The Bulletin, Monday, May 20, 1963
Powell says his greatest sin
is his role in power structure
(EDITOR'S NOTE: What is
Adam Clayton Powell's greatest
sin? In the eyes of his critics,
ho contends, it is simply that
ha is a Negro "a Negro who's
won a place In the power struc
ture." In the following dispatch,
final of three on tha controver
sial Harlem congressman, Pow
II gives his reaction to ques
tions thousands have been ask
ing.) By Louis Cassels and
Arnold Sawislak
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Rep.
Adam Clayton Powell, D-N.Y., ex
tracted a thin gold lighter from
a special pocket of his expensive
ly tailored jacket and applied
llama to the end of a Churchill
sized cigar.
He settled back in a leather
chair and smiled at two UPI re
porters who had come to inter
view him in his congressional of
fice, which overlooks the Capitol
grounds Irom Room 459 of the old
House Office Building.
It was the easy, confident smile
oi a veteran politician who figures
he can take care of himself, no
matter how pointed the questions
may get.
Replies to Critics
"Mr. Powell," one of the news
men began, "you have been under
heavy fire recently from some of
your own colleagues in Congress.
They have accused you of abus
ing the privileges of your office
by such practices as junketeering
and nepotism. They have tried to
clip your wings by slashing the
budget of the House Education
and Labor Committee which you
head.
"You have replied by charging
your critics with racial prejudice.
Do you really think that your only
offense is that you are a Negro?"
"That's right," Powell replied.
"I have said before and will say
again, unequivocally, they are at
tacking me because I am a Ne
gro. What is worse from their
viewpoint, I am a Negro who's
won a place in the power struc
ture, as chairman of an important
House committee. They can't for
give me for that."
Q. Quite aside from any ques
tion of race, don't you think that
your own personality, your rather
flamboyant way of doing things,
may have something to do with
upsetting your colleagues?
A. Yes, I'd agree with that. The
things which other congressmen
try to hide, I do right out in the
open. I'm not a hypocrite.
An unusually heavy storm of
criticism broke around Powell's
head last summer when he left
Washington in the midst of the
congressional session to tour Eu
rope with two women committee
aides one a white divorcee and
the other a Negro beauty queen
who was runner-up for Miss Uni
verse. Powell suggested that it was the
bi-radal nature of his "staff"
which made this trip so reprehen
sible in the eyes of his critics.
"Despite all of the wisecracks
that were made," he said, "I did
go to Europe to study the Common
Market, and I filed a long and
detrailed report on the impact of
the Common Market on U.S. la
bor." 0. Don't you think there are
some Americans who disapprove
of congressional junkets on prin
ciple, who just don't want to see
their lawmakers, regardless of col
or, taking plush vacations at gov
ernment expense?
A. Well. I think we ought to
make it clear that not one penny
Personal income
continuing its
upward surge
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The
Commerce Department reported
today that personal income con
tinued surging upward in April to
reach a record $455.8 billion an
nual rate.
This is up about $2.5 billion
from the previous high in March.
Personal income includes wages
and salaries, dividends, interest,
rents and other types of earnings.
The economy's strong showing in
this sector is one of the reasons
why many feel business is going
to have a good year in 1963.
The annual rate of personal in
come this year is running about
4 per cent higher than this time
in 1962.
The April showing received
much of its impetus from manu
facturing, where wages and salar
ies rose by more than $1 billion
to a record annual rate of $96.5
billion.
The increase last month in this
department was the largest of the
past 12 months. The Commerce
Department said the gains result
ed primarily from higher employ
ment, since hours worked per
week and average hourly earn
ings showed little change on a sea
sonally adjusted basis.
SELECTION MADE
MILWAUKIE. Ore. LTI -Susie
Breitenstien, an 18-year-old
Clackamas High School senior,
was chosen Miss Milwaukie Satur
day nieht.
She will represent Milwaukie in
the Miss Orecon Pageant at Sea
side this year.
of U.S. tax funds was spent on
my trip to Europe or on most
such congressional trips. They are
financed entirely out of the 'coun
terpart funds' which are built up
in various countries under the
foreign aid program. The money's
there and it doesn't cost the tax
payers anything for us to use it.
