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The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-13
Rersona( Ml,,hon

Jack Lewis, John Porter
Glenn. Ben Bowers, Calvin Tuck
and Allen Chapman attended a
Region Jaycee meeting Sunday
in South Hill.
Mr. and Mrs. w. F.. Doering
and daughter, Mary, of Falls
Church, spent the week end with
Mr.. and Mrs. Guy Lancaster.
Week end guests Of his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. M. Whit
lock, were Mr.. and Mrs. James
L. Whitlock. of Lexington.
Spending the week end with
his brother, j. w. Sanderson,
and Mrs. Sanderson was B. R.
Sanderson, of Roanoke.
Visiting her grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. j. w. Fretwell, is
Mary Beverly Sanford, OF War
saw.
After visiting their son-in-laW
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Lee
Roy Woodson, and family in
Gloucester, and their son and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. Julian c.
Noblin, Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Mob
lin have returned.
Vacationing in Bermuda are
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Cummins.
Mr.. and Mrs. Don Morton, of
Onancock, will arrive Friday to
visit her father. T. N. Layne, and
Ter grandmother, Mrs. M. M.
Layne.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Proctor, Of
High Point, N. c., are spending
his week with their son-in-law
and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. J.
E. Fulton.
Spending some time with her
son and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Merritt, is Mrs. Myrtle
Merritt, Of Watertown, N. Y.
On Tuesday Mr.. and Mrs. T.
L. Young and Herman Scruggs,
Of Charlotte Court House, visited
Morty Young, patient in South
side Community Hospital.
Week end guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Morris G. Smith were Mr..
and Mrs. Charlie G. Smith, of
Fairfax, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter c..
Smith, of Tacoma Park, Md,
Miss Mary Gillian, of Arlington,
Mrs. D. C. Smith, of Hyatts-
vile, Md, and Carl Dickinson,
of Richmond.
The Misses Mary Clay and
Winnie Hiner have had as their
guest Miss Bessie Jeter, of Char
lotte, N. C.
A week end guest of her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. v. C. Wom-
ack, was Miss Pauline Womack,
OF Mary Washington collie e..
Fredericksburg.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Blair and
children spent the week end with
his mother, Mrs. w. L. Blair,
in Chatham.
Week end guests of his mother,
Mrs. Epsie Vale, were Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Quinn and family, of
Roanoke.
Spending some time with her
sister, Mrs. W. B. PettigreW. is
Mrs. F. M. Wooten, of Greenville
N. C.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-13
Tiercys Announce
Birth Of First,
Child A Son

Mr.. and Mrs. j L. Tiercy. of
South Hill, announce the birth
Of their first child, a son, John
Andrew, on October 2.
Paternal grandparents are Mr..
and Mrs. B. L. Tiercy, of Union
Level.
Maternal grandparents are Mr..
and Mrs. Earl johnson, of Farm
Vile.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-13

Frank Jones accompanied his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. D.
Jones. to visit their son and
family, Major and Mrs. w. D.
Jones, Jr., at Mcclure Air Force
Base, N. j.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-13
Mrs. Ray A. Moore,
Jr., Is IIonored

Mrs. Ray A. Moore, Jr., was
guest of honor at an informal
coffee. Thursday morning, Oct
ober II, given by Mrs. Harvey
S. Whitaker, in the home of
Mrs. Shelton Whitaker.
The Farmville herald. (Farmville, Va.) 1957-current, 1961-10-13
Golden Wedding Anniversary

MR. AND MRS. BURNELL OVERTON, SR, celebrated their
golden wedding evening their children
honored them with reception at the Moose
eight children five daughters E. Jacobs Mrs Charlie
Gernert Mrs Earl Mendoza, Finney and Mrs.
Deroy H. Colbert; three Walter Overflow
children.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-05-12
u. S. Catholic Population -.

