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Parry, Margett Sweep Council Race In a minor upset, David Parry edged Bob Margett as chief vote getter in the Arcadia City Council election Tuesday. Parry tallied 3,996 votes to Margett 3.690. Both won seats on (he council where there were two vacancies. Margett from the beginning had been considered front-runner in the campaign on the basis ol name recognition if nothing else. However, his early decision against making campaign promises and an era-harassing sign stealing Incident last Saturday (see story belowl may nave cut inlo his supporL The.

real race was expected to be between Parry and LcRoy Speirs, a late entrv inlo the contest, but with Chatwin Recovering Arcadia Police Officer Hlchard S. Chatwin is recovering at home from major open heart surgery performed several weeks ago. He has been an Arcadia police Officer for 27 yeari and juvenile officer for the past 10 years. He is still limited as to the number of visitors he may have but messages and cards will he relayed to him by Officer Burton "Bernie" Bernstein. Chatwin lives in Glendora.

Deadline Friday is Ihe last date on which nominations will be accepted for Arcadia's Senior Citizen of the Year. Nominations should be sent to the Arcadia Recreation Department. 240 W. Huntington Drive. Eligible for nomination are Arcadia residents, 66 or older, who have performed outstanding volunteer service in the city during 1975.

Previous winners are nol eligible. Happy Birthday Happy Birthday. America" is the theme of the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce salute, to the nation's Bicentennial. Running through the entire month of June, the promotional event is open to all chamber members. During the event.

The Arcadia Tribune will publish "Happy Birthday" entry coupons, each with the name of participating stores where the coupons must be deposited. Grand prize will be a Pinto Pony MPG from Huntington ford, and there will be other prizes as well. Chamber members are asked to sign up immediately at the chamber if they wish to participate. Prayer Breakfast The second annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast will be held Friday at the Masonic Temple, 50 W. Duarle Road.

Emphasis will be on four areas of prayer as they apply to the individual, the community, the nation and the world. A special offering to help alleviate hunger in the world will be divided evenly between Church World Service and World Vision International. The continental breakfast from 7 to a.m. will cost 11. Persons wishing to make reservations are asked to call Gerry Parish, Santa Anita Church office, 446-8206.

Tickets will be purchased al (he door. Back to Staff the support of Mayor Charles Glib. Speirs received 1.784 votes. He said Wednesday he had put togelheer a less sophisticated campaign than his opponents and hadn't been able to get his supporters out to the same ex-lent as the other candidates Trailing badly, with 907 votes, was the fourth contender, Charles Chivet-ta, who, along with Speirs. was virtually unknown to most Arcadians prior to Ihe election.

Harry Scolinos, who withdrew from the. race many weeks ago, bill not in time to keep his name off the ballot, received 139 votes. Top vole-getter of them all was Christine Van Maanen. who was unopposed in her bid for re-election as citv clerk. She received 4.639 votes.

A proposal for a continuous left rmycrs turn lane on Duarte Road between "We have 15 stores and. with other Lovewel! and Baldwin avenues has executives, 1 visit three of them each been sent by City Council back to the Wednesday to make certain that all staff far further study. is as it should be," Siayden said, "We The suggestion was made that dual have 77 buyers and it is important to driveways In the area might be us to know what they are doing and specifically marked for ingress and how the merchandise is being egress, which might ease the presented and how it is selling." dange rous traffic situation Greenhill in research went back to 1771 when what is now the City Df Arcadia was part of an enormous land "Tr'ibUnr. grant given to the San Gabriel Mission. He told the itory of the region A Whiii inttr-ciiy to eager and enthusiastic audience, the dozens of department Am is.

iwt managers of the new store at a vol. no. Ji meeting in the building before it was Publishri ThUHday and Staidly. Subscriplior. completed.

LT'S, of the young women looked at jits. TWMd.T dc SuwBy. office oi vtut woutf jfce iLcovy. devoted to her specialty and said, "To think, all M.y this will be mine. It is attitude pnsbee Aradu.

sices. on the part of department managers r- a- which impresses Greenhill. rrrkniv He reviewed the history of the area INSIDE TODAY for years, from lie days of Spanish ranches to Hugo Reid and bis Editorial adobe, to tbe U.S. Army balloon 84 school of World War to the opening People C-l of the SaoU Anita race track In 1(94, Sports to the use of the laad for a Japanese Worship assembly center in World War II. Only 6.

276 votes were cast, although 24.051 voters were registered lor the municipal election. This represented 28 per cent of the registered voters, somewhat less than had been predicted. Unfavorable weather was blamed for the poor turnout. Another factor, however, apparently was a lack oi major or emotional Issues in a generally lacklustre campaign. Parry's chief premise was opposition to Arcadia's redevelopment agency, a position he has maintained since he ran unsuccessfully two years ago.

