Owen-Gage Gears for New Property Tax Battle
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Tax rate to drop Owen-Gage gears for new property tax battle The Owen-Gage School the Michigan Court of Ap- erty in the township has been MILLAGE DROP an exact figure isn't available Board geared for yet another peals. fully taxed and those monies due to the current dispute legal fight Monday night after Erickson said at that hear- have been sent to county Owen-Gage taxpayers will over land values in Huron it was learned Grant township ing, Owen-Gage attorney authorities for distribution to be asked to pay three mills county between commission- officials are holding a portion James Schpuman will also the district, Reid said. less than its current rate for ers and state authorities. of the district's debt retire- seek to intervene, charging "Even those who didn't pay operation^at the annual elec- ment monies in escrow. -Grant-township has-violated it will be hit with delinquent tionTin "JufieT CURRICULUM CHANGES Superintendent Ronald the law. taxes," he said. The board authorized re- Erickson told board members The superintendent said Reid said the township newal of 6.25 mills of the The board heard a number gathered for their regular flatly the township action is board acted in the wake of a present 9.25 operational mil- of suggestions for curriculum monthly session in Owendale illegal. series of lawsuits regarding lage which expires this year. changes from counselor John he learned of the township's "They are setting them- the continuing bond sale con- Actually, the district will Rinke. action only last Friday. selves up in a very difficult troversy. He said tax notices still come out ahead finan- Rinke wants to stress voca- Grant township authorities position," Erickson said. were not sent out until the cially despite the millage tional education and proposed passed a resolution in De- Grant Township Clerk Don second week in January due reduction since land values in a career awareness class cember authorizing the with- Reid told the Chronicle Tues- to the legal hassle. both Huron and Tuscola (one semester) for seventh holding of 5.79 mills slated for day the withholding action counties are skyrocketing. graders, exploratory classes Reid questioned the pro- in art, speech, shop and home debt retirement on the pro- involves only property own- priety of collecting the added Approval in June would put posed new Owen-Gage High ec for eighth graders, a ers seeking transfer to other assessment. the district's operational mil- School building. districts. Reid said about 10 lage at 23.5 mills. Erickson singles survival course for "How can they collect the sophomores through seniors Erickson said the matter parcels are involved. money without selling the explained school districts not will be brought before Ing- He said the township took receiving state aid are al- and a vo ed cosmetology class bonds," he asked. "Where is for juniors and seniors. The ham County Circuit Court the action because several this money supposed to go?" lowed to reduce millage as Judge James T. Kallman property owners had refused valuations rise. courses would be electives. April 1, when attorneys for to pay the added assessment Erickson said to his know- He said the school's present Rinke also requested a the Laker School District seek for the new school for which ledge, Grant is the only 7.28 debt retirement millage sixth grade pre-orientation to intervene in the Goslin bonds have not yet been sold. township withholding the should drop at least two mills program. Under the plan, transfer case now lodged in All other Owen-Gage prop- added assessment. by the end of the year. He said Please turn to page 18 NO NEED to tell what happened. That's Brenda Herron moments after Friday night's Regional championship game against Stockbridge ended. Final score Stockbridge 61, Cass City 59. VOLUME 70, NUMBER 47 CASS CITY CHRONICLE-THURSDAY, MARCH 17,1977 Twenty Cents TWENTY PAGES Cass City School Board sets election date, hears report It was a routine night at the written is $2,000 and comes that next year the Junior High oped by the Michigan Associ- the board reads the booklet. Cass City Board of Education from a state grant under will present one or more ation of School Boards. It is a Because of a new state law, meeting Monday as trustees "Title 1". plays. The request was made group of general statements a census will be required in breezed through the open At Washington, Mrs. Frei- by Cheryl LaBean, a teacher. about activities of the board. the district. It will probably meeting in less than an hour burger learned of another Finally, trustees looked A decision on adoption will be conducted by phone and is and then reconvened in a program using taxpayers' over a code of ethics devel- be reached next month after due in May. session closed to the press money on the Federal level. It and the public. is for..ajn,"Arts grant" and the^ The close'd'.session was used school will ask for $9,000. 