1860 brought the total of Cath
Ollie hospitals to $40. Bed ca
pacity of the Institutions is
51,252, a years increase of
1928. There are 814 general
hospitals with accomm o d a
tons for 40,089 patients and
1875 special hospitals with
11,163 beds. The directory
said that in relation to the
Catholic population, it is evil
dent that the 13,760,980 pa
tients treated in 1860 at the
949 Catholic hospitals includ-
ed a large number of non
Catholics.
The total of 1884 students
in $50 Catholic training
schools for nurses represents
an increase of 1,499 students.
The directory noted the To-
172 children in the 273 Cath
Ole orphanages and infant
homes represent a decrease
of AIT children and reported
that 21,678 children are cared
for in foster homes. The to-
tai of 1880 dependent chill
dren is a years increase of
594. It also reported 339
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homes for aged and invalids
are caring for 1851 resi-
dents, an increase of facilities
for 273.
r A BAPTIsMs in 1860
totaled 1,349, 240, a years in
crease of 1864. There were
319, 481 marriages, a decrease
of 511, and 348, 500 deaths of
us. Catholics reported, an
increase of 14,135.
The 1861 issue is the 129th
printing of the official Cath
Ollie Directory. AS in past
years, it has three editions
and bindings. The paperbound
volume of 1901 pages, which
gives complete data and sta
tistics for the US, its posses
sions and foreign mission &C
tivities is priced at $1,000. The
complete edition, giving data
for the US, Canada, Ireland,
the British Isles, Australia,
New Zealand and the Philip
pines, consists of 1893 pages.
is paper bound and sells for
S11.5O. The same edition in
stiff cloth binding sells for
$3.50.
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versity and college enroll
ments for the eighth year.
1t said the postwar decrease
of 31,699 in enroIlments oc-
Cured in the 1852 school
year. The current enrolment
of 321, 999, a years increase
Of 1901, represents SO per
cent more students than 10
years ago when there were
236, 636 students.
A YEARS INCREASE of
158, $40 full-time pupils in
Catholic elementary and high
schools was reported. The
1854 parish and diocesan high
schools reported 546,2 59 stu
dents, an increase of 26,131;
the 500 private high schools,
340,036 pupils, an increase of
1886; the 1912 parish ele-
mentary schools. 4,312, 1862, an
increase Of 1T, OBJ; but the
462 private e elementary
schools with SO, 548 pupils rep
resented a decrease of Is
schools and SGT pupils. In
addition there were 12,072
students reported in 100 pro-
tective institutions.
The directory reported an
aggregate, including orphans,
of 9.136,823 American young
people in all grades under
Catholic instruction in the
US, a years increase of $780,
548 or 1893 per cent.
Tracing the progress of re-
ligious instruction under re-
leased-time plans, in religious
vacation schools and other
classes, the directory reported
there now are 3,472,176 pub
lie school students receiving
religious instructions, a years
increase Of 170,775.
THE DIRECTORY said that
for the third time it was pos
sible to distinguish the age
groups of the pupils receiving
religious instructions - $685.
1856 high school students and
2,578, $40 elementary school
pupils.
Four new institutions in
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-05-12
Center Needs
Psychologist

The Diocesan Child
Guidance Center, 1000
Dryden Road, has an
opening for a man with a
Masters or Doctors de-
gree in Psychology. The
position requires indivi-
dual eounseIling of ado
descent boys, testing and
group thearpy.
Sister Francois, SIND,
The c~enter's director, says
fhe Center meets the
same pay scale as the
State. Applicants are ask
e d TO contact Sister
Francois, SIND, at The
Diocesan Child Guidance
Center, c.. 2-3I6l.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-05-12
BROTHERS SERVED
PARISH o. YEARS

CINCINNATI - ST. Plus X
parish, served by two priest
brothers for a combined total
of "a years, observed its 50th
anniversary with a Solemn
Mass offered by Archbishop
Karl J. Alter Of Cincinnati.
Father John H. Berning,
83, who was assigned to esta-
blish the parish on October
10, 1910, is still the pastor.
He has been a priest for
nearly 81 years.
His brother, Father Louis
H. Berning, has been assistant
pastor at st. Plus since his
ordination to the priesthood
in 1917. And the church or
ganist, Leo Moelder, has serv-
ed the parish for so years.
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Jubilee

