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903. <br />• • <br />MINUTES - REGULAR MEETING <br />of the <br />LA PORTS CITY COMM/SS/ON, LA FORTE, TEXAS <br />August 5 , 9963 <br />7:00 P.M. <br />MEMBERS OF COMMISSION PRESENT: Mayor H. P. <br />Pfeiffer, Commissioners Tom Osburn, Frank Baker, Russell <br />Shepherd, and W. A. Stabs, Jr. <br /> <br />MEMBERS OF COMMISSION ABSENT: None <br /> <br />OTHER CITY OFF/C/ALS PRESENT: Clovis D. Mann, <br />City Clerk; Charles Pttman, City Attorney; Carlos Smith, <br />City Engineer; H. F. Freeman, Police Chief. <br /> <br />PRESIDING: Mayor N. P. Pfeiffer. <br />8 <br />• <br />Invocation was given by Father Hinds of St. Mary's <br />Catholic Church, La Porte. <br /> <br />1. Minutes of the Regular Meeting of July 15, <br />9963 and the Special Meeting of July 25, 1963 were read <br />and approved. <br /> <br />2. Mr. Marvin Burch, Mr. Wayne Blair, and Mr. REQUEST FOR Bl-RACIAL <br />Dick Scott, Mr. Isaac Gales, and Mr. M. S. Phillips appeared COMI~;'ITTEE <br />before the Commission to request appointment of a Bi-Racial <br />Committee in the City of La Porte. Mr. Blair presented a <br />letter from the Ftrst Methodist Church Commission on Christian <br />Social Concerns as follows: <br />"During the past few weeks the Commission on <br />Christian Social Concerns of the First Methodist Church has <br />been discussing and doing research on the areas which could <br />become problematic as La Porte becomes an integrated community. <br />This Committee believes that integration in some <br />areas is inev{tabCe and that an intelligent Christian Community, <br />with systematic planning, can work out its problems without <br />the pressure of outstde forces, demonstrations, sit-ins, etc. <br />/t is also the feeling of the Committee that the Logical approach <br />to integration is to establish an inter-ractal committee to <br />