Saline City appoints Elwin A Strait to lead WWTP project
The Saline City Council designates City Administrator Elwin A Strait to a temporary special assignment starting July 6 1971 focusing on the waste water treatment plant expansion and related lines. The project exceeds 1 million dollars with bonds and grants and Strait will balance 70 percent on the assignment while city departments report to the Council as workload allows.
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Saline
Elwin A. Strait
Strait
Department of Public Works
Fire Department
York Youths Blossom With Loving Care
York Woods Center in Ypsilanti seeks foster parents for 12 to 15 boys and girls ready to leave the hospital. Families can become Big Brothers or Sisters or provide weekend or full time foster care and receive a fixed monthly payment. Interested parties contact Mrs. Shirley Harrison or Anthony Cheng at 429-9461.
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York Woods Center
Ypsilanti State Hospital
William Kirk
Norma Gutierrez
Child Community Psychiatry
E. Gordon Yudashkin
Michigan Department of Mental Health
Governor's Office
York Woods
Shirley Harrison
Anthony Cheng
Saline Community Center Seeks Youth and Adult Volunteers
Saline invites youths and parents to volunteer for clean up and supervision at the former St Andrews Church building now Saline Community Center. A July 24 dance is planned and chaperones are needed to open the facility on weeknights. Call Wayne Quick at 429-4330 for details. Also Girl Scout seniors will hold a door to door bottle pick up July 17 through 24 with routes announced by date and area. Call 429-7066 or 429-5651 to arrange pickups.
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New Saline Community Center
St. Andrews Catholic Church
Monroe St
Child Study Club
Welcome Wagon Club
Wayne Quick
Wayne
Building Committee
Elaine Heiserman
Jim Tripp
Steve Lindemyer
IRL
Theoutheast
Saline Invitational Softball Tourney Upsets Shine All Weekend
Thousands watched the Second Annual Saline Invitational as four Saline teams fought for the trophy. Golden Standard beat Roby twice in the final round to claim the title. Ed Kronemeyer earned most valuable player honors after a dominant 36 inning pitching performance. Donnie Drake of Fireside Lounge hit Saline’s lone homer. Local crops show a comeback with knee high by July and corn two inches taller than expected. Mayor Hubert Beach opens a daily office hour at City Hall to address residents.
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Saline
Woods
Christian
Fireside
Saline ‘Construction
Carlton
Bimbo
Pizza
Ann Arbor
Golden Standard
Ruby Tire
P and R Tool
Roby
Golden Boys
Bimbo’s
Carlton Oil
Fireside Lounge
Ed Kronemeyer
Champs
Donnie Drake
Lyle Phillips
Saline Mercantile
Saline Volunteer Firemen Respond to Three Blazes
Saline Volunteer Fire Department responded Wednesday to three fires including two grass fires on Maple Road and near N Harris and Bassett and a car fire at Ray's Auto Service all extinguished quickly. They also responded to two earlier grass fires this week, one Saturday and one Monday.
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Saline Volunteer Fire Department
Ray’s Auto Service
Maple Rd
N. Harris and
Bassett
Checks Mailed to Michigan Farmers in 1971 Programs
Preliminary payments for the 1971 wheat and feed grain programs are being released to Michigan farmers. By July 1, more than 37 000 payments totaling nearly 16 million dollars had been processed to reimburse costs of idling productive cropland and maintaining it in a conserving manner.
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Michigan
Police Seek Third Abductor in Wertz Robbery Kidnapping
Saline Police and Michigan Police in Ypsilanti continue to investigate the Wertz armed robbery kidnapping case. A fourth suspect who fled during arrests remains at large as of press time.
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Michigan
Ypsilanti
Wertz
Bethel Social Spawns Manchester Chicken Barbecue Night
The Bethel Social wraps last Thursday with a setup crew led by furniture man Lou Vogel arranging tables and chairs for diners. Participants include Mrs. Vogel Sue Ellyn Paul Boehler Karl Boehler and Dave Heber as the group prepares for the Manchester Chicken Barbecue tonight July 15.
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Lou Vogel
Vogel
Sue “Ellyn
Paul Boehler
Karl Boehler
Dave Heber
Bethel
Manchester
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City Hal
Jack Vaughan
Vaughan
Julia Rapp
Hubert Beach
Lee Decker
Waldo Gross
George Anderson
Jack Measley
Edward Marsh
York
Bethel Church
Edom Township
Coleslaw
St. James
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