Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 3

CAC Told of Housing Crisis thtt i I A i I A A AUGUST 27, 1972 Idaho State Journal Section A Page When the Social Problems committee of the Citizens Advisory Committee reported to rslup Fruay af(enioon fte re rt covered the -social aspects" of Pocatello's presistent bugaboo- the housing problem The problem is many-sided, said John Puree co-chairman of the Pocatello Housing Coalition, and some of the phases are in- terrealted. He cited eight aspects: -A -severe shortage" of housing here. Landlord tenant relationships which also are related to the shortage. housing (related to the shortage). Financial inability of owners of -mar- guial" housing to rebuild to better standards.

City Housing Code enforcement. High rents. High taxes. Zoning. Puree urged that the city government establish a landlord-tenant mediation board, composed ol bom real estate owners and tenants," to whom people could "take their problems" on an informal basis.

Puree, urged also that die city encourage developers to construct more low and moderate income housing. As to multiple housing, he said he felt the city government has listened too much to residents protesting proposed apartments in their neighborhoods. "We need to have (apartments) in somebody's neighborhood," Puree declared. Councilman Perry Swisher, on the other hand, said lie believed the council has -'tended to move toward multiple housing even against pretty vehement opposition. He added the belief to governing body is committed now to discard the "old approach to zoning which perpetuates slums" and to proceed toward modern concepts such as planned unit developments.

Concerning code enforcement, Puree paid tribute to the exceptional ability of City Building Official Wayne Ellis and said Ellis' department is seriously understaffed. '-They don't have the manpower to carry out code enforcement," Puree said, Swisiier pointed to antiquated procedures of the Stale Tax Commission which overvalue even run-down commercial properties and therefore discourage apartment construction near the center of the city. Instead, he noted, apartments are built near me city limits, causing transportation problems for the poor and the elderly, Ralph Lacy, Bannock county assessor, said the Tax Commission is now moving toward -more modern thinking 1 in valuation of real estate for tax purposes. The Social Problems committee is the first of six CAC study committees on community concerns.to report. CAC Chairman Russ Mager announced a schedule of other committee reports to be given at the monthly meetings during the remainder of the year.

Mager introduced thenewCACsecretary, Pat Wallace, who also is Municipal Building receptionist. In both postilions Mrs. Wallace succeeds Glenda Paradis who has moved to a new position in Denver. The CAC voted a letter of commendation to Miss Paradis for her services. Year of Action's Chandler Assails Recreation Dearth "There are no recreation facilities here for minority people there's nothing to do on the East Side," a minority group spokesman said Friday afternoon as he also assailed what he said is a lack of employment opportunities for minorities in local business, education and government.

Larry Chandler, a young black man who supervises the Idaho State University-centered Year of Action program, took a swipe at (he city's choice of the North Side Hawthorne site for a covered swimming pool. "It was just as well the bond issue was defeated," Chandler told the Citizens Advisory Committee. "That pool," he said, would have benefited the Hawthorne area and file people of Chubbuck," he charged. He may have referred to the fact minority group members insisted early this year that the pool should be on the near East Side. Chandler, former ISU football player, said stores and banks do not employ enough blacks, chicanos and other mi.

norities although many from ttiese minorities are their customers. The city and county governments, he said, hire lew minority members. The schools, according to Chandler, "need minority teachers, counselors, principals and assistant principals who come from a different culture. 1 For recreation, he said, the minority young people have no place to go in winter or when it rains in the summer. He said there should be some type of city recreational building.

Ken Douglass, a Salvation Army board member, noted 'the Salvation Army is constructing a public recreational building on the East side. "If you could get the vandalism stopped, we'd get the building done sooner," Douglass told Chandler. Chandler said this was up to the police department and that vandalism could be curbed by "better supervision" of the construction project. Douglass recalled that "three or four years ago" the CAC attempted to promote a federally funded East Side building which would have included a swimming pool and other recreational facilities. "But it got little city or county support," he charged.

On employment, John Puree, one of the local black community's leaders, said he "would like to see affirmative action by the. city and also the county" to employ more minority people. Now, he said, their employment "endspretty much at the janitor level." ISU Hires 43 New Instructors Forty-three faculty members were hired by IdahoStateUniversityduringthesummeras replacements and to fill a small number of grant positions. Some of those listed who hold the master's degree have nearly completed the requirements for the Ph.D. degree.

The new faculty members, their teaching rank and the school where they earned their highost degree are: ARCHITECTURE Vern G. Hancock, instructor, M. S. Utah State Univ. BUSINESS Albert Kenning Francisco.

assl. professor, Ph. D. Michigan State Bradley D. Lockeman, asst.

professor, Ph.D. candidate, Univ. of Michigan; and Gary R. Wells, asst. professor, Ph.

D. Univ. of Utah; ECONOMICS James Ronald StanTield, asst. professor, Ph. D.

Univ. of Oklahoma; EDUCATION F. Marvin Hole, asst. professor, Ed. Arizona State Unlv; Donald L.

Jeanroy, asst, professor Ed. d. Univ. of Wyoming; Judith Stanbrough, asst. professor, Ed.

Univ. of Colorado; Joseph Thompson, asst. professor, Ph. State University of New York at Buffalo; Madeline S. Plumer, education specialist, M.Ed., Univ.

of Delaware; ENGINEERING Weston B. Smedley, asst. professor, Ph.D. Brlgham Young University. ENGLISH Richard B.

