Cambridge City Council Postpones Selection of City Manager, Clerk

The Cambridge City Council yesterday postponed for a week any action on the section of either a City Manager or a City Clerk, ostensibly to give the three new Councillors time to study the situation.

During the meeting, Councillor Alfred Vellucci declared "it is appropriate at this time that we proceed with the election of a city manager" and placed in nomination the name of John J. Curry, the present manager.

Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 told Vellucci however, that several councillors Eve urged him not to hold the election until the entire Council has had a chance at discuss "the future of Cambridge" with Curry.

"The Councillors want to know "where the city is moving," Crane explained, and they want to ask the Manager his opinion "on many long range and short range questions." Crane promised that the meeting would be held sometime this week.

One of the new councillors, G. d'Andelot Belin, introduced a motion calling on the Mayor "to appoint a special committee of five members to consider the Rules of the City Council."

After the meeting Belin told reporters that he is anxious to secure a rule requiring Councillors to submit proposed Orders to the Clerk several days before the Council meeting at which they will be introduced. "Such a rule will give all Councillors a chance to study the new legislation and know what it is about." Belin declared.

Inner Belt Highway

Belin also exercised his "Charter privilege" to require debate at next Monday's Council meeting on a resolution expressing Cambridge opposition to construction of an "Inner Belt" highway.

The resolution, introduced by Councillor Andrew T. Trodden, is to be sent to all Cambridge senators and representatives "to express the opinion of the City Council." Todden urged that the city's legislators express opposition to the proposed road at a hearing to be held next Tuesday by the State Committee on Highways.

Cambridge has in the past opposed construction of the controversial Inner Belt because it would cut through the center of the city, thus dividing it into two sections.