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-\7,.(7 «·ft"·~,END ELECTION QUORUM\\\\\1~ CP"~3 Councilmen Bolt on Vote •ByJIM MERRINER1bm! white city councilmenstormed out 01 a specialcouncil mettlng Friday, blockina:a 1Udd('l\ move by blackcollnt'i1men to elect a newcouncil vice p-esIdent.; 'M'Ie .,.. alkoW deprived the: ~I", ol the quorum needed! to do business. Only 12 ol 18• ('(JUlleilmm bad abown up for: the special J1IfIftin(. caned to·: Ippn:I\·e the JIIIIPUWOI"k fOi 225I jam which dttw sevS"3l ~1 .-and applkants It !be avic; Oenter ·Friday.$ Alter the papmturll: wu: routinely okayed. CoLmcI.lman; James Howard moved that an• ~i(ll be hdd for a 197$ .,.ice: presl6tnt. tecllnica1ly ealled.: preside'nt pro tempore.., ··"''hat is tryIn( to ., for­~ ward here is going to be badi: for this dty. It Just looks bad.II It does not smell right.."~ chargf'd CoImdI Hugh Pierre.~! CooncUmen Nick Lambrosu and Richard Gulhman walkedtt out In protest..After prolonged parliamentarybickering, CooocilmanGrt«OCY Grlg. said, "Mr... Qwrman. I am going to doIt tomethinc that I have tle\'et"~ daM before kI my life. I am~ come to ave the chamber,tI and)'tlll won't have a quo­:: rem."ft 'nIe rncu was the CO\mciJ'1.. nne: r8da1 dbpile in many~ tnI'I'JlhI 1be lawmaken usual·~ 1y like ~al pains to avoid.. racial di\ulons on the cooneU:! noor.II Black OouncUman MarvinArrington ""as the 1974 presI­'"t pro temport. ArringtonI¥ilY rtfuIed to talk with areporteT as Frlday's meetingbroke up.Howard IIId bt planned tonominate Arrtng\.oo to serveanotMr tenn this year. Hew;­an:! and othtr council sourcessaid that Lambros II aboI",ling for the job.The paeltion is largely honorary.fince the only duty is to~ In the absence of CoundlPnsidtnt Wyche Fowler.Lambnll reportedly seeks it as((IQJO\aUon for losinlj: a comemittetct.lnnanshlp underF~Ia''t 1975 committee appcIIlltmf11ts."1 haft bel>n asked by some IcoIleallUeS (II the counc:U to runfor It," Lambros said, addingthat be belie\'. the office~ be rotated among differentmembers.Howard aid he IftShled loran el«Uon Friday beeauae itis Important for the cmncil toorpnize i1se1f before proceed_inC wtlh 1m le¢slaUon. An.ttempt tel have the tl~ atthe rtgUJar meeting last Mondaygot nowhere, he said.Other counclllTl('l\ said Itwould be unfair to elect the of·ficer With only 12 memberSpresent.'!be special meeting wasneoessary because the federalDepartment of Labor's maDpoweradministration officehad ~ • Friday deadline for1dgnlng the grant conlra~,acconIilIg to Finance CorMlISsiOOerCharles Davis. 'I1Iedeedline was not Jcnown InLime for the meetillll- Man-day, he said.money into tbe (unemployed)Mayor Mayna rd Jatkson fella's pocket", he charg~. 'publicly signed the cqntract Manpower Director Aaronabout 1:30 p.m., providing Turpeau said only 3 per cent$2,730,41)2 for manpower aid of. l.he ~ogram goes f()r.z;.this year. However, only $866,- muustration.I799 for three months is- im- -====:;-____ _mediately on haoo. \"Pierce abstained from approvingthe contract becausehe said administralive costs·consume too much of themoney. "I picked out nineit.ems here (in the manpower!:M:Iget)" \liet have. absoJptelynothing to do with ieUinJ the\)1~115 ~Eaves BidFor AidesQuestionedBy JIM MERRINERWarning of pot.elltial bu.­reaucratic empire-b..til4i.ngCtcncilman Richard Guthma~Tutsday sharply questioned areques~ ~rom Public SafetyCommiSSloner Reginaki Eaveslor three mere personal aides.Gutbman. ntw chairman of~ Public Safety Committee,Indicated that the committeewill keep a close walch on I·Eaves' activities this year, tEaves bad Introduced anordimmc:e to allow him to bin!a legal assistant, a statisticalreseareher and a stenographer,using federal manpowerald.Guthman asked tDIusuallypointed, questions of Sgt. K. A.Ryan, who appeared beforethe committee In Eaves' aI>..nee.. When the nine city Ctlmmls­Sloner poots 'Here created lastMarch, Guthman &ald, themayors office assured c0uncilmenthat the pasts "wou.1dnot become a place for whichone could build additional bureaucraticestablishments.' IEach com.miss:ioner was tohire only one secretary, Guthrna n asserted, Ryan saidEaves has two secretaries _one authorized and another"borrowed" from the policebureau."The council Is bet in anymood to create a&liUonalpositions, , . It awears thatthe commissioner's office isbuilding a ~," Gutbmangrumbled.Gutlunan and other commlt·tee medlers did not arguen.Uy thai the three proposedjobs are lUljustified, but theyobjeded that Eaves presentedno inf