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PAGE 12 Tuesday, May 14, 1963 HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falli, Ore. Maid OS Honor Wants To Hide Tatooed Arm By ANN LANDKHS Dear Ann Landers: My young est brother is being married this fall to a girl who comes irom a fine family, 1 have never met her or her peo ple. They live several thousand miles away. Last week I received a let ter from the bride - to-be and she has asked me to be her matron of honor. I would like to accept but something is hold ing me back. During World War II I ran around with a pretty fast crowd. A bunch of us girls who worked in the PX went out one night and had our arms tattooed. I es pecially admired Skinny Wairv wright at the time so his name is tattooed on my left arm. On my right arm is an eagle carrying a streamer which sss, "Buy War Bonds." All these years I've been wear ing long-sleeved dresses because I am ashamed of the tattoos. A matron of honor has to wear the gown selected by the bride, and such gown are usually sleeveless. Shall I tell her I can't accept and give no reason? SPINNING HEAD ' Dear Head! A tattoo can be re moved. See a dermatologist about detail. II you are unable or UD' willing to afford the time and expense, ask your future sister-in-law for the privilege of select ing your own gown Inviting her suggestions about color and fab ric, of course. Then select a dress with sleeves or wear long gloves. a stop to this Insulting practice? -NOT PAUPERS Dear Not: These people aren't consciously Insulting you. They don't know any belter, and it's lime you told them. Simply let them know you ap preciate their kindness hut you don't need any clothing for your children. Suggest that they call Goodwill Industries or one of the local welfare agencies. Dear Ann Landers: Why do people think that just because we have eight children we need their worn out, faded, discarded clothing? I've made floor rags out of better clothing than friends and neighbors have brought over here for my children to wear. We aren't wealthy people, Ann, but my husband has a steady job and we can afford to dress our children fairly well. Every time I see a neighbor or a friend coming onto the porch with a box under her arm I want to scream. My temper has Just about run Its string and I'm afraid that the next time I cet a "contribu tion" I'm going to tell somebody off. Can you suggest how to put Dear Ann Landers: Last night my parents were discussing our summer plans. We have a cottage in northern Illinois and for the past five years my folks have let me invite a boy friend up for a couple of weeks in July. This year I told them I'd like to in vite a girl and they almost bit my head off. By the way, I ought to tell you that I am a boy, 17. We have two bedrooms in our cottage with twin beds in each room. The girl could sleep with my mother and my dad could bunk with me. Wo are wcll-bchavcd kids and wouldn't think of doing anything wrong. Besides, Ann, my folks would be with us every minute. I'm pretty disappointed to think mv folks don't trust me. How can kids behave their best when their parents expect the worst? Please help me swing this, Annie. You were young once. B. WIL- DERED Dear B.: Sorry Buster, you rat tled the wrong cage. I am not about to suggest that parents of teen-agers provide a setup as cozy as this. I'm sure you are good kids and hnve no intention of doing any thing wrong. But I was Indeed young once, and I know that night and day exposure Is pretty strong stuff. Under such conditions chem istry might prove to be a more powerful force than judgment. And for your Information, Bud dy Boy, maybe your parents have some notions about spending two weeks in separate bedrooms. V7. 