1968-01-31; Saline Reporter

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VOLUME 19, NO. 21 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1968
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A ready-made audience of sidewalk superintendents
gathered every recess time, when excavation for Saline Relief Drain No. 1 was proceeding near the Jensen
School. The drain, tentatively scheduled for completion
on May 1Q, is designed to relieve the flooding that periodically inundates-Detroit Street and environs . . . and
did so again this week. City crews, who had spent hours
bailing out the area at Christmas time, manned the
pumps again Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday . . . but
this time, at least, no basements filled up. When completed, the drain will serve not only Detroit Street but
an area comprising about one third of the city, and it
will relieve a storm sewer that serves approximately
half of the town.
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Fire Destroys
Tavern, Pizza
Hestaurant'       "
A fire of unknown origin
Thursday morning gutted'.the
building that tis_d to" be called
"Five Paints"', and ptit the relatively new Thompsons TaverD
and Pizzeria temporarily putiof
business.
Gerald Thompson, who* opened the tavern there last fall,
may return the pizzeria part
of his business to its former
location, at 107 E. Michigan
Avenue, until the larger building is rebuilt, he said.
The fire, which apparently
started behind the bar, had
.gained a good start before if
was noticed by a passer-by, as"
flames burst from the windows
about 4 a.m. Thursday. Tlie
roof over the bar section of the
building collapsed while firemen   were  fighting  the blaze.
Thompson was notified at his
home as soon as the fire was
put out.
Ths building was owned by
Harold Zahn, of Ann Arbor, who
purchased it in July, 1967. He
is still awaiting a "report on
damage from his insurance
company, he said, and does not
know whether it will be-rebuilt
damage to the contents alone
would run about $12,000. Before
opening there last September
he had redecorated, remodelled, and carpeted; he built the
bar and all fixtures himse'f.
taking about a month for the
iob. The inside of the bar area
was completely destroyed by
the fire; and heat damage in
the kitchen and dining rcom
was "beyond repair", he said.
First Savings
To Open Office
Here Next Week
First Savings Association
will open for business here
Thursday, February 8, in its
new building at 179 E. Michigan Ave.
Participating in the formal
ribbon-cutting ceremony, a t
noon, will be Harry S. P°l-
mer, president of the Michigan Savings and Loan
league; Don Wall, executive
director of the League; Bv-
rqn Bennett, director of the
Savings and Lo?n Division
of the Michigan Department
of Commprce; and Mayor
George Johnson of Saline.
All directors of the First
Savings Association will also
take part: Atwood R. McAndrew. Jr.. president; Harry
F. Shaefer. chairman of the
board; H. Frederick Shaefer,
Jr., secretary - treasurer;
Charles K. Lamb, vice president; Mrs. Frances K. Hixson, LeRoy Rutherford, Harry F. Shaefer, J. Bernard
Hughes, John D. Renton, and
Robert "H. Estes. Atwood R.
McAndrew, Sr., is an honorary director, and Jerome A.
Lamb is attorney for the association.
Regular office hours after
the ceremony will be from
9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Thursday; 9:30 a.m.
.to 6 p.m. on Friday; and
9:30 a.m. to noon on Saturday.   -
Three Salinians will constitute-the -Saline office staff:
, Ruthe rford-^an assistant. vice
president bf'thfe* association,
will serve as manager," with
Mrs. Ellen Koyle. head teller,
anrl Mrs. Mary MacDonald.
"-Tpsilanti Savings and
L,f>p'n: Association was founded in 1890. and the name was
eha" qed the first of this year
to First Savings Association.
The firm will "become an integral part of the Saline community, offering thrift savings and investor savings
plans and providing residents with the opportunity
of putting their money to
work in helping build a greater Saline through home financing," the president said.
SCHOOL ADVISORY
COUNCIL MEET SET
A meeting of the Saline
Area School Advisory Council has been scheduled at 8
p.m. Wednesday, February 7,
at the High _jfchool library.
All meetings of the group
are open to the public.
ASS Organizations
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Work to Start
Op. Addition
At Ford Plant
Construction is expected tc
begin immediate'v on a 41,000
s-uar,e foe* addition to the
manufacturing area of the Sa-
lin.2 Ford P. ant, to be used for
"in.-p.ant warehousing".
The one-story addition, at an
estimated cost of $250,000, will
be located on the east side of
the present building. It is sched-
u'ed for completion in June.
No addition to the work force
is expected as a result of the
addition, a spokesman said.
