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The LOCAL COALITIONS Associate National Coordinator Elbert Ransom, Jr. met this . week with the newly-formed "Committee of Fifty" in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Committee is presently representative of all segments of the community except local government. After Ransom's e xplanation of the objectives and principles of The Urban Coalition, the Committee decided to issue an invitation to the Mayor to attend a special meeting to discuss the possibility of members of the city government joining t he Committee to make it a true Urban Coalition. The Boston Ur b a n Coalition reports g o od progress. At a meeting l a st week, Robe r t Sla ter , p res ide n t, J o hn Hancock Mutual Li fe Insurance Company , was elect ed chair man . Three task forces were named--Emp l oyment a nd Entr e preneurship , Housing and Education-and a sked t o prepare action pro posals at t he earli est possibl e date . A c ommittee was a l s o named to recommend a pe r manent o r g an i zatio nal structure. LEGISLATION At a meeting in Washin gto n this wee k, the Legislative Task Fo rce decided to urge the Co alition Executive Committe e t o autho riz e (1 ) moving ahead immediately to support the open housing l egislation now in the Senate, a nd ( 2 ) mobilizing s u pport for a supplemental appropriation to fund summer programs for the larger cities. PRIVATE EMPLOYMENT The third in the series of regional meetings on private employment will be held at the Hotel Muehlebach in Kansas City, Missouri, on February 21. Scheduled speakers include Kansas City Mayor Ilus w. Davis, William Flynn, director, STEP Program, National Association of Manufacturers, Rev. Thomas J . Ritter, executive director, Opportunities Industrialization Center, Philadelphia, J. A. Hosford, general manager, Western Electric Company, Lee's Summit, Missouri, Mayor Joseph H. McDowell of Kansas City, Kansas, and Francis Keppel, chairman of the board, General Learning Corporation and former U.S. Commissioner of Education. National Coordinators : John Feild/ Ron M. Linton Telephone 293 - 1530 �( 2) Concurrent workshops will be held on Organizing Local Employment Campaigns, Recruiting, Training, and Placement of the Hard Core Unemployed, Job Development and Upward Mobility and Reassessing Underemployment. STEERING COMMITTEE James F. Oates, Jr., chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States has accepted an invitation to become a member of the Urban Coalition Steering Committee. The press of other commitments has made necessary the resignation of Steering Committee member Gilbert W. Fitzhugh, president, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. �