Diocese Urges Check On Food Stamp Aid
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Fall River, Mass., Thursday, Jan. 30, 1975 PRICE 15c Vo I. 19, No. 5 © 1975 The Anchor $5.00 per ,ear
Cathedral Camp 'Plan Stresses Day Activity It was announced this week that beginning this summer the Cathedral Camps in East Freetown will place added emphasis on its day camps and eliminate its resident boys facility. Since the start of the day camps over a decade ago they have proven to be increasingly popular with the youth of the area, with busses bringing in boys and girls from most of the major cities of the diocese. Without the resident facility it will mean the day camps will be able to use all of the camp buildings and thereby be able to enroll an even greater number of youth from the diocese.
Established in 1914 as a diocesan camp by Rev. Francis McKeon, retired pastor of Sacred Heart Parish, Taunton, the resident program accommodated about 800 youths yearly. Extending over 40 acres with 2,500 ft. of frotage on Lake Apponequet in East Freetown, the diocesan camp comprises some 25 buildings. From 1942 to 1948, the camp was taken by the U.S. Army as a traiing ground for troops. In 1923, the camp became the scene of the annual priests' retreat which is held there y"arly during September.
The Diocese of Fall River has pockets of unemployment that are among the most severe in the State. In an attempt to help alleviate the economic crunch of many of our people, the Diocesan Department of Social Services and Special Apostolates strongly urges Anchor readers to analyze their situation, and if possible, obtain Food Stamp assistance. Unfortunately many of our people, who are having a difficult time during this economic crisis, are unaware of their right and eligibility to participate in the Department of Agriculture's Food Stamp Program. In many circles this Program has the image of being designed for the welfare recipient alone. This is simply not true. While everybody on public assistance automatically qualifies for the Stamps, the Program nonetheless has far greater outreach. Many of our people, therefore, not on welfare, could well be eligible to purchase these stamps and thereby save themselves a considerable amount of money, at a time when every penny counts. The Government has just reported that food has accounted for 25 per cent of the increases in consumer prices during 1974 and the Agriculture Department now predicts a 15 per cent annual rate-climb during the first half of this year.
These few examples may offer a little more insight into the broad arm, that is the Food Stamp Program. 1) A miadle class family of eight in which the breadwinner has an annual salary of $15,000 can now receive up to $49 of free food per month 2) A teacher on Cape Cod, married and with one child and having an annual income of
$9,600 found that his taxes and housing costs reduced his monthly NET income to $290 and he was then found eligible to receive $118 worth of Food Stamps for $76, Le. he received $42 of free food monlitly. 3) A family of four with an annual NET income of $4,400 (working poor) can now purchase up to $150 worth of Turn to Page Two
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• Life Is Celebrated In Dead of Winter WASHINGTON (NC) - They wandered through the corridors of the Senate and House office building in the hundreds, red roses pinned to their lapels or clenched in their hands, seeking their elected representatives in the Congress and seeking from them a constitutional defense of the unborn. Many of them had been up
all night or longer, riding buses or driving cars from Chicago or Grand Rapids, from Tennessee, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Massachusetts Florida and, apparently, you name it. Some had come from Hawaii, flying to Chicago and busing it from there. They were mainly in their middle age or in their middle
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teens. Jan. 22, the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's abortion decision and the date of their march on Capitol Hill, was a workday. Outside the Senate and House office buildings they had left their banners and placards, oy request of the guards. The banners were to do their work that Turn to Page Five
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PHILADELPHIA (NC) - Are Catholic schools "different where it counts?" Most Catholic parents seem to think they are, according to an attitudinal survey which forms part of a doctoral dissertation in education being submitted to the University of ·Pennsylvania. Results of an in-depth survey of Catholic families in 117 parishes in the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia by Father Charles H. Diamond, bicentennial coordinator for the archdioceseand a member of the facul-
ty at Roman Catholic High school, reveal that Catholic parents consider Catholic schools hetter than public schools in the following areas: -Teaching moral dimensions of life, 86 per cent; -Teaching self-discipline, 81 per cent; -Developing respect for persons and property, 76 per cent; -Developing a sense of honesty and truthfulness, 72 per cent; -Preparation for marriage Turn to Page Four
Catholic High Schools NOTABLE SIGNS: Among the more creative signs carried by demonstrators at the March for Life in Washington, D.C., Jan. 22 were these: A marcher points out the irony of saving seals while babies die; a demonstrator says that abortion crucified Christ.
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