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PAGE 6 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1963 IN BASEBALL Catholic Profiles BY RONDEL Lawrence Peter Berra now in his seventeenth season with the New York Yankees is perhaps the greatest catcher and all-around personality to ever don a baseball uniform. The gnome shaped, squatty little backstop has been relegated to the role of a player-coach now, but he still reigns supreme in the hearts of Yankee lovers and haters alike. YOGI, as he has affectionately been called since his arrival to the Yankees some two decades ago, has come a long way as a player. Originally an outfielder, Berra was converted to a catcher by the former Yankee great, Bill Dickey. A shy and uneducated kid when he travelled from The Hill in St. Louis ;o the catacombs of New York, Yogi has had the instinct, the desire and the- skill to make more money from his trade than any other cat cher who ever lived. A dedicated ballplayer who loves the game and everything about it, Berra has worked hard to master his trade. As far as being a Yankee coach, Berra is not doing it for the money. Yogi has enough outside interests and investments to live comfortably for a long time. YOGI, his wife Carmen and their three sons, Larry 13, Timmie 11, and Dale six, are an ideal family. They live in a beautiful split level house just outside of New York. In his peak years, Berra was perhaps the greatest hitting catcher to play baseball and he was paid proportionately, earning in the neighborhood of $60,000 annually. Berra holds or share® at least sixty baseball records, in cluding approximately thirty world series marks, among which are most series played in and most base hits. Lawrence Peter Berra has had a long trail to success as a major league baseball player. In his initial season he almost hung up his glove because of the severe ribbing hetookfrom the minor league fans. A WISE manager, Johnny Kane, persuaded the youthful Berra to ignore the jibes and play ball. Yogi paid attention to his managers advice and it led him to the major leagues. It wasn’t all peaches and cream when he got to the stadium either. The fans were on his back again. Berra's unusual physical characteristics caused the jibes and gave the fans something to needle him about. Short and squatty, with rounded shoulders, bushy eyebrows and a rounded face, Berra looked like anything but a ballplayer. But. his intense desire to play kept him going. Yogi has often been the butt of ,okes concerning his talkativeness. It's true that Yogi talks to everybody about everything, and it's also true that he still reads comic books and chews bubble gum, but these are things that make him good copy. YOGI is a good family man and attends many affairs with the family. " I go to some affairs In the neighborhood, Communion breakfasts, Holy Name meetings. I go to affairs for the local Little League. You get so many calls from people, you could go every night if you wanted to. I do these things when a friend asks, not because someone wants to pay me.” An avid golf fan, Yogi is finally beginning to master the game. His closest friends on the Yankee squad, Mickey Mantle and Whitey Ford are also golf fans, having been introduced to the game through Yogi. Many people have complained about Yogi’s stubbomess, but Yogi remembers where he came from and what he was before. The Berra's lived on The Hill, the little Italy section of St. Louis. HIS father was a bridkyard laborer. Yogi quit school after the ninth grade to go to work - in a coal yard, on a Coca-Cola truck, in a shoe factory'. In order to play ball Yogi and a number of his buddies cut their own field out of the city dump, after the Y had levelled it off and weeded it, of course. One night an enemy gang destroyed the field, and the next day, Yogi and his friends worked and redug to put the field back in shape again. This is the true picture of Yogi Berra, the man, of Yogi Berra, the ballplayer. 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FAQ STJJDY Substantial Food Seen By ROME (NC)—The United Nat ions Food and Agriculture Or ganization said that the world wide potential for increasing food production In this age of acceleration population growth is "very substantial indeed.” But it warned that the reg ions of the world where the CENTURY AGO CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 many ships for the Confederacy. While he was director of the Naval Observatory, In the years before the Civil War, Maury was the close friend and col laborator of Father Angelo Se- cchi, the noted Jesuit astrono mer who was then at George town. Another collaborator was Father Benedict Sestini, S.J., whose work at the Georgetown observatory produced a series of sun spot