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Authorities Deny Church Pressure Put On Priest To Pull Out Of Election DIJON, France, (NC) -- Re ports that Church authorities put pressure on a priest-can didate to withdraw from the re cent elections for the French National Assembly because of announced communist support have been denied. It was rumored that the Holy See and the Apostolic Nuncia ture in Paris had intervened with Bishop Guillaume Sembel of Dijon to put pressure on Father Felix Kir to withdraw from the election after the com munists announced that they were throwing their candidate’s votes to the cleric. The 86-year-old priest, who is also mayor of Dijon, ran as a candidate of the Independent party and was elected (Nov. 25) deputy from Dijon in the run-off elections that gave sup porters of President Charles de Gaulle control of the assembly. In the first round of elec tions (Nov. 18) Father Kir led the Gaullist candidate by 13, 229 votes to 12,554. The communists announced that they would give Father Kir the 6,000 votes their candidate received in the first election. Father Kir announced that he would not accept the com munists’ votes. Diocesan authorities denied the rumors that the Holy See or the nunciature had intervened and said that the diocese had scrupulously stayed out of the electoral contest. Father Kir, as dean of the as sembly, will open the first ses sion of the newly-elected as sembly December 6. Father Kir made the head lines in April, 1960, when he was forbidden by Bishop Sem bel to receive Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev during the lat ter’s visit to Dijon. Father Kir had announced that, as mayor of Dijon, he would greet Krus chev in an official ceremony. After the Bishop’s prohibition, however, he left Dijon during Kruschev’s visit to avoid meet ing him. New Catholic College For Southeast BOCA RATON, Fla. - Con struction of the first phase of the building program of Mary- mount College, Boca Raton, is running ahead of schedule, ac cording to Rev. Mother M. de la Croix, coordinator of the program. “Work on the initial phase of the program is nearly 15 per cent completed,’’ Mother de la Croix said. “If the pre sent schedule is maintained, as anticipated, the buildings should be ready well in advance of September 1963, when classes begin,’’ she added. This is the first Catholic two-year arts college for women in Florida and the fifth Marymount College in the United States. The school will be conducted by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary, the Order that staffs all Mary mount Colleges, including those in Paris, Rome, London and Barcelona. The structures being built for Marymount’s first students here are a two-story academic and science building, a three- story dormitory, a two-story student center and a utility building. The value of the construction exceeds $2,000,000. TKe academic and science building, which will be faced with brick and stone, will contain eight classrooms. It will also house language, bio logy, chemistry and physics laboratories, art room, large lecture room, offices for the faculty, and a student locker room. One hundred and fifteen stu dents and faculty members are to be accomodated in the dor mitory’s 90 rooms, made up of single and double rooms and two-room suites. In addition, there will be a reception room for guests, an attractive main lobby, and a student recrea tion room. The infirmary and nurses’ room will be located on the second floor of this building that also will have elevator service. The student center will con tain a main dining room, that features an outdoor terrace, and an auditorium. These rooms, separated by elec trically-operated folding doors, will seat 500 persons and will be used for chapel services until the permanent chapel is constructed. The second floor of the student center will have a penthouse lounge and book store. Additional structures and facilities, such as a chapel, library, more dormitories, ten nis courts and a swimming pool will be added in subsequent phases of construction. U. S. Does Not Forget God Or Soldier, President Says FORT STEWART, Ga., (NC) — President Kennedy quoted poetry to some 3,000 troops here to drive home the point that the U.S. remembers God and the soldier at all times, not only in time of danger. The President recited a four-line poem after express ing his thanks to officers and men of the First Armored Division for their past service and for “present actions during the difficult period of the last four or five weeks.’’ “Many years ago, according to a story,” the Presi dent stated, “there was found in a sentry box in Gibral tar a poem which said: “God and the soldier, all men adore. In time of danger and not before. When the danger is past and all things righted, God is forgotten and the old soldier slighted. “This country,” the President concluded, “does not forget God or the soldier. Upon both we now depend.” CATHOLIC EDITOR ADIVSES FUTURE JOURNALISTS — Michael Greene, managing editor of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Reporter, discusses newspaper editorial problems with high school journalists attending a press workshop at Webster College, St. Louis, Greene delivered the closing address at the meeting, which attracted some 500 students from the Midwest and the South. The girls, from the left, are Carol Rosberg, Webster student from Kansas City who was chairman of the workshop; Delores DeSato of Loretto Academy in Kansas City who placed first in the workshop's news writing contest; and Mary Ellen Fischer, also of Loretto, who tied for first place in editorial writing. (NC Photos) Bishops’ Committee Asks Legislation For Movie Classification WASHINGTON, (NC) - The U. S. Bishops’ committee for motion pictures has taken a dramatic new tack in its effort to secure classification of films as a guide for parents of young children. The five-member committee said that industry rejection of its repeated appeals for volun tary classification makes it necessary to turn to legislation. The Episcopal Committee for Motion Pictures, Radio and Television said it will back leg islation which would authorize state or municipal education de partments. or other suitable agencies, to publish advisory classifications of films suitable for children. The Bishops said they will An Ideal Gift. . . A BRILLIANT NEW CHRISTMAS RECORD from The Shrine of the Immaculate Conception 44 Thou Little Tiny Child •>1 is an album of traditional Christmas thanes and carols of Christmas in fresh and inspiring variations. Featuring Fr. Estanislao Sudupe, O.F.M. at the organ Vocals by Fr. Inaki Bastarrika, Amalia Santana, Carlos Santana, aid the Children-of-the-Shrine Choir. FR. 