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A I A I a 1 0 Des Plaines, Illinois 60016 Monday, July 10, 1972 2 Sections, 20 Pages Home Delivery 55c a week-- lOc a copy Property Tax Assessment Review Due Soon A review of property tax assessments in East Maine Elementary Dist. 63 will be completed by the end of this month, a spokesman for Cook County Assessor P. J. Cullertott said last week. The review was promised in April, after complaints from Dist.

63 officials that several large shopping and apartment complexes are undervalued for tax purposes by more than $16 million dollars. from the alleged under- assessments on such properties as Golf Mill shopping center, Golf Rond and Milwaukee Avenue, and North Shore Trace apartments on Golf Road, have been costing Dist, 6.1 some $349.600 a year in tax revenues, school officials have charged. If the Dist. 63 charges are correct, tax losses to Dist. 63, Maine Township High School Dist.

207 and Oakton Community College would total almost $800,000 each year. DENNIS director of communications for Cullerton, last week said the assessor's office is reviewing tax valuations on 35 properties listed in Dist. 63 complaints. Owners will be notified early next month of any changes in assessments of their properties and will be given 10 days to object, Dunne said. Police Still Searching For Rapist Des Plaines police searched during the weekend for a man who broke into a local home early Friday morning and forced a woman out into the backyard where he raped her, The man, who police believe was also responsible for a rape attempt last Wednesday night involving another local housewife, entered the woman's home at about 2 a.m.

Friday and accosted her in a downstairs family room where she had fallen asleep. The woman told police the man threatened her with a knife he had taken from a kitchen drawer and forced her into the backyard, where he raped her. After the assailant fled, the woman told her husband, who had been sleeping upstairs, and then called police, who searched the area for the attacker with no results. According to reports, the rapist entered the home through an unlocked door between the house and garage. Police believe the man is the same one who attempted to rape a Des Plaines woman at her home last Wednesday night but was scared off after the woman's son was awakened by her screams.

Her husband was not at home at the time. Dist. 63, which has nine elementary and two junior high schools, has been taxing at its current maximum allowable rate in recent years, District officials brought complaints of underassessments to the county board of appeals last year, but their charges were dismissed by the board, Dunne said earlier this year that the assessments on the property involved were "legitimate" at the time they were made. He noted that valuation for tax purposes is lower than market value but generally is not supposed to go below 20 per cent of market value for properties such as shopping centers. In addition to Golf Mill and North Shore Trace, Dist.

63 has charged that the Key West and Kingston apartment complexes on Golf Road west of Golf Mill and the Dempster Plaza shopping center at Dempster Street and Greenwood Avenue are also undervalued for tax purposes. According to school officials, the land at Golf Mill is assessed at $20,000 an acre for tax purposes, which Dist. 63 says is only $2,000 more an acre than its assessment 10 years ago. They charge that the land's market value is indicate by the sale of similar land across Milwaukee Avenue recently for $125,000 an acre. Dist.

63, which hired an appraiser to determine its version of the market value of the properties involved, says the separately-assessed Sears Roebuck and Co. store at Golf Mill is valued at $1,641,981 for tax purposes, too far below the $9,444,000 market value placed on it by the school appraiser. campaign Bob Lahey's Convention Report INSTRUCTOR MIKE ZADEL helps a nine-year-old Irict. Approximately 1 1 5 kids from Mount Pros- Zadel is a gymnastics instructor at Prospect High student in the summer trampoline and tumbling pect and Des Plaines are enrolled in the course. School, class sponsored by the Mount Prospect Park Dis- Dunne Reassigns Wheel Tax Revenue Turn To Page 2 by ROGER CAPETTINI A major factor in the law suit challenging the Cook County wheel tax may have been eliminated from future consideration Friday when County Pres.

George W. Dunne announced the revenue from the tax would be earmarked for the sheriff's department. Dunne made the announcement during a rescheduled county board meeting Friday after the board heard the protests of a taxpayers group opposed to the controversial tax. About 75 county residents from Rich, Bloom, Thornton and Bremen townships, represented by the South Cook County Taxpayers Protest Association, appeared "at the meeting. The wheel tax, enacted by the county board in late December, is similar to what is commonly called the "vehicle sticker" tax in 125 of the 126 villages and cities in Cook County.

THE TAX originally was to have taken effect early in the year, but the deadline was extended several times by the coun ty board. For most automobiles, the would be $10 to $15. Rates for trucks are computed on a sliding scale. As the vehicle tax effective within the incorporated municipalities applies to only residents of the respective communities, the Cook County tax applies only to residents of unincorporated areas. That aspect of the tax represents a major objection voiced by residents of the unincorporated areas, and is one of the major points raised in a class action suit challenging the tax ordinance.

