THE •DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March 19, 1971-27
Donna Grant Engaged
to Harold A. Rosenblit
MISS DONNA
GRANT
Dr. and Mrs. Abraham H. Grant
of Chatsford Circuit, Southfield,
announce the engagement of their
daughter Donna Beth to Harold
Allen Rosenblit, son of Mr. and
Mrs. George Rosenblit of Highland
Park, Ill.
Miss Grant is a senior at the
University of Michigan. Her fiance
received a BS degree in electrical
engineering at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, where he
was affiliated with Zeta Beta Tau
Fraternity. He is currently doing
graduate work in computer science
at the University of Michigan.
An August wedding is planned.
Knight Studios Win
14 Ribbon Awards
Competing against nearly 200
photographers in the state, the
entries from Leo Knight Studios
in Southfield received 14 ribbon
awards out of - a possible 17 en-
.tered. These award winners
were exhibited recently at the
30th annual Professional Photo-
graphers of Michigan Convention
at the Detroit Hilton Hotel. Dis-
cussing the entries are Knight
(left) and staff members Gene
Butler, Betty Tilwick and Miss
Lzan.
Men's Clubs
BETH SHALOM MEN'S CLUB
will hold an auction of all-new
merchandise 8:30 p.m. March 27
at the synagogue. Proceeds will
help support club activities in the
synagogue. Refreshments will be
served. Friends are invited. Any-
one who wishes to donate items
may call Jack Lovinger, 544-3444.
BNAI DAVID MEN'S CLUB
will hold its annual night of games
"pre-Passover" party 8:30 p.m.
April 1 in the synagogue social
hall. Gifts of turkeys and Passover
food baskets will be awarded. The
public is welcome. There will be
an admission charge.
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New Freedom Shares
Independence Hall Plight Calls Attention
to Need for Hike in Social Security Benefits
By CHARLOTTE DUBIN
Managing an apartment building
for lower-income senior adults is
pretty much like managing any
apartment, Schostak Brothers is
finding out. With a few exceptions.
In most apartments, when the
rent is raised, a tenant can take it
or leave it. Pay up or move out.
But when rising costs forced
Schostak to hike the rent on a
group of units in Independence
Hall, it started a ruckus among
tenants that, for all the heat, re-
sembled a campus demonstration.
Independence Hall is the high-
rise apartment building for senior
adults constructed by Young Israel
with the aid of the federal govern-
ment.
Although it is a private ven-
ture, Independence Hall, under
government regulations, cannot
yield a profit for its owners, In-
dependence Hall Inc. Rents can-
not be raised without the ap-
proval of the Department of
Housing and Urban Develop.
ment, better known as HUD.
Michael Holzman represented
Schostak Brothers at a meeting
last week sought by the tenants.
Also present was Daniel Fenner of
the HUD mortgage servicing de-
partment, who backed Schostak in
his explanation that some rents
were raised to meet expenses and
taxes.
(Thirty-two units were involved.
Those tenants who had moved in
prior to March 1970, were paying
$100—$10 less than the others in
similar units, and now Schostak
was seeking to bring them up to
par. Parking lot fees also were
raised $2.50.)
Aside from the personality clash
between one of the more vocal
tenants and the apartment man-
ager; apart from the demands for
services that aren't affordable on
a low-rent, nonprofit project, the
tragedy of the dispute lies in the
fact that senior adults on a fixed
income cannot cope with a highly
inflationary economy. It brought
home all too clearly the need for
increased Social Security benefits,
approved this week by Congress
and signed Wednesday night by
the President.
If your income is $160 amonth
and you've laid aside $100 for
housing, what happens when your
rent goes up $10 a month? Cut
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down on an already meager food this place, and I don't want to
budget? Or move out? And if the leave my friends. But what hap-
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latter, where?
pens when I can't afford to live
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any
more?"
Rabbi Samuel Prero spent years
and Fine Jewelry
negotiating with the federal gov-
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to build Independence Hall. Several
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Young Israel leaders donated
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money out of their own pockets to
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assure some of the comforts for
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having resulted in a much-
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needed project, many of those
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Holzman estimates that half of
the residents of Independence Hall
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earn what he considers the bare
minimum to get by: $160 a month.
This would cover one month's rent
and $10 a week for food. "We en-
courage them to move in only if
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they can manage on their income,"
Pullets 38c lb.- Springer 33c lb. (fresh daily)
said Holzman. "Some say they get
Rib Steaks $1.09
Side of Beef (Freezer Packed 65c lb.)
help from their children, and they
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do. But in some cases, when we
check with the children, it turns
out they could care less."
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Not all the tenants are finan-
cially hard-pressed. A few are still
working; some have investments.
Only 5 per cent are on some kind
of assistance program other than
Social Security, Holzman esti-
mates.
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He said the only government re-
quirements are that the residents
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be at least age 62 and that they
carry proof of a physician that
they are physically able to care
for themselves. HUD also requires
that there be no discrimination
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as to race.
Of course, what ,Holzman couldn't
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screen out was the small group
who have made life difficult for
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the manager—and for Holzman.
Manager John Jones and his wife
Helen once lived on the premises.
When their eight-hour job became
a 24-hour answering service, they
moved out. But the night phone
calls didn't stop; it was a 23-mile
drive to let in the tenants who had
locked themselves out of their
apartments.
It was agreed that the Joneses
would move back to an apart-
ment on the premises. They've
moved out again. For the same
reason they moved out in the
first place.
To handle the problems of the
tenants on a 24-hour basis, Schos-
tak has hired an assistant man-
ager. Live-in.
When the tenants appealed for
a fence to help curb vandalism in
reg. $66
the parking lot, a $5,000 chain-link
structure was put up, Holzman
Now $33-
said. At the meeting, one tenant
complained that the fence is an
insult to the residents, that it is
ineffective and that only "the
weeds" should have been removed.
In response to another resident,
Holzman assured her that tenants
who cannot pay their rent on time
because of late-arriving Social Se-
curity checks will not be penalized.
Schostak's agent, who is half the
age - of the tenants, makes no at-
tempt to hide his annoyance at
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their complaints, which he says
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are without end and without foun-
white. Tunic jacket covers a
dation.
black and white floral print
He listed improvements that
blouse. Sizes 6 to 14. HURRY,
Schostak
Brothers
has
made
in
MISS KAREN MOSS
LIMITED QUANTITIES!
Mr. and Mrs. J. Harmon Moss the building (extended parking lot
area
and
lighting
and
a
night-
of James Ave., Oak Park, announce
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the engagement of their daughter time security guard), which he
Karen (Kiki) to Bruce James said were made without raising
Sunday for SUPER
Rogovin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Law- the rents.
SAVINGS AND
And he said they would like to
rence Rogvin of Cincinnati.
SURPRISE SAVINGS!
do more—get a jitney for trips to
the grocery store, arrange for
Cantors' Concert Planned park
benches and get the windows
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washed twice a year.-
Conference of Cantors will hold its
"But
we
can't
do
these
things
9 A.M. TO 6 P.M.
first public performance on April
unless we have income," he said,
4 in Alice Tully Hall at 3 P.M.
"and our only income is rent.
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chestra, cantorial and guest solo- How do we pay our bills?"
CHARGE IT !
The heat generated at the meet-
ists, the event will mark the 18th
Security,
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or "Life" anniversary of that or- ing did subside later ; but the
Bank-
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ganization and will benefit the as- issue remains one of income—for
Americard
sociation's apprentice training pro- both sides. "We're really happy
here," said one woman. "I love
gram.
Karen Moss Engaged
to Mr. Bruce Rogovin
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