Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 61, Number 113, Decatur, Adams County, 13 May 1963 — Page 6

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Powell Indifferent To Much Criticism

(EDITOR'S NOTE: “These 1 attacks haven’t hurt me with my people.” That’s the way i Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, DN.Y., reacts to criticism of his activities. The following dispatch, the first of three about

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I the Harlem Negro, explores | some of these criticisms and how Powell views them.) By LOUIS CASSELS and ARNOLD SAWISLAK United Press International WASHINGTON (UPD - At a

recent news conference on Capitol Hill, a reporter asked Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y.: “Does it bother yoq ,tq be called an adult delinquent?’’ Powell's handsome tan face broke into an elfin smile. “No,” he replied. “Not at all.” A bland indifference to notoriety is one of the uncommon traits that have made Powell the most talked-about member of the 88th Congress. Not since the heyday of the late Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, w, , h -...At —

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R-Wis., has a lawmaker managed to stir up so much controversy as Powell The urbane, 54-year-old Negro leader has outraged some Americans and delighted others, by zestfully pursuing the rarely combined careers of playboy, preacher and politician. Disregards Convention His genius for trampling on conventional ideas of how a minister and-or a congressman should behave has been expressed in a flittering variety of ways.

Item: He has hung a sign on the door of his congressional offices tellng visitors, in effect, to go away. Item: He married his secretary, raised her government salary from $3,074 to $12,974 a year, and ensconced her in a $70,000 beach house in Puerto Rico to earn her pay at a distance of 1,500 miles from Washington. When criticized for all of this, hb blithely acknowledged: “I think nepotism is wonderful.” Item: He left Washington in the

midst of last year’s congressional session for a month-long tour of Europe, accomuanied by two attractive young women members of his staff, all of them traveling on government funds. When asked whether it was proper for him to include night clubs and -beach resorts in his itinerary, he replied that he could hardly be expected to “go to Paris and spend all the time in Notre Dame.” Criticised Widely For these many other flamboyant transgressions against popular ideas of propriety, Powell has been criticized by his colleagues in Congress, upbraided by newspaper editorials, and rebuked by some prominent Negro leaders. But there are two groups which evidently find no fault with Adam Clayton Powell. They are the Negro and Puerto Rican voters of the 18th Congressional District of New York who have elected him to the House 10 times by huge majorities, and the members of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, who have retained him as their pastor through three marriages, two divorces, a trial for income tax evasion which resulted in a hung jury, and repeated demonstrations of his sophisticated tastes in wine, women, food and festivity. Since his consituents and his congregation are the only people whose opinions greatly matter to Powell, he can afford to be carefree about the vituperation heaped on his head from other directions. “These attacks haven’t hurt me with my people,” Powell said in an interview with UPI reporters. “On the contrary, they have strengthened my position at home. The folks in Harlem know that I’m being attacked because I’m a Negro — and because I’ve won a place in the power structure of American society from which to battle for their rights.” Heads Important Committee Powell’s “place in the power structure” is the chairmanship erf the House Education and Labor Committee, which handles a large portion of President Kennedy’s domestic legislative program. He served notice recently that he feels the Kennedy administration is “moving too slow” on civil rights and he may prod it along by adding his so-called “Powell Amendment” —a rider forbidding any racial discrimination in programs financed partly by federal funds — to domestic legislation coming out of his committee. The more aggressive posture he has lately assumed chi racial issues also is reflected in his demands that Negroes take full control of the leadership posts in all organizations, such as the NAACP, which are working for their betterment. Powell says Negro organizations should “welcome the support of white people, but not in policy-making posts.” “The white man has given the Negro in America just about as much as he intends to,” he declares. “The Negro masses from here on must take their place in the democratic picture in America under their own leadership and through their own power. “We will achieve only that which we fight for, and it can only be done by those organizations that are totally owned, controlled and maintained by the Negro people” (Next* How PoweU became a Negro leader.) Tractor Accidents Kill Two Hoosiers By United Press International Tractor accidents on Indiana farms killed a teenager and an elderly man during the weekend. Kenneth P. Kruer, 15, Floyd Knobs, was killed Saturday when a tractor he was operating on the family farm overturned on and chushed him. Vern R. Smith, 75, R. R. 1, Hudson, dued of suffocation and a crushed chest when a tractor with which he was hauling trees upset

