All the News of All the Pointes Every Thursday Morning rosse Pointe e,ws Complete News Coverage of All the Pointes Home of the News 10. '0' COP1 VOL 39-NO. 2 ' •• 1l1li'" .1 ..... " C". -M."_ .t ",I GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, THURSDA Y, JANUARY 12, 1978 $1.00 Pe, Voor 26 Pages Two Sections-Section One 'lit OHII. et ~. MIdoI ... Friends of Bon Secours Elect New Officers Barriers to HEADLINES 11; Board Renews Be Replaced 01 &be By Signs WEEK , Bid for Summer As Complied by tile Citizens Cite Traffic Grosse Pointe New. Tax Collection Safety Problems in Brys - Roslyn Area, Merchants Say Bus- Thursday, January 5 Trustees Link Proposal to Capital Improvement inesses Affected COLEMAN A. YOUNG Projects by Passing Resolution to Issue Bonds by Earlier Action began his second term as . for Such Work; Forum Held Monday Detroit's first black mayor yesterday when he was sworn to View Issue By Roger A. Waha in during ceremonies at Ford By Susan McDonald The barricades block- Auditorium. !n his speech, the mayor saId, "We proved Despite one city council's vote against it the ing the Brys drive-Ros- our toughness . I think Board of Education renewed its efforts toward the lyn road crossovers on it's safe to say we're in bet. summer collection of school taxes at its Monday, Mack avenue, approved ter shape than four years January 9, meeting by officially linking the pro- by the Woods Council in ago." He pledged to continue posal to much-needed capital improvement projects ~ovember in attempt to an affirmative action pro. in the schools. - alleviate the heavy vol- gram for minorities and The trustees passed a res- ume of traffic on Brys women in the police and fire olution saying they will issue Arbitration drive, will come down. departments to make their bonds to pay for certain cap- An estimated 25 citizens, membership representative of ital improvements-the larg- Pane'l G;ves including many merchants in the city's population. He said est of which will probably &- the area, braved freezing tem- the job for the next four be a renovation of South High School's Industrial Arts peratures and gusty winds to years is to continue to reo Node.to f,ty share their concerns o~er the build the city. Building. temporary installation and . ': Any s a v i n g s from the the effect the barricades. Friday, January 6 switch to summer tax coUec- Ruling Supports Admini- have had on traffic flow and tions, an estimated $350,000 business profits at. the re- AN EMOTIONAL Presi- a year, will be used to pay strators in Cross Train- scheduled regular meeting dent Jimmy Carter paid JR., secretary. Not pictured is John R. Gehlert, tribute yesterday to the thou- The 1978 officers of the Friends of Bon off those bonds, according to ing of Police, Fire De- Monday, January 9. vice president. The Friends sponsor numerous the resolution. sands of American Gis who Secours Hospital, (from left to right), include Woods Says "No" partments A petition bearing 260 sig- died on Normandy beaches ROGER F. McNEILL, MD, vice-president; PE- events aimed at community health education. natures from residents and' on D-Day in 1944. As a mili. TER E. O'ROURKE, president; MARILYN (See story, Page 3.) The action is intended to B S M D Id merchants protesting their tary band softly played "Auld MEIER, treasurer; and EDMUND M. BRADY assure the community and Thy f'usan 1 c ona erection and calling for their Lang Syne," the President I - its representatives on city e lrst re uctant City removal also was receh'ed was close to tears and he councils that the savings fireman signed out a serv- by the council. solemnly promised that the Board Picks from the tax switch will be ice revolver and entered horror would never happen Pair Found GPW Seniors, Pla~g put to good use. a police academy this Two Votes Taken But the proposal to move week, after a state arbi- Petitions from citizens cited again. Mr. Carter is visiting from a December to July col- t t. lIthe inconvenience and "very France, one of the countries Dead in Consultant Discuss Firm for lection date has already run ra Ion pane ru ed that dangerous traffic patterns" on his nine-day foreign trip, into problems in The Woods, The City can force the from Hampton north to the as the guest of French GPW Home Subject of Housing SHS Study which last month v 0 t e d firefighters to take police city limits, while petitions President Val e r y Giseard against the Board's request training. from merchants said the bar- d'Estaing. Today, the Presi. dent is visiting Brussels and Police Classify 'Incident Commission, Brandon Rogers Explore Facts, Fig- Kessler and Associates for a switch because it After more than a year of riers should be removed be- he will return home to the Suicide, Homicide As ures Relating to City's Elderly Population; Selected to Complete "would actually result in in- hearings and deliberations, cause traffic patterns ere- White House this evening. 