1968-05-01; Saline Reporter

              The Saline
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 34 ~ WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 1968
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ember  Students Win High State Awards
The article below was written by the School Board secretary, Gerald Coe, to inform the public on the study
made before the design for
the new high school building
was decided on, and the
board's reasons for its decisions:
Since there have been many
articles in the paper in recent
months and because of t h e
questions which have been asked me personally, it appears
that there has developed in our
Recreation
Budget
A 1968-69 city recreation
budget of $8,750 was approved by City Council in a special meeting with the recreation commission, on Monday
-   night.
The amount includes $250
tabbed for "special programs" and . . . another innovation . . . $500 for a park
program. The latter will "allow the residents to make use
of the park now that the
Jaycees have put so much
work into improvements,"
. said Milt Hartman, chairman
.of the commission.
■_i_L- 3"h e   sum  ^iU"  Prov"fe ""*
4P|M. i d playground supervisor
^f&i the park, plus ..equipment
for badminton, croquet, volley ball, horse shoes, and other games.
Largest single item in the
budget is $3,500 for the baseball program, which includes
"$800 or $900 for umpires",
$200 for grounds maintenance, and money for balls,
bats, uniforms, and safety
equipment, according to Harry Cogar, who heads the
baseball division. '.Last year,
we spent $1,000, just getting
the diamonds into shape before the season opened," Cogar noted.
The baseball program served approximately 300 boys
last year, and more are expected this year. "With the
population explosion going
on," Cogar said, "I don't see
why we shouldn't expect to
get our share of new people."
About 40 per cent of the
youngsters served by the recreation program are rural, he
added. Said Mayor George
Johnson: "We've been advised legally that we cannot
provide services for people
who are not residents of the
city. I don't feel that the
townships are contributing to
the program in proportion to
the number of township residents served."
Part of the recreation fund
. . . this year, $3,000 ... is
donated by the United Fund.
The program also uses the
school facilities. Said Cogar:
"We owe a vote of thanks to
school authorities for their
cooperation."
. Said Councilman Don Jaeger: "The city should try to
plan more use of the school-
grounds and buildings, the
gym, for instance, in the future." (The Advisory Council has recently set up a committee to study community
use of school facilities.)
Cogar also suggested: "At
the first oossible moment, we
should talk of a full-time paid
director for the whole recreation program. We have a
group of very tired people
_w?hom we have asked for volunteer help for many years."
Other items in the new
budget: softball (separate
from baseball), $400; winter
program, $500; summer program (wages for director,
arts and crafts teachers,
etc.), $1,950; pool.rental, $1,-
000;
Also budgeted: buses and
maintenance, $150; supplies,
$100; repairs and utilities,
$200; and teen dances, $200.
school district a concern about
various aspects of oi.r new high
school, which is now in the planning stage. I would like to use
this oppportunity to clarify some
of the points of concern. It has
been nearly two years since the
completion of the research
work for this school and it
is reasonable to assume that
some of the factors could be
reviewed   at  this   time.
Following are some of the
questions which have been asked ..  .  and answers.
1. How elaborate a school is
being designed? My statement
to the room parents in December, 196S, was that the new proposed high school would be of
the same quality of structure
and appointments as the present
Houghton School. For example,
the floors in the halls will be
terrazo because of its' inexpensive maintenance and durability; the exterior of the building
W ill be brick and standard
block  construction.
The heating system has not
yet been decided, but the Board
and architect are investigating
various types of heat that would
function in a building of this
size. There will be a very small
amount.of ceramic used in the
building; the lighting will be
standard  but  adequate.
Materials will be standard to
make it possible for a builder
to take advantage of guantity
price. The architect has had
^pecifte^ustructions^rom.- the'
Board that he* must have ' a
building that i& functional, e-
conomical and with a minimum
of maintenance.
__. How large is the school?
225,000 square feet. I would like
to mention here, that one of the
greatest problems that confronted the architect and Board
in a building of this size is that
of distances for the students to
walk between classes. In order
that We might cut down these
distances from one extreme
corner to the other, it became
evident that we must have a
more compact design than any
of the preliminary sketches.
The approved preliminary d e-
sign contains two wings which
have five sides. This design
makes it possible to give the
best traffic pattern within the
building and shortens the distances  as  much  as possible.
All surfaces will be straight
for simple, more economical
construction. There are no
curved walls.
3. What is the procedure that
the Board used in planning the
structure of this building?
a. A determination was made
of the district's growth after a
two - year study. The decision
Was made to build a school
with core facilities for 1500 students, presently to accommodate 1200 students, with a planned addition taking it up to
1500  students.
b. Research was done through
the Advisory Council which
made contacts with the principals and educators to determine
the future curriculum. This information was compiled, ap -
proved by the Advisory Council,
submitted to the Board of Education, and analyzed by the
Board   and  the  Superintendent
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School contract negotiators
have made "a little progress",
Howard McCann, head of the
SEA's bargaining team, reported today.
