City Council Postpones Decision on Fluoridation, Atkinson as Manager

Cambridge City Council members turned in a negative performance yesterday when they postponed a decision of fluoridation of city--water and vetoed a proposal for the re-election of John B. Atkinson as City Manager.

After an hour debate in which the councilmen questioned Dr. Edward T. O'Rourke, Commissioner of Public Health, and William H. McGinnis, Superintendent of the Water Department, the Council voted to give a motion rescinding its adoption of fluoridated water to the committee on finance.

O'Rourke denied the accusations of Councilmen John J. Foley and Edward A. Sullivan that fluoridation might prove harmful to the teeth, asserting that only in unregulated doses could it even mottle teeth.