LET'S SEE WHAT DEVELOPS

But Foster remains convinced that Ward and his clean-living cabal won't stop until they've squeezed every ounce of character out of a city that may no longer be too tough too die. In November, he notes, Glendale plans to send the new city councilmembers to a conference of the National Civic League in Philadelphia where they'll learn "about how to zone businesses out of business." Next, he says, the Ward crew will try to get rid of Shotgun Willie's and Hill's Mile High Saloon.

And then? "They'll start the annexation procedures so Stevie Wonder can go on to the Denver City Council," he warns. "Somebody's got to stop it, because it's a runaway train.