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Despite this situation, the city has no traffic director. Having trained a member of the police department for the job, the city tied itself in civil service knots, and cannot appoint him. The only consolation is that, if appointed, he would have no power anyhow...
Thus far, the opponents of slum life have had a discouraging fight. The City Council and the HHFA have approved the "Workable Program", first step in putting renewal into action. But before anything can be done, the city must appoint an Urban Renewal Coordinator and a Redevelopment Commission. City Manager Curry is still looking for the right man to fill the coordinator's post. Nothing has been done about the Commission...
...Subcommittee had recently questioned him about a possible "conflict of interests" violation. (Before going to Washington. Gardner was president of California's Hycon Manufacturing Co., an electronics concern that has worked on guided missiles.) Others suggested that Gardner was miffed because Defense Secretary Wilson, who recently decided to appoint a "czar" for the whole U.S. guided-missile program, had passed him over for the job. Gardner himself offered the straightforward explanation that he was leaving because of "an honest difference of opinion about the level of support for the Air Force research and development program...
...federal anti-mob statute. In a friendly but carefully hedged statement he indicated that he would support Powell's proposal if it became necessary, and if it could be worded to protect the purposes of the school-aid bill. If elected President, he said, he would 1) appoint a commission of white and Negro educational leaders in the South to confer and make recommendations, and 2) do all he could, if it became necessary, to deny federal aid to states that defied the authority of the Constitution and the courts...
Although the program got City Council approval in October, only a few people have been willing to give it substantial support. Continued lethargy at City Hall could ruin its chances. The responsibility right now is City Manager Curry's--it is up to him to appoint a man to get the program under way. While he should take sufficient time to find the right man for a tough job, it seems that if the Urban Renewal is to amount to anything, the time is about...