1968-12-05; Saline Reporter

              VOLUME 20, NUMBER 13~Thilrsday, December 5,  1968
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CITY HOUSING COM
RS APPOINTED
Student to Prepare
20-Year Land Use
Project on Saline
Ascending Green Scenery f^^mE
Phillip McKenna, an Eastern
Michigan graduate student of
urban geography, will concentrate his study on the City of
Saline, and. will develop a land
use plan for the city for the
next two decades.
The city will then be free to
use all, any, or none of the
plan, said McKenna, who is
working toward his master's
degree. He expects to have the
Teachers to Study
Non-graded School
T h e Saline Elementary
Schools, Jensen and Houghton,
kindergarten through sixth
grade only. wUl be dismissed
Wednesday, December 11, at
12 noon in order that teachers
may attend an in-service training program on the non-graded
school.
Dr. Maurice Pelton, of the
Waterford Township Schools,
wUl meet the elementary teachers to discuss his elementary
non-graded program at Water-
ford.
This will be the first in a
series of discussions on non-
graded programs. On January
1, Dr. Frank Driscoll, superintendent of East Chester, New
York Schools, wiU be here to
meet with teachers in grades
K-12 to discuss a complete non-
graded school system.
plan completed by the end of
January, 1969.
He has already interviewed a
number of city officials, and has
been "delighted with their cooperation and interest", he said.
He expects to spend Saturdays
here on the project.
McKenna, who is married and
lives in Ypsilanti, described Saline as "a very attractive
town". He selected it after visiting a number of communities
which might have been suitable
for the study. He is a student-of
Prof. David A. Jokinen, city
planning consultant in such subjects as traffic engineering,
market research, location analysis, urban design and land
development . . .. who insists
that his students have "an
emdtional attraction" to the
community on which their project is based.
CHRISTMAS PARTY SET
The annual Jaycee and Auxiliary Christmas party will be,
a buffet dinner}' a. 9 p.m. Saturday, December 14, at Leutheuser's Restaurant. The "Generations" wUl provide music.
Registration Still
Open for Baton
Twirling Class
Registrations will close
Thursday, December 12, for baton classes to be taught by the
High School Majorettes, Becky
Hehr, Peggy West, Sarah
Christner, and Barb Braun.
The classes are open to girls
of ages five through 13, will
be held at Jensen School between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. Thursdays. The majorettes intend to
form a Baton Marching Corps
to take part in Saline parades
and o,thg^_actiyities.
.IriteresTJed parents may stiU
register their daughters with
Mrs. John Michael, advisor to
the  group, by  calling 429-5580.
SATURDAY
Santa Claus wiU pay the first
of a series of holiday visits to
SaUne on Saturday, with headquarters at Community Ford
Sales.
The old gentleman wiU arrive
at 1 p.m. "snow or shine", according to Paul Sibson, president of the Chamber of Commerce. The old gentleman's
choice of a conveyance may be
a bit unusual, Sibson hinted.
On the following Saturday,
December 14, Santa will make
his headquarters at Westside
Hardware; and on Saturday,
December 21, he will be at the
Junior High School for a children's movie party sponsored by
the Kiwanis Club. The party is
open to all children of the area,
who may register at the door
for prizes to be drawn. Cartoon
movies and popcorn balls are
part of the free festivities, designed to keep the youngsters
contented while their parents
wind up Christmas shopping.
Jaeger, Mrs. Woods
Have 4-Year Terms
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GOING UP! Those Christinas decorations didn't get mounted downtown all
by themselves ... in fact, it was nearly
a full day's job for Jaycees Dick Compton, Paul Sibson, and Bill Garpow (in the
shovel) and Mike and Teri Compton, who
supervised from The Reporter front
steps. Also helping was Jim Martiny, not
in the picture. With bundles of greenery
still to be ■ wrapped around the light
poles, Sibson . . . also Chamber of Commerce president . . . sent out an SOS to
"anybody willing to help. We need plenty
of help." Civic-minded Christmas decorators are ashed to call Bob Briggson,
429-5025, or Sibson, 429-7913.
a
inoleum Screenery
A LOT OF WORK goes into the making of linoleum
block prints for Christmas cards . . . and Mrs. Linda
Knapp's 6th grade students at Jensen School have been
at it for weeks. Above, Carol Makielski makes a stamping . . . and "stamp" is the right word; she all but
danced on it.
