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Calm & Confident. Godfrey, now that he has his money, has no particular plans for spending it. But. apparently, other citizens of Wink do; of the first eleven property owners who sold to McBee, three are making plans to move away. For that reason the project that was supposed to have saved Wink may sound its eventual death knell. Says one merchant: "A lot of people would have moved out a long time ago. only they didn't have any way to get the money to go." Says Wink Bulletin Editor Melvin Dow: "I'm just afraid we're going to end up with a well laid-out city but no people."
But at least one person would surely be left to enjoy the malls, the trees and the new city hall. Wink's town character is an aging Negro known only as "Buffalo." Reaching for his wine bottle one morning last week, Buffalo was calm and confident about the onward march of urban renewal.
'I ain't 'tall worried," said he grandly. "The Government's going to take care of all this here."