign is "in full
swing here, with plans for
card parties, coffee hours,| a
rummage sale, and other special events.
Eleven Saline women attended the county-wide
March of Dimes kick-off dinner Thursday in Ann Arbor.
Dr. Neil M. Mclntyre, of
Western Reserve University
in Cleveland, spoke on "Curious Chromosomes and Congenital Catastrophy". Those
present from Saline were
Norma Keller, president ;of
the Junior Child Study Club
and 1968 Saline area chairman; Lottie Slepskv. representing the Saline Child Study Club; Lee Cummings. Judy Mullin, Dixie Briegel, Helen Martiny, Pat Hiitehins,
Pam Losee, Roni Logan, Kay
Struble, and Cheryl Nothdurft. ■'
Canisters have been placed
in Saline business establishments ; Marie>Graf is in
charge. Mailers will also be
sent out, seeking donations.
Lee Cummings is chairman.
Pat Lehtonen is campaign
treasurer.
Nancy DeWolfe is in
charge of special events. Several neighborhood card parties and coffee hours have
already been scheduled, and
anyone interested in giving
one is asked to call Mrs. De-
Wolfe at 429-4193.
The Mothers' March will toe
conducted by the Child Study Club.
The annual OES card party for the March of Dimes
is set at 8 p.m. Saturday, at
the Masonic Hall. The public
is invited. Prizes ahd doOr
prize will be offered, and refreshments will be served.
A rummage sale for the
March of Dimes will be sponsored by the Junior Child
Study Club. Paula Haarer is
chairman of the committee,
with Pam Losee, Esther
Gross, and Pat Hutehins. Donations are' needed -for'-tte
sale,' and anyone willing to
provide articles is asked to
call Mrs. Gross, 429-7577, or
Mrs. I-Qsee, 429-7602.
The rummage sale will be
held from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
on Wednesday and Thursday,
January 24 and 25, at the
Presbyterian Church.
The- Jaycee Auxiliary Will
sponsor a March of Dimes
coffee hour fOr Jaycee wives
and friends, at 8:30 p.m. on
Wednesday, January 17, at
the home of Mrs. Robert Dobson, 720 Knollwood Ct. Mrs.
Duncan Sells, director of the
county campaign, will be the
speaker. A movie will be
shown.
icials Appointed
tf
New councilmen ponder city affairs
at their first meeting: Ed Marsh and
Jack Measley, at far right, Another newcomer to the council, Jim Ford, was out
of town on business, but had already attended numerous meetings in the fall. At
the table under the clock is Mayor George
High School
asses
$iy2Mtlfion
T %' The 1968 City Council, at
i its first meeting Monday, re-
!*.■ appointed  all  city  officials
and named several additional
alternate supervisors.
Supervisors are Mayor
George Johnson and Assessor
and Treasurer Robert Harrison; but a new councilman,
Jack Measley, and a retired
councilman, Hugh Keveling,
were added to the list of alternates, together with City
Administrator Mike Strait
and Councilman George Anderson. Measley was seated
as alternate at the Tuesday
meeting of the Board of Supervisors at the County Building.
Another new councilman,
Jameson Ford, was out of the
city en business, but he was
appointed in his absence as
council representative to the
Chamber of Commerce. The
third newcomer t o council,
Edward Marsh, will serve as
representative to the Planning Commission.
Mrs. Robert Heiserman
was named to the Recreation
Commission, for a three-year
term. Councilman Glenn
Clark will serve as council
representative to the Recreation Commission and as alternate representative to the
Southeastern Michigan Regional Planning Commission,
Council of Governments.
Anderson was unanimous-
The Rev. Merle R. Meeden, ly re-elected as mayor proof 541 Canterbury Dr., pastor tem. He is also the city's Mi-
of the First Baptist Church, f,hi^ Municipal League
contact  man',   and   council
Johnson; flanked by City Attorney Allan
Grossman and City Clerk Maurice Doll.
Councilman Glenn Clark is seated at the
table with Marsh and Measley. Saline
council meetings are often informal affairs; above, a member of the audience
leans casually against the council desk.
