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PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1964
ANCHORAGE HAVEN
Alaska Hospital Has Heroic Role
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stripped from second floor
beds.
By 6:30—the quake hit at
5*37 p.m.—casualties were ar
riving at every entrance. Many
of the essential supplies had
been dumped onto floors, and
had to be salvaged and sorted
for use.
MEANWHILE, smaller tre
mors continued to rock the
building. But they were mere
tickles compared to the first
giant blow.
Volunteers from every walk
of life poured into the main
lobby, where they were assign
ed emergency tasks. The home
less, dazed and shocked and
attracted by the hospital lights,
were given hot coffee and mat
tresses on which to lie.
ALL AVAILABLE doctors
reported to the emergency room
area and from there they fan
ned out to serve in surgeries,
x-ray, laboratory. They were
undaunted by the stream of in
jured.
Nursing service workers from
Presbyterian Hospital joined
the Providence staff and volun
teers to provide full coverage.
There was no division of race
or religion—only those need
ing help and those doing the
helping.
THERE WAS comfort for a
stunned and broken city to hear
the news via emergency radio
broadcasts: “Providence is
operating and caring for cas
ualties.'*
Sister Barbara Elian and her
five nun assistants, supported
by Sisters from the Catholic
junior high school, coordinat
ed the task of keeping the hos
pital operating and caring for
patients.
DR. DON Val Langston, chief
of the hospital’s medical staff,
directed the over-all medical
effort and Dr. Fred Hillman,
chief of surgery, supervised
surgeons. At no time was there
panic or hysteria among the
patients, homeless or the per
sonnel charged with their care.
There was a time for every
one present when he or she
thought, "Providence is going
to live through this quake.”
For Sister Barbara Ellen, a
plucky, smiling nun of deep
faith, who saw the hospital open
in October, 1962, the time came
early. For some of the skep
tics it did not come until Eas
ter Sunday.
SHORTLY AFTER midnight,
early on the morning of Holy
Saturday, one elevator was ope
rating and patients enjoyed the
luxury of moving to the floors
the easy way. Throughout the
night practically all of Ancho
rage remained dark, but the
lights of Providence gave proof
that Anchorage had not been to
tally extinguished.
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On Easter Sunday, St. Mary
Residence, also owned by the
Sisters of Charity of Provi
dence, and operated as a nur
sing home, was evacuated of 30
patients were moved into Pro
vidence. It cared for them as
it did for all who needed help.
"TO SINGLE out any indivi
dual act of service or heroism
would be a disservice to the
hundreds who helped. As far
as I am concerned, It was a
night when heroism and sacri
fice were commonplace,” said
Sister Barbara Ellen.
"The soldiers and airmen
who provided every conceivable
service and supplied every
need, the electrician who re
paired a pump to prevent flood
ing, the chaplains who gave last
rites to the dying and com
forted the injured, the cooks who
made coffee and sandwiches,
the radio operators who linked
us with the city, the engineers
who kept the water and power
on, all must share Providence's
victory along with Anchorage's
dedicated doctors and nurses,”
the nun said.
”WE CANNOT properly thank
the hundreds of persons, known
and unknown, who made it pos
sible for Providence to operate.
CARDINAL SAYS
I will issue Individual citations
to each known person who join
ed in our effort. It will say sim
ply that the person named ser
ved in Providence Hospital on
Good Friday and Holy Saturday
in 1964. It will be enough for
those who know the story of
the inspired effort that brought
us new life and hope on this
Easter Sunday,” she added.
A quake victim spoke for pat
ients. He said as he was being
wheeled into emergency sur
gery: "This hospital cost six
million dollars. Tonight, it
would have been a bargain at ten
times that price.”
NEITHER Anchorage nor Pro
vidence are out of danger. The
plucky hospital may crash if a
second major quake strikes to
morrow or the next day. But it
survived its Good Friday to
serve as a beacon of faith and
hope to suffering Anchorage on
Easter Sunday.
Anchorage put its very last
ounce of energy, muscle and
brains into keeping Providence
alive, and Providence did not
let Anchorage down.
Its heart keeps beating in
the living thing that a hospital is.
Council Bettered
Church-Red Ties
BOSTON, Mass. (RNS)--Franz
Cardinal Koenig, Archbishop
of Vienna, said here that Roman
Catholic Church relations with
Iron Curtain countries have no
ticeably improved since the
start of the Second Vatican
Council.
Arriving here to start a 17-
day lecture tour of the U.S. at
the request of the Paulist Fath
ers, Cardinal Koenig specifi
cally mentioned Yugoslavia and
Hungary in his press confer
ence at Boston’s international
airport.
RELATIONS with the Tito
regime are considerably im
proved, while there has been
"some improvement” in those
with the Budapest government,
he noted.
Questioned about the status of
Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty.
