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fHt WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Powell Plans to Hit Back at His Critics By DREW PEARSON Clayton Powell, the No. 1 "Harlem globetrotter," has told colleagues that he is preparing to hit back at those who have been criticizing his trips abroad. "I've kept my mouth shut as long as I can," Powell complained at a secret caucus with Democratic members of his education and laber committee. "However, I have a lot of information about the spending habits of other members of Congress, including a few senators, which will make an interesting story when I turn it loose." Powell didn't mention any names, but threatened to expose "a number of guys" who had "spent a great deal more money than me since I came to Congress." What intrigued members of the administration committee, who earlier had examined Powell's budget, was one item of $25 for a special limousine to the Baltimer airport. Many other congressmen have taken this trip, but paid $2.50 on the bus.

They were also interested in Adam's intercom by which he can listen in on the meetings of his subcommittees. This means that he doesn't have to attend subcommittee meetings, but can merely sit in his office and listen. When he wants to make an observation, he simply pushes a button, interrupts the proceedings, and over the intercom tells what he thinks of the debate. When asked who paid for this, Powell said he wasn't sure whether it came out of his education and labor committee funds, but admitted it came from federal funds. He also recommended that his colleagues get "executive-type" phones.

"Mine is just like the speaker's," he said. "You fellows had better get one." "AFRO-ASIAN FLU" The dashing Harlem congressman, who claims he has been victimized because he is a Negro, opened the session with a quip. "I am here against doctor's orders," he said. "I have the Asian flu, or should I call it the Afro-Asian flu?" At first, Powell wouldn't admit that he or members of his staff had taken thirty trips to Puerto Rico in the past two for out of education and labor committee funds. Mrs.

Powell, who is on the government payroll for $12,000 a year, lives at the Powell beach mansion outside San Juan, and the congressman has been a regular commuter. However, Rep. John Kyi, cited dates and airlines bills for seven trips which definitely established Powell as the user of the tickets. Twenty-three other trips were also made, but Mrs. Louise Maxienne Dargans had purchased the tickets in blank, so that no name showed on the airline records.

Rep. Kyi also questioned Powell about the junket which Mrs. Dargans herself had taken to Cannes, France, last November, just two months after the congressman had returned from his own luxury trip to Europe with two lady assistants. Despite the publicity given Powell's trip in September, two months later he authorized his secretary to go to the fashionable French tourist resort on the Mediterranean. Obviously, if you want to study bikinis, Cannes is the place to go.

But if Mrs. Dargans was charged with studying labor or education problems, a big industrial even the Library of more appropriate. Congressman Powell had no real explanation of this. He insisted, however, that Mrs. Dargans was on "committee business." "I don't permit foreign trips by staff aides any more than other congressmen," he said, emphasizing the last five words.

UNDER THE DOME Congressman Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House ways and means committee, is irked over the way President Kennedy has been backing and filling on tax cuts and reforms. Mills grumbles that when Kennedy changes his mind from week to week about the necessity of closing tax loopholes, it will be difficult to pass a good bill. JFK has told congressional leaders that tax cuts alone won't be enough. He assured them that he still wants tax reforms, too. However, he hinted that he would be willing to postpone any reforms that might jeopardize the tax cuts.

It isn't being advertised, but our first atomic merchant ship, the Savannah, is barred from most seaports of the world outside the United States. Despite this, it has been tying up at'American ports, even while officials are experimenting with new safety precautions. Meanwhile, foreign nations consider the Savannah too dangerous. Norway fishermen have hauled radioactive fish out of the Barents contaminated by Soviet nuclear tests in nearby Noyva Zemlya. Congressman Morris Udall of Arizona, brother of the secretary of the Interior, is supporting Leroy Collins, head of the National Association of Broadcasters, in his drive to restrict tobacco commercials on radio and television.

