1968-01-17; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 19, NO. 19 - WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1968
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ALL SALINE TURNED SCULPTORS last Sunday, when the snow was
found to have exactly the right qualities for packing. By Monday morning (after many local Michelangelos had worked far into the night), there were almost
as many Saline statues as there were Saline people.
Included in the display were those shown below and elsewhere through the
paper:
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A whole-clap "of snowmen at the Wes Nielsen hom&on S? Ann-Arborr (Thafs
Mrs. Nielsen in their midst.) "
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Another oversize family at the William Moore home, across the street from
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City Workers Get Retroactive Pay
Kuebler
To Head
Citizens'
Homer W. Kuebler was e-
lected president of the Citizens Bank, at the annual
shareholders' meeting Tuesday, and Harry Holmes was
named vice president and
chairman of the''board.
The bank's two top posts
had hot been filled since the
death of the former president and chairman, Carl A.
Curtiss, early last year.
Kuebler has been with the
Citizens Bank fpr 40 years,
starting as bookkeeper and
later serving as assistant
cashier, cashier, and then
vice president and cashier.
He is a lifelong resident of
the Saline area, and now
makes his home on Waterworks Rd.
Holmes came to Saline
from LaGrange, Ind., in 1924
and has been with the. Citizens Bank since that time,
as assistant cashier, cashier,
and vice president and cashier. H e retired four years
ago, but remained on the
board of directors.
The directors Tuesday also named Francis Lockwood
to the post of cashier; he
was formerly the assistant
cashier. Donald Jeppesen is
assistant cashier.
No changes were made in
the roster of directors of the
bank.
W.D. Crim Retires;
Meadows Chosen
At Savings Bank
W. D. Crim
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City Council, in a special
meeting Monday, approved a
wage adjustment for all employees, five per cent on base
pay retroactive to July of
1967.
A five per cent raise was
approved last summer, to begin on January 1, 1968. But,
at the same time, the new
city retirement plan went into effect, by which three per
cent of each employee's wage
goes into a retirement fund.
The city's contribution, on a
sliding scale, is slightly over
five per cent.
Employees discovered that
the sum withheld for retirement, plus the new Michigan
income tax, "ate up the increase" so that some now
had less take-home pay than
before .. . and one had "gained" only a few cents.
The move to make the pay
raise retroactive will bring
employees lump sum payments (probably later this
week) ranging from $58 for
one hired in the fall, to about
§200. All 25 permanent employees, full or part-time, are
included: office staff, police,
and DPW workers. Firemen,
who are volunteers on their
own pay schedule, are not affected.
Council also approved time
and a half for emergency overtime, which has been paid
on a straight time basis in
the past. The new rate will
particularly aid DPW employees, who were out during
the past weekend and on
New Year's Day for snow removal, and during the entire
Christmas weekend because
of flooding problems. PoUce
are also often called for e-
mergency overtime.
The time and a half .will
not be paid for planned overtime, and City Administrator Mike Strait met with department heads today to
draw .guidelines on what constitutes "emergency overtime".
The city's cost of the retroactive payments, from July
to January, amounts to 53,-
650.
Council approved the retroactive pay raise "in order
to he equitable and to try to
keep pace with surrounding
municipalities and governmental units", Mayor George
Johnson said.
"At the time the budget
was set up in July, we were
not absolutely sure of our
money figure; we didn't
know what would be the surplus from the previous year
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Special Events
Planned to Aid
Dimes March
More, than 30 people-braved.
a snowstorm 'Saturday night
to attend the annual OES
card party to benefit th*
March of Dirties.
Prize winners included Harold Smith, Bertha Finkbeiner, Mrs. Martin Blair, Mrs.
George Peterson, Mrs. Hugh
Austin, Miss Katherine
Briggs, Mrs. Harry Cogar,
Howard Desbrough, Sam
Lambarth, Walter Martin,
George Peterson, Art Heininger, Olga Lambarth, and
George Martin.
Mrs. Cogar was chairman
of the event. Proceeds have
not been announced.
A rummage sale sponsored
by the Junior Child Study
Club is to be held from 10
a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday,
January 24, and Thursday,
January 25, at the Presbyterian Church. The club still
seeks donations of items for
the sale . . . clothing, baked
goods, toys, tools, furniture
. . . "anything". Donors are
asked to call Mrs. Jerry Losee at 429-7602 or Mrs. Ralph
Gross at 429-7577.
A March of Dimes coffee
will be given by the Jaycee
Auxiliary, at 8 p.m. Monday,
January 22, at the Saline Savings Bank community room.
Mrs. Duncan Sells, Washtenaw County campaign director, will be the spea&er. A
film will be shown and cards
will be played. Mrs. W. R.
Garpow is chairman.
A neighborhood card party for the campaign was given last week by Mrs. Ormond
Bredernitz.
The city Mothers' March
will be conducted by the
Child Study Club on January
31. Rural Mothers' Marches
are slated on January 20 and
January 30.
John R. Meadows
Schools Urgently
Need Bus Driver
The school system "urgently needs a bus driver by January 26", to replace one of
its present drivers, the Rev.
Ronald Diener.
Now pastor of St. John's
Lutheran Church, Mr. Diener
has accepted a call to a
church in Ohio.
Applicants should be over
21 "years of age, with good
driver records. The driver
hired will be required to obtain a chauffeur's license.
"Some driving experience
helps," Hill added.
Applicants may call him at
429-4981. •
Rev. Diener
Accepts Call
In Ohio
The Rev. Ronald Diener,
pastor of St. John's Lutheran
Church at Bridgewater, has
accepted a call to Emmanuel
Lutheran Church in South
Columbus, O.
