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MARRIAGES
MYRICK-ANDERSON
SAVANNAH—Mr. and Mrs.
Tazwell Leigh Anderson Sr.
announce the marriage of their
daughter, Sally Wolford, to Penn
Elton Myrick Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. E. Myrick Sr., of
Jacksonville, Fla. The cere
mony took place on August 31st
in the Saint Gregory's Church.
The Rev. David Scanlon cele
brated the nuptial mass.
EVERLY-SEAY
SAVANNAH—Miss Carol
Patricia Seay became the bride
of Lt. J. Reid Everly Septem
ber 7th, at the Blessed Sacra
ment Church, with the Rev.
Edward R. Frank celebrating
the Nuptial Mass. The bride is
the daughter of Mrs. Joseph
Allen Seay and the late Mr.
Seay. The bridegroom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Julian A.
Everly of Boyce, Va.
WARE-CASEY
SAVANNAH—The wedding of
Miss Agnes Cecilia Casey,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cor
nelius Joseph Casey Sr., and
Thomas Whalen Ware, son of
Mr. and Mrs. JohnD. Ware, Sr.,
took place September 14th, in
the Church of the Most Blessed
Sacrament. The Rev. Joseph F.
Ware celebrated the Nuptial
Mass.
TILTON-STEGIN
SAVANNAH—Miss Frances
Ellen Stegin and John Howell
Tilton Jr. were united in mar
riage by the Rev. Edward R.
Frank in Blessed Sacrament
Church, September 14th. The
bride is the daughter of Frank
Edgar Stegin and the late Mrs.
Stegin. The bridegroom is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ho
well Tilton Sr.
MEAGHER-NEARING
BAINBRIDGE—Miss Agnes
Nearing of Bainbridge and Mr.
John Francis Meagher Jr. of
Ft. Gaines, Ga., were united in
marriage August 3rd at St.
Joseph’s Church in a nuptial
mass served by Tommy Perry,
nephew of the bridegroom, of
Jacksonville, Fla. and Don Bry
an of Bainbridge. Father Paul
Power officiated at the cere
mony. The bride is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
tBenjamin Nearing of Hastings,
Fla. and Mr. Meagher is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Fran
cis Meagher of Auburn, Ala.
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—Pupils of two Catholic schools
here have transportation direct
to the schools on public school
buses although a parents’ group
is paying the extra cost, at least
temporarily.
The rides are being provided
under an agreement worked out
between the Committee for Im
proved Education and the Board
of Education until a formal rul
ing is received from State Edu
cation Commissioner Freder
ick M. Raubinger.
Parents had threatened to en
roll their children in public
schools this fall if some way
could not be worked out to pro-
vfde the transportation. School
bus routes were changed this
year and the direct route to the
public schools no longer took
parochial school children past
St. Joseph’s, Mcopin, and
Queen of Peace, Hewitt.
The West Milford School
Board was in sympathy with the
request but said legal prece
dent in this state prevented it
from providing direct trans
portation. The parents then
agreed to underwrite the cost
of about $3,000 a year pending
a ruling which the CIE sought
from Raubinger. If Raubinger
rules adversely, the CIE said
it would appeal to the state
iSoard of Education and from
there to the courts.
Polish Cardinal
Again Criticizes
Red Regime
BERLIN, (NC)—Stefan Car
dinal Wyszynski has again
warned Poland’s communist
government to stop its anti-
Catholic actions, according to
reports here.
The Primate of Poland—
speaking out for the third time
in three weeks against restric
tions on Church activities and
government efforts to restrict
Catholic influence—declared:
“Neither machine nor indus
trial combine can enslave men
who have once stopped bowing
to emperors and will never
again agree to becoming en
slaved.”
Cardinal Wyszynski spoke in
Warsaw (Sept. 7) at the conse
cration of St. Stanislaw church.
He told a congregation of about
2,000 that there can be no co
existence and peace until free
dom, truth and justice are re
spected.
In late August the Cardinal
spoke at a Mass at the Polish
national Marian shrine at
Czestochowa attended by 60,-
000 people. He told them: “We
are still waiting for the reali
zation of justice in our home
land, not only for privileged
groups, but for all the people,
especially the Catholic faith
ful.”
A week earlier he had spoken
at the same place against gov
ernment efforts to stop pilgrims
from gathering at the shrine.
Reports have also reached
here that a part of the major
seminary of the Katowice dio
cese in Poland has been taken
over by the Polish government.
The government, reports state,
claimed that the seminary did
not need all its space because
of the number of seminarians
drafted into the armed forces.
