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m\ PAGE 6—THE BULLETIN, July 11, 1959 Family Of Nine Converts FT. VALLEY — In the spring of 1956, when Mrs. Hilbert Xavier Gavel has occasion to entertain some of her brother’s Navy buddies, she never im agined that this was to be the beginning of a deep and lasting interest in the Catholic Church. Like many other Protestants, Mrs. Gavel said that When sue learned her brother’s friends were Catholic, she decided to indulge her curiosity a bit. So, she plied them with questions, hoping, she said, “To lind ways in their repiies, to discredit the Catholic religion.” But it didn’t turn out that way. Instead, she found herself becoming, “First, surprised, that most of her im pressions of Catholicism were misinformation, then more and more interested in the answers she received.” After that evening, the desire to iearn more of this “hostile religion” prompted Mrs. Gavel to avail herself of every oppor tunity to acquire additional knowledge of the Catholic faith. She seldom spoke of her in terest in the Catholic Church to her husband, for she was not sure of his approval. But finally, in 1958, Mrs. Gavel came to a sudden decision. She picked up the phone and made an ap pointment with Father Daniel Myszka of St. Joseph’s Church Annual Banquet, For Columbus K. COLUMBUS — The Ladies Auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus, Bishop Gross Council No. 1019, Holy Family Parish, held its Annual Banquet and Dance and Installation of new officers an June 18th at the K of C Hall, 802 Broadway, Colum bus. The hall and the tables were beautifully decorated with gar den fiower arrangements of ivy, gardenias and magnolias artis tically done by Mrs. Lee Allen. Tne speaker’s table in the cen ter held a low formal arrange ment of gardenias and magnonas interspersed with pink candles in pink candle holders, which burned during the entire pro gram, and at each end of the speaker’s table were large, tall arrangements of pink roses. The banquet was prepared and served by Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Miller. Seated at the speaker’s table were: Mrs. Henry Gallman, President, and Mr. Gallman; Father Owen McKenna, Mother Mary Mission, Phenix City, Al abama; Major Thomas E. Wal- die, Catholic Chaplain, 2d In fantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga.; Mr. Jim Mullin, Grand Knight, Knights of Columbus, Bishop Gross Council No. 1019, and Mrs. Mullins; Mrs. J. F. Stumhofer, vice president, and Mr. Stumhofer; Mrs. W. F. To Faith in Macon, to begin instructions —her first big step toward be coming a Catholic. Receiving instructions with Mrs. Gavel was Mrs. T. J. Raney, who be came Godmother to Raymond, Mrs. Gavei’s three-year-old son, on November 2. During the summer, the two older children, Elizabeth, 11, and Ilibie, 10, took instructions from Father Myszka and in September they entered St. Joseph’s School, along with their brother and sister, Alan, 8, and Lynn, 6. On November 1, Mrs. Gavel and six of her seven children were baptised. Although Mr. Gavel had ex pressed some disapproval of his family becoming Catholic, he said that when he saw the change that had taken place in the lives of his wife and chil dren, because of the Faith, and when he looked at their faces as they said the Rosary, he too, wanted to become a part of it ail. So, after completing several months of instruction, on May 24, 1959, Hilbert Xavier Gavel received the Sacrament of Bap tism. Then, to add to their happiness, on May 30, Mr. and Mrs. Gavel renewed their mar riage vows and received the Nuptual Blessing from Father Myszka as he completed the Mass at St. Julianna’s in Ft. Valley. Installation C. Auxiliary ^ Freeman, recording secretary, and Mr. Freeman; Mrs. Antonio Comeaux, corresponding secre tary, and Mr. Comeaux; Mrs. O. V/. McBride, treasurer, and Mr. McBride. Father Owen opened the pro gram with a prayer, and Mrs. Gallman, the president, welcom ed all members and introduced the guests. Mrs. Gallman thank ed all for a most successful year, and presented the Grand Knight, Mr. Mullin, with a check for use by the Knight of Colum bus. She also presented the of ficers who served with her small tokens of remembrances. Father Waldie, the guest speaker for the evening, was in troduced by Mrs. Gallman, and he gave us a most enlightening and inspiring talk. Mr. Jim Mullin, the Grand Knight, installed tile following officers for the coming year: Mrs. C. M. Green, president; Mrs. C. M. Wilson, vice presi dent; Mrs. C. J. Dokos, record ing secretary; Mrs. Henry Zer- anski, corresponding secretary; Mrs. H. W. Woodward, treasur er. Also attending the meeting was Monsignor Herman J. Dei- mel. TOP POSTERS AT BRUNSWICK PARISH CATECHETI CAL DAY—Shown above are winners of the Poster Contest spon sored recently by St. Francis Xavier Parish unit of the Confra ternity of Christian Doctrine. They are Marsha McPhilips, whose poster portraying the high school class of Religion won first prize for the best drawn poster, and