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...response to complaints from members of the Cambridge Tenants Union (CTU), City Manager Robert W. Healy sent a letter to Jacqueline T. Rickard, asking her to explain her activities at 52-54 Fairmont...
...January, an official of the city's rent control board ruled that Rickard had illegally converted the building from five rent-controlled units into two condominiums and recommended that the board pursue criminal charges against...
...letter to Healy, CTU Co-Chairs Michael H. Turk and Robert O. Edbrooke charged that Rickard's activity at 52-54 Fairmont was only a small part of a trend, "whereby Ms. Rickard...acquires and moves into a rent controlled property and decontrols it...and moves on to the next property...
Some shopkeepers sensed an instant reaction last week. Helen Rickard owns the Olive Tree, a clothing and gift store in Rockford, Ill. "I find people coming through here and looking and saying 'Just browsing, thank you,' " she says. "It used to be that at this time of year they would at least try things on and put things on layaway to pick up as Christmas presents. But now everybody's apprehensive about turning loose their dollars." She estimates that her sales last week fell by 25% to 30%. "If it's a soft Christmas, I'm in trouble...
...Rickard's parishioners, Lu Ryden, was elected to the San Jose city council in 1980 and last year successfully sponsored a law that required sex magazines to be placed behind opaque shields on newsstands. Says she: "We as Christians have stood aside and let other people make the rules. It got so out of hand, we said enough is enough." Another Los Gatos member, Police Lieutenant Richard Couser, 34, won a seat on the regional school board...