Congressman Udall would go further and curtail advertising for beer and wine, as well as tobacco. CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES Indian Menon, India's ousted anti-American defense minister, is raising a new clamor against American military aid. No sooner did the Chinese Communists pull back into the Himalayas than Menon began to make speeches against the danger of tak- Junior Editors Quiz on TANKS QUESTION: Way are some army tanks called Patton tanks? ANSWER: Tanks are armored vehicles with mounted guns, and were developed by the British during World War I. The British wanted to keep this invention a and at first claimed they were merely "tanks" for carrying water. After the innocent-looking water tanks started spouting bullets, people still called them "tanks." George Smith Patton was a capable and aggressive American officer who had made a study of the use of cavalry.

He saw in the development of the tank a continuation of the cavalry idea, that of fast attack across a battlefield. He had battle experience with tanks in World War I and, Jn World Ww II, used tanks in Sicily. But Patton's great opportunity to carry out his conception of fast-moving attack with tanks came when be commanded the JJ. 3rd Army in the successful Allied drive across France in 1944. It was in Gen.

Patton's honor tnafc (he model M-46 tank was named. This model was built during World War II and used afterwards in the Koreaa eampiga. Patton's name seemed appropjiate for a tank beeawe of his Deputation for driving ahead over obstacles, FOR BOi Read fee story of the Allied sweep across 1944 you will further understand the part played (GfWr'fwadrtsk of Wausau, wins $10 for this ques. mil yaws on postcard to Junior Editors in care of way win $IQ, or On the Farm ACROSS 1 Weeding instrument 4 Groundbreaking farm tool 8 Farm crop 12 Sick 13 Uncommon 14 Operatic solo 15 Farm dessert 16 Gelatinous substance 18 Communists 20 Arthurian lady 21 Conjunction 22 Veined gem 24 Poker stake 26 Shred 27 Greek letter 30 Defectively 32 Farm 34 Selector 35 Landed property 36 Abstract being 37 Layer 39 Genus of freshwater ducks 40 Asterisk 41 Bitter vetch 42 Retinue 45 Small brook 49 Undervalue 51 Hawaiian pepper 52 European stream 53 Solar disk 54 Poetic contraction 55 Medicinal quantity 56 Farm meats 57 Wapiti DOWN 1 Body parts 2 Hodgepodge 3 Grain 4 Scrutinized 5 Endure 6 Prayer 7 Small tumor 8 Chalice 9 Algerian seaport 10 Rebel 11 Cartoonist 17 Archaeological Dictographs 19 Lethargic 23 Finer 24 Section of a church 25 Midday 26 Middle East nation 27 Carry over 28 Philippine aborigine 29 Employs 31 Missive 33 Japanese city 38 Printing mistakes 40 Cubic meter 41 Levels 42 Prosecuted 43 Bring to ruin 44 Roman date 46 Ledger entry 47 Wicked 48 Work 50 College cheer ommen REVEALING THE HIDDEN There are perhaps 40 million Americans today who are seriously handicapped, ill, forgotten. Thanks to efforts like Michael Harrington's excellent "The Other America," some of us in this country are perhaps a little more aware now of these unfortunate millions.

They include, of course, migratory workers, the out-of-work in abandoned Appalachian coal fields, aged folk cast aside, the young but unskilled who can't find jobs, and many more. Certainly our society can never be accounted a success until we find a way to lift such millions out of their half-world of despair and disillusion. The commentator who called attention to their plight performed a useful ought to be repeated by one or another constantly. But he was unrealistic in suggesting that strong words from the president can magically start these people on the road up. The burden of Harrington's book is that the "other America" is largely hidden in a nation essentially prosperous.

And, no matter how loud the president's voice, Congress is not in the habit of legislating about hidden problems. It acts when they are out in the open, feeding a fire that every lawmaker can feel. On the problem in question, admittedly a grave one, ye have barely begun to gather the kindling. Don't Knock Sweet Sounding Music of Running Appliance In Dallas, Texas, a home building firm has come up with a "Quiet House" designed to smother such modern home noises as those that come out of the dishwasher, the' air conditioner, the heating units, the exhaust fan over the kitchen range and the clothes washer and dryer. Most people, according to the builders, don't realize how noisy the modern home has become or how much such distracting noises can affect the individual's disposition and efficiency.