1:1 LJ I t n 9 1W Vf XU, Uc T.M. VS. h. OH. Astronaut Cooper Long Cherished Flight Into Space "The way to Insure good grades for Junior is to pull t fsw wires like hi-fi, TV and ignition for instance!" To learn the booby traps of teen-age drinking, write for Ann Landers' booklet, "Teen - age Drinking," enclosing w ith your re quest 20 cents in coin and a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope. Ann Landers will be glad to help you with your problems. Send them to her in care of this newspaper enclosing a 6tamped, self-addressed envelope. Monument Ceremony For Fort Rock Cave FORT ROCK Plans are under way here for special ceremonies to establish the famed "Fort Rock Cave" as a national monu ment. The observance is tenta tively scheduled sometime during the week of June 17. A Fort Rock Grange commit tee headed by Mrs. Maurice Ward will assist Mr. and Mrs. R. A. (Rube) Long in plans for the oc casion, w. Ward Yeager, super intendent of Crater Lake National Park, will present both a bronze marker and a certificate of registration to the Longs. The cave, located in Nigger Heel Butte about a mile and a half from the well-known land mark, "Fort Rock," is on the Rube Long property. Access will be made available to the public. It was around 1936 when Dr. L. S. Cressman of the university of Oregon and his party made discovery of sandals woven from shredded sagebrush bark. Dated by the radiocarbon method, the sandals are considered to oe more than 9.000 years old. Long, in announcing the recog nition given to the cave, pointed out that it Is classified as having exceptional value as an important part of the national cultural heri tage. Nearly two years ago he and Mrs. Long were asked to consider making it possible for the cave's designation as a na tional monument. They were charged to be "fully conscious of the high responsibil ity to the nation that goes with the ownership and care of a prop erty so classified." Coming as a small boy to the Christmas Lake community. Long grew up with the local history as a horseman as well as cattle man. He was named Oregon Grassman of the Year in 1956. Only a year ago Mr. and Mrs. Long deeded 30 acres of the western portion of "Fort Rock," which rises like a fortress from the valley floor, to the state park department of the Oregon High way Commission. Iheir gilt placed the entire "rock" in the state park system. CAPE CANAVERAL (UPI) - What makes a slender, eight- year-old boy want to soar over the southwest in a single-engine! airplane? What makes him receive pilot's license at 16? What makes him climb into a cramped space capsule, with per haps death as his co-pilot, and try to fly further than any Amer ican has ever flown before? For LeRoy Gordon Cooper Jr.. who has traveled the long road from prodigy pilot to prodigy spaceman, perhaps this is the answer: "I am convinced." Cooper once said, "that my whole life has been leading up to the exciting moment when I shall be selected to go into space." Cooper. 36, slim as a rail, fol lows in the footsteps of the avia tion pioneers the Charles Lind bergs who knew the fear and thrill of reaching into the un known. Friend of Flyers I was born and raised in the flying crowd." says Cooper. "My father was the friend of aviation pioneers like Wiley Post and Amelia Earhart, and he and I used to fly all over the Southwest in an old Comnui,J-Air biplane." j At 36, Cooper is a 150-pound package of tightly coiled energy. Yet there is a paradox. He is quiet-spoken and shy in public. Within the tight ranks of the astronauts, it is said, he is ag gressive and even vociferous. When asked once If he were more outspoken than the other astronauts, Cooper replied sim ply, "I have always tried to be honest with you." In this tightly knit community where motels have names like Satellite" and "Vanguard," and where neon signs on used car lots at night shoot upwards like rock ets. Cooper is recognized but not really known. Observers say he is something of a loner an individualist who speaks not in space-age cliches, but says what he thinks. Cooper does not share astronaut John II. Glenn's delight in two- mile conditioning runs along the beach. One report says Cooper believes "astronuats should be pilots and not decathlon champions." A report says his closest friend among the astronauts is Navy Cmdr. Walter M. Schirra Jr. Cooper was Schirra'i back - up pilot while Schirra prepared for his six-orbit flight last Oct. 3. As soon as he was back on the ground, Schirra started campaign ing for Cooper to make the Mara thon orbital mission. "I've often wondered what it would be like to go way up and see what the earth looks like from a great dis tance," Cooper said. "I'm sure I'll find out one day soon." M.ilWilHI.'M At laatl A pleasant, refreshing way to help break amokinff habit Great taate, gently medicated to help satisfy tobacco craving. At druc itorea. .):l,'S:i,',l.l!fJclll'l Life Of Negro Congressman Reviewed By UPI News Team By LOUIS CASSELS And ARNOLD SAWISLAK WASHINGTON (UPI) - When Adam Claylon Powell was 12 years old, his family moved to Harlem, whecr his father was to serve for many years as a Baptist minister. "The first night we were there," Powell recalled recently, "my mother sent me to the drug store. A gang of white boys waylaid me on the street, and beat me up. "The next night, I was sent on another errand, and I took a dif ferent route. This time a gang of Negro boys beat me up. "The third night tlw while boys grablwd me aguin, and asked me, 'boy, what color are you?" "I wos scared and didn't know what to say so 1 just told tlicm tlie truth. 