Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 62, Number 20, Decatur, Adams County, 24 January 1964 — Page 8

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Johnson Moves To Hold Negro Vote

By LYLE C. WILSON United Preu International President Johnson is carrying on from about President Kennedy left the administration's urgent effort to hold the Negro vote to this year’s presidential election. But it remained for Johnson to pull back a chair in the Cabinet room and to invite a Negro to sit down. This is moderately surprising because here was during the 1960 presidential campaign and after a great lot of double and otherwise misleading talk about a Negro in the cabinet Carl T. jßpwan will not be a member of the Johnson cabinet. But Rowan will sit regularly with the cabinet and the National Security Council. Rowan to the Negro nominated by Johnson to succeed Edward R. Murrow as director of the United States Information Agency (USIA). This is the - most distinguished political job attained by an American Negro so far, although Rowan himself to being relieved as U.S. ambassador to Finland to succeed Murrow. The late John F. Kennedy excelled at the delicate play of dealing will the voting members of a numerous, frustrated, unhappy, suspicious minority. He freely used patronage, charm and the simple gesture that became extravagantly and emotionally effective because it was expertly timed. Called King's Wife There was, for example, JFK’s phone call during the 1960 campaign to the wife of the Rev. Martin Luther King when King was locked up in a Southern jail. Kennedy would drop in on a Negro women's luncheon club in time for coffee and a few friendly words. He put Negroes in high federal office. Negro gratitude was so great that Kennedy was able to postpone for two years the instant civil rights promises of toe 1960 Democratic platform without dangerously alienating his Negro friends. The most controversial of JFK’s maneuvers to keep Negroes happy came shortly after the 1960 election when he appeared on toe stoop of his Georgetown home in company of Rep. William Dawson, 74-year-old Chicago Democrat and a Negro. The president - elect j told assembled newsmen ? — and ( Dawson agreed—that the con-; gressman had been offered and!

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had refused toe postmaster general’s post. Here was spec- [ tacular evidence of Kennedy's t interest and confidence in Ne- ■ groes—but, was it? Die ques- > tkm arose: Was the offer to ■ Dawson genuine? The Chicago Daily News said in an editorial: i > “We can’t believe it. Dawi son’s record should keep . him out of the cabinet.” The News pictured Dawson as the absolute political boss of a Chicago congressional district notable for corruption, fraud and other crime. If so, Dawson’s nomination would have invited severe scrutiny and, perhaps, rejection by the U.S. Senate. Kennedy scarcely could have been ignorant of Dawson’s political background nor insensible to the Senate's reaction to his nomination. There was suspicion, heretore, that the announcement that the nomination had been tendered and rejected was a political device and that no real proposal had been made to Dawson. Thereafter. Kennedy proposed establishment of a new cabinet department of urban affairs and said he would nominate a Negro to head it. Republicans almost unanimously hollered "foul” against that and Congress rejected the whole idea. Republican vice presidential ' nominee Henry Cabot Ixxige _ got into the act with campaign speculation that Richard M. Nixon would name a Negro to the cabinet if he were elected. Tha also was phony. JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES KINGDOM HALL Corner Monroe and Ninth Sunday — 3.00 p.m.: ‘‘What Hope for Lasting Peace?” is the name of a public Bible lecture to be given by W. E. Perry, a visiting minister from Van Wert, Ohio. Sunday 4:15 p.m.: — Watchtower Bible study and discussion on the subject, “Avoiding the Plague upon the Spirit of the World.” One of the scripture texts for consideration will be Acts 4:31, "They were one and all filled with the holy spirit and were speaking the word pf God with boldness.” Tuesday 8:00 p.m.—Area Bible studies in study aid, "Let Your Name Be J Friday 7:30 p.m — Theocratic -Ministry School followed by the S Kingdom Ministry Service meetfl ng.

Michigan And Sparfans Meet In Loop Clash CHICAGO (UPD—Michigan’s once - beaten basketball team, ranked No. 3 nationally,. puts sophomore stars Cazzie Russell and Oliver Darden on television Saturday against Michigan State in the Big Ten’s top contest of the weekend. The Wolverines have a 4-0 Big Ten record for a temporary bold on the league lead over Illinois, with a 2-0 mark since it has been sidelined for semester examinations. The Illini return to action Saturday for the first time since Jan. 11 against Arizona State in a Chicago Stadium doubleheader. Only two other conference games were on the program, Purdue with a 1-2 mark, at Ohio State, boasting a 2-1 record, and Minnesota, 3-2, at Northwestern, 3-2. No. 3 ranked Loyola meets Wichita, rated No. 8, in the other- Chicago Stadium clash. Russell and Darden were expected to share honors with a holdover star on the Wolverines, BID Buntin. Buntin, fourth best scorer in the conference last year and the leading rebounder, still leads the Wolverines to rebounds and ranks second to Russell in scoring. I Russell, second in rebounds, leads the club with a* 22.8 point per game average compared to 21.9 tor Buntin, while Darden to third with 10.2. In Big Ten play Buntin ranks fifth with a 23.8 average and Russell sixth with 23.0. The Michigan match with toe Spartans, who lead toe league to scoring with' a 90.3 point per game mark, should be decided on the backboards. The Spartans lead the circuit in rebounds, 56 J per game, but Michigan leads in percentage of rebounds taken with 56.4 and rank* among the national leaders to the department. Michigan State features more balanced scoring with Pete Gent the leader at 21.9, Fred Thumann, 16.0, Stan Washington, 14.5, and Marcus Sanders 13.9. Washington leads the club in Big Ten scoring with 19 per game, 11th best in the league. Gary Bradds, the defending league scoring champion, will lead toe Buckeyes against Purdue. He tops the circuit in scaring with a 28.7 average and has

