1968-09-11; Saline Reporter

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Saline Reporter
Volume 20, Number 1 - Wednesday, September 11, 1968
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Sunny Smile from Princess Claudia, New Miss Saline
— Reporter Staff Photo
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Claudia Scruggs, the new
"Miss Saline", is floating in
roses this week following the
Thursday   evening   crowning.
Last Tuesday evening, the
night of the actual judging,
Claudia received three roses
from her boy friend, Stan Harrison, to wish her luck. Stan is
stationed in Wichita, Kansas-
with the U.S. Army. OnThurs-
day afternoon he sent her a do--
zen roses for luck and then
when Claudia was crowned
Thursday evening, she received
the traditional dozen roses at
the ceremony.
Claudia, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Scruggs of 101
S. Harris St., has a sophisticated sense of humor and a beautiful smile, especially when
talking about that certain someone. In school she takes part
in the chorus, Future Home-
makers of America, and forensics. She also takes an active
interest in her art class, and
her plans are headed toward
secretarial school upon graduation. She is now working at
Arlan's, besides attending school
full time in her senior year.
Also honored in the ceremony was Diane Guenther, daugh?.
ter of Mr. and Mrs. William,'
Guenther of Pleasant Lake T.H..«-
who was elected by her fellow
contestants as "Miss Congeniality".
Patti Lange, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Lange, of
Williams St., was first runner-
up; and second runner-up
honors were divided between
Shirley Finkbeiner, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Finkbei-
er of Austin Rd., and Vicki A-
dams,'daughter'of ;Mr.-and-Mr#---
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were'
11 Overseas Servicemen
Urged to Register
For Fail Election
Plan Includes
Maple Road
Improvement
Saline servicemen who have
turned 21 should register now
to vote in the November 5 election.
How?  Like this:
Registration applications are
being sent this week to all local servicemen overseas, together with this issue of The Reporter. The American Legion
Auxiliary, which always sends
Reporters to those in Viet Nam,
this week expanded its ■list to
include, men stationed in Germany, England, Japan, and
Korea ... so that all would
receive applications as quickly
as  possible.
In an effort to reach all overseas personnel who might be
21 on or before November 5,
the Auxiliary will dispatch papers . . . and applications . . .
to all who graduated from Saline High School, in 1965 or be-
fo"°..
Tin applications should be
fiv.p^ «._* ?nd returned immed-
i"te'y to Saline City Hall, Saline,
-Mich. 48176.
Servicemen stationed in this
country will have a little more
time: they are urged to write
to City HaU for a registration
appHcation.
For those already registered,
applications for absentee b a 1 -
lots may be obtained from the
post commanding officer, filled
out,  and sent to City Hall.
Absentee ballots will be available qn..^ September 24, C it y
"Clerk Julie." Rapp said. "Sppli-
catiohs can be sent before that
.". .  she has  already received
Civil Rights Group
j Plans Organization
A group of about 14 Salin-
[ ians who have held recent .meetings on Civil Rights problems,
[will organize arid elect officers
[tonight.
A name will also be chosen
[for the organization, at a meet-
[ at  the  Presbyterian  Church.
The  public is invited.
seven from servicemen who are
registered. Two came from
Germany; another has been received from a Peace Corps
member in the Philippines.
Servicemen whose home address is outside the city should
send their applications to their
township clerks, if they know
which township they live in. If
they do not, they may also send
them to City Hall, Saline; and
the applications will be forwarded to the right townships,
Mrs.   Rapp said.
Registration for the November election will close on October 4.
[SCHOOL BOARD
[TO  ADOPT BUDGET
The Board of Education will
I meet at 8 p.m. tonight to adopt
!the.  $1,797,567   budget   for   the
1968-69 school year.
$1,810,000
Bond Issues
Go on Ballot
Bond issues that total approximately $1,810,000 will face
city taxpayers on the November   ballot.
The issues, approved by
Council Monday after, previous
consultation with bonding consultants, would provide Saline
with a water softening plant,
sewage plant expansion, flood
control and dike repair, and a
swimming pond in Curtiss
Park.
The amount of millage increase necessary to retire the
bonds would depend on which,
and how many, of the projects
voters approve. If all four pass,
the tax the first year wojdd be
4.61 mills, based on the present city valuation. If the valuation risest the millage wouid go
down, and would vary inversely
with the tax base thereafter.
It would also be reduced as
each section of the bonding program is retired.
Detailed cost estimates for
each of the proposed projects,
and the exact amount of the
bond issue, are expected to be
ready- by  next  week. ■   .
"We will get complete information to the public well in
advance- of the election," said
Mayor George Johnson. "We
plan to turn the entire Council
into a Speaker's Bureau, complete with slides, in order to
totally inform everyone on the
proposals."