Until now. Jack Saelid has been the only council member consistently opposed to the redevelopment agency concept. Although Gilb at one He touched on the days of E.J. "Lucky" Baldwin, who bought the ranch in 1875, and of his daughter, Anita, whose name is so entwined with the area This history has had a bearing on the design of the new Robinson's store building, designed by Kay Hayakawa of Leach, Cleveland, Hayakawa, Barry Associates. The interior was design Cleveland, and William Teegarden of WeltDn Beckett 4 Associates.

Innovations There are a number of architectural innovations, some used here for Ihe first time in the country, according to Ernest W. Haln, Inc developers of Santa Anita Fashion Park. The building in the main is precast and preformed material. Most important of the innovations is the wall structure, built with mortarless joints between the cement blocks. Steel rods were inserted in the voids within every second block in sections eight feet long and six feet high Concrete then was pumped, into the hollow blocks.

The outside was covered with an eighth of an inch of fiberglass, this skin adding great strength. Cranes time slated his opposition for the record, he has in most cases voted with the majority. Margett. while he has said he preferred private enterprise to handle redevelopment, has nol firmly committed himself to either faction. The new council members will Like their oath of office at the next regular council meeting next Tuesday as two present members step down Council Member Jim Helms is retiring following two consecutive terms, the maximum allowable under the city charter.

Council Member Alton Scott announced nast winter he would not seek re-election io a second term. A FOOTHILL INTER-CITY NEWSPAPER v.r.Nd Audi, im. 32 PAGES A SECTIONS THURSDAY, APRIL IJ, 1076 VOL. 46, NO. 31 Short takes CALIFORNIA OVERTONES The new Robinson's in architecture which carries overtones of California store in Arcadia's Santa Anita Fashion Park, which past melded urto-today's.

The view is to the opens April 19, was designed to make a quiet statement northwest from the. parking lot area. Robinson's to Open on Monday In Santa Anita Fashion Park By HAROLD HUBBARD Suit Writer Quietly arid with emphasis on the beauty and good taste it has found in the homes of prospective customers, Robinson's will open its second store in the Foothill Intercity area April 19. Robinson's Santa Anita store in Arcadia's Fashion Park is intended to complement, but not to conflict with, its Fasadena'and La Puente stores, said James fJ. Slaydcn, The decision to establish it was made after months of exhaustive research.

The research explains why Siayden and Raymond Greenhill. vice president in charge of store planning and site selection, know so much about the people of Arcadia, the eastern fringe of Pasadena and San Marino, and the homes in which they live. "We have made quality and service overridine considerations in our stores." Siayden said "We have done so much research thai we know the new Santa Anita store will do well. Our people are enthused and excited. Many from our other stores want to work in the new erne.

About half the employes live in Arcadia or Pasadena Siayden, a business major at the University of Washington, began his career at Frederick Nelson the Robinson's of Seattle. He now lives in Bel Air with his wife, Barbara, and a son, 14, and a daughter. 16. rate of growth. "We checked on building permits issued during the previous two years," Greenhill said.

"We worked with the telephone company and the eletric company both of them must have highly sophisticated information about any area since they must expend money at least five years in advance in order to serve ed by Tom uunasm oi uiaix 4 jonn- customers property as growm affalnst Mareelt Monday bv son Associates, now ot Leacn, develops. rwriSan itss at Thirrf and Covle Recent census information was avenues, checked by census tracts, lip codes Corrigan gat out of his car and and computers were used to learn approached the driver of the other how many customers in the area car. While he and his wife had earlier already were served by Robinson's and the forecasts of city agencies were studied. The (acts indicated that the new store was needed, Greenhill said. The landscaping by Emmet Wem-ple of Emmet Wemple Associates was praised by Siayden and Greenhill.

A number of the trees around the building are evergreen pears that came originally from Taiwan and generally display their while blossoms twice a year. There are many crepe' which originated in China. Race Track is eliminated hv pmes. Two lacing tne having the color integral within the fiberglass finish. The system resulted in cost savings and speed construction, Greenhill said.

Greenhill said his research revealed in the San Marino-Arcadia market area a community with a mixture of established traditional families and a recent Influx of conservative, successful youthful families. The market of Robinson's Santa Anita, as Greenhill traced it, runs to the west on a line midway between the Pasadena store and the new store. It is bounded on the north by the mountains, on the south by the Pomona Freeway and on the east by the Freeway. Greenhill said an undated census tract survey showed a population of 500,000 in the market area. "This compares favorably with some of our most successful stores," he said.

