Council to Examine Rent Control Laws At Next Meeting

City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci said last night at the city council meeting he would introducer a resolution next week to reconsider Cambridge's rent control laws.

Vellucci extended an invitation to council candidate Dennis Barber '60 to speak about "decontrolling rents of empty apartments in Cambridge" at next week's meeting.

Barber has gone on record as saying he favors some revision of Cambridge's rent control laws because they may in the long run "do more harm than good."

Cabbies vs Tourists

City councilors last night also heard testimony about--but did not act on a motion of block off a section of Mass Ave around the kiosk in Harvard Square to make room for a permanent tourist information booth.

Several taxi cab drivers testified against the city's proposal, offered by Robert P. Moncreiff, of the Cambridge Bicentennial Corporation.

Taxi Stands

Taxi drivers complained that if the resolution passed, the proposed information center would cut down the number of taxi stands available to them.

Mayor Walter J. Sullivan asked that the taxi drivers confer with city traffic officials to come up with some workable proposals for the information center.

The councilors also heard testimony on an ordinance which would ban smoking in public places in Cambridge.