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Thursday, July 28, 1977 (C) 3A<br />

CUT-THROAT CAPITALISTS<br />

Fortunes won and lost by toss of the dice<br />

By DENNIS O'CONNOR<br />

Some liked the "yellow" properties,<br />

some liked the "red." and others<br />

were content to raise money on the<br />

railroads and utilites.<br />

But whatever strategy prevailed,<br />

everyone agreed that the first annual<br />

Monopoly tournament in the<br />

Plymouth-<strong>Canton</strong> community was<br />

nothing but fun<br />

"We set up the tournament so<br />

adults and children could have some<br />

fun playing Monopoly," said Ken<br />

Bjornbak of the Family Emporium<br />

Staff photos<br />

by<br />

Gary Caskey<br />

"We called Parker Brothers, distributors<br />

of the game, and they told us<br />

about the sanctioned tournament they<br />

have around the country.<br />

"We didn't even know about a national<br />

tournament."<br />

Bjornbak hosted the district tourney<br />

at the Penniman Avenue game store<br />

last Saturday And for a first-year<br />

event. Bjornbak could not have been<br />

more pleased, since nearly 60 Monopo<br />

ly players, the majority of which<br />

were children, came to compete<br />

Jerry Geretschlager. 17, a German<br />

foreign exchange student living with<br />

the Scott family of Amhurst Court in<br />

Plvmouth. won the championship and<br />

a brand-new 50 Monopoly board<br />

Geretschlager also won the right to<br />

compete in the resional tourney in<br />

Houston next month but won't play<br />

since he returned to his homeland earlier<br />

tlis week<br />

After landing on an opponent's property, Mark Pinto pays up. John Mester, 13, reaches for a Chance card.<br />

