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Newspaper
Saline Reporter
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1964
Page
4
The Saline column argues the new Civil Rights bill may be unnecessary for their town noting Michigan already has a strong law. It praises local manners and contends good-heartedness matters more than legislation. The writer mocks the St Augustine beach confrontation as silly. Local tone and opinions are emphasized.
Residents urge the Council to reassess subdivision speed limits citing curved streets with parked cars and children at play. A 20 mph limit is proposed for flat straight streets and 15 mph on curved sloping routes, with exceptions for emergency vehicles.
In Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti talk grows over reconfiguring the County Board of Supervisors under the one man one vote rule. The present 37 seats split 10 from Ann Arbor 5 from Ypsilanti and others. Redistricting by population could leave many townships without a representative. An alternative suggests one supervisor per 1000 residents to ensure proportional representation.
St Pauls Youth Fellowship schedules its annual ice cream social for Wednesday July 1 starting at 6 p.m. in the cafeteria line. Food includes barbecues hot dogs baked beans cole slaw rolls coffee pop ice cream cake and a candy stand selling cigars gum and balloons. Activities include fish pond two ball throws and horseshoes with a Country Store run by the Ladies Guild. Door prizes will be drawn throughout the evening. Roles listed include general chairman Miss Karen Weber food prep and kitchen help Mrs Waynard Carr with Mrs Glenn Weber assisting purchasing chair Mrs Milton Finkbeiner and table waitresses chief Mrs Loren Bersuder public ity chair Miss Barbara Lossing.
The text imagines Saline gaining a second township on the 1960 census and needing 171 county supervisors for a 171000 population. It notes redistricters settling counts before possible school district representation on the Intermediate School District board and contemplates further changes amid public uproar over topless bathing suits predicting they will fail to become popular.
Walter Wolter will start July 1 as Saline band director succeeding Art Katterjohn who leaves July 30. Wolter and his family are house hunting in Saline as the community praising the music program. The Jacob Henes family held its second annual reunion at the Arnold Naebeck home on Zeeb Road with about 45 members attending a potluck dinner and supper.
A public reception honors the new Saline High School band director David Walter and his family. The 8:30 p.m. event in the school cafeteria includes punch and cookies served by Band Parents Club officers. The Senior High Band of 1964-65 will attend rehearsal at 7:30 p.m. and join the reception. No charge.
Mrs Everett Wolfin chaired and Mr and Mrs Wallie Zick with Cindy attended a Clinton family dinner Sunday honoring the 50th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Walter Zick.
A fragment indicates a family with a daughter named Lois, aged 17, who remains at home but is enrolled in schooling or an program after 1936. Details are limited in the OCR snippet.
Funeral services were held at Muehlig Funeral Chapel in Ann Arbor for Floyd Bryan Carson seven year old son of Mr and Mrs Edward A Carson of Saline Circle Court Saline. He died Wednesday at University Medical Center after a long illness and had suffered from cystic fibrosis since age two. He was a second grade student at local school.
The 25 Up Dance Chi will hold an open house Tuesday to celebrate the club’s second anniversary at the YW-YMCA in Ann Arbor. All interested persons 21 and older are invited. special entertainment is planned.
Rev Armin Bizer conducted the funeral service at Saline Elementary School. Memorial contributions may be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
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