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...City councilmen and John J. Curry '19, City Manager, have recently challenged Rudolph's traffic policies. "They're hoping I'll get the job done anyway and then they can say I didn't need the extra help in the first place," he complained. He noted that Massachusetts is the 50th state in the Union to pass an anti-jaywalking...
Even under the Senate bill the Democrats will not have a monopoly on local office. Of the 19 city councilmen, five are to be elected at large, and no party may nominate more than three candidates for those seats...
...provision for 14 elections on a ward basis was similarly designed to insure that some white councilmen would be elected. In a city nearly 60 per cent Negro, it was feared, at large elections would produce an all-Negro council...
...however, Yorty expresses paternalistic interest in the city's Negro population but has made little effort to understand its problems or anticipate its difficulties. Though the city's 540,000 Negroes represent more than one-fifth of its population, Yorty has relied mostly on three Negro city councilmen and "a fine group of Negro ministers" to keep him in touch with the Black Channel−which regards Yorty's men as Uncle Toms. As a result, says a Los Angeles Negro psychiatrist, black Angelenos feel that they are victims of "disregard, hypocritical attitudes and paternalism...
...once in office, the new city councilmen began bickering among themselves. For mayor, they picked Juan Cornejo, who made enemies right and left. At one point Cornejo tried to kick out one of his own PASO councilmen, Manuel Maldonado, because he owed $2.98 in back city taxes. A court ruled he could not be fired. Three other councilmen resigned. By the time election rolled around last week Cornejo and Maldonado were the only two PASOs left-and they were hardly in public favor. Crystal Citizens therefore elected a five-man slate put up by the Anglo-organized Citizens' Association...