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In 'Good Neighbor's' Campaign

Canvass Workers Recruited

By Anson Franklin
Cavalier Daily Staff Writer

Officials of the Good Neighbor
Canvassing Committee are still
recruiting workers for the citywide
door-to-door canvass on
May 5 and 12, in which they
hope to add more signatures to
the nearly 2000 already collected
in the Good Neighbor Campaign.

The signatures are on cards
which say, "I would welcome
into my neighborhood, to own
or rent a home, any person,
regardless of race, religion or national
origin, who would be a
good neighbor."

Most of these cards were signed
during the Good Neighbor
Sunday campaign when local
churches distributed the cards,
but about 200 cards, "a very
rough estimate," have been
mailed in by faculty members
as a result of a letter sent to them
earlier this week.

The letter, which included one
of the "good neighbor pledge"
cards and a copy of Charlottesville
city council's fair housing
resolution, was signed by J. Taylor
Beard, an assistant professor
of mechanical engineering, and
included the names of 16 other
faculty and administration members.

Mr. Beard said yesterday that
the estimated 200 signatures by
faculty members was in addition
to those who signed cards in
their churches. Since a separate
record of professors who signed
is not being kept, Mr. Beard
said, no total can be ascertained;
but he said he expects that
by the end of the Good Neighbor
campaign, about 50 percent
of the faculty will have signed
the pledges.

"We have gotten a very good
response from the University
community," he said.

More faculty signatures should
come in when the citywide canvass
begins this Sunday.

For this canvass, the city has
been divided into 11 precincts,
six of which are chaired by members
of the University, according
to the Rev. John D. Hicky of
St. Thomas Hall.

The six are Dean of Admissions
Ernest H. Ern, Mr. Beard,
professors Kenneth R. Hall, and
John L. Gainer, law student
Peter F. Windrem and graduate
student L. Tucker Gibson.