Mary Jean Parker, who captured first prize for the poster showing the most original idea. Her drav. lug shows distribution of Catholic Literature to prisoners. FAMILY OF NINE CONVERTS—The Gavel family shown with Father Daniel Myska are left to right: Hibie, 10; Robin, 5; Lynn, 7; Frankie, 1%; Mrs. Davei; Alan, 8; Elizabeth, 11; Raymone, 3; and Hibert X. Gavel. U. S. PSYCHIATRIST WARNS BIRTH CONTROL CAN BRING PSYCHOLOGICAL DANGERS ZURICH, Switzerland (NC) — Contraception, abortions and sterilization can lead to serious psychological dangers, an American psychiatrist warned here. In a paper read to the meeting of the International Union of Family Organizations, Dr. John R. Cavanagh of Washington, D. C., cited the experience of Japan and the Soviet Union where abortions as a means of birth control have been tried on a large scale. Dr. Cavanagh represented the Family Life Bureau of the Na tional Catholic Welfare Confer ence at the meeting. He noted that the Russians outlawed abortion as a means of birth control in 1936 because they found it medically unsound PITTSBURGH, (NC) — What would you do if you were a com munist and wished to limit the number and quality of priests? Bishop John J. Wright of Pittsburgh gave his answer in an address to the 17th annual convention of Serra Internation al here. “I’d do what I could to get Latin out of the schools, then ancient history, then Greek . . . and discovered that it weakened the people’s emotional stability. Dr. Cavanagh warned that “the use of any method of birth control or limitation leads to frustration. Frustration leads to hostility which may be directed against the partner or against the self. If it is directed against the self, it leads to depression and its natural consequences. These reactions lead to feelings of guilt . . . Such feelings of guilt arise because of at least an unconscious recognition of an interference with a natural act which makes sex. pleasure an end in itself. Feelings of guilt may in themselves provoke me chanisms of defense which bring about furthr psychic reper cussions.” as they have been gotten out pretty effectively in schools generally,” he said. “But if, on the other hand, I wanted to implement my pray ers for vocations, I’d watch to see that our schools held the line of authentic education in Latin, Greek, ancient history, and whatever else would make school kids work and introduce them to the Christian tradition.” Services For J. C. McCarthy SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral services for John C. McCarthy were held June 30th at the Blessed Sacrament Churoh. Mr. McCarthy was a retired chief of detectives of the Sa vannah Police Dept., he was a member of the Knights of Co lumbus, the Spanish War vet erans. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Adeline Bailey McCarthy; one son, John C. McCarthy, Jr., of Savannah; two daughters, Mrs. Charles Meddlock of Jackson ville and Mrs. Hayden H. Banks, Jr:, of Savannah; seven grand children and one niece. Savannah Services For J. William Lang SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral services for J. William Lang were held June 27th at the Sa cred Heart Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Clara Bischoff Lang; two daugh ters, Sister Mary Edward, C. S. J., of Augusta, and Mrs. C. J. Dulohery; two sons, J. W. Lang, Jr., Berkley Heights, N. J., and E. W. Lang, Short Hills, N. J., and seven grandchildren and four great-grandchildren. Services For Joseph O’Campo PORT WENTWORTH, Ga— Funeral services for Joseph M. Ocampo were held June 29th at Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Mr. Oacampo was a native of Chile and a retired employee of the Savannah Sugar Refinery. He had lived in Tampa for the past 12 years. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Guthrie Ocampo and a sister, Mrs. Julia Sarvelli, Chile. Asa D. Kelley Heads Albany Fourth Degree ALBANY—Asa D. Kelley has been elected faithful navigator of the Albany Knights of Co lumbus. Other officers elected are L. E. Mock Jr., faithful cap tain; Lamar M. Everson, faith ful pilot; John M. Wolfe Jr., faithful admiral; Herman L. Turner, faithful comptroller; Frank N. Mock, inner sentinel and Orville Vierling, outer sen tinel. The Rev. Marvin J. LeFrois will serve as faithful friar for the assembly. PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS O God, hear our prayer and let our cry come unto Thee. Bless our Diocese of Sav annah with many priestly vocations. Give the young men You call, the light to understand Your gift and the love to follow always in the foot steps of Your Priestly Son. —Indulgence of seven years Mary, Queen of the Clergy, pray for us, St. John Vianney, pray for us. Imprimatur: -fThomas J. McDonough BISHOP MEETS RFE’S EDITORS Visiting in Munich, Germany, is Bishop Thomas K. Gorman (center), of the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, where he met the religious editors of Radio Free Europe. For many years Episcopal Chairman of the Press Department, N.C.W.C., he