Manager Orders Mayor to Court In Wage Dispute

While the City Council was preparing a survey of traffic conditions and naming a traffic circle after a former College professor, City Manager John B. Atkinson yesterday summoned Mayor Edward C. Crane '35 and the Council to court to decide who controls the city's salaries.

Atkinson sent a summons to each Council member and to Crane ordering them to appear in Middlesex Superior Court on July 2. The bill-in-equity was ordered to settle recent disputes about whether the City Council or the City Manager has authority to decide the salaries of city employees.

Since the present Plan E went into effect, this has been a constant subject of controversy. City Solicitor John Daley has agreed to present Atkinson's case.

The Council also approved an order to survey traffic conditions in the Square, especially the effect the new traffic box will have on the situation. "We don't want our cops getting killed due to reckless College drivers," Councillor John A. Sullivan commented.

For his long and devoted service to the children of his neighborhood, the Council also decided to name the traffic circle at Mt. Auburn Street and Elmwood Avenue after the late Professor William J. Harris. Harris built a bathhouse for the children of his Mercer Circle neighborhood as well as performing many other services for them.