1968-11-21; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 20, NUMBER 11-Ihursday, NOVEMBEE 21, 1968
10c PEE COPY — §4 PEE YEAR
ENDOR
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MEHA's present residents Mr. and Mrs. Ward Estes,
will continue to live in their Miss Margaret Stewart, Mr.
Saline homes, and "a little and Mrs. Albert Voltmer.
part of MEHA will always be "We do enjoy the eommu-
here." one of them said to- nity and are happy that we
day. will be able to stay and be a
Although the Michigan Ed- part of it," said Mrs. Clark,
ducation Home Association With the exception of a
has purchased Huron Towers few acres on which the homes
in Ann Arbor and has sold stand, the MEHA property in
most of its Saline property, Saline has been sold to a pri-
the occupied area "and some vate developer for $500,000,
acreage" has  been retained, according to Warren Bailey,
Still participating in the MEHA executive secretary.
MEHA program but living in He declined to reveal the pur-
. Saline will be Mr. and Mrs. chaser's name.
Harold Clark, who occupy the Purchase of the 12-story
former Lloyd Steiner house; Huron Towers, at 2200 Fuller
and those in the smaller new Rd. in Ann Arbor, was an-
homes, Mr. and Mrs. Howard nounced after a MEHA board
Parker,  Mrs. Lloyd  Steiner, meeting Saturday.
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Contract OK'd
For Expansion
Of Sewer Plant
City Council has, approved a
contract and authorized an engineering firm to prepare plans
and specifications for expansion
of the sewage treatment plant
and interceptor lines.
A $840,000 bond issue for the
expansion was approved by city
voters on the November 5 ballot.
The firm, Ayres, Lewis, Norris
& May will engineer the work.
A public hearing has been set
for December 16 on the district,
which includes 4.4 lots, with
five owners.
But Does Not Favor
More New Buildings
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Presbyterians
To Buv More '
In the complex are 360 a-
partments with from one to
three bedrooms, a large heated swimming pool, a covered
three-deck parking garage,
and several commercial establishments, including a beauty parlor, a gourmet store,
and a restaurant-lounge. The
The congregation of the Presbyterian Church   has   voted to
purchase an additional 6.2 acres, towers are on the bank of the
of land   on   Sabne-A^ Arbor r adjacent       ^
Rd., where it   had   previously __...' , _,J.   ,  . ,
acquired one acre. University.# Michigan's
The 7.2 acre buUding site, north campus. The apart-
located between 6914 and .6870 ments are five years old and
Saline-Ann Arbor Ed., has 350 were designed for rental to
feet of frontage, "witT Ismail University di Michigan facul-
stream crossing one corner of _y tnembers and other profes-
the property. _      sional persons.
"The   long   range   planning .        h j    fl
mmittee   has   been   studying J a
ONE JUMP AHEAD in Christmas
greetihg is the FHA, since members
decided to send Thanksgiving cards, rather than Christmas greetings, to area servicemen. "Everybody sends something at
Christmas," the girls observed ... so
this week they dispatched approximately
50 Thanksgiving cards, to all the servicemen on the community list plus others
whom they know. To some, the girls sent
extra cards to be presented to friends.
Their accompanying letter says: "We all
feel that your contribution to our country
needs to be honored and consequently,
we hope this small token of appreciation
sends our thanks."
Preparing the cards, above (left to
right) are Brenda Kentschler, Euth Esch,
Cindy Braun, Cheryl Henes (faculty advisor), Elaine Perkins, and Judy Feldkamp, chairman. Not present for the picture but also on the committee was Diane
Hill.
Saline UF Drive is
Successful in
Lack of Heat
Stalls
Saline's   United   Fund   cam- she was away,
paign, which now stands at 111.2 Final   figures    will   be    an-
per cent of its goal, is the most nounced next   week, she   said,
successful in the state, accord- Saline's goal was $33,913.
a Michigan United Fund The   Michigan   United   Fund
campaign bulletin. bulletin reports on 30 cities, 17 sibIe   even   to   get   a   fum^e
And that's not all: the present of which have reached 100 per dealer to come to the building
-   -  '   " -"--=--   —'    — higher.