drawings which were published (44 plates) as an ap pendix of the Naval Observatory Volume for 1847, printed in 1853. Fathers Sestini and Sec- chi were exiled from Italy by the revolution of 1848, and over a two-decade period drew much favorable attention to the local school by their advanced work in mathematics and the physi cal sciences. Father Sesti ni published a "Catalogue of Star Colors”said to have been the first work of its kind and long a reference book. Astronaut Cooper's orbiting In space recalls the earliest efforts in this country to pro duce a heavler-than-air flying machine. Samuel P. Langley, then secretary of the Smithson ian Institution here, was a real pioneer In this effort late in the last century. Among those who encouraged him were two Catholic priests at the Catholic University of America in this city. The priests were Father Ge- United people are in the most urgent need of better diets right now are the very areas where the populations are growing the fas test. THE FAO issued two sepa rate reports on current and projected future food needs. They are part of its prepara- orge M. Searle and Clarence E. Woodman, both Paulists and converts to the Catholic Faith. Father Searle was born In London, England, in 1839; was graduated from Harvard at the age of 18; entered tha Catholic Church in 1862, and was an assi stant to Langley at the Har vard observatory when he de cided to study for the priest hood. Father Woodman was gra duated from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn,, and received an M.A. from Amherst in 1877, He studied for the Episcopalian ministry before entering the Catholic Church;; was highly tr ained as a mathematician, and was interested in a number of scientific societies. The two priests became pro fessors at the Catholic Univer sity of America in that institu tion’s early days, and Langley, then at the Smithsonian Insti tution, named Father Serle "of ficial astronomer” and Father Woodman "assistant astrono mer” of the Astrophysical Ob servatory. TTiey were associ ated with the Smithsonian from 1900 to 1911, and took part In several scientific expenditions. Wire To JFK NUTLEY, N.J, (NC) —More than 125 persons here signed a telegram addressed to Presi dent Kennedy asking him to In tervene to halt the flow of ob scene material across state lines. The telegram was sent on behalf of the Nutley Decent Literature Committee. Braille Edition LONDON (NC).. The Royal N»- tional Institute for the Blind, whose patron ia Queen Eliza beth II, is to publish a Braille edition of Hia Holiness Pope John XXIII's peace encyclical, Pacem in Terris. Potential Nations tion for the World Food Con gress in Washington June 4 to 18. One study is a 223-page re port entitled "Possibilities of Increasing World Food Produc tion." It projects food and po pulation increases to the end of the 20th century. The world's current population of over 3, 061,000,000 will double to more than six billion people by the year 2000, it predicts. The companion study, "The Third World Survey" of FAO, forecasts food needs at the end of the century. It projects the following needs: • Asia and the Far East: a fourfold increase. • Latin America: three to four times the present pro duction. • Near East; a threefold in crease. • Africa; three to fourfold increase. The study indicates FAO op timism that Africa and Latin America can meet their future needs. For Asia and the Far East, which today total close to three-fifths of the world's po pulation, the FAO voices doubt. It questions whether it Is possible to bring about the needed 400 per cent Increase In food production In the re gion, with known resources and techniques. FAO Director General B. R. Sen In commenting on the study described the food-population balance In the Far East as "pre carious." He said further study of the resources In various parts of the world is needed to determine "the most effective pattern for putting them to work." What may be needed, he indicated, is changing the whole pattern of land use in the Far East and elsewhere. THE report assessing world potential to increase food pro duction rules out mass trans fers of foodstuffs from sgrl- culturally richer to the poorer regions as a permanent solut ion. It states that Its assessment of production capacity and land resources is of a "Sketchy” and preliminary nature. But It holds surface could be extended, es pecially In the equatorial re gions of Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. The climate of these regions would allow for two or three harvest* every year on lend that is now scar cely used at all, according to the study. But this would re quire solving the problem of maintaining soil fertility, it said. The FAO report hold* out the prospect of threefold