1968-03-06; Saline Reporter

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Saline had gained in power
since the Hornet-Railsplitter
game earlier this season; and
Lincoln, plagued by bad luck
this season and a bit demoralized by it, had slipped a
little.
So the tight, uphill battle
that the fans had predicted
for the Hornets Friday never
did materialize. The Railsolit-
ters had real difficulty finding the- basket ... in fact,
against a super-sticky Hornet defense, concentrated a-
round the hoop, they had a
hard time getting within
shooting distance at all.
Hornet shooting, on the
other hand, was hot. As a result, Saline moved to a 15-8
lead at the first quarter . . .
kept a healthy margin at the
half. 38-28 . . . expanded it to
56-41 at the third au^ter . . .
and won with ease, 68-57.
But even though the scoring was one-pided. Saline
boosters in the Lincoln _rvm
remained in a steady dither
until the final buzzer. The
game had the whole season
riding on it, and the Railsplitters . . . with the excitement of pep week and parents' nie-ht stirring them up
. . . would have loved to stage
one of their come-from-be-
hind upsets!
Saline's victory, coupled
with Milan's win against
Dundee, gives the Hornets
and the Big Reds equal
shares of the Southeastern
fljjj^ri fer ence championship,
i year Saline ajtid Lincoln
JAYVEES
TIE FOR
CROWN
Jayvees happily shoved
their coach into the shower,
Friday night, after cinching
their half of the conference
title with one of the best
games of their careers.
The Little Hornets, who, at
one point in the season, were
three games out of first
place, had climbed steadily in
the standings. When they defeated Lincoln, 68-43, Friday
night, they assured a tie for
the crown. The other half of
the .title went to Dexter,
when the Dreadnaughts defeated Chelsea by only five
points, after a suspenseful
game.
Dexter and Saline each
wound up the season, with
nine wins, three losses.
Trailing in the conference
standings are Dundee, Milan,
South Lyon, Chelsea and Lincoln, in that order.
Much of the credit for the
Jayvees' solid win Friday fell
to Wes Gall, who surpassed
all his earlier showings to
gather 23 points. Said Coach
Jim Bradley, "Wes kept us in
the game during the first
half."
While the rest of the team
got their wind, he controlled
the boards to such an extent-
that the Salinians out-rebounded their opponents 52-
37. "He played his finest i
game of the year, when it
was most needed," .Bradley
said.
Other high-pointers for the
Hornets were Glenn Burkhardt, 13; Wyman Osterhout,
12; and Rod White, 11. Gall
nabbed 20 rebounds, wh i 1 e
Burkhardt and Osterhout
took 11 apiece.
The Jayvees took the lead
with the first point, lost it
briefly in the second quarter,
a^^then regained it for good.
1*m led 17-13 at the end of
tjR"irst period," 29-25 at the
_iai f'and 46-35 at the three-
quarter mark.  ■
Their shooting was hot: 31
of 70 tries from the court
for 44 per cent, as compared
• with Lincoln's 33 per cent;
and six of 15 shots from the
foul line for 40 per cent. Lincoln hit 58 per cent on foul
shots (seven of 12 tries).
As for the shower: "You-
don't mind that, when you
finish in' first place," said
Bradley. "I'll take one every
year, under, those ground
rules."
got identical tropnies as co-
champions, and this year the
Hornets hold their half, while
the other half moves.
Actually, pep and parents
may have cost Lincoln some
valuable points, and may
have helped insure the Hornet victory. The Railsplitters
seemed to be off their game
. . . and Coach Don Jaeger
suspects that the excitement
of the day may have been
part of the cause. He remembers that Saline had the same
problem a few weeks ago
against Dexter, during Hornet pep week.
"I don't know if we'll want
to continue this," he declared
this week. "If big pep celebrations produce defeats, the
fans would probably prefer
not to have them."
But even without the pep
week factor, Saline probably
would have won last Friday.
The team knew exactly what
needed to be done . . . and
they proceeded to do it in
workmanlike fashion. They
kept the deadly Cole brothers, and the equally dangerous Richardson, away
from the basket . . . and they
kept a steady barrage of
shots - aimed at the Hornet
goal.
