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BORN: Feb. 14, 1929, Walsenburg, Colo. EDUCATION: Los Angeles Trade-Technical College, 1959 FAMILY: Wife, Elvira Yorba; five children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Marines, 1947-50 OCCUPATION: Upholstery-company owner POLITICAL CAREER: Monterey Park mayor, 1974-75; California Assembly, 1981-82; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 732, Alhambra...
...Brooms. A dozen women, fed up with the male politicos who had increased municipal debt while letting the town decay, formed their own "United for Walsenburg" party, drafted a stern austerity platform calling for prompt payment of the town's debts and no salaries for the mayor and town council. The women pored over civics textbooks, stormed into meetings of the all-male city council, journeyed to Denver to seek advice from Democratic Governor Stephen McNichols. Though Walsenburg had never before elected a woman to any office, the United party put up a slate of seven of them, recruited...
...people of Walsenburg saw the light. Last November they elected six of the seven women candidates-three to the top city jobs of mayor, city clerk, treasurer, and three others to the eight-member city council (where the women, though outnumbered 5 to 3 by men, usually manage to get their way because two of the men support their reforms). Taking office in January, City Clerk Doris Caine, 26, widowed mother of two children, found a disorder that shocked her womanly eyes: sheets were missing from city ledgers, texts of some city ordinances were gone, and some city financial transactions...
Sweeping Clean. Under Mayor Ethel Stacy, wife of a retired rancher, the women briskly set about cleaning up the mess. By delaying municipal paychecks, the women wiped out Walsenburg's $5,333.75 debt of back taxes owed to the state...
...city street sweeper, voting down the scheduled purchase of a new police car and a street-cleaning machine (under the new regime, inmates of the city jail sweep the streets). Serving without pay themselves, the women slashed the salary of City Attorney Angelo Mosco, long a political power in Walsenburg, from $1,744.50 to $800 a year. Mosco brought charges of malfeasance against Mayor Stacy & Co. in the state district court, lost his case. Some months later, the women of Walsenburg dealt Mosco an even unkinder cut: they asked him to serve without any salary at all, and. then, when...