1968-11-07; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 20 NUMBER 9-THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1968
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THE     TINIEST      TRICKSTERS •  sights. They're nursery school pupils of
WERE A TREAT to everyone who spot- Storybook   Gardens.   The   little   people's
ted them in the course of the pre-Hallo- report on what they saw is found in this
ween tour of the city, to see the spooky week's "Junior Judgments" column.
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FANCY FANTASY INDEED were
the costumes of the toddlers at Saline
Play Center. Though you'd never guess
from the picture, those in the front row,
kneeling, are Debbie .Tinsey, Brian
Schwemmin, Gregory Murphy, Robbie
Kidd, Lisa Schwab, Brent Bradley, Sarah
Meyer, and Claudette Pepper.
Children     standing     are     Jimmy
Motley Display
Hagood, Jan Briggson, Mark Bracey,
Heather Darby, Randy Hoffman, Debbie
Barrie, Todd Shook, Keliey Schalm, and
Melanie Knowlton.
Their elders, who always look this
good, are Mrs. Robert Briggson, Mrs.
Harold Tinsey, Mrs. Peck (teacher), and
Mrs. William Barrie.
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Javcees Seek
New Members
The Saline Jaycees, a community development and civic
service group, are looking for
men between the ages of 21
through 35 who are interested
in the future of the community.
'Community service is the
high spot on project activity,
but leadership training is an
important segment of the Jaycee  program.
The Jaycees are also intent
on expanding their chapter, at
the same rate' of growth that
the population of Saline is experiencing. To aid in expanding their membership, the
Jaycees are holding a membership drive which begins today and wiU climax on Wednesday, November 3, at 7
p.m. at an "M" Nite buffet
banquet dinner at the Masonic Lodge above the VIP
store.
The program . will consist of
slide pictures of the Jaycee
story. Merritt- Martin, past
Jaycee state president and national vice-president,: will be
guest speaker. '
■  For further information.please
contact  Bill   Garpow,   429-4293.
The United Fund campaign
this week shot up like a moon
rocket, from 30 to 95%. The go§l
is $33,913.
Reports cascaded in so fast
to Campaign Chairman Dorothy
Leidheiseiv that, at her home,
the whole le\abeeame apparent
in little more than an hour. She
explained; \~
"A Michigan Uniterm).Fund rep-
resentative visited me 6h Thursday to inquire how things were
Election
Sidelights:
Patience, Pizza
The heaviest election in Saline's history and the resultant
long lines at the polls produced
some unusual sidelights along
with the balloting.
A two-hour wait was nothing,
in the lines that often stretched
down the street and around the
corner . . . and in the larger
precinct of the City, Precinct 1,
some who had been in line before 8 p.m. finished voting at
11 p.m.
Some Salinians gave up and
went home without voting, but
not George Schwab, who stood
for two hours and 45 minutes before casting his ballot ... or
Elinor Donoghue who waited for
three hours ... or Jean Taylor,
who may hold the unenviable
record, for a patient wait of
three hours and 25 minutes.
Just before 10 p.m., some poor
soul at the Saline city polls dis-.
covered that he was a resident
of- Saline Township- and -should'
haye voted there . . . and of
course, it was far too late then.
Several Lodi Estates residents
were also turned away. City
election officials sympathized;
but Lodi Estates is in Lodi
Township.
None of the election officials
would have survived the day,
they agreed, without the kindness of Mrs. Robert Kissel's
Junior High home economics
class which served coffee,
doughnuts, and cookies ... all
home made.
Late in the evening, a young
man who lives in the Clark St.
apartments endeared himself
forever to officials of Precinct
2, ... by bringing them a large,
luscious, very welcome pizza.
Apparently he had heard them
say they were hungry. They do
not know his name.
One other outstanding feature
of the day was provided by the
High School FHA (see detaUed
story on this page.)
going, and I told him we were
at 30%. If he had only stayed
an hour longer, I could have
showed him 95% . . . everything
poured in at once."