In order for the Lincoln
men to get under their basket, they had to thread their
way through such a maze of
Hornet" defenders that they
finally gave up and started
shooting from far out. Here
the percentages beat them.
They sank an impressive
number- of* long" shots . •: . but
not enough to win.'
Meanwhile, against Lincoln's press, the Hornets
were able to spring Tom
Mann loose for easy layups
that built the Saline margin.
Tom,   who  had  been   sick
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Professor to Speak
On Electricity
At Banquet Here
Prof. A. D. Moore, retired
professor of electronic engineering of the University of
Michigan, will be the speaker
at the Father-Son Banquet at
the Presbyterian Church on
Wednesday, March 13.
The banquet, planned by
the Women's Association of
the church, will be served at
6:30 p.m. at the church,
Prof. Moore's demonstration-lecture on "Electrostatics" (static electricity) is
designed to appeal to all ages. Before and since his retirement, he has travelled
more than 70,000 miles
throughout the country as a
popular and outstanding lecturer.
Trees to be Cut
Back to-20 Feet
Trees along LTS-12 will be
cut back- only 20 feet from
the pavement, in the State
Highway Department's safety urogram.
Washtenaw County road
crews, working u,n d e r contract for the state, received a
new order Thursday afternoon, to restrict the cutting
to the 20-foot mark, according to Orvall Throne, maintenance superintendent for
county roads. ,
Earlier orders -had- called
for removal of all trees within 30 feet of the highway and'
"more than that, on curves" '
. . . and the cutting proceed-
pd from US-23 west to Saline
before protests from an indignant farmer brought a reassessment of the program.
Howard Handy, of 10574
W. Michigan Ave., last week
contacted state and county
road agencies, the Farm Bureau, and his legislators in
an effort to' save two maple
trees on his own property, as
well as others along "Scenic
US-12", His own"trees stand
19 and 21 feet from the road.
Handy's efforts; including
a protest petition signed by
37 US-12 rural residents, resulted in the . stop-order on
cutting .of trees more than 20
feet from the pavement,'
Two Kinds of
A "bank", according to Webster, is a
"place where something nseful or valuable is held available" . . . and Saline has
several. Two of them ... of widely dif
ferent types . . . held open house this
week, and customers were graciously welcomed at tfoth:
Saline Savings Bank celebrated their Meadows, president, and Mrs. Esther Hei-
60th birthday last Thursday, February 29 ninger, wife of Arthur Heininger, assigt-
. . . with cake and coffee for everyone. ant cashier, are shown ready to serve at
Mrs.   Florence   Meadows, wife   of   Jack the refreshment table.
Saline's spirit of neighborliness
showed up tit its best when the Red Cross
Bloodmobile made one of its periodic visits here on Monday. Using the gym at
Saline Junior High for headquarters, the
Red Cross volunteer staff,, backed up by
a lot of lopal volunteers, collected one-
pint deposits for" the Blood Bank ... to
be used by anyone who needs it.
Olga Lamttartn serves orange juice
to Don Jeppesen and Eileen Austin as
they wait their turn to give. With this
Bloodmobile visit, Don became a gallon
giver . . . and Eileen, who heads the local
Blood Bank organization, finally worked
her way back into the donors' circle
again after years of trying.
Zoning Requests
Face Planners
At Next Meet
The city planning commission, at its Tuesday meeting,
will deal with a number of
requests for zoning changes,
referred by Council.
One of the requests comes
from Rollie Wurster, of Ann
Arbor, owner of the Garden
Gate on Carpenter Rd. Wurster has asked that the portion of the Sauk Trail Inn
(old mill) property which is
not now zoned "commercial"
should be made so. He is in
the process of purchasing the
property from the present
owner, John Mader, but he
has not yet decided to what
use he will put it, he said.
"That decision depends on
the zoning," he added.
A petition for annexation
and multiple-family zoning of
a 22-acre corner at Willis and
Saline-Milan roads came to
Council from Edward Owen,
of Detroit, who said he "contemplates improving the property into apartment or town
house construction." Part of
the site is already inside the
citv. Owen asked for R-3 or
R-3-A zoning.
