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VOLUjVIE. 20, NUMBER 15 - Thursday, December 19, 1968
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Ice Rinks to
For Holiday Sk
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THE MOST JOVIAL, DECORATIONS in town are the windows at
Community Ford Sales, sometimes
used as a holiday easel for the High
School Art Club . . . which gives everyone a chance to admire the results. The
artist who got entirely (Carried away
by Christmas cheer, in the work at
right, was not a delirious student, as
you might suppose ... it was the teacher. .
—Photo by Otto Gunnesch
/.-■_ JUST ABOUT SOLD OUT: Fire-
niiin Harold Hill holds up a Christmas
tik& for customers' inspection at the fire
hall,  where   Saline Volunteer  Fire  De
partment  has   provided   Salinians   with
well over 500 .trees . ; . they ordered 575
this year and have less than 50 left.
—Photo by Otto  Gunnesch
'Scotia Has Eyes
Just Like You9
"You know something?" said
five-year-old Daniel Pope to his
father, "Santa has eyes just like
you."
Daniel, who had Just paid a
visit to Santa in downtown Saline, had reason to suspect
there was more than coincidence involved. His father is
Dick Pope, of Bennett St., who
has filled the Santa role for the
Chamber of Commerce this season . . . and will do so again on
Saturday at the movie party for
children at the Junior High
School.
Dick has time - consuming
problems of his own; but he
undertook the Santa role for two
reasons: 1. He loves children
("They grin from ear to ear and
give you a big hug", and he
knows many of them by their
first names . . . and 2. He
thinks that, to borrow a phrase
from his son. Santa has eyes
just like Saline people, and a"
lot of other attributes besides.
This week he wrote a letter
"To the people of the Saline
area" to thank them for their
aid to him and his family since
his wife, Norma, was critically
injured in an automobile accident last spring. She is now
at home, after many months of
hospitalization and . .... though
recovery is still far from complete .. . . "we're all together
now," ■ Dick said. For" a time,
Daniel and his sisters] I_ynn; 11,
and Nancy, 9, stayed .with neighbors, but they, too, have "now.'
come home. Dick's letter
follows: ,       - ■,
"Words can never express my
love and gratitude toward you
j//*ifeople of "the Saline area for
5ur thoughtfulness shown to
''Tny wife and family .since her
accident. In this fast world of
ours, I find that other people do
care for their ,fellow man, and
are willing to share one's burdens.        -    .
Ttie pfeople of the Saline area
are -full of compassion.' I am
very proud to be a Salinian. I
want-to'"give my thank you to
God, and a big thank you to the
good people of Saline. Thank
you for your prayers and your
contributions. You have been
just wonderful to us. The "Hope
for Pope," the "Norma Pope
Days," and the "Norma Pope
Fund" will forever be cherished.
A special thank you goes to
Mrs. Edgar (Barbara) Monty
for the fine job she did as administrator of the fund. Her
unselfishness and many hours
toward this fund aTeV greatly
appreciated. Thank you to the
Everett (Keith) Munsell family
who were very gracious, and
gave of themselves, and who
took in my children to share
their home until school was out.
I'd like to thank the Rev. Mr.
Newberry, the Rev. Mr. Meeden, all the ministers and
churches in and around Saline
for your prayers, and support.
Your continued prayers will be
greatly appreciated.
I'd like to thank the Dirkse
and Morton families and Dr.
Lardev. Thank you goes to
Harry's Standard Service and
employees, Grafs Gulf Service,
Hoeft's Gulf Service, El-Rad's
Restaurant and Walker's Bakery for holding a '"Norma Pope
Day". 'Thank you to Wight
Cleaners for donating space for
the bake sales; the Saline Reporter; the Saline Jaycee Auxiliary for the cotton candy and-
side sale's; Saline Storybook
.Gardens nursery; the. Saline
Welcome Wagon Club; Universal
Plastics; the Saline Social Services;-and, all the business estabUshments in Saline.
I'd like to give special thanks
to the little people of , __aline,\
especially' the Girl Scouts and'
Brownie's; whose ' enthusiasm,
dedication and hard wbf_r made
the bake sales a .big success.
