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PAGE 2—The Southern Cross, May 20, 1965
ROCKVILLE CENTRE
Educator Lauds
N.Y. Book Bill
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N. Y.
(NC) — The superintendent of
Catholic schools for the Diocese
of Rockville Centre has praised
the vote of the New York State
Assembly on a measure that will
provide textbooks to children in
public and private schools in New
York.
Of special importance, said
Msgr. Edgar P McCarren,isthe
fact that children in poor urban
areas will be able to use text
books identical to those used in
wealthier suburban areas.
The state Assembly passed the
bill (May 12) by a vote of 117
to 29. The measure will enable
local school boards to “loan”
textbooks to all children in their
districts “who are enrolled in
grades seven to 12 of a public
or private school.”
It was estimated by the bill’s
sponsor, Assemblyman William
J. Ferrall of Brooklyn, that 300,-
000 would use the books at an an
nual expense of #3 million to the
state.
sannante of Manhattan warned
during the debate that the text-_
book bill would touch off elec
tion struggles in local districts
between those who favored and
those who opposed the state plan.
However, Msgr. McCarren noted
in his statement issued the day
after the bill’s passage that the
Albany Board of Education and
the superintendent of schools in
Troy have already gone on rec
ord in support of the measure.
Msgr. McCarren stated that
the measure would benefit every
school child in the state when it
goes into effect next September
because it would assume the
cost of textbooks now being borne
for the most part by the school
districts.
“Public school children in the
city of New York would be given
textbooks just as good as the
ones used in the wealthier su
burbs,” he said. “The $10 maxi
mum per child specified in the
bill...represents the actual a-
mount now being expended by
many of the more affluent school
districts throughout the state.
“OUR AMERICAN MUSIC” was the title of a pag- history of America from the days of the Indians to*
eant presented by the eighth grade students of St. present day. (Staff photo by Bob Ward)
Mary’s School, Savannah. The pageant traced the
ILLEGAL CIGARETTES
Men Given Shelter At Monastery
In Italy Charged With Smuggling
Opponents of the measure had
argued that it violated the state
constitution which forbids the use
of any public money “directly or
indirectly” to aid church-run
schools. Ferrall contended the
money would go the the students
rather than the schools.
Assemblyman William ’ Pas-
The bill states that all books
purchased by the state or “loan
ed” by the local districts would
be chosen by public school
authorities. It was supported in
the Assembly by many religious
and labor organizations, and op
posed by many teachers’ groups
and the American Civil Liberties
Union.
ROME (NC)—Police uncovered
an apparently extensive cigarette
smuggling operation while inves
tigating a seemingly accidental
death at a Capuchin monastery
in the Alban hills just south of
Rome. The friars themselves
have been questioned as possible
accomplices.
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Though reports have conflict
ed in many important details,
police were apparently agreed
on the following points;
Four men appeared at St. Fran
cis monastery near Albano May 10
and asked the doorkeeper, Father
Antonio Corsi, O.F.M. Cap., for
shelter. They also asked if they
might unload for a short time
the cargo of their truck—several
crates weighing 230 pounds a-
piece. The friars said that they
hesitantly agreed when told that
the crates contained food.
During the night the men tried
to back their empty truck out of
the monastery grounds. The truck
hit the gateway arch, however,
and knocked a large gate off
its hinges, killing one of the
men and injuring another. The
dead man was later identified
as Piero Scali, and the injured
one as Ermenegildo Foroni. The
two other men involved--one i-
dentified as a son of Scali—
disappeared.
Father Corsi took the injured
Foroni to a hospital in an am
bulance borrowed from the near
by convent of the Pauline Sisters.
O n the way to the hospital he
complied with Foroni’s request
that he hear his confession. He
told hospital authorities that Fo
roni had been injured in a street
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When the priest returned to
his monastery, he said later, he
discovered that Scali’s corpse
had been moved into bushes near
the monastery gate. Father Cor
si thereupon notified the police.
On investigating, the police
discovered stacked on the mon
astery grounds 28 crates con
taining American and Swiss cig
arettes. At the invitation of the
Friars
May Be
Arrested
ALBANO, Italy (NC)—Chan
cery officials of the Albano dio
cese have been sent an “in
formative notice” by Italian au
thorities in connection with the
Capuchin tobacco mystery.
The sending of the notice in
dicates that police plan to charge
one or more of the five Capuchin
friars with complicity in a to
bacco smuggling ring which was
revealed when a truck loaded
with contraband cigarettes
smashed into a monastery wall
killing one person.