Much of Davenport Street has now
vanished into the maw of the gigantic
equipment excavating for Saline Relief
Drain No. 1. The cut is 28 feet at its
deepest point; the 48-inch tile will take
away a lot of water. The drain will cross
Michigan Avenue (but without tearing it
up; they'll tunnel under) and extend beyond Detroit Street into the Clark Street
area. Repaving of Davenport Street is
scheduled for completion by July 10.
~ Photos by Otto Gunnesch
Mothers March for Dimes
Sixty-five strong, the women
,  of Saline are on the street to-
•X.t night  in  the   annual Mothers'
Y March fbr the New March of
^Dimes,
JL^he contingent, which start-
v-^STits house-teahouse rounds at
'7 p.m., will meet later at the
home of Mrs. Howard Kuhl to
total contributions.; .A report
will be available next week, according to Mrs. Lawrence Step- •
sky, chairman. f Mrs. Roger
Luttman is co-chairman.
Those who are making the
march include Saline Child Study Club Members: Mrs. Harry Anderson, Mrs. David Cham
pion, Mrs. Donald Clary, Mrs.
John Dwyer, Mrs.. Gordon
Esch, Mrs. Yvonne Fisher,
Mrs. Harold Gage, Mrs. Eugene Garrison, Mrs. Virgle
Goodwin, Mrs. Lyle Hanson,
Mrs. Robert Heiserman, Mrs.
Harold Hintz, Mrs; Robert Hull,
Mrs. August Janovits, Mrs. Or-
mond Jedele, Mrs.4 John* Klein,
and Mrs. Howard Kuhl.
Others aire Mirs. Eugene JJeut-*
heuser, Mrs. Dan Lirones, Mrs.
Roger Luttman, Mrs. John Ma-"
der, Mrs. >Edward MaKielski.
Mrs. Robert McNally, M.r s.
Gerald Meyer, Mrs. Harry Miller,  Mrs.   Carl O'Brien,   Mrs.
Michael Pekrul, Mrs. John
Proctor, Mrs. Lawrence Skinner, .Mrs. John Trojanowski,
Mrs. Wilber VariderYacht, Mrs.
Barry VanKoevering, Mrs. Martin Vila, Mrs. Ted Baker, Mrs.
Dave Grossman, Mrs. Ladd
Houdek, Mrs. ' Herbert Reed,
Mrs. J. Kirby Thomas, and
Mrs. Robert Wilson.
Junior Child Study Club members are Mrs. James - Keller,
Mrs. Jerry Losee, Mrs. Richard'Lehtonen, Mrs.'Edwin Logan,- Mrs. Neil Haarer, Mrs.
Gilbert Hayes, Mrs. Richard
-Zeeb, Mrs.-James Knight, Jr.,
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Students Invited
To Economic Club
Two Saline High School students Monday attended a
luncheon at the Detroit Economic Club, one of a series of
events for Junior Achievers in
the area.
The local youths are Joe Mallory, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray
Mallory of 306 E. Henry St.,
who is a member of Arbortron
Industries; and Paul Sill, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sill of
374 Hollywood Dr., a member
of the same Junior Achievement firm.
Second Semester
Adult Classes
To Start Monday
Second semester Adult Education classes will start at
Saline High School on Monday, and registrations "will be
taken until then, at the
school. First semester classes
end this week.
To be offered, if enough
persons enroll, are blueprint
reading, shop math, driver
education, modern math, office machines, typing I and
H, bridge, knitting, art, beginning machine shop, and
physical education and recreation for men and for women.
Any other subject would
also be given, if a minimum
of 10 people sism up for it.
Superintendent Harold Hintz
said.
Bus Service
Goes Into
Operation
The City Bus Co. began operations here Tuesday, with a-
most hourly runs between Saline and Yspilanti State Hospital, and between Saline and Ann
Arbor.
The bus is operated by City
Bus Co. of Ann Arbor, owned
by Arvin Marshall, the same
firm which instituted bus service here some years ago. It
was discontinued at that time
because of^lack of use; but it
is" expecte .H-liat the .growth of
population in the area has since
created more demand, a
spokesman said.
The bus starts from Saline
at 6:35 a.m., for the State
Hospital, and then goes each
way at intervals of approximately an hour and 10 minutes
until 8:50 p.m. There is a three-
hour gap, from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m., when demand is
slight.
A fidl schedule appears in an
advertisement elsewhere in this
issue cf The Reporter, and
schedules will be posted in Saline in the near future, a representative said.
The service includes free
transfer to Ann Arbor buses,
from the terminal point at'Main
and Ann streets there.
Members of the Advisory
Council's pool steering committee this week launched a
drive to get all school district
voters registered in time for
.he coming special election
on a natatorium.