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Krol of Philadelphia is chairman of the committee whose statement was released here through the Na tional Catholic Welfare Confer ence, the U. S. hierarchy’s se- retariat. The Bish°p c ’turn toward leg islation as a means of securing classification is made in their third successive annual state ment on the matter of films and youth. The prelates said they contin ue to support, as they did in past statements, voluntary classification by the movie in dustry itself. But they said the opposition of industry leadership, espec ially the Motion Picture Asso ciation of America (MPAA), and the continuing increase in so- called “adult films,” many of them featured in “family- trade” movie houses, makes it necessary to seek a new course. They charged that “short of a computer file on all films, parents are unable to determine the acceptability of many films exhibited in neighborhood theaters which their children frequent.” The impact of “adult films” on youth is a “cause of increa sing concern” for many people and agencies, such as parents and police, who are convinced that the films “tend to impose an unhealthful and false outlook on life,” they said. The Bishops said that op ponents of voluntary industry classification claim it is un necessary because there are already numerous rating serv ices for parents, such as the National Legion of Decency and the monthly “Green Sheet” of the Motion Picture Association of America. But, the prelates said, no rating service--including the legion—covers all films cur rently released in the United States. The “Green Sheet” of the MPAA, the Bishops noted, rates only films bearing the Seal of Approval from the association’s own Production Code Authority. In New York State alone, they continued, less than 200 of the 798 films licensed for public exhibition had Code Seals. “With the rapid increase of foreign and independent domes tic films on the American scene, is difficult for any rating service to cover even a majority of films released,” the Bishops said. The committee suggested that lack of guidance on films is a factor in low film attendance. “The film industry could pro fitably investigate contempo rary movie habits of families j and youngsters,” they said. “If box office receipts are low, even for many films of merit, it may well be that the lack of readily available and reliable guidance on films, compounded by gross adver tising practices, will explain, in part at least, the disin terest in the seventh art,” they commented. Calling advisory film classi fication an “urgent need,” the Bishops put their argument this way: “Parents have the primary right and duty to guide children in their motion picture atten dance. Because of a lack of reliable advice on the accepta bility of the films playing in local theaters, parents are fre quently unable to discharge this duty. f , “The problem becomes more aggravating because of the con stantly increasing number of producing and distributing agencies which supply theaters with foreign or other films made outside the long respected in- flunece of the organized Ameri can film industry. “This committee is con vinced that without a reliable system of film classification, parents cannot universally ob tain the necessary advice and assistance to meet their re sponsibility towards their children.” In addition to Archbishop Krol, committee members are Bishop James V. Casey of Lincoln, Neb.; Auxiliary Bishop John A. Donovan of Detroit; Bishop Walter W. Curtis of Bridgeport, Conn., and Auxi liary Bishop Timothy Manning of Los Angeles. In Typhoon THE BULLETIN, December 8, 1962—PAGE 3 Sister Maura Shaun, regional superior for the Maryknoll Sisters in the Philippines, was able to give a first hand account of the fierce typhoon that struck the island of Guam recently. Enroute from Manila to Koror, she arrived on Guam just when the storm broke. The Mercy Sisters’ new convent, where Sister was staying, suffered the loss of its novitiate wing and the roof of the main build ing. (NC Photosl Court Trial Ordered On Charges Off Anti-Catholic Bias At New York College NEW YORK (NC) — State Supreme Court Justice Vincent A. Lupiano has ordered a court trial on charges of anti-Catho- lic bias in the promotion poli cies of Queens College. Justice Lupiano held (Nov. 26) that findings of the State Commission for Human Rights (formerly the State Commission against Discrimination) in dicate that the matter is a “serious affair” deserving a court trial. Charges of anti-Catholic bias at Queens College, a city in stitution, were first raised pub licly in 1958. A two-year investigation of the charges was conducted by the human rights commission. In 1960 it issued a report stat ing that Queens College offi cials were guilty of “resis tance” to hiring and promoting Catholics. However, the city Board of Higher Education sought to block the human rights com mission from taking any ac tion in regard to complaints of discrimination at the col lege, and in 1961 a ruling by Supreme Court Justice Arthur Markewitz sided with the board against the commission. The request for a court trial on the merits of the charges was made before the Supreme Court by two Catholic assoc iate professors -- Josef V. Lombardo of the art depart ment and Joseph P. Mullalley of the philosophy department — who maintained that they were denied promotions be cause of anti-Catholic Bias. Justice Lupiano, in his ruling ordering a trial on the bias charges, said such action was needed to settle the question of the “asserted pollution of the academic atmosphere of Queens College.” “Careers and reputations are at stake here,” he said. “If the infection exists, it will be appropriately treated. If it does not exist, the cloud of sus picion and doubt over the in tegrity of the college adminis tration can be dispelled.” The case will be tried in the Supreme Court. No date has yet been set. Presbyterian Cited By Club At Notre Dame ANCHORAGE, Alaska, (NC) - The Notre Dame University Club of Alaska has cited a Presbyterian layman for his “significant contributions” to Christian unity. Cited by the organization was Jack Simpson, Anchorage in surance agent and founder of the United Churchmen Laymen’s Conference. Simpson was instrumental in bringing Father John S. O’Brien, research professor of theology at Notre Dame (Ind.) 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