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MIAMI — Resettlement
workers say despite some prob
lems in coordinating and financ
ing they will find new homes for
all 1,800 Haitians being held in
federal detention centers.
U.S. District Judge Eugene
Spellman June 29 ordered the
detained Haitians freed, as they
were being illegally held because
of administrative procedure
violations by the Immigration
and Naturalization Service.
1,700 Haitians still
after almost a year,
leased Friday.
The first 17, of more than
Most detained H
probably head for new
Texas, Florida, Illinois,
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Black pioneer reminisces
Reporter’s past stormy
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Ethel
Lois Payne never hesitated dur
ing her years as a White House
correspondent to jump to her
feet and ask an embarrassing
question — even if it meant up
setting a presidential ulcer.
Payne, now 70, was one of the
first black women to be accre
dited to the White House press
corps. She began covering
Washington in 1953, armed
with a “notebook filled with
questions for each press brief
ing.” She covered presidents
Eisenhower, Kennedy and
Johnson.
During “Ike’s” term, the
press met every Thursday and
the newcomer jumped to her
feet with colleagues shouting
“Mr. President” to pose ques
tions.
She was recognized on a reg
ular basis during the confer
ences — prompting some mem
bers of the press to accuse her of
“showboating.”
To the criticism Payne re
sponded, “I knew what my job
was and that was to represent my
readers. There were questions
to be answered and
had to ask them.
“I could not help it if others
had not done their homework.
Blacks were not represented in
the press as they are today. You
could count us on one hand.”
In the 1950s, black journalists
accredited to the White House
included Alice Dunnigan for the
to
... “I wasn’t trying
make waves, but I knew
we (blacks) couldn’t sit
back and wait for people
to change their minds in
due time or out of the
goodness of their
hearts”— black journal
ist Ethel Lois Payne
someone
Associated Negro Press and
Louis Lautier for the National
Newspaper Publishers Associa
tion.
But Payne’s outspoken man
ner soon got the best of
Eisenhower. In one meeting the
former general bristled when
she asked how his administra
tion intended to address discri
mination in housing and inter
state travel.
“He took the question as a
personal affront, looked me
dead in the eye, pulled himself
to five-star general status and
blasted me in front of the White
House press corps,” she said.
. “I surely upset that pampered
ulcer of his.”
Payne received some criticism
from home as well. Her mother
— a staunch Republican — mil-
dy scolded her daughter for up
setting “Ike.”
“I remember the call from my
mother,” Payne said. ‘“Now sis
ter, I don’t think you ought to be
down there making the presi
dent mad.’”
The ambitious newcomer was
recognized for a question only
twice in Eisenhower’s remaining
five years in office. But Miss
Payne said the “deep freeze” did
not stifle her enthusiasm for
preparing for each press confer
ence.
“I still had a list of questions
and was on my feet shouting,
‘Mr. President,”’ she said.
“I wasn’t trying to make
waves, but I knew we (blacks)
couldn’t sit back and wait for
people to change their minds in
due time or out of the goodness
of their hearts.”
Payne entered journalism in
1948 after taking a career de
tour from her goal of becoming
a lawyer.
Her first report was filed
while she worked as an Army
Service Director in the Tokyo
Quartermaster Depot in Japan.
During her tour of duty, Payne
kept a diary that described the
Orient and the treatment of
black soldiers.
The Chicago native’s colorful
journal entries attracted the
attention of a Chicago Defender
newspaper reporter, Alex Wil
son, who was passing through
on assignment.
Wilson asked if he could take
a few pages from her journal
back to the United States and
Payne agreed. The result was a
series of front-page stories in the
Defender that detailed the
courts-martial of black soldiers,
their problems in leaving behind
children by Japanese women
and conflicts with racially biased
commanders.
“Then I was in for an explo
sion — a good chewing out by
one of (Gen. Douglas) MacAr-
thur’s top aides,” she said.
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LOS ANGELES — Glenn
Swartz loved books so much, his
fellow employees at the down
town Central Library said he
couldn’t pass a stack without
picking up a few and taking
them home — thousands of
them.
Police uncovered Swartz’s
huge cache of library books
accidentally and now the assis
tant loan-desk clerk, 42, faces
possible criminal charges and
the loss of his job.
About 10,000 books were dis
covered stacked to the ceiling in
Swartz’s small apartment last
Thursday by police who went
there at the request of his
mother, who couldn’t reach him
by telephone to tell him his
father had died.
Authorities confronted
Swartz with the evidence Friday,
but police did not take him into
custody. The case was prepared
for the district attorney’s office,
which could charge him with
grand theft.
“I have a few books, maybe
2,000 of them,” Swartz told chief
library investigator Jim Parslow.
“I check them out. I bring them
back. I keep changing them for
research of anthropology and
history.
“I do a lot of reading.”
He told investigators he had
read 90 percent of the books,
reading at 686 words per minute
with 95 percent retention.
Investigators said there were
so many books in the apartment
that only a fairly thin person
could Fit in the narrow pathway
through the stacks of volumes.
Books were piled in the bath
tub and sink, and even covered
half of Swartz’s bed.
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Swartz was at work in the lib
rary when police discovered the
collection of stolen books. He
allegedly had taken home sever
al each day in a shopping bag for
many years and returned the
book cards to the library files, so
it appeared the books had been
returned.
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