Thank you to Mr. Jacobsen's
art class for the fine posters,
and to the Teen Club for the
proceeds from 'the .dance. I
shall never 'forget the contributions from little Melanie" Christ-
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Sidewalk
Scuffle
Still Goes On
City Council Monday night
passed final resolutions on
special assessment districts 57
through 62, for sidewalks . . .
many of which have already
been put in by the property
owners involved.
But the years-long rassle over
the Russell St. sidewalk . . .
special assessment district 56
. . . continued. A new hearing
has been set for December 30,
and it is expected that the final
resolution will- be approved that
night, Mayor George Johnson
said:
Several Russell St. property
owners have been battling
against sidewalk proponents for
years ... at least since 1954,
when the walk was completed
on the south side of the street.
On the north side, the present
sidewalk turns and leads directly into the street, leaving a
walkless gap across property
owned by Edwin Hering, Charles Kern, Arthur Heininger, and
others ... all homes on a slight
hill.
Down through the years, various councils have tried to decide between running the walk
along the top or side of the hill,
via steps, or putting it in at
street level, which would require removal of-a number of
trees. The present plan calls for
installation of a sidewalk at
street level.
Work began Sunday night on
the ice rinks at Henne Field,
and "if the cold weather holds
out, there will be skating by
the- time the kids start their
.Christmas vacations on Friday," according to Bob Russell,
chairman of the city recreation
FLF'fflTS -
HONGKONG
OR NOT
Flu came to Saline in quantity
this week, but doctors were too
busy to run laboratory, tests to
decide whether or not it was
the Hong Kong virus. The results would be the same in any
case, they indicated . . . five
to 10 percent of the populace
is out of action.
Though the case load was described by all of them as "very
heavy", a disease is generally
not considered to have reached
epidemic proportions until . it
hits 20 percent. Saline's was far
less than that . . . but nearly
every business establishment
was operating with a short
staff; and absenteeism was up
in some schools and industries.
The air was filled with a ca-
cophany of coughing and hoarse
croaks.
Only the Junior High School
seemed immune, with only an
average absentee count, and
no teachers out.
The High School reported
absenteeism as "less than 10
percent", with two teachers out.
The school usually has an
absentee count of about seven
percent at this time of year,
Ten percent of the children of
Houghton School were absent.
So were two teachers.
. Jensen School, recorde'd high
absences on Monday, but
dropped back to about five percent, about normal, by Wednesday. "A couple" of teachers
. were absent.
The flu is most serious for
people of advanced years' and
those in the working age groups
Dr. Ray Bernreuter said. He
felt that the case load was approaching epidemic proportions.
Dr. Eugenp Garrison has
treated "a lot of flu patients"
but" hasn't identified all the
cases as of the. Hong Kong variety. Dr. Paul Gerigk finds
about one-third to one-half of
his patient load suffering from
flu, but has not run virus identifications to find out what kind.
Dr. "Don Leidheiser found the
case load very high in "all
kinds of flu".
department's winter sports committee.
Moreover, Saline is to have
three separate rinks this year:
in addition to the familiar big,
"family-size" rink and the
hockey rink, a smaller skating
area will be provided for tots
who are sfianky on their blades
and might be bowled over by
more enthusiastic skaters.
Supervision will be provided
at the warming shed throughout
'the week, Russell said: from
4.to 8 p.m. Mondays through
Thursday; from 4 to 10 p.m.
Fridays; from 10 a.m. to 10
p.m. Saturdays; and from 10
a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays.
Present plans call for supervisors to be employed by the
recreation department.
. The ice rink this year faces
another uncertainty besides the
weather; the city may begin
work in January on an extension
-of the Owen St. drain, which
taps into Saline Relief Drain
No. 1. But the work will not begin until after the holidays in
any* case, City Administrator
Mike Strait said; and the excavation will not cross the rink
itself. It may cut the skaters off
from the warming shanty for a
day or two.
ng Scheduled
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District Court
To be Held Here
One Bbj a Week
District Court will be held in
Sahne one day a week after
January 2, probably by Judge
Rodney Hutchinson, according
to   Judge   Edward   Deake.
Judge Deake, who now serves
the municipal bench in Ypsilanti, will act as presiding
judge, of the three elected in
November to the bench in this
district. The. district includes
all of Washteiia'w County except
the  City of Ann Arbor.
