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1963 Education Program Follows Familiar Pattern
WASHINGTON, (NC)- Presi
dent Kennedy’s 1963 Education
Program follows the pattern of
predecessors on issue of Aid to
Church-Related Schools: Col
leges and Universities are in,
grade and high schools for the
most part are out.
On the level of higher educa
tion, both public and private
colleges would be eligible to
take part in the proposed three-
year billion dollar loan program
for construction of academic fa
cilities. Likewise, students in
both public and private institu
tions could share in student
loan insurance, and Work-Study
grants and graduate fellow
ships.
In addition, the program calls
for forgiveness of up to 50 per
cent of a National Defense Edu
cation Act Loan to a student who
chooses a teaching career. The
forgiveness feature would be
extended on across-the-board
basis to all teachers, rather
than restricted to public school
teachers as now.
Both public and private col
leges would be eligible
for grants for library construc
tion and expansion; foreign lan
guage programs; graduate
school expansion; and college-
level education of technicians
in engineering, science and
health.
Public and private institu
tions of higher education would
also be equally eligible for
Federal Grants for elementary
and secondary school teacher
training; and for specialized
training of teachers of handi
capped and gifted children and
adult illiterates, as well as for
training of librarians and other
specialized personnel.
However, the presidents pro
posed four-year $1.5 billion
program of Federal Grants for
raising salaries of grade and
high school teachers and for
building grade and high school
classrooms would make funds
available to public schools only.
As now, public grade and high
schools would get grants for
science, mathematics and for
eign language teaching equip
ment. Private schools would
get loans only.
Also, only public schools
would be eligible for Vocational
Education funds and Federal
Grants for adult basic educa
tion.
Kennedy’s education message
to Congress (Jan. 29) made no
direct mention of controversy
over Federal aid to church-
related schools, which has
contributed to the defeat of his
education program for the past
two years. He did say, however,
that the nation ‘ ‘can no longer
afford the luxury of endless
debate over all complicated and
sensitive questions raised by
each new proposal on Federal
participation in education.”
‘‘To be sure, these are all
hard problems--but this nation
has not come to its present
position of leadership byavoid-
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INDEX
To Bless
Remodeled
School
SAVANNAH—Bishop Tho
mas J. McDonough will bless
the remodled school of the
Most Pure Heart of Mary
Parish on Sunday morning,
February 3rd.
The Bishop will bless the
building following the 10 a.m.
Mass.
Vol. 43, No. 20
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Termed “Threat To Nature Of Woman
N.C.C.W. Voices Opposition
To Constitutional Amendment
Alexians Honor
Monsignor Mitchell
SIGNAL MOUNTAIN, Tenn.
—A long and distinguished
career in the priesthood was
honored here January 6 when
the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Joseph D.
Mitchell, chaplain emeritus,
was made an affiliate member
of the Congregation oftheAlex-
ian Brothers.
Monsignor Mitchell, who was
ordained for the Savannah dio
cese in 1908, is the first priest
ever to receive this special hon
or from the Brothers.
The privilege of honorary
membership in the congregation
is given in recognition of long
and outstanding service to the
Brothers and is an expression
of deep gratitude.
In impressive ceremonies in
St. Augustine’s Church Brother
Herman Joseph, recently elec
ted Superior General of the
Alexian Brothers, read the Let
ter of Affiliation of Mem
bership.
Brother Arthur Sanford, Pro
vincial of the American pro
vince, presented Monsignor
Mitchell with a specially pre
pared certificate of member
ship and expressed the Bro
thers’ appreciation for the pre
late's long years of service
to the community.
‘ ‘During his many years of
association with the Alexian
Brothers, especially as Chap
lain of the Signal Mountain Rest
Home, Monsignor Mitchell
proved himself a true friend
and benefactor,” said Brother
Arthur. “He has always shown
a sincere interest in the wel
fare of the congregation.