is shown with Charles J. McNeill, Assistant European Director, RFE and William H. Fanning, Jr., Di rector of RFE’s News and Information Services. Mr. Mc Neill is a former president of the Catholic Press Associa tion of the United States. Mr. Fanning was formerly a news editor of the NCWC News Service, Washington. (NC Photos) On Sacred Heart Anniversary The 60th anniversary of tiie consecration of the human race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus was observed with a solemn high Mass on the Feast of the Sacred Heart in the Sacred Heart Chapel, “The American Paray-le-Monial” in Wash ington, D. C. The celebrant, Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi, Apostolic Delegate to the United States is shown with Father Francis Larkin, SS.CC., National Director of the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart ileft) greeting distin guished guests, the Portuguese Ambassador and the Chi* ne.se Ambassador. (NC Photos) BISHOP TELLS WHAT HE’D DO TO WEAKEN PRIESTHOOD IF HE WERE A COMMUNIST BLESSING OF CHILDREN—Father James Cummings, S.M., pastor of St. Francis Xavier, Brunswick, blesses one of the babies of the Parish on the occasion of the “Blessing of the Children” sponsored annually by the parish unit of the CCD. The altar boy is Peter Vivenzio, Jr. Kerala Catholics (Continued from Page 1) tion of the shootings in his area —in the course of which he was stoned, but not harmed, by communists —• added: “It could be seen from police firings so far that the firing was on a pattern and was pre planned in order to terrorize Catholics.” The Bishop’s statement was echoed by Mathai Manjuran, leader of Kerala’s Socialist par ty. Charging that religious per secution has now begun in Ker ala, he said that the government is trying to ‘isolate’ the Catho lics. He called it part of com munism’s “worldwide anti- Catholic movement.” The school picketing began on June 15, the date set by the Red regime for the reopening of schools after a fortnight’s postponement. Catholics and Hindu Nairs — the major com munities conducting schools in this state where 7,000 out of the total of 11,000 schools are pri vately operated — had declared in advance that their schools would not reopen. Major point of protest was the clause in the education act requiring the schools to select teachers only from lists drawn up by the government. When the schools were sup posed to reopen, the Kerala re gime postponed indefinitely the reopening date in the areas where Catholic and Nair schools are predominant. That left the Trivandrum area, where the government-run schools are most heavily con centrated, the major center of school activity. So it was here that the anti-Red forces concen trated their picket lines about government schools. The school picketing was pre ceded by three days of work stoppages and other non-violent demonstrations sponsored by the oppposition parties — the Congress and Socialist parties and the Moslem League. Vir tually all the demonstrations came to a standstill after six days for a Moslem festival which is observed as a national holiday. But the next day, .picketing was again resumed, with many Catholic mothers in the fore front, courting arrest. An esti mated 3,000 — the majority of them Catholics — were under arrest as the first week of dem onstrations came to an end. The police invasion of St. Joseph’s High School here, where students barricaded themselves to prevent the re gime from forcing it to open, brought a complaint to the na tional government from Bish op Vincent Dereere, O.C.D., of Trivandrum. Bishop Dereere called on the New Delhi autho rities to intervene to prevent the Kerala government from de priving him of his constitution al right to protect his schools. Meanwhile, a statement by Kerala’s Minister of Law and Order, V.R. Krishna Iyer, was seen as threatening an all out campaign against the Church. Mr. Iyer declared that the “real battle” in Kerala is between the Church and communism. Communist party members set about to try to split the Catholic community by forming leagues of lapsed Catholics to oppose the clergy. Pro-com munist teachers in Church schools were used as police in formers on Catholic defense plans, and at the same time Red propaganda organs sought to have churches labeled as weapons warehouses. - Kerala’s Chief Minister, E. M. Sankaran Namboodiripad, stat ed flatly he would not conduct the usual judicial inquiry into the police killings. He also said that the victims’ families would not receive any state relief. As a result, a private fund was established to aid the be reaved families. Archbishop Parecattil and Bishop Vayalil were among the initial donors. Augusta Services For C. A. Callahan AUGUSTA, Ga.