Moreover, many areas showed
contributions well over those of
last year. One residential section gave S250 more than last
year, although its popidation
has increased very little. Reports from all four schools, the
hospital, and MEHA, all complete, also show gains. "We're
getting a tremendous response,"
she said.
Work in residential areas 2
and 6 has been finished, Mrs.
Leidheiser said, and all others
are close to completion. Only
partial accounts have been
turned in from business and industry, however.
The drive is expected to go
over the top by next week, she
said, and complete figures will
be listed at that time. The 1968
campaign is already a record-
breaker, whatever the final total, since no earlier drive has
ever sailed from 30% to 95%
in one week.
Rogers, Johnson/
Gross Win Seats
Sewage E
Proposal Passes
Three Others
Mayor-elect   Keveling
Open House Set
At High School
An open house sponsored by
the PTO will be held at Saline
High School at 8 p.m. Tuesday,
November 12.
The agenda will include class
meetings for parents, followed
by a "capsule class schedule"
(a round of their youngsters
classes)'for each, and then time
for teacher-parent consultations
if desired. A coffee hour will
complete the session. All parents are urged to attend.
"Without the FHA," said one
Saline election official today, "I
don't think we could have managed an election."
Said another: "Those girls'
were marvelous. Just amazing."
The FHA . . . Future Home-
makers Association of Saline
High School . . . provided babysitting service at th.e city^polLs.
and found themselves in cfiarge
of far more children than anyone could possibly have predicted. All to'd, they entertained
and soothed 175 children, ranging from babes in arms (who
settled comfortably into FHA
arms) to youngsters of early
school age.
The kids thought it was great.
They played happily with toys
Planners to Select
Mobile Home Site
City Council, with a mobile
home - control ordinance in
the works, Monday evening
asked the city attorney to prepare a resolution setting up a
zoning category, R-MH, for
mobile  home   areas.
Council also asked the city
Jplanning commission to recommend sites which could be
zoned  R-MH.
The Monday evening meeting was the first held in the
newly remodeled old city hall
building, though work there is
not completed. Still awaited
are carpetting, some furniture,  and some painting.
An open house will be held
when the work is completed,
probably in late November or
early December, Mayor George
Johnson said.
| A SUCKER FOR CfflUDREN ...;. in fatet, providing
sutikers and other goodies, for all the children, was the
merry clown above, who visited the. hospital, elementary
schools, and other places where' tbts might" be found.
Under the motley was,Mrs.. Edgar (Barh)JHoniy.„
FAIR BOARD
TO ELECT
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Saline Fair Board will elect
new. officers at the annual meeting at 8:30 p.m. Monday in the
High School agriculture room.
The present chairman, Don
Wiedman, has announced that
•he will not accept the post for
another-term, ~...
ABOUT ELECTION,
CITY CLERK SAYS:
Julie Rapp, appointed this
year to the post of city clerk,
commented today on the first
election which was under her
jurisdiction in that capacity.
It was the biggest, longest,
most complex election Saline
has ever had; counting was
completed after 2 a.m.
Said Julie, early the following morning: "Criminently."
Gerald Bahnmiller, owner of
Bahnmiller Funeral Home who
formerly operated an ambulance service here, has donated
an inhalator to the city for use
in the police car.
City Council Monday night approved a resolution of thanks to
Bahnmiller, who operated the
city's only ambulance service
for a number of years, at a loss,
until it could be replaced by
Washtenaw County's present
contract with Superior Ambulance Co. The contract went into effect last year.
Until this year, all local fire
calls were answered at Bahnmiller Funeral home. Now, calls
for the fire department are answered at the police station.