'to evaluate the work of the LmelSO.,000 gallons teachers who have not yet attained tenure. SUPPORT CANDIDATE Trustees did make official a millage, election April 25 The board went on record where electors will be asked as backing Robert Him for a Vandals drain village to approve a renewal of a post on the Tuscola Intermed- 3'/2-mill levy for three years. iate Board of Education. Principal Jackie Frei- Trustees will circulate peti- burger reported on an in-serv- tions. Fifty valid signatures ice program at the school. It are needed. water supplies Sunday included teaching body move- Deadline for petitions for STATE POLICE Sgt. Willis McQueen (left) presents Mr. ments to teachers in the regular board candidates will Cass City's water supply Village Supt. Lou LaPonsie down to only about four feet of grades and reading instruc- be April 11. dropped to dangerously low said Tuesday no one has been water in it," LaPonsie said. and Mrs. James LaRoche of Cass City with a Good Citizen- tion for teachers in the Inter- This year the terms of Lynn levels late Sunday night as apprehended in connection "Normally we carry about 35 ship citation in recognition of their efforts which helped save mediate and high schools. Albee and Dean Hoag are vandals opened 18 fire hyd- with the incident. He said feet of water." the life of Larry Robinson of Mt. Pleasant in May, 1975. The It also included a reading expiring. rants throughout the village. Cass City Patrolman Donald To compound problems, a conference at Midland and a The board also authorized Before it was all over, village Miller began noticing flowing water main reportedly burst couple gave the victim chest massage after Robinson had conference at Washington, the addition of a Junior High officials estimate over 150,000 hydrants after 10 p.m. at about the same time at the been pulled from a lake and appeared to be dead. The presen- D.C., for Mrs. Freiburger. play to the master contract. gallons of water were drained "By the time we got them intersection of Woodland and Total cost of the program as When negotiated it means from the system. all closed, the tower was Third Streets. As a result, tation was made Monday at the Caro State Police Post. only 50,000 of the village's normal 200,000 gallon water supply was left in the tower. LaPonsie said it may seem Among Tuscola students like a childish prank, but if a fire had broken out at that Anonymous 'Santa moment, there probably */ wouldn't have been enough water to fight it. 15 per cent lack "Someone could have got- ten hurt seriously or been leaves loads of toys killed," he said. "Something like this endangers the whole community. required shots 1 Mrs. Hazel Moore of 4364 S. "We'd like anyone who sees fer says. | Seeger St., must have thought anyone opening a fire hydrant While most school children per cent of the total Tuscola She explained students can Santa Glaus had arrived when to call the police immediate- in the Thumb area are immu- county student population is slip through when their par- she looked out her window ly," he continued. "This is a nized against childhood dis- immunized. ents claim religious objec- Sunday morning. very serious thing." eases, as much as 15 per cent Yet students without vacci- LaPonsie said either juve- of the student, population in nations manage to find their tions to the shots or if they tell According to Cass City niles or young adults are Tuscola county lacks vacci- way into classrooms, in viola- school authorities they are in Police, what she found was suspected. None was appre- nations required by state law. tion of state law., the process of having their several boxes of used toys hended. He said it's unlikely According to Mrs. Evelyn "The schools don't put on child immunized. which someone had deposited any arrests can be made Schaffer, public health nurse the pressure necessary to "We get a report in Decem- on her front lawn the previous since no one apparently saw with the Thumb District make sure all their students ber or January from each evening. the vandals at work. Health Department, about 85 are immunized," Mrs. Schaf- district indicating how many students don't have their Officer Christopher Taylor shots.," she said. "Then we said apparently someone in- send out a notice about our tended to donate the toys to a clinics where free shots are worthy cause but delivered No PCPpoisonings available." them to the wrong house.