Hungarian Primate who has tak
en refuge in the U.S. legation
at Budapest for almost eight
years, Cardinal Koenig said
prospects were good for the ul
timate release of the cardinal.
Cardinal Koenig told news
men here that to his knowledge
Cardinal Mindszenty is willing
"to do what the Vatican wants
him to do.”
ON HIS arrival here, follow
ing a brief stop-over in New
York City, Cardinal Koenig was
greeted by Richard Cardinal
Cushing, Archbishop of Boston.
During his press conference,
Cardinal Koenig surprised
newsmen by a reference to a
need for a "fourth session” of
the Second Vatican Council.
Declarations by Pope Paul
VI and high-ranking churchmen
had long indicated that the third
session, to start in September,
would be the last.
Cardinal Koenig said that
many Council problems must be
discussed and that a fourth ses
sion would be required.
IN HIS comments on the wide-
ranging effects of the Council,
the Viennese prelate stressed
its encouraging effects upon
students and Intellectuals in the
Communist countries. The inte
rest generated, he said, was not
merely academic but religious
in scope.
”1 do know that contacts (be
tween the Vatican and the Hun
garian state) have been estab
lished and that discussions have
been held,” he said, but said he
did not believe Cardinal Minds-
zenty's release would come
soon.
"HOWEVER, the internation
al journalists may well know
more than I do,” he added, in a
reference to recent news report
that an early release of the car
dinal loomed.
MOSLEM OPPRESSION
SPEAKS TO ALL
Pontiff Greets
Other Faiths
THE ANNUNCIATION—This masterpiece depicting The
Annunciation is the work of Sir Peter Paul Rubens (1577-
1640), artist of the Flemish school. The feast of The An
nunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be observed this
year on April 6, (transferred from March 25 because of Holy
Week). The artist depicts the scene of the Archangel Gab
riel announcing to Mary that she was to become the Mother
Of Christ, as recorded in the Gospel, Luke 1:26-38.
PAROCHIAL EDUCATION
ROME (NC)— Pope Paul VI
extended warm Easter greet
ings to Orthodox Ecumenical
Patriarch Athenagoras of Con
stantinople as well as to Angli
cans and other Christian and
non-Christian faiths in his Holy
Thursday sermon in the Basili
ca of St. John Lateran.
Pope Paul, accompanied by
19 cardinals, celebrated Mass
in the "Mother and Head of all
churches of the City and the
World,” as the basilica is call
ed, in the presence of thou
sands of Romans and pilgrims.
THE POPE said in his ser
mon that he had chosen to be
the celebrant of the day’s cere
monies because of the new Con
stitution on the Liturgy, which
seeks to bring the people and
the ministers of the altar as
close together as possible "in
the official and sacramental
prayer of the Church itself.”
He gave two other reasons
why he had chosen to be the
No Need For Panic About
Schools, Prelate States
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (NC)
— Archbishop Celestine J.
Damiano cautioned Catholic
educators against panic and un
derselling the generosity and
willingness of Catholic people
to support their schools.
The Bishop of Camden offer
ed the opening Mass (March 31)
of the 61st annual convention of
the National Catholic Educa
tional Association and preached
the sermon.
THE PRELATE said the
Catholic school system is fac
ing "certain difficulties "which
he listed as lack of funds, space
and teachers. But he Insisted
they are not insurmountable nor
greater than those when the
system began more than 100
years ago.
"Let us not panic and elimi
nate certain grades or become
selective or ruin the school
system our people have estab
lished in sacrifice and gene
rosity,” he said.
"Let us not minimize or un
dersell our magnificent and
generous lay people who are
taking even greater part in the
life of the Church and who have
carried the double burden of
taxation for so many years in
order to maintain our unique
position in education in this free
country of ours,” he said.
THE ARCHBISHOP cited
growth statistics of Catholic
schools, such as the 125 per
cent enrollment increase as
against less than 50 per cent
in public
years.
schools in recent
verse types of institutions in
the total educational enter
prise,” he said.
principal minister on the day
that commemorates Christ's
institution of the Eucharist.
NOTING THAT the world is
tending more and more toward
unity and a convergence of aims,
he said "the Mystery which we
are celebrating this evening is
a mystery of unification...The
Eucharist mystery, which we
rightly call Communion, af
fords us an ineffable coming to
gether with Christ and through
Him with God and brothers.”
Secondly, the Pope said, he
had decided to be the cele
brant of the day because in the
Eucharist one finds "the cele
bration of the brotherhood of all
sons of the Catholic Church.
Here is the font of Christian
brotherhood.
STESSING THE power of
the Eucharist to work for bro
therhood and harmony, the Pope
recalled the words of Holy
Thursday: "Let us love one
another as Christ has loved
Us.”
