1968-09-26; Saline Reporter

              The Saline Reporter
Volume 20, Number  3  - Thursday, September 26,  1968
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Hornets Trounce Milan, 19-6   Paving Maple Road Gets
FIRST LEAGUE
VICTORY SETS
TEAM ON TOP
A ragged Hornet defense and
a good ground game were the
two ingredients that brought vic-
"terj? to Saline last Friday at
Milan.
The Hornet gridders proved
they'd learned Eame painful lessons during their drubbing the
Week before at Vandercook Lake
_ . . and they learned them well
enough to post a 19-6 win in their
first conference game of the
season.
Mike Farrell sparkled on defense, breaking through the Milan wall to. block two punts. One
of his blocks set up the Hornets'
first touchdown. His breakthrough gave Saline the ball,
with good field position . . . and
the team cashed in on the opportunity, with a steady march to
the end zone. Fullback Dan Laskey went the final yard for six
points.
Morton kicked the bonus point.
Later, still in the first half,
another Hornet push brought six
more points. This drive featured
a 19-yard run by Karl Roehm . .
and again it Was climaxed by
Laskey, going in from the one.
The score at the half:   13-0.
In the final period, Keith
Smith took the ball on a scissor
play and went 41 yards, untouched, into the end zone.
With Morton's extra point try
blocked . . . and with a second
half Milan tally ... the final
scone was 19-6.
Keith Smith led the Hornet
offense, with 114 yards gained.
Defensively, Bobby Girbaeh piled up the most points on the
coaches' tally sheets . . . but
Farrell, with his two blocked
punts, was also iriipressive.
As an indication of the total
Hornet defensive effort, the Big
Reds were able to net only a
scant 40 yards on the ground
for the entire game.  . *   •
Neither    team   'managed   to
mount any kind ol.aeQ_d_-attapk,„
^  Milan failed to complete a single
■jjL pass  . . .  and Saline did even
'^^ worse . . . getting no completions in 13 tries . . . and.losing
one "to  Milan on  an interception.
"We'll continue to work on our
passing game," declared Coach
Mike Rotunno this week. "I'm
confident it'll develop as the
team gains experience and confidence.
"And we'll need it in the
games ahead.
"This Friday, in our first
home game, the team faces a
South Lyon squad 'that can throw
the ball. They're big, too. They
were tied by Lincoln, 6-6, in last
week's game . . . but.I figure
the lions are still the team to
beat, if we want to be in contention this year.
"The Hornets played a fine
game against Milan, It's always
a fine game when you win. But
we did commit more mistakes
than we should have. For instance, we threw away two
scoring drives on fumbles, early
in the game. We're working on
this too!"
The South Lyon battle, on the
Saline High field, will start at
7:30 p.m. Friday. It's another
Southeastern Conference game.
The Hornets came out of the
Milan session in good physical
shape. They're ready for the
Lion challenge.
Band Calendars
Have Supplement;
Extras Available
The 1968-69 Band Calendars,
now being delivered, this year
include a special threes-page
supplement of dates which were
not available when the calendars
went to the printer, Dave Wolter
isaid today.
Those whose calendars have
already been delivered will receive the supplement by mail
or later, delivery, since it arrived
here after the calendars were
- received. Others will receive the
supplement with the calendar
delivery..
The calendars, sold each year
by the Band Parents Club to
fund the Band's summer camp
.trip, include dates of local school
'{.■..and community events.
jW"v Extra calendars are still available. They may be picked up at
the High School band room between. 8:30 and 10 a.m.. 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m.; or 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. on
school days. Anyone who cannot
come to the High School may
ask any Band member to deliver
one, Wolter said.
The calendars sell for $1 each.
High Priority for Millage
~ $438,000 Construction
_  „ „ —. , Project to be Completed
toUows btate 1 rend \n p|an»s «|st or 2nd Year"
Closing OB Ward
. The closing of Saline Hospital's obstretrical department next week will leave
Saline without a maternity
ward for the first time since
1934.
The move follows a state-
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FRESH FROM THE TRIUMPH over
Milan in their first league game, the Hornets are in great shape for. their first-
home game; they'll meet South Lyon
here Friday night.
Above, in first row, are Mike Bar-
land, Don Reese, Carey Strieter, Mike
Farrell, Dan Laskey, Don Morton, Mike
Romelhardt and Scott Klapper.
