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Newspaper
Saline Reporter
Location
Saline, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1968
Page
1
The 1 percent tricksters wowed crowds during a city pre Halloween stroll as nursery school pupils from Storybook Gardens shared their observations in this week's Junior Judgments column.
The Saline Jaycees invite men ages 21 to 35 to join a community service and leadership training group. A membership drive runs today to November 3 at 7 pm with an M Nite banquet at the Mason Lodge above the VIP store featuring Merritt as guest speaker. Contact Bill Garpow at 429 4293 for details.
Saline Fair Board will elect new officers at the annual meeting set for 8 30 p m Monday in the High School agriculture room. Chairman Don Wiedman will not seek another term.
The United Fund drive jumped from 30% to 95% in one week, with a $33,913 goal. Campaign Chair Dorothy Leidheiser reported rapid, nationwide donations and praised strong responses from schools, hospital and MEHA. Residential areas 2 and 6 finished, others near completion. business and industry accounts are partial. The 1988 campaign set a new record with this rapid rise.
Saline voters endured two to three hour waits in the heaviest local election in memory. Precinct 4 saw lines down the street with residents from Saline Township and Lodi Estates turned away. Coffee, doughnuts, and cookies from Mrs. Kessel’s class eased the day while a Clark Street resident's pizza was a morale boost for Precinct 2 workers. The High School FHA also contributed a notable late evening effort.
City Council moved to create a RMH zoning category for mobile home areas and asked the planning commission to recommend sites. The meeting was the first in the remodeled city hall, with carpet and furnishings pending and an open house planned for late November or December.
Julie Rapp, new Saline city clerk, commented on her first election under this post. She called it the biggest and most complex Saline has had with counting finishing after 2am and later quoted herself as saying Criminently.
The Chamber of Commerce will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday at the president Paul Sibson home 787 Knollwood Court. He hopes for a good turnout.
An open house sponsored by the PTO will be held at Saline High School at 8 p.m. Tuesday, November 12. The agenda includes class meetings for parents, a capsule class schedule for each student, and teacher-parent consultations if desired. A coffee hour will close the session. All parents are urged to attend.
The Future Homemakers Association of Saline High School ran a babysitting service at city polls, caring for 175 children and keeping voters calm. Sandy Owens led the project with Corrine Spencer Debbie Hammond and Liza Lee Collins aiding. Cheryl Hewes and many volunteers helped, with a peak 45 children at one time.
Gerald Bahnmiller of Bahnmiller Funeral Home donated an inhalator to Saline for use in the police car. The City Council approved a resolution thanking him for long service in ambulance and fire communications, noting the shift from his former ambulance service to Washtenaw County contract with Superior Ambulance Co.
The Saline Post Office will be closed Monday November 1 in observance of Veterans Day. No window service, city or rural mail delivery will occur.
Pittsfield Township voters rejected a proposed levy of up to two mills for the Fire Department by about two to one. Unofficial counts late Tuesday and early Wednesday showed Albert Bredernitz leading for county supervisor, with incumbent Sheriff Douglas Harvey and District Court judges Patrick Conlin Robert Fink and Rodney Hutchinson also favored in their respective races.
The Saline Woman's Club will host its annual guest night at 6 30 p m Tuesday at Houghton School. Rev Merle Meeden speaks on Europe on 5 a day with slides. Music by vocalist Miss Sue Peters a University of Michigan music student.
In a high turnout election voters approved a 640000 sewage disposal expansion bond while electing Hugh Keveling mayor and Kenneth Rogers Waldo Jim Gross and George Johnson to council. Incumbent Glenn Clark lost. State water and recreation proposals passed locally. daylight time and other measures were rejected.
Six Saline males, all graduates except one, enlist in the U S Navy on November 15 under the Buddy Plan. Chief Petty Officer Donald Ford recruits in Ann Arbor and the men will swear in and train together. Names include Bill Hill Rick Payne Dennis Mae Donald Marc VanDoren Dwight Iv yin and Robin Flickinger.
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