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Section Grosse Pointe ~ws A 3~ Per Copy 36 Pages-Three Sections Publl.hed a. Second Chili Matter at the GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1983 $13 Pet Year Vol. 44, No.4 POlt Office at Detroit, Michigan Could it be . • • a decline in tax assessments? live assessment figures. The "If they don't, they'll {>robab~y year's ligures. But 12-month have a real problem With theIr By Susan McDonald real estate market and chang~s m Grosse Pomte pubhc schools' the state Tax CommiSSIon's studies, still incomplete, may people." Year after year they climbed - show a 1 to 5 percent decline m Busmess Manager Christian Fen- gUIdelInes for figunng assess- ton said the system would lose at 10 percent, 17 and then more than ments Instead of usmg 3O-month the five POlntes, he added Thomas Kressbach, manager of least $300,000 for every 1 percent Grosse POinte City, said the de- a quarter - stnkmg dread m the studies of sales to compute aver- The assessed value of property hearts of Grosse POinte homeown- drop in values at current tax CISIOnWill be tough for small gov- age home values, assessors will is used to compute all property rates. ers Typed notIce::. of the new as- be allowed thiS year to use studies taxes owed to cities, the local ernments sessed value of your property for based on the 12 months of 1982, ,school system, Wayne County and The Cities have been asked to "I don't know If you're doing the Rob Patansu, owner of the the commg t ax year, usually m which should more accurately re- the county community college. review the'sales studIes and make taxpayer a favor by rolling back Esquire Theater, last week an- the mall by mid-February, had flect the down sWing III home While values were chmbmg (by as a deCISion on whtch one to choose assessments, then Increasmg the nounced a new admissIOn pol- become the most unwelcome SIgn prices much as 29 percent in one city m by Feb. 1, McEachran said He tax rate because you need the icy, good for all shows on Wed- of sprmg. 1981), those units of government trunks most government units WIll money," he said "The likelihood nesday and Thursday. Any pat- The deCISIOn on whether to use But thiS year It'S gOIng to be dif- were reaping the benefit of in- select the 12-month study. is that next year, if the economy rons who bring in an Item of those 12-month figures or also ferent, accordmg to offiCials m the legal 24-month sales studies Will creased revenue without voting to "After what we went through picks up at all, the assessments non-perishable food will be ad- hike tax rates Now th"t they're will be lllcreased agam anyway." mitted for 50 c{'nts countv assessor's offIce For the r{'''t With 10<'ill Cltv official <; ac- lil"t "pring (with record numbers commg down, those govt:l1IIlH:ml:. ftrst time m more than dU year::. - cording to Wayne County Director of appeals), I think they're going Kressbach said he had not yet Putansu is donatmg the food pOSSibly Since before World War of TaxatIOn George McEachran may face problems. to go with 12 month studies. Not to Crossroads East, Just down II_ assesbed values may actually evaluated figures for his city and He said 24-month studIes III McEachran saId he estimates that they want to, but from a pol- did not know what approach he the street on East Jefferson, in go down Not up, but down. Grosse POinte show no change in revenue loss to the cQunty Will ap- itical standpoint I thmk they'll would take Detroit. The organization dis- home values compared to last proach $5 million, based on tenta- have to," McEachran speculated. tributes bags of food to the The reasons are the depressed needy and runs a soup kitchen on East Forest. "It's a great deal," said Divorce and age Putansu. "For 50 cents people can see a mOVIe and be enter- tained, and help someone else • at the same time." Regular admission to the theater is $1 are on the rISe., A box of "Hamburger Help- er" might help more than you know. * -'80 census says They say everyone has an exact double of themselves By Susan McDonald Per capita income figures com- somewhere in the world We at It's been well over a decade piled by the census bureau re- the News have narrowed that since the state Attorney General flect mcome in 1979 dollars. The down consIderably, at least as ordered Grosse Pointe realtors to Shores, as usual, lead the way in far as our Society Editor Janet stop their racially discriminating Grosse Pointe with a per capita Mueller is