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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, January 10,1980
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Inside TV News
By John P. Zarrella
The holidays are slow times around a
television newsroom. Most of the people
who make the news in our city are
home with friends and family, or off on
a tropical vacation. Many of our own
people choose this restful time to get
away from the clamor of the news wars
to clear their heads.
Now that the holidays are over,
everyone is gearing back up for the long
winter months ahead. In the news
business, this is the busiest of seasons
with all three major television stations
fighting to make points in the crucial
January and February rating books.
Success in the next two months greatly
effects a station’s overall performance
for the rest of the year.
Throughout January, the rating
battle will build until it reaches the
February showdown. The stations will
dump hundreds of thousands of dollars
into promoting their products and the
news departments will run at high speed
with special series for at least the next
eight weeks. There’s nothing fancy in
what you will see, it is just straight hard
sell!
You won’t get much argument from
news executives when you say this is the
best time for television. Not only are
the local stations geared for a great
fight, so are the networks. This is the
beginning of a new season for them too.
How their shows perform figures
sharply in their big picture success or
failure the next 10 months. ABC may
have an inside track this winter with the
Olympic games coming up in early
February. The Lake Placid extravaganza
promises to bring with it not only the
Giant Slolom but giant ratings for ABC.
If you enjoy your television, you
can’t lose this winter!
For those of us who bring you the
news each night, we can’t lose either.
Events in Georgia, the nation and the
world during the next few months will
determine the course of all our lives for
some time to come. The crises in
Afghanistan and Iran, no matter the
outcomes, will change the face of
middle eastern affairs. Energy and
inflation are already having an impact
on our lifestyles and they will more
directly effect the way we live on into
the year two thousand.
The big question many of us will be
called to answer in the coming months,
who will be America’s next President?
This certainly has more than just passing
interest for Georgians. Our state’s
primary is less than three months away.
It won’t be long before the national
media swoops down on Georgia.
It will be those of us in the local
media with the biggest and toughest
jobs of providing you the most in depth
coverage of all the political races not
only for the presidency but for state
and local seats. Will Senator Talmadge
be able to weather his own politically
stormy seas and make it once again back
to port in Washington? How about
Congressman Larry McDonald? Will he
survive another close call for his seat?
We will have our hands full in the
local media but it is work that can be
exciting and rewarding. For each
television newsroom, beating the other
guy in the game of news gathering is
what it is all about. Winning the game is
often times subtle and unnoticed by the
viewer. In Atlanta, it is a keenly played
game, much more so than in many other
television markets, and for the viewer
that means one thing -- excellence in
journalism.
Enjoy it!
DAY FOR SISTERS - Sister
Mary Frances Bruns, CSJ, President of
ACS, welcomes Atlanta area Sisters
to a Day of Recollection held at the
Monastery of the Holy Spirit in the
autumn. 105 Sisters turned out for
the day of conferences, given by
Abbot Augustine Moore, quiet
reflection and liturgy.
Trio Bicycles Across Country
Ladies Love The Cardinal
SAN PEDRO, Calif. (NC) - Cardinal
Timothy Manning of Los Angeles is a
ladies’ man - at least the ladies at the Little
Sisters of the Poor residence in San Pedro
seem to think so.
“I want to see the cardinal,” said one
elderly woman in the infirmary when
Cardinal Manning visited during Christmas
week. She reached out and took the hand
of Mgr. Clement Connolly, the secretary to
the cardinal.
“I’m not the cardinal. I’m just a simple
priest,” he told her.
“I want to see the cardinal.”
“Have you no time for a simple priest?”
he asked, smiling.
“I want to see the cardinal.”
“Here now is the cardinal,” Msgr.
Connolly told her.
“I know all about you,” the woman
said, taking Cardinal Manning’s hand.
“I hope you don’t know everything
about me,” the cardinal laughed. She
kissed his ring. He put his hands on her
white head and blessed her.
Then the Little Sisters of the Poor took
the cardinal to the main dining room of the
new home which is named the Jeanne
Jugan Residence after their foundress.
Cardinal Manning introduced a group of
deacons from St. John’s Seminary who had
come to sing carols.
“I’ve brought you some young men to
sing,” the cardinal said to the women in
the audience. “But I don’t want you to fall
in love with them. I want them.”
Then the cardinal went from table to
table and to each old person he gave a gift,
spoke a word, squeezed a hand, touched a
face, caressed a head.
It was the 39th year that the cardinal
had come to visit the old people at the
home on St. John’s day, Dec. 27.
Mary Ellen O’Connor,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Francis J. O’Connor of
Immaculate Heart of Mary
Parish has recently
completed a 4,624 mile
bicycle trip across
America.
Accompanied by Patty
Berlau of Denver,
Colorado and Mike Rogers
of Orangeville, Ontario,
Canada, Mary Ellen started
her journey in Portland
Oregon in July and arrived
in Charleston, South
Carolina in mid-October.
From Charleston the trio
cycled back to Atlanta for
a visit with Mary Ellen’s
parents.
Both Mary Ellen and
Patty are nurses living in
Denver. Mike is a high
school geography teacher,
who like his two partners,
quit his job for the trip.
This is “something
we’ve wanted to do for a
long time,” said both Mary
Ellen and Patty.
Mike has been traveling
since July 1978 when he
left his Ontario home and
traveled to Canada’s west
coast. There he worked for
several months before
resuming his trip. It was in
Colorado that he met up
with Mary Ellen and Patty
as they were touring the
Rocky Mountain National
Park.
After a time of getting
acquainted they decided
to join forces and proceed
east.
Mike had originally
planned to make a circle
around the United States
and Canada, but Mary
Ellen and Patty had only
intended to cycle from
Portland to Denver.