‘‘Many of the Brothers in the
various houses of the province
still cherish fond memories of
the days when the kind Mon-
signor guided them in green
years of their postulate and no
vitiate and kept up a fatherly
solicitude in their welfare af
ter they were professed.”
After 32 years of devoted ser
vice as a priest in Georgia,
in which time he served three
years as vicar general and two
times as diocesan administra
tor, Monsignor Mitchell came to
Signal Mountain in 1940, tired
and ill and wanting rest.
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Committee Will Study
Deaths That Followed
Oral Contraceptive Use
WASHINGTON, (NC)—A
committee of medical experts
will meet under government
auspices during February to
study the cases of more than
30 women who died of blood
clotting after taking an oral
contraceptive.
This was disclosed here by
Commissioner of Food and
Drugs George P. Larrick who
declined to name the committee
members or say where they
would meet.
He said members of the panel
did not want to be identified.
The date of the meeting is up
to the committee chairman but
will be during February,
he said.
The Food and Drug Adminis
tration has been studying the
oral contraceptive, known as
enovoid, since last summer,
when there were reports that
it might have been responsible
for cases of thrombophlebitis
(blood clotting).
Larrick said the Food and
Drug Administration has gath
ered information on about 275
cases of women who developed
thrombophlebitis after taking
enovid. These included in
cidents ‘‘numbering into the
low 30’s” in which the woman
died, he stated.
The drug's manufacturer,
G. D. Searle & Company, con
ducted a conference on enovid
in Chicago last fall. The meet
ing concluded that there was no
proof that the drug causes blood
clotting.
An FDA official commented
at the time:‘‘We haven’t decided
whether this is so.”
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1963
HERE AND THERE 6
EDITORIALS 4
JOTTINGS 5
' OBITUARIES 5
CHURCH AND POLITICS 6
v OUBjAN ^MILITIAMEN SHOW RELIGIOUS INTEREST—
Just 50 yards from the fence that separates the U. S.
Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay from the rest of Cuba,
Father (Lt.) Ferdinand E. Slejzer of Salem, Mass,
offers Mass on the hood of a jeep for 30 U. S. Marines.
The priest reports that many Cuban militiamen witnessed
the Holy Sacrifice with ‘‘respectful and attentive behavior.”
This behavior was in direct contrast to the usual abusive
language and obscene gestures of the militiamen. The
priest is attached to a Marine infantry battalion of the
First Marine Division.—(NC Photos)
Award For
School At
Columbus
COLUMBUS—The student
body of Our Lady of Lourdes
School, Columbus assembled on
Friday, January 25, for the
presentation of the American
Legion School Award Plaque
by Major W. M. Phillips, Ad
jutant, Charles S. Harrison
Post No. 35. Major Phillips
was introduced by Major J. L.
McCaslin who explained the Le
gion School Awards Plan for
Better Citizenship and Ameri
canism. The official medal is
presented by Posts to boys
< and girls in graduating classes
of public and private schools.
Recipients best represent out
standing qualities of character
and ability. Award is based on
Courage, Leadership, Honor
Service and Scholarship, which,
if cultivated, result in better
citizenship.
Mother Paul, O.S.U. Princi
pal gratefully accepted the pla
que on behalf of the school and
expressed appreciation of the
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WASHINGTON, (N C)—
The National Council of Catho
lic Women has reaffirmed its
opposition to the proposed equal
rights amendment to the Con
stitution in a letter to each
member of the U. S. Senate.
Signed by Mrs. Joseph Mc
Carthy, NCCW president, the
letter states that she was re
quested to voice this opposition
by the federation’s board of
directors at its annual meeting
in Washington. The 27-member
board represents some nine
million Catholic women
throughout the country.
The letter states that the pro
posed equal rights amendment,
which has been before Con
gress for the past 30 years,
‘‘in our view tends to flaunt
nature itself. Men and women
are endowed by the Creator
with differing characteristics
and functions. To attempt to
make them equal in all things
is to overlook their fundamental
differences, and remove the
true foundations of woman's
dignity.”