-SEA's team "would like to
meet oftener, but meetings
have to be arranged for when
Fred Sehwarze* can make it,"
said McCann. Sehwarze, an
attorney from the Detroit
firm, Keller, Thoma, McMan-
us, and Keller, is the chief
negotiator for the Board. of
Education.
The two , teams have met
for four sessions, and another
is slated Thursday evening.
A conclave on Tuesday afternoon , was canceled by' the
Board.
HORNET STUDENTS SCORED AT
STATE! Scott McKeough, left, shows his
"photographic silk screen "of a printed circuit .. . Darcy Brink and Pat Hiser show
their awards . . . and Karl Roehm dis
plays his photographic study in high
contrasts. 'All four Saline High students
placed in the front ranks at the State
Industrial Arts competition last weekend.
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section of the Saline High Chorus for
their concert this Friday.
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Band, Chorus Plan Concert Friday
The High School band and
chorus will present a joint concert, from 8 to 9 p.m. Friday,
in the school gym. It will be
the last performance of the
segsoib-for the choral group.
Directed by Lester McCoy,
the chorus will*perform a series of numbers from early
choral works (Handel, "Sound
the Trumpets") to modern,
ending with a rock-spiritual,
"Take Your Sins to the River".
A highlight of the event will
be the first presentation bf High
School Chorus awards, to one
boy and one girl, .as outstanding members of the group.
The band performance, directed by Dave Wolter. will consist entirely of dance music,
dating from the early Works of
Corelli (17th century) to a present-day number, "Percussion
Espanol", a Latin American
version of rock.
concert on May 26; and a concert of marches  on June 5.
There is no admission charge
for the Friday event.
Four Saline students won
high awards in the state industrial arts competition, at
the convention of the Michigan Industrial Education Society in Muskegon, Thursday,
Friday, and Saturday.
Competing against more
than a thousand entries, from
all first and second place district v. inners, the local young
people took three "seconds"
and a "third".
A first place ribbon went
to an exhibit entered by the
SHS industrial arts department. It will be on view for
the public this week at the
Citizens Bank, according to
George Agin, head of the department at the school.
Top Saline winners in graphic arts were Karl Roehm,
son of Mrs. Leanor Roehm,
and Scott McKeough, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mc-
Keough. Both are High
School juniors, students of instructor James Roth.
Karl's winning entry was
an enlarged, reversed negative, photograph. Scott's was
a printed circuit by the silk
screen process.
Two artists from Taylor
Jacobsen's class were cited
for cast jewelry which they
entered. Pat Hiser, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hiser,
placed second; Darcy Brink,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Brink, won a third! The
two young women are not industrial arts students; their
work had not been entered in
earlier industrial arts contests locally or in the district.
Girbaeh, Coe, Gall,
Lirones to Compete
For Two Vacancies
Balid Panorama
Set for Wednesday
> The largest band] event of the
■year, the "Panorama, will begin
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May
8, in the High School gymnasium.
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The young musicians will
nearly fill the gym (though
there will be room for the audience, said Director Dave Wolter) with 75 members of the
5th grade band, 75 from the
6th grade, 110 Junior High students, more than 100 on song
flutes, plus the High School
"fight yell group". Malcolm
Danforth will also direct.
The-band-also-plans a:spnng   -There is no-admission charge."
Band Wins
"1st" in State
Festival
The High School Band has
accumulated another resounding "first" ... at the State
Festival in Portage, Mich., Saturday.
The Saline preform ance won
straight I's in concert work,
Director Dave Wolter reported,
and was assigned a II in sight-
reading.
In the concert portion of their
performance, the band played
"March from a little Suite",
"Introduction and Invention"
(required), and "Variations on
a Korean Folk Song".
Typical judges' comments:
"Strong Points . . . musicianship. Weak points . . . nothing
too serious." And: "This is a
rugged piece . . . I did enjoy
it immensely and felt that ...
the band performed exceeding.-
ly well.
-Fasten Urges-
Race Amity
Program Here
A five-point program, for
Salinians who are concerned
about the nation's crisis in
race relations, was outlined
Monday night by the Rev.
Robert Craighead in. a public
meeting at First Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Craighead, consultant
on Religion arid Race for the
United Presbyterian Church
of Michigan, told the 50 people present:
1. Read materials such as
the report by the Kerner
Committee, in order to understand the real nature and the
depth and urgency of the urban crisis in our country.
2. Set up a dialogue between white and black people
in your own community . ._.
not a series of tea and cookie
socials, but meetings that'll
allow people to voice their
differences and their resentments; and that'll get them
started toward solutions.
3. Actively seek to make
friendly contacts with minority students at the U-M and
EMU campuses. They can
help you to a new understanding of the nation-wide
trouble . . . and you, in turn,
can help them, just with your
friendship and concern.
4. Check the history books
in your school system. Tn many widely-used textbooks, the
contributions of the Negro
and other minorities to the
growth of the country has
been stripped from the pages. Racial attitudes are developed at a very early age,
and schools can help tremendously in the development of
healthy attitudes. Encourage
your schools to do this.