The trio averaged about
75 miles per day on their
bicycles and each carried
about 35 pounds of gear.
They would ride five or six
hours a day. This relaxed
schedule gave them plenty
of time to learn about the
particular part of the
country they were
traveling in and also give
them time to get
acquainted with some of
the local people.
Most of their meals
were cooked over a
campfire. Mary Ellen says
they usually had breakfast
in a local cafe. This meal
gave them the most for
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their money and helped
them get off to a good
start in the mornings.
When asked how they
found a place to pitch
their tents for the night
Mary Ellen said they
would go to a house and
ask permission. If
permission was denied
they would go to another
house. She said people
were usually very nice but
were curious.
Also, they spent one
night in a vacant mobile
home. The owners fed
them and invited them to
spend the night in the
trailer. “It may be a small
thing, but it was nice to
have a shower and sleep in
a real bed,” said Mary
Ellen.
Mary Ellen, Patty and
Mike only spent one night
in a motel. This was in
Nashville, Tennessee after
arriving there late at night.
The trio spent two days
at St. Pius X High School
(Mary Ellen’s Alma Mater)
exchanging their views and
experiences with some of
t he American Literature
students.
In reflecting over her
experiences Mary Ellen
said there are still many
good people who are left
in this world. This trip
gave her an opportunity to
learn more about her
country, “to just take time
to smell the air, feel the
soil and see the rolling
plains and rugged
mountains.”
“This was a very
humbling experience, it
made me realize anew
what a wonderful country
we have and I’m grateful
to live in such a land,” said
Mary Ellen.
Mary Ellen and Patty
have returned to their jobs
and home in Denver,
aboard a plane and Mike is
cycling back to his home
in Canada.
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Epiphany Was Hectic
For Pope John Paul
VATICAN CITY (NC) - Pope John Paul II’s busy
Epiphany opened with the solemn ordination of three
bishops in St. Peter’s Basilica and closed with songs and
conversation among teen-agers awaiting trial at a Rome
jail.
Some 25 cardinals, more than 50 bishops and nearly
10,000 lay people attended the morning ceremony at
which the pope elevated two Italians and an African to
the episcopacy.
In his homily during the three-hour ordination, the
pope spoke of the significance of the feast of Epiphany as
a commemoration of the day when the three kings
brought gifts to the baby Jesus.
“Your vocation is a gift to all the people,” he told
Archbishops Giovanni Coppa and Carlo Maria Martini
and Bishop Christian Tumi.
“Each one of you must remain the pastor and servant
of love, of prayer and of suffering which is elevated by all
hearts to God in Christ,” he added. “Such gifts must not
be wasted.”
Archbishop Coppa, a native of Alba, Italy, is the pope’s
new delegate for pontifical representatives. Archbishop
Martini, an Italian Jesuit, succeeds Cardinal Giovanni
Colombo as archbishop of Milan, Italy. Bishop Tumi is the
new head of the Diocese of Yagoua, Cameroon.
Cardinal Colombo was present at the ordination
ceremony, and the crowd in St. Peter’s applauded him
twice when Pope John Paul mentioned his 16-and-a-half
years of service to the Milan archdiocese.
The ceremony marked the fifth time Pope John Paul
personally ordained bishops since the beginning of his
pontificate in October 1978.
The lengthy ordination delayed by about half an hour
the pope’s regular Angelus talk, scheduled for noon.
Appearing at the window of his Vatican apartment
overlooking St. Peter’s Square, he spoke about the
just-completed ceremony and paid tribute to the three
new bishops.
“In these men we see represented all those who, from
any place and any time, have gone to Jesus and found him
and offered him the gift of their faith,” Pope John Paul
said.
He recalled his New Year’s Day “greeting of peace to
all nations and all people of the earth,” and said: “Today
I make a greeting of faith.”
The pope sent a special greeting to missionaries,
pastors, Religious, families and “all the laity.”
“I extend this greeting also to theologians, since they
have a particular responsibility to indicate the road to
Christ for contemporary men,” he added.
The pope’s latter comment was significant in light of
the Vatican’s recent actions against theologians Father
Hans Rung and Father Edward Schillebeeckx.
The third major event of the pope’s day took him to
the northern suburbs of Rome where he met with about
60 juveniles awaiting trial and their families at the Casal
del Marmo Institute of Preventative Custody.
The youth, all of whom are between 14 and 18 years
old and are awaiting trial on various charges, presented
Pope John Paul with a hand-made mosaic depicting the
Black Madonna of Czestochowa and a ceramic plate
showing the Monastery at Jasna Gora in Poland, where the
original madonna is kept.
The pope called the two-hour visit “a moment of
personal encounter, an instant of conversation and
intimacy.” Pope John Paul told the youth: “I have come
because I love you and have faith in you.”
“I want to tell each one of you that you have the
capacity for good, for honesty, for hard work - real, deep
and sometimes unsuspected capacities, sometimes
rendered even better and more vigorous by your own
tiring experience,” he added.
The pope was accompanied to the jail by Cardinal
Agostino Casaroli, Vatican secretary of state, who often
visits the teen-agers and is known to them as “Father
Agostino.”
Parish Renewal
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Dominican Order of Preachers, will conduct the
parish renewal from January 14 thru 18 at Holy
Cross Church. The topics will be on family, personal
spirituality, conscience, and prayer. The principal
talk of the day will be at the 8 p.m. Mass.
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well as in Shakespeare. He is presently head of the
Preaching Secretariat of the Dominican Order, St.
Joseph Province, with headquarters in New Jersey.
Father’s voice is best known to millions of
listeners in New York City through
“Dial-A-Sermon.” He is pastor of St. Martin’s
Church in Columbia, South Carolina.
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