I think travel is good for con
gressmen. It is a very broadening
educational experience, and all
congressmen should take advan
tage of opportunities to see the
world. Most of them do, too. The
only ones who don't go on these
so-called 'junkets' are the ones
who are afraid of planes.
Q. What about this business of
putting your wife on the congres-
Utah trio buys
interest in
printing firm
SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) -Three
prominent Utah newspaper
publishers Saturday announced
purchase of controling stock in
terest in Newspaper Publishing
Center Inc., of Salt Lake City.
The purchase was announced
jointly by Charles Claybaugh,
Brigham City; Russ Innes, Lehi
and Jim Cornwell, Murray. No
purchase price was announced.
The Salt Lake City firm is a
web offset printing company es
tablished for doing commercial
printing and newspaper publica
tion. Four stockholders in News Pub
lishing Center are John McClel
land. Longview, Wash.; Robert
Chandler, Bend, Ore.; Glen Cush
man. Bend, Ore.; and Robert
Crosby, Anaheim, Calif.
The purchase eliminated Crosby
and Cushman as stockholders and
minority interests were retained
by McClelland and Chandler.
The stock was purchased In the
name of the three Utah publish
ers and their wives.
3-day sentence
given vagrant
Lonnie Frederick Davis, Santa
Ana, Calif., received a three-day
jail sentence In Friday s munici
pal court session for vagrancy.
Fined $25 and court costs Fri
day was Ronald Delbert Doney,
Pine Tree Motel, after being
found guilty of intoxication on a
public street
A charge of operating a motor
vehicle while under the influence
of intoxicating liquor, against Al
fred Norman Curtis, Route 1, Box
98, was dismissed.
Two persons forfeited $1 bail
plus a $1 impounding fee and $2.50
court costs for allowing their dogs
to run at large. They were Rob
ert Tye, 156 Reed Market Road,
and Dick Gribble, 153 Lafayette.
sional payroll at a salary of near
ly $13,000 a year, even though she
living down in Puerto Rico?
A. She earns her salary by an
swering the letters I get from my
Puerto Rican constituents in Har
lem. I have no apology to make
about putting a relative on the
payroll. The only difference be
tween me and my colleagues on
this matter is that I'm not a hypo
crite about it.
Q. Do you see no wrong in
nepotism?
A. I think nepotism is a won
derful thing until congressional
salaries are increased.
Q. How do your constituents re
act to stories about how you're
living it up in Washington, Paris
and Puerto Rico?
A. They love me for it. They
enjoy it vicariously with me. I'm
just doing the tilings they'd do if
they were in Congress.
Throughout the interview. Pow
ell had remained relaxed, amiable
and unruffled. But he tensed a bit
when the questioning shifted to
his role as pastor of the Abyssin
ian Baptist Church in Harlem.
One of the reporters commented
that Powell's personal code of
morality including his well-publi
cized fondness for fine wines, ex
pensive night clubs, fast cars and
pretty women "seems to differ
somewhat from the norm" of the
Baptist ministry.
Powell similinelv acknowledged
that he is not a typical Baptist
preacher. But he said with sudden
seriousness that "I really believe
in the kind of ministry I've prac
ticed for 33 years."
I believe that the practice of
brotherhood is the fundamental de
mand of Christianity," ho said.
I believe the church has been
burdened with too much emphasis
on picayune matters of personal
morality, and has neglected the
more important matter of fighting
lor racial and social justice.
He said his religious attitudes
are now based entirely on the so
called "Jefferson Bible," a com
pilation of the sayings of Jesus
Christ which was made by Thom
as Jefferson.
"I can't find anything in the
sayings of Jesus against moder
ate drinking, dancing and card
playing," Powell said. "But I do
find a great deal that He said
against hating and turning your
back on your brother.
Q. Doesn't the Jefferson Bible
include the words of Jesus about
divorce being wrong, and remar
riage of a divorced person the
equivalent of adultery? How do
you square that passage with your
three marriages and two di
vorces? Powell paused for a long mo
ment before answering.
