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No Election Surprises
In Tuesday's Voting

SUSAN GRANT

Staff Writer

S

ales taxes will not be
raised to finance edu-
cational programs in
Michigan following
Tuesday's general election
in which voters soundly
defeated two state proposals.
Proposal A, which would
have increased sales taxes
from 4 percent to 4.5 per-
cent, was expected to raise
about $400 million for
schools. Oakland County
voters joined state voting
patterns, defeating the pro-
posal by a wide margin with
78 percent voting against
Proposal A.
Proposal B fared even
worse in Oakland County
with 89 percent of the voters
defeating the issue.
Proposal B would have in-
creased sales taxes to 6 per-
cent and generated $1.6
billion. Of that, $400 million
would have been earmarked
for schools. The remaining
$1.2 billion would have been
returned to property tax
payers.
Five communities where
many Jews reside were
among the 25 cities in
Oakland County facing
municipal elections.
In Southfield, the three
Southfield City Council in-
cumbents, Peter J. Cris-
tiano, 48, Suzanne Golds-
tein, and Steve Hurite, 66,
easily won re-election to a
four-year term. Challenger
Denise Richman Alexander,
37, received 7,201 votes and
will serve a two-year council
term.
In the race for city
treasurer, incumbent
Roman J. Gronkowski
received 10,034 votes to beat
challenger Thomas F.
Stallworth III, who secured
3,657 votes.
Mayor Donald F. Fracassi
and City Clerk Pat Flannery
were unopposed in their
respective races.
Farmington Hills City
Council incumbents Ben
Marks, 66, and Aldo
Vagnozzi, 64, and challenger
Jon Grant, 37, secured four-
year terms. Challenger
Lawrence A. Lichtman, 31,
won a two-year council term.
Incumbent Philip E. Arnold,
50, lost.
In the second Farmington
Hills council race, Nancy
Bates, 56, beat incumbent
Paul Sowerby, 46 and
challenger Herbert Liner,
69, for a two-year term. The
three candidates sought to

complete the last two years
of former council member
Joe Alkateeb's four-year
term.
Both Farmington Hills
and Farmington voters
defeated two proposals for a
new $14.5 million library. In
Farmington, incumbents
Shirley V. Richardson, 52,
and Richard Tupper, 56, and.
challenger JoAnne.
McShane, 43, beat incium
bent Arnold T. Campbell, 39,
and three challengers.
In Oak Park, voters re-
elected Mayor • Charlotte M.
Rothstein, 64, who was run-
ning against Hershel H.
Goldstein, 47.
Oak Park City Council in-
cumbents Louis Demns, 64,
and Arthur Frohlich, 69,
won re-election. In Hun-
tington Woods, incumbents
Gilda Z. Jacobs, 40, and
Gordon L. Hassig, 69 beat
challenger Donna M. Skelcy,
32.
In Dearborn, which is
thougt to have the largest
Arab population in the world
outside of the Middle East,
Suzanne Sareini was elected
to Dearborn City Council.
She is believed to be the
first Arab-American elected
to the position. ❑

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sentences Monday on 16
counts of murder — one for
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when he seized the steering
wheel of an Egged bus on
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Jerusalem.
The Jerusalem District
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those who survived the car-
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