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Regional High F·und
'Now Over $850,000
The ANCHOR An Anchor of the Soul, Su're and Firm-ST.
The campaign for one and one-half million dollars' to partially finance the construction of the first regional high school in the Fall River Diocese moved a step nearer its goal today with the announcement by Most ·Rev. James L. Connolly, D.D.,. Bishop of Fall River, that the drive has now passed
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the $850,000 mark. Inspired by the moving ad dress of Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston last night, the more than 3,400 volun teer workers in the Greater New Bedford area set out today on an intensive' house-to-house campaign to reach the $1,500,000 mark. The school, which will be built in Dartmouth, near the New Bedford city line, will cost in excess of $2,000,000, Archbishop Cushing spoke to the workers in St. Anthony of Padua Hall, New Bedford, last night. He was introdl\ced to the large gathering of men by Bishop' . Connolly. Both Archbishop Cushing and Bishop Connolly blessed the workers as they set about their task of raising fU'nds for the first of a series of regional 'high schools to be built through· out the diocese. The Greater New Bedford school will be known as Catholic Memorial High School, Bishop Connolly said today. The school chapel will be known as Our Turn to Page Fifteen
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FATHER PRICE'
FATHER CONDON
Sacred Hearts Provincial To Visit Mission in Japan
Very Rev. William J. Condon, SS.CC., Provincial of the Fathers of the Sacred Hearts, accompanied by Rev. Ronald Nutterville, SS.CC., Provincial Secretary, will leave .Fairhaven. today to visit his Congregation's missions in Japan. Enroute from Fairhaven Very Rev. Paul Price, SS. Father Condon will visit the
Once more the diocese is' CC., former Superior of Congregation's minor seminary
preparing for the an!1ual Sacred Hearts Seminary at in Washi?gton,D. C., to inspect
Wareham sailed on the USS construction now under way of
Thanksgiving Clothing CQI America 'Saturday for Ireland, a chapel similar to the famous
lection. where he has been assigned by Apparition Chapel at Paray-le
Diocese. to Take Part in Annual ClothQng Drive
SODALITY UNION STUDENT OFFICERS: Elected serve one year as officers of the new Queen of Peace Sodality Union in Fall River are, left to right, first row,: Anne Delaney, treasurer; Mary Lomax, recording secretary; Claire Sinotte, vice-president; second row: Richard Des IOsiers, president; Annette Parent, corresponding secretary. ~
Queen of Peace Sodality Organizes in Fall River
Father Condon to serve as Director of a new minor seminary opened in Clones, County Monaghan.
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Father Condon will proceed to
Los Angeles following stops at
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Deplore ~igotry Feel Khrushchev Behind Attempt ·More Dangerous To Tax Schools Than Stalin LOS ANGELES (NC) Two more Southern Califor nia dailies have voiced their editorial: opposition to the
WASHINGTON (NC)
There is a belief here that
Nikita Krushchev is emerg
ing as a new one-man dicta
initiative .that would reimpose torship in Soviet Russia, as pow . taxation on nonprofit, private erful and possibly more danger schools of California. ous than that of Josef Stalin. The newspapers' are the Santa Everything seems to hinge on Monica Outlook and the Whittier what happens in the Zhukov Aid Brave Hungarians News. case. If Khrushchev "gets away" Both newspapers deplored the with the deposing and apparent In general, except for southern attempt to tax these schools and downgrading of the great Soviet Europe '(represented by such the Outlook said "a campaign army hero, there is no doubt here countries as Italy, Greece, Spain that he will haye communist and Portugal), the focus of need' of this kind is the last thing presidept; Brother George, F.I.C., California needs at this or any Russia tightly in his grasp. It has shifted from Europe to other vice-president; Sister Rose An
other time." will be a grip as firm as that held areas of the world. Special needs gela, S.U.S.C:,. recording secre
Turn to Page Ten Turn to Page Five exist, however, in Europe even tary; Sister. Mary Denisita, today. The 30,000 refugees from R.S.M., corresponding. secretary. last year's abortive Hungarian Student officers, also elected revolt remain in camps in Aus for a one-year term, are Richard tria and Yugoslavia. They and Desrosiers, Prevost High School, many of the thousands who have been given haven in other coun president; Claire Sinotte, Domin- .