He also quoted St. Peter—
"May you be brothers”—and
then said: "We confirm to
Christ the Lord here also the
intention of bringing the ecu
menical council to a happy con
clusion, as a great event of the
charity of the Church, by giving
to episcopal collegiality the sig
nificance and value that Christ
intended to confer on His Apos
tles in the communion and in
the homage of the first among
them^ Peter, and by promoting
any project which tends to fos
ter growth of charity, coopera
tion and trust in the Church of
God.”
Sudan’s Christians Fear
Mass Slaughter Coming
KAMPALA, Uganda (NC)—
The half million Christians in
the southern Sudan fear that
massacres are not far off for
them, now that all their mis
sionaries fron\ abroad have
been forced out by the Moslem
government.
This widespread apprehen
sion is reported by refugees
arriving in this neighboring
capital. They brought another
report that may Indicate a new
pattern in Sudan's drive against
Christians. It is that mission-
ers will soon be expelled from
northern Sudan, where the tiny
Christian body has not yet been
touched by government repres
sion.
(IN VERONA, Italy, two ex
pelled mission prelates told
newsmen they expected a cam
paign of genocide, or mass
killings, now that the southern
Sudan has been cleared of out
side witnesses. Bishop Slsto
Mazzoldi, Apostolic Vicar of
Juda, and Msgr, Domenico Fer
rara, Apostolic Prefect of Mo-
poi, said:
("We Catholic missioners
deported from the Sudan follow
ing a decision taken by the Coun
cil of Ministers at Khartoum on
February 26, 1964, affirm that
the reason the Sudanese govern
ment has made us leave the
country and the reason it has
placed severe restrictions on
the movements of foreign mer
chants who are still there is
that it does not want any wit
nesses to the measures of vio
lent repression and reprisal
which the Arab police and sold
iers have already started to
adopt against the Innocent popu
lations of the 'closed districts’
and which are in the technical
form of genocide.”
(THE "CLOSED districts.”
i leftover from the former An-
gio-Egyptian administration,
include the entire southern Su
dan. No foreigners may enter
them without express govern
ment permission.)
Those here who expect vio
lence on a wide scale point to
the systematic way in which the
Sudanese government is sealing
the southern provinces from
"foreign eyes,” a term used by
officials. The expulsion of mis
sioners from outside, both
Catholic and Protestant, was
accompanied by an order to
foreign traders forbidding them
to travel except within three
towns.
THE GOVERNMENT’S intent
to use terror and death has al
ready been revealed in indivi
dual instances. One expelled
bishop said that 15 Catholics
had died from tortures after
imprisonment in recent weeks.
A reported method of torture
is to apply pepper irritants to
the faces and wounds of those
already seriously injured by
lashings.
The southern Sudan Chris
tians are the target of a drive
toward unity by the country's
Moslem rulers, who are appar
ently convinced that solidarity
among the nation's Arabs in the
north and Negroes in the South
must be built on an acceptance
of Islam.
"Would this have happened
if our schools had failed or been
found wanting?” he commented.
Archbishop Damiano said the
United States "demands a sound
religious school system.”
"If there is one single factor
that brought pilgrims, found
ing fathers and others to this
soil, it was precisely religion.
Education divorced from re
ligion is a betrayal far worse
than Benedict Arnold’s,” he de
clared.
'The imminent danger is
secularism which breeds dis
crimination in race, creed and
employment. The victory ban
ner of the Resurrection which
puts a seal on all the teachings
of Christ must be carried by
every individual, by every edu
cator in order to secure peace,
happiness and joy among us,”
the Archbishop said.
IN A SESSION for college
educators, U.S. Commissioner
of Education Francis Keppel
said "the omnibus of higher
education is racing full speed
down the road, but it is in ser
ious danger of running out of
gas.”
Keppel said 320,000 new col
lege teachers will be needed
during the 1960’s, but the pres
ent rate promises that only
141,000 doctoral degrees will be
earned during the decade.
He called for an expanded
program of Federal aid for
graduate fellowships. Without
it, he said, "we will neither be
able to meet the needs of our
surging college enrollments
nor the demands of our grow
ing market for trained manpow-
a*-
er.
KEPPEL also said that the
challenges facing colleges,
whose enrollment may double
by 1970, can be met by con
tinuing the present diversity in
types of institutions.
"As society demands that we
respect the unique abilities and
talents of individuals, so must
we respect the integrity of di-
Marxism
Answer
BOSTON (NC)--Richard Car
dinal Cushing of Boston has de
scribed the contest with commu
nism as an "ideological war”
that will be won only by pre
senting Christianity in a way
that is relevant to the modern
world.
"You cannot answer an idea
with a bullet or a bomb or dol
lars or singing the national an
them or waving a flag or even
with a cross,” Cardinal Cush
ing said in his Easter message.
'THE ONLY answer to an
idea is a superior idea lived
with a dedication by people who
believe in it and will sacrifice
for it,” he declared.
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