Charles Kern seeks a
change of zoning on the east
304 feet of a lot on E. Henry
St. from R-l-A to R-l-C.
Both are single-family designations.
Planners will also consider
a change requested by Rollie
Goltz and Ed Hewitt for approximately 33 acres on W.
•Michigan Ave. The property
is now zoned C-2 (commercial) to a depth of 160 feet;
the owners want commercial
zoning to a depth of 250 feet.
They ask. that the remainder
of "the property be zoned R-3,
multiple-family.
Chairman of the planning
commission is Dr. Gordon
Prout.
Paving, Curb, Gutter
Stated for CSarl
Home Exemption
Tax Forms Now
Available Here
Application forms for] Veterans Homestead tax;, "exemptions and Senior Citizens exemptions are now available at
City Hall and through the-township supervisors.
Deadline for filing' applications will be the last day of
Board of Review meetings, approximately March 18, but no
later.
To date, 75 applications have
been  picked  up  at  City  Hall.
Basic requirement for either
exemption is a property ownership limit of $20,000 market value or $10,000 equalized valuation. Anyone who believes they
may be eligible for the exemptions may call Robert Harrison,
city assessor, or their township
supervisor.
A program to provide continuous sidewalks throughout
the city will be completed
this year; and Clark Street
is slated for paving, curb and
gutter, as well as a sidewalk
on the south side.
Council has instructed the
city attorney to prepare 'the
first resolution to set up special assessment districts for
the sidewalks, to be read at
the next Council meeting on
March 18. The procedure requires three resolutions plus
a public hearing.
The "continuous sidewalk"
program was started five
years ago; but some areas
were not completed. The areas chosen for this year's
work are those where sidewalk now exists up to and
beyond the section to be
built, and areas where heavy
pedestrian traffic is indicated by residential growth, said
Mayor George Johnson.
The 10 areas involved are
the south side of Clark from
Maple to Harris Street; the
west side of Mills Road from
355 Mills to Pond View; the
north side of Russell from
214 Russell to Lewis Street;
the north side of RusseJl
from 102 Russell to N. Ann
Arbor Street; and the west
side of Lewis from 105 to
103 Lewis.
Others are the east side of
S. Ann Arbor from 275 to
Willis Road; the north side
of Willis from S. Ann Arbor
to one lot east of Rosemont;
the west side of Davenport
from Michigan Avenue to Detroit Street; the north "side
of Detroit Street from Spring.
Street east; and the east side
of Spring from Detroit to
Clark.
Installation by the city of
sidewalk to Curtiss Park
must await completion of the
water main being installed in
that locality, and grading of
the cemetery hill. City Administrator Mike Strait said.
An assessment roll of $8,-
564.05 has been set up for
curb and. gutter on both sides
of Clark Street from Harris
to Maple: The roll is open
for nublic examination at City Hall, together with plans,
specifications, and estimates
of cost.
A hearing to review the
roll- is scheduled at 8 p*m.
Monday, April 1, at City Hall.
The assessment roll involves
22 lots owned by 19 persons.
The total cost of paving,
curb, and gutter on Clark is
estimated at about $39,000,
and paving costs will come
from the general fund. Said
the mayor: "We are following a long-standing city policy of installing the pavement
from the general funds while
residents  pay for  curb  and
gutter."
"It is not apparent now,
but Clark was once a paved
street, as good as any in Saline; so this is a replacement,
not a completely new street,"
he added.
Work is expected to start
in May or June, after construction of the Detroit
Street drain (Saline Relief
Drain d=l) across Clark.
Temporarily improvement
of Clark Street was delayed
last summer by contractor
labor disputes and weather.
But last year's plan was only for seal-coating and Council "fully intended to go
ahead with pavement, curb
and gutter this year", Johnson said.
"Traffic on Clark Street is
quite heavy because of the
Uniloy plant and the apartments, and when Harris
Street is extended, that will
undoubtedly bring some from
Rolling Meadows who will
take the Clark - to - Maple
Road route to Michigan Avenue."