Rev. Meeden
Elected Head
sary    Of United Fund
isory
HOBBY MEET SET
The Hobby Club will meet
at 1 p.m. Tuesday, at the
home of Mrs. Harold Smith,
324 Highland Dr.
PLANNERS. TO MEET
Saline Regional Planning
Commission will meet Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the Sahne
High School library.
Rudy Haban, of Washtenaw County Metropolitan
Planning Commission, will
discuss the relative merits of
zoning boards and planning
commissions at the township
level.
All interested persons are
invited to. .attend.
Robert H. Estes, Saline businessman, has been named by
the board of directors of First
Savings Association to fill the
unexpired term of the late Arthur F. Nissly, board member
for many years who died December 2. Nissly w-te the former president of the Michigan
Ladder Company in Ypsilanti
and was a native of Saline.
Estes, a native of Menden,
Mich., has been in business in
Saline for 12 years, first as
manager of the Giltrow Pharmacy. He purchased the pharmacy business in 1958, and it
is now known as Estes RexaE-
Pharmacy.
Estes is a graduate of Menden High School and received
his bachelor of science degree
in pharmacy at Ferris State
CoEege in 1951. He worked as a
pharmacist in South Haven and
Tecumseh before taking, the
managerial position of Gil-
trow's Pharmacy in Saline in
1955.
He is a past president of the
Saline Rotary Club; a member
of William Lutz Post, No. 322,
American Legion;. Ann Arbor
lodge, Np. 325, B.P.6. Elks;
and Menden lodge, No. 131, F
& AM. He is also a past president of the Washtenaw County
Pharmaceutical Society and a
member of the Michigan State
Pharmaceutical Association.
He and ins wife (the former
Patricia Hoffman) have six
children, David, Jane, Jon,
Mike, Brad and Dawn-. They
live  at 8735  DeE Rd„   Saline.
Saline Area Schools Advisory
Council has recommended a
special election on a school
swimming pool.
A resolution from the council
is on the agenda of tonight's
Board of Education meeting,
and several members of the
council's "pool steering committee" wiE be present to discuss the matter with the board.
The resolution, approved at
last Wednesday's meeting of
the Advisory CouncE, reads:
"RESOLVED: The Advisory
Council recommends that the
School Board caE a special e-
lection at the end of March for
the purpose of voting on the
addition., of a natatorium to the
new high school.
" FURTHER RESOLVEiD:
That, if the community passes
tho. issue, the pool steering committee be given the opportunity to work with the Board and
the architect in designing the
prxtl faci.itv,"
The Advisory Council action
foEpwed a report from the.-pio1
steering committee after an intensive, all-year, study of ptK^s
in other school system's of varying size. The renort does not
include cost estimates from
contractors, but the committee
has kept posted on constructipn
bids for natatoriums in other
school systems and has discussed advantages and disadvantages of different types of construction with coaches in otHer
schools, a committee member
said.
Construction in the city of Is the Class of 1968 the 100th
Saline went well over the to graduate from Saline High
$1V,   million   mark in   1967, School?
