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t 1 PAGE 2 GEORGIA BULLETIN THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1964 ANCHORAGE HAVEN Alaska Hospital Has Heroic Role (CONTINUED FROM PAGE i) 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. ESTES SURGICAL SUPPLY CO. Fr« Customer Parking 410 W. PEACHTREE, N.W. JA 1-1700 ATLANTA, GEORGIA REYNOLDS DRUG STORE PRESCRIPTION EXPERTS 1910 N. ATLANTA ROAD HE 5-3271 Joiner’s Food Store Groceries—Meats—Frozen Foods Fancy Produce Telephone 9-9711 701 Cherokee Street MARIETTA, GEORGIA 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. Best Wishes Saul’s Department Store 60 PARK SQUARE COBB COUNTY CENTER 422-2555 436-4186 MARIETTA, GA. WHERE QUALITY CLEANING IS AN ART Fair Oaks Cleaners & Laundry PROMPT PICK UP & DELIVERY BELMONT CLEANING CENTER WEST SIDE 130 CHEROKEE ROAD SHOPPING CENTER SMYRNA, GA. MARIETTA. GA- 1302 CHURCH ST. 1506 ATLANTA RD. 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