'Bread Appeal' The surveys showed the need for building a fine quality (tore ia Arcadia, Greenhill said. The new store will have "a very broad appeal Tor a large section of tbe population," Greenhill said. Greenhill Is sure of this, he toU the department managers, became of the things learned about residents of the new Robinson's market area. A check was nude of many sources to get the facta about tbe area and its race track pinus canadensis are the finest examples of the variety to be found in Southern California, Greengill said. "We believe the design of the building melds with the community, making a crisp, warm and friendly statement with its decidedly California Spanish flavor," Greenhill said.

The interior of the building was designed and decorated with the community and its residents in mind, Greenhill said, some of it done with understated elegance, some suggestion green fields and horsemanship. Some ideas came from the classic Huntington Library and Art Gallery, some (rem Lucky Baldwin's Queen Anne Cottage. Other ideas came from the environs of Arcadia the race track, the peacocks and plans of the Arboretum, the old Santa Anita depot. The research included a study of published photographs of the interiors of homes the market area, revealing the tastes of Ihe people in furnishings as well as clothing. The new store was designed to appeal to these tastes in its decor as well as In its merchandise, Greenhill said.

On April 19, the people for whom it was designed are invited to come in and see it. mm DAVID PARRY lop total BOB MARGETT elected Margett's Face Red After Being Caught Swiping Speirs Sign By HELEN O. SCHRADER hdimr In political circles it's known as sniping, and it's common practice. Usually a candidate hires adventurous young people to steal the opposing candidates' signs 'off people's front lawns. If a candidate wants to remain pure, he doesn't give the orders.

Somebody in his organization does it for him, and officially he doesn't know a thing about il- An embarrassed Bob Margett, one of two candidates elected to the Arcadia City Council Tuesday, said he thought he could have a Rood laugh with another candidate. LeRoy Speirs. If he sniped one of Speirs' signs. The sign, Margelt said, was over the legal limit in siic and was located, he thought, in the public right of way rather than on private property as the law requires He said noted the license number of Ihe. other vehicle, it was at this point, he said, lhat he realized who the "suspect" was.

Margett, who said later he didn't connect the sniping incident with the fact that he had been pulled to the curb, thought he was being attacked, possibly with robbery as a motive. He pulled out and speedily headed up Third Avenue. It wasn't until Monday, Margett said, that he tied the two incidents together and that was when he -heard rumblings of a complaint being filed." The chase continued up Third, cast on Las Flores and south on Fifth Avenue. At Fifth andCoylc, Corrigan said, a piece of cardboard fell from ihe under area of Ihe driver's side of Margett's car. He stopped to recover it and did not continue the pursuit.

he intended to take it to Speirs and The cardboard was part of a Speirs tell him to' read the city's sign 'poster. dinance all in good fun. Corrigan said he waited until Mon- The trouble was that someone whD day lu lile the complaint hecausc he didn't share his sense of humor saw trouble verifying the license him takirur the sim Saturday nieht number as being Margett's. In ad- frnm the lawn of the Robeft'Hatch' TlitTon, fie said, he wanted to del residence at Santa Anita and I.ongden avenues. James Corrigan.

an Arcadia resident and a police lieutenant In Placentia, driving north on Santa Anita with his wife, noticed the sign heing removed and watched the "suspect," whom he could not then identify, return to his car parked on the opposite side of the street and take off on Longden headed east. Corrigan made a U-turn on Santa Anita and followed the car. Margett said he was peacefully headed toward the market when Corrigan pulled him to the curb. This, according to the complaint fil- mine whether the sign had been properly located on private property and "whetlter there was an aggrieved victim" Hatch, an whose property the sign was posted, and Speirs, at that time, said they would nol prefer charges against Margett. Margett said Tuesday that for the past couple of weeks he and his family had been harassed by phone calls late at night and early in the morning indicating.

"I had no business running Saturday, he said, he had gone lo the heach lo pick up his wife. When they returned home about. 7 p.m. Ihere was litter and debris scattered on his lawn. Every candidate has some problems, Margett said.

Margett concluded, "If 1 had thought. 1 wouldn't have taken the action I took." UP. UP AND AWAY The Bicewlenaial celebration takes Arcadia schools. Students at Holly Avenue FJerwwUry School barrage of red, while and bine balloons into the air far the nation on Its birthday Balloons wen tagged i-d the hear from people who might find them asttey floated fun, some cTSkids dressed in afproprU Glenn Gif fin and fourth grader AtUsoa Smith wear colonial costamaa wfafc third grader Dale Rothreck is garbed as a U.S. Army sergeant..