1968-05-22; Saline Reporter

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The Saline Reporter
VOLUME 19, NUMBER 37 - WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1968
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School Candidates Express Views
ical Scenes
Invited to Speak
At Public Meet
All School Board candidates have been invited to
speak and meet the public at
a special meeting sponsored
by the School Advisory Council, at 8 p.m. Tuesday in the
High School all-purpose
room. AU Saline area electors
are urged to attend.
A question-answer period
and coffee session will be
part of the meeting.
Meanwhile, candidates this
week answered a Reporter
question: "Why are you running for School Board?"
Their replies bescin on this
page. Other questions and
answers will appear in upcoming Reportsrs leading up
to the June 10 School Board
election. Eight candidates are
competing for two vacancies
on the Board. Biographical
sketches of all eight were
published in recent Reporter
issues.
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Milan Road
Improvement •
To Start Soon
Surveying is under way now
for improvement of Saline-Milan Rd. which the County Road
Commission "hopes to have
done before the snow flies,"
according to Howard Minier,
managing director of the Road
Commission.
The work will include "rehabilitation" of Saline-MJlan
Rd. from Willis to Moon Rd.
with build-up, smoothing, slight
widening, and blacktopping.
Although the present survey
extends beyond Moon Rd., work
in the farther section is not
scheduled until next year or the
year after, Minier said.
Also in the county's five-year
road   plan,   but  not   scheduled
this year, are the extension of
State Rd.   to   Bemis,   and Jhe
? improvement of ,'Salme-J^'nn*^__r-"
/*bor  Rd.
The possibility of improving
Maple Rd. is "just a gleam in
everybody's eye", Minier said.
Saline city and school officials
have "talked with us", he added, "and we will work with
them and will cooperate in every way we can. We're studying
the situation."
Gerald Coe
I am a candidate for the
Saline School Board because
I believe it .is my duty and
privilege to continue my effort, experience and interest
in this position.
■ The operation of a business
;as large as the Saline school
system is very complex with
numerous problems, and issues involved. My experience
as a Board member for seven
years and 'for one year as
chairman of the Advisory
Council has given me much
insight into the complexity
of the whole school area function.
Because of the constant
change in the whole process
of education, it will be necessary to devote more time to
keep abreast of the current
developments than has been
necessary in the past. With
the steady and rapid growth
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*'- -"Raymond Dunn
I am a candidate for this
year's School Board election
for the following reasons:
.1. The current Board is
made up of businessmen and
farmers. I believe that any
board should be composed of
as great a cross section of
the community as possible.
2. I believe that we owe it
to our children and to the
community t o provide the
best possible education at the
most economical cost.
3. I feel that I have the
proper amount of time available to give complete consideration to the problems that
•are now confronting our
schools and that may arise
to arrive at a satisfactory
conclusion for our educational system and community.
4. Having attended college
and working in industry, I
know that improving and ex-
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Albert Gall
I have been deeply interested in school affairs ever
since consolidation with the
urban area, when it became
apparent Saline's schools
would no longer accept rural
8th grade graduates!
I'm very grateful there are
rural citizens and urban as
well in having drafted me as
one. of the candidates for the
Board in this year's election.
For this I feel highly honored, that there are taxpayers in the area that have confidence enough in me to be. a
candidate for the Board.
My education includes
eight grades in Forbes District of the area, four years
in Saline High and some postgraduate work in speech at
Wayne State University during the eight years I represented Michigan Milk as a
market committeeman of this
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Raymond
Girbaeh
I feel that after 10 years
on the Saline Board of Education I can contribute greatly through my experiences n
the op°ration of the Saline
'Area School System. I have
been active in civic and community activities for many
years, in working throu.h
county and local groups such
as 4-H program, soil cont-ei-
vation, Saline Communi i y
Fair, Farm Bureau, Kiwanis,
church and school.
I feel that the Saline Bo.u d
of Education through 1 h<_
years has tried hard to provide the best education for ii s
children, hire the best teachers, and pay them within a
budget that the voters would
approve. I know that we have
failed to provide enough money for teachers' salaries, especially the beginning teachers.
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The approach to the Land of Oz,
complete with Tunning stream, high stone
walls, bridge, huge flowers, a flagstone
path through green grass, was only a
fraction of the magic wrought by the
Junior Class dance committee headed hy
David Estes. Beyond those imposing
walls, through the gateway, the Emerald
City stood, a beautiful illusion also created by Junior Class artists and carpenters.
Dave and two of his workers test
the bridge above, and Estes points to
the pond where live fish were to swim for
the Junior-Senior Prom last Saturday.
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Memorial Day
Parade, Speaker
Plans for the Memorial
Day observance here were announced today by Jack Moranville, American Legion
commander.
