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/TV ST. LOUIS AREA
Probers Find Unpleasant Racial Picture
BY ROBERT J. BYRNE
ST. LOUIS (NC) - The
U.S. Civil Rights
Commission, headed by
Father Theodore M.
Hesburgh, C.S.C., came
here to learn why most
black Americans live in the
crumbling cities while
most white Americans are
found in the comfortable
suburbs.
During three days of
hearings, deliberately held
at the Federal Personnel
Records Center in
suburban Overland, the
Civil Rights commissioners
heard statistical evidence
that thousands of jobs,
once found in the city of
St. Louis, have shifted to
suburban St. Louis
County.
They heard housing
officials claim that the
high cost of land made it
necessary to build more
expensive homes which
were beyond the reach of
low and middle-income
blacks. And they heard the
chief executive of the St.
Louis County government
plead impotence, saying:
“We can’t go out and
force-feed integration in
the county.”
At the end of the three
days, Father Hesburgh,
president of the University
of Notre Dame, reviewed
the testimony and
observed wryly: “Nobody
is doing anything wrong,
and yet the problem gets
worse and worse!”
At the outset of the
hearings, which drew
much local attention,
Father Hesburgh explained
that St. Louis County was
chosen not because of
unusual discrimination but
because it typified a
national situation.
“In the 50s and 60s,
our suburbs sprouted like
mushrooms after a
summer rain, while our
cities have wilted in the
dryness of neglect,” the
Holy Cross priest declared.
“Most white Americans
have been free to leave the
concrete city for what
they regard as a better life
in the open spaces of the
suburbs, but the
poor-primarily the black
poor--have been trapped
behind the invisible wall
that divides city from
suburb.
“The movement has
been not only of people
but of jobs as well, and
this twin tide of
out-migration has tended
to push us further toward
the tragedy of two
separate societies-one
white and comfortable,
one black and poor,” he
declared.
Here with Father
Hesburgh were the five
other federal commission
ers: Stephen Horn, dean of
graduate studies at
American University,
Washington, D.C.,
commission vice chairman;
Mrs. Frankie M. Freeman,
a Negro woman lawyer
from St. Louis; Maurice B.
Mitchell, chancellor of the
University of Denver;
Robert S. Rankin, former
chairman of the political
science department at
Duke University, and
Manuel Ruiz, Jr., a Los
Angeles attorney recently
named to the commission.
A statistical report
prepared by the
commission staff led off
the hearings (Jan. 15) by
charting the metropolitan
area’s racial imbalance. In
the city of St. Louis,
Negores make up 43% of
the 667,000 population,
the report said. In
suburban St. Louis County
(a separate entity
surrounding the city)
Negroes constitute only
4% of the 1,055,000
population.
The report also told of
the huge commercial and
industrial growth of the
suburbs in the 16 years
prior to 1967. In that
period, the city lost
50,000 jobs in
manufacturing while the
county gained more than
75,000 manufacturing
jobs. During the same time
the city lost 35,000 jobs in
wholesale and retail trade
while the county gained
47,000 of those jobs. Most
of the jobs were in “blue
collar” industries, and the
shifts affected Negroes
most because central city
Negroes “became
physically separated from
the jobs they could fill,”
the report said.
National * retailers’
chains have similar
patterns, the report said. J.
C. Penny Co, in its four
city stores, had 18% Negro
employees. In its suburban
shopping centers, Penny
stores had 2% Negroes.
Famous-Barr (local stores
of the May Company) had
11% Negroes in city stores,
and 8% in suburban stores.
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
had 22% Negroes in city 8
locations, but 4% in the
suburbs.
The largest employer in
Missouri, the McDonnel
Douglas Corp. in suburban
Hazelwood, told the $
commission that, of its
33,000 local employees,
2,500 were Negroes. &
Charles Windsor, director
of the company’s
personnel services, *
testified that the *
percentage of blacks was
low because experience $
factors were primary at *
the plant, where the
phantom jet figher is
assembled and where most *
of the work will be done
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SERVING 88 SOUTH - GEORGIA COUNTIES
The Southern Cross
DIOCESE OF SAVANNAH NEWSPAPER
Vol. 51 No. 4
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1970
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ST. JOSEPH S, MACON
Fr. Coleman
Named Pastor
ST. SIMONS ISLAND groundbreaking. While Father Joseph Costello, S.M., pastor of St. William’s,
St. Simons Island, turns the First spadeful of soil, breaking ground for two new parish buildings,
Thomas Dickey, Edward Broker, John O’Looney, Father Raymond E. Healy S.M., associate pastor
of St. William’s, Preston Craig and Conrad Fonseca look on with obvious pleasure.