Virtually all work in renovation of the Schleh building for
the library's new quarters has
been halted by cold weather
and lack of a furnace, according to Mrs. Charles Kern, president of  the  library  board.
Until now it has been impos-
ivbuilding needs for a number Towers is planned . . the
of-'-sears and, within tiie last construction of dining facih-
two yfears, has accelerated its ties. Other changes are con-
study by interviewing archi- templated, to provide the
tects,, building contractors, and same facilities which were or- .
planning counsellors," the pas- jginally planned for a high- ing to
tor, the   Rev. -Lawrence Cole, rise building in Saline. n""n°
said.     "Their   conclusions    on                                                                                     ._,,-._..    -_«.•_, „_ „,..,.._,.
erowth   Datterns    and    church      Thp f fr .t MFHA residents Hg^e is higher than that issued cent  of their  goal,   or mgner. to give an estimate, she said.
Seds ledtcTthfsactkm"                      L5L,. Sa    i™   in the  buUetin;   and the final Many are in the range °f 104 °r Awaiting the  installation  of .a
needs led to this action.                  . . refared Michigan educa- f.gure  ^  be' sligMly  Wgher m per cent; Sut some of these iwnSi(.e\re some plaster ^
The decision by the  congre-   <-0-rs and tneir spouses or   lire than today>s. had set goals at the same level electrical   wiring,   and   plumb-
gation also followed five nights companions" . . ..are expect- as last year's. Saline's present ing
of meetings attended by 90 ed to start moving in next The total reported today by goai is well over last year's, Even ^e rem0val of old var-
members of the church, led 'by May. But present leases will Campaign chairman Dorothy and the present campaign has msh has halted . . . neither the
James Carman, stewardship be honored and may be re- Leidheiser is $37,740.21. But, brought in 114 per cent of last varnish remover nor .the re-
chairman; Dean Williams, npw„d bv ^sent residents if since she has jl.st ^tu™8.d fr°™ year's. For comparison with mov>ers work very well in the
""" "'"" 7™membeVis _-eadv a week'S deJer*untlT1g tr(.P ™* communities of similar size: cold Mrs. Ke_n said. (The pro.
Z» !?wnT^rfn                   her   husband.   (3:ep0rt: jWf }» Manchester    reached    $15,638 ject'was being done ^ boPard
The   planning   committee   is an<\ aW<L-?T ^°,     ,           _. ■    a few contribution cards have for 107.0% of goal and 100.5% members, Mrs. Kern, Mrs. Re-
"not yet ready to give building      The MEHA development m not yet reached her.  Contribu- of last year.                                   gis   Wolfinger,   and  Mrs.   Har-
schedules", the pastor said.               (Continued on page 3)       tions continued to come in while -   "           •   - -~--""  --■-
chairman   of   long-range   planning; and the pastor.
Marshall reported $29,600 for ry Holmes.)
101.7% of
last year.
Morenci
100.8% of
last year.
When to Forestall Drop-outs:
The   time  to  prevent  school he  adds   thoughtfully,  "has   a getting into trouble." But none
drop-outs, Geoff D'Atri feels, is tendency to TRY to understand, are    pushed    into    counselling
before they begin ...  at the I don't have to agree with stu- they don't want.
Junior High level, while they're dents, but I try to ally myself D'Atri,  originally from  Ohio,
still "keen, interested, and en- with them,   respect them   for is   a    University   of   Michigan
thusiastic",    and   before   their what they are, understand their graduate with a BS degree in
troubles   become  too   deep   to point of view,   and work with physical education and an MA last year
them so they can be realistic in guidance, now working on his
about things happening now and PhD   in   guidance.   He   was   a
goal  and  106.4%   of
reported   $6,250   for
goal and 111.1% of
If a furnace can be obtained
and installed soon, a new target date for the library's move
would be about the first of
March,  she  added. Meanwhile,
•vr v. a  tsAA -7.io t~a. the board met Tuesday night to
Newaygo reached $44,742 for ^^  ^   extensio/ ofBtheir
moving date, since, according
to their contract with the purchaser of the present building,
of the library pays rent on the
building  after November 29.
goal  and 109.7%   of
101.4%   of
last year.