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Southeast Winner In Grade Contest Southeast downed Northwest A by a 38-31 score in a sth and 6th grade basketball game Thursday, after leading 30-24 at halftime. Southeast scoring was as follows: Weldy, 10; Ortiz, 3, Bonifas, 7; Shaffer, 8; Williams. 2; Bullinger, 2; Collier, 4; Cochran. 2. Northwest scoring: Gerig 10: Fletcher, 2; Hawkins, 3; Shady, 6; Hill, 3; Affolder, 2; Christen, 5. Fori Wayne Home Looted Os SIO,OOO FORT WAYNE, Ind. (UPD— Two bandits overpowered a governess in the fashionable home of hotelman Harold Van Orman Thursday night and ( escaped with about SIO,OOO in jewelry and other valuables. Letitia Miller, the governess, told police she was seized from behind and a pillow case was pulled over her head. Then, she said, she was tied up while the men looted toe house on the city’s west-side. • The only other person in the Van Orman house was a small child. The parents were out of the city. Authorities said toe bandits loaded their loot into Miss Miller’s car and fled. Included were a diamond necklace and other jewelry, a television set, mink coat, movie projector and camera. Miss Miller worked herself free and called police. Authorities speculated toe men may have been the same who broke into another home a week ago and fled with about $5,000 in valuables. toe best field goal accuracy percentage, 59.3, but Purdue also can boast a top scorer in sbphomore Dave Schellhase. • Schellhase popped 43 points against Notre Dame in a double overtime Tuesday for the best performance of toe season by a Big Ten player and ranks fourth in league scoring with a 25.3 average. Northwestern has two of the league’s top ten scorers in Rick Lopossa and Rich Falk, while Minnesota boasts one in Lou Hudson,, in seventh place with 22.8 per game. Hudson has the best single game performance against a league team, 36 against Purdue.

Finley Returns ■ To Kansas City For Conference KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPD— Charles O. Finley, owner of the Kansas City Athletics, will return Saturday to the city he vowed to abandon and try again to negotiate a short-term lease for Municipal Stadiu. Carleton Sharpe, city manager, said Finley indicated in a telephone conversation Thursday that he was bringing proposals for either a one-year or a two-year lease to offer the city council. “If those are his proposals, he is wasting his time and our time,” said Sharpe. “We will be right back where we" started.” Sharpe said the city will continue to insist upon a lease of at least four years in length with no escape clauses. He said the city also would consider options, if they provided for payment of "reasonable rent.” Sharpe said city officials will meet with Finley in the city manager’s office at noon CST (1 p.m. EST). He said Finley was unable to tell him when he would arrive in the city. Finley’s appearance before city officials Saturday will be his first here since Jan. 3, the day ha angrily broke off the earlier lease negotiations and , ordered the team to complete its move out of the stadium. Finley said at that time the ‘ city could no longer consider* itself as having a major league baseball franchise. Three days

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Weeks Schedule Os Adams County Basketball Teams Friday Fort Wayne Luers at Commodores. Yellow Jackets at Angola. Lancaster Central at Monmouth. Pennville at Adams Central. Dunkirk at Geneva. Berne at Portland. Saturday Geneva at Warren. H. $. Basketball Wabash Valley Tourney Quarter-Finals At Brazil M Honey Creek 77, Cory 74. At Covington Attica 76, Rosedale 64. At Sullivan Loogootee St. John’s 53, Carlisle 42. • At Swiss City Shakamak 59, Shoals 56 (overtime.) Pro Basketball Boston 110, St. Louis 104. Baltimore 130, New York 114. San Francisco 125, Detroit 93. later, he signed a contract with the state of Kentucky to move the Athletics to Louisville this year. But the American League, in a meeting of its owners last week in New York, bluntly told Finley not only to stay in Kansas City but also to sign a stadium lease here by Feb. 1 or face expulsion from the league and loss of his franchise. Finley retaliated by threatening to file a court suit against Yhe league to test its power to prohibit him from transferring the Athletics.

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FRIDAY. JANUARY 24, 1964