District Judge Patrick Conlin
will probably hold court in the
Chelsea area, Deake said, but
he noted that the three are
•"interchangeable" within the
district; and any one of them
may hold court in Saline.
Although trials will be sched-
ued _only one day a week in
Saline, one of the district
judges will come here whenever needed so that an arraignment can be "held on the morning after the arrest, or on the
same  day,   Judge Deake  said.
It is also planned to set up a
traffic violations bureau here,
where minor traffic tickets may
be paid at any time, he % said.
The court and bureau in Saline
will also serve residents of the
Manchester area.
The planning commission has
recommended zoning 11:6 acres
on Maple Rd. for mobile homes,
and th.e required hearing has
been scheduled for January 20.
Council slated the hearing
after a unanimous recommendation from the planners that the
land, on the west side of Maple
Bjd. south of the railroad tracks,
-be given the new designation.
"RMH" set up in the recent
"mobile homes" ordinance.
Police Warn:
Keep Doors
All Locked
Saline residents today were
warned by police to keep their
doors "locked up tight" at all
times, even when they're at
home.
It was even suggested that
householders prop chairs in
front of their doors, to make a
clatter if the chair is pushed
aside ... or put on chain locks.
The warning came after a
rash of entries of occupied
houses in several subdivisions
. . . three this week. Police said
one intruder entered a bedroom-
where a man and wife were
sleeping but fled when they
woke. In another case, a woman
who was atone in the house
happened to be in the basement
when someone entered her
home; he left when she
screamed. Another report concerned a man who tried to
break in- through a bathroom
window.
Locking the doors may not be
enough, police said. In several*
cases, homes were entered despite locked doors. However,
there have been no injuries, and
no thefts have been reported.
The homes entered were all
relatively new and all in subdivisions, police, said. Reports
included one from- Rolling Meadows, one from Golden Acres,
and one from Crestwood subdivision.
After a home was entered
Monday night, Saline police enlisted the "aid of a Sheriff's. Department dog and its trainer,
Deputy Lawrence Baird, in an
attempt to track" the man, but
no arrest was possible. Police
then obtained a search warrant
but found that the suspect had
moved out of the residents with
all his belongings, and could
not be located immediately.
■The area; owned by Don
Butcher and Bud Wisely* is big
enough for about 60 trailers, according to the requirements of
the ordinance. But Wisely said
today that they have "no immediate plans" to develop it.
The City has received numerous requests and- proposals for
trailer park sites, both before
and after the" ordinance was
passed this year. A request for
annexation of 80 acres west of
Saline was received by the planning commission from ,C. Calf in
and Mr., and Mrs. Alvin Marion.
In' this case,' the-planners advised the owners. that a "land
use"' study ,is" in, progress and
that a. preliminary site plan will
be required for any future requests-. Mrs. Marion said Tuesday, that the request was withdrawn, because she and her.
husband "don't Want mobile
homes here, and neither do our
neighbors." They have not sold
the farm, she said.
The ordinance regulating mobile homes is "one of the finest
and one of the strictest in the
state",' Mayor George Johnson
said. Council approved it -so that
trailer parks here could be
regulated, since "the courts
won't allow us to keep them out
entirely." It is also necessary to
zone some land for mobile
homes, he said, because "the
courts will strike the ordinance
down if "we don't provide some
land to implement it."
In preparing the ordinance,
the planning commission specified that such areas should be
only Ort major thorofares, such
as Ann- Arbor St., Michigan
Ave., or Maple Rd., which is
not a thorofare now but will be
if present hopes for its improvement are realized. Said Johnson; "There's actually very little land in the city that would
be suitable, and this site (on
Maple) is about the most suitable that we have."
en House Planned
In Remodelled Gity Hall
All Saline area residents and
officials throughout the county
have been invited to an open
house at the Emergency Operations Center and the renovated
old city hall building.
The event is set from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Saturday, December
28. Coffee will be served, and
city officials will be on hand
to answer questions and conduct
tours of .the building.