5. Search out sources of
racial injustice arid antagonism in your own thinking and
in your own community. Then
root them out. This is much
more important than expressing polite dismay at what's
happening in Detroit, or Ann
Arbor, or Jackson, or down
south. Healthy race relations,
just like charity, begin at
home.
Describing the nature and
urgency of the problem, Rev.
Craighead cited these facts:
—Whites -have often been
alarmed or disturbed when
Negroes move into their
rieighborhood . . . but where
are they to go? In the Detroit
area from 1950 to I960, 330,-
000 new homes were built.. .
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Petitions have been taken
out for four candidates for
the two four-year terms on
the Board of Education, to
be filled in the June election.
Both incumbents, School
Board president Raymond
Girbaeh and secretary Gerald Coe, have announced their
intention to run again. Also
on the roster are Albert Gall,
a candidate for the first time,
and Daniel Lirones, who ran
unsuccessfully for a School
Board seat last year.
•Girbaeh. 60, has been president of the board for the
past three years and is completing his third term, a total of 10 years as a member.
He is also financial secretary of the Saline Fair Board,
of which he was chairman
for more than 15 years. He
is vice chairman of the county ASC. a former president
of the Washtenaw Farm
Council, and president and
former financial secretary
and treasurer of the St. Paul
United Church of Christ
council. He has served on the
board of directors of Washtenaw Farm Bureau, and has
been active in 4-H work.
Girbaeh farms 144 acres at
13305 Mohrhart Rd.; he has
raised purebred Poland China
hogs for more than 30 years.
Coe, 54, has been chairman
of the School Board's negotiations team last year and
this year. He was also the
board's representative to the
Washtenaw County Association of-School -Boards*-for
three years. He is now completing his second term, a total membership of seven
years. He has been secretary
"for the past three years.
Hd Was. chairman of the
School Advisory Council for
a year before he was elected
to the board.
: Coe. who has been in business i n. Saline since 1940,
served one term on the City
Council as mayor pro tem
and commissioner of public
works. He also organized and
was ch___rma.n for the first
five years of the Saline area
recreation commission.
He is a -past president of
the Rotary Club and former
chairman of the board of
stpwards of. the Methodist
Church. He has served on the
Fair Board and. for many
vpfm.. rin the board of the
United Fund.
Gall, who is 54. said he
agreed to run because he
was "drafted by a group of
neoole who live in town and
in the country", who filed petitions in his behalf before
he was aware of the undertaking.
He is a member of the High
School's new agriculture advisory committee, set up at
the suggestion of the state
Department of Education to
promote interest in agriculture-business career opportu
nities and improve the vocational agriculture department.
He has been a member of
the School Advisory Council
since the consolidation of the
school district; before that,
he was a director of the
School Board of Forbes District.
He is also secretary of the
Saline Township planning and
zoning board, of which he has
been a member for about
eight years. He has served
on the Fair Board for 30
years and has been vice president for the past five years.
He is a member of St. Paul
United Church of Christ and
served in the capacity of secretary under three former
pastors.
Gall, who farms 411 acres
at 6174 Willow Rd., has served on the state market committee of the Michigan Milk
Producers 'Association for
about eight years, and has
been a delegate and officer of
the Saline chapter since 1946.
He is a member of Washtenaw Farm Bureau and was
formerly president of a junior Farm Bureau group of
110 members. He has been a
4-H leader for 16 years.
In 1962, Gall was one of a
contingent of Michigan farmers chosen for a People-to-
People tour of Russia and
East Europe.
Lirones, 36, announced his
candidacy last week. He is a
former teacher in the University of-Michigan school of
education who now operates
his own business, Film Cen-
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Pick-ups
1347.
"Clean Up Week"
For Clean Up Week, the
city of Saline has scheduled
soecial rubbish pick-ups, on
May 13-17.
For that week only, residents will be able to place at
the curb not only their regular rubbish, but other articles
too large to be put in the containers. Leaves, twigs, etc.,
are to be put in sacks or containers, and limbs and logs
must be cut up to be handled
by the pick-up men. Brush
should be tied.
Other items may include
old furniture, bed springs,
washing machines, etc., City
Administrator Mike Strait
said.
Pick-up will be on Monday,
May 13. north of Michigan
Ave. and west of Ann Arbor
St. Pick-up on Tuesday will
be north of Michigan Ave.
and east of Ann Arbor St.,
and,-on Thursday, south of
Michigan Ave.
After that week, the regular schedule will prevail, noted Strait.
Appointed .. _ Resigned
Justice of the Peace Henry Ritchie (left) was appointed to the bench here by City Council, Monday, to
fill the vacancy created by the resignation of the former Justice, Ken Bronson (right).
Ritchie is a member of the Ypsilanti firm, Danne-
miller, Collins, and Ritchie. He took his. BA at pastern
Mchigan University, then studied jaw at "the University
of Texas, where he graduated in January, 1967. He was
admitted to,.the Michigan Bar in 1967.
He and his wife and three children live at 805 „EL
Michigan Aye. Bronson and;his family moyed. to _i resi-
dence in Ann Arbor Township. .