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Newspaper
Saline Reporter
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1961
Page
1
Nearly 100 cars and a police escort led the funeral procession through Saline to Oakwood Cemetery for Owen Bert Brennan known as a good neighbor and a very nice man. He raised horses at Hickory Farm near Bridgewater.
The Farm Council Bar-B-Que to raise funds for the Rural Activities Center is planned for June 18 at the Saline Ann Arbor road site. General co chairs are Mrs. Erwin Fredericks and Mrs. Simon Girbach with a full slate of committee chairs and members.
Victor Berkich plans a Grand Tour of Saline area Michigan and beyond for his Yugoslav brother Karl Brkic and Karl's wife Victoria visiting from Europe. The trip will feature The Bridge, Michigan museums Greenfield Village and regional universities. Karl, a retired professor of Yugoslav language and German history, speaks several languages but not English, and views Saline as beautiful. Victoria enjoys American life, while the couple plans to return to Europe only temporarily as they have a son in Switzerland and a pediatric rejuvenation clinic nearby. Victor expresses pride in the United States and aims to demonstrate it to his guests.
Nearly 70 school children were honored for Safety Patrol service at the annual Safety Patrol Assembly at the Elementary School. Certificates were awarded by Robert Lewis of the Automobile Club of Michigan. pins by Police Chief Earl Kirby. and plaques to the Elementary and Intermediate schools for excellence in safety activity. Special award for outstanding safety patrol mother went to Mrs. Ray Krempel.
Five Saline High School seniors receive diplomas on June 8 continuing family ties. Mike Bixby is grandson of Dr. Roy Bixby class of 1900, with other grads linked to Amanda Sturm Rogers, Martha Rogers, Tema Schnirting Layher, and Mabel Westphal Boettger. About 45 seniors of 1961 are Saline area graduates or their children, reflecting district consolidation.
Calendar notes show events at St Andrew Catholic Church on June 14 serving barbecues ice cream and cake with a fish pond. Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church on Scio Road to host July 19 with details to follow. Federated Church social planned for August 4 with complete plans to be announced.
Saline's first graders using a number aid since September show strong progress in arithmetic. Parents praise rising skills in multiplication and division while some skeptics wonder about understanding. California Achievement Test data indicate gains across the year as teachers gain experience.
SHS senior Vicki Sheets of 6070 Campbell Road received a $100 scholarship from the Washtenaw County Medical Secretaries Association. The award goes to one outstanding secretarial student in the county each year. Sheets, who transferred from Dexter to Saline High in 1959, plans a two year business course at Jackson Junior College and has a summer secretarial position lined up at the University of Michigan.
Seventy nine graduating Sa line High School seniors and families will attend a baccalaureate service at 8 15 p m Sunday at the High School The invocation and benediction will be given by Rev Alfred Hardt Mrs Rosemary Katterjohn and the High School Mixed Chorus will sing There is a Balm in Gilead The sermon Who Are You by Rev Robert Richards The class of 1962 will form an honor guard and the class of 1963 handles ushering and floral arrangements Mrs Mildred Haswell directs Commencement Week activities and Arthur Katterjohn is music director.
County Civil Defense Director Gerald Miller will speak and screen films at a CD meeting at 8 p.m. Tuesday June 13 at the elementary school. The public is urged to attend.
Ann Arbor City Council approved use of the sanitary landfill on a fee basis by Saline township residents. Tickets cost 40 cents per cubic yard and are sold in minimum bundles of five. Tickets available from Clarke Gordon and township officials for use at Ellsworth and Platt roads in Pittsfield township. The dump also serves Saline city, Scio, Lodi, and Pittsfield townships.
The annual Jaycee Teen Road E O at the High School starts at 12 30 p m with a driving skill contest open to teens with licenses who have not had moving violations in six months. Prizes include $25 savings bonds and a state contest berth in Benton Harbor June 10.
The Rev. Alfred Hardt of St. Pauls Evangelical and Reformed Church spoke on Things We Need to Remember after the Memorial Day parade. The Rev. Robert Richards of the Methodist Church gave the invocation.
Councilman James C Little, also Building Commissioner, will resign on or before July first after buying a new home two miles from Saline. He plans to move mid July to 6100 Saline Ann Arbor Rd, vacating his seat as resident. Appointment may fill the seat until January, with voters deciding the term in November. Little, elected in 1951 with prior terms since 1947, is an estimating engineer for General Motors.
Two 14 year old runaways from Inkster were chased across town after Deputy Helen Starling first questioned them on Michigan Avenue near the school corner. State police joined the pursuit and with Police Chief Earl Kirby and Mrs. Starling the youths were corralled after Kirby abandoned the patrol car and pursued on foot through nearby fields.
The final week of school will use shortened hours except Monday. Buses run 30 minutes later Tuesday Wednesday and Friday. No school Thursday. Elementary opens 9 a m and closes 2 15 p m Tuesday and Wednesday. Friday elementary opens 9 and dismisses 9 30. High and Intermediate dismissals are 15 to 20 minutes later than elementary.
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