'lect to Be VI'.wed at January 2..& h I creased taxes for residents." the panel ruled in support of ated are making parking dif. M ot her, O..ug hter Sub "' Arc itectura Exam- The plan is contingent on city administrators who want ficult during prime afternoon .0. _, Succumb to ... ~".'" _,,",~_, ... , M.,ti"g qi. PIAn~'". inat1ol'1,of'ndustria\ f\l~ j;UPPO~ ~rom aU, six tp_ crQ~ train both police and b~siI!ess hours, that longer satard.)',..~."Qary'-'1 Asphyxiation' . Arts Complex municipalities in the schooi fire _departments and even. routes lor. -emergency ve- IN AN EMOTIONAL arrj. ---:.,._ . .. By Roger A. Waha district. tual1y consolidate the forces hides to reach destinations vl!-l ~peech, after his nine-day _ A v 32;year;Old:>f Wob.dS" .. ;r4~~~ersof .the \:VO<?~'~nior Citiz~ru; Com~ B -' ~ -.-.-. • J 'School ~rsonnel deny~the into a' 'public safety depart. are being created and that foreign trip;' Presideirt'- Jim- woman, through her own mission exploreQ. the. pOSsibllitY of seniors' housirig . -j; Y .u~-~~~~ d c'. proposa~. will increase - taxes ment, . the barricades were "un. my Carter stated two opin- apparent action, took her in the community when they met with planning After mOrltns of. delib~ ~~d. ml~in~ain, ,~nstead, t~at Firefighters have bitterly sightly and make the area ions that he had conceived life and the life of her consultant Brandon M. Rogers Friday afternoon, eration, the School Board It s a painless way to In- resisted the merger through look terrible." during his journey. One was January 6, at city hall. Besides expressing a con- selected the firm of cr~~se revenues rather than actions in Wayne County After a discussion which that Egyptian President An- nine-year-old daughter tinuing interest in such housing, a commission pro- Pointer -William Kessler raiSIng the tax rate. Circuit Court and the stlite continued for around an hour war Sadat was one of the after police discovered ject indicating the number of. senior households in and Associates to com- Superi!1tendent Dr. William labor department. The con- the council in two separat~ bravest men on earth and the woman's car in the h plete an architectural Coats saId he. has asked. the solidation was actually passed votes took the following ac- second is that President Car- garage with the ignition t e community and their location via dots on a study of South High ~oods. <;ouncl1 to reconsl~er into law by the City Council tions: ter believes that the people on and the gas tjlnk emp- large map also was viewed. Schc01's Industrial Arts It~ pOSitIOn and! at least, give in October 1976 but has not 0), Requested that this behind the Iron Curtain want ty. This visual presentation reo -I 'ld' hiS .representa~lves an oppor. yet been implemented. The subject be placed on the B peace as much as Americans The woman's body was vealed that there was no con. The trio of tracts do not Ul mg. ~umty to explam the proposal plan is aimed at saving The M?nday, February 6, agenda do. The President and his found in the family room, centration of seniors any. average the 37 percent total The vote was taken at the In person. A. spokesman for City about $80,000 a year by Wit h C i t y Administrator wife arrived in Washington next to the garage, while the where in the city. In fact, be c au s e 284 households trustees' Monday, January 9, The 'Y0ods said ~nly that Dr. reducing its manpower reo Chester E. Petersen being Friday night after their ex. daughter's body was diseov. the senior population is haven't been accounted for meeting. Coats. request WIll be on the quirements. asked to seek input and hausting tour. that covered ered in a bedroom late Sat- spre.ad uniformly throughout because certain streets go The study, costing the councIl's Monday, January F' d S specifics from planning con- seven nations. Before leaving the community with Mr. from one tract into another, school $13,000, will be used 16, agenda. 1D ome S~pport . sultant Brandon M. Rogers Europe, he also assured urday morning, January 7. Rogers praising the citizens said Mr. McNamara. to plan a major renovation None of the other councils City Attorney Gl1 Cox said on this question, and to ob- NATO ministers that he They were found by the for their efforts, Based upon the informa.