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Show SUNDAY HERALD; Charter Commissioner Answers Critic of Document SUNDAY JUNE 26, 1955 Utah County Utah Proposed Charter Protects, Strengthens Democratic Process, Assures Efficiency By PARLEY A. OIRISTENSEN Member of Charter Commission In opposing Mark Anderson on the city charter question, I should like to say that for him personally and for his views in public issues 13 TO could well be that the $45.57 rep oLbusiness management, and rec resents a wiser and, in the long ommend that the power of the run, a more economicalexpen managerial expert be distributed The Editor Charter Can Be India Asked to Handle Return of 3 American GIs -- The NEW DELHI, India (UP) Indian . Red Cross has been asked to handle the return from Red China of three' former American soldiers and two Belgians who have decided to give up life under Communism, It was announced Chinese Red Cross. They added they had informed Peiping they were willing to take up the matter but could not proceed without the consent of the U.S. government The Indian Red Cross, therefore, has informed the American Red Saturday.. Indian Red Cross authorities Cross and has asked it to obtain said the request was made by the j permission of the U.S. government Indian- - Red Cross societies - werV ' for India to act as intermediary making the arrangements. were in 'the exchange, the officials The Americans listed as Lewie Grigg, 23, - Jacksonville, said. Officials said ' ho American re Tex., Otho G. Bell, 24, Olympiad and William A. Cowart, 23, ply had1 been received up to this Wash., of Dalton, Ga. The Belgians wert mornings On receipt of U.S. pert.. Louis Verdyck - and Roger mission, they said, India wQl in . , fa form the Peiping Communist gov ernment which will then hand over the five men to Indian authorities. It was learned the five former Korean prisoners of war would be CHRYSLER sent to Hong Kong where they wul be handed over to an American -- Says diture than the $25. Similarly, among the honest and dependable when he reports that Lakeland, members of the board of direc Amended Easier Than Florida, has a bonded indebted- tors? Commissioner Setup I have always had the greatest ness of $47Q per capita "as against Trend Toward Manager No Need for City respect. I should always rather Provo's per capita dept of 517 , But perhaps the best teacher Editor Herald: Dwellers to be with him than against him he, is again obscuring the sig in this matter of city governam like citizens I that One of the most satisfactory nificant question. glad ment is experience. So the best Stretch Muscles memories of my life in Provo re to ask; is probably this: Mr. Dudrey are reading the pro Asks Question question a representative. for democratic calls the years during which I Could he show that Provo has In cities comparable in size posed charter IS RED LOS ANGELES (UP- )- Dr. Lau A SALT CITY LAKE (UP) Peiping Radio, in a broadcast council-managof form governwas permitted to play a minor to seems what Provo as much to show for and situation Salt Lake City girl finally rence E. Morehouse, UCLA physi heard in Toyko, said the five part in Mayor Anderson's untir relatively Lafceiana to be the prevailing experience ment for Provo City. as has indebtedness its up 25 cents Friday. She cal education professor, says it's men would leave Red China asl $200 over market value for ing and courageous struggle for for its? And here, again Mr.An- - with the commission and council- - Mr. Dudrey thinks that the coughed pointless for the modern man jto soon as exit formalities are com had the coin. swallowed the muncipal light and power derson seems to me to be playing manager forms of government? charter commission should have Dorothea pop out of bed in the morning and pleted, the your car at A. L. Dnckett'a or placed plant. I am sure that as the fast and loose with causes ;and ef The data compiled show that in drafted several different types of coin in her Leggroan touch his toes the traditional J 10 The Peiping broadcast was the! inad mouth and then own offer. years pass and as the plant be fects. He would have us believe the last twenty years the percen- charters to be submitted to' the first Communist report on the five make your vertently let' it slip on down. An times. comes an ever richer source of not voters for their consideration. the commis cities of using indebted tage showebVthe coin lodged in The average city dweller's back men since the Reds announced a revenue for the city, it will come ness onlyandthat greater t If sion form has steadily decreased, This, however, would have in ner higher oeiore meaica muscles, explains Morehouse, are week ago the men had requested SEE PAGE-13-expendi esopnagus,Dui more and more to be regarded of coun volved the the several . number while the printing having in are fund to to to aid leave had the she received and be tures from stretched general administered, permission flabbiness'by "already as an enduring monument to the of which the has increased expense charters, plan that also evils but China. It said the Chinese and constant sitting down." coughed up the coin. insight, foresight and integrity of themselves evils to be assigned over 500 per