—F uneral services for Cornelius A. (NEAL) CALLAHAN were held June 29th at St. Mary’s-on-the- Hill Church, Rev. George James officiating. Survivors are his wife; Mrs. Nellie Dasher Callahan; one daughter, Miss Nell Callahan of Augusta; one son Neal Callahan Jr. of Augusta; one sister, Miss Kathryn Callahan of Augusta; two brothers, Bernard (Bill) Callahan of Augusta and Wil liam T. Callahan of Charleston, S. C., and one aunt, Miss Har riett E. Stinson of Augusta. The social scale is the world’s mos unreliable weighing ma chine. Police Raids Crack Two Smut Rings ST. LOUIS, (NC) — Police raids have broken up two dif ferent groups here, halting what County Police Capt. Rich ard Hackmeyer called the larg est obscenity business in St. Louis area history. In the first case, two brothers were arrested on charges of sending advertisements for ob scene pictures through the mails. During eight weeks in opera tion, tney had mailed advertise ments for more than $500,000 worth of obscene photographs to some 60,000 prospective cus tomers, police said. Nine persons were arrested in the second raid on charges of selling obscene films. Police found some $5,000 worth of movie equipment in a studio- garage from which the ring had operated for four years. They confiscated 100 reels of film depicting natural and unnatural sexual acts. Evidence against the mem bers of the film ring was gath ered by St. Louis county de tective John Bond and St. Louis city detective John Keady. The two detectives posed as prospective buyers of the films in order to get information about the ring’s operations. De tective Bond, who had kept up his masquerade for five months, was arrested along with mem bers of the ring and remained in jaii with them for two days, during which time he picked up further data on their activities. Capt. Hackmeyer said the ring operated one of the largest obscene film manufacturing piants in the country. Eight millimeter films were sold wholesale for about $8 each, with 16 millimeter films priced at $18. Complaints from parents of children who had been sent advertisements for their ob- sqene photographs were credit ed by officials with leading to the arrest of the two brothers. Eiared Miller of the St. Louis postal inspector’s office said: “Not only did the parents noti fy us of the fact the material was sent, but they sent the whole envelope to us, showing both the addresses and the post mark, as well as the material sent ... As a result, the oper ation was stopped within a few weeks after it began.” The brothers have been charged with violating a Fed eral law forbidding mailing of obscene material. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail or a $5,000 fine, or both. Unless Federal agents file a complaint, the film ring oper ators can be convicted of no more than a misdemeanor ac cording to Missouri law. City, county and state statutes con cerning sale of obscene matter limit penalties to a maximum of one year’s imprisonment and a $100 fine. Should the ring members be indicted on a fed eral charge of transporting ob scene material with intent to sell it, they can be convicted of a felony, which has as its max imum penalty a $5,000 fine and five years imprisonment. It’s a fact by the time some people make up their minds op portunity has passed them by. If you wish to be popular lend the other fellow a helping hand instead of handing him advice. Savannah Services For J. T. Harvey SAVANNAH, Ga. — Funeral services for James Thomas Aloysius Harvey were held June 19th at the Blessed Sacrament Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ida Pinckney Harvey, Savan nah; one brother, Joseph Har vey; several nephews and a niece. William C. H iors Services At Augusta AUGUSTA — Funeral serv ices for William George Hiers were held, June 27th at the Sacred Heart Church, Rev. John E. O’Donnohoe, S.J., officiat ing. Survivors are one sister, Mrs. J. M. Fender of Augusta. Services For Mrs. Nordberg SAVANNAH, Ga — Funeral services for Mrs. Isabel Harper Nordberg were held June 19th at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. Survivors are three sons, Har ry A. Harper, Richmond, Va., Bernard W. Harper and Robert Harper both of Savannah; 16 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, and two neph ews. Services For Miss Magarahan AUGUSTA, Ga—F uneral services for Miss Mary A. Magarahan were held June 23rd at St. Mary’s-on-the-Hill Church Rev. Ralph E. Seikel officiating. Survivors are two sisters, Anne C. Magarahan and Helen Magarahan of Augusta; two brothers, J. Carroll Magarahan of Greenville, S. C., and Francis X. Magarahan of Anderson, S. C., and several nieces and nephews. People who want to find fault can always find plenty of raw material wherever they are. A real diplomat is a man who has the ability to convince peo ple that they want what he wants them to want. The man who gets himself into a peck of trouble never has to complain of short measure. Mary Lou Bettencourt (above), of New Bedford, Mass., recent graduate of Regis College, Bos ton, is en route to La Paz, Bolivia, where as a member of the Lay Apostolate Movement, she will teach for one year at the English Catholic College staffed by the Sisters of the Good Shepherd. Students from other New England Catholic colleges will aid understaffed missions as teachers, (NC Plinfnc^