Attorney William F. Delhey will be the speaker in the
program at Oakwood Cemetery, and the invocation will
be given by the Rev. Herbert
Reed. Moranville and the president of the Legion Auxiliary, Miss Lola Dell, will place
the wreath. •
Marching in the parade will
be the Legion and Auxiliary
color guards, the Legion firing squad, the High School
and Junior High bands and
the High School fife and
drum corjps, city officials,
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, and
the Saline chapter of the
Washtenaw Junior Sheriff's
Deputies and their drum and
bugle corps. The local chapter has approximately 47
members.
The parade will start at 10
a.m. from the Junior High
School and march to the cemetery, and will return to
the school after the program.
Hospital A uxiliary
Officers Elected
.    Mary Woods was re-elected
president of the Saline Community Hospital Auxiliary, at
-.-j the annual meeting Tuesday
»  evening, and Olga Lambarth
was  named first vice presi-
-..dent.
«'Other. officers are Shirley
guards', second vice president; Carol Talsma, secretary; Esther Heininger, corresponding secretary; and Esther Gross, treasurer.
SDM LICENSE APPROVED
City Council Tuesday night
passed a resolution, for transmittal to the liquor Control
Commission, approving a n
SDM license for the A. & P.
store now under construction
at the east edge of the city.
Allan Grossman
I am running tor the office of member of our School
Board because it is this board
that determines the policies
which govern the education
of our children. I am concerned with these policies.
We. live in a time in which
the rate of change is increasing so rapidly that it has
been called by some the time
of "instant chang e" Any
change is frustrating. Our
tried and true reaction patterns no longer seem to produce the desired results. We
are called upon to make new
decisions, the results of which
are uncertain.
The frustrations produced
by "instant change" sometimes seem almost unbearable. And yet, it is precisely
the ability to act and react
successfully to instant change
that has made man the master of his environment while
the more rigid and less flexible forms of life have perished. We must stay loose and
"cool it" while searching for
new policies to guide our actions and reactions in. this
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School Bargaining
Meets Continue
Negotiators for the School
Board and Saline Education
Association have continued to
nieet' once or twice a week,
on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, but are "not-too far"
in their talks on the 1968-69
contracts, according to School
Superintendent Harold Hintz.
Discussion so far has concerned changes in such things
as grievance procedures, teachers' association, rights,
class, size, and others, he said.
The subject of salaries has
not yet been discussed.
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(A one-year salary contract was approved this week
by the Tecumseh Board of
Education and Tecumseh Education Association. It calls
for a base pay of $6,500, an
increase of $800 over last
year. 'Maximum for master's
degree, teachers is $10,400,
for "specialists". $11,500.)
Jim Knight
Providing "a quality- education" is the avowed purpose of our school system as
stated i n the 196,7. master
contract with our teachers. I
believe I have the qualifications, energy and desire to
assure that our childrefii are
in fact provided with "a quality education".
We .will be hard pressed to
achieve this goal if our
schools do not open on schedule. And there is every indication they will not open if
the negotiations continue to
follow last year's pattern. Because I have participated in
labor-management bargaining sessions, I am certain I
can offer positive and constructive advice to the
Board's negotiators. Teachers
who* can provide a quality
education are our system's
most valuable asset. We must
not lose the ones we have;
we must attract more of their
kind.
As an accountant I understand budgeting techniques.
Our goal should be to achieve
all economies not inconsistent with providing "a quality education".
Finally, because I believe
taxes should be based upon
one's ability to pay, I will
fight fpr tax reform aimed
at a more equitable distribution of the tax jburden. There
is concrete evidence thatvthe
day of reform is coming. My
goal is to hasten it.
* * ■   - Daniel Lirones
; Saline; area taxpayers are
proud of the accomplishments;
of our schools. We want to
continue to "carry this pride
and prepare our youngsters
for a well-rounded home life,
farm • work, industrial placement and college programs.
Our bands frequently take
first place at festivals, we
rate high in- competitive
sports, our FFA and Industrial Arts boys always bring
praise, the style show the
hdmemaking girls put on just
last week showed what good
seamstresses many are. These
things must continue, and yet
we know that these areas of
instruction always are hit
when the taxpayer can't keep
up. Our efforts to keep up
as taxpayers make us feel
like we're on a treadmill, running like crazy just to stand
still. Yet we are falling he-
hind. ---
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Mary Woods
My reasons for running for
the School Board are a profound concern -for children
and the important need for
representation of all parts of
the community on the Board.
Everything today is changing. Today's children need to
prepare for today's life.
I feel that I could make a
unique contribution. My long
family residence has given
me a broad knowledge of local needs.
I have been active in all
phases of education from the
Child Study Association to
Adult Education. My background in teaching stretches
from the elementary school
through a junior college.
At present, I am serving
on the Washtenaw County
Vocational-Technical Education Opportunities Study, a
study conducted by Washtenaw Community College and
the Washtenaw County Intermediate School District.
