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Friday, November 9, 1C34 Daily Nsbraskan Pcga7 ialone' neighborho Ccstiased firoa Tec iqpihe city of Lincoln paid $230,000 toward the buHd--II ing of Malone Center, Inc. various foundations helped pay for the rest. The three-year-old community center, located at 2032 U St., was the first major redevel opment project in the Malone area. Today, plans are under way to build Malone Manor. The $1,545,000, 50-unit complex should pay for itself in 40 years, Robinson says. The apartments will be rented on a first-come, first-served basis. Chick says he hopes the complex will enable elderly people to stay in the area after they become too old to take care of their own homes. The manor will be accessible to the handicapped. Other programs of the target area include block grant money, the Linear Park Bikeway, a neigh borhood park, industrial devel opment and street construction, Chick says. The university also has bought land in the area and plans to develop it for additional parking and recreation facilities, Chick says. I'T'ay Thompson has lived in the Malone area for nearly . 25 vears. She was the Dres- ident of Malone Community Cen ter for 10 years. She says she Area senators to keep seats in Legislature Incumbent Bill Harris of Lin coln "wen" his first election to the Legislature Tuesday and two other Lincoln-area incumbents retained their legislative seats. State Sens. Shirley Marsh of Lin coln and Jerome Warner of Wav erly joined Harris in sweeping their districts. Warner took the 25th district, Harris the 27th and Marsh the 29th. Warner won com fortably, but Harris and Marsh said they were a little worried as the votes were tallied. "Even though I was confident coming in, I knew my opponent had campaigned hard, so I was a little worried as the night went along," Marsh said. Marsh defeated retired IBM executive Gene Dankert by tak ing nearly 58 percent of the vote in her district. Harris said early results, which showed he and challenger Pat Hoffman running close made him lose a little confidence. "I knew how hard the Republi can Party was getting out in Lan caster County. They were putting out a lot of flyers and packets to vote Republican, so I was a bit worried," he said. Harris defeated Hoffman by pulling in 56 percent of the dis trict vote. Warner will begin his 23rd year in the Legislature after capturing 78 percent of the vote and defeat ing retired Air Force officer Charles Gove o f Pnton. Expert Watch and Jewelry . Service and Sales Time-Out Watch and Jewelry Center Downtown In the Skywalk by Miller and Paine thinks there has been a lot of improvement in the community. "Oh my I should say there's been much development," she says. "In the first place there's been much remodeling of some of the homes. And some homes have just been rebuilt." Like Robinson, Thompson has watched the changes. She is 76. When she first came to Lincoln she was about 13. She came here because her hometown, Norborne, MO, didn't allow black children to go to school beyond the eighth grade. She finished high school at Lincoln High and went on to get a degree in teaching from UNL. But when Thompson graduated from the university, she wasn't allowed to teach school in Lincoln, so she went home to Missouri where she taught grades first through fourth. After many years of traveling, Thompson returned to Lincoln, where she retired. Thompson says the Fair Employ ment Practice Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Law aided her and other minorities. Thompson, and her friend Lenora Letcher, have been involved with redeveloping the Malone neighborhood for many years. The neighborhood started deter iorating badly, over 30 years ago," Letcher says. "Development was very slow at that time. People needed to be done. of us. Or -Alotofpeopledidntknowthe 'i tmnK tneyre cyoung pcopiej 4JUt neighborhood," Thompson more open-minded -feeling free says. They didnx know what was toaotneirownining, inompson didnt have the feeling there was happening." says. any need to go on complaining When Thompson was waiting they thought there rsulin't be T" etcher says the Civil Rights for a bus downtown one day, she anything done about it. I Act of 1063 got many people says she saw a group of black and "We felt like there could be J-il involved, white kids breakdancing. She something done," Thompson said. "I think we need to keep up the didn't know exactly what they "So we got very much involved." good work," Thompson says. "I'd were doing she says, "but whatever Through the Urban Development like to see a little more friendii- it is they certainly were doing it." Program, Thompson says, people ness between the groups. You see, "I had to chuckle. 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