cent. They show would have been too great for .are they cent use the council- - the taxpayers to bear. Mark Anderson. with certainty to causes inherent that 37; per the now on before the issue But ywho form of manager form, while only 18 per The charter commission, In the council-managfind it of I Provo impos city government. Is he not em- cent use the commission ?form. were chosen by the voters to draft people sible to follow him. He is not. that last year alone a constitution for Provo City, ex old - and familiar They show th five cities adopted the amined charters of a number of think, persuasive in his defense ploying out seventy a few data method of lifting of the commission form. of city nf a total financial context and orm proposed in the charter for cities who were operating suc government or in his attack on interpreting them to support a Provo city. It is inconceivable cessfully under the council-ma- n i form ager form of government, and the that the proposed council - manager thesis? the system. One wonders if he is as Of m6re serious import: is Mr could win such rapidly growing commission endeavored, to em much concerned about helping the Anderson's charge that the city popularity if, as Mr. Anderson bocy in the Provo City charter, public to arrive at an informa charter as drawn abrogates the would have us believe, it means the best provisions, of these vari and dispassionate conclusion re democratic process and creates increased taxation and indebted ous charters. garding the merits of the propos in the city manager a monster of ness and a surrender of the pre As every history student knows, ed charter as he is in turning the autocratic power. Here, it seems cious rights of 'democratic govern the framers of our national con public mind toward the point of to me. Mr. Anderson's rhetoric ment. followed stitution the same meth view to which he is himself com is at its best and his sense of The proposed charter threatens od, and submitted the completed mitted. no values in the community in- document to the voters for rati fairness at its worst. 'Questionable Logic' unbi heritance. It keeps and strength fication. 1 believe that a careful, When he lists the accomplish ased reading of the proposed char ens everything that is good. It Just as- was in the na provided merits of the Provo community ter will show that in every area would, however ,,. bring to the ad tional constitution, the Provo under the commission form of of power where the will of the ministration of pur public affairs also provides, that it may charter e forty-threlast the competence, be government during the of most importance to the know-hovoters is to conform to the amended years and offers those ac- eood eovernment the democratic the efficiency of the expert. And wishes of the people, As I recall complishments as a sound reason process has been carefully pro let me say in conclusion that the our national constitution has been -why the people of Provo should tected and strengthened, and in friends of the city charter have times. amended 22, now reject the in area where the competence personally no vested interests exNow, the only way that the the past to. protect, and no proposal, he employs question- every of bubliC and service efficencv the Big commissioner He All plan of government able logic, to say the least. mese pectation of personal advantage can be are concern; of primary to some is hire amended, apparently would have us believe have been required! and as- in the future.' Our only concern to go to Salt Lake when that the good things achieved in things lobbyists of the is march Provo that join sured. A achievethe are the in Provo legislature is in session and past progress in ;r municipal Council Has Power have them try to persuade the ments peculiar to the commission form of government and that they Regarding the democratic proc legislature to change the law. tha the charter cess, provides I think if Mr. Dudrey will re could not just as well have been "all powers of the city land the Moral: Move Outside the history of our school sys achieved under the call for determination tem in the early days, the trus system. Certainly the ex- responsibility Provo Limits City all matters of policy! shall be vest tees did everything in connection periences of an ever increasing ed in the council, "j It provides Editor Herald: number of progressive American with operation of the schools communities employing a city further, that the members of the I was talking with a man the but In the interest of efficiency -- MINUTE FIREWORKS DISPLAY council "shall be nominated and other o was manager refute" completely such elected out who of that moved the had board it day proposed by the qualified voters argument. In arguing from effect Provo City and built a nice home education, determine policy, and tha It the entire provides city," to cause Mr. Anderson is .under in one of the suburbs. When I employ a well trained superin obligation to show that the effect each district of the city shallinhave the inquired why he left the city, he tendent to administer the schoo he names and extols could have at least one representative "Why should I live in affairs. At that time, strong obresulted only from