tries of Europe need our con-' By John P. Sullivan, Ph.D.
ican Academy, vice-president; tinued help. Anne Delaney" Sacred Hearts Stonehill College Professor '
Then, there are the needy Academy, treasurer; Mary LoFive milliQn dollars is saved annually by taxpayers of among the valiant people of 11 cities and towns located in the Fall River Diocese max, Mount St. Mary Academy, Hungary whom we can help recording secretary, and Annette through our mission in Austria through the operation of the Catholic school system. Parent, Jesus Mary Academy, A simple corollary of all this is that Catholic schools • Turn to Page Fifteen corresponding secretary.
To conform to the desire of His Holin~ss, Pope Pius XII, to see Diocesan as well as world and national federa- , tions established, and to respond to the wishes of Bishop Connolly to vivify and strengthen the sodalities of. the Diocese, the Queen of Peace of the five high school sodalities Sodality Union, first in New in Fall River. Officers, elected England, has been organized for a term of one year, are in Fall River. Mother Marie Adelbert, R.J.M., Purpose of the Union is the f.ederating of sodalities for their inspiration, for the intensification of sodality life for member groups, for mutual help to be derived from regular and special meetings through interchange of ideas and suggestions, and to provide a J:l1eans f9r group action
among' saclillitieS' whenever the . D.e~~Jot'action arises. . Board of Moderators includes Rev. Gerard Boisvert, assistant at Notre Dame Church, Fall River, spiritual director, and the directors and moderators of each
This is a drive organized by the Catholic Relief Services of the National Catholic Welfare Conference to send clothing and blankets to the needy of the world. The Diocesan Director is the Rev; Francis A. McCar'thy of St. Joseph's Church, North Digh ton. Father McCarthy announces that the drive - Operat,ion Clothes Closet - will be from the 24th to the 30th of this month, As in the past, each par ish will collect usable clothing, bedding, blank;ets and shoes. These articles, boxed and marked, will then be collected and sent to the shipping points to be re-sorted and prepared for overseas shipment. ,
Taxpayers of Diocese Save. Five .Million Annually
Catholic School System Savings to Community Taxpayers - 1951 Fall River Diocese Community
Number
Catholic
School
Students
Swansea Fall River Taunton Acushnet North Attleboro Fairhaven New Bedford Orleans Westport Attleboro Dartmouth
616 .8253 2680 267 1108 780 5322 136 169 559
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-Based on 1957 public school per pupil cost on file at Departmentof EducatipD .
Actual Savings to each Community·
$ 159,365.36 2,064,653.01 . 737,214.40 56,897.70 264,800.92 179,992.80 1,~83,879.66
60,521.36 47,632.65 128,061.31 28,505.94
1957 Catholic School Community Savings on Tax Community Rate ,Tax Ratet '0
$61.00 72.60 60.50 66.00 49.00 64.00 58.80 35.60 62.80 50.90 61.60
$18.68 16.55 16.15 14.02 12.60 11.83 9.39 5.20 4.25 2.75 1.40
tBased. on. assessed valuation· data at· .Department of Corporation 'and Taxation·
are contributing to better public schools by making it possible for these communi ties to spend more on fewer
students in their public school
system. Thus "tax-savings" may
be a blessings in disguise bUt,
unfortunately, they are less ob
vious than "hidden taxes".
Translated into specific tax
savings for those citizens already
"deep in the heart of taxes" this
. multi-million dollar sum repre sents on the 1957 tax bill a sub sidy of $1.40 to $18.68 on each thousand of assessed valuation. The accompanying table, for ex ample, indicates that a Fall River home assessed for $5000 has a tax saving of $82.75. And further illustrations for other communi ties can be gleaned from this table, . ',fWD. to Page Hille
.JOHN P. SULLIVAJI
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