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
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, 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
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