He will preach his last sermon here on Sunday, January
28. naove on Monday, and be
installed at 'Emmanuel Lutheran on February 4.
Mr. Diener began his service to the Bridgewater
church in June, 1964. It was
his first pastorate; he came
directly from the Evangelical
Lutheran Theological Seminary in Columbus, O. He and
his wife, Marilyn, have two
children, Mark 2, and Ann,
10 months, both born here.
He expects to find the Ohio
pastorate "a change and a
challenge". Emmanuel Lutheran Church has 1.600 baptized members; St. John's has
370. The congregation i n
South Columbus will be made
up of city residents; Bridge-
water is completely rural.
But. the average attendance
at St. John's last year was
180 . . .which is remarkable
since the post office lists the
population of Bridgewater at
99. The pastor's work here
was imaginative: he portrayed each of the Disciples, in
costume, during Lent; he and
his congregation spent last
summer making color slides
at local farms for a Nativity
story to be shown at Christmas time; and during the area Centennial, a service was
conducted at St. John's just
as services were held 100
years ago, exact in every detail.
He has "liked Bridgewater
very much and made a lot of
friends here," he said.
1988 LICENSE  PLATES
TO BE SOLD HERE
1968 vehicle Ucense plates
wiU be so_d at Steeb Dodge
Sales, by a representative of
the Ann Arbor branch office of
the Secretary of State, from 2
to"5 p.m. Saturday, January 27.
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TO ELECT OFFICERS
The annual meeting of the
Saline area Historical Society is set at 8 p.m. Thursday, January 25, at the Saline Savings Bank community room. Members of the
board of directors and officers will be elected.
W. D. Crim, Sr., president
of Saline Savings Bank since
January, 1950, announced his
retirement Tuesday night, at
the annual shareholders'
meeting.
John R. Meadows, former
senior vice president of the
Ann Arbor Bank, was named
to replace him. Meadows and
a former Salinian, William
Brittain, were elected as directors.
Crim. who is 73, has been
in banking for 30 years. He
is a native of Lincoln, Neb.,
who lived for a time in New
York State, and then in the
Detroit and BirminErham area, where he was in banking,
securities, and real estate.
His home is in Ann Arbor.
(He and his wife now plan,
among other things, a lengthy visit with their son-in-
law and daughter, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Barry, in Germany. Barry is there with
the U.S. State Department)
Jack Meadows, who was
elected as president, chairman of the board, and chief
executive officer of the Saline Savings Bank, recently
retired as senior vice president of the Ann Arbor Bank,
after many years of banking
experience in the county. He
has been president of the
Washtenaw County Bankers
•Association, the office which
he now holds. He has also
served in numerous capacities in .state and: national-offices. He started in the banking profession 45 years ago,
at age 15, as a messenger for
the old First National Bank
of Ann Arbor, which later
became part of today's Ann
Arbor Bank. '
Brittain has been associated with the -Saline community for many years. He was
one of the founders of Universal Die " Casting, and is
now vice chairman of Hoover
Ball .and; Bearing Co.
A resolution passed by the
-shareholders-at the meeting
reads:'
"RESOLUTION: WHEREAS-William D. Crim has advised the shareholders of the
Saline, Savings Bank that he
will not be a candidate for
re-election .to .the Board of
Directors thereof and is retiring from management Of
■■this bank, and
"WHEREAS William D.
Crim has served as president
•of this bank from 1950 to
the 1968 annual meeting, and
"WHEREAS under the leadership of William D. Crim
this bank has grown in total
assets from $1,980,000 to 88,-
343,000 and improved its
competitive position from a
secondary status to one of
effective equality, and
"WHEREAS WiUiam D.
Crim has contributed in large
measure to the establishment
of modern banking services
and facilities in the Saline,
Michigan area,
"NOW THEREFORE BE
IT RESOLVED that on his
retirement the shareholders
of this bank d o commend
William D. Crim for his contribution to the growth, development and success of SaUne Savings Bank and wish
him well in his retirement.
"BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that this Resolution be spread upon the minutes of this meeting of the
shareholders of Saline Savings Bank and a certified copy thereof be presented to
William D. Crim as a token
of the appreciation o f the
shareholders of Saline Savings Bank."
Directors elected at the
meeting include W. D. Crim,
Jr., Ernest Girbaeh, Edward
F. Redies, Harry W. Denham,
Jr., Fred R. Braun, Henry
Leutheuser, Charles A- Lindemann, Meadows, and Brit- .
tain.
Other officers elected by
the directors are Ernest Girbaeh, first vice president;
W. D. Crim, Jr., vice president; Charles A. Lindemann,
cashier; Esther M. Gross, assistant cashier; E. Luella
Lambarth, assistant cashier;
Arthur H Heininger, assistant cashier; and George A.
Miller, assistant cashier.
American Legion
Picks New Officers
New officers of the American
Legion Home Association were
elected at the annual meeting
last week. Jack Bennett wiU
serve, as president.
Other officers are Robert
Todd, treasurer^ Carl Mueller,
secretary; a n d OrviUe Finkbeiner and Ted Graban, new
members of the board.'.
KIWANIS MEET SET.
Guy Hedrick is program
chairman "for the 6:30 p.m.
dinner meeting of the Kiwanis Club, Monday at Walker's
Bakery.
Hinterland Harvey:
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ROTARY TO HEAR
SPEAKER ON MUSIC
Rotarians wUl hear a
speaker from the University
of Michigan school of music,
at their Thursday noon meeting at Leutheuser's Restaurant. Dave Wolter is program,
chairman, j
An eight-food bunny, created hy the William Garpows, Knollwood Ct.