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Secretary Strong On Civil Rights
By United Press International
Anthony Clebrezze, veteran mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, is the new U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
President Kennedy named the five-term mayor to succeed Abraham Ribicoff, who resigned this week to run for the Senate from Connecticut.
Celebrezze is a strong exponent of civil rights. But his chief pride during his years as mayor has been the city's vigorous slum clearance and urban renewal projects.
He recently was embroiled in a bitter controversy with the mayor of Centreville, Ala., who sent a 12-member Negro family to Cleveland as "reverse freedom riders."
CELEBREZZE WAS born Sept. 4. 1910 at Anzi, Italy. One of 13 children, his parents were revisiting their homeland after having become American citizens.
"My first reaction . . . was to merely tell you to go to hell." Celebrezzie wrote Centreville Mayor J. W. Oakley Sr. But, he added, he decided no action would be taken to prevent other Negroes from coming to Cleveland because "they're Americans. They have a right to free movement."
A short, stocky man of 51, with jet black hair thinning at the temples. Celebrezze does not have the back-slapping personality usually associated with politics.
He is generally quiet unless speaking before city council at which time his deep voice reaches a booming pitch.
He wears a black, well-trimmed mustache and dresses conservatively.
Celebrezue often said he worked "from the age of 6." He worked as a newsboy, freight handler and other odd jobs in paying his way through college.
HE RECEIVED his law degree from Ohio Northern University in 1936. His first public appointment was the same year, doing legal work for the Ohio Unemployment Commission.
Celebbrezze opened his own law office in 1938 and practiced law until 1950 when he entered politics for the first time.
He were elected to the Ohio Senate that y ar and reelected two years later.
U. S. Sen. Frank J. Lausche, then governor of Ohio, ranked Celebrezze above all others in the legislature because of his diligence and effectiveness. He had a flair for oratory and always attracted attention when he rose to speak.
Celebrezze was first elected mayor of Cleveland in 1953, running as an independent, and was re-elected in 1955, 1957, 1959. Last November he was re-elected to an unprecedented fifth term.
HIS ONLY DEFEAT at the polls was in 1958 when he lost the Democratic gubernatorial nomination to Michael V. Disalle, Ohio's first four-year governor.
His political friends have pushed him for a possible federal judgeship, but the mayor declined, saying he wanted to conclude the program he started.
Under his guidance, Cleveland is in the midst of a multi-million dollar downtown urban renewal program.
Cetebrezze has served as president of both national mayors organizations and has held the top post of the American Municipal Mayors Association.
Hunting, fishing and sports are his main interests apart from his close family life. He is a Roman Catholic.
Ike Appears At Odds With Some Party Leaders
By Lyle C. Wilson United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Republicans have another angry ruckus on their hands because former President Eisenhower seems to be pulling the rug from under the Republican congressional leadership.
This took place at an all Republican conference of party leaders on June 30 at Eisenhower's Gettysburg farm. Ike was first up to speak. He said that he had been doing some reading lately and identified his reading matter as a periodical named Advance.
Advance is published five times a year in Cambridge, Mass., by a group of young men led by publisher Bruce K. Chapman. The magazine describes itself as a journal of political thought.
Eisenhower told the Republicans that Advance had the right ideas. Ike said it was possible that publisher Chapman was among the assembled party leaders. Sure enough, Chapman was and he stood up. Ike said everybody should subscribe to Chapman's magazine. He proposed that the Republicans approach Chapman during the conference and get on the mailing list.
IT IS REPORTED that House Minority Leader Charles A. Haleck, R-Ind, required restraint by calmer counsel when Eisenhower endorsed Advance. Halleck was angry because the latest issue (March) of Advance contains a free-swinging attack on Halleck and other congressional Republican leaders, notably Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, R-Ill., and Sen. Barry Goldwater, R-Ariz.
The March issue of Advance was devoted to "the Republicans on Capitol Hill." The magazine described the House Republican leadership as reluctant, lazy or hostile in matters of responsibility to the well-being of the nation and the Republican Party. It attributed to several of Halleck's Republican colleagues the statement that Halleck hasn't read a serious book in 10 years and is suspicious of those who have.
"Republicans of all views," the magazine related, "feel they are being less led (by Halleck) than presided over."
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