Second   row:    Ralph   Kring,    Bob
Fischer, Daryel Wisely, Keith Smith, Jer-t
ry Hill, Tim Davis, and David Estes.     -
Third row: Gary Marion, Wes Gall>*
Vic Cook, Mike Campbell, Wyman Oster^
hout, Jeff Youngs, Dennis Feeman.        '
Back row: Coach Clem Corona, Joe|
Eddie, Roger Lossing, Tom Laskey, Billf
Ray, Terry Stull, Toby Scudder, Karl!
Roehm, and Coach Mike Rotunno. f
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Jayvees, also wound up for'their first
home game, against South Lyon, Friday. :
In first row are Steve Hoeft, Steve
Burkett, Don Davis, Dave Lancaster, Bill"
Glaze, Karl Janovitz, and Roger. Smead.
Second row: Bob Wanty, Mike Lindemann, Gary Skinner, Bill' Katz, Pete
Slepsky, Mark Davis, Dale Carlton, Tom
O'Sullivan. -. ..
^—Third^ xowt Jim ,_Hesket#;--\Martin
Lewis, Dave Houdek, Joe McCann, Xeoh
Gall, Don Girbaeh, and Dave Harsh.
Fourth row:. Ken Law, Jim Bilyea,
Roger Hinckley, Mike McKeough, Norm
Petrowsky, Bill Layher, Bob Harsh.
Back, rowj Coach Joe Graf, Bruce
Morton, Phil Burkhart, Norm Sandefer,
Mike Sheatsj' Coach' Joe Schwartz.
Band to Play
"Poiitricks"
At Half-Time.
The half-time Band show at
the first home game Friday will
carry the theme "Poiitricks".
The show takes "the light
approach" to the current political uproar, according to Dave
Wolter, music superintendent of
Saline schools. "We promise not
to take sides. It's completely
bipartisan ... or tfipartisan . . .
or multipart-san."
The High School Band now
boasts 104 members, including
88 in the "block band", eight
in "flag rank", Drum Major
Mike Burke, and four majorettes: Becky Hehr, Peggy West,
Barb Braun, and Sarah Christner.
Mac Danforth is the director.
The pre-game show will include the first performance at
a game of the fight song written
specially for Saline, "Sting of
the Hornets". It was arranged
by Danforth who has declined
to -say who wrote it, on the
grounds that the composer wishes to remain anonymous.
One Member of 1959
Hospital Staff Remains
To Regulate
Trailer Parks
A proposed ordinance controlling mobile home parks in Saline will receive its' second
reading at the regualr Council
meeting on October 7.
The ordinance is under consideration because state law
permits establishment of trailer parks in cities ... it would
be illegal for Saline to prohil.it
them.   The   alternative  is   con-
.trol of such parks if they are
evlr built here.
The proposed local ordinance
was recommended by the planning commission and planning
consultants after study of numerous ordinances from other
cities.. "We Jook the best parts
of each one," said City Administrator Mike" Strait.
; The Saline law would regulate lot size and the size of
the trailer on: each lot, and
would require sewer and water
lines, underground utility lines,
paved streets, and sidewalks. It
also would require a recreation
area   arid   landscaping   includ-
"ing trees, plantings, and green-
' belts.
% ...Any, planfor a mobile home
park would have to be approved
by the planning commission
and City Council.
Said-Strait: "If we ever have
to have a trailer park, we want
to be proud of it."
No plans for mobile home
parks have been submitted to
the planning commission; there
is no land yet zoned for trailer parks; and city officials
know of none that are in prospect at this-time.
wide trend . . . Harper Hospital in Detroit closed its OB
department this week after
104 years of service. It is now
a general policy of hospitals
in Michigan and throughout
the country to centralize obstetrical service in large hospitals, acording to Vince
Cataeuzzeno, Saline Hospital
administrator.
Thp. falling birth ifete
throughout the country is
largely responsible for the
fact that OB departments do
not serve enough patients to
pay for themselves. Saline's
rate of use has not actually
dropped; but the rate of increase is far smaller than the
area's population explosion
would indicate.
In May, June, and July of
1967, 55 babies were born at
Saline Community hospital.
In the same three months,
this year, there were only 58.
