Champion OK'd As BRA Chief

The Boston Redevelopment Authority's board of directors has unanimously approved the nomination of Hale Champion as director of the BRA. Champion will vacate his position as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics on January 15 to assume the post.

Champion succeeds Edward J. Logue who opposed Kevin White in the mayoral primary. Champion's salary will be $35,000 a year, $5000 more than that of Logue who will soon fill a professorship at Boston University.

The Redevelopment Authority wields more power than any other of Boston's civil agencies. As director Champion will have responsibility for the city's burgeoning urban renewal program.

Mayor White's talent-hunting task force, headed by Samuel P. Huntington, Professor of Government, proposed Champion to serve as director.

Champion is a former newspaperman and attended Harvard in 1956-57 as a Nieman Fellow in Journalism. He was California's Director of Finance for six years before coming to the Institute of Politics last February.