were ahead slightly.Powell’s Condition Said To Be CriticalHollywood, Jan. 2—(/p)—Actor-producer Dick Poweli, suffering from cancer, remains gravely ill.Powell spent three days at Newport Beach but returned to hisWilshire District apartment for the New Year’s holiday. A spokesman said Powell’s friends appeared to be more deeply concerned about him Tuesday night.. Shortly before Christmas Dr. John C. Sharpe announced that Powell was ”a very sick man” and disclosed that Powell’s hospitalization Nov. 27 evidently indicated the cancer had spread to the lower back from neck glands and the chest cavity.Van De Water Funeral4Rites To Be ThursdayFuneral services for Miss Helen Kathleen Van De Water, 49, former Hays resident, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Brock North Hill Chapel at Hays. Eev. Samuel Maier will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Allen cemetery at Hays.Miss Van De Water died Monday night in Rush County Hospital in La Crosse following a brief illness. She was the daughter of the late Frank Van De Water of Hays.The body will lie in state at Brock North Hill Chapel until the hour of the service.