ST. SIMONS ISLAND
Groundbreaking Rites
Held At St. William’s
Father William V.
Coleman has been named to
succeed the late Monsignor
John D. Toomey as pastor of
Macon’s St. Joseph’s parish
and Dean of the Macon
Deanery. Father Coleman is
presently Co-ordinator of the
Diocesan Department of
Christian Formation.
In a letter informing
Father Coleman of his new
assignments, Bishop Gerard
L. Frey said both
appointments will become
effective January 31st.
Father William
V. Coleman
Bishop Frey also said, “It
is understood that you will
continue to work with those
now associated with you in
your present responsibilities
during the next several
months in order to assure the
continuation of these
important programs along
their present lines of
development.”
Father Coleman was
ordained in 1957 after
finishing philosophy and
theology studies at St.
Bernard’s Seminary,
Rochester, New York. He is a
native of Waterbury
Connecticut and is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. William V.
Coleman, Sr.
In addition to serving as
assistant pastor of Savannah’s
Blessed Sacrament parish
from Feb. 15, 1958 until the
summer of 1959, Father
Coleman has held many and
varied diocesan posts.
His first assignment after
ordination was Clerk of the
Diocesan Marriage Court, a
post he held until August of
1957. He was named
Vice-Chancellor and
Ecclesiastical Notary on
August 16, 1957 and
appointed Director of the
Newman Club of Armstrong
State College in September of
the same year. He served as
Newman Club Director until
1958.
Father Coleman has been
Director of the Diocese’s
Camp Villa Marie since the
Summer of 1958 and was
Rector of St. John Vianney
Minor Seminary from its
opening in 1959 until the
Seminary was closed in May,
1968.
In September of 1967, he
was elected by the clergy of
the Diocese to the Priests’
Senate, a post he held until
1969. In 1967, he was named
Diocesan Co-ordinator of the
newly formed Department of
Adult Religious Education,
later renamed the
Department of Christian
Formation. He is the
Diocesan Director of
Vocations Development and
Administrative Co-ordinator
of Savannah’s St. Pius X High
School.
Birthdays recall the past:
but they also point to the
future. Amid the soft greeting
of “happy birthday” in the
morning, climaxed by a
surprise birthday party for
the pastor by the CYO
Juniors Sunday night, the
parishioners of St. William’s
Church St. Simons Island
BROOKLYN, N.Y. (NC)
— A story in the Tablet,
Brooklyn, diocese newspaper,
starts out like this:
“Praesidens Catholicae
Classicalis Societatis Maioris
NeoEboraci rogavit
Episcopum Mugavero ut
Cardinalis Heenan consilium
iniret quod patiatur ecclesias
in Diocese Westminister
offerre parochianis Missam
Lalinae singulis Diebus
Dominicis.”
It’s a story about a request
for permission to have a Mass
in Latin every Sunday.
Editor Don Zirkel said he
Georgia, broke ground for a
new rectory and parish hall.
Situated about a mile from
the present Church, the new
building for St. William’s will
be in Spanish Architecture to
commemorate the early
Spanish Missions of St.
Simons Island. Both
hoped those who understand
Latin will be pleased by the
story-and those who do not
may realize how little
qualified they are to pray
together in that language.
buildings are to be situated
on a tract of land acres.
Fr. Healy S.M., joined
with the Pastor, Fr. Costello
S.M., and many of the
parish ioners for the
groundbreaking ceremonies.
The rectory and parish hall,
desgined by Scholosser &
Miller of Brunswick, Georgia,
will be built by Oceanic
Construction Co. of
Brunswick Georgia.
Completion date has been set
for July 31, 1970. The
building committee at St.
William’s is headed by Mr.
John Chalfa and Dr. Conrad
Fonseca was in charge of the
fund drive for the buildings.
Both buildings will be built
without a debt to the parish.
Confirmation
Schedule
His Excellency, Bishop Gerard L. Frey will
administer the Sacrament of Confirmation to children
of Holy Trinity Church, Swainsboro at 10:30 a.m.
Sunday, February 1st, 1970.
INSIDE STORY
Yablonski Killers Pg. 2
Liturgical Texts Pg. 3
Know Your Faith Pg. 5
Pope And Celibacy Pg. 6
Atque Tunc Homo Dixit
CARDINAL WRIGHT SAYS
Frustration Is The Real
Problem Facing Priests
GREENBURG, Pa. (NC)~
Frust ration is the single
problem--if there is one-that
could be called “across the
board” facing priests today,
and 1972 may well be a year
of decision for the Church in
regards to unrest among the
clergy.