Total numbers for the years
1966, 1967, and the first part
of 1968 show no greater increase.     : -   '
The department will close
at one minute after midnight
on Tuesday, October 1. Patients admited before that
time will not be transfered,
but will remain until they are
ready to go home, Cataeuzzeno said. At present, there
are three mothers in the
eight-bed department, and
four babies (two are premature.)
Exact plans for reorganization of the department are
not complete', Cataeuzzeno
said, but the eight beds will
be available for medical-surgical patients by mid-October. The delivery room will be
used in the future for minor
surgery; but some of the maternity equipment will be
kept here for use in emergen-
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The improvement of Maple
Rd. from Saline north to
the point where if joins Saline - Ann Arbor Rd., a $438,-
000 project, is high on the
list of priorities assigned by
the Board of Supervisors and
the Road Commission for use
of the funds from the one-
mill road package on the
November ballot, Saline Supervisor George Johnson said
this week.
. The one-mill levy, if approved, would bring in a total
of $2,864,000 for. the three-
year program. Work on -Maple Rd- would be "either in
the first or second-year section of the. program," Johnson said.
Priority for all the roads
included in the program was
determined at a meeting of
of the Road Commision and
county Planning Commission,
and "various city officials",
he said.
'Distribution of the funds
throughout the county will
follow the pattern of a new
law passed by the Legislature
this year, he explained'. But
the law will not become effective until 90 days after the
adjournment of the Legislature. Said Johnson: "If we
waited for it to become effective, it would be too late to
put the millage on the ballot
Consequently, all the ^jjem-^
mental Units have a gentleman's agreement" as to
which work will be done.
Millage funds assigned by
the program to improvements
elsewhere in the county do
not in every case equal, the estimated cost of the work. Total estimated cost of the entire program exceeds the millage funds by $586,750. For
Maple Rd., estimated cost and
millage funds listed are the
same.
First project listed in the
program is improvement of
Saline-Ann Arbor Rd., for
half a mile from Lohr Rd.
north to the Ann Arbor city
limits, providing five lanes
with curb and gutter. Cost is
estimated at $189,000.
The program also includes
paving Ellsworth Rd. from
State to Stone School Rd., 24
feet wide for a distance of
one mile ($85,000).
Maple Rd. would be widened to 24 feet, two lanes, and
paved from the Saline city
limits. to its end at Saline-
Ann Arbor Rd., a distance of
4.25 miles, second - longest
stretch in the program. Because of the necessity to obtain rights-of-way, it is also
the second most costly of the
projects. A five-lane section
of Grove Rd. near Ypsilanti
is the only more expensive
project, $540,000.
Improvement of Maple Rd.
from Saline to Saline-Ann Arbor Rd. will serve the new
high school and is expected
to take a large proportion of
the traffic from this end of
Saline-Ann Arbor Rd. It will
allow traffic coming in from
the east to by-pass the center
of toAvn entirely if headed for
Ann Arbor; and city officials
say that it actually provides
^a-«horter-route. to Ami-Arhor
from the four' corners. .
Not included in the one-
mill package, because they
are already in the Road Commission's present program,
are the completion of /Saline-
M_lan Rd. improvements; .extension of State Rd. to ijtoon
at Bemis; and improvement
of this end of:. SalirieriAnn
Arbor Rd. from Saline- to
LdhrRd. '
Ted Sees Lively Action in River 'Mini-Fleet'
Dr. Patrick Daoust, who
was elected vice chief of staff
Saline Community Hospital
this week, now has seniority
there, in terms of years on
the staff . . and he is the last
remaining member who has
been there since the hospital
opened in 1959.
Dr. Daoust, radiologist, also has an office for private
practice in Allen Park and is
a consultant at the Plymouth
State Home Retarded Children's Hospital, and at North-
ville State Hospital.
Secretary of the staff is
Dr! Wilbur Vander Yacht, obstetrician and' gynecologist.
He- was in private practice in
Dearborn before he moved his
practice and his home to Saline in October of 1966.
Auxiliary Buys
Kitchen Aids
For Hospital
Saline Community Hospital
Auxiliary has purchased a $300
Waring commercial blender
and a General Electric hand
mixer for use in the hospital
kitchen.
