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f f f 4 PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, September 26, 1963 Priest Who Visited Cuba Without Authorization Is Reinstated By Superiors MARYKNOLL, N. Y., (NC)~ A priest who was suspended for visiting Cuba against the orders of his religious superiors has been reinstated by them. A spokesman for the Mary- knoll Fathers said Father Fe lix McGowan, M. M., “has de clared his willingness to fol low the instructions of his su periors." “Both Maryknoll and Father McGowan consider the incident closed," stated the spokesman. Father McGowan went to Cuba early in July to investigate con ditions there. He had been “ab solutely forbidden" to make the trip by his superiors, and his suspension resulted from his refusing to obey them. (A priest under suspension may not perform his priestly functions until he is reinstated by his superiors.) While in Cuba Father McGo wan gave interviews denying that there is religious perse cution under the Castro regime. He also became associated with the controversial group of 59 American students who visit ed Cuba during the summer without authorization from the U. S. Government. In a letter to the New York Times he dis puted the accuracy of reports about their visit. On August 3 the Vicar Gen eral of Maryknoll, Father John F. Donovan, M. M., issued a statement saying that comments by Father McGowan on condi tions in Cuba were the priest’s “own personal views and not those of the Maryknoll Fa thers." Father McGowan appeared with the students September 12 when the House Un-American r ;\i } /MURPHY’S RADIO & TV SERVICE FAST SERVICE - FAIR CHARGES mfXiber of ohamf.fr of commerce I’ick l |> And Delivery 1710 BULL AD 3-0985 MASON !NC. v > AD 2-4192 18-20 W. BRYAN ST. • Printing •Office Supplies •Office Furniture •Ditto Duplicating Machines -and Supplies Activities Committee held hearings on their activities. Outbreaks of violence occured during the hearings that day and the next. The priest also presided at an evening meeting of the stu dents in Washington, D. C., during which some of thosepre- sent clashed violently with members of George Lincoln Rockwell’s American Nazi par ty- Later, however, a Maryknoll spokesman said it was under stood that Father McGowan re gretted the publicity he had been receiving and wished to return to the community. The announcement that the priest had returned was made here by Father Albert J. Nevins, M. M., editor of Maryknoll magazine. His statement said: “Father Felix McGowan re turned to Maryknoll today (Sept. 17) and has declared his willing ness to follow the instructions of his superiors. “He will make his annual spiritual retreat during which time his superiors will plan his future assignment. Both Mary knoll and F ather McGowan con sider the incident closed." St. James Bar-B-Cue Oct. 5 th SAVANNAH — This is the tenth year in which St. James will offer to the public, through the sponsorship of its Mens Club, the Annual Autumn Fes tival and Bar-B-Q Dinner. This event has grown in popularity over the years to such an ex tent that its demand is rapidly approaching that of our area’s most looked-forward-to acti vities. Co-chairmen Gene Powers and John Rodewalt have an nounced that the function this year will be held on October 5, from noon until 7 p.m. at the parish grounds, Mont gomery Crossroads and Whit field Avenue, just east of Wal ters Road. According lo - the. chairmen, a variety of new types of con cessions and games will be available this year, along with the usual refreshment stands, and improvements accomplish ed to the flow of traffic in the most unique, drive-in and take out facilities. The previous menu added a choice of ribs to the main course of delicious bar-b-cue chicken, which became so popu lar, chef Rodewalt has planned a similar variety this year. REFRIGERATOR SERVICE Bishop’s Appliance Service 31 Years Experience in Savannah Automatic Washers - Freezers - Refrigerators Alr-Condltioners EXPERT GUARANTEED SERVICE AD 6-1197 Nights 354-6880 I- fc 1 Its k K P l I X Vi m m m % 6 $ I ) 5 *UCl r ' / MW **’*** FAMOUS ALL-PURPOSE DRESSING DELICIOUS ON Salads • Meats • Seafood SOLD AT LEADING STORES" m Savannah’s Only Discount House DIXIE FURNITURE V MART ‘‘Where Everybody Trades’’ 2517 Bull Street Savannah, Georgia Phone AD6-8616 FRESHMEN at St. John Vianney Minor Seminary received surplices, emblematic of their service of the altar, at exercises last Friday evening. Shown investing two young seminarians are Bishop McDonough, Very Rev. William V. Coleman (L) Rector of the seminary and the Rev. Joseph Stranc (R) Seminary Procurator. Deanery Meeting Oct. 6th AUGUSTA—Mrs . Joseph J. O'Connell, president of the Au gusta Deanery Council of Catho lic Women has announced that the annual fall luncheon meet ing will be held on Sunday, October 6th at the Augusta Town House at 1:15 p.m. Mass pre ceding the luncheon will be held at noon at St. Patrick’s Church with Rev. Ralph E. Seikel as celebrant. Monsignor John D. Toomey, Spiritual Moderator of the Diocesan Council of Catho lic Women will be the speaker. Luncheon tickets are $2.50 each and reservations should be made with the parish presi