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First Meeting Of Year
For St. Joseph’s PCCW
HOOTENANNY sponsored by the Savannah Deanery Coun
cil of Catholic Women to be held on September 29th
at Blessed Sacrament gym at 8:00 p.m, Donation 50<£.
Pictured are the “Freelanders” and the “Sand Duners” —
MACON—St. Joseph’s Parish
Council of Catholic Women held
their Fall organizational meet
ing Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at St.
Joseph’s School auditorium.
Mrs. Joseph Joncas presided
and guest speaker was Mon
signor Toomey of Savannah. It
was decided that future meet
ings would be held the first
Sunday of each month at 3:30
in the school auditorium.
Chairmen are the following:
Mrs. Clyde Olson, Cooperating
with Christian charities; Mrs.
Robert Hinson, Jr., coopera
ting with the Confraternity of
Christian Doctrine; Mrs. Jo
seph McGoldrick, Jr., Family
and Parent Education; Mrs.
Leonard Campbell, Refugee and
Foreign Relief; Mrs. Joseph
Benedetto, Public Relations,
Mrs. Anthony Pachence, Civil
Defense; Mrs. Dan Harris, In
ternational Relations; Mrs.Ro
bert Hurley, Jr., Legislation;
Mrs. Wm. O’Shaughnessey, Li
braries and Literature; Mrs.
J. Gregg Puster, Spiritual De
velopment; Mrs. J. P. Wood-
hall, Organization and Develop
ment; and Mrs. Don Benton,
St. Mary’s Home Guild.
Left to right, Bill Oetgen, Joe Pacifici, John Oetgen,
Mike Cuicevich, Chuck Powell and Francine Tuten. Not in
the picture are the “Freeloaders.”
NEA Has No Role In Court
Test By Public Educators Of
State Aid To Church Colleges
od
WASHINGTON, (NC) - The
National Education Association
was described here as having
no connection with the effort
of a public school group to up
set state aid to church-related
colleges in a court suit.
This was claimed by William
G. Carr, executive director of
the powerful, 816,000-member
association. “The NEA has no
connection with it whatever,”
Carr told the N.C.W.C. News
Service, (Sept. 12).
He said the fact that the an
nouncement of the Horace Mann
League’s legal suit came at a
press conference in the NEA
headquarters did not commit
the association.
Carr said the room used for
the press conference was re
served by the National Coun
cil of Chief State School Of
ficers. The council, like seve
ral other tenants in the build
ing, he said, has access to
the building’s public facilities.
Carr also said he hopes that
the suit filed by the league will
not hurt relations between pub
lic and private schools.
“I just express the hope that
it is not going to kick out the
props from under what I’ve been
hoping was an increasingly
friendly and cooperative rela
tionship between the public and
the private schools and I don’t
see any reason really why it
should,” he said.
The Horace Mann League, a
by-invitation-only group of pub
lic school administrators, has
filed suit in Annapolis, Md.,
against four Maryland laws
granting state aid to help fi
nance non-religious facilities,
such as science buildings, at
four Church-related colleges in
the state.
The public school group has
announced it will carry the
case to the U. S. Supreme
Court in its effort.
Spokesman for the league has
been Edgar Fuller, executive
secretary of the Council of
Chief State School Officers. Le
gal adviser is Leo Pfeffer,
general counsel of the American
Jewish Congress, New York.
Both are outspoken opponents
of any form of public aid for
education in church-related
schools and colleges.
Carr noted in an interview
that the NEA is on record as
favoring that any proposed
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aid church-related education
include a provision permitting
a taxpayer to launch a suit
against such aid.
“But this has nothing to do,
as I see it, with the Horace
Mann League’s action,” he said.
(At the press conference at
which the suit was disclosed,
Fuller told newsmen he did not
know whether the NEA approved
the action, but he suggested that
the NEA’s stand on a judicial
review clause in legislation
would tend to support the suit.)
“NEA has not taken any po
sition with regard to the in
stitution of this suit at all,”
Carr added. “It does not en
courage it or discourage it.
It doesn’t have anything to do
with it particularly.”
Asked about the presence of
two former NEA presidents on
the panel which announced the
suit, Carr said this was an
action by them as individuals,
not as past presidents.
“I am sure that they them
selves, although I wasn’t there
and haven’t had any direct re
ports about it until this conver
sation, feel quite sure that they
would wish that the point be
made clear. There probably are
20 to 25 past living presidents.
This is just two of them,”
he said.