the cause to council, a provision tarhichi assures replied, when Provo I can live outside the jections were made by a number that the council as a whole will which he assigns it. . and all the advantages of citizens, that the superintend get city, be informed on the (special needs of Same Argument t without the city paying that ent would be a dictator; but when the community. Of thet same kind,' and equally of every part of tax rate of the Tiew plan was triqd out, a mills. high precarious, is his argument based The charter provides that on the data of per capita costs among the powers assigned to "Provo City afurnishes me with their fears proved to be ground water, at reasonable rate, less, and as a result there was a of city government in Provo and the representatives of the voters city also furnishes me- - the serv marked improvement in the and a of is that manager employing In other cities already having the of the Provo City fire de- school system. council-managsystem. When for "an indefinite term.'j a man- ices A k So in the case of ajcity man he points out that last year Provo ager whom they can remove by partment in case of fire, without cost. a Even the little ager, if there is city councilnien elected with its commission government a majority vote immediately upon or brush weed the are the real die the fire jto by his failure fire, of people, evidence city carry fund only spent from the general is at for and beck the tators, my department they determine all $25 per capita while Colorado out competently and efficiently On call. car I save if the city manager and $30 the alone, my policies, people Springs with its city manager policy determined by taxes in Mr. doesn't the outside council. the by living Yet, carry them out satisfacspent $45.57, he is hardly touch- through of "the a Anderson city." torily, they can fire him. paints picture ing the real issue. The crucial Mr. of to seems This is quite a contrast to the me Provo So, elected heads it Editor, city fact is not the relative amount ONE NIGHT ONLY! while a the in that commission Mit straight jacket present city present city system, as one writ- $c rather the placed spent per capita relative value of what was ob an appointed city manager has encourages people to live outside er to the Herald pointed out if tained for what was spent. , It absolute executive authority over the city, leaving us poor "suck- you get an incompetent commisSTADIUM the entire city government." How ers" who remain, to Day the hieh sioner, there is no way he can be restraining to "the elected heads" city taxes, and the fired; he holds the job for four is a "straight jacket" wnicn tney city debts. at a good salary. He is the years can for cause remove at will? A Subscriber. one who is the dictator. How "absolute" Is4 an executive James F. Paramore. authority that can be exercised Governor's only as long as its exercise is in Daughter j Girl, 7, Finally Coughs Up Coin Dev-riend." HOT! , er . , :". j ' X-ra- y 1 I- - SV 1 1 A A cil-mana- er - - 'Minute Men' Will Call at Your Homo Monday Night to council-manag- er Tell About the Spectacular July 4th Stage Show -- - - w, council-manag- ft er - -- council-manag- Music Under The Stars Variety Acts Cast of Hundreds 18 Las Vegas Rhythmettes Colorful Pageantry Orchestra and Chorus er 30 1 Get Your Tickets Tomorrow Night CMdlrem) th J er , B. Y. U. orm ever-mounti- with the will of the representatives of the people? conformity Urges Reading of Charter Mr. Anderson would have the people of Provo worry about the power of the manager to hire and f ire subordinates x in administra tive office, and about his control of the expenditures of the moneys of, the city, intimating always that the charter provides no recourse tt efardeit 1U mm ng Gets Scar in Mock Fight with Fiance M TPfKS HOLLYWOOD (UP) Carolyn Knight, 21, blonde daughter of California Gov. Goodwin J. Knight, will carry scars from the Bobo, Olson- Archie Moore prizefight at her wedding Sunday night. She said her husband-to-bCharles V. Weedman, "Jr., 27, was demonstrating Moore's knockout punch to some friends when "I guess I ducked the wrong way and his fingernail flicked me over the eyebrow." e, against injustice or protection against negligence or waste. The best remedy for the fears which Mr. Anderson and his associates in opposition would spread is a thorough and unprejudiced read ing of the proposed charter. Incidentally, one wonders if Mr. Lesson, to Thieves: Anderson has a similar! concern about the powers ;of the; superin Leave Jelly Alone tendent of schools,! about his right LOS ANGELES (UP) to employ and dismiss iadminis Market trative personnel,! and to direct owner Joe Bennish opened his the expenditure of more jthan one store Friday and found Frank R. and a half million dollars of the Spierker, 30, lying unconscious next one spray IS YOURS FOR $100 LESS When You Trade In Your Old j public money. Would Mr. Anderson dispense with trained specialized services of the; superin tendent, and divide his responsi bilities among the substantial citizens of the board of education? Would he project his fears of con centrated authority into the field - to the jelly display. 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