Saline   reported   $37,634   for
111.0%  of  goal  and 114.0%
Replaces City's
1st Ordinance
City Council Monday passed
an ordinance to amend an ordinance in the city code . . .
which replaced the first one
ever adopted in Saline.
The first ordinance the city
ever had (though it was given
the number 100) set salaries for
appointed city officials. It was
passed in 1932 or thereabouts.
(There is no date on it).
Technically, since no amendment was ever passed, those
same salaries (set in depression
days, too!) should have obtained down through the years,
until the ordinances were codified a few years ago and the old
one was replaced. But the city
would have had a rough time
filling appointments. The annual
salaries went like this:
Clerk, $150; treasurer, $200;
attorney, $100; superintendent,
$1,000 (hard working man!);
police chief, $120; fire chief,
$10; health officer, $130. Per
year, that is.
T_ie city .charter specifies that
the officials listed. above, shall
be appointed (with the exception of the attorney, who "may"
be), and that Council may
create such additional offices as
it deems necessary, or combine
these and other offices. It also
specifies that duties, powers,
and compensation of these appointed officials shall be fixed
by ordinance.
In other words, to follow the
letter of the law, you couldn't
give a man a raise without
passing an ordinance to amend
the ordinance.
The present amendment does
not represent raises. It merely
makes official the salaries that
present appointees have been
receiving since this fiscal year
began in July:
Clerk-treasurer, $7,082; asses-
or (and building official), $8,243;
health officer, $0 (anything
formerly in the jurisdiction of
the city health officer is now
handled by the county); city
superintendent (and administrator), $10,992; police chief, $10,-
034; fire chief, $500 (the fire
department is volunteer). The
attorney is not included in the
amendment, since the salary
has not changed from that listed
in the present ordinance, $6,000.
Saline Board of Education
has endorsed an area Vocational Education Program,
but does not favor building
new facilities for such a program.
Washtenaw County voters
will be asked to approve a
one-mill Intermediate School
District tax levy, and bonding for $5,000,000, in a special election on December 18,
for construction of a Vocational Education Center and
operation of its programs.
Such a center would be
used icooperktively by students from all participating
high schools, to develop saleable job skills. The countrywide tax base, and the larger
number of students, would
make it posible for the Center to provide a more diverse
program than any individual
school system can offer, proponents point out.
Attending the center would
be llth and 12th grade students, on a half-day basis. All
non-vocational classes and
extra- curricular activities
would be taken at their home
schools.
The Saline Board this week
sent a letter to Nick lanni,
superintendent of the Inter-
• mediate School District, detailing its views:
"Dear Mr. Ianni:
"The Saline Area Schools
Board of Education recognizes the need and endorses
the establishing of an Area
Vocational Program, but do
not favor the building of new
facilities for the program.
''fJt is our belief that existing, facilities in the County
should be fully utilized for
thb'.program before any new
facilities _ire built.
"It is also pur belief that a
County- wide Cooperative
Training Program could help
attain most of the objectives
of an Area Vocational
School."
Many, of the vocational programs, proposed for the Center are now offered by Saline
High School, but some are
not- Nearly all, however, are
available to local youngsters
through the Saline School Cooperative Work Program,
which places students' in part-
time jobs in the area of their
choice.
The Saline co-op program,
in its third year and coordinated by James Bradley, now
has 51 students working half-
time in area businesses,- in vir
tually every field proposed
for a Vocation Education Center; and Earl Shaffer, a representative of the Intermediate School District, commended the program here in a
speech at a recent Rotary
Club meeting.
