Hide Article Text (OCR)
By .BlLL GRAHA« '^ li, 'GoiualeiSdtiiTday to)d Tnore iIidii 100 per-»ns reptesenting public housing enants and the. San • Antonio lt;ousmg Authority that every ninorily has a right to 6e heard nit they will not be allowed to ntimidate the rwitfents of thejourls.He was refening! iQ loca^ ef-oiiR by to NatJonaJ-T e n a;i t ilghts Organ rzatlon-fo orgahizei root atfiho in San Antonio. ' '•Gonzalez was requested to ad* (re« to gixn©; which included iresidents or representatives d enants orgadiaationris all to )ublic housing areas In San An-onio, in a petition in which they lomplalned of unsvanted outside atoiference.Melecio Sanchez, president of he Alazan Apache Courts Resi* lent Asacciation, said the hons-ng authority had heen doing a remendous job and San Antonio ^'as not faced svitfi the aamo n'oblems experienced in cities Uco St. Louis and Washlnjiton. ). C. ® ’Gonzalez asfeed the residents lOt to exaggerate or Toinimbeto efforts ol'lhe rent strike proponent saying that if they have a legitimate couac they will be heard.He commended to group on th^ir banding together to help each other and the various dr J V fi s they have wtdertaken th^selves lo help themselves and added, *'thls is Iromciiddas to-type of ll^ngs: 1 bke to .see0^ the front page/* -Gph2ialez, told the *g r o u p heStrike area to.at-9^. whw' he said the housing au th ortty has practically bankrupted. Gonzalez noted, '‘tho very people these spokeanen daizn they cure for wifl have to pay the pnce, the people have not been biped,”Gonzalez sunuiiarized his talk in Spanish for some of the Dld«* mcmbors of the audience who had not fully understood his meaning in English and condud-ed to a staading ovation after the hvo-hour meeting in Lanier High School auditorium.uichard G. Jones, executive directoi* of the housing authori-ts said |3S5,t00 has already beenrequested to begin remodelling and modernization of 52 pilot units in tho Alazan-Apache WheatlQy,. Lincoln Heights and Victoria Couils housing pro-jects, scheduled to'begin, in late December.He aaid ultimately San Antonio will receive lt;7.9: million to remodel and modemhe some 4»7iH) units of putdic housing. Gonzalez noted that .ahhou^ th$o units h^d been completed as* early as 2042^ thrs is the ficid authorization allowed by. congress for to moden^zatlon ofthe unite.•Mrs.' Ltto chalrm^of tbe znodernizatloA committee for tfio Alazan-Apache Courts, said residents tvere contacted over a yeai' ago for their ideas on what ftnproveinents were needed in to courts and tJiat most of lb eh* suggestions Ijave been adopted.Mrs. Zepeda, mother of fauv. has lived m the courts 19 years and has a son in Korea and another in high school. She readily admits that she could not have raised her lamily without the help of the housing authorfty.. She said once the pilct unit are completed, opeo house be conducted so that* everylt;^i can see the eiiects of the mod ^nizafion prograrn. Some of th' things she said will be.accom pltelied include shower InsUlla dons, sliding doors fOir the, elder ly, cenb'al cabinet: rather .^an the .present shelve and vinyl floor coving.Fur0y Picks^ 4Vice ChancellorHfiv. Kdmond Carmody wil succeed MsgT. Patrick J. Mu ray as. vice chancellor of tl SanAntbhlo Roman Cathol) Archdiocese.Thehange was on? of sever* announced Saliirday by ArcJ bishop Prands J. Furey,Rev. Carmody ms seci^ior to the archbishop. Msgr. Murra was appointed chancellor of th 52-county archdiocese.
Newspaper Details
San Antonio Express and News
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Nov 09, 1969
Page 94
Full Page
Clipped by
Sarah G.
USA 13 Jul 2018
Other Publications Near San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio Gazette
San Antonio Express
San Antonio Daily Express
San Antonio Light
San Antonio Evening Light