"Clark Street is likely to
become quite an important
thoroughfare, and the entire
area will be much nicer when
completed," he said.
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For '68 Listed
The Rev. Merle R. Meeden,
president of the United Fund
board, has announced committees for the 1968 area drive, to
be held in"i__e -ialt- —
Members of the finance and
budget committee are John
Dwyer, chairman; Tom Mason,
Jon Ditz, Dr. Eugene Garrison,
and Mrs. Cecelia Ference.
Campaign committee members are Mrs. D. G. Leidheiser,
chairman; Jon Ditz, assistant
chairman; Paul Sibson, and
Mrs. A. E. Hagen.
On the nominating committee
are William Crim Jr., chairman; John Strawbridge, and
Mrs.   Cecelia Ference.
The kick - off dinner committee includes Mrs. Robert Dobson, chairman; Mrs. Paul
Woods and Charles Herbert-
Paul Sibson will be in charge
of publicity.
Officers of the board, besides
Mr... Meeden, are Mrs. Dobson,
vice president; Mrs. Ference,
secretary; the Rev. Lawrence
Cole, treasurer; and Ditz, assistant treasurer.
SALINE WOMAN'S CLUB
WILL MEET TUESDAY
The Saline Woman's Club
will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday,
at the home of Mrs. Hugh
Austin.
Two Kinds of Buses
118 Turn Out for Blood Bank
. A "good turn-out'/ of 118
donors checlW in at Saline
Area Blood *'Bank, Monday,
and . .. . with only 10 postponed ... * 108 pints were
added to the* resources of the
local bank.
Four new gallon donors
were listed: Glenn Weber,
Donald Jeppesen, LAoyd Jedele, and Robert Hull.
The names of two donors
were inadvertently left off
the list, Blood Bank officials
said. If they will identify
themselves, their names will
be printed next week. -
One donor, David Osborn,
of Ypsilanti, said that he has
now donated 78 pints of blood
at various .collection centers,
though this was his first-do
nation in Michigan. He is 29
years old. .
Those who signed in at the
Blood Bank included Herman
Marion, Ted Marion, Paul
Marion, James Hering, Helen
Griffin, Joseph Eisele, Wanda Finn, Dorothy Van Doren,
Gerald L. Newman, Robert
Heiserman, and David Cuff.
Others were Neil' Sweetland, Richard Brown, Elvin
Armbruster, James Croy, Elvin Mattison, Pearl Wild, Pat
Goodman,, the Rev. John M.
Michael, Frances Finkbeiner,
Harold Gage, Alton Finkbeiner, Loretta Corl, and LeRoy Jedele.
Also attending were Frank
L. Batynik, Roy-Straub, Leonard Burmeister, Rudy Feld
kamp, Chet Godzina, Alwin
Finkbeiner, Robert Estes, Lois Struble, Dale Rothfuss,
Dave Wolter, Mrs. William
Klager, William Klager, Shirley Gage, and Willis Struble.
Others were Glenn Clark,
Audrey Vander Yacht, Helen
Strahley, Nancy Krull, Norman Scherdt, Richard Pope,
Louis Petro, Peggy Flook,
Martha Girbaeh, David- Osborn, Donald Jeppesen, the
Rev. Lawrence Cole, Robert
RusseU, Ted Toth, Paul Tull,
and Delia Austin.
Also present were Gustav
Lindemann, Kit Young, Neil
Haarer, David Marion, Gerald Berry, Joe Graf, Richard
-Busha, Robert Hull, George
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Siill the noisiest transportation in
Saline, but no longer the roomiest, are
Saline school buses. "They have been
joined by "big brother", a vehicle owned
and operated by City Bus Co. of Ann
Arbor, to provide public transportation
to and from Ann Arhor and Ypsilanti
State Hospital. The now-familiar white
bus seats 52 persons ^md is rarely fall,
though business is "better than expect
ed", a company spokesman said. The
school buses may look smaller, but some
seat 66 students; they're always full.
The bus lines operate only from Saline, to and from Ann Arhor, and to and
from Ypsilanti State Hospital. No other
communities are covered by the route.
The business is "coming along well", a
company spokesman isald.
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