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The Minneapolis Star from Minneapolis, Minnesota • Page 52

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THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR Tuesday, April 23, 1968 mercial vehicles parked on streets." James Driver, 7178 Cahill Trail, said the proposed ordinance "discriminates against somebody who likes his wife." Proposal Rejected Councilmen rejected a written proposal from a member of the audience to set up a paved, lighted and fenced area "with 24-hour police protection" to park the camping trailers and other vehicles prohibited by the ordinance. The Village Council finally agreed to order preparation of an ordinance regulating only trucks and commercial vehicles parked in residential areas. Dayton Makes Deal to Buy Book Stores in California St. Olaf Students Elect Negro Special to The Minneapolis Star NORTHFIELD, Minn. St.

Olaf College elected its first Negro student body president last Thursday. Leavy W. Oliver, a junior in biology from Birmingham, received more than two-thirds of the nearly 2,000 votes cast. Oliver is one of about six on campus. Peter Mark, the outgoing student body president, said Oliver was elected on the basis of his platform, which called for increased student participation in academic affairs and urged a program to bring more minority-group students to the college.

Campers Shout Down Ban By LARRY FULLER Minneapolis Star Slaff Writer Some members of the audience started shouting, asking who wrote the ordinance and who's passing the buck." Police Chief Robert Car-stenbrock said the ordinance was not prepared at the suggestion of the police department. "There were numerous complaints of trucks being parked in yards," Carsten-brock said. "I was directed to gather information on other ordinances. I was under the impression our existing ordinance covered only com Dayton Corp. announced today it has signed an agreement to acquire Pickwick Book Shops, Los Angeles-based bookstore operation.

Pickwick has its main store in Hollywood and six branch stores in southern California. A seventh branch is scheduled to open in August. The agreement, announced jointly by Bruce B. Dayton, Dayton Corp. president, and Louis Epstein, Pickwick board chariman, provides for the acquisition of Pickwick by Dayton for 50,000 shares of1 Dayton Corp.

common stock. At Monday's closing price of $59 a share, the purchase price would be $2.95 million. In addition, up to 5,000 shares will be issued later, dependent upon 1698 sales of Pickwick stores. Pickwick, founded in 1938, has 100 employes. Louis Epstein will continue as chairman of the board.

His son, Aaron, will continue as pres ident. The operation will retain the Pickwick name. Dayton said the acquisition will provide "new opportunities in the strong southern California market." The Dayton Corp. also has the B. Dalton, Bookseller, subsidiary which operates bookstores in several metropolitan areas.

The Pickwick acquisition agreement is subject to obtaining a favorable tax ruling, a Dayton spokesman said. A group of angry Inver Grove Heights camping enthusiasts Monday night literally shouted down a proposed village ordinance that would have prohibited parking of camping trailers in either the front or side yards of many homes. The ordinance was discussed earlier this month after the village council received complaints from residents objecting to the parking of trucks and other commercial vehicles in residential districts. More than 150 persons i However, Mrs. Betty Mal- jammed into the village hall Mm, a member of the village to object to portions of the ordinance affecting the parking of mobile homes, "vacation trailers" and buses converted for sleeping and camping.

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