Duarte : Van Doren Becomes Mayor
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John Van Doren has been selected mayor in the annual reorganization of the City Council. Van Doren, who will serve as mayor for the first time since his election to the council in 1978, replaces J. A. Montgomery, who was defeated in the City Council election, as was Carlyle Falkenborg. Merv Money will be mayor pro tem. Newly elected Councilmen John Hitt and Terry Michaelis were seated at the meeting last week. The fifth member of the council is James Coughlin.
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