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3 Negro L.eaders Asli Allen for an Apology The Atlanta Summit Leadership Conference (ASLC) has called for Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. to apologize for a "slur" against the president of the local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Davis specifically mentioned The Rev. Sam Williams, Jesse a proposal for a housing unit in Hill Jr. and Aid. Q.' V. William- the Skipper Drive-Harw.ell Roadson, co-chairman of ASLC, w,ere Bankhead Drive area which he referring· to remarks by the said would further saturate the mayor about Dr. A. M. Davis, already saturated area." local NAACP leader. · Whep it was pointed out that Davis wrote the mayor for a Davis lives in that neighbormeeting on the public housing hood, the mayor said, "I wonsituation here and later issued der if that might influence his a statement that he had not position." It was that remark "receiv,ed the courtesy of a re- that drew the ire of the three ply." Davis went on to say that Negro leaders. he had asked the federal governAllen said that he had written ment to cut off funds for local housing and urban renewal pro- Davis and said he (Allen) would grams because of discrimina- be glad to talk with the NAACP leader, but suggested Davis tion. first familiarize himself with the current public housing situation. Allen said that the city is looking for possible low-income ~ousing sites all over the city, but that most of the vacant and available land is in the west and southeast. He encouraged the NAACP and other such organizations to find sites and develop them under such federal programs as "221-d(3)." As to the latest ASL charge, the mayor had no comment. ~ al cl la m II'\ ~ cl\ f1 a - 1 o ~ 2 i 1 '!I 7 