The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 234, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1972 Page: 3 of 16
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THE WOMEN’S PUMPER Team of the Channelvlew Fire Department set a new state record
at the state convention in .Galveston, with a new time ofl5.5 seconds. The former record was
CHANNELVIEW FIRE Department set a new state record in the men’s pumpei1 team races at
the recent state convention in Galveston. The record time is 13 seconds, beating the former
fo trophies, plaques and a new fire hose. From left are Barbara Wortham, Billie Hamilton, co*
captain, and Judy Kester, Chris Rushing, captain, and Vickie Baljew and Dottle McCrary.
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George Romney: A Man With Urban Woes
from our y
WASHINGTON (AP) - To
George W. Romhey, struggling
tp be President Nixon's fix-it
man for the cities, the prob
lefns he facaes are not jilst for the. cities and tying
tough, they "are the most com-
plex on the face of the globe."
: Testifying to their in-
tractafiility, 'the secretary of
• Housing and Urban Develbp-
mefit has seen remedies be-
come problems and well-in-
tentioned strategies ..backfire
ir. controversy,
Romney admits to little suc-
cess in his match with the
-eFisis-ftf -uf4>an An«rica. - The
cities are still going downhill."
he said.
Among the problems, com-
plexities and ironies of his 3
years'at HUD:
—Romney, the production
man of Rambler ante fame;
.succeeded in driving; goverrt-
.ment-subsidized housing starts
to record levels. But along the
road to landmark production of
—Romney, the foe of cen-
tralized government, faulted
Democrats from the outset for
allegedly overpromising help
hands of mayors. Yet he has
protected his cupboard of
dollar savings, if any, are not
known. But Romney already
has describe^ Operation-
Breakthrough as a success.
“Isay it is a success because
of,the changes it has mad^jn
the housing industry and in lo-
tionize and modernize the sufr said Romney. “To contin-
housing industry,” he said, ue would mean throwing more.
■On the urban development billions of the taxpayers' mon-
side of HUD, not much has ey away. larger infusions .of
changed under Romney,” said [money,have not served to solve
the Urban Coalition's-the problems.
' The forces that cause aban-
donment and decline of large
neighborhoods are not primar-
ily physical, but are primarily
social ana govern-
inherirted......Great. .Society cal attitudes toward new and
programs from White House
Moreover, -he' ar|GVs,
housing problems are really
budget-cutters, hoarding the which will continue to revoiu-
dollars for the day Congress
Franklin.
__________________.... .... The present categorical aid
efficient production techniques programs have disbursed-bfr- the result of social illsJ^cyond
lions of dollars with little re- .assault by his department
human,
mental," said Romney, "We
will not solve this crisis if we
pretend that it is just a housing
crisis'
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might enact federal revenue
sharing for the cities.
. "A good job with some of the
most difficult problems, in the
country," said Rep. Edward P.
Roland, D-Mass.,
the House Appropriations sub-
lommittee that controls HUD
dollars’1
decent ,man, extraor-
dinarily righteous in Ijis com-
mitment to racial justice,
who's been hamstrung by the
administration,", said Herbert
M, Franklin, vice president of
the National Urban Coalition.
■ His intentions and efforts
ra-arty 500,000 assisted units are better than his perform-
last year, he harvested a crop
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of. speculation scandals that
have left thousands of the in-
ner-city poor with shoddy, gov-
ernment-insured houses sold at
large profit- by real-estate
operators.
-Romney, long-time civil
rights leader' of liberal,
Republicans, assumed office
determined to open additional
suburban housing to low-
income city swellers. But
follow ing a stormy trihl run of
his plans at Warren, Mich., the
President stripped Romney of
any power to make economic
integration a condition of
receiving federal aid.
—Romney, an enthusiast for
solving urban problems at
-locill governmental levels, saw
the White.House pull the teeth
from another plan that seeks to
induce the suburbs as well as
the cities to join in attacking
tnnemtyills. Succeed?N(lm
100 years." said one housing
specialist of what's now left of
the plan.
ance." said Rep. Henry
Reuss, D-Wis., a senior mem-
ber of the House subcommittee
on housing. "This is not due to
any lack of ability but to politi-
cal restraints from the White
House."
The nation's mayors are
particularly pleased with
Romney's attempts to untie
the strings of federal aid, to
turn narrow-purpose grants
into broad-based support
strapped municipal budgets.
Rut some are critical of what
they see aS the Nixon adminis-
tration's^ preoccupation with
foreign affairs at the expense1
vo( domestic concerns
The housing program has
been a great success, but with;
in the central city and within
these blighted: abandoned
areas of the central city
have not worked out
solutions," Romney said. "
Factory-built housing
stimulated by the Nixon ad-
ministration, has only begun to
roll off production lines, and
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Working on the premise that
••junfc is a matter of opinion,"
the citizens of Canton produce
' the “grandaddy of flea mar-
kets" on the first Sunday and
' WOV ofeachmontfr. Suanne
« Copeland wrjtes about this jn-
• novative idea that sometimes .
swells Canton’s population as I
much as 10 times on its Trade* |
Days. . , •„*
Another group of innovators,
residents of Hondo haveprov-
',ed that modern life do« not
r have to leatUto an.obliteration
of history. Burnta Uwrence
RRSRtftfSE
version of a 73-year-old t
* depot into a museum. .
It took a lot. of ima^atton,
but a former San Antonio car-
penter found a new direction
for his life after polio denied
termination, and a cioseiy-knii
family steered Bob Breiten to- rf u ^
ward his new craft 1
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 234, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1972, newspaper, July 6, 1972; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104207/m1/3/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.