He supported efforts by community organisations, including the National Trust of Australia (Western Australia) and the Fremantle Society, to develop an inventory of heritage buildings (1974) and thus to preserve and restore convict, Victorian, and Edwardian-era buildings and streetscapes threatened by redevelopment proposals. Better access to Commonwealth taxation revenue and grants allowed the council to expand health, welfare, and environmental services to benefit the cityвЂ™s working-class and multicultural populations. He was promoted to town clerk in 1966 and in 1970 he was appointed city manager.Д¬ollaborating with two influential mayors, Sir Frederick Samson (1951вЂ“72) and Bill McKenzie (1972вЂ“84), Parks was instrumental in transforming the council into a вЂpeople servicing agencyвЂ™ (Lindsey 1978), a significant extension of the customary local government functions of land management, roads, and rubbish collection. After the municipality amalgamated with the City of Fremantle in November 1961, he became deputy town clerk (1961вЂ“66). Back home, he trained as an accountant under the Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme and was appointed assistant town clerk (1949вЂ“53) and then town clerk (1953вЂ“61) with the North Fremantle Municipal Council. Parks had been promoted to able seaman in August 1944. In 1945 it supported the landings at Lingayen Gulf, Philippines (January), and Balikpapan, Borneo (July), and land operations around Wewak, New Guinea (June). The ship carried out escort, screening, survey, and shore bombardment duties in the South-West Pacific Area.

Following his training, he was posted in November to the sloop HMAS Warrego. On 14 January 1943 Parks was mobilised in the Royal Australian Naval Reserve for service in World War II. In January 1941 he was employed as a junior clerk at Fremantle Prison. To supplement his motherвЂ™s income as a cleaner, Stan sold newspapers, worked on a bakerвЂ™s round, and delivered ice. When he was a child his father abandoned the family. Growing up in a working-class community, Stan was educated at North Fremantle State and Fremantle BoysвЂ™ schools. Stanley Walter Parks (1925вЂ“1994), Fremantle city manager, was born on 8 October 1925 at Subiaco, Western Australia, son of Victorian-born Walterena Jane, nГ©e Lay, and her Western Australian-born husband Clement Ormond Parks, barman.

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