Hell" Since
Bombing Halt,
Says Mike
"You never saw so much
hell" as there's been in Viet
Nam-since the bombing halt,
Cpl. Mike Hayes wrote home
to his parents. And he won't be
home for Christmas.
Mike, who is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. George Hayes of 8350
Klager Rd., has signed on for
an extension of duty in Viet
Nam. He may be home for 30
days leave at the end of January, before returning to the
war  zone.
Mike has been flying as taU
gunner on a helicopter, to
.transport Marine contingents
and supplies, and bring out the
wounded. He has been doing so
since July, when he was stationed aboard an aircraft carrier; he is now stationed just
east of'the city of Hue.
The helicopter recently
crashed while landing because
its gear had been damaged.
Mike has been shot down before; but the flights now meet
much heavier fire, he said, and
Viet Cong prisoners are now
far better equipped with Russian and Red Chinese ammunition   and suppUes.
Mike   enlisted   in  November,
1966, for a four-year stint. His
present address:
Cpl. Michael M.P. Hayes
2327429
HMM 265 l'st MAW
FPO San Francisco, 96602
Service Group Seeks
Craft Materials
The Volunteer Service Council of Ypsilanti State Hospital needs arts and craft materials, and suitcases of any size,
to prepare for the hospital patients'   Christmas
Anyone who would Uke to assist in the project is asked to
contact the community relations department by calling 429-
9461, extensions 425, 426, or 458.
NEW  OFFICERS
TO   CONDUCT
FAIR  BOARD   MEETING
The incoming officers of the
SaUne Fair Board will conduct
the meeting at 8:30 p.m. Monday, in the agriculture room at
the High School. Albert GaU is
the new president.
, THE RESULTS ARE WORTH THE EFFORT, as
demonstrated by Carol with her block and print, and
Till Bemmer, who had made such prints Ibef ore as a
student in Germany. The family came to Saline this
year; '"'    ■-""•-■   ^ '^ ".    -   ~"   ; '/_ ^_
Legion Plans Party
The annual American Legion
and AuxiUary New Year's party
wiU be held "from 10 p.m. until
?" at* the hall, with music by
the Schuman Orchestra.   --
Platters
Four years ago, a homesick
youth in Germany received a
recording of the voices of his
mother, father, and sister, and
was the envy of his company.
They were aU homesick, but
nobody else got a record.
The recipient was BUI Lutz,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur
Lutz of Macon Rd. He's at
home now, but vividly remembers the pleasure of receiving
the "Voices from Home" record made by his famUy with
the assistance of the American
Red Cross. He enjoyed the record very much, he said, and
his friends overseas repeatedly
asked liim how his famUy had
obtained it. They would have
liked such a gift from their own
famUies . . . and so would any
serviceman who will be away
from home at Christmas time
this  year.
Local committeewomen i n
the Voices from Home program
are Mrs. George Austin, Mrs.
Edwin Hering, Mrs. Edgar
Monty, and Mrs. Arthur GiU,
assisted by the American.Legion Auxiliary.
Hundreds o f servicemen's
famUies in the area are participating in the Red Cross
"Voices from Home" program,
to send recorded messages, in
their own. words and voices, to
men overseas or in the States.
The recordings are made in
private, and records are furnished by the Red Cross and
sent without charge ... a
Christmas gift money could not
buy and only families can give.
, Wives, mothers, brothers and
sisters are now recording messages at the Red Cross Center,
2729 Packard Rd., and at other
location throughout Washtenaw County. It takes about an
hour; and famUies find that jotting down a few notes prior to
coming enables them to give
their loved one all the news
from home.    "
Anyone with a serviceman
overseas - - or hospitalized or
stationed in the United States
Hospital Auxiliary
Plans Yule Bazaar
Saline Community Hospital
Auxiliary wiU hold a Christmas
Bazaar and bake sale on December and 7 at Wight's Cleaners.
Gifts and goodies wiU be on
sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, and from 9 a.m. to 1 pm
Saturday
Jaycees, Jaycettes
Schedule Annual
Decoration Contest
Jaycees and Auxiliary this
year will hold a three-way
Christmas display contest, offering trophies to winners in
residential, industrial, and "a-
partments"  categories.