City Council has endorsed
a proposed one-mill tax levy,
on the November ballot, for
county road improvements.
The levy would bring in
about $954,000 a year, none
of which would be spent inside the cities. The program
for the Saline area would include widening and paving
Maple Rd. from Saline to the
point where it joins Saline-
Ann Arbor Rd., just north of
Ellsworth Rd. . . . and widening Saline-Ann Arbor Rd.
to five lanes from that point
to Lohr Rd., at the expressway.
Ann Arbor, in endorsing
the one-mill package, has requested the widening of Saline-Ann Arbor Rd. to five
lanes, from Scio Church Rd.
to Lohr.
' The improvements provided from the three-year levy
would be in addition to the
County Road Commission's
present five-year program.
The latter includes improvement of Saline-Ann Airbor
Rd. from Maple Rd. to the
south to the Saline city limits; completion of Milan Rd.
improvements; and the extension of State Rd. to Moon.
All of these were part of
a road program recommended to the Road Commission
by the County Metropolitan.
Planning Commission and approved by the Board of Supervisors. Road improvements
Urgently needed in this county would come to nearly $4-
millioh in five years, Saline
Mayor and County Supervisor George Johnson pointed
cut.
- Thfe plan for Maple Rd. is
for;a width of 24 feet (the
width- of the recently-improved section of Saline-Milan
Rd.); and two lanes. Said
Johnson: "We would have
preferred four lanes, but obtaining rights-of-way would
have been too costly."
The improvement -of Maple
would "help alleviate downtown traffic problems in Saline," Johnson added, since it
would provide a route to Ann
Arbor from the center of Saline that is actually more direct than the present main
route via Saline-Ann Arbor
Rd. The added north-south
route would divide traffic in
and out of town between the
two cities.
The program, he said further, "would be of direct benefit to the city and the school
district, especially since the
new high school will be located on Maple Rd., and it will
also have great indirect benefit in raising values of land."
Just to improve the section of Maple leading to the
new high school from Michigan Ave. would cost more
than $50,000, he said.
The tax levy route to raise
funds for roads has the advantage of allowing every
dollar to go into roads, he
pointed out. If improvements
were to be financed by bonding, "then some of the money
would have to be used for
debt retirement." The County Road Commission could,
under the present law, float
bonds up to $7,850,000 without putting the issue on the
ballot.
Annexation
Beouests Go
To Planners
City Council Monday night received two petitions for. annexation and referred them to the
planning commission.
One, for 81 acres, came from
J. F. Ferry, owner of the/farm
on Austin Rd. The. othei. concerned 20 acres, formerly part
of the! same property ^recently
purchased by St. Andrew's
Church for a building, site.
No development p^ims:. have
been announced for the -81-acre
area. "    • '
RE-APPOINTED
Joseph Bondie, of 340 Poriii
View, was re-appointed Monday
by City Council to another three-
year term on the city planning
commission.
"Saddle Up" Moves to Sandy's
"I just can't beUeve it," said
110-year-old Sandy Marion, aft-
fer she won a black and white
[weanling pony, at the Fair, by
I naming him   "Saddle Up".
The next day, she still could
j not believe it, and neither could
(her brother, Brian, 9; pr sisters
Karen, 6,  and Julie, 3. But it
I was true.
The pony for the contest was
) donated by Betty Weavie, in a
'long   tradition   of   such   gifts
[from Weavie Pony Farm. Two
of the ponies in the Pony Show
(first came to their young owners by this route . . . and many
j of  the  small riders  have   ac-
1 quired a lot of pony, lore from
! Betty and the late Karl Weavie.
The saddle and bridle for this
year's contest were donated by
Graf's Gulf station.
Sandy is the daushter of Mr.
and Mrs. David Marion. The
family hopes to move this week
from 231 Willis Rd. to the new
home of their farm at 14024 E.
Michigan Ave., Clinton. "S a d-
dle Up" will be the first livestock on the farm . . . not even
a dog has preceded him there.
He will be undisputed Mng of
1 the roost.
TO ATTEND MUNICIPAL
LEAGUE   CONVENTION
Mayor .George Johnson will
represent Saline at the 70th an-
! nual convention of the Michigan
Municipal League, September
jlT-20 in Lansing. The delegates
["will.seek solutions to. the social
[ills of urban living, and other
[municipal problems.
BOB STARLING, co-chairman of
the Fair's Pony Show, introduces "Saddle
Up" to 10-year-old Sandy Marion, who
won the weanling by choosing Ms name.
The pony is oiie of many donated down
through the years by Weavie Pony
Farms to local youngsters, all of whom,
still cherish the donors, Karl and Betty
Weavie.
-- Reporter Staff Photo.
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