The proposed amendment
provides that equality of rights
under the law ‘‘shall not be
denied or abridged by the United
States or by any state on account
of sex.”
Mrs. McCarthy quoted from
a resolution adopted at
the NCCW 28th national con
vention, .vhich stated the co n-
cil position on this issue. It
reads: ‘‘‘Again we strongly re
iterate our opposition to the
proposed equal rights amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution
as a threat to the nature of
woman which individuates her
from man in God’s plan for
His Creation.
‘‘Under the guise of equality,
the proposed ‘equal rights’
amendment would in reality
wipe out the many legal safe
guards which protect woman's
position in the family. Under
the proposed amendment, maxi
mum hour and minimum wage
laws for women, widows; allow
ances, alimony and support pay
ments, and the basic responsi
bility of man to provide for his
family would be placed in jeo
pardy.”
PRAY FOR OUR
PRIESTLY DEAD
Priest Tells Reaction Of Cuban
Militia To Guantanamo Masses
WASHINGTON, (NC)—Relig
ious feeling isn’t dead in Cuba’s
militia, according to a chaplain
who served at Guantanamo with
a Marine infantry battalion dur
ing the Cuban crisis.
Father (Lt.) Ferdinand E.
Seljzer says Cuban soldiers
witnessed with “respectful and
attentive behavior” several
Masses he offered for Mar
ines guarding ‘Suicide Ridge' —
an outpost situated about 50
yards from the fence separating
U.S.-Cuban territory.
A native of Salem, Mass.,
Father Slejzer summarizes his
observations in a report releas
ed here by the Navy Department.
The priest is assigned to the
Second Battalion, First Marine
Regiment, of the First Marine
Division, Camp Pendleton,
Calif.
Describing a Mass offered
(Nov. 4, 1962) for some 30
men of “E” batallion, he states:
“The altar was set up, as usual
on the hood of the jeep--per
haps 50 yards from the famous
fence, and in clear view of any
one standing on the other side.”
“There was still some ques
tion in our minds as to what
the reaction of the Cuban guards
might be,” he continues, “since
so many occasions daily they
had thrown rocks, made ob
scene gestures, and shouted
vulgarities at our men who were
standing guard or building bunk
ers.
“But we were pleased with
what actuallv haDDened, because
we encountered only respectful
and attentive behavior by five or
six guards, who showed contin
uing interest while Mass was
being celebrated.
“Whether they actually par
ticipated in the Mass or simply
observed it, we cannot say, but
we do know that they demon
strated no hostility, and there
was no disturbance.
‘ While Mass was celebrated,
the guard truck employed by the
Cubans for the ‘changing of the
guard’, rode along on the other
side of the fence. As it ap
proached the view of our ser
vice, it slowed down consider
ably—apparently for the pur
pose of observing what the men
may have considered unusual
activity at our outpost. Again,
I must say that it is impossible
to determine what the internal
disposition of these men was,
yet I feel sure that the exper
ience did not pass without mak
ing a definite psychological im
pression on them.
“On three other occasions,
subsequent to this Sunday, Mass
was celebrated on weekdays at
this same place. On two of these
occasions, two or three Cuban
guards were seen observing our
worship with the same apparent
attentive interest.”
WASHINGTON, (NC) — Sen.
Warren G. Magnuson of Wash
ington suggested here that re
ligious programs may not be
getting a fair share of time on
U.S. radio and television.
Magnuson, addressing the
annual National Religious
Broadcasters meeting (Jan. 24),
said more time has been made
available to religious programs
in the six years since the Sen
ate Commerce Committee, of
which he is chairman, made an
inquiry into TV network prac- k
tices which covered the subject
of religious programming.
But he added: “I would be
the last to contend, however,
that the amount of time devoted
to religious programming ade--
quately reflects the importance
of religion in American life.”