Plans are being made for a
fund-raising bake sale and bazaar, to be sponsored by the
Auxiliary on December 7, at
Wight Cleaners. A workshop
and planning session for the bazaar will.be held for all members at 10 a.m. Friday, October 4, at the home of Mrs.
Harold Smith, 324 Highland Dr.
Members are to bring a sack
lunch and "materials and ideas
for the all-day meeting.
DR. GARRISON
TOWNSHIP .MEET SET
Saline Township Board wiE
meet, at 8:30 p.m."Monday, at
the Township HaU.
DR. DAOUST
He, or his associate, Dr.
Irene Sheehan, are at the
Saline hospital several days a
week.
He has served as chief of
staff and vice chief of staff of
the Saline hospital in the
past.
Elected chief of staff this
week was Dr. Eugenie Garrison, who began his general
practice in Saline in 1963,
left for service in the U.S.
Navy in 1966. and returned in.
1967 to resume practice.
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A Navyman from Saline is
playing a key role in the battle against Viet Cong aggression while serving as a member of River Assault Flotilla
One, the Naval component of
the joint Army-Navy Mobile
Riverine Force in Viet Nam's
Mekong Delta.
Gunners Mate Second Class
Theodore C. Graban, 24, son of
Mr. and- Mrs. Theodore S. Graban of 213 E. Michigan Ave.,
is the .50 caliber machine gunner aboard Assault Support Patrol Boat (ASPB) 112-7, the only type of craft in the force
specifically designed and built
for riverine warfare.
Gunners Mate Graban's boat
basically functions as a minesweeper - patrol boat for the
unique. mini-fleet which has
been operating in the delta
since February, 1967.
In a. typical operation, Navy
assault boats are used to lift
infantrymen of the U.S. Army's
9th Division into a combat zone
where the troops are beached
to seek out the enemy ashore.
The boats remain in the area
to provide close fire support
and to prevent the enemy from
escaping by water along the
many rivers, streams and canals which interlace the delta.
The-24-year-pld Navyman has
seen plenty of action since joining the MRF about six months
ago. He described a recent battle which occurred on August
31 as the "toughest I've been
in."
Graban's boat was in the lead
element of a column of gunboats conducting a sweep oper?
ation in a narrow canal near
the Vietnamese city of Sa Dec.
As they approached a "crossroads" in the canal where another stream branched off, the
riverbank suddenly -erupted
with enemy fire. "We were receiving heavy automatic wea
pons fire from the right bank.
We had taken about five small
arms hits in quick succession
before I had recovered from
my initial surprise and pivoted
my .50 mount around and found
their range. Their machine gun
nest was so close I could see
the grass waving back and
forth and the snioke coming
from the enemy machine gun,"
recalled Graban.
As Graban poured a stream
of fire at the right bank he
heard the "whoosh" of an enemy B-40 rocket, one of the
most deadly weapons in the enemy arsenal as it streaked to
within a few feet of his boat
Several more followed but none
found their mark. Graban
crouched in his .50 caliber machine gun mount and blazed a-
way at the enemy positions, his
bullets chopping down the
dense foliage on the bank.
"Out of the corner of my eye
I saw a sailor on the boat next
to us get hit in the back with
a small-arms round. He pitched
forward against the boat canopy and bounced into the water.
I figured he was dead but the
next thing I knew he was swimming back to his boat, climbed
in and ran to the stern of the
craft where he started cranking
grenades at them with the automatic grenade launcher.
.Graban's boat; turned around
in mid-stream. and came back
for another pass at the enemy.
By this time the enemy fire had
been fairly well suppressed and
the gunboats had them on the
run. The firefight' lasted no
longer than 3V_s minutes but, by
Graban's own estimate, .he had
fired nearly a thousand rounds
at the-enemy positions.
Petty   Officer   Graban  is   a
graduate of Saline High School
and attended the-University of
Michigan prior to entering the.
Navy on May 20, 1965.
Navy Gunners Mate Second. Class Theodore- C.
Graban of Sekiu, Wash., takes a breather from his
chores as .20mm gunner aboard Assault Support Patrol
Boat (ASPB) 112-7 in Viet Nam. Graban's boat is h
unit of River Assault Flotilla One, currently pperai±r_g
with the Mobile Riverine Force in Viet Nam's Mekong
"Delta."