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Show Democrats Appoint Chairman For Newest Committee whole." Mayor Lee's committee is now in process of formation. It will consist of approximately 25 national na-tional leaders who have special experience with, and knowledge of, the problems faced by America's Ameri-ca's urban and suburban areas and their residents. Outstanding American mayors and experts in the various areas of urban and suburban problems will be with those serving on the committee. Mayor Lee is now in his third term as mayor of New Haven. He was born in New Haven in 1916, attended school there,' and graduated from Hill House High School. When he was 18 he became be-came a reporter on the Journal-Courier, Journal-Courier, spending five years, first on the police and fire beat, then at city hall. Following this he became associate secretary of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce and organized a Junior Jun-ior Chamber of Commerce of which he later was president. He entered the Army in 1942 but was discharged a year later for physical reasons. For the next eleven years he worked for Yale University as director of the Yale news bureau. He served four terms on the New Haven Board of Aldermen, rising to be minority leader. At 33 he won his party nomination for Mayor and lost the election. In 1953 he won election. His first year in office he established estab-lished a representative, non-partisan Citizens Action Commission Commis-sion to investigate the causes of New Haven's decline and to find the remedy. From this flowed the "citizen participation" promised prom-ised in his campaigns and the program of urban renewal which has won him a national reputation. Mayor Richard C. Lee of New Haven, Conn., has been appoint-v appoint-v ed chairman of the Advisory Committee on Urban and Suburban Sub-urban Problems, it was announced an-nounced this week by Paul M. Butler, chairman of the Democratic Demo-cratic National Committee. The new committee which Mr. Lee will head is the fourth major policy committee to be established estab-lished by the Democratic Advisory Advis-ory Council. The other three committees, which advise the Council on a continuing basis, are the Advisory Committee on Foreign Policy, Dean Acheson, chairman; the Advisory Committee Commit-tee on Economic Policy, John K. Galbraith, chairman; and the Advisory Committee on Labor Policy, George M. Harrison, Chairman. In announcing Mayor Lee's appointment, ap-pointment, Mr. Butler said: "The members of the Council and I regard the work of this new committee as of first line , and pressing importance. Great changes have been taking place ' in our metropolitan regions dur- ing recent decades. Today two- thirds of our citizens live in metropolitan met-ropolitan regions. "All of us are familiar with the congestion in our cities, the decay of many of our urban districts dis-tricts and the increase in slums, the mushrooming of suburban areas, the practically insatiable and largely unmet need for the schools, transportation, housing, water and sewage plants and private pri-vate and public facilities. "We are confident that Mayor Lee and his committee will approach ap-proach these problems with resourcefulness re-sourcefulness and imagination and will recommend to Council , sound private and public programs pro-grams for dealing with them. "The Council is particularly fortunate to have secured Mayor Lee as chairman of this committee. com-mittee. The country has watched with growing admiration the re markable job of urban renewal he is achieving in New Haven. He has taken a city blotted by decay and blight and is restoring it to a place in the sun. His experience ex-perience in heading that exemplary exemp-lary job will be invaluable, as the committee strives to point the way for the nation as a |