City Councillors Split on DeGug As Candidates File For Election

Sixteen candidates have so fare picked up their nomination papers for the Cambridge City Council election this November but they will have until August 15 to file their papers for certification.

The election this fall should revolve around the split in the Cambridge Civic Association over the election of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo as city manager. The CCA-endorsed council members split down the middle in the December 1965 vote with former mayor Edward A. Crane '35 and Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney against DeGuglielmo. Councillor Thomas Coates and Councillor Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler voting for him.

Independent councillors Bernard Goldberg, William G. Maher, and Daniel J. Hayes Jr. voted for DeGuglielmo: Walter J. Sullivan and Alfred Vellucci voted against.

There has been a move recently within the CCA to endorse DeGuglielmo, but a long-time observer of Cambridge politics expects the CCA to endorse the same councillors as in past elections--Crane, Mahoney, Coates, Mrs. Wheeler--in addition to School Committeewoman Barbara Ackermann.

This move would straddle the DeGuglielmo issue and thus would not openly split the membership of the CCA along with the Councillors.

The increase in the tax rate which DeGuglielmo announced last Tuesday should also enter into this aspect of the election.

In addition, James Vorenberg, professor of law at Harvard, former president of the CCA, and executive director of President Johnson's crime commission, is reported to be considering entering the race. If he does, he should be a very strong contender. He was not available for comment last night.

Councillor Vellucci should be able to pick up some points from the shifting traffic patterns in Harvard Square. He said last night that "to accommodate Harvard, they have messed up the entire community. They have caused the biggest traffic jungle in the world. And there's traffic everyplace."

Vellucci has a standing proposal that Harvard be razed to make way for a parking lot, subway terminal, cab stand, and bus stop, all in one.