Well, now, maybe these noisy work-savers and comfort makers don't have quite so bad an effect on the homemaker as the builder supposed. To many housewives such sounds are like music. What housewife who has washed dishes by hand for years doesn't get real pleasure out of the woosh of water that tells her the dishwasher is happily doing the job for her? What homemaker doesn't experience a satisfied glow when the sound of the automatic washing machine assures her it is busily working away, or when the heat or air conditioning comes on with a rush of sound to let her know that whatever the weather is outside, she is going to be comfortable? Besides, housewives don't really like too much quiet. One of the biggest complaints of women whose children are grown and gone from home is that the house is TOO quiet. Many a housewife keeps the television blaring all day as she goes about her work, not to be entertained, but just to create noise to make the house seem less lonesome.

Men may go for the "Quiet House." But women may prefer the whoosh of the dishwasher and the thump of the clothes dryer and the roar of the exhaust fan to a house so well soundproofed they feel they've got to leave home just to get away from so much silence. (All rights reserved. Newspaper Enterprise Assn.) BARBS By HAL COCHRAN The teen-agers who run wild around their school have a hard time getting through. If all of us had all the things we want in this world, how many of us would put them where they belong? Too many dances and loo much sitting them out is likely to affect The Constitution-Tribune Chillicorhe, Mo. PAGE MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1963 the heart.

The stork is really a vicious bird until it brings happiness to a home. MIDNIGHT PROWLER NOVATO, Calif. At midnight Mark Wills heard something prowl ing on his roof. Two policemen caught the black cat. Constitution-Tribune want ails pay.

ing sides in the cold war. Now his disciples have petitioned Prime Minister Nehru not to allow the United States to set up military bases in India. Nehru appears to be listening to Menon. Misused American Institute of Biological Science has appealed to biologists to dig into their pockets to bail the institute out of trouble for misusing government grants. The institute spent the money for unauthorized scientific purposes and now the government wants it returned.

So far the biologists have produced over $100,000, but Uncle Sam is holding out for more. (Copyright, 1963, by the Bell Syndicate.) The Chillicothe Constitution-Tribune CHARLES E. WATKINS F. P. BOHN WM.

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Mrs. Frank Racine, 822 Easton street, accepted a position as supervisor of Stark Cottage at the State Industrial Home. A Victory Garden meeting was to be held at the circuit court room. A course in military correspondence was added to the curriculum at the Chillicothe Business College. A community club was organized at the Bradford school house by Mrs.

Ruth Burke, home demonstration agent. A name was to be picked and officers elected later. Franklin Karst, seaman in the Navy, left for San Francisco to report for duty at Treasure Island. He had visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Chris Karst. After overwhelming approval by the House of Representatives, bill extending lend-lease another year, reached the Senate. Mrs. Hilton D. Skinner, secretary at the Chillicothe Business College, spent a week's vacation with her husband who was stationed at Aberdeen, Md.

Mrs. Donald Gabriel, 360 Jack- son, accepted a position at Montgomery Ward's. 30 Years Aao Today A telegram was sent by the Citizens National Bank to the secretary of the treasury asking that the bank be allowed to reopen for business. It was stressed that the bank was in sound condition, owed no money and had community confidence. The city council of Trenton acted on a proposition to submit a bond issue for erection of a municipal light plant to a vote of the citizens.

Le Roy Williams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Williams, was dismissed from Mercy hospit 1 w'vore he had been a patient for 'hree weeks. L. D.

Howe, former Burlington operator here, was to return to Chillicothe from Brookficld for a residence. A Kansas City man, sentenced to 30 days in the city jail on a charge of stealing coal, was given a stay of execution providing he left the city. John Gilbert Sturgeon and Miss Mildred Newton, both of Bosworth, were married in Chillicothe. Judge Littrell performed the ceremony. a 1 Cowart, daughter of Mr.

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