'I don't know what I am.' 1 said. 'I'm mixed.' So they heat me up again for being mixed." ' . Powell laughed uproariously at ho told this anecdote to UI'I re 'pnrters In his congressional office. But there was a look in his eyes which suggested tho 12-year-old boy had not found tlie Incident so amusing. L'nsure of AnceMry Although Powell has become tlw American Negro's best-known and most controversial spokesman In Congress, l.e is not at all sure Imw much Negro blood is actually in his veins, and any uninslruclcd visitor would almost certainly take him for a white man. At M he is a tall, slim waislcd strikingly handsome man wilh long wavy hair, a neatly-trimmed moustache, and a complexion which ranges from the sliailo of coffee with double cream to that of weathered brass, depending upon how much time he has been spending In the sun outside his beach home in Tucrto Rico. On his desk is a family photo graph showing hi father, mother and sister. All of them look white. "I couldn't prove that 1 have any Negro blood," Powell said in reply to a direct question about his ancestry. Then he added: "I am a Negro by choice." Part of Answer In that sentence lies part of the explanation of Powell's strong hold on the affections of the Har lem constituents who have elected him to Congress 10 times despite a succession of scandals and ac cusations involving income tax returns, trips at government ex pense, relatives on the federal payroll and other matters. Powell is a man who could pass lor white who, in fact, was taken (or white in college but who has deliberately chosen to cast his lot wilh tlie Negro race. The decision may have cost him something in terms of private snubs or embarrassments. But it has been professionally and polit ically rewarding. Father Founds Church Powell was born in New Haven. Conn., Nov. 20, l:KW. But he has fent most of his life in New York City, where his fatlier, the Itcv. Adam Clayton Towcll Sr., built tli Abyssinian Baptist Church into one of the largest Protestant con gregations in America inlmut 10, OOO members). First located in doHnUmn MHtiliaitan. the church was transplanted to Harlem when Adam Jr. was 12. Young Powell grew up in com forlable circumstances, attended (Mod schools, was graduated from Colgate Lnivcrsily with an A.B. degree and went on to get his master's from Columbia. At 22, he became assistant minister of his father's church. Seven years later, he succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church a post which he still holds despite a scries of marital trou bles that have shocked some of the church ciders. Marries Three Times Powell has had three wives. The first, whom he wed in 1933, was Negro actress Isabel Washington. They were divorced in 1945, and Powell married pianist H a i e I Siolt. They hid a son. Adam Claylon Powell HI, nicknamed "Skipper," who has gladdened his father's heart by compiling a bril liant record in prep school and winning admission lo MIT this fall. The marriage to Miss Scott end ed in divorce in 1!K0, and Powell married one of his congressional secretaries, a pretty Puerto Rican girl named Yvrtte Diago. Although both of Powell's Jobs as minister and congressman theoretically require him to main tain his residence in Harlem, his real home these days is a $70, 000 beach house near San Juan. Puerto Rico, where he spends as much lime as possible with Yvettc and their infant son, born last car. Husbands! Wives! GetPep,Vim;FeelYounger TftnnrH (piM art wttt tfrNf w mi n- tft.nM(rd,t(l ftt try lUttl lone lMftj um- V"tm ft, M , . 0'"M tiipofs n I'M M snf , evMrl 4 IM M llr, tW mi cert. ItlMufmi Ott itntwi i. im 11 47. All f0'll. 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