The present number for fire
calls, is 429-2525. It is a direct
line to the police department
but is a separate line. -
The Council resolution reads:
RESOLUTION OF THANKS
WHEREAS, Gerald Bahnmiller has donated to the City an inhalator -which will be carried
in our marked police patrol car
for emergency use- and
WHEREAS, the said Gerald
Bahnmiller has a distinguished
record of service to the City of
Saline in his ambulance service
and fire * communication work,
as weE as many other areas of
public service;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED, that the Saline
City Council hereby expresses
its thanks on behalf of the citizens of Saline to the said Gerald - Bahnmiller for his many
public services;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a suitable copy of this
Resolution signed by all members of this.Council be delivered
to the said Gerald Bahnmiller.
the Day
furnished by the FHA, took
home pictures they had colored
while their parents were voting,
and ... in a few cases . . . announced that they would rather
stay here than go home.
In one hectic session, the girls
on duty counted 45 children in
their care.
Chairman of the-pro, aetwwas.
Sandy Owens, who remained at
the helm all day and into the
night. Her committee members
were Corrine Spencer, Debbie
Hammond, and Liza Lee Collins,
who also went home in justifiable exhaustion. An entire day
of "Farmer in the Dell" and
"Ring Around the Rosy" might
leave anyone with ringing in the
ears.
Original p^ns had called for
the babysitting service to begin
at 11 a.m. . . . but FHA Advisor Cheryl Henes dropped off
a few girls at the polls at 8:30
a.m., took one look at the throng
of child - accorhpanied voters,
and went back to the school for
more sitters.
Dedicated to keeping the kids
out of mischief and in good
spirits were Sue Dieterle, Connie Bersuder, Kathy Charlton,
Alice Crisovan, Kathy Gordon,
Jeanne Feldkamp, Cindy Braun,
Cindy Biirman, Pat Hayes, Judy
Sharkey, Denise Hartung, Kathy
Dieterle, Teresa Helle, and Patsy Van DeWater.
Others were Sherry Stull, Janet Diuble, Nancy Emerson, Karen Cline, Gwenn Mann, Pam
Sheats, Ruth Esch, Martha
Brink, Lois Alber, Denise Chambers, Gail Williams, Denise
Tinker, Sandy Gutekunst, Sherry Sheats, Lynne McCalla, Nancy Lindemann, Lori Struble.
Sitters also included Mary
Hunt, Sally Snay, Terry Wilson, Myrna Griffin and Nancy
Diuble.   .
City voters, in the heaviest
turnout in the city's history,
Tuesday chose former Councilman Hugh Keveling for
mayor. Keveling, who previously served fonr years as
a city- councilman, defeated
George Anderson, who is now
completing his sixth year on
council.
Both city precincts gave
Keveling solid leads; the total citywide vote was 693 for
Keveling; 506 for Anderson.
In a four-way race for
three council seats, a newcomer to city elective office,
Kenneth Rogers, topped the
list with 885 votes. But he is
not new to city administration; he was formerly -employed for a number of years
as city clerk.
Also elected were Waldo
(Jim) Gross, 815; and the
present mayor, George Johnson, 707. Johnson this year
chose to seek a council seat
rather than a third term as
mayor. Incumbent Councilman Glenn Clark was defeat-
._3d with 636- votes.., .*..:_ S -,
Only one of the city's" lout
bonding proposals passed; voters approved by 805 to 405 a
bond issue of $640,000 for expansion of the sewage disposal plant;:. ;'   '
Ttcfepther bonding propo-
sitions^vere rejected; igrg^Jft
water installation, .jt^^pote
was 617 "no" to W^$M\
for flood control ariu repair
of the dam, 640 "no" to 565
"yes."; for a swimming facility in the park 881 "no" to
316' "yes". (City officials, including those newly elected
Tuesday, have pointed out
that there are other available
methods of repairing the dam
and refilling the pond than
the system proposed on the
ballot.)
Though they rejected the
local proposals for flood control and swimming facility,
voters did a turn-about to approve the state propositions
for pure water and recreation]
(possibly because no millage
was involved). State Proposal:
m, to abate water pollution,
passed here by 1095 to 361.
