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MEMO ON CONVERSATIONS WITH RALPH CRYDER---
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DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT

After writing to Ralph Cryder with the proposal which I
am giving to all the directors, he called back and said he was

presenting it immediately to the Planning Committee of Park
and Recreation. I talked to him again Monday, February 11 after
Q the Committee had met and he said "Conceptually, we have no

problem with this. It sounds like a viable project."

However, he added the whole thing would depend on approval

by the 5th District by which he meant Joan and Baxter and he
said that s_ince Tuesday was a holiday and the Supervisors were
therefore meeting on Wednesday, joan would be downtown and he

would make a point of seeing her. I had already sent Jo~ a
copy of our proposal. I was in San Francisco airport waiting
for a plane when I finally got Joan on the telephone downtown.

She said that she had earlier, working with Betty Pember,
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strongly supported the idea of moving the station to Hart Pa~k
and could not understand whey the idea appeared to have been

dropped. I explained to her that we had thought we might have
some land donated outright to the project but that had proved
not to be the case and so once more we were very eager to
pursue the park project,. Joan said the only roadblock she had

run in to before was a little gruml;)ling from Park and Recreation.
I told her Mr. Cryder seemed to be reasonably favorable and

she said splendid, she would go right downstairs and talk to him:.

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I talked to Mr. Cryder again Thufsday and he is awaiting
a note from Joan saying she has Baxter's approval. I hope

things happen that way. As soon as as he gets the go-ahead

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