"I won't make any rationaliza
tions,", he said at last. "I think
the concept of lifelong marriage
laid down by Jesus is absolutely
correct. In this day and time, it
is a hard law to follow, but it is
a good one, and I stand guilty of
having broken it.
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Two Bend men in 'Grand Slam'
Special to The Bulletin
U.S. FORCES, Germany Army
Specialist Five Frank D. Cush
man. 29, and Specialist Four
Montie L. Tunnel), 21, of Bend,
Ore., took part in Exercise Grand
Slam II May 2 through 7 with
other members of the 62d Medi
cal Group in Germany.
Elements of the Canadian,
French and Gorman armed forces
also participated in the exercise
which was designed to lest plans
and procedures of NATO forces
assigned to Central Europe.
Specialist Cushman, who arriv
ed overseas in October 1961 on
this tour of duty, is regularly sta
tioned in Germany as an admin
istrative specialist in the group's
15th Medical Detachment, his
wife, Grace, is with him in Ger
many, and his father, Orrie S
Cushman, lives in Bend.
Specialist Tunnell. son of Mrs.
Helen J. Richards. 1646 Galveston
Avenue, is a helicopter mechanic
in the 15th Medical Detachment,
Overseas since last August, he
entered the Army in November
1961 and completed basic training
at Fort Ord, Calif. Tunnell was
graduated from Bend High School
in 1958 and worked for the U.S.
Forest Service before entering the
Army.
Cooper given big welcome
by Cape Canaveral fhrong
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
(UPI) - The high school band
lined up two hours early under
the hot Florida sun.
Soon the musicians began per
spiring.
Miss Kay Spruul shepherded
the 200 students In the Cocoa
Beach Elementary School Glee
Club onto the grandstand and
ran through "Oklahoma" for the
last time.
Children, tanned and waving
American flags, got on the curb
while their parents stood watch
ing. "Gordo, welcome back to terra
firma," said a hand-lettered sign.
"While this is not his home town,
he is going to get a hometown
welcome," said Mayor Robert
Murkshe.
It was this spaceport's welcome
home Sunday for Maj. L. Gordon
Cooper.
Arrives By Plane
Cooper began his day high
over the United States In a C135
jet transport. With him were his
wife, Trudy, and their two teen
age daughters.
At 11:04 a.m. EDT the plane
touched down at Patrick Atr
Force Base. Ten minutes later
the main hatch opened and Coop
er, flowers around his neck, tan
and fit in a business suit, strode
down the ramp.
Mrs. Cooper was at his side.
The Air Force honor guard stood
at attention.
"You rascal," said astronaut
Alan B. Shepard Jr., Cooper's
backup pilot, as they shook hands.
"You won a race." said astro
naut Walter M. Schirra Jr.
"Attaboy, Gordo." shouted
someone in the crowd lining the
runway.
Cooper strode to the micro
phone. "Thank you all for coming
out," he said. "I finally got back
home just as I said I would."
The astronaut underwent a med-
VFW PROTESTS
WASHINGTON (UPI) The
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW)
protested Sunday against any
move by the United Slates to re
store normal relations wltn com
munist Hungary.
The VFW statement was issued
following reports that U.S. offi
cials were considering dropping
opposition to giving the Hungari
an regime a seat in the United
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at 3:30 p.m., EDT climbed atop
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aska, (UPI) A young Swedish
pilot and his employer believe
they have become the first men
in history to fly nonstop over the
magnetic north pole from Nor
way to the United States in a
small single-engined plane. '.
Sigurd S. Hallstrom and Okf
Ringstrad, both of Stockholm.
landed at this village on a tiny
Arctic coast Island at 6:13 p.rji.
PDT Sunday after flying nonstop
from Bodo in northern NorwgV
The men, traveling in a 250-horse-
power Piper Comanche were Jn
the air 21 hours. -They
appeared to be In gapi
spirits but were tired. Both of
them viewed the feat with casual
modesty.
Hallstrom, owner of the plane
who acted as navigator, is a
Swedish businessman with inter
ests In shipping and real estate.
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ness trip."
"I have business In Anchorage,"
he said, "and I consider it prac
tical to fly direct"
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