The Vocational Education
Center would offer such fields
as automotive mechanics,
building and grounds maintenance, business machine repair and service, carpentry
and mill work, commercial
foods preparation, data processing machine operation,
drafting, electrical repair and
maintenance, industrial machine repair and shop operation, auto body repair, cosmetology, farm equipment mechanics, horticulture and floriculture, electronics, medical-
clinical office work, nursing
aide, pre-nursing, welding,
and printing.
If the one-mill tax is approved by voters, the Vocational Center would be centrally located, possibly on the
Washtenaw Community College site; and it would be operated by the college in conjunction with the Intermediate School District. Students
would be transported to the
Center by the home school
district.
The millage would exist for
as- long as the program operated. It is expected that about
2,000 students would be enrolled when the program is in
full operation.
In an effort to acquaint the
pubhc with the proposed program, the Intermediate District has set up a Speaker's
Bureau to provide speakers
for any club or organization.
A local contact is Mrs. Eo-
bert Merchant, of 7181 Maple
Ed., who will arrange for
speakers and provide information (call 429-9841). '1
believe it is a community responsibility to become inf orm-
pd about this," she said this
week.
Union Service Set
For Thanksgiving
A Union Thanksgiving service will be held at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, November 27, at
the Saline United Methodist
Church. The Rev. Lawrence
Cole, pastor Of the Presbyterian Church, will give the message.
Music will be provided by the
High School choir and senior
Methodist choir. The public is
invited.
solve.
D'Atri (prounceO. "Dot-tree")  .    ,.     . .        „,       ,    ,, , „      ,    , +   «,„„„„
is the counsellor at the Junior ^ ^e future. They don t have .counsellor last year at Alpena
High, the first Saline has ever
had at that level (there's an elementary school counsellor for
the first time this year, too). He
feels that to delay all counsell-
Zeeland
106.0% of
last year.
reported  $22,542  for
goal  and  107.9%  of
the insight ...  so I sit and Community College,
listen, and try to help them gain     His student teaching was done
insight." in  England,   at   a   "secondaryr T|pp,-».  "Ph-m _"P'TQ
Some of the counselling is in- modern   school" (a   state-sup- ^tei   XAUlltcio
______ _-_«._ ... -.<._„.  «__ .u-_._o._-   dividual;  some occurs in small ported junior high) near Shef- jR^rwyrf  |T.a_W
ing to a later age might be TOO groups since shy youngsters, in field. He   found   English boys XW^Rfl . JUai l V
late:     "At    this    age,     some particular, need to learn to take "very much the same there as gucJj- KlllS
youngsters are just starting to part in discussions. Said Prin- here . . . unbeievably the same "UWV ^»
blossom   and   come  into  their cipal Dwight Reynolds:  "I am ... except that, instead of being
Weber Rd.Mridge
Being Replaced
The Weber Rd. bridge, at the
corner of Noble Rd., should be
completed and back in operation in about a week, the Road
Commission   has   announced.
