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The Boston Globe from Boston, Massachusetts • 20

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The Boston Globei
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Boston, Massachusetts
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20
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THE BOSTON DAILY GLORE-TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1960 Crane "Elected Cambridge Mayor on 7th Council Ballot Advertisement R.I. Manager Denies Coercion CAMBRIDGE On the verge another of its famous mars then mayoral elections was surprised last night by the choice a new mayor on the i- N. McNamara, and one, for Trodden. The last three are independents, 1 Other independents oh the board are John D. Lynch and Vellucci.

With Crane were other C.C.A.-backed councilors, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo, Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler and Mrs. Pearl K.

$4000 councilor salary. lie will also serve as ex-officio chairman of the School Committee. First order of business for the reorganized council was the reappointment of City Manager John Curry for the fifth Jk Crane, Trodden and Curry were administered oaths of office by acting City Clerk Paul E. Healey. Crane, an attorney, lives at 219 Grove St.

He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He was elected to the City Council in 1939 and has served there since, except for duty with Army Intelligence in World War II. went to 300 ballots In 1046 and 188 in 1954. Former State Police Det Andrew J. Trodden, a newcomer to the council, was elected vice mayor by a unanimous vote.

1 5 The 6 ft 6 In. Crane, leader In previous balloting Jan. 4 and 5 ith four votes, was declared winner on the first ballot last night when Councillor Alfred E. VelluccI shifted his support to the former mayor for the sake of expediency. Vote of the council was five for Crane, a Cambridge Civic candidate; two for Councilor Walter J.

Sullivan, one for ex-Mayor Thomas He is married to a former Cambridge school teacher, Mary F. Buckley, and they have six children; Daniel, Kevin, Maureen, Michael, Kathleen, 3, and Eileen, 5 months. He is a lifelong resident of Cambridge. in the Army, his council salary was paid into a trust fund at his request, for civic improvements. It amounted to $3400 with interest Trodden is also an attorney.

He lives at 224 Lake vie Cambridge, and is a former Cambridge police officer and State Police detective. He also served as an assistant attorney general under the late George Fingold, Is she a cruel home wrecker or the innocent I victim of vicious scandal? Dont miss the Elizabeth Taylor story Jn January McCalls sale now. BARNSTABLE. Jan. 11-Charges of coercibn and intimidation of Cape truck operators to accept lower-than-legal rates for hauling road fill were denied by the local manager of a Rhode Island construction firm in District Court here today.

Department of Public Utilities has filed 20 com plaints under the Massachusetts Motor Carrier Act against Canipanella and Cardi Construction Hillsgrove, R.L The complaints charge truck operators were paid on an hourly basis, when of a longer than 10 mile haul they should have been paid by tonnage oryards of material delivered, Richard E. Powers, manager of the Campanella and Cardi plant at Forestdale, in Sandwich, denied testimony given earlier by a Falmouth trucker that he had refused to honor the mans bill for services until it was submitted on an hourly basis. Joseph Sambade of Teaticket testified he billed Powers for work done last July on a ton nage-hauled basis. He said Powers told him he would not be paid until the "bill was foi hourly rates. Criticizes System Vellucci said he switched his vote to Crane because the city must have a mayor and organization immediately, and he went on record as being opposed to the cockeyed way we vote for a mayor.

Crane, father of six children, will receive $5000 annually as mayor, instead of the i l-JuXSi MU MOMtoMNM Z3 3 I A 5 IS A JL ZJ- LJ LZ3 EDWARD CRANE seventh ballot of the City Council. Councilor Edward A. Crane was elected by a five-vote majority of the nine-man council. Crape set a record in 1950 when he was named mayor on the first ballot In 1948, the city went four months before Councillor Michael J. Neville was picked on the 1321st ballot Voting Mystery Men, Police Hunt Brinks Figure I Police were tipped yesterday that Edward Wimpy Bennett, a minor figure in the Brinks case, was marked for death by the underworld.

-The anonymous caller said Bennett was to be killed in a store at 102 Broadway, South End Officers went there and found that a few minutes before three men had entered the store, a television repair shop, and asked for Bennett. a- He frequently visits Ihe store. The proprietor, Charles Kirby, said he told the men he had not seen Bennett for a week and didnt know where he was. Kirby said 'he never saw the three men before. 1 Just 19 months ago Bennetts pal, John F.

Fats Buccelli, was shot to death in the South End. In 1956" police raided an establishment run by the pqi and found $60,000 of the Brinks loot hidden there. Both pleaded guilty to receiving stolen goods. Buccel- li was sent to jail for two years, and Bennett 'drew a one-year term. Ain 5 Only a month after his re- lease, Buccelli was found murdered.

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