The Illinois Times

URBAN LEAGUE HAS QUESTION ON RENEWAL

Concern about possible discrimination in the Champaign Urban Renewal Project was voiced Saturday by the Council for Community Integration.

In a survey report, Mrs. Louise Bindman, the council's housing chairman, said the CCC supports the program "in principle," but is concerned that fully adequate relocation provisions will not be made.

"The program will help to improve substandard housing conditions," she said, but at the same time, will it also further reinforce the segregated residential pattern of the city?

Mrs. Bindman also reported that the committee is continuing to maintain a listing of property available for rent or sale to minority group members on a non-discriminatory basis.

The listing is a service both to property owners who find realtors unwilling to handle properties on an open occupancy basis, and to minority group members seeking non-segregated housing in the community, she said.

The next meeting of the committee will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 8 at 714 Arlington Court.

Rev. A. T. Rowan of the Citizens Advisory Committee will discuss urban renewal.

According to employment committee chairman W. Ellison Chalmers, the CCC is still working for a broader application of merit employment practices by local business firms.

It is also cooperating in the project of the Champaign-Urbana Improvement Assn. to develop a job registry of persons qualified for and desirous of better, non-segregated jobs. The registry will be used to locate qualified persons for newly-opened merit hiring, he said.

Chalmers also said that "good job opportunities" now exist at the University of Illinois for women with typing or stenographic skills, according to the UI Non-Academic Personnel Office.