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PAGE 2—The Georgia Bulletin, February 18,1982
On The Air
BY MARY DILL
Media Coordinator
The following programming, on radio and
television, will be aired in the archdiocese during the
coming week beginning February 21. Some of the
programs have been produced locally; others have
been obtained from national Catholic production
apostolates.
TELEVISION MASS will be celebrated by
Monsignor Noel Burtenshaw on Sunday, February 21
at:
7 a.m. on WSB-TV (Channel 2)
10 a.m. on WVEU-TV (Channel 69) on UHF
10:30 a.m. on Cable Atlanta and Cable DeKalb
(Channel 8)
The choir this week is from Immaculate Heart of
Mary Church under the direction of Mr. Gus
Ghirardini.
*****
CHRISTOPHER CLOSEUP: A Look At the People
Who Are Shaping Tomorrow’s World - Today. Dr.
Joyce Brothers explores friendship between men and
women this week on “MEN, WOMEN AND
FRIENDSHIP” at 8 p.m. over Atlanta Interfaith
Broadcasters - Cable Atlanta and Cable DeKalb
(Channel 8) on Monday, February 22,
*****
INSIGHT: An Emmy
award-winning Paulist
Production will present
“SECOND CHORUS”
at 9 a.m. on Sunday,
February 21 over
WVEU-TV (Channel
69) on UHF. In this
drama, Augusta (Marcia
W allace) portrays the
fiancee of a man whose
parents after a
“successful divorce”
decide to pave the way
for reconciliation.
MARCIA
WALLACE stars in
INSIGHT’S episode
of “Second Chorus.”
Another INSIGHT production, “THE MAN WHO
MUGGED GOD,” will be aired over Cable Atlanta
and Cable DeKalb (Channel 8) at 8:30 p.m. on
Monday, February 8. In this humorous parable, a
blind beggar is mugged at knifepoint by a desperate
and despairing junkie. There’s just one problem, the
beggar is God.
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AMERICAN CATHOLIC with Father John Powell,
S.J. will be presented by AIB (Atlanta Interfaith
Broadcasters) on Wednesday, February 24 at 9 p.m.
over Cable Atlanta and Cable DeKalb (Channel 8).
This week’s program, “MARY, THE MODEL OF
FAITHFUL LOVE,” deals with the real meaning of
imitation of Mary in the Catholic tradition. Featured
in the program are highlights from the award-winning
“To Him, She Leads ...”, a documentary about the
National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
narrated by Helen Hayes.
RADIO:
RELIGION - WISE: A weekly look at the news
through the eyes of religion with Monsignor Noel
Burtenshaw, Rabbi Don Peterman of Congregation
Beth Shalom and Dr. Ted Baehr of the Episcopal
Radio and Television Foundation. They will discuss
the week’s happenigns on Sunday at 6:30 a.m. and
9:30 p.m. on WGST (92AM).
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WHEN THE BULLDOZERS
MOVED IN, St. Vincent de Paul’s
metro headquarters moved out of
Bedford-Pine and re-located near St.
Anthony’s Church in southwest
Atlanta. Pictured above, a bulldozer
makes short work of the old
Vincentian building.
Looking Back
(Continued from page 1)
nature of real estate,” he continued.
“There was an awareness that as the city
was progressing, so would the Bedford-Pine
homes. My father said never to sell the
house on Pine, being only two blocks from
Peachtree.”
His father had lived in Atlanta since the
age of six and knew whereof he spoke. He
had moved to Bedford-Pine because he felt
blacks had a reasonable chance there at a
time when being black and not formally
educated meant little or no chance for
upward mobility.
But Merritt’s father made it through
hard work and the shrewd perception of
what real estate could mean at a time of
increasing property values. The Merritts’
rental house had been bought for $10,000.
Two years before the city began its
takeover of Bedford-Pine, the senior
Merritt had $10,000 worth of repair work
done on the house. When the city offered
to buy the home, their up-front offer was
$10,000 and he refused the bid. Because he
continued to reject the city’s offers, the
money was paid into the courts. Merritt
finally hired a lawyer, who helped him to
reclaim the funds, inadequate though they
seemed to be.
“(That house) was his gift to me for my
future. They took it,” Dewey Merritt
observed. His tone expressed little
bitterness, but implied a keen awareness of
the way things were and the way they
should have been.
“It was another example of the system
taking advantage of people,” he said.
“From the developer’s standpoint, it
sounds legitimate: take this place of crime
and deterioration and let us fix it up. But
it’s like coming to someone’s house,
vacuuming it and sweeping it out and then
letting you sleep in one of the rooms. The
city sold the land in blocks to private
businessmen and made millions off the
land.”