In April a suit was filed on behalf of the Prospect Heights Improvement Association CPHIA) and the Cook County School Bus of unincorporated Elk Grove Township. i challenges constitutionality of the tax in that the tax applies only to residents of unincorporated area a discriminatory application, according to the suit. THOSE OPPOSED to the tax have also objected on the grounds that when the tax was adopted by the county board, it was specified that the revenues gained from the tax would be placed into the county's general corporate fund. Monies in that fund are used county-wide both i incorporated and unincorporated areas. At the time of adoption, County Comr.

Floyd T. Fulle of Des Plaines voted against the tax because he said he believed placing the revenue in the corporate fund was unconstitutional. At Friday's board meeting, Dunne heard objections to the tax from several spokesmen from the south suburban protest group, who repeated the objections mentioned in the suit and complained about the lack of services they receive. The complaints centered on the service from the county highway department and the sheriff's department. Spokesmen for the group said they were not completely opposed to the tax, but said if it stands, it should be applied to everyone in the county and the revenue derived should be used only for the unincorporated areas.

They also objected to the amount of the tax. In answer to their objections Dunne said he would instruct the county comptroller to establish a special fund for the money gained from the tax. Dunne said the money will be earmarked exclusively for the sheriff's department. THE COUNTY board president said that while original estimates of the revenues from the tax approximated $1.4 million, latest calculations indicate the county will receive only about $600,000. Dunne was quick to point out that because of the suit, all revenues currently being received as a result of the tax are being placed into an escrow account, pending the outcome of the pending litigation.

Dunne explained that if the tax is upheld by the county circuit court, the money will be placed in the special account. If the tax ordinance is ruled'ille- gal, he said, the money will be returned to those residents who have paid the tax. He could offer no explanation as to what, if any, effect an overturning of the ordinance might have on persons who have been fined for not paying tne tax. This Morning In Brief The Nation Democratic national chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien ruled, that 120 California delegates committed to Sen.

George S. McGovern will be eligible to vote in a a could determine McGovern's chances for the nomination After the party's credentials committee stripped McGovern of 151 of the 271 California votes he won in the state's winner-take-all primary, there had been some question whether anyone from a challenged delegation would be able to vote on a challenge involving his state. Armed with about 200 "swing" votes, Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine came under growing pressure to throw his support to Sen.

George McGovern in tonight's all-important convention showdown over California. Responding to a list of foreign policy questions, McGovern said he believes that President Nixon will continue the same policies that led to U.S. involvement in Vietnam even if he succeeds in ending the Indochina War. The trial of Daniel Ellsberg and codefendant Anthony J. Russo opens today in the Pentagon Papers case after weeks of pretrial maneuvering.

Jury selection is expected to last at least a week. Scientists and amateur astronomers will be watching today as a total eclipse darkens the sun from Siberia east along a narrow strip of northern Alaska and Canada to the Atlantic Ocean. In the rest of the U.S. the eclipse will range from 90 per cent total in Boston to 14 per cent total in San Francisco. The World Challenger Bobby Fischer's favorite chair arrived by air freight from New York to help assure the American's comfort in his match with Russian Boris Spassky for the world chess championship The first of 24 -scheduled games is to be played tomorrow.

Israeli troops put final security touches to a section of an army camp near Tel Aviv for today's opening of the trial of a Japanese terrorist charged in the Lod airport massacre May 30. Four execution-style killings in Belfast and a clash between British troops and Roman Catholics in Portadown marked the start of Northern Ireland's annual week of Protestant Orange Order parades The British army said it was dispatching 500 more troops to the country. Secretary of State William P. Rogers conferred with Yugoslav President Tito, ending a mission to East Europe to demonstrate U.S. support for independent policies in the Communist world.

The War Vietnamese paratroopers launched their first attacks to clear Communist troops from the provincial capital of Quang Tri, and engaged its defenders in intense fighting. Field officers said that after half a day of battling neither side had given any ground. The Weather Temperatures from around the nation: High Low Atlanta 80 61 Boston 1 73 59 Denver 89' 4g Detroit 75 51 Houston So 68 Los Angeles 90 '(56 Miami Beach 84 77 New Orleans 87 70 New York 79 61 Phoenix 107 82 St. Louis SO 60 Salt Lake City 95 66 San Francisco 61 53 Seattle 69 48 Washington 76 60. Baseball American League WHITE SOX 5, Detroit 4 Kansas City 6, Cleveland 4 New York 9, Minnesota 6 National League CUBS 5-10, Cincinnati 0-5 San Diego 5, Philadelphia 4 San Francisco 5, Montreal 1 Los Angeles 2, New York 0 Pittsburg 7, Atlanta 4 On The Inside Sect.

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