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EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Tburi., Mar. 21. 1963 Page 7A Freeway Jammed, Air Smoggy'Now Mayor, Council at It Tooth and Nail By DIAL TORGERSON Are there mysterious slush funds? Who makes money because householders have to sort and store old tin cans for a month at a time? It's a classic case of a mayor vs. the city council. On one side is handsome, ag gressive Samuel W. Yorty, 53, not yet halfway through his first four-year term. On the other side is the city council 14 men, 1 young wo man. Its cliques shift member ship like kids playing touch football, but the majority al ways seems to agree on one alignment: anti-Yorty. Munici pal offices are non-partisan. The breakdown in relations has its basis in the city charter. It gives the mayor few powers, the council many. Yorty is de termined to be a strong mayor. People are getting shouting mad. One councilman, Karl Bundberg, called Yorty "the most pompus man I have ever met in my life." And Bundberg used to be a Yorty friend. What changed him? k "Rubbish," said Yorty at a recent news conference. "He changed suddenly after the rub bish matter came up." Rundberg hinted the mayor was a fringe paranoid. Said Yorty of his former supporter: "He's a bit erratic and un stable. He may be back on my side tomorrow." For the first time anyone can recall, a Los Angeles mayor is going to the voters to campaign for city council candidates who will back him in the council. The council says Yorty wants to boss a Tammany Hall-type machine so he can run the city. Council members hint at ulte rior motives and mutter darkly about a recall action against Yorty. Yorty .and his backers de scribe the struggle as a sort of morality play good government against bad government in which the mayor is in the right. Yorty cites the garbage prob lem: vate firm a contract to pick up tin cans, the cans are only picked up once a month and the housewives have to wash out the cans and store them until the pick-up day. "The small amount the com pany pays the city tor salvaging the cans isn't worth the incon venience to the housewives. I favor a weekly combined trash pickup. "This contract which was spotlight on them." The mayor's talk of lobbyists' shadowy figures in city hall al so infuriated the council mem bers. Rosalind Weiner Wyman who was called "the world's cutest councilman" when she was elected 10 years ago at 22 challenged Yorty to a lobbyist count. He gets three times more lobbyists than the council does," she said. "Because of the num ber of lobbyists going into Yorty's office, he can raise a slush fund the likes of which will never be equaled." The mayor says that oil, real estate, hotel, railroads and lumber lobbies actively woo city council members, keeping ui u AuocUtcd Prau , LOS ANGELES Wv .Los Angeles, beset with freeway traffic you frequently can out walk and smog so thick you can hide a city in it, has just what it doesn't need: A new problem. Things are in an uproar at city hall. Some say the mayor has given the city council 60 days to get out The council has its own plans for the mayor: something along the lines of annihilation. Voters, watching key legisla tion founder among the epi thets, are trying to puzzle out answers to questions like these: Do shadowy figures lurk in city hall corridors? the body from taking respon sible action on many important Issues. He advocates rewriting the city charter to give some coun cil responsibilities to the exe cutive department. He also wants to make council membership a part-time occupa tion, attracting "civic leaders instead of paid, professional politicians." The councilmen are paid $12,000 a year full time. (The mayor makes $25, 000. He's full time, too.) When Yorty began to make Doomsday plans for his coun cil members, they dropped a blockbuster of their own. cated when members were elected to Congress. The coun cil agreed to leave them va cant until the April 2 primary. Then, in an action which even crucht a couple of councilmen by surprise, they voted to fill the two joos with Interim ap pointees. One is the first Negro to sit on the council. The other is a fire captain. This gives Yorty an uphill fight in his battle to change the council membership. But he's a man who obviously isn't afraid of a fight. "I'm not worried about a re call movement," he said. "As long as I can appeal to the peo ple, I have nothing to fear." voted by the council before I came into office is to expire in June. The can company is lobbying with the council to get it to continue the contract. The council was hoping to make a quiet vote on it and renew the contract when I turned the Because the city gave a pri two council seats were va I IJllVQVrTV'C ri Savings continue! Shop Penney's! Charge it! to 5:30 p.m.; Friday 'til 9 p.m. I .24t V, .. I 1 I ' I 1- W.0f i 7 ton of styles and col- - 9 Eivl'c CnVltlft TtlKO 1 I I I rtoiwi!. 11 ors. Washable. 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