Statement Called ‘Misleading
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Polish Embassy Distorts
“Facts About The Church”
NEW YORK, (NC)—A priest-
expert on the status of the
Church in Poland characterized
as “very misleading” a state
ment on Church life in Poland
issued by the Polish Embassy
in Washington.
Father Ignatius Olszewski,
editor of the Inter-Catholic
News Agency, which specializes
in Church news concerning Po
land, said that the erpbassy
statement distorted its picture
of the Church in Poland by
Omission.
The embassy press office re
port, dated September 9, was
entitled ‘ ‘Some Facts about Ca
tholic Church in Poland.” It
gave statistics for the increase
in the numbers of bishops,
priests, Sisters and men Reli
gious between 1937 and 1939;
cited postwar statistics for
church construction; referred
to the existence of 15,000 ca
techetical centers, and spoke of
the ‘‘wide circulation” of the
* ‘more than 50 Catholic pa
pers.”
Father Olszewski said that
generally the embassy’s sta
tistics appeared to be correct.
But he said the embassy’s por
trayal of the Catholic press in
Poland gives a very erroneous
image. The ‘‘more than 50”
Catholic papers alluded to in
clude the two dozen diocesan
bulletins which are distributed
only to the clergy, he said, add
ing that they are essentially
only newsletters.
The Polish-born priest said
also that the two major Catholic
publications in Poland, Tygod-
nik Powszechny (Universal
Weekly) of Cracow, and Pre-
zewodnik Katolicki (Catholic
Leader) of Poznan, are limited
by their newsprint allotment to
about 50,000 copies an issue
apiece. ‘‘This is a negative
quantity compared to the actual
needs of a nation of 28 million
Catholics,” he said.
Father Olszewski added that
the lion’s share of the news
print for “Catholic” periodi
cals goes to the publications
of the “Pax” association and
the Christian Social Associa
tion. ‘ ‘If not condemned out
right, by the Hierarchy, these
publications are certainly ig
nored, and cannot be called
Catholic in any normal sense,”
he said.
The 15,000 catechetical cen
ters in Poland—opened after the
communist regime outlawed the
teaching of religion in the
schools—are constantly ham
strung by government harass-
New Chaplain
Reports To
Robins AFB
ROBINS AFB, Ga.—Capt. Jo
seph W. Kennedy of Erie, Pa.,
has reported to Robins AFB,
Ga., for assignment as Catholic
chaplain.
He succeeds Capt. John J.
Kastigar who has departed Ro-
FR. JOSEPH W. KENNEDY
(CHAPLAIN)
bins for Elmendorf AFB, Alas
ka, where he will be assigned
to the 5008th Support Squadron,
Alaskan Air Command.
Before entering the Air Force
in July of this year, Chaplain
Kennedy was assistant pastor
at St. Joseph’s Church, Sharon,
Pa., for seven years.
He attended the Chaplains’
School at Lackland AFB, Tex.,
beforevcoming to Robins.
After graduating from the Ca
thedral Preparatory School for
Boys in Erie, Chaplain Kennedy
attended Gannon College in Erie
for two years. He received an
A. B. degree from St. Mary’s
University, Baltimore,Md.;and
an M.S.T. degree from St.
Mary’s Seminary, Baltimore
ment, according to Father Ols
zewski. Men Religious—unless
they are pastors—Sisters and
lay people are all barred from
teaching religion classes. This
rule so overburdens the dioce
san priests that in many places
religion classes are im
possible, said the priest-edi
tor. He said that in addition,
the government at whim impos
es confiscatory taxes on Church
property and on priests.
The Warsaw regime general
ly maintains an air of legality
and reason in its dealing with
the Church, the priest said. But
he added that in practice it
seizes on “the flimsiest excus
es or pretexts so as to pester
the Catholic people.”
Meeting Of
Saint Mary’s
Home & School
AUGUSTA—The regular
monthly meeting of the St
Mary’s on-the-Hill Home and
School Organization was held
Tuesday, September 10th. at
8:00 p.m. The meeting was
conducted by Mrs. A. Joseph
Green, President. Msgr. Daniel
J. Bourke welcomed the par
ents.