They discovered- Tuesday
that time was shorter than
they thought: a new statute
requires that registration
shall close five Fridays before the election, .which
would mean a deadline of
March 1 if the election is to
be held on April 1_
The election date is still
not definite. "We're shooting
for April 1," said School Superintendent Harold Hintz,
"but the Board cannot take
definite action until we receive preliminary approval
from the state under the
School Bond Loan Program."
"Whether people are going
to vote yes or no on the pool,
they have to be registered by
March 1, in order to vote at
all," noted Audrey VanderYacht and Kris Clark, speaking for the pool steering committee. "We have plenty of
time before April 1 to get
all the information out, in orderly fashion, but time is
short to register."
Jaycees will conduct a registration drive in the City
of Saline. Township voters
must register with their own
township clerks.
In a first step toward disseminating information, the
committee this week; sejat letters to ail "organizations in
the area, requesting that representatives attend a meeting on Wednesday, February
28, "so that we e__n explain
the facts and figures~of the
proposed swimming facility.
We want this representative
to report back to yov<- group
. . . and be prepared to answer questions your members might have."
Any organizations of any
kind which .may haye been
missed are urged to send representatives also. The session
is set at 8 p.m. on February
28, in .the Little Theater in
the Hisrh School.
In their .accumulation of
information on,, school swimming facilities, the committee visited West Ottawa High
S e h o o 1 ■ in Holland, Mich.,
Willow Run, and Milan High
School; they studied the programming and facilities at
these plus Belleville and New
Trier High School in Winnet-
ka, 111. They have poured over blueprints for the Milan
pool; and they have even
considered towel and laundry equipment.
Their information was
compiled after consultations
with the coach and laundress
at West Ottawa: the coach
at Sacred Heart High School
in Dearborn; and the coach
of the Huron Valley Swim
Club, Ann Arbor YM-YWCA,
and Abbott School, Ann Ar*-
bor; swimming instructors at
Lincoln and Belleville, and
physical education instructors and school officials here,
as well as city recreation department representatives.
Besides the February 28
meeting for organizational
representatives, they plan to
hold at least one general public meeting on the subject,
they said, and they hope to
hold coffee hours in every
neighborhood throughout the
school district.
For school elections, residents may register at:
City of Saline - City Hall,
Monday through Friday, 8
a.m. to 5 p.m.
Lodi Township - Rudolph
Gross, 7385 Noble Rd., 429-
7313  (call for appointment).
Saline Township - Mrs. Eleanor Ross, "6435 - Austin Rd.,
429-7362 (call for appointment).
Pittsfield Township - Samuel Morgan. 4804 Stone
School Rd., 662-8042 (call
for evening appointments),
or Pittsfield Township Hall,
State and Ellsworth Rd.,
665-5750, open 9. a.m. to 5
p.m. Monday through Friday.
Freedom Township — Harold Eiseman. 13875 Waters
Rd., GR 9-2872 (call for appointment).
Bridgewater Township —
Lewis Blaisdell, 10315 Clinton Rd., GA 8-9405 (call for
appointment).
York Township — Russell
Wanty, 1206 Mooreville Rd.,
432-3871 (call for appointment) .
Honors Si
WEIGHT RESTEICTIONS
Truck weight restrictions
went into effect on Washtenaw County roads at noon on
Wednesday, January 31.
They are effective until further notice.
PTO MEET SET
The Junior High PTO will
meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the
school gym.
Historical
Society Plans
Window Displays
The Saline area Historical
Society plans a series of
timely displays, to be changed each month, in the window
of the Detroit Edison office
here.
The February display will
feature old-time valentines,
they announced, and March
will "herald the approaching
summer season with 'gay
nineties and twenties' bathing suits".
The society re-elected its
founding board members at
the first annual meeting on
Thursday. Officers are Ruth
Vila, president; Helen Esch,
vice president; and Chris
Clark, secretary-treasurer.
Anyone, interested in the
society is invited to contact
any member of the board.
MBI
MOM5ENT OF CLIMAX IN JAYCEES' Yj|lAE came during the Bosses'
Nigit banqutet last week at Leutheuser's.
The seven men in line at left had been
nominated, on the basis of their commun-
ity_work "during the year, for the club's
highest honor! the Distinguished Service
Award. The Jieven. (from left): Eon
Finkbeiner, Jon Ditz, Jim Ford, George
Agin, Jim Martiny, Jack Keliey, Jan Losee. Saline Mpayor George Johnson, at the
podium, issued certificates tcNall seven
... and then the announcement was
made- ending a whole year of suspense:
Jim Ford was the DSA award winner.
Dennis Setterington, at right, was chairman of the DSA portion of the program.