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Strong Haiti Stand Urged

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Sen. William J. Fulbright, chairman of the Seate Foreign Relations Committee, said today the United States should use force if necessary to prevent a Communist takeover in Haiti. The Arkansas Democrat criticized the Organization of American States for not taking a strong stand in the crisis. He told newsmen the OAS should not wait for the United States to act, but should “assume responsibility for whatever action may be deemed appropriate.” Fulbright said regardless of what the OAS does, the possibility of a Communist regime in Haiti “concerns us very much.” He said the United States “will do what can be done to prevent that.” Other developments: Highway: The House and Senate Public Works Committee today got an optimistic road report on the Pan American Highway. At a joint session,, the lawmakers heard delegates to the ninth annual Pan American Highway Conference report that the North American portion of the highway was now completed. The delegates urged the committee to continue its support for the roadway, but Sen. Spessard Holland, D-Fla-, who represented the Senate Appropriations Committee at the hearing, made no specific reference to future plans for financing a still uncompleted 420-mile stretch of the roadway in Panama. TFX: Assistant Defense Secretary Arthur Sylvester said today that the real issue in the TFX fighter plane controversy has been obscured, despite thousands of words of congressional testimony. Sylvester said the big issue was the substitution of a single plane for the Air Force and Navy in place of the old, more expensive way of each building its own. Annual Patrol Party Here Next Saturday The 18th annual patrol party for all boys and girls in Adams county schools, will be held Saturday, May 11, it was announced today. The party, sponsored by the Chicago Motor Club for all patrol officers in Adams county schools, will begin at 9:30 a. m. Saturday, with a full length picture and several cartoons at the Adams theater. Patrol officers from each of the Decatur schools, public and parochial, Adams Central, Berne and Geneva, will be entertained. In addition, those from Bluffton and Ossian are invited. Die youngsters will be served potato chips, candy and ice cream, and drawings for prizes such as tennis rackets, ball gloves, fishing poles and many other prizes will be held. Principals from the schools and a representative of each school’s parent teachers association, will aid in handling the party. Special prizes were donated by the Moose, Eagles, Elks, V.F.W., American Legion, K. of C., First State Bank, Citizens Telephone Co., the Indiana public service commission, Rotary, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Junior Chamber trf Commerce. Other prizes were donated by the Chicago Motor Club. and pinned him to the ground on his farm Saturday. The body was found by his son, Milton.

MONDAY, MAY 13, 1963

Young Rookie Hurlers Score Wins Sunday By FRED DOWN UPI Sports Writer The old guard of the American League is being forced to sit up and take notice of a couple of young pitchers not even old enough to vote. They’re Sam McDowell of the Cleveland Indians and Dave Morehead of the Boston Red Sox —and they're looking good and cocky enough to match snears with the likes of Babe Ruth — well, all right, with Roger Maris. Both turned in powerful performances Sunday. McDowell pitching a six-hitter to give the Indians a 9-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers and Morehead hurling a one-hitter as the Red Sox scored a 4-1 victory after losing the first game of their doubleheader to the Washington Senators, 3-2, in 14 innings McDowell’s Second Win It was the second victory of the season for the 20-year-old McDowell ad the third straight win of the campaign for the 19-year-old Morehead. The Indians have won 7 of their last 10 games while the Red Sox are in second place, only two games behind the front-running Chicago White Sox. Meo well, a 6-5, 200-pound lefty, struck out eight and pitched out of numerous jams caused by six walks to square his record at 2-2. Woodje Held led the Indians’ 11-hit attack with a double and a triple that drove in three runs. Don Mossi was routed in 1 2-3 innings and sufferedd the defeat. Morehead, a 6-1, 185-pounder from San Diego, Calif., yielded a homer to Chuck Hinton in the first inning and then blanked the Senators the rest of the way to make his record 3-0. He has yielded only four earned runs in 32 1-3 innings. Homer Ends Long Game Don Lock’s homer gave the Senators their victory in the 14inning opener with Jim Coates gaining his first win and Dick Radatz suffering the loss. The Los Angeles Angels scored a 7-6, 12-inning triumph after the Chicago White Sox ran their winning streak to seven games with a rbmp, the New York Yankees blanked the Baltimore Orioles, 2-0, and the Kansas City Athletics edged the Minnesota Twins, 2-1, in other AL games. In the National League, the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Francisco Giants, 6-5, the Houston Colts topped the Gtycago, Cubs, 2-1, the Philadelphia Phillies swept the Milwaukee Braves. 4-3 and 6-5, the Pittsburgh Pirates downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-3, after a 2-1 defeat and the New York Mets scored a 13-12 triumph after the Cincinnati Reds won the first game of their doubleheader, 3-0. End Winning Skein Floyd Robinson's three hits and Mike Hershberger’s homer led the White Sox’ 18-hit openinggame attack but the Angels ended the Sox’ seven-game skein when Lee Thomas doubled home Leon Wagner in the 12th inning of the nightcap. Thomas’ blow tagged Hoyt Wilhelm with his third loss of the season compared with one victory. If you nave something to sell or trade — use the Democrat Want ads — they get BIG results.