Magnuson noted that the tech-t
nology of communications has
made great strides in recent
years but said “I strongly ques
tion if their use for religious
purposes has increased propor-
Father Slejzer says that
“confirmation of our judgment
that the Cubans’ behavior of
respect and attention had real
meaning is the fact that one of
several give-and-take verbal
contacts between them and a
Marine company officer came to
a sudden end when the Marine
held up a Catholic rosary in
view of his adversaries.”
“The Cuban guards’ abusive
language turned to silence and
they walked away from the fence
when shown the string of beads
used by Catholics in devotional
.prayer,” he concludes.
tionately with this growth.”
He stressed the role of re
ligion in combating communism
and predicted that the day might
come when communications sa
tellites would be able to beam
religious programs into the
Soviet Union.
An FBI official, Fern C.
Stukenbroeker, also took note
of the power of religion to coun
teract communism.
“Clergymen and religious
broadcasters are today playing
important roles in America’s
fight against the communist
enemy,” he said. “By streng
thening a man’s faith in God,
by deepening his spiritual val
ues, by encouraging him to be
a good citizen in a democratic
society, you are strengthening
the moral fabric of American
life.”
The president of the Reli
gious Broadcasters group, Dr.
Eugene R. Bertermann, said
members of the organization
"Council To
Gear Church
For Future”
CLEVELAND - (NC) --The
purpose of the ecumenical coun
cil is to gear the Church for
the future, Auxiliary Bishop
John F. Whealon of Cleveland
told some 1,500 Cathoiics and
Protestants who turned out in
a heavy snowstorm and zero
weather to hear his report on
the Second Vatican Council.
The meeting, jointly sponso
red by the Leunis Professional
Sodality and the Cleveland Area
(Protestant) Church Federa
tion, was held at John Carroll
University, operated by the Je
suits.
As an example of the coun
cil’s desire to set a future
course for the Church, Bishop
Whealon pointed to the draft
on sources of Revelation—
which he called one of the most
hotly discussed topics.
He said that the manner in
which the draft was expressed
had it looking only to the past
and not to the future. For this
reason, he said, the draft was
held to be not acceptable.
Bishop Whealon emphasized
that although Catholic dogmas
cannot be changed, some are
being restudied as to how to
best express them. He said:
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VERY REV. PETER WHELAN
February 6, 1871
Oh God, Who didst give to
thy servants by their sacredotal
office, a share in the priest
hood of the Apostles, grants
we implore, that they may
also be one of their company
forever in heaven• Through
Christ Our Lord, Amen.
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MAILING ADDRESS
U.S. SENATOR
SAYS RELIGIOUS PROGRAMS
MAY NOT BE GETTING FAIR
SHARE OF U.S. AIR TIME
michael j. McDonough
at Our Lady of Lourdes Church.
Mr. McDonough, a native of
Ireland and retired employee
of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
died last Saturday following a
lengthy illness.
In addition to Bishop McDon
ough, he is survived by four
other sons; Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Martin J. McDonough and the
Rev. William McDonough, both
of Philadelphia; Mr. M. Fran
cis McDonough of Springfield
Pa., and Mr. James J. Mc
Donough of Los Angeles, Calif.
Requiem
For Father
Of Bishop
PHILADELPHIA - Solemn
AWARD FOR COLUMBUS SCHOOL—Major W. M. Phillips, Adjutant, Charles S.
Harrison Post No. 35 presents American Legion School Award Plaque to Mother M.
Paul, O. S. U. Principal, Our Lady of Lourdes School, Columbus. Also pictured is
Major J. L. McCaslin.
Pontifical Requiem was offer
ed (Jan. 30) for Mr. Michael
J. McDonough, father of Bish
op Thomas J. McDonough.
Bishop McDonough was cele
brant of the Mass which was of
fered last Wednesday at 11 a.m.