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the New York legislator.
Since the plan, as he emissions
it, calls for federal scholarships
to finance this study, it would
come before his committee for
consideration.
In Puerto Rico, where he ex-
plored the idea with officials, it
is enthusiastically acclaimed, he
said. There are three universitiee
there which could serve as "brief-
ing centers" for young workers on
their way to Latin America.
Those en- route to the English
speaking countries Of Africa would
benefit by a study Of British Gus
toms in Jamaica. If there were
a more democratic regime in Haiti.
Mr.: Powell would favor it as an
indoctrination center those going
to French-speaking Africa.
Those heading for the Far East
could take advantage of the schol-
arship for an educational briefing
at the University of Hawaii, as he
outlines it.
Delinquency Prevention
Representative Edith Green (D)
of Oregon is being encouraged by
Mr.. Powell to go forward with her
idea of approaching juvenile de-
linquency from a preventive stand
point.
She says a plan should be de-
veloped to prevent so many school
dropouts by providing intensified
student guidance and counseling
to encourage students not only
to finish high school but go on
to college.
Thought is also being given, in
these possession days, to the pos
sibility of developing youth
conservation corps a a delinquency
preventive.
Mr.. Powell sees the need of
doing something dramatic" to en-
courage more young men and wo-
men to seen education in the "sci-
ences."
Legislation Planned
He plans eventually to intro
duce legislation in this area. Be-
fore he does so he will send a
committee team" headed by Rep
resentative Carl Elliott CD of
Alabama to the Soviet Union "to
see what Russia has got in the
way of education, if anything, that
we haven't got"
On the subject of labor and
management, Mr.. Powell says he
favors permanent committee to
study irregularities in this field.
He says that such a committee
could be set up within the exist
ing framework of his own COM
mittee and that he would person
ally chair it.
at would not be a television
or witch-hunt committee or a seek
err for headlines, but a committee
to which labor and management
can both refer their problems"
he says.
The new committee will be COM
posed of 18 Democrats and IL Re-
publicans. Mr.. Powell counts none
of the Republicans as liberals"
Two on the Democratic side
Representative Phil M. Landrum
CT Georgia and Carl Elliott of Ala
bama-may be expected to. vote
with Republicans on certain issues
affecting their constituency.
In. such a case this would cut
the vote margin down 16 to Ia.
If one more Democrat should cross
over on any of these votes, it
would result in a 15-to-15 tie.
Mr.. Powell regrets losing one
of his Democratic liberals, Rep
resentative Stewart L. Udall, who
has been appointed Secretary of
the Interior in the Kennedy cab
met, and has warned the Presi-
dent-elect: eff you take Frank
Thompson (of N. J.) and Edith
Green from me, in addition, you
can kiss your program good-by as
far as this committee is concerned"
Mrs. Green has been talked of
as a likely candidate for an ap-
pointment, possibly as Undersec-
rotary of Health, Education, and
Welfare. Mr.. Powell is hopeful
that an active role as chairman of
a congressional subcommittee may
be more appealinp To her