Box 1, Folder 4, Document 4

Box 1, Folder 4, Document 4

MEMO TO MAYOR ALLEN:

I received a call Thursday, May 29, from Mrs, Juanita
Banks (I'rs, James Banks) of 123 Ormand St. S&, telephone
Sel 5810. She lives in the Model Cities area and she tells
me she is desirous of getting a loan that will enable her to
enlarge and improve her home, which she owns, She evidently
approached the Model Cities people about ge ting a loan and
was a little unhappy that no one had rushed out to see her,
Rut that wasn't; her big complaint. She says a building
inspector by name of 0. C. Long did come to inspect her house
and while their questioned her about her willingness to
sell the house. He told her, she said, that "they wanted
to use my house for a model house." She told Long she didn't
want to sell her house, jsut to repair it, But later on,
she said, other men came by to see her, all or most of them
again asking whether she'd sell hery house. She didn't
remember their full names. Just listed them as "McGill,"
"Littlefield" and"Henley." She said she'd given no one any
cause ever to believe she had any desire to sell her pome.
She found the behavor of some of these men at least a little
suspicious. ,

I have since checked with Johnny Johnson. Mrs.
Banks! home is not in a clearance areca but in a rehabilitation
area, The mention of the name "Henley" suggested to me
the i:volvement of the Aylanta Housing Authority and the
possibility they were attempting to acquire Yrs. Banks! home
for clearance, That would not seem to be the case, though
Johnny is checking further.

Mrs. Panks told me a little more about her effurts to
obtain a cheap loan, “She said she finally was contacted by
the project manager of McDaniel Street Homes and that he
finally told her she wouldn't qualify for a loan because her
lot is too small. She said she has a 50 foot lot and in her
judgment she can make the expansion she wants to make.

She said she'd been bothered so much by city people
coming there to beg her to se@l her house that as of then,
Thursday, she was spending the day with her mother elsewhere
in town to Heep from being pestered to death,

Raleigh Bryans