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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, May 10,1072
Model City Plan Is Having Problems
WASHINGTON’ (APi
Eagle Pass, Texas, is. the very
model of a Model City So is
Ainu, Georgia..
But whatever happened to
New York, Chicago, Los Ange-
les, Philadelphia. Cleveland
and Gary, that long list of trou-
bled, smoldering American
cities where, five and one-half
years ago, President Lyndori
B Johnson sought to "set in
motion the forces of change...
that will make them the mas-
terpieces of our civilization ”
"Fund approvals, in the Mod-
el Cities program, which start-
ed in 1967. total 11,275 million
through Feb 29.1972,” says the
latest accotsiting from the De-
partment of Housing and
Urban Development
That’s far less money than
the planners of this major as-
sault of the War on Poverty had
anticipated spending
Robert C. Wood, under- mayor of Freano, Calif., who
secretary and then secretary of
HUD during the Johnson ad-
ministration, recalled in an in-
terview, "What none of
knew then was that in the same
months we were struggling
with developing Model Cities,
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another group was deciding on
escalation in Vietnam We
thought we were dealing with a
612 billion surplus”
Still the federal government
has poured more than 11 billion
into the program. What has it
bought'?
Ask Floyd H Hyde, former
used to be HUD assistant
secretary few Model Cities, and
now is assistant secretary for
Community Development
which includes Model Cities
and a lot of other programs
What is happening, said
Hyde, is development of "a
whole new relationship -bet-
Side Community Organization
has filed a complaint witlVHUD
against the city, charging that
its Model Cite program lacks
citizen participation.
Duane Etienne, the organ-
ization's staff director, said in
interview that there has
been little citizen participation
ut Indianapolis, and “agencies
that did participate tended to
be largely white and middle
class."
But Indianapolis was one of fessor Clarence A. BeD has be-
That relationship is making
local governments more re-
sponsive to the, needs of the
poor and the poor more under-
standing of the problems of city
hall, he said.
From the overview per-
spective of a Wood or Hyde,
working out the role of the poor
has been a fractious, but
educational, part of the
[program’s growing pains
But to Dennis Keating, a for-
mer VISTA lawyer now at the
National Center for Housing
and Economic Development in
—- Berkeley r-Gabf-.7.....eit:
ticipation is an everyday
political struggle:
“In San Francisco, people
wanted a veto over projects be-
fore they got to the board of
supervisors. Ft was a question
of who’s going to control the
programs, who’s going to run
them.
“HUD regulations are pit-
ched against any real control
on thepart of- citizen groups.1'
In Indianapolis, a citizen
group called the Near East
20 cities chosen on the basis of
progress to take the nett step
in the Model Cities evolution, a
citywide program called
Planned Variations that is a
gun a special study of these
factors, investigating the
theoretical basis for tire
deformation under spin and
ween what I call the establish- step even farther removed
tnent, local government and from federal control or guid-
local decision-makers ... and ance.
the poor:" 7 " ~’~f~TTJie~generar view here,"
load” His work has a (20,000 to depress the gathering eco-
mearch grant from the
National Science Foundation.
"The human and financial
costs drautomotive accidents
Try Sun
Classified
velopment corporation that in our lungs.”
was probably, (he least suc-
cessful program its first year,
is now “very effective.’
Four months after he signed
large and small cities in every
state.’
Eagle Pass:
the type of community we were
set up to do something for,”
said Wood.
“I think this history will
record that the real contribu- walls of houses.
Gar Tire Is
Not Round??
LUBBOCK, Tex. (API-A car
tire is round. Right? Wrong! It
is round when purchased, but it
isn’t round at all when
traveling down the road.
Nobody knows exactly the ef-
fects of all the forces exerted
on a tire in motion, yet they are
important to safety, con
servation of resources and
even pollution control
Texas Tech University Pro-
satd Etienne, "is that it’s a
massive and colossal failure
even though touted as one of
the most successful Model
Cities programs in the coun-
try."
Robert R. Hawkins, director
of Model Cities projects in In-
dianapolis, acknowledged that
the program got off to a slow
start, but said an economic de- your tires? Some of it ends up
are well known,” Bell said,
and in .many, cases the
dynamic characteristics of
tires play an important role in
the cause or severity of the
accident.”
Then there is the question of
pollution,” said BeU. “Do you
ever think about where the
rubber goes when it wears off
•oc?
A SNAIL MENACE
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP)
The march of the Giant African
bill; President- Snairisaniongl00exhl6itso”
Johnson told Congress that display at the new Delaware
we have inspired the hopes of Museum of Natural History at
nearby Greenville
Museum scientists say that a
youngster first broughtthree of
Eagle Pass was not exactly the snails to North Miami from
Hawaii in 1966. In two years,
tens of thousands of them were
ruining gardens, clogging air
conditioners and marring the
Price Commission Power
Is More Bark Than Bite
NEW YORK (API-Despite but chill the business climate
the big stick now carried by the
Price Commission, the feeling
persists in business circles that
the overall impact will be more
like a(tap on the hand than
clout on the head.
Most frequently heard is the
comment that the country
needs profits to feed the ex-
pansion and that the adminis- lines might suggest."
tration therefore cannot clamp
down too hard.
If the Price Commission in-
terferes too directly or bluntly
and discourage risk-taking.”
Standard * Poor's, one of the
oldest of the market advisory
services, states
■Tough talk from the Price
Commission, threatening
selective rollbacks of price in-
creases, could be less dam-
aging than the spate of head-
SOME PENNANT
ADELAIDE, Australia (AP)
- Derek Sutch stood back and
surveyed the result of 16
months of toil-a good-looking
36-foot houseboat.
A trillion-dollar economy is just one more thing, he
too large, SAP suggests, to suf- thought, a pennant to fly from
fer in a major way from the
voluntary price restraints and
enforced cutbacks.
Moreover,” adds SAP,
Grayson (Price Comjpission
Grayson) maintains that he is
intent on 'holding down prices,
not profits.' ”__
the cabin roof.
Two weeks later the flag ar-
rived with a $336 bill instead of
one for $10. The flag was 12 feet
Chairman C. Jackson by 24 feet. The tag-maker
explained his work team had
mistaken Derek’s indies for.
feet.,
nomic momentum, these busi-
ness spokesmen add, the con-
sequences will be political as
(ion of ModeiCitieswasto de-
velop that process so that when
that great day of dawning
comes and we awaken and say
we are going to commit the re-
sources, we know how to use
them.”
well as economic, a major con-
sideration always but more so
this year.
Perhaps the greatest source
of confidence are figures show-
ing that profit margins, while
higher than a year ago, are still
beneath levels of many recent
Do you years.
,h“ “When a firm reports that its
earnings are triple those of a
year earlier—as Chrysler did
the first quarter—it is
usually a sign that profits in the
earlier period were unusually
low;’;’ says First National City
Bank.
- t)verall,saysFirst City,“'the
rise in factory margins during
the past year was slight, but
results varied widely from in-
dustry to industry. On
seasonally adjusted basis, it
claims, profit margins have
changed little,
It concedes, however, that
'the threats of rollbacks and
changes in the rules governing
prices and profits cannot help
Although the Department of
Agriculture succeeded in rid-
ding the area of the snails at a
cost of $100,000, officials still
maintain surveillance to make
sure the voracious creatures
don’t return,
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 185, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 10, 1972, newspaper, May 10, 1972; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104525/m1/22/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.