Poppy Queens
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Junior High
PTO Elects
New officers of the Junior
High PTO were elected Tuesday, evening: Frank Teachout, president; Carol Talsma,
vice president; Charlotte Vershum, secretary; and Betty
Anderson, treasurer.
PLANNERS TO MEET
The city planning commission will meet at 8 p.m. on
Tuesday in the council chamber.
TOWNSHIP MEET SET     .
' Saline Township Board will
meet at 8 p.m.. Monday, at the
Township'Hall.
First poppy sale for '68 was made hy Saline's two
Poppy Queens, Nancy Starling and Karen Passow; and
their happy customer was Mayor George Johnson. All
other Salinians will have their chance to buy the posies
this week, when the Legion Auxiliary conducts their annual sale to raise money iOT rehabilitation of disabled
veterans. Members of the Legion, the Auxiliary, and the
Junior Auxiliary will he stationed downtown on Friday
and Saturday .. . and a special group, will set up shop
at the Ford plant gate Thursday. Purpose of the project: "To'honor the* dead by helping the living."
FORD TO HOLD
AWARD FEED
HERE THURS.
Ford. Motor. Company will
.honor, community:minded em-
pllTyees~and'r'tfie_r spouses at
its General Parts Division Saline plant after dinner at
Leutheuser's Restaurant i n
Saline on Thursday.
The occasion will be the
second annual Ford Community Service Awards program
in Saline. Featured speaker
will be Saline Mayor George
E. Johnson.
John McDougall, general
manager of General Parts Division, will present the a-
wards.
Louis R. Ross, manager of
the Saline plant and chairman of the Ford Saline c6m-
munity relations committee,
said the Community Serviee
Awards program "is Ford
Motor Company's way of
thanking those employees
who give of their time and
talents to the communities
where they live".
A panel of civic leaders
have judged the nominations.
Some nominees will receive
"Good Citizen Award" citations, and others will be given "Outstanding Service A-
wards" ~ plaques bearing an
engraved commendation from
Henry Ford H, chairman of
the board.
A nominee whose contributions are judged especially
outstanding will be eligible to
be named "Ford Citizen of
the Year" in Saline and receive a cast bronze Town Crier Bell, the company's highest award for community serviee.
Activities on which the a-
wards are based include public service in elective or appointive positions, politics, citizen groups, neighborhood
associations, youth and recreation programs, community
fund campaigns and special
projects of clubs, service
or church groups.
Nominations for awards
were submitted by fellow
workers, family members and
others familiar with the community activities of employees or their spouses during
1967.
The Saline program is one
of 40 Community Service A-
wards programs which Ford,
conducts at locations across
the nation where it has facilities.
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One of the props at the Junior-Senior Prom was a
very personable Tin Woodman . . . and one of the team
of workers who transformed the Saline High gym into
Munchkin-Iand was a very statuesque Patti Lange.. The
photographer swears that the Tin Woodman's happy
smile, and the gleam in his eyes, came only, when Patti
posed for a "dance" with him.
Townships to
Recreation, Library
ICE CREAM SOCLAL SET
The Altar Society of St.
Andrew's Church will hold
an ice cream social on the
church lawn, from 5 to 7 p.m.
Friday, June 7 . . . "rain or
shine".
More township assistance
to the library and city recreation programs is likely to
be forthcoming, Mayor
George Johnson announced
after a meeting of city and
township officials this week.
"We think we got a consensus that the townships,
would be willing' to consider
contributions based on a percentage of the head count of
library patrons and "recreation registrations," Johnson
said. "The supervisors agreed
to go to their township
boards with the idea of a
fair-share payment based on
exact participation figures."
The Saline Library already
has such figures, which "can
easily be updated" and will
be available almost immediately, he said. Since registration for the city recreation
program doesn't close until
June, a count of city and
township residents served by
that .program must wait a-
bout a month.
' Township supervisors who
attended the meeting included Albert Bredernitz, Saline
Township; Erwin Frederick,
Lodi; Russ Hughes, Bridge-
water; Thurlow Sanf-ofd,
York; and Melvin Hartman,
Pittsfield. The city was represented by Johnson and
Councilmen Glenn Clark, Ed
Marsh, and Don Jaeger.
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Group Seeks
Information
In preparation for Saline High
School's Centennial Commencement activities, a committee is
seeking information on former
class officers, teachers,_ school
board members, and personnel.
A special reception to honor
school-connected people is planned from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on
Sunday, June 16, at the High
School. Any former graduates
will be.welcome.
Also sought are old class pictures, yearbooks, photos of former teams, and any other information relative to the history of Saline High School. Anyone who has such pictures or
information or is willing to
help accumulate the needed information is asked to contact
Mrs; Hairy'Cline, 429-9871.
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