The  old structure,  destroyed
_._.,__-_-_   auu   Lum.   ____..   .__<___  ._.-._ ~..__,-.. —_       -    .       _ntAts    thpv'rp     Early reports from successful by the June flood, has been re-
own. They need further support as concerned about the kid in mterestett . m   TOCKeis,   ""* ^« deer-hunters trickled back this moved, and new tubes were be-
and understanding from adults, the   corner   who   doesn't   say Ef^f^ed in old model cars ana wegk ing'installed today. The work is
older people they respect." much and doesn't have friends, World. War 11 Planes. ^  &st   reported   was   the expected to be finished within
"The   guidance  department," as  I am  about the Md who's     He spends a lot oi airer-scnooi        ^ buck b       M down by a week ^^^ there jg extreme
time   Playmg  _b™°a^_ ana Dave Grossman, of 302 N. Har- bad  weather  or   other  unfore-
.football with the boys here ....-,__:,. . .,    ,
but boys don't bring him their ™St- whf> Sot }»* W***** seen  setback;	
problems.   Some   are   sent  by 7i2° a-m; °n opa__njr day, about 	
Lchers. Boys' problems at this ^mer^e^dSS was  <™ HOUSING"
age, he notes, "center basically thf™ ° rnTrousht   in   by ORDINANCE  PUBLISHED
around relating to their groups"  g«   SPEdwards    and    Wfflard     Saline's   "Fair Housing"   or-
... how to get in if left out, how ^    S?tart__5ton thfS ^^ N°- 205. has been **'
rL^i^hlZll S   "        wi£fa?m on SZrfeRd.  P-ved joy CouncU after-the fin-
the bottom of the heap ... „_.,,_. _. al reading, and is published m
Girls do bring in problems, _ °__ the afternoon of opening tM_ week>s Re orter t^ 0r-
though they're a bit shy about day Ray Oglesbee got a nice ^^^ becomes effective on
it. Girl problems in the Junior eight-point buck, near Lewiston. December ^  1968
High   revolve   around   parents     Other successful nimrods in- ''    	
and   boyfriends.   Said   D'Atri:  eluded" Roger  Lockwood,   with HAPPY POSTAL SERVICES
"Basically, I try to help them an eight-pointer near Falmouth DAY TO YOU, TOO
understand   what's    happening in   Missaukee   County;   LeRoy
and how they may .better work Rutherford, another eight-point- Ray Ceronsky, of Wheeler Ct,
out the situation in their own er brought down near Beaver a postman in Ann Arbor, found
terms." (One girl obviously Lake; and Jay E. Roberts, 14, a a special greeting in one of the
worked out the situation in her seven - pointer while hunting mailboxes on his route, Mon-
own terms, on a blackboard he with Ms father. Jay D., at Jen- day. It was a big red apple, ac-
provides for student graffiti She sen Lake between Big Rapids- companied by a card with bright
■scrawled, "If a boyfriend gets and Mount Pleasant. The racks'* red bow, and the message:
(Continued, on page 5):       are running large this year.    * -"Happy Postal Services Day".
Counsellor Geoff D'Atri and afriend, Scott Schroeder
Hornets Face
Manchester
Next Tuesday
The Hornet varsity will face
Manchester next Tuesday evening, on the Dutchmen's court, in
the basketball season opener,
a non-conferece tilt.
With 10 days of practice behind them and about five more
between now and Tuesday's
game, the cagers "will have to
get in more scrimmage work."
said Coach Don Jaeger.
Returning seniors are Tom
Burr, captain, and Mike Farrell, Bill Levleit, Dan Laskey,
Rick Berry, Charles Wahl, Toby
Scudder, and Dave Girbaeh. But
only one of these saw extensive action last year, Jaeger
noted. "We have a lot of inexperience and we don't have the
height we had last year. We will
have to make up for this, if we
expect to conipete. We can
make it up with hustle, agres-
siveness, and speed, both offensively and defensively."
He has not yet Selected a
first team, he said, "and we
may not be set in this area until after the first one or two
games."
Juniors on the varsity include
Wym'an Osterhout, Wes Gall,
Glenn. Burkhardt, Jim Strahley,
Steve McKillop, and Rodney
White. There is one sophomore.
Scout Wins Award
A YEAE'S DEDICATED SERVICE-to his church
Drought the God and Conntry Award to Boy Scout Joe
Barrett, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Barrett, in a
presentation Sunday by 'the. Rev. George Saucier at the
United Methodist Church.
Present for the ceremony, besides the recipient's
parents, was his brother, Ron, a former Scout and how
a private first class in the Marine Corps. Eon enlisted
12 days after his graduation from High School last June
and is spending a 30-day leave at home before
departure on November 21 for-Viet Nam.
Scoutmaster Harold West and many Scouts Of
Troop 446 also attended the ceremony honoring Joe, who
holds the First Class rank in Scouting.