dents. Mrs. O’Connell has appoint ed her deanery chairmen as follows: Co-operating with Ca tholic Charities, Mrs. John O’ Brien; Cooperating with Con fraternity of Christian Doc trine, Mrs. J. J. McCoy; Civil Defense, Mrs. A. T. Hubert; Family and Parent Education, Mrs. Stephen Mulherin; For eign Relief, Mrs. John Radeck; Home and School Association, Mrs. D. J. Whaley; Libraries and Literature, Mrs. Louis Bat- tey; International Relations, Mrs. A. B. Montgomery; Or ganization and Development, j Miss Pauline Peuffier; Spiritual Development, Mrs. Albert Rice; Public Relations, Mrs. Ernest Dinkins; St. Mary’s Guild,Mrs. Harry B. Arthur; Legislation, Mrs. Sam W. Fennel, U. S. O., Mrs. Edith Wilder; and Hospi tal, Mrs. M. C. Stulb. The vice presidents of the deanery are the presidents of the parish councils. They are as follows: St. Mary’s-on-the- Hill, Augusta, Mrs. Jack Hag- ler; Sacred Heart, Augusta, Mrs. Richard Craig; St. Jo seph’s Augusta, Mrs. Richard B. Scarff; St. Patrick’s Augus ta, Mrs. H. B. Roberts, Imma- In Jungles Officials Marvel At Work Of Priest BLANCA FLOR, BOLIVIA— Twenty-three American men and women flew into the “Green Hell" jungle area here to visit the booming rubber and Brazil nut community cooperative started by a technical wizard in a white cassock, Father John A. Dietrich, M. M. The United States party, re presented by officials of the Embassy, United States Infor mation Service and the Alliance for Progress, made the flight in a special chartered plane from the capital city of La Paz during the Labor Day weekend. The entire party was unanimous in its praise of the accomplish ments of the ingenious Detroit missioner. Father Dietrich, from De troit, Michigan, who returned to the United States for a six months furlough last week, has been here in this junble terri tory ever since his ordination to the priesthood at Maryknoll, N. Y., in June 1957. The Detroit priest has helped to build this small jungle section of the Maryknoll Vicariate of Mission Band OPELIKA, Ala., — The Vin centian Fathers have appointed two former Military Chaplains to St. Mary’s Mission Band, Opelika, Alabama. Director of the Band will be Father Joseph Keefe, C. M., who served during the Second World War in the Navy with the Fourth Marine Division. Following his military service, Father Keefe was assigned to Parish duty in Philadelphia. With the outbreak of the Korean Conflict, Father Keefe returned to active duty as Chaplain with a Destroyer Squadron in the Far East. For the past eight years, Father Keefe has served on the Mission Band at the Vin centian House in Toronto, Can ada. Father Francis J. Fish, C. M., second member of the Band, served with the 34th In fantry Division in Italy, Fol lowing the war, Father Fish was assigned to Niagara Uni versity, New York, as a Pro fessor in the College of Arts and Sciences. With the outbreak of the Korean Conflict, Fahter Fish was recalled to active duty and served first in Alas ka and subsequently in Iceland and in Germany. For the past three years, Father Fish has served on the Mission Band at the Vincentian Motherhouse in Philadelphia, Pa. the Pando into a thriving coop erative of Brazil nuts and rub ber. He branched out into the production of Brazil nut oil which will greatly aid the local Bolivian economy in the matter of vegetable oils. The U. S. Party remained overnight at Blanca Flor and were amazed at the progress that the Maryknoller had made in opening roads, building an air strip and helping the social, religious and economic life of the people of his cooperative. Father Dietrich’s coopera tive experiment is located at Blanca Flor in the Pando, a jungle region at the headwaters of the Amazon River in north east Bolivia. His assignment was to establish a long-range project on a 100,000 acre tract to improve the economic condi tions of its people. To do so he had to overcome with ingenuity those technical roadblocks that had kept a peo ple primitive, poverty-stricken and illiterate for centuries. RICHARD GERARD COWAN, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Cowan of 457 Dessau Place, Macon, has been awarded a Naval ROTC scholarship to attend The Col lege of the Holy Cross in Wor cester, Massachusetts. Richard attended Mount de Sales High School as a member of the first class of boys and graduated with honors in May of this year. He was a member of the National Honor Society and received an award from the Mathematical Association for recording the highest mark in the school on a nationwide examination. Ri chard intends to major in Chem istry. culate Conception, Dublin, Mrs. Louis Alexander; Sacred Heart, Waynesboro, Mrs. Harry God- bee, Jr.,; and Our Lady of the Assumption, Sylvania, Mrs. Leo Thompson. Other officers and members of the deanery board are: Mrs. Norman I. Boatwright, Provin cial Director, Province of At lanta; Recording Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Markwalter; Cor responding Secretary, Mrs. Henry Holmes; Parliamen tarian, Mrs. D. J. O’Connor; Past Presidents, Miss Pauline Peuffier and Mrs. L. J. Ward. Members of the diocesan coun cil residing in the Augusta Deanery are Historian, Mrs. John T. Buckley; Parliamen tarian