Fire tax is reduced<br />

<strong>Canton</strong> taxpayers will<br />

y one-fourtn of a mill<br />

ess for fire protection<br />

this year<br />

Township board members<br />

Tuesday slashed a<br />

quarter mill (25 cents<br />

per $1,000 state equalized<br />

value) from last<br />

year's township-wide tax<br />

levy of 1 1 2 mills for fire<br />

protection<br />

Under the 1977-78 tax<br />

levy of 1'4 mills, owners<br />

of a $40,000 home will<br />

spend $25 to support the<br />

fire department—$5 less<br />

than they paid last year<br />

<strong>Canton</strong> deputy treasurer<br />

Mike Gorman said<br />

the reduction was made<br />

possible by an expected<br />

decrease in the fire department'sexpenditures<br />

Although the reduction<br />

of a quarter mill means<br />

$56,750 less revenue, Gorman<br />

savs the 1977-78 fire<br />

budget of $283,750 should<br />

allow township officials<br />

to make up almost<br />

$100,000 of the $116,714<br />

deficit the fire depart<br />

ment incurred last year<br />

The fire department's<br />

1978-79 budget will have<br />

to compensate for the remaining<br />

deficit of almost<br />

$17,000<br />

According to Gorman,<br />

the deficit in the fire department's<br />

1976-77 budget<br />

resulted from construction<br />

of the township's<br />

second fire station<br />

Completion of the<br />

station allows for the<br />

millage reduction<br />

"I believe by keeping<br />

expenditures down, we<br />

can make up the small<br />

deficit and save the taxpavers<br />

some money."<br />

Supervisor Harold Stein<br />

2 women hurt in crash<br />

A head-on two-car collision on Warren<br />

west of Cowan in Westland Monday<br />

afternoon hospitalized one <strong>Canton</strong><br />

woman and injured another<br />

Susan Desmyter. 17. of 8307 Orhan.<br />

in <strong>Canton</strong> is listed in good condition in<br />

Wayne County General Hospital<br />

Sherry Pinko. 20. of 8188 Fawn, in <strong>Canton</strong><br />

also was treated and released<br />

There were no other passengers and<br />

no witnesses, according to Westland<br />

police, who said Ms. Desmyter was issued<br />

a ticket for drivine " ' 'iR : left lef of cen<br />

ter<br />

"She was injured tne most and<br />

we didn't<br />

Westland olice Officer Walter<br />

Rozen. Police have dropped further investigation<br />

According to Rozen. a 1969 Chevrolet<br />

driven westbound on Warren by<br />

Ms. Desmyter crossed the center line<br />

and collided with a 1970 Monte Carlo<br />

driven eastbound on Warren by Ms<br />

Pinko. Both cars were demolished in<br />

the accident<br />

Police statistics show the accident<br />

rate in Westland is up somewhat for<br />

the first six months of this year compared<br />

with last year From January<br />

through June, police in Westland recorded<br />

1.318 accidents, up from the<br />

figure of 1.164 recorded for the same<br />

six-month period in 1976<br />

'Dream House 9 hopes<br />

turn into legal nightmare<br />

(Continued from page 1A)<br />

is! justified, the <strong>builder</strong> must repair<br />

the defect in five days. If he does not.<br />

a complaint will be forwarded to the<br />

Michigan Department of Licensing<br />

and Regulation for further action<br />

»Tm willing to do everything I can<br />

to, help the homeowner." Stein said.<br />

wouldn't want to be in a box like<br />

9ome residents are now."<br />

kUMMERT. A TANGLEWOOD resident<br />

with a lien on his home, admits<br />

that "box" is not too pleasant.<br />

{Uthouth the Tanglewood Homeowners<br />

Association has filed a suit in<br />

Wlyne County Circuit Court to force<br />

mortgage and title insurance com-<br />

1 pahies to pay the liens and stop foreclosure<br />

proceedings, Kummert admits<br />

homeowners are afraid of losing their<br />

homes.<br />

Residents would lose all or most of<br />

their down payments, he said, if mortgages<br />

are foreclosed and the houses<br />

sold at public auction since ^he mortgages<br />

and liens would be paid off<br />

first.<br />

"As the song goes, no one knows<br />

the troubles I've seen," said Kummert.<br />

"You save money. You build<br />

your dream house Then something<br />

like this happens that certainly takes<br />

the joy out of owning a home."<br />

According to Kummert, one Tanglewood<br />

resident has even suffered a<br />

nervous breakdown over the matter.<br />

"There's certainly been a lot of anxiety<br />

in our subdivision," he said. "If I<br />

had it to do all over again, Pd think<br />

twice before buying a new home."<br />

said at Tuesday's meeting<br />

Board members unanimously<br />

approved the millage<br />

reduction after holding<br />

a public hearing on<br />

the fire budget The few<br />

persons who spoke at<br />

the hearing said they<br />

were in favor of any tax<br />

reduction<br />

All this<br />

and a clean<br />

windshield<br />

loo?<br />

Do you want to cure<br />

baldness'.' Or a cold 7<br />

Make yourself healthy,<br />

courageous or strong?<br />

Cure poison ivy? Keep<br />

your car windshield free<br />

from frost'.'<br />

People have claimed<br />

at one time or another<br />

that onions would do all<br />

of these things.<br />

We aren't making any<br />

such claims for the ordinary<br />

onion, but they are<br />

worth mentioning since<br />

they have been around<br />

for thousands of years.<br />

Historians speculate that<br />

the first onions grew in<br />

the middle Asian countries<br />

and spread both<br />

east and west, finally<br />

coming to the New<br />

World with the Spanish<br />

explorers. Today Americans<br />

eat more than 13<br />

pounds of onions each<br />

year for every man, ,<br />

woman and child in the<br />

country<br />

Onions don't have to<br />

be seasoning all the<br />

time. They make great<br />

vegetables dishes, too.<br />

Creamed, or braised,<br />

baked or French fried,<br />

they are equally delicious.<br />

<strong>Canton</strong><br />

©barber<br />

HOME DELIVERY SERVICE<br />

Newsstand per copy 25'<br />

Carrier monthly $1 00<br />

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Geretschlager is no stranger to the<br />

winner's circle in Monopoly competition<br />

"I've been plaMing this game for<br />

about 13 years," said the German<br />

player "It's mostly luck, but I<br />

haven't lost a game in five years In<br />

Germany, the board is a little different,<br />

but it's basically the same<br />

game."<br />

The final round of four players in<br />

eluded two bankrupts which ended the<br />

competition Bob Mester finished second,<br />

Dorie McCubbrey was third and<br />

John Kummer ended fourth<br />

The first-round included a 90-mmute<br />

short-form of the game The top 12<br />

persons with the most assets advanced<br />

to the second round before the<br />

final four battled for the championship<br />

Most of the children who entered<br />

considered the tourney a fun idea and<br />

something different to do But there<br />

were others who took the game se-<br />

riously—despite admitting lots of luck<br />

was needed to win<br />

In fact. 17-year-old Jeff Ivey<br />

brought a book called "1.000 Ways to<br />

Play Monopoly " He admitted one had<br />

to be "out for blood" in tournament<br />

play<br />

"I've read this book three times."<br />

Ivey said "The best strategy is to<br />

soak up all the houses Your best offense<br />

will be your best defense "<br />

Bnan Flynn, 13. had a different<br />

view of the game.<br />

"I entered because I thought it<br />

would be a fun tournament." Flynn<br />

said "I try to buy the yellow properties<br />

because it's not expensive and<br />

everyone lands on it "<br />

Kummer. 9 was the biggest surprise<br />

as the fourth place finisher<br />

"We always play in my neighborhood."<br />

he said "i like to play this<br />

game "<br />

When asked how long he has played<br />

Monopoly. Kummer calmly said "Oh<br />

for about one month "<br />

A number of competitors gathered for the first annual Plymouth<br />

<strong>Canton</strong> Monopoly Tournament.<br />

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