Imperial Valley press., 1932-05-05
CHARTER
PROJECT
SPEE:DED
Sponsors Take Steps To
Provide For Nomina-
ton Of Freeholders.
PROGRAM OUTLINED
Countrywide Representa-
tion To Be Given Pro-
posed Board.

At a meeting of the Taxpayers
league held last night at the Bar
bara Worth hotel and presided over
by George Buffers, president, def
mite steps were taken for sponsor
ing by the league of ticket of Is
freeholderS to formulate a county
charter The supervisors have
called an election on July to Sc
lect a board of freeholders. At last
nights meeting it was decided that
the ticket put forth by the Tax
payers league should be made up
of Is names selected as follows:
Five members chosen by the farm
bureau, one from each of the five
supervisorial districts, five selected
by. the various chambers of COM
merce, two members named by the
bar association of Imperial county,
one selected by the Federation OF
Women's clubs and two designated
by the Newspaper Publishers
association. The selections will be
reported at the next meeting Of
the league which will be held at
tAlC oclA pul a WOI I'll llOOtl llCAI
Wednesday evening. The Is names
thus chosen will become the league
ticket, and petitions will be i'm
mediately circulated for the nomi-
nation of these Is persons to COM
prise the board of freeholders.
Mrs. Archie Little of Brawley
presented the views of the county
charter committee of the grand
jury and suggested this plan for
nomination of a board of free
holders SO that the representation
should be county wide.
The petitions must comprise 452
names which is per cent of the
vote cast at the last election.
Deputy District Attorney Halliday
ruled that the entire ticket of Is
names can be placed on one pc
tition and when the signers sub
scribe to these petitions he is
placing in nomination the entire
is candidates by his one signature.
1t was brought out during the
holders under the law must be
property owners and must have
been qualified electors in Imperial
county for a period of five years
past. During the course of the
meeting a number of speakers
asserted that in order properly to
function it would be essential that
the board of freeholders have the
services of a full-time secretary
for research and the framing of
the charter. 1t is expected that
the charters of other California
counties who have adopted this
plan will be studied in detail SO
that the desirable features of all
these charters may be incorporated
in that prepared by Imperial county
freeholders.
r. B. Whitelaw as its president
and representing the Ell Centre
Chamber of Commerce paid high
tribute to the newspapers who have
advocated the formation of
charter and ascribed largely to
them the success which the plan
has achieved and stated that much
credit was due their untiring ef-
forts for bringing the charter plan
prominently before the public to
the point where a charter election
is now a reality.
Representation at last nights
meeting was very general and
countrywide. In addition to a large
number of members of the Tax
payers league, there were present
several members of the county
grand jury, deputy district attor-
neys, newspaper publishers. city
officials and representatives Of
seven chambers of commerce. S. G.
Sorenson, president of the Asso-
ciated Chambers of Commerce of
Imperial County, also was present