newly built Century City as a premium office market, Debs' plans for the Strip were only partly realized. He appointed the final three members to the nine-member Los Angeles County Civil Defense and Disaster Commission during the nuclear crisis in the early 1960s: They were Disaster Services co-coordinator Roy D. Hoover, Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess, and businessman Louis Lesser. Legacy Two public parks bear the Debs name: Ernest E. Debs Regional Park — in the western San Rafael Hills above the Arroyo Seco, in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of central-northeast Los Angeles. Ernest Debs Park — in Bell (southeastern L.A. County). References External links Ernest E. Debs, oral history interview, conducted 1987 by Carlos Vásquez, UCLA Oral History Program, for the California State Archives State Government Oral History Program Join California Ernest E. Debs Democratic Party members of the California State Assembly Los Angeles City Council members Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors 1904 births 2002 deaths 20th-century American politicians People from Indian Wells, California New Right (United States)