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Newspaper
Saline Reporter
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1967
Page
5
Local parents and teens faced a canceled Saline teen dance with no notice causing confusion and disappointment. Jaycees blamed the late decision amid Detroit unrest, while noting outsiders had disrupted dances in the past. The Teen Club lacked activity this year, and a future dance is planned by the Jaycees.
The passage lists a whimsical set of proposed or imagined civic features a town might add to feel grown up. Items include a subway kiosk, a hill chairlift to the Legion Home, a millpond yacht club, a Bob Lo boat, a seven mile suspension bridge, an escalator to the Police Department with a police tank, a field house roof completed in two years, a mono rail to the Farm and council grounds, and U S and Russian pavilions at the Saline Fair.
The article notes Brown receiving seven or eight calls within two hours after Friday inquiries about speaking engagements. It outlines his 53 years as a Black person and nine years on civil rights staff, detailing his education and career including roles with NAACP and Michigan Civil Rights Commission. Ed DeWolfe was Sunday dinner guest of Mrs Karl Weéavie.
In Saline Michigan the school year faces delays as dates for opening and vacations remain negotiable. Teachers largely refuse to start without a master contract while SEA and the Board of Education bargain over calendars, budgets, and a 180 day attendance requirement for state aid. Negotiators plan to meet again Thursday evening.
The Fair Board announces 1967 Saline Community Fair premiums September 5 to 9 with four prizes in all classes. Premiums rise 25 cents per placing in most departments. half the payout is funded by state funds. Ray Girbach, board chairman, says premiums were previously inadequate. Supervisor Robert Harrison attends the National Convention of County Officials in Detroit.
Cary Strieter, 16, of 5186 Austin Rd in Saline, was beaten with a tire iron and bitten by three youths from Ypsilanti outside a Saline restaurant on E Michigan Ave after a softball game. Marvin Dimon also received a bite as police investigate warrants against the Ypsilanti trio.
Mrs. Daniel Blaskie, Saline Community Hospital nursing director since May 1966, resigns to take a supervisory post at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor. She previously headed a VA hospital floor and now vacancy interviews are under way, administrator John Strawbridge said.
Mrs. John Kohler Jr and five others attended a tea honoring Gift Shop volunteers at Ypsilanti State Hospital on Wednesday July 26. The event drew attendees including Mrs. Raymond Strieter Mrs. Delmar Schrader Mrs. Andrew Poet and Mrs. Ed Burmeister in a local social highlight.
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