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Newspaper
Saline Reporter
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1966
Page
1
Saline schools plan 8:30 am start on Sept 8 with Houghton Elementary still finishing key tasks. Desks await installation after floor work, books and phonographs await handling, and play space arrangements require temporary road closure. Continuous staff changes listed for 1966-67.
Principal Marian Barclay released a pre season plan for Houghton Elementary School outlining entry points to reduce congestion. Kindergarten to grade 2 enter via the south door, grades 3 and 4 use the center door, and grades 5 6 plus the special education room access through the north door.
The Rev H L Engel, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church for 27 years, will begin semi retirement on November 1 and continue part time as senior pastor. Rev J A Westendorf will join from Brookfield Wisconsin as junior pastor, moving to the parsonage September 6 and to be installed September 11 with his brother Rev Rolfe Westendorf preaching. The Engels will move to the second parsonage at 68 Tower Dr. and observe two ministry anniversaries on September 1.
The Saline Ford plant is about 95 percent complete as transfer of machinery and 180 workers from the Brooklyn plant begins. Plastics manufacture has started at Saline with about 1,300 employees, rising to 1,400 by year end. The Brooklyn 25,000 square foot facility will close with no disposal plan yet. Workers come from Onsted Napoleon Jackson Grass Lake and Manchester.
Mr and Mrs Charles Stockard of 238 S Ann Arbor St returned from a 10 day vacation to find vandals damaged their home garage and yard Oil had been spilled on the floor tar painted on the rear of the house A limb was broken from a cherry tree and placed in the Stockard truck Wires to the truck spotlight were broken Stockard runs a tree trimming business from the truck
The Rev. Charles E. Sturm is named rector of the Church of the Holy Cross Episcopal Mission in Saline and St. John Episcopal Church in Clinton. He succeeds the Rev. Donald Heacock who moves to Marguarita, Panama Canal Zone.
Only three entries have been received for the 1967 Miss Saline pageant announced by Jaycee chairman Robert H. Beauchamp. The queen will be named September 8 at the Saline Fair. the coronation will be by Miss Sue Guenther.
The first September city council meeting will be held at 8 p.m. Monday September 12 due to Labor Day holiday. Council will meet in the old City Hall building.
Saline area endures a doctor shortage with three GPs serving about 7 000 people. Two cannot take OBs, one refuses new patients, and some critically ill patients are sent to Ann Arbor. Hospital maternity care risks underuse unless an obstetrician is recruited or an on call GP is found.
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