Dewey Merritt, his parents and sister
moved to a house on Parkway Drive once
they knew the die was cast and the house
they lived in would also be claimed for
redevelopment. Many of their neighbors
were not as fortunate. Forced into an
uprooting they found difficult to
understand, countless Bedford-Pine
residents “were scattered all over” the
metro area, Merritt said sadly.
“The urban renewal group provided
funds to move people,” he explained, “but
the development was not accomplished in
an organized fashion. We never got
communication directly from the city the
way they do now. There was indirect
communication between the city and the
neighborhood, but they said ‘this is it’ - no
choices were given. Most people weren’t
told their rights.”
Times have indeed changed. If
Bedford-Pine holds few traces of its
venerable past, some former residents, at
least, have learned from their experience.
Dewey Merritt now lives in Grant Park,
where he bought his home for $5,000 in
1973. According to Merritt, current prices
for Grant Park homes presently range from
$30-100,000.
When the city considered tearing down
Grant Park residences in the name of
zoological expansion in the seventies, local
homeowners fought back.
Old Grant Park homes were renovated.
Efforts were made to recruit middle and
moderate income families into the
neighborhood. Houses abandoned in fear
were newly occupied in hope.
And Dewey Merritt, onetime
Bedford-Pine resident, helped to organize
the neighborhood defense.
“My father had taught me about houses
being valuable,” he observed simply.
BY THEA JARVIS
The old St. Vincent de
Paul headquarters on
Parkway Drive in Atlanta
was not the garden spot of
Bedford-Pine.
“It leaked, the heat
didn’t work, and we had
rats,” said Betti Knott,
executive-secretary of the
Society, who remembers
the 40,000 square feet of
space as “a place to be”
for those years when not
much else was available.
The rates were certainly
acceptable -- the
Vincentians were
“squatters,” tenants-at-
will, paying no rent but
under the jurdisdiction of
the Atlanta Housing
Authority.
“Joe Flanigan (Betti
Knott’s predecessor) had
told me at some point
we’d have to start looking
for a new place. But I
didn’t know how soon,”
she recalled.
“One day in August I
got a phone call from the
Atlanta Housing Authority
telling me our building was
in the way of their three
and a half million dollar
(renewal) project - we had
20 days to get out.”
Mrs. Knott, however,
was aware that a 60-day
written notice was called
for by the Georgia housing
Shroud Of Turin—
(Continued from page 1)
professional skeptics who sought
to label it bogus.
Yet the Shroud has been the
source of a series of disconcerting
revelations.
At the turn of the century, it
was an amateur photographer,
permitted to photograph the
Shroud, who discovered in his
darkroom that the Shroud is a
perfect photographic negative.
The image upon it, of the front
and back of a crucified man, while
only faintly visible to the naked
eye, emerges in extraordinary
detail when viewed as a negative,
with the image in white against a
dark background.
In this day and time,
discoveries equally as startling are
emerging from the work of a team
of highly skilled scientists using
technology 1 developed largely for
the nation’s space program. The
involvement of the Shroud of
Turin Research Project, Inc.
(STURP), as the team is known,
dates back to a 1978 exposition
of the Shroud at the Turin
Cathedral. Allowed to conduct a
series of nondamaging studies of
the Shroud, the scientists have
gradually published and discussed
the results of their tests.
As the 3-D “sculpture” behind
Father Dreisbach reveals, those
sophisticated tests have shown
that the Shroud’s image has
extraordinary properties which
cannot be duplicated by ordinary
photographs or other images. The
more science looks at the image,
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code. This information
was relayed to her caller
and apologies were
forthcoming.
So, unfortunately, was
the written notice.
Preparations were begun
for the move out of
Bedford-Pine, but not
without strong, sometimes
mixed emotion.
the more it seems scientists are
mystified by how the image came
to be on the cloth.
The recent scientific
discoveries, and the leap of faith
that is outside the province of
science, are among the concerns
of the Atlanta Center. Drawing
from its library of film, slides and
tapes, which includes the
55-minute acclaimed film “The
Silent Witness,” Father Dreisbach
and R. Douglas Vinson, a member
of the Center’s board of directors,
have become traveling lecturers
and resource people on the
Shroud of Turin.
Their work has mushroomed
recently from perhaps one or two
talks a week to upwards of four
before groups as varied as Rotary
clubs, schools and practically
every church denomination.
It is work in which Father
Dreisbach, who has come to
believe in the authenticity' of the
Shroud of Turin, sees a
relationship between faith and the
20th century ideology of
skepticism.
While the tests proceed to focus
more closely upon how the image
came to be on the cloth, the most
science can suggest is that this
cloth was used to bury Jesus of
Nazareth, Father Dreisbach said.
But it can bring people to that
point. “To make Him Jesus the
Christ is still an act of the heart,”
he said.