crop In creases in such developing re gions. It also envisions e 500 per cent Increase in livestock production and it least a doubl ing of fish catches In these areas. WHEN YOU PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS PLEASE MENTION THE GEORGIA BULLETIN Priest Scientists Pioneered 4 Far Out 9 CATHOLIC OBSERVERS TO ATTEND Mount Athos Celebrations An Ecumenical Highlight But for a king's sudden illness, this week would have witnessed the opening of reli gious celebrations on a history -rich Grecian peninsula stretc hing into the Aegean Sea that is one of the great shrines of Eas tern Orthodoxy. When King .Paul of Greece was forced to undergo an appen dectomy^ the Athens govern ment immediately decided to postpone until June 22 obser vances marking the 1,000th anniversary of the first monas tery on Mount Athos which were originally planned to begin on May 25. THE POSTPONEMENT was ordered because of the kiilg’s wish personally to participate in the celebrations not only as ruler of the country of which Mount Athos is a part, but as the world’s only Orthodox mon arch. The change of plans caused disappointment both to high- ranking Orthodlx prelates In many countries, and Protestant and Roman Catholic represent atives who had been invited to share in the millenary obser vances. However, it is still expected that the Mount Athos celebrat ion, when it finally gets under way, will be one of the ecumen ical high-lights of the year and an event of great historical in terest to all Christians. SINCE THE first monastery, the Great Lavra, was founded by St. Athanasius the Athonlte in 1963 Mount Athos has been regarded as the mainspring of spirituality in the Orthodox Ch urch and Orthodoxy’s greatest pilgrimage center. But its his tory actually goes back beyond the time of the Eastern break away from Rome. The Orthodox prelates gat hering at Mount Athos were to have been headed by Ecumeni cal Patriarch Athenagoras in Istanbul, the supreme spiritual authority on Mount Athos, pro vided he was granted permis sion to leave Turkey by the government there. He would have been joined, among others, by Patriarch Alexei of Moscow, head of the Russian Orthodox Church: Archbishop Chrysos tom of Athens, Primate of the Orthodox Church in Greece; and Archbishop Iakovos of New Yo rk, head of the Greek Ortho dox Archdiocese of North and South America. Among those attending as In vited guests were to have been three off icials of the World Cou ncil of Churches and the Lut heran World Federation, and two Catholic monks from Jeru salem. They were Dr. W. A. Visser't Hooft, WCC general secretary; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry of New York, president of the LWFand chairman of the WCC’s Central Committee; Dr. Kurt Schmldt- Clausen of Geneva, LWF execu tive secretary; Father Benedict Stoloz, O.S.B.S, prior of the Benedictine Abbey of the Dor- m it ion on Mount Zion; and Fa ther Albert Rock, O. F. M., representing Father Lino Cappiello, 0. F. M., Francis can Custodian of the Holy Land. The celebrations have a spe cial Interest for Catholics since St. Athanasius is one of the sai nts of Asia Minor whose, cult Is approved by the Catholic Ch urch. He ruled over some-'60 communities of monks living on Mount Athos, and. It was not until his death In 1,003 that the Great Schism saw the monks separate from Rome. Before St. Athanasius other monks and hermits had lived in the peni nsula, but it was he who in troduced the cenobitic or com munity rule, derived chiefly from that of St. Theodore of Constantinople (759-826), one of the great figures of monastic history. ALTHOUGH a part of the Greek state, Mount Athos— of ficially known as Haglon Ores (Holy Mountain) — is a theo cratic republic with a certain amount of autonomy. Its govern ment is a council of 20 monks elected annually from each at the 20 monasteries— all but three of them Greek— on the peninsula that stretches 35 miles into the Aegean from the main Peninsula of Chalcidice. Besides the Great Lavra, the other monasteries are those of Vatopedi, claimed to have been founded by the Byzantine Em peror Theodosius: Rossikon, the Russian monastery of St. Panteleimon; Chiliandari, foun ded by Serbian Prince Steph en Namanya (1159-95); Iveron, established by Iberinas or Geo rgians; Esphigmenu; Kullum- ush; Pa.ndocratoros; Philotheu; Caraculla; St. Paul; St. Denis; St. Gregory; Sfmopetra; Xero- potamu; St. Xenophon: Dochi- ariu; Constamounitu; Zo- graphy (Bulgarian); and Sta- vronikutu, founded in 1545. In addition, there are 12 ske- tes, or monastic settlements, dependent on the monasteries and some of considerable size; and many sancturies and hemi- tages. In 1749, the monks of Vatopedi established a large ac ademy which for a long time attracted