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Tht Boston Glob Monday, December 13, 1963 Cost of housing 'imperils building program' y-rimijuuum. 'i I A JO By William J. Lewis Globe Staff Tht cost of housing is compounding so rapidly that the entire program designed to meet the critical need for new dwellings is endangered, the head of the State Department of Community Affairs said last night. Comr. Julian D.

Steele pointed out that his agency, which subsidizes local, public housing and urban renewal, cannot fully carry out its mandate unless the Legislature authorizes considerably more funds. "You just cant build public housing today without subsidy," said Steele, "and the existing subsidies are not adequate." Appearing on Channel 56's -Point of View- program, the state's housing chief was asked by a panel of Globe reporters for his frank appraisal of Gov. Sargent's public housing program unveiled last week. "The Governor has shown real imagination in recognizing this is a massive problem and he's produced a massive program to meet the crisis," Steete said. Asked whether he believes the Democratic-dominated Legislature will buy the Sargent plan a multi-billion-dollar, long-range blueprint Steele replied that he is convinced there is "bipartisan recognition of this massive problem." He conceded that when the Republican administration's bill actually is considered in the Legislature "there may be some partisan politics played" even in the face of the seious housing shortage.

In the final analysis, however, the commissioner said, the lawmakers must authorize substantial monies or face the. wrath of a public starved for low and middle-income housing units. In discussing his department's implementation of the so-called "anti-snob zoning bill" enacted earlier sponsibilities in terms of low-income housing." He said fear of the plan to introduce a measure of low-income housing into many of the wealthier suburban communities "is based on ignorance." Steele further commented: "Change is the order of the day and everybody has got to accept this change." The housing czar discussed the increasing demands for rent control. "Rent control," he said, "may slow up the process of developing new housing because the developers will not want to invest where they feel they cant make a profit or where the limitations are such that they endanger making a profit" In the area of privately--financed, housing, Steele insisted, "we've got to make it profitable to build housing or we're not going to get it built." He noted that there currently is being produced in of his agency Steele revealed he intends to press again in the coming legislative session for a measure to create a "Senior Service Corps" designed to make older persons more productive and happier. "Many persons over 63 have great skill that will be utilized under terms of the Service Corps program," he noted.

The plan calls for re-activating the elderly on a parttime basis and paying them "a stipend of around $100 a month to supplement their limited income," he added. Steele also said it is the intention of his department to extend a hot-lunch program initiated as an exper-'imental project to feed the elderly of limited means in 10 cities. "This program has been so successful," he said, "we're going to ask that it be further expanded," as a means of combatting a diet deficiency among older citizens living on limited incomes. Massachusetts about 30,000 units of private housing annually. The governor, he related, considers the minimum yearly requirement in the public housing sector is 23,000 units.

The objective of his agency, Steele went on to say, "is to help cities and towns to realize their potential to give them 'he guidance and tools they require to do the job." "It's been said, "Steele related, that some 35 communities in Massachusetts are on the verge of bankruptcy. Our goal is to help prevent that." While conceding that the federal anti-poverty pro-cutback to some extent, the commissioner applauded the plan as having given "a new dignity to the poor people so that everybody feels he has a part and a stake in our society that's so important." In the area of making life richer for the elderly another responsibility JULIAN STEELE outline crisis 1 i Mi 1 this year, Steele expressed optimism that cities and towns would eventually accept the thesis that they provide some low-income housing for these with limited income. He said that even now local officials "are beginning to recognize their re Up to 6 inches of snow forecast for season's first Nor'easter Maine due to get the most. The Weather Bureau said the snow was mixed with rain along the coast and that small craft warnings had been posted from Eastport to Block Island. A low pressure area moved from the New York City area last night, intensifying as it came up the coast The system left parts of Pennsylvania and northern Maryland with three to eight inches of snow.

One from the shooting stars yesterday and by mid-January will be in a position to give Americans a view of a newly-discovered comet-Heavy snow warnings have been posted for most of New England, with the exception of northern Maine and the Champlain Valley. Up to six inches of snow were predicted for an area extending from southeastern New York through southern New England, with southern WEATHER Continued from Page 1 near the coast and four to six inches in the interior. Travelers warnings have been posted for the immediate coast and heavy snow warnings inland. The storm held off long enough so that sky watchers were able to view the end of the Geminid meteor shower fourth brightest of the year early Sunday morning. The earth moved away to three inches fell in Connecticut yesterday afternoon.

In Gap, yesterday 7 women were killed and 35 persons were injured when a chartered bus carrying them to a Christmas party at a Masonic home veered off Rte. 30 and overturned down an embankment. The bus, chartered in Philadelphia by Chapter 68 of the Order of the Eastern Star, was enroute to Eliza-bethtown. Pa, carrying 41 passengers, most of them elderly women. It went off and sheared a utility pole.

Gap is in central Pennsylvania, about 15 miles east of Lancaster. Gales and snow flurries accompanied the storm system in the Great Lakes region. Snow was expected eastward to New England and southward in the Appalachians to Tennessee and North Carolina. Stormy weather was also the rule in the Pacific Northwest with heavy rains and gales along the coast and snow in the mountains. Gale warnings were issued along the inland and coastal waters of Washington state and southward along the Oregon and California coasts to Point Arena.

Heavy fog in the Southern California coastal areas led to a 40 to 50 car accident on the Los Angeles Freeway yesterday. One person was seriously injured and traffic was halted for 30 minutes during the Los Angeles accident It was the second consecutive day of heavy fog in the area. The Los Angeles International and Long Beach airports were closed for eight hours because of the fog. CHRISTMAS TIME IN 14KT. GOLD Elegant 17-jewel Longine watches of exquisite design: for him a handsome gold dial, the bracelet lightly textured, $395; for her a sleek, waffled gold ribbon hides a tiny watch, $435 or, a gold rectangle with finely-ribbed bracelet, $295 Fine Jewelry, street floor, Filene's Boston, Southshore, Northshore, Chestnut Hill, Natick, Burlington the right side of the road Holy Cross grants amnesty to 16 discrimination," he said, stration.

but the college was aware When he finished mak- of the implications of ra- ing his announcements, Ft. cism in the identification Swords was given a one of the black students in- minute standing ovation volved in the GE demon- by the students. A HOLY CROSS Continued from Page 1 A former Holy Cross professor. Dr. John Scott psychiatrist who now teaches at Brandeis and also heads the Worcester Youth Service Board, acted as emissary between the college administration and the BSU.

Dr. Scott will make a detailed report to faculty members and student representatives at 11 a.m. today in Fenwick Theatre on the campus. The demonstration i which precipitated the crisis took place in the Hogan Center last Wednesday when students many of them members of the Rev- olutionary Student Union, a faction of Students for Democratic Society linked arms and prevented other students from entering the room where the GE recruiter was conducting interviews. The black students charged that four out of five of the blacks who took part were suspended 80 percent but only 12 of the approximately 85 whites 14 percent FT.

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