AN the N.ws of AI the Point.s Every Thursday ~orning rosse Pointe ~ws Compwte News Coverage of All the Pointes E.terN ., Sec..... C:1e •• 114."0' at the JOe P.. COlI' VOL. 37-NO. 46 P.st Office lit I)et,~t, Michl ... GROSSE POINTE, MICHIGAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER II. 1976 $1.00 P.. V.. , 30 Pages-Two Sections-Plus Supplement HEADLINES \ New Officers Elected by Health Education Council Absentee Voters 80 Percellt of the Of Voters WEEK Set New Record Cast Votes As Compiled by the Gros5C Pointe Newi Park Police, Firemen Are In This Election Pleased over Passage of Pension Proposal: Thursday, November 4 Area Votes for GEORGIA GOV. > JIMMY All Pointes Report Heavy Amount of Ballots; CARTER turned to the task liberalized Voting laws Cited GOP Again of forming a Democraiic ad- As Main Reason ministration Wednesday, only B~, George Polgar Jr. hours after clinching his By Susan McDonald Local v 0 t e r s made slendel' victory over Presi. Voting by absentee ballot was at an all-time their customarily heavy dent Gerald Ford in their high in Grosse Pointe in the ree.ent presidential showing at the polls last battle for the White House. election. Almost one of every five Pointe voters week with all of thy Gov. Carter, 'an outsider who were absent on November 4-as compared to just came to power, accepted the Pointes reporting voter" 117 percent in the 1972 presidential election. congratulations and the turnout figures in the promised support of Mr. I The City showed the high. area of 80 percent. Ford. In an appearance in est percentage of absentee At some polling places his hometown of Plains, Ga" ballots at 825 out of 2,923 Judge Gives citizens had to wait in long the president-elect \Said his total votes, a three percent lines to cast their votes, es. i n c r e as e over 1972. The first t'ask must be "the uni- pecially in the morning, while Shores was second at about fication of our country after Decision in other locations r e po r t e d 19 percent. Unofficial Farms a close and hard-fought elec. sporadic 'and even .sparse figures put their absentee traffic throughout the da)'. lion," rate at about 19 percent as City Battle .. In The Park. voters ap. .. well. .J proved one of the ballot prop. Friday, November 5 In The Park, about 18 per. ~efuses to Put Tempo- ositions put before them ~nd CITING ECONOMIC and cent of the 7,500 voters mailed rary Halt to Con sol- rejected a second. whill} environmental concerns, the in their selections, as. did Shores voters returned two State Highway Commission about 17 percent in The idetion Plan But unopposed slales of officials has decided to cut back on Woods. Warns Against for new terms. the use of s-alt to get ice off Need Extra Time' Implement.tion Michigan's highways this ,. On Proposition One, an Most city officials attribute amendment to the city char. winter. The new policy will New officers of the Grosse Pointe Health retarYj HELEN MEYERING, president; MARI- the increase to the liberalized By Susan McDonald mean lSomewhat more in- ter .which would rai.se the Education Council, who were selected at a re- LYN DOYAL, vice-presidentj and JOHANNA absentee voting Jaws. In 1972 Both sides of the union- pension beneiits of Park po- convenience in driving dur- the eligible age for absentee cent'mee'ting are, (from left to right), BETTY GILBERT, recording secretary. The 150-member management battle over lice and firemen from 1.7 to ing storms, especially on ballots was lowered from 65 lightly traveled roads, ac. SCHNEIDER, co-treasurer; JUANITA GAYNOR, organization was founded in 1945 to serve the consolidation of police two percent, Park voters to 62 years, In .1974 it was voted "ycs" by a 72 to 28 cording to JIighway Depart- I treasurer; PEGGY BROWN, corresponding sec- health education needs of all five Grosse Pointes. and fire forces in The lowered again to 6O'years-old. percent ,margin. ment off i cia 1 s. Martin City claimed a victory In addition, City Manager Diamond Defealed O'Toole, assistant to the de- p ze' S k Thomas Kressbach pointed in Wayne County Circuit Police and firefighters in partment's engineer of main. 0 lce ee Harl-owing Expel.ience, Land Sought to the inconvenience of long Court Monday, Novem- tenance, said the new salt The Park are pleased by the lines at area schools and the ber 8, as Judge Irwin H. success of the proposal which policy is not expected to reo Attacker increasingly compUcated bal. suIt in more accidents this of In Russia