Club members, who wiU act
as judges, will tour the city
just before Christmas to select
the winners. The contest, a
community beautification project, has featured only residential decorations in past years:
Carol Compton is chairman for
the Auxiliary; the Jaycee
chairman has not been announced. ^ . ..__.-,_-—_.--»
Decorations are judged on originality, beauty, and effort.
and unable to get home for
Christmas - - is invited to make
an appointment by calling the
Red Cross at 971-5300. The
deadline for recording - - in
order that each serviceman
will receive his own "Voices
From Home" by Christmas - -
is December 16.
Nothing can replace being
home at Christmas, yet families of servicemen aU over the
world can do the next best
thing when that's not possible- -
send a little bit of home to
them.
Call the American Red Cross,
971-5300, for  an  appointment.
FIREMAN TO SELL
CHRISTMAS TREES
Saline Fire Department members will sell Christmas trees
again this year, at the Fire Hal!
at the corner of E. Michigan
Ave. and Harris St.
A five-member Fair Housing
Commission was appointed by
City Council, Monday night, to
implement the city's housing
ordinance, which became effective on December 1.
Appointed for four-year terms
were Donald Jaeger, of 338 HU1-
crest; and Mrs. Mary Woods, of
203 Clark St. To serve for two-
year terms are James Knight,
Jr., of 273 Mark Hannah Ct;
Paul Tull, of Pond View; and
Mrs." Paul Woods, Jr., of 201
Clark St.
The group is expected to meet
St. Andrew's
Mission Attains
Parish Status
Archbishop John Dearden of
Detroit, has announced that
St. Andrew's Mission is now a
parish, effective Wednesday.
Fr. Joseph B. Noelke who
has been pastor of St. Dominic's Parish in Clinton and St.
Andrew's Mission, wiU be fuU-
time pastor here. Fr. Leon O.
Kennedy, founder of St. Andrew's, will serve the CUnton
parish.
Fr. Noelke will live at 203
Monroe St., Apt. 4, until the
new rectory is built. Further
approval of the plans is needed from the diocese before construction can begin. Fr. Noel-
ke's telephone number wiU be
the same as that of the church,
429-5210. He expects to move
this week.
A 20-acre site on Austin Rd.
has been purchased for a new
church and annexed to.the City
of Saline. The church buUding
is also still in the planning
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Th'e congregation now numbers 329 registered families.
When the first mass was offered in the present church, the
space was never more than
half full. It now overflows at
five masses every Sunday . . .
■ sometimes six. St. Andrew's
Mission  was   founded  in   1953.
"within the next couple of
weeks" to elect its own officers
and set up its own rules of procedure, as provided by the
ordinance, according to Jaeger.
He is now serving as a councilman but did not seek another
term; this one expires on January 1. "We felt there should not
be a councUman on the com-,
mission," he said.
The fair housing ordinance
and its commission grew out of
a number of meetings of Citizens for Social Justice, a group
of residents who discussed housing and other social problems
some months ago. Although aU
of the new commissioners are
''starting from scratch", according to Jaeger, "the state
Civil Rights Commission has
offered us any advice and help
required. We wiU see how it is
set up in other cities."
He added: "We should get
moving, because now the ordinance is in effect . . . but I don't
expect we'll be very busy.
Everyone says we'll probably
never have a case. I hope
they're right, but I think that's
rather an optimistic view. If
we have any, I hope it's only on
an advisory basis."
The ordinance provides several avenues if the commission receives a complaint of unfair
housing practices. It may act in
an advisory capacity, refer the
matter to the state commission,
or, if the situation is not corrected, the commission can file
formal charges against the
offender. Its powers, within the
city, wUl be the same as those
of the state Civil Rights Commission. The city commission
can petition the Circuit Court
for an order to enforce compliance. Fines which the court
might assess for non-compUance
range from $500, to $2,000 for a
violation of a previous order.
Two Local
Women Listed 	
As "Outstanding" To Sell Trees
Christmas Clubbers
Get $82,000 •
Christm'as Club checks totalling approximately $82,000 have
been sent out by the Citizens
Bank and the Savings Bank, to
give area residents more than
$10,000 more to spend for holidays gifts this year than they
had in 1967.
From the Citizens Bank, 313
checks were mailed, amounting
to $35,082, several thousand
dollars more than last year. The
Savings Bank's Christmas Club
accounts came to $47,000, as
compared to last year's $38,000.