These viewpoints were
expressed by John Cardinal
Wright, former bishop of
Pittsburgh, and now perfect
of the Congregation for the
Clergy at the Vatican.
Asked if he was surprised
by the results of meetings he
held with the presidents of
national bishops’ conferences
prior to the Bishops Synod
last year, Cardianl Wright
replied:
“The first result was the
discovery that the problems
of priests differ from
continent to continent,
country to country, one part
of the nation to the other.
There is not a single problem
that could be called ‘across
the board,’ unless it be one
summed up in the word
frustration.
Catholic Accent, newspaper
of the Greenburg diocese,
which interviewed him by
mail.
Will the current unrest
among clergy resolve itself in
time, or is the Church headed
on a collision course between
old and young priests?
“I have a hunch,” Cardinal
Wright replied, “in the light
of the recent Synod and the
way things are simmering
down, that 1972 will be a
year of decision for the
Church.”
He explained that old
prie >ts die, mature r-Tests
continue uieu cumnm-nfL-iit^f
and immature or bewildered
priests seek their personal
perfection elsewhere.
“Young priests grow up
maturely, or quit,” he said,
“because they never should
have signed up in the first
place. In either case, the
Church and Christ, united in
the priesthood that stays,
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Protest Crime
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NC) — Parishoners at the more than 30
Catholic churches in this city are being asked to write to Gov.
William T. Cahill and express their concern about organized
crime. Mimeographed letters addressed to the governor are being
distributed at many of the churches as a result of a resolution
adopted by the Jersey City Priests Association, an independent
group.
“But even that meant very
little in precise universal
terms,” he explained. “For
the priests in missionary
countries it meant, as one of
them said ‘trying to get books
for our children, churches
for our people, aids for poor
and sick; for priests in
dictatorships (left or right) it
means freedom to proclaim
God’s word and reach God’s
people; for some it meant
putting the new-wine, fresh
ideas into the old bottles of
outmoded subsidiary
structures.
“For some,” Cardinal
Wright continued, “it meant
putting the old wine of
Catholic truth into the new
bottles of ersatz and plastic
containers of shining newness
and dubious lasting value; for
some it meant frustrating
impersonal relations among
priests, clumsy or inefficient
procedures, lack of
opportunity for adequate
self-expression, freedom to
pursue other careers than
mere priesthood, sex, living
standards.
But for most of the
priests, the prelate pointed
out, it was agreed that their
problems are secondary to
those of the Churches and of
the people.
Card ianal Wright’s
comments appeared in the
Tuition Hiked
ST. LOUIS (NC) — Tuition at the 14 high schools conducted
by the archdiocese of St. Louis has been raised $50 per year.
Beginning next September, tuition will be $300 per year for
freshmen, sophomores and juniors, and $320 per year for
seniors. The raise makes this the second consecutive year that
tuition has been increased by $50. A similar increase,
announced in January, 1969, went into effect last September.
The Archdiocese of Newark, N.J. has also announced a boost
which will raise tuition in its 11 high schools to $600 a year.
Crises Bring Saints
ROME (NC) — In times of internal crisis throughout the
history of the Catholic Church it has reacted “with an outbrust”
of “sanctity,” an article published in Civilta Cattolica, Jesuit
weekly review here, declared. It referred to the saints of the 4th,
5th and 16th centuries, declaring that from the “bosom” of the
Church in “her moments of crisis” sprang the sanctity that
produced St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, St. Leo the
Great, St. Charles Borromeo, St. Philip Neri, St. Ignatius of
Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, St. Thomas More and St. Theresa of
Jesus, as well as St. John Bosco and the Cure d’ars.
Catholic Reparation
LONDON (NC) — Catholics are planning a public act of
reparation here to the memory of the Protestants martyred for
their beliefs during the bitter religious strife of the Reformation.
Hundreds of Catholics-priests, nuns, and lay people, including
students-will walk in silent pilgrimage Sunday, Jan. 25, from St.
Etheldreda’s, historic Catholic church in central London, to the
nearby site- now a public square-where 46 Protestants were
burned at the stake during the brief counter-reformation in the
reign of the Catholic Queen Mary. Altogether 273 Protestants
were burned as heretics under Mary, including Archbishop
Cranmer of Canterbury who so enriched the English language
with his translation of the Bible and the Book of Common
Prayer, and Bishops Latimer and Ridley. They included 51
women.