Recounted By Seniors Burdick refused to put a they interpret '8S a mandatc Jots that may bekeepiDg citi. temporary halt to the of support and satisfactlon winter. The department is P k L d zens away from voting booths. hoping .to cut back on salt proposed consolidation. with' the jobs they are doing. ar a y With dozens items on use by 10 percent and save By Pointe Tour Group For Housing ot Before making his decision, "We have certainly gotten most baUota, many dUui1& taxpar~rs _al.!9!l~,~ ~i9P" _ . however, ,J:udae ..llurdielt did enco\\r~iel'l\ent . {rom the reo She SuU~'r, Approx1- Waf 'MetnorialVfsitofs sttsre Chilling Moments Woods Commls$ion feelthe1 he6dthe exf,fa't1m, Diet I promiae Irom city sull. of the election.Hearn- . " . at home to .tudy tile .hee". 'It'illnled .Otncer ~flch,.. l:J1'or. Saturday, November I after Hotel Catl:h ..s Fire; One Traveler In- .Uor~ey. not to impIeml!n~ mately 40 Abrasions: M.kes iud for I:'rop- What may be moJ1tl' COD. their pIall in any way that tas, president of the Grosse bN~MPLOYMEN'IYJ$'.st!l! Intensive Investiga- -c jured but 56,Other:s'ij\emain. Unscathed ,erty Ow~ed by Mrs. venient for eitizeni, thoqgb, woutd alter the working con. Pointe P,ark Police Officers going'up, in c rea s in g the gationContinues By GeOrge Polgar Jr. Edsel B. Ford for ha~ cauJ~ IOnie admlnIs. ditlons of the firefighters un. Association, (GPPPOA). "It chances of a federal tax cut tr.tive problems in cUy of- Ul arbitration proceedings ia nice to know we have such next year. New government Fifty-seven Pointers, who were roused from Complex fices. The lncreused number with that group are com. firm support from the citl. figures issued Friday showed Mystified Park police their early morning slumber late last month when of absentee ballots puts an pleted. zens and I suppose the only that the nation's unemployed By Roger A. Waha are still investigating an fire swept through the National hotel where they extra strain on clerk staffs It could be as long as three thing we can say is, 'thank rate increased to 7,9 percent unprovoked assault on a were staying in Moscow, have returned from The Woods Senior Cit- as they aU must be counted to four months before a de. you.' " in October. It was the fourth Park woman in her home Russia with love and some love lost. izens Commission has by hand, Mr. Kressba,ch said. clsion Is handed down by the Firelighter Marly Buss rise in the last five months, I;ou.,er to Count arbitrator, according to fire. echoed these sentiments on and provided fresh evidence on Tuesday, November According to John Lake, expressed an interest in Shores Viii age Superln. fighters' attorney E u g e n e behalf of his colleagues, say. that the economy is stagnat- 2. The woman, name and executive director of the War "Our situation was le!>3 Mrs. Edsel B. Ford's tendent Thomas K. Jefferis Bolanowski. Ing that the passage of the ing. Th.e announcement of address withheld, suf. Memorial, which sponsored critical than that of some property, in the event had a similar problem No- proposal was the result o( a the joblessness increase fol. fered around 40 superfi- the trip, he was awakened at othcr members o( the tour some land becomes avail- Views Intention vember 4. strong, joint elfort by both lowed' President-elect Jimmy cial cuts, categorized by about 5 a.m. because his who were trapped in '8. sepa- able, as a potential site In the meantime, the city groups ,and primarily the Carter's statement that he Chief Henry Coonce as room seemed very warm. rate section of the third for a housing complex "It's like going back to the is not in any way to change support of t,l1e citizens. might attempt to counter mostly scra(ches and "Then ,as I was getting up, days of paper ballots," he the wages, hours or working floor." for all Pointe seniors. said. "Even though I had a On the second Park propo. e con 0 m i c sluggishness by abrasions, after being at- I heard the person in the next conditions of the firemen. Three couples from the In a letter mailed last week great crew of workers, they Judge Burdick warned that sltion, which would have asking Congress for a tax cut tacked b yam ale room banging on the wall tour, the Griffiths, the Scullys to J. S. Peters, office man. in January. take much longer to count U he is notified of any such called for the construction of intruder. saying that the hotel was on and the Aronsons, were stay- ager, estate of Mrs. Ford, and can really slow things change, "I will have an in.