Two Saline women will be
Usted in the annual biographical compUation "Outstanding Young Women of
America".
They are Alyce DePree Van
Koevering (Mrs. Barry Van
Koevering) of 211 Russell St.;
and Mary Louise Dickman Lirones (Mrs. Dan Lirones) of 373
W. Bennett St.
"Outstanding Young Women
of America" is a program designed to recognize the abUities
of young women between the
ages of 21 and 35 throughout
the country. It is sponsored by
the Outstanding Americans
Foundation, a nonprofit foundation dedicated to recognizing
and honoring outstanding Americans. Serving on the program's
Board of Advisors are the national presidents of major women's clubs, headed by Mrs. Dexter Otis Arnold, honorary president of the General Federation
of Women's Clubs.
Each year over 5,000 young
women are nominated by leading women's organizations and
coUege alumnae associations
across America. These young
women's biographical sketches
are featured in the annual compUation, "Outstanding ■ Young
Women of America."
From among the young women included in "Outstanding
Young'Women of America," 50
are selected each year — one
from each state ■—. as. their
state's Outstanding Young Woman of the Year."The winners of
these awards are selected by
the Outstanding Americans
Foundation.
The Saline chapter of Washtenaw County Junior Sheriff
Deputies will seU Christmas
trees . . . "aU varieties and aU
sizes" ... to support Junior
Deputy activities
The trees will be on sale,
starting Saturday, at the corner
of Pleasant Ridge and Canterbury Dr., in Golden Acres subdivision, after 4:30 p.m. each
day, and all day Saturdays.
The local chapter, which has
70 members, turned out an attendance of 65 plus a number
of parents to hear Juvenile
Court Judge Francis O'Brien
discuss juvenile problems and
answer questions, at the, regular Monday night meeting tx%
the group.
Collect Toys,
Food for Needy
A toy and food drive sponsored by all the clubs of Washtenaw Community CoUege, will
wind up Wednesday, Dec. 11,
with a Christmas musical program and sing-along, and a
dance. '
The program is scheduled
from 12 noon to 7 p.m., foUowed by a "dress up" dance from
7 to 11 p.m. in the Student
Center. The dance is open to
the public; admission is . one
new toy, some canned food, or
50 cents for Washtenaw Community CoUege students. For
the. public, admission is 75
cents. A professional band wUl
provide ■ music.
The food collected wiU go to
needy famUies; the toys will go
to chUdren who are wards of
the Court.
Stream deanery
THAT'S HOW!
The verve and enthusiasm of
Jaycee meetings may be explained by the schedule for
their Wednesday night mem-
bership'-meeting at a local restaurant and lounge: it began at
6:30 p.m. with what the bulletin described as a "personality
adjustment period", foUowed by
dinner at 7 p.m.
ANNUAL MEET SET
The annual meeting of the
SaUne Area United Fund, to elect new directors and transact
other business, wiU be held at
8 p.m. Tuesday in the basement haU of the Presbyterian
Church.
The  meeting is   open to  the
public; and any individual,- business, or organization "which has
contributed   to   the  fund  may.
vote.
NOT A BEGINNING of reyair work on the dam .. .
though it would have to be done before any repairs
could bo made ... is the silt-cleaning operation now
under way at the millpond. Removal of silt from the
bottom of tho dam will allow water to flow there rather
than through the breach made by the June flood . . .
and some of the silt will be spread in the park, where
. the same flood carried away much of the topsoil, according to City Administrator Alike Strait.
Snow Contest
Ends; Winners
To be Listed
Sunday night's little blizzard
ended this year's "First Snow"
contest, when the fast-flying
flakes spread a wet, but un.-,„ ^
mistakably white, solid blanket
over the parking lots and sidewalks in downtown Saline.v
The snow was less than an
inch thick-on the concrete; but
it lasted long enough to qualify
as Saline's first real snow . . .
and remained for quite a while
after that.
The grand prize winner of the
contest, and individual winners-
from all participating stores,
will be announced next week.
Best guesser in The Reporter's
roster was Fritz Moser, of 215
Wheeler Ct. . . . whose father
won the event last year. Judges
determined that the Sunday
night snowfall reached the
"solid, white blanket" stage at
8 p.m. . . . and Fritz's entry was
smack on the minute: 8 p.m,, t
December 1. \