Sister Mary Gerald, school
principal, introduced the faculty
and also spoke on the aims and
regulations of the school. The
President introduced the fol
lowing standing committees and
received their reports:
Ways & Means: Mrs. C. Ste
phen Mulherin; Co-Chairman:
Mrs. Frank Troutman; Publi
city: Mrs. Thomas L. McCoy;
Grade Mothers: Mrs. Thomas
Maxwell; Athletics: Mr. Rich
ard Bowles; Co-Chairman:
Mrs. Richard Bowles; Yard Du
ty: Mrs. Paul Thompson; Cub
Scouts: Dr. Raymond Schiele;
Girl Scouts: Mrs. Gus Sanders;
Hospitality: Mrs. Floyd Gam-
bill; Program: Mrs. Joseph Ste
venot; Civics: Mr. JohnRadick
It was announced that in place
of the donut sales, the group
would concentrate on the paper
sales. Everyone was urged to
bring their old newspapers to
the Pastor’s garage.
Sister Mary Paulita’s 2nd
grade boys won the room count.
About 40 ladies were present
at the meeting. It was decided
that the council would sponsor
a Day of Recollection, October
17th, also plans were made for
a trip to the Legislature in Jan
uary.
Continuing projects which
have been successful in the
past and will continue in opera
tion are the manufacture of can
cer pads for Our Lady of Lour
des Cancer Home in Atlanta.
Mrs. W. J. O'Shaughnessy
read a most successful report
on the operation of St. Joseph’s
Free Lending Library, which
now has more than 1000 books
available to students and
readers. She also announced
that this years’ project is a
compilation of a history of St.
Joseph’s Parish. There is not a
great deal of available informa
tion and she asked that anyone
having factual information on
the founding and development of
St. Joseph’s Church and Pa
rish get in touch with her.
Mrs. Donald Benton has been
appointed chairman to the Home
and School Association of which
she is also Vice - President.
World’s Conscience
Seen Awakening To
Needs Of Others
CINCINNATI, (NC) - Men’s
consciences are awakening to
the needs of their fellow men
on an international scale, a
mission leader told college stu
dents here.
Father Frederick A. Mc
Guire, C.M., executive secre
tary of the Mission Secretariat,
Washington, D.C., addressed a
national meeting of college stu
dents who are leaders in the
Catholic Students Mission Cru
sade.
He described the awakening of
conscience as a movement to
ward “universalism,” point
ing out that Pope John XXIII
had referred to the existence
of an international common good
and the need for an international
order to protect it.
Father McGuire urged the
students not to “downgrade”
the many non-religious forces
working toward universalism,
such as the United Nations,
the European Common Market,
and the Agency for International
Development.
Instead, he said, they should
recognize that ' ‘because of the
basic theology of the Church,
Catholicism actually is the ideal
religion for a secular univer-
salist age.”
Pope Pius XII in his ency
clical on the Mystical Body of
Christ, Father McGuire con
tinued, “pointed out that the
Catholic Church is above
nationalism, the Church is
a mother, the mother of all
nations and all people,”
To meet the needs of a chang
ing world requires “a well
educated, thoughtful elite who
have conviction,” said Father
McGuire. “This can be your
role.”
He cited the fact that more
than 65 per cent of the world’s
people suffer seriously from
malnutrition, and that more than
half of the population goes to
bed hungry every night.
“Are we to be smugly com
placent in the face a such devas
tating misery as we see
throughout the world, or shall
we now prepare ourselves for
action in the future in accord
ance with Christian principles
and teachings?” he asked.
‘ ‘It is good to be a revo
lutionary,” he continued, “to
revolt against the injustices
which have made men less than
human. Changes are coming,
and coming rapidly.
“We are living in the most
affluent country in the history
of all mankind . . . But let us
not forget what the rest of the
world is like. And let us not
think that we can divorce our
selves from all mankind. We
are one.”
St. James
P.C.C.W. Holds
Meeting
SAVANNAH—St. James Pa
rish Council of Catholic Wo
men resumed their monthly
meetings on September 9th, fol
lowing the usual Summer re
cess. The meeting was presided
over by Mrs. LouiseMcElveen.
Mrs. Delia Lubinsky, Chair
man of the Committee on In
ternational Relations asked the
council to adopt a resolution
supporting the Governor of
Guanaboro, the Brazalian State
that includes Rio de Janero, in
their fight against communism.
Mrs. Fred Oleson of the Com
mittee on Legislation invited
all members to attend a ses
sion of the Georgia Legisla
ture in February.
In other business by the coun
cil, it was voted that the Kit
chen committee, headedbyMrs.
J. F. McBride, purchase a din-
nerware service for sixty to be
used by the organizations of the
parish, a new bowling team
comprising members of the or
ganization will be formed; Spe
cial notice was given the Tiny
Tots Sunday School. Enroll
ment has grown to 87.
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