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Eight of the nine Councilmen are running for re-election, the exception being Hyman Pill, who is retiring. Councilor Charles Watson predicted that all eight would be re-elected and that Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler would be elected to fill Pill's seat. Alfred Vellucci said flatly, "I will be re-elected in a landslide...
...plea favoring PR, Councilor Joseph DeGuglielmo '29 claimed that the abolition group, headed by former Democratic State Chairman Charles H. McGlue, is not making "an honest attempt," but is trying to create a "smokescreen to hide the clear-cut School Committee issue...
McGlue, a long-time foe of PR, is trying, according to DeGuglielmo, to interfere with Cambridge home rule and to change democracy to communism. The councilor said that McGlue had even tried to "halt the election" through petitions to the courts...
...Councilor Charles A. Watson followed DeGuglielmo in a speech attacking PR. Watson scored the Cambridge Civic Association for "capitalizing on this un-American way of voting," which, he claimed, is based largely on emotional appeal
Conservationists, and those of Cambridge who "just like the outdoors," as Mrs. Pearl K. Wise, CCA-endorsed City Councilor, expressed it, are opposing this development on the grounds that the area is a necessary part of Cambridge...