State Proposal IV, for parks
and recreation, was okayed
by Salinians 841 to 604. Other
state proposals, including
Daylight Savings Time, were
rejected in Saline . . , but the
latter was close: 737 "yes" to
775 "no".
The one-mill county road
package failed by 475 "yes"
to 874 "no".
For state and county offices, the city maintained its
traditional Republican edge of
more than two to one, with
one exception: Democratic
Incumbent Sheriff Doug Harvey easily outran his opponent, former Sheriff George
Petersen.
The effect of local resi-
denc.? or local connections
was apparent in some of the
races: S. Jerome Bronson ran
high for Court of Appeals;
Marvin Esch swamped his
opponent, to retain his Con-
gressiona|" seat.- And three
Salihe residents easily won
election to county office: Prosecuting Attorney William
Delhey, Drain Commissioner,
John Flook, anftCounty
Clerk-elect Roherr 'Harrison.
Mayor-elect Hugh Keveling
said today: "I sincerely appreciate the fine support I
had. Special thanks go to L.
Z. Still, who-encouraged me
to run for the" office of mayor; to Bob;" Collins of Pittsfield Pharmacy, my employer,
and fellow workers, and 'Citizens for Better Government'."
He continued: "I promise
better communication between the city government
and the public. I intend to be
at tKe city hall Saturday
mornings for consultations,
as soon as I take office in
January. I will try to merit
your faith in me."
(Continued on page 2).
Anchors Aweigh
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PITTSFIELD MILLAGE
PROPOSAL DEFEATED
A proposed levy of up to two
mills for the Pittsfield Township
Fire Department was defeated
in Tuesday's election by a percentage of two to one.
Pittsfield election officials,
who completed their count at 3
a.m. Wednesday, reported that
township voters in both precincts gave. Albert Bredernitz a
solid lead for the office of county supervisor; stuck with Incumbent Sheriff Douglas Harvey; and favored for District
Court judges Patrick Conlin,
Robert Fink, and Rodney Hutchinson, in that order.
C-C SCHEDULES
EVENING MEET
The Chamber of Commerce
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
at the home of the president,
Paul. Sibson, 737 Knollwood Ct.
He hopes for a good turnout,
he. said.
POST OFFICE TO CLOSE
FOR VETERANS DAY
The Saline Post Office will he
closed Monday, November 11,
in observation of Veterans Day.
There will be no window service, city, or rural mail delivery.
Woman's Club
Plans Guest Night
The Saline's Woman's Club
will hold its annual guest night
at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, at. Houghton School.
Guest speaker will be the Rev.
Merle Meeden with slides and a
talk ph "Europe on $5 a Day".
Music will be provided.by a vocalist, Miss Sue Peters, a senior
in the University of Michigan
school of music.
A BIG CHANGE in the young male population of
Saline will take place when the six men above enter
service in the U. S. Navy on November 15. They are the
largest contingent ever recruited all at once from a
Washtenaw County community by Chief Petty Officer
Donald Ford, Navy recruiter in Ann Arhor.
Since they ehlisted under the "Buddy Plan", they
will be sworn in together and go through recruit training together.      *
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All but one are Saline High School graduates of the
class of 1968. Xeft to right, above, arc Bill Hill, son of
Mr. and Mrs. WiUiam Hill, Sr., of 364 Bemis Rd.; Kick
Payne (class of 1967), son of the Louis Paynes of 23&
Pleasant Ridge; Dennis Mac Donald, son of the Billie
Mac Donalds, 318 N. Ann Arbor St.; Marc VanDoreii,
son of-Mr. and .Mrs. Roger VanDoren of-467 _B_. Michigan; Dwight Irwin,- son of the David Irwins, 4133 Anst-h
Rd.; and .Robin FJiekinger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon
Flickinger, 804 Austin Rd.
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