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Department Avers Bargai'ning Process on'Probation

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. WASHINGTON (NC)--":"The Social Acti~n Department of .the National Catholic Welfare .Conference warns labor and management that collective ba.rgaining is "on probation before the bar of public opinion." 'Unless labor and management compose their differ- cans are losing confidence in the ences and make a go of ab1lity ,of union leaders and .collective bargaining" they maJlagement ·representatives to may be "saddled with some · make collective bargaining serve

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; La·bor·Mas·s 1 At Cathedral ·1

An Anc.hor of the Soul, Su-r:e and fi'irm-ST. PAUL

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Fein River, Mass., ThursClay, Sept. 1, 1960

Twenty thousand workers wiil be represented at the' · Solemn High Mass to be presided overby His Excellen-

PRICE lOe 1960 The Anchor $4.00 per Year Second Clo .. Moil Privileges Authorized ot Foil River, Mass.

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Death"ls ·Lalnented-

FATHER WINSPER

New Bedford

Jesuit Master F.or· Retreat

: The Most Reverend Bishop.. celebrated a Pontifical Requiem Mass yesterday morning j!1 Santo Cht:istoChurch, Fall River, for the late nastor -Of the Church, Rt. ReV-. Francisco C. Bettencourt who died at the rectory Sunday" Rev , " Edward. V -, ..W'msper, mQrning after a prolonged S.J., a, native of New Bedillness. Monsignor Bett.enford al,1d a member of' the court, who was 83 years of Jesuit . Mission Band staage had been a priest over tioned at Campion Hall, No. 60 years and pastor of the Fall Ri~er ChUl'ch since 1928. ¥onsignor Bettencourt was born in Praia, Graciosa Island, Azores. He came to the Fall River Diocese in 1911 and was appointed assistant at Espirito Sailto Church, Fall River. He also served as assistant at St. Michael's Church, Fall Rivel', St.,John the Baptist Church, New Bedford, and St. Peter's Church, Provincetown. In 1921 he found-' ed.Holy Ghost Parish in Attleboro and then in 1924 he was' transferred to Fall River as pas- , tor again to establish another parish, Our Lady of Health. He became pastor of Santo Christo Parish on Nov. 1, 1928. In his eulogy yesterday mornlng, Rev. Arthur C. dos Reis, pastor of St.· Michael's Church, Fall Rivel', pointed out the late pl'elate's unselfishness ·in leav. ing his own homeland to come Tum to Page Eighteen \. .

Diocesan Couples At Family Parley

At the Northeast Area Convention of the Christian Family Movement held in Portland, Me., it was suggested that a Diocesan Federa:' tioft of the organizatiol).· be fo~med in the Fall.River DioeeSe, according to Mr. and Mrs. Pa'ul A. D,umais of Notre Dame parish, Fall River, .contact coupIe for the area. Mr. Dumais, with other rep, resentatives from Fall River and Attleboro, attenl;led the meeting with Rev. Roger P. Poirier, chaplain for four Christian Famity groups active in Notre Da~ne parish. Groups in Tiverton have all>O been started as a r~su1t of organization work by the N 0 t re 'ts Mr . D I;lmals . sa'd I. D ame um, The Fall Riverrepresentattvoo reported to the' convention on 11 protest project during which they campaigned against aggestive advertisements of motion pictures. - Some 600 'attended the convention, including an .African eo u pIe representing foreign melllbers and a couple who brought nine childx:en, the eld.est 12 yeaI'll old. Some 40,000 ~uples belong to the organization in nearly all the 50 states and many countries throughout tbe world.

Andover, will conduct the annual retreat for priests of, the Diocese of Fall River starting Moriday night at Cathedral oCampo Father Winsper attended Holy Family elementary and high schools and graduated in 192.7. He entered the Jesuit Novitiat.e in Shadowbrook, Lenox, Turn to Page Eighteen "

Na me Fr. Cussen

Dean of Stonehill The Rev. Aloysius E. Cussen, C.S.C., well-known Pennsylvania educator, has been appointed vi~e-president and

MONSIGNOR BETTENCOURT

form o( compulsory arbitration." the department says iri its 196b Labor Day statement. . This would be '''disastrous,'' it'·· . . adQs. "A growing ,number of Ameri-

dean of Stonehill, College, North Easton, it has been' announced by the Rev. Richard H. Sullivan, C.S.C., president of the college. Father Cussen succeeds the R ev. J ames D.oye, 1 C .S.C., who has been transferred to· King's College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. oA native of Winchester, Mass., Turn to Page Ten

cy, the Most Reverend James L. ,Cormolly, D.D., at 9 Labor Day' morning in St, Mary's Cathedral Fall River. '. . , For .the third successive year, the" United ,Labor 'Council of 'Greater 'F~ll River'· will' spon'sor this religious observance of Labor Day. . Rev. Arthur W. Tansey, rec. Turn'to Page Ten

the public interest. and, worse than that, are. losing faith in the vel'y institution of collective bargaining itself," declares the. NCWC department, whose director is Msgr, George G. . Higgins. Complete statement on Page 16 The statement says loss of public confidence in collective bargaining and increasing demands for compulsory arbitration are "alarming" trends. The next time public op.nion is disturbed by labor-manageme'nt quarrels, it adds, it "may not. be politically feasible or expedient" for Congress and the state legislatures "to look the other way." . However, the statement says the. situation "is not by any ,means completely hopeless." "Labor and management still have it within their power not on'y . to. avoid compulsory arbitration, but also, from the · mo~e po~itive point of view, to restore public confidence in the basic, soundness of free collec. Turn to Page Eighteen