concerned. "point system" for evaluating and mcome of $27,813. It was followed Janet has a haIr dresser, excluding prospective homeown- by the Farms at $21,701 per per- (Leo, of Leo's Hair Fashions), 'ers. But since that time, the num- son, the City at $16,533, the Woods who at their last session asked ber of black persons in the five at $13,808 and the Park at $13,271. Janet how her sign business Pointes had decreased, according Median family incomes were was going? Sign business, to 1980 census figures recently $57,951 in the Shores, -$38,400in the queried our Jan? made available by the Southeast Farms, $32,434 III the Woods, MiC'higan Council of Governments. $31,514 in the CIty and $29,644 in Whereupon Leo whipped out the Park. That compares With a a business letter and card from The census bureau found only ffl 1980 national median family in- Janet Mueller, of Pointe Pro- blacks (less than 1 percent of the come of just $19,661, according to motions, producer of "unique, total population) in the five the census. eye-catching indoor sIgns" Pointes, compared to 96 m 1970. Suddenly, it was doppelganger But it also found a substantial in-, At least two other Michigan time. crease in other minorities, pri- citles outranked the Shores on marily Spanish speakIng persons. per capita income. Barton Hills It seems there is another The number of all non-white per- Village, with $33,525, and Bloom- Janet Mueller, who lives on sons reached 1,062 in 1980, almost field Hills with $35,327, which is Bournemouth Road, who IS the 2 percent of the total population. one of the highest income f:igurn creative light behind Pointe That includes 442 of Spanish des- 10 the natIon, according to it -FlroductWns- W~n l!dn~ cent There were more than 4,000 SEMCOG official she admitted she ..,had. exper- persons who do not speak English The bureau found poverty in ienced some crossed wires con- as a primary language at home. cerning identities and had been _ Grosse Po1Ote too, about 1,564 expecting a call. The census report also confrrm- families living below the 1979 pov- erty level in the five cities, or Univenity Liggett'. ed what many expected. that the "People keep telling me they age of persl;ms in the Pointes and about 3 percent of the total pop- enjoy my writing and to say new '3 million Creative the number of senior citizens have ulation Those figures were basi- hello to my mother," saId the and Performing Art. increased dramatically in the de- (Continued on Page 2A) other Janet. "When I expl~n Center wa. only on cade. In Grosse Pointe City, 18 that I don't write and that they blueprinta a year ago. percent of the populatIOn is 65 mean someone else's mother, Now, the center offer. years of age or older. in the they start getting confused My Farms it's 17 percent, Shores and Prosecutor mother lives in Ohio." .trulenta plenty of room Woods it's 14 percent. Only in the to pur.ue and under. The two Janets finally met Park, did the ratio of seniors de- to appeal via telephone and admitted It dand the am. The gal. cline slightly, from 14 m 1970 to 13 was strange talking to them- lery (top) create. a re- percent in 1980. Charles Leman, a selves. Both agreed the SItua- laxing atmo.phere for planmng consultant for the city of Grosse Pointe Park, speculated murder tion was a hoot and wished .trulent. to atudy or to each other luck. the reason is a shortage of con- catch up on .ome read- dominiums and apartments for Incidentially, both are born in ing. At left atudent. prek the elderly in that city. reversal May, under the same (groan) a tune or two in the By Tom Greenwood sign. THE MEDIAN AGE increased center' a multi -art. by four years in three of the The Wayne County Prosecutors * * * "udio. where a wood. Cities, but remained stable at 33 Office last week confirmed it is and 39 in the Park and Farms, re- pushing ahead with plans to ap- Farms City Manager Andrew en-.prung fWor if a de. spectIvely. The median age of the peal the recent ruling of the state Bremer was absent from last light for dance,.. and a City is 39, the Shores 43 and Court of Appeals reversmg the Monday night's councIl meet- new catwalk win be wed Woods IS 38 1981 murder conviction of Farms ing, but with good cause He for dramatic lighting teenager David McKendrick and wife Kathy were in East and other we•• The census report also tells a Citing a 1982 Michi~an Supreme Grand Rapids celebrating the great deal about the family life of Court ruling pertainmg to a de- birth of grandson Thomas An.