(Those interested in the work
of the Center or in lectures and
films on the Shroud may contact
the Center at 755-6654.)
FIRST IN A SERIES
‘‘At one time,
Bedford-Pine was a really
booming community with
houses, little shops, small
apartments,” said Betti
Knott, who used to pass
through the area on her
bus route before taking
charge of St. Vincent’s
metro activities.
“When I got there in
November • of 1979, our
building was the only one
there except for the
Baptist church around the
corner and another brick
building,” she said grimly.
The area had become
nothing more than
“grassy, ratty lots.”
Despite its isolation, the
Society’s headquarters did
provide a base of
operation and finding a
new home was not an easy
task. Like many other
Bedford-Pine residents, the
Vincentians found that
being poor makes for slim
pickings in the real estate
marketplace.
While the 60-day
countdown moved toward
its finish, the city geared
up for its rendezvous with
progress.
“Before we moved they
had bulldozers parked all
around our building,” Mrs.
Knott observed with wry
humor. “They were very
subtle.”
Today, {he St. Vincent
de Paul Society is happily
relocated near St.
Anthony’s Church in
southwest Atlanta where
the rent is free and the
Vincentians are made to
feel welcome.
But the memory of the
move from Bedford-Pine
lingers on.
“It was very traumatic
for everybody, remarked
Betti Knott. “We had
become an established part
of that community - but
those people were being
shipped out, too.”
1982 Charities Drive
Parish Goals
ALPHARETTA St. Thomas Aquinas
$21,000
ATHENS
St. Joseph
13,000
ATLANTA
Cathedral of Christ the King
60,000
Holy Cross
26,000
Holy Spirit
25,000
Immaculate Heart of Mary
■36,000
Most Blessed Sacrament
3,500
Our Lady of Lourdes
2,500
Our Lady of the Assumption
32,000
Sacred Heart
21,000
St. Andrew
7,500
St. Anthony
3,700
St. Jude
56,000
St. Paul of the Cross
7,500
Shrine/Immaculate Conception
6,000
CARROLLTON
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
4,000
CARTERSVILLE
St. Francis of Assisi
3,250
CALHOUN
St. Clement
2,000
CANTON
Our Lady of LaSalette
2,250
CEDARTOWN
St. Bernadette
2,250
CLARKESV1LLE .
St. Mark
1,650
CLAYTON
St. Helena
500
CONYERS
St. Pius X
8,500
COVINGTON
St. Augustine
2,500
MADISON
St. James
200
CUMMING
Good Shepherd
2,000
BUFORD
Prince of Peace
2,500
DAHI.ONEGA
St. Luke
2,000
BLAIRSV1LLE
St. Francis of Assisi
250
CLEVELAND
St. Paul the Apostle
250
DALTON
St. Joseph
6,000
BLUE RIDGE
St. Anthony
500
DECATUR
Sts. Peter and Paul
12,000
St. Thomas More
14,000
DUNWOODY
All Saints
32,000
FAIRBURN
St. Matt hew
3,000
FT. OGLETHORPE
St. Gerard
4,500
LAFAYETTE
St. Jude
100
LOOKOUT MTN.
Our Lady of the Mount
5,500
GAINESVILLE
St. Michael
9,000
GRIFFIN
Sacred Heart
5,500
BARNESVILLE
St. Ann
1,000
FORSYTH MISSION
150
THOMASTON
St. John the Baptist
800
HAPEVILLE
St. John the Evangelist
18,000
JONESBORO
St. Philip Benizi
14,000
KENNESAW
St. Catherine of Sienna
2,500
LAGRANGE
St. Peter
6.000 '
MANCHESTER
St. Elizabeth Seton
1,200
LAWRENCEVILLE
St. Lawrence
5,000
LILBURN
St. John Neumann
15,000
LITHIA SPRINGS
St. John Vianney
7,500
McDONOUGH
St. James
1,500
JACKSON
St. Mary
750
MARIETTA
Holy Family
28,000
St. Ann
18,000
St. Joseph
15,000
Transfiguration
10,000
MILLEDGEVILLE
Sacred Heart
5,000
MONROE
St. Anna
1,750
WINDER
St. Matthew
500
NEWNAN
St. George
4,500
NORCROSS
St. Patrick
12,000
PEACHTREE CITY
Holy Trinity
6,000
ROME
St. Mary
9,500
SMYRNA
St. Thomas the Apostle
11,000
SNELLVILLE
St. Oliver Plunkett
7,000
STONE MOUNTAIN
Corpus Christi
41,000
TOCCOA
St. Marj^
2,000
HARTWELL
Sacred Heart
2,250
WASHINGTON
St. Joseph
1 ,000
ELBERTON
St. Mary
750
SHARON
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50
THOMSON
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