the annual report of the city     H   it   is,    a centennial com-
buildinc department shows,    meneement   is   in  order;   and was elected president of the representative to The'library
Building permits were is- local historians and school of- Saline  Area United Fund board
sued for $1,741,700 worth of ficials.  are    seeking    positive boardj at a meeting Tuesday      Strait,   Gerald BahnmiUer,
construction. Much of it was proof in the matter. evening  . and Ray Davis were named
.co_nmercialv.-<$69O.2O0).~ba^^ -2-V•—■-- -. -    •    -,,    .-to-the-eemeterv-board of ap-
single-family   homes   ($488,- mation that this is the school's      Named  as  vice president ^ ^968    ^      -OT   P
900)  and multiple  dwellings 100th  anniversary is  asked to was Mrs. Robert Dobson, of -  other appointments con-
($405,000) together account- caE Harold Hintz, superintend- 720 -Knollwood Ct. Other of- firmed were:
ed for even more. ent of schools, or Paul Thibault, ficers.are Cecelia Ference, re-      city   Attorney,   AUan
The A & P store and shop- principal, by Friday, since di- elected as secretary; the Rev. Grossman; City Clerk,,Maur-
pincr center, at the east edge plomas for the June commence- Lawrence Cole, treasurer; jce Doll; deputy clerk-trea-
of the city, were the largest, ment ceremonies must be of- and Jon-Ditz, assistant trea- surer, Constance A: Hertler;
figures  in the  commercial dered at that time. surer. '     .'• V building   official;   Harrison;
construction column. A build- — _  Ditz was newly-elected to building -inspector  and :elec-
ing permit for $250,000 was The Jaycees is a civic organ- the board t_f 'directors. Other trical inspector^ 'Ricltard
issued in Julv for the center; izatian working for community new board members are Mrs. Cole; plumbing, inspector,
another;,-for $259,900, was is- betterment, open to aE young a. E. -Hagen and Tom Ma- John Klein; City Superinten-
sued^in October. men 21 through 35 years of age.  SGn;  and WiUiam Crim, Jr., dent, .Strait; DPW supervis-
Also included in the com/- Jaycees, now more than, a and Mrs. Ference each ac- or, Cole; fire chief, Harold
mercial total was $63,000 in quarter   of   a   miEion   strong,  cepted another. term. Armbruster;-, police   chief,
total permits issued during work for community betterment A meeting of the officers James Levleit; health officer,
April; part of that figure was in 6,000 communities in the na- has been• scheduled on Janu- Dr. Paul Gerigk; arid Civil
for the city's new fire haU.      tion. ; '       ary 30.  ,        ■ .       Defense Director, Levleit. .
Permits for single-family  .       '.'•.•    - ■:          . .         ^__
dwellings   were   heaviest in r~ .    •      ~~ ' ~ '        !    '
January, when Rolling Meadows subdivision community
it5 accounted for $152,600.
The same development obtained ■ permits in April for
another $207,000.
. No permits for multiple
dweUings were issued until
November, when $405,000 is
listed for another apartment
complex on Clark St.
The city issued 35 permits
for private garages in the
course of the year, the highest number ever constructed
here in one year, Robert Harrison, building official, noted. Total value listed on the
permits was $48,500.
Salinians also obtained permits for $93,400 worth of alterations and repair of dwellings, and $15,200 worth of
replacement and other alternations.
Nobody took out any permits to build fall-out shelters.
LOIS
At Cemetery
An additional 139 lots, each
containing six graves, are now
avaEable at Oakwood Cemetery.
A number of residents had incurred about the area, at the
top of the hill," and had waited
to purchase lots until these
were ready, city officials said.
The cost to city residents is
$150 per grave: out-of-city persons may purchase them f o r
$175. Half of the cost goes intc,
a perpetual care fund. Graves
may be purchased individuaUy
or in lots of six.
LODI MEET  SET
Lodi Study Group will meet
at the: home of Mrs. O. D. Iloff-
man, 3270 TextEe Ed., on Tuesday. Irene ^Groeb :and Helen
Peck wiE co-hostess the meet.
LO^FIELD MEET SET
Lo-Field Farm Bureau wiU
meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at
the home Of Mr. and Mrs.
Julius Schnerrihg, on Lohr
Rd.
ROTARIANS TO MEET
Robert Fisher, of Ann Arbor, will be the speaker at
the Thursday noon meeting
of the Rotary Club, at Leutheuser's Restaurant The program chairman is Bart Strahley;    •    ■
Eame came early tc Mark Richard
Trapp ... in fact, it was waiting for him
when he greeted the world at 6:21 a.m.
on New Year's Day, to become "Mr.
1968", Saline's first baby of the new
year. The husky youngster, who didn't
let the uproar disturb his nap, is the first
son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Trapp, Jr.,
of 154 Nichols Dr. He has an affectionate, but. slightly baffled, older sister,
Kimberiy Sup, 2V2.
The Trapps, who have lived in Saline for four years, will celebrate. their
fourth wedding'anniversary on Thursday. They are members of Trinity Lutheran Church. Trapp is employed as assistant manager at the Arlan's store in
Ann Arbor; he is a member of the. Saline
Jaycees.
Little ^'Mr. 196S". will receive numerous gifts from Saline area merchants who
sponsor .t h e First. Baby Contest' each
year.
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