As you know, we are representing several community organizations in Newark, New Jersey, who are opposing a project to place a medical college in the midst of a densely settled Negro area. As the college is now planned, the college is planned to, has been planned to occupy 150 acres in this area and to displace, according to our estimates, over 10,000 people in a city which does not have adequate housing to replace the housing which is being taken and no plans to do so. The groups we represent further object to the fact that the health facilities to be provided by the college do not relate to the health needs of the community. But rather, there's an intention to develop a teaching hospital, which will take a small number of interesting teaching cases. A person with an interesting kidney problem, interesting liver problem, but not responsive to the health needs of that particular community. There's no objection to plans to place a medical teaching facility in the area if it was designed to occupy a reasonable amount of land, if there was a housing program that was prepared to rehouse the people to be displaced, and if the medical facilities to be provided related to the health needs of that community. Like in our city planner are showing in this case that the 160 acres would house the, what is it, the 20 largest medical schools in America? The average Medical College probably occupies no more than 10 to 15 acres. Well, the newest medical school Mount Sinai, which is a first rate school, occupies I think about a block and a half. This is a classic Negro removal case, where the effort is to reduce the Negro population in the central ward of the city. This whole project just stinks to high heaven of political maneuvering because, as you can see right here from our map, which is pretty much the bulk of the central ward, which is Newark's Black belt, you have a medical school. It's going to take up 150 acres of land. You have a highway coming through here, which is going to take another large amount of acreage, not to mention the people that are going to be taken out, just dwelling on the medical school per se. Newark is a city that has 60% Black people or more. They say 52, but they don't count the missing Black people. In 1970 there's a possibility that there may be a Black mayor. So what they want to do, and what they will do if this thing goes through, is to displace thousands of voters from the rolls by 1970. Now, some of those people will just move out of town. Those that don't move out of town will go into other parts of the city. When it comes time to vote, if they are in fact, registered, they will go to their old place of voting, or they will go to a new place of voting and find that they are not eligible to vote there. This project is located in the midst of the riot area in Newark. And many of the participants in the organizations were directly affected and involved as everyone in that area had to be in the riot. They're looking upon this effort really, as their last attempt to present their grievances in an orderly manner and call upon the assistance of lawyers, of city planners, of architects. They presented their grievances in a way in which I know no community to have done so. We have filed a complaint. There have been numerous conferences with federal, state, local authorities. If this considerable effort to present grievances in this manner fails, the community, I think, will become considerably dispirited in very conditions which, we're attempting to react to and merely be aggravated.