Diocesan School'Enroliment . ' . Approaches 23,000' Mark .When classes :resurrie Wednesday' for the opening of school, aproximately 23,000 students are expected to enroll in the 57 elementary schools and 11 high schools of the · Fall River Diocese. The anticipated enrollment for the 1960· 61 school year is an all time classes at the Immaculate Conhigh for' the Diocese. Last ception School, New Bedford, St. year's enrollment totaled George's School, Westport, the 21;336; .while the total for . Sacred Heart· School, Taunton, 1958 was 20,492. · and St. John's School, Attleboro. The increase is due to the adA staff of 536 elementalY dition of the sophomore class at school teachel"S and 145 hign Bishop Stang High .school, the school teachers wi1~ care for this opening of the addition. to Mt. record enrollment. St. Mary Academy, Fall ~iver, The new educational instituwhich will provide facilities for tion,' Nazareth-on~the-Cape,will additional students; the opening be able to care for 36 exceptional of the new Holy Name School in studelits in their school in Fall River; and the addition of Hyannis.

Rites ,for Cardinal·O'Hara In Philadelphia: Monday. PHILADELPHIA - (NC)-Solemn'Pontifical Requiem Mass for John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C., '72, will be offered in the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul here next Mon'day. Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York, will offer the Mass and James Francis Cardinal McIntyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles, will preach. Cardi-

Madonna Blue P.redominant Colora' Beautiful New Mt~' St., M.ary ',.Academy, .FallRiver

ByPatrida McGowan When nearly 500 students walk into, the ~hiny new building at Fall River's Mt. St. Mary Academy next Wednesday, few will realize that they ar-e writing the latest page ' in a history that reaches back to the 1800's. Not only .were the Sisters of, Mercy, who staff the Academy, the first religious commUllity to sei've the Fall River Diocese, coming to the area in 1873 when it . t'll d th . . d' cording to Sister Mary Gertrude, Mary Gertrude, who has been a was s I un er e JUrIS IC- a pioneer Sister at Mt. St. Mary. me'mber of the communl'ty for tion of the Bishop of Provi- Sister Mary Gertrude has been . 52 - years and has w'atched the dence, 'but they were the doing special research on the growth of the Sisters' educafirst to organize high schools history of the Sisters of Mercy tional plant from St. Catherine's here. in the Diocese with the idea of Academy to the Mount of today. In 1883 the Sisters opened St. preserving recollections of early Madonna blue pI'edominates' Joseph's High School in New days that exist only in the memthroughout, the new building. Be'dford and I'n 1879 St. Cather- 'ories of Sisters' ana students It is see'n in auditorium curtains I'n""s and chairs, in conference room ,. Academy, ,an outgrowth of active in bygone years. an 'elementary school that had . St. Catherine.'s Academy was decor, on walls. The auditorium ,started in 1874, began. in Fall' housed at 621 Second Street, in . fronts on Whipple Street,' where River. the building that is now the 'cona 'graciously curved driveway St. Catherine's was co-educa- vent for the. Franciscan Mission- . leads to sweeping. stairs. Surtional and among its students aries of Mary.. The school had mounting all is a graceful cross. was the father of Sister Mary m'oved ' from 'previous quarters Five Mount upperclassmen Olga, RS.M., present superior at Fourth and Roqman Streets. made the tour of the new buildat Mt. St. Mary. The high school No, doubt the students of those : ing with The Anchor photogcontinued until 1890 when it was 'early days felt something of the rapher and reporter. It was their discontinued' because of the excitement of today's girls as first look at their school home, pressing need for Sisters in the they in turn move into new and and their reactions were ecstatic. many parochial schools of Fall larger quarters. Loudest oh's and ah's came as River. It is a giant stride 'the Sisters they saw the beautifulaudito' A member of the, last gradu- of Mercy hav.e taken as they rilim with its capacity' of 701 IJting class, Mrs. Luella Little, ,enter their new building, and and the shining. gymnasium. still resides in Fall River, ae- none know it -better. than Sister ,.-UI'D to page Elev«

nal O'Hara died at 3:06 A.M. Sunday in Miseri<;ordia Hospital · here. He underwent abdominal surgery at the hospital on Aug. 23 for the secoild time within a 'year. He has been a patient at ,the hospital several times in recent months. Cardinal O'Hara first visited the Fall River Diocese Dec. 15, 1940 when, as Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Ordinariate, he toured Camp Edwards in company with Bishop Cassidy. Also in his military capacity, he was present Nov. 22, 1941 at the opening of the first U:S.O. center in the area, on Franklin Street, Fall River. The building is n~w the Catholic Communjty · Center and houses activities of the 'Girls' CYO. ' Followin'g the final tributes to the Cardinal here, his body will. be taken to .the University of', Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind" for burial. Cardinal O'Hara ,served as president of Notre Dame frpm.1934 until December, 1939, when he was appointed by Pope Pius XII to be Titular Bishop of Mylasa to serve u r,uru to P..,--e Twe


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