Davidson, asst. professor, Ph.D., Univ. of Colorado; Jennifer Lee, instructor, M.A., Michigan State Antony A. Wills, asst. professor, Ph.D., Stanford William R.

Tanksley, sor, Ph. Unlv. of Illinois; GOVERNMENT Kenneth Larry Tom-Unson, asst. professor, Ph. Ball State Tahmoores Saraff, asst.

professor (of government and sociology), Ph. Univ. of Washington; HISTORY Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler, instructor, M. Kent Stale Kenneth M.

Jensen, instructor, Ph. D. candidate, Unlv. ot Color ado; MATHEMATICS- Jack R.McCowanJr., Instructor, M.S., Idaho State Stephen Parker, asst. professor, Ph.

Unlv. of Utah; MICROBIOLOGY Larry D. Farrell, asst. professor, Ph. Univ.

of California at Los Angeles; MUSIC Luther Meirer, instructor, M.F.A., Univ. of Iowa; David N. Williams, instructor, M.M., Wichita Slate NURSING Rosie Acton, asst. professor, M.S.N., Univ. of Minnesota; Flora May Hungerford, Instructor, M.A., Univ.

of Minnesota; Rita Moses, M.S.] Univ. of Colorado; Joan G. Paradis, instructor, M. Colorado Slate Billie Marie Severtsej), assl. professor, M.A., Columbia Univ.

Shelley M. Young, instructor, M. Univ. of California, San Francisco; Amy Jane Savage, instructor, M.S., Univ. of California School of Nursing, San Francisco; Marie Hansen, instructor, M.N., Montana State J.

Karen Baicy, instructor, M.S., Univ. of California at Los Angeles. PSYCHOLOGY Lynn E. Bush II, asst. professor, Ph.

Louisiana State Univ. Robert L. Horton, instructor, M. Western Michigan Faye C. Huerta, asst.

professor, Ph, Univ. of Utah; Ann Stirling Johnson, asst. orofessor, M.S.W., Unlv. of Michigan. SPEECH PATHOLOGY ANDAUDIOLOGY Linda Al Mohanna, lecturer, B.A., Idaho Stale Jane Carpenter, Instructor, M.

Idaho State Others hired were; INDIAN LEADERSHIP PROJECT Kesley Edmo Fort Hall, associate director, Indian Leadership Project, B.S., agriculture, University of Idaho; Irvln C. Watters, Lapwai, field consultant, Indian Leadership Project; MUSEUM Elaine Anderson, asst. curator, museum, Ph. University of Helsinki, Finland; LIBRARY William R. Hallon, science librarian (assl, professor equivalent), A.M.L.S., University of Michigan; Dorothy Jacob, humanities librarian (Instructor equivalent), M.

Alabama Polytechnic Institute; Joseph Kwang Wu Lu, documents librarian (asst. professor equivalent), M.S.L., Western Michigan Unlv. Key Links of 1-15 Expected Open Soon Nearly 23 miles of new freeway costing $14.1 million will be opened to traffic this fall in the Pocatello area, with a stretch west of the city scheduled for opening about Sept. 1. Construction is Hearing completion on the 1.7 miles of Interstate west of the city.

The 15 miles of Interstate 15 in south Bannock and northern Oneida counties will be opened about mid-October, according to District Engineer Andrew Nielsen of the Idaho Department of Highways. Traffic already is using the westbound lanes of the new 1-15W from Bannock Creek just west of the Pocatello airport to Igo overpass where the new leg connects with the freeway portion completed several years ago. Seal-coating of the asphalt surface will be completed next week, Nielsen believes. Atter about Sept. 1, motorists will have clear sailing on dividided four-lane freeway from Pocatello for some 28 mUes to a point past American Falls.

Western Construction Co. of Boise, con- traitor on the job, is expected to complete the signs and guardrails and the landscaping of the interchanges by mid- September, This, the district engineer says, will be about a montls-and-a-lialf ahead of schedule. Old U. S. SON is being reconditioned by the state, after which It will bo turned over to Power County, The new Interstate has interchanges at Skyline Road (formerly called Truckersville Road) and at Rainbow Road (formerly Gasoline Road).

The 15 miles of MS from Virginia south to Colton Road at thebaseof MaladSummitis the first Portland cement surfacing in Soulli- eastern Idaho. Theconcrete was manufactured in Inkom. The south 10 miles of concrete is steel-reinforced, first construction of this kind on an Interstate in Idaho. The concrete was reinforced because of the unstable soil conditions in Ihe marshes below Malad Summit and on the rise to (lie summit. The new highway will feature one mile of daik grey concrete, which drivers are sure to notice, says Nielson.

This is an experimental project to determine if a darker colored highway surface will absorb the sun's heat and therefore hasten snow-melt in the mountainous area. All of Ihe concrete has texture" which Nielsen says should provide better non-skid quality than concrete Interstate 80 freeway in the Boise area. All (lie 15 miles andfour lanes of concrete is down and Parson Construction Co. of Ogden, Utah, now is laying asphalt on the shoulders and ramps. Seal-coating will have to wait until next year, because weather does not permit it after Sept.

1, says Nielsen. Completion of the 15 miles will culminate two years of work. The year 1970 saw the difficult job of filling in a roadway over the marshes. Including interchangesandallother phases of construction, the total cost is over-10 million. The interchanges will be near Virginia, Downey and Colton Road (norm of Malad).

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