Besides the fully - equipped
EOC center in the basement,
the remodeling^ has provided expanded quarters for. the police
department, oil .the ground
f_oqr,..and council chambers and
a ; cp.tirtrbom. on"", the second
floor/-.   i:        .'■' :-
All.couhty supervisors.and all
judges 5 have .been particularly
inyjtefd, Sahne supervisors said,
paftljr because" they know of
orijy'.^e- other EQC.V center in
thevc^un.y. (in, Ann" Arbor) and
partly;'. .* because] '.-. the- District
Court; will-be. held here for the
district ^.corhprised of all of the
coujityf-.except .the City of Ann
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for/renp.vatiott ,M*;. .the building
was "the heed for suitable; faeil-
ities-_br< a -District, Court, Mayor
George Johnson pointed out.
Without such facilities, Saline
would have been without any
court at all after the Justices of
the Peace cease to operate on
January 1, when they will be replaced by District Judges.
Carpetting and furnishings
have been installed throughout
the building; and a "directory"
plaque just inside the door will
guide visitors to the various departments.
New School Plans
Given Final OK
The Board of Education gave
final approval oh plans for the
new high school ... general,
electrical, and mechanical . . .
after, meeting with the architect
Monday and Tuesday evenings.
Bids will be advertised to be
taken in January.
CO-OP HEARS SPEAKERS
Four .speakers, representing
the U.S. Army, Navy, WACs,
and WAyEs, attended the Friday noon luncheon" .meeting of
the Saline Co-Op Club, to address High.School.students in the
Cooperative Education Program.   : ; -
Mrs. Garrison Selected as 'Outstanding*
Ruth Garrison, wife of Dr. D.
Eugene Garrison, of 300 E.
Henry St., was chosen as Saline area's "Most Outstanding
Young Woman" by the Jaycee
Auxiliary, Monday evening.
Mrs. Garrison, mother of
in numerous civic affairs since
three children, has been active
she moved here in 1983; and she
is a former professional Girl
Scout leader. She was nominated for the honor by the Saline
Child Study Club. She holds a
B.    A.    degree    in    sociology
which, she notes, relates with
her work for Saline Area Social
Service, Inc., as well as Girl
Scout work.
She has served as president
and treasurer of the Social Service group. She is also extremely
active in church work (United
Methodist), having been a member of the official board, church
school superintendent, and
chairman of the Commission on
Christian Social Concern. She
teaches Sunday school and is a
member of the Commission on
Missions and the Commission on the troop committee. ... school tutoring and mental
Education,  and   worked as   *a      She   observes:    "Although   I- retardation;    etcj   However,   a
building crusade canvasser. have tried to limit my activities  growing   family ]   with    varied
For the Child Study Club, she for the present, there are Other  problems, and a- busy husband
is vice president and   program areas I would enjoy working in  must come first."
chairman,     has     headed    the .     :-:   i '
March of Dimes, and has been ..'".--'
active on the membership, program, hospitality, and library
committees.
As a PTO member, she was
co-chairman of Jensen School
Carnival in 1986. This year, she
was a Day Camp leader for Ibe
Girl Scouts, and is a member of
SCOUTS  SET PAPER
DRIVE NEXT YEAR
Saline • Boy Scout Troop 446
has scheduled its first paper
drive of the New Year. The
pickup is set for January 4,
1969,
All fathers, are urged to help;
they -are to meet at the north
end. of Henne field at 8 'a.m.
The  drivjv.will. last  all  day.
Boy- St£,its will check all
houses .soviieople' will not have
to put theynapers on the curb.-
Anyone neejling a pickup earlier may contact Harold West,
429-9853; ' Harold " Hanselman,
429-7565; <orf larold Fritts, 971-
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NOMINATED by their club', and
organizations for 'the ■ Jaycee Auxiliary
title "Most Outstanding Young Woman"
were the active gals'"above .(left to
-right): Mrs. William Crim, Jr.; Mrs.
Harold  Gage,  who  received the honor
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last >ear; Mrs. Eugene Garrison, this
year's winner; Mrs. John Peterson, and
Mrs. Paul Woods, Jr. Also nominated
though not in the picture were Mrs.
Edgar Monty, Miss CaTol Burmeister,
and Mrs. Duane Anderson. '
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ACCLAIMED the "Most Outstanding Young. Woman" of the area 'for 1968 was Mrs. D. E: Garrison
(left), who succeeds Mrs. HaTold Gage (right), holder-
of the title last year. The award to Mrs. Garrison was
presented for the Jaycee Auxiliary, by Major -George
-Johnson.
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