Mrs. Lawrence J. Ward, Libraries and Literature, Mrs. William H. Barrett; Home and School Association, Mrs. Jack Johannsen, and International Relations, Mrs. John Scherer. Msgr. Daniel J. Bourke, V. F., is Spiritual Moderatpr of the Augusta Deanery Council of Catholic Women. Sept. 29th Savannah K.C. Plan Breakfast, Initiation SAVANNAH—Three top at tractions are in store for the officers and membership of Savannah Council on Sunday, September 29, when an ini tiation, a group communion and a Communion Breakfast will be held. Grand Knight Joseph Ebber- wein and his Lecturer, Mem bership Chairman and Catholic Activity Chairman have com bined efforts on the 29th bo bring you three promotions at one time. Catholic Activity Chairman Phil Roach will get first shot at the membership when the officers, members and candi dates assemble at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist at 8 o’clock Mass to attend Com munion in a body as part of the Fifth Sunday Communion. All Knights and any Catholic men of the city they care to bring will assemble in front of the Cathedral at 7:45 and march down the center aisle, led by Grand Knight Ebberwein and the officers of Council. Speaker at the Communion and Mass will be the Rev. Larry Lucree, assistant rector of the Cathedral. Celebrant of the Mass and communion will be the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Andrew J. McDonald, State Chaplain of the Knights of Columbus and chancellor of the Diocese of Savannah. At the conclusion of the Mass and Communion the member ship and their guests will be the guests of Savannah Council at a delicious breakfast to be held in the main ballroom of the air-conditioned'Knights of Columbus hall. This part of the function is under the capa ble direction of Lecturer Thom as Buttimer. (From the Com pass Savannah K.C. Council Paper. Neglect Of Youth Training Called Treason’ NEW YORK, (NC)—Msgr. Jo seph P. A. O’Brien, vice chan cellor of the New York arch diocese, said “careless neglect in the Christian training of the young" is “treason to youth and treachery to our country.” The cause of “the sorry con dition of the world" is a “phil osophy of thought from which God is excluded," the Mon sig nor said (Sept. 15) in a sermon in St. Patrick’s Cathedral “Regrettable, this philosophy has penetrated our judiciary, which prevents our children from any prayerful contact in public schools with their God,’’ he declared. School children are permitted by law to M step into a store and buy books and magazines that enable them to mingle with cri minals and prostitutes, mur derers, moral perverts," he said, but they are not permit ted to pray in public schools or to be taught that they are “child ren of God.” “We cannont delude and de ceive ourselves and defraud our youth by depriving them of the inspiration of the ideals that come from religion alone," he asserted. “There is no substi tute for the religious motive." Msgr. O’Brien said atheism, which he called “a stupid, blun dering, fatuous denial of God in the life of man," is growing into “ amost astounding denial of man’s primary instincts." “Atheism has plunged its fol lowers into a world that has no maker, a family that has no father, a life that has no ter mination, a destiny in which man is no longer master but slave of relentless forces driving him to nothingness,” he said. Obituaries H. Gould Barrett AUGUSTA—Funeral serv ices for Mr. H. Gould Barrett were conducted at St. Patrick’s Church on September 20th. The Reverend Father Ralph E. Seikel officiating. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Cornelia White Barrett; two sons, H. Gould Barrett Jr., and William White Barrett; a daughter, Mrs. George H. In man; a brother, Stewart Phinizy Barrett; a sister, Mrs. J. C. Hagler Jr., and nine grand children, all of Augusta. James G. Renkl SAVANNAH—Funeral serv ices for Mr. James G. Renkl were conducted at Saint James Church on September 25th, with the Reverend Terence Kernan, O.S.B. officiating. Survivors include a son, James W. Rnekl, of Mobile, Ala., a sister, Mrs. Carrie R. Mock of Savannah; four grand children; and a number of nie ces and nephews. J / IN AUGUSTA . . . MEMORIALS S.R. KELLY & SON, INC. PA 2-6972 Irvine Henderson #jjneral Home PH. AD. 2-7181 Irvine C. Henderson Irvine C. Henderson, Jr. James E. Henderson, III 121 W. Hall St. SAVANNAH In Savannah ... / OGLETHORPE MARBLE & GRANITE CO. MILTON J. LITTLE EAST BROAD at WALDBURG ST. What’s Your Opinion? • Since the first of the year, more than 250 merchants, large and small, supported your Southern Cross by using Its adver tising columns to solicit your patronage. • There are many merchants, large and small, who feel that Catholic family pa tronage is not worth soliciting. •When it comes to buying for your family we won't presume to tell you where to buy. BUT don't you think It's fair and honest to support first, those many relia ble merchants whose advertising in the Southern Cross makes its publication possible? If you agree that they merit your first consideration, the next time you buy—tell them why. They'll appreciate it and so will we. Thank you. The Southern Cross Weekly Newspaper Of The Savannah Diocese