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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated July 1, 1963 reads, "Desk cleaning starts - Mrs. Ethel Bryant, Valley resident and field secretary to Mayor Samuel W. Yorty, begins cleaning out her desk in the wake of a $63,000 cut in the mayor's salary fund by the City Council. Yorty says he is trying to find ways of retaining Mrs. Bryant and the four other secretaries whose salaries would have been paid out of salary fund."
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