Local News in Brief : Ex-Glendale Mayor to Quit Airport Post
Carroll W. Parcher, for five years a Glendale representative on the board that governs Burbank Airport, has resigned effective June 1.
Parcher, 84, a longtime Glendale political figure, sent a letter to Glendale Mayor Carl Raggio, and a copy to the airport authority, saying he thought it appropriate that he resign. He gave no reason. A year remained on his term.
Parcher was one of the first members of the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority when it was formed in 1977 by the three cities, which bought the airport from the Lockheed Corp. Each city names three representatives to the nine-member authority.
He served on the authority until 1979 and was reappointed in 1985.
He has been confined to a wheelchair since a fall in 1986.
Parcher is the son of Glendale’s first mayor, Wilmot Parcher, who promoted the city’s incorporation in 1906. He was a Glendale city councilman for 10 years, from 1975 to 1985, serving four terms as mayor, a record. He was editor and publisher of the Glendale News-Press from 1947 to 1972 and has written a weekly column for that newspaper since 1942.
Start your day right
Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the L.A. Times and beyond in your inbox six days a week.
You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times.