At the present time, public
prosecutor Ignazio BadaliofVel-
letri has not completed his in
vestigation of the affair. It is
not yet known which of the friars
may be brought to public trial.
At the same time, Badali has
issued new arrest warrants for
two of the smugglers. They are
for Ermenegildo Foroni, who is
in a Rome hospital recovering
from injuries suffered when a
truck crashed into the monas
tery wall and killed Piero Scali,
and for the dead man’s son,
Pierino Scali, who is still at
large.
prior, Father Mario Milani,
O.F.M. Cap., police investigated
further and found eight more
crates of cigarettes in a near
by shed.
As the tobacco industry is na
tionalized in Italy, other traffic
in cigarettes is illegal.
The friars of the small mon
astery denied any complicity with
the smugglers.
Officials revealed (May 13) that
two other recent smuggling cases
in which Capuchin friaries were
involved are on police records.
In 1960, police raided the Ca
puchin monastery situated on the
Via Portuense in Rome. The fol
lowing year they raided another
Capuchin house at nearby Par-
rocchietta. In the course of the
two raids they confiscated Crates
containing foreign cigarettes.
In the initial raid, Eremenegil-
do Foroni himself was impli
cated, and has been wanted by
police ever since.
In the present case, one of
the more obscure facets is the
role of a friar identified as
Father Fedele Boccitto, O.F.M
Cap. He is said to have been
prior of the Albano monastery
until about a year and a half ago,
when he was allegedly trans
ferred to Lugano, Switzerland.
Although Capuchin authorities
in Lugano are reported to have
disclaimed the existence of Fath
er Fedele, one among them said
that there was a Father Fedele
who died several years ago. But
according to other sources,
friars at a large Franciscan
monastery at Lugano—the Ca
puchins are a branch of the Fran
ciscan order—are reported to
have admitted a certain Father
Fedele as a guest a few months
ago. This man is understood to
have disappeared at the end of
April.
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SEVEN CHILDREN received their first Holy Com
munion at Saint Augustine’s Catholic Church in Thom-
asville. Left to right, Rayjean Simpson, Charles Naz-
worth, Debra Godwin, Kathleen Moylan, James Simp
son, Kerry Alligood and Karen Dewell. Father Mario
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CARPUSAL SAYS
Brazil Seeking
Social Reform
WASHINGTON (NC) — Brazil
under the 13-month-old regime
of President Humberto Castello
Branco is pressing for social
reforms which the Catholic
Church has long sought, Agnelo
Cardinal Rossi of Sao Paulo said
here.
The cardinal said in an inter
view here that prior to last
year’s revolution, officials of the
government of President Joao
Goulart had made demogogic pro
clamations in favor of social
reforms. He said that the govern
ment today is pursuing social
justice not demogogically but
democratically.
Indicating that agrarian reform
is one of Brazil’s basic needs,
Cardinal Rossi voiced optimism
about the land reform law pro
jected by the Castello govern
ment. He said the program about
to be carried out was worked
out by commission set up by the
Goulart regime, for which Arch
bishop Helder Camare of Olinda
and Recife and Archbishop Fer
nando Gomes dos Santos ofGoia-
nia were advisers.
The government program as
projected by the Castello Branco
government recognizes the di
versity of Brazil, Cardinal Ros
si said, and therefore leaves it
up to the individual states to
determine how best to apply the
federal law.
The cardinal viewed as a posi
tive factor the projected alloca
tion of vast federal and state
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tually till the soil. He aljO^aw
justice in the plan for ^^Ral
reimbursement for estate requi
sitioned by the government for
division and redistribution.
In general, Cardinal Rossi said
that President Castello Branco
has performed a great feat in
balancing the various political
factors seeking ascendency in
Brazil. He said the president
has proved able to cope with the
young military officers who see
a military dictatorship as the
only solution for political cor
ruption and the threats of com
munism. Today, he said, “Bra
zil is heading in the right di
rection.”
Cardinal Rossi, who was elect
ed president of the National Con
ference of the Bishops of Brazil
last November and elevated to the
College of Cardinals in February,.
stopped in Washington in the
course of a three-week visit to
the United States. A guest of
Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi,
apostolic delegate for the United
States. Cardinal Rossi was
honored during his three-day
visit by a reception given at the
Catholic University of America
(May 12) by its rector,
William J. McDonald.
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