students from all parts of the East, but eventu ally it proved a failure and is now In ruins. ONLY MEN may set foot on Mount Athos. By an imperial edict of one of the Byzantine emperors in 1046, women were forbidden the peninsula, and this prohibition has ever since been strictly enforced; Several years ago, however, an American woman tourist boasted upon her return from Greece that she had visited one of the monasteries by dressing In slacks and ac companying a party of male pil grims. A visitor to Mount Athos must have a written permit issued by the Ecumenical Patriarchate and endorsed by the Greek For eign Ministry. One erf the visi tors last year was a U.S. pai nter, David G. Asherman, who later reported that Mount Athos "probably has more murals within its territory than any other community of its size in the entire world." But he noted that many of the mural master pieces, even some painted dur ing the 19th century, had de teriorated badly because the artists used faulty techniques. BESIDES being noted for their wonderfully picturesque appe- rance and the natural bea uty surrounding them, the mon asteries of Mount Athos are famous for their libraries, col lections of valuable and historic documents and other treasures. The Great Lavra has 2,200 manuscripts, the richest col lection of all. In the monas tery of Xeropotamu are pre served a fragment of the Holy Cross presented by' Byzantine Emperor Romanos L and a fifth or sixth century icon of St. Demetrios that once reposed in- the Great Cathedral at St. So phia in Constantinople. There have been frequent complaints that, despite the rich libraries at their disposal, only comparatively few of the monks on Mount Athos seem interested in scholarly re search and many, in face, are poorly educated. It was with this situation In mind that the "Athonias," a school of higher education hous ed in the Russian skete of St. Andrew In Karyes, capital of Mount Athos, was opened under the direction of Bishop Nath aniel, the only bishop on the peninsula. His consecration took place in 1956, and was the first on Mount Athos for L000 years. number of young monks wishing to join the communities. One reason alleged for this is the refusal of the Greek govern ment — except in some exce ptional cases — to permit non- Greeks to enter the community as . novices. One non-Greek monastery that had 2,000 monks at the turn of the century now is reported to have 67. The Rus sian Monastery which once had 1,500 monks living there to day has only a few dozen. Serbian Orthodox sources in Belgrade have charged that the Greek authorities are reluctant to admit monks from Yugosla via, fearing that the Soviet Union and Bulgria might also seek to send citizens there. Archbishop Nlcodim, head of the foreign church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate visited Mount Athos in 1961, but this was only after he had run Into strong Initial oppositionfrom the Greek authorities. When the Russian Ambassador to Greece visited Mount Athos in 1954, the Greek monks there lodged a vigorous protest with the At hens government. Meanwhile hopes that Mount Athos will continue to be "not only a source of great histori cal pride for the Ecumenical Patriarchate but also a foun tainhead of glory for the entire Orthodox Christian world” have been voiced by Archbishop Iako vos in New York. IN A special message in which he noted that the Mount Athos celebrations will continue In the Western Hemisphere until May 1964, he urged that the anni versary of the first monastery there be marked by appropriate lectures and sermons by Orth odox priests, articles in the Orthodox press, and special radio and television programs. "Those of us who will not be able to join the pilgrimage," he said, "will surely share in the unity of prayer in which we shall ask Almighty God to bless all the members of the reli gious communities of Athos who maintain the cycle of prayer throughout the days and nights on behalf of all of us.” LEWIS PHARMACY PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS PROMPT DELIVERY SERVICE CALL US: CE 3-5353 2802 PIEDMONT ROAD, N.E. ATLANTA, GEORGIA The all-new, all-transistorized filorelco* Dictating / Transcribing Machine featuring lifetime magnitic tape with automatic loading ...only $249.50* HYNIS COMPANY 172 WHITEHALL STMIT, I. W. ATLANTA OIORGIA PHONI - SZI-A4I? Mount Athos is the decreasing St. Jude Solemn Novena JUNE 2 to 10, 1963 Ath St. Judo, -Tfce Stint of tho lmpottlMK‘ for htip. Stnd yovf pot t.ont to tho Nttiontl Shrlno of Sr. Jvdt todty. A GIFT WILL BE SINT TO THOSE TAKING PART IN THE SOLEMN NOVENA MARK PETITIONS, fill IN, CUR AND MAIL DIM MTHtJ .OII.T MAM UCI MV PtTIIlONS IIFOK THI NATIONAl SHSIN! 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