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I 1 I ! 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. For Wedding Invitations It’s The Acme Press 1201 LINCOLN STREET PHONE 232 6397 DESBOUILLONS Savannah's Leading Bridal Store SINCE 1870 AD 2-1145 126 E. Broughton St. Savannah, Georgia Atlantic Fence Company JOSEPH L. GRINER OWNER Chain - Link Fences, Resi dential-industrial. “Lowest Prices—Highest Quality”. No Down Payment — 36 Months to Pay. Fully Guar anteed. 56 PARKWOOD DRIVE SAVANNAH, GEORGIA 354-4483 Anyway They Got Bus Rides WEST MILFORD, N. J., (NC) —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. V nrro dialtd la mn-D Jlnnetteti- Over 40 Years of Dependable Courteous Service SAVANNAH. GEORGIA Savannah’s Only Discount House DIXIE FURNITURE MART “Where Everybody Trades” 2517 Bull Street Savannah, Georgia Phone AD6-8616 The Southern Cross, September 19, 1963—PAGE 3 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 RENTAL SERVICE Household Appliances You Name It, We Got It! Walter Smith, Prop. 302 West Victory Drive Savannah, Georgia AD. 6-7942 Federal legislation which would 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 99 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. 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