| Show Tedesco Pleads Pleads Earnestly With Com Commission mission to Stop Wrangling Park Meter Fund Fun Voted Back to Public Safety Unit I Mayor Offers in Effect to Wager On Right to Disputed Cash I City Board Called Laughing Stock The dove of peace somewhat bewildered but making a game gamery try ry fluttered red down to at least a temporary temporary perch in city commission commission commis- commis sion ion chambers Tuesday after a session that eclipsed all others in n verbal fury Before truce was declared there 1 were these developments One One One-A A dynamic pl plea a for unity by year old Commissioner Fred Tedesco who said said we are the laughing stock of of the whole city and that Ill be damned if I will sit here and listen to you wrangle Two An Tso An offer in effect by Mayor May May- or Ab Jenkins' Jenkins to bet with Oscar Commissioner Commissioner Oscar W. W McConkie that he the mayor was right in contending his public safety department department department de de- de- de had been shorted by that amount in the 1942 budget Three An Three An assertion by Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner McConkie long at odds with the mayor that the people are entitled to have public servants who are of higher lineage than incubators of strife Four Four Apparent Apparent settlement of an old squabble over the which by vote of the commission Tuesday was put back in the public safety department af after er having laving been beers transferred to the public affairs and finance department department department depart depart- i ment for employment of civilian to check parking meter violations Tuesdays Tuesday's fuss began after Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner McConkie introduced two letters in reply to a recent statement by the mayor who had asked that the be returned to his budget The sum part of parking meter reven revenue e for weeks has been an issue In his statement the mayor had said that 2000 In 1942 meter mete r revenue revenue estimates estimates' was unaccounted unaccounted unaccounted unac counted for holding th that t budgets accounted for and that 1941 meter income was and that this years year's revenue should be as large Commissioner McConkie in on one e letter Jetter said he was willing to return return return re re- re- re turn the to the public safet safety y department but suggested that civilians civilians civilians ci ci- ci- ci be employed as meter mete r ch checkers Charges Inaccuracies In his second letter he reviewed the meter fund issue pointed to asserted inaccuracies in the mayors mayor's recent statement and de denied nied that 2000 was unaccounted for contending that the in estimated 1942 revenue was based on official estimates by the city auditorI auditor I believe I have corrected inaccuracies inaccuracies inaccuracies in in- accuracies in the mayors mayor's statement statement statement state state- ment ment Commissioner McConkie wrote I have done it in a spirit of kindness for I believe the people people people peo peo- are entitled to have public servants servants servants ser ser- who are of higher lineage than incubators of strife I am capable of understanding there is such a thing as sabotage of human human human hu hu- man energy and I have no intention intention intention tion of busying myself in such a a. cause calise Commissioner Tedesco who was wasa a elect commissioner-elect when the 1942 budget was adopted asked about the money Did it leave a hole in the mayors mayor's budget he asked Commissioner John B. B M Matheson replied I that he understood from Edwin G. G Woolley Jr public safety building manager that the r Y f f. f FRED TEDESCO C Cant nt we stop quarreling sum did not affect the public safety salary budget There it is a difference of opinion opinion ion on Commissioner Tedesco said Commissioner Goggin P. P H. H Goggin Goggin Goggin Gog Gog- gin Commissioner Tedesco's predecessor predecessor pred pred- asked that the parks parka department budget be increased and actually got less than was asked Does that mean there is a hole in my budget Mayor Jenkins then interjected that one trouble has been star chamber hamber sessions designed to crucify crucify crucify cru cru- the public safety department In fact fact he continued the sessions still are going on They held one the other day with the chief of police and discussed the public safety salary budgets There never has nas been a star chamber sessi session n in in my office countered Commissioner McCon McCon- kie Ide After I returned to work after three weeks' weeks absence because of injuries I saw Commissioner Keyser in the treasurers treasurer's office and invited him to my office Later Commissioner Matheson dropped dropp d in Then you the mayor called Commissioner Tedesco and told him a secret meeting was going on in my office I did not shot back Mayor Jenkins Whoever said so is a a. liar Whereupon Commissioner Tedesco interrupted to say The mayor did not call me Then Commissioner Tedesco junior member of the commission who previously had not engaged in table cross-table battles went into action with the same vim he showed when he was an con all f ference rence quarterback at at- atthe the University University University sity of Utah only a decade ago First he pounded the table I think the world of all you men he said I couldn't say anything anything anything any any- thing bad about you if I wanted to Then he turned to Mayor Jen Jep- Jep kins I do not think you are thinking half as well as you can he e said and then repeated the remark to Commissioner Commission r McConkie When it comes down t to it it he added I dont don't believe any of us are are Well Vell began the mayor Wait Vait a. a a minute please Commissioner Commissioner Commissioner Com Com- missioner Tedesco resumed If It you men are not going to be big enough to do this job Ill I'll be damned if I am going to sit here and listen to you wrangle I have havea a job to do Now lets let's let our hair down once more say all we want to and get it over with We Weare Weare Weare are the laughing laughingstock stock of the city I am under a strain none of Us can work Pleads for lor Unity I plead with you four men once and for all and ask and ask yo you to say yes or no now on on the question of ot cant can't we stop this quarreling He pointed his finger direct to-direct the question at Commissioner George D. D Keyser C Certainly replied the latter The inquiring finger turned to Commissioner Matheson Yes replied the latter Commissioner McConkie replied yes in turn Then Commissioner Tedesco turned the question to the mayorI mayor I want to answer some some things before I answer your question the mayor replied Why does big business not have five heads of government instead of one Lets file the letters and give the mayor the and get on our way moved Commissioner Keyser The next two years are going to be the most important in inthe inthe inthe the history of Salt Lake City i |