CONTINUED from page y
years. In October 1929 he
founded and organized ST.
James parish, Port Arthur,
and has been its pastor over
since.
Monsignor Kirwin organized
the Sierra Club of Port Ar
thur and has acted as chap
lain for IA years,
HE Is ACTIVE in civic and
community affairs in Port
Arthur having been president
of the Rotary Club, the Grip
pied Children Society, and the
Community Chest.
On May 25, l948, the late
Pope Plus XII named him a
Domestic Prelate with the
title of Right Reverend Mon
signor.
The ties between the Do
cese of Galveston and the Dio-
cese of Columbus has not on
ly included the Monsignor
Kirwin but also the late Mon
signor George Wilhelm of
Columbus ST. Aloysius parish
who was one of the leading
clerics in the Texas See.
THE FOURTH BISHOP OF
Galveston, Bishop Nicholas A.
Gallagher was born in TEN
peranceville, Ohio, in 1346,
was ordained a priest in Co
lumbus in 1868, and was adj
ministrator of the Colum-
bus Diocese on the death of
Bishop Rosecrans in 1878. He
was named administrator OF
Galveston in 1862 and sue
ceeded to the title in 1894. He
died in 1913.
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Sister Mary Albina is the
Diamond Jubilarian, marking
sixty years of loyal and de-
voted service.
SISTER MARY V,TALls,
the Golden Jubilarian mark
ing fifty years of her relig-
ious profession, is a graduate
of st. Aloysius Academy.
Sister Mary Ellen, the Sill
yer Jubilarian marking tWen-
ty-five years of loyal service
is also a graduate of st.
Aloysius Academy.
Sister Albina taught pri-
mary grades in Charleston, W.
Va, Atlantic Highlands, New
Jersey, Holy Rosary, St.
Johns, ST. Leo's in Columbus,
and spent a number of years
al st. Rita's Shrine.
Sister Nj. Vitalis taught
Elementary Grades in Sacred
Heart School, st. Johns, ST.
and st. Michael's in Buffalo,
NY, in st. Joseph's Los An
geles, California and in Spo-
kane, Washington. She spent
two years studying Art and
Music in Europe.
Sister Ellen spent many
years as a Kindergarten and
Primary Teacher in Sacred
Heart School, Columbus, and
st. AIMS, Buffalo, NY.
FIR. Julian Schaefer, chap
lain was the celebrant of the
Jubilee Mass, sung by the
Glee Club Choir.
Escorted by honor guards
of Cadets, the Jubilarians en-
tered the chapel each pre-
ceded by a little flower girl
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-05-12

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Continued from page i
my house is a great thing"
she said. Il look forward to
receiving Holy Communion"
MRS. PoSEY COULD be a
feature story in herself-the
mother of eight, children, she
was active in parish, civic and
Diocesan work before an acci-
dent five years ago which
suddenly made her physical
ly inactive.
A widow, Mrs. Posey lives
alone now that all of her chill
dren, five of whom served in
WWII. have grown up, keeps
mentally alive-'I was just
thrilled at the sight Of the
astronaut's flight" she said.
Father Geiger is moderator
for the parish youth council
and the discussion clubs,
helps instruct some of the
elementary school students in
religion. At present he is put
ting the first communion
class through its PAGES. He be-
lieves keeping faces matched
up with the right names at
Corpus Christi is one of the
hardest things.
FAT coSHocToN we could
meet Pensioners in town and
know them by name-we have
a difficult time doing that
here"
OF course, Corpus Christi
Is the largest Diocesan par
ish-it has over $500 people,
according to latest statistics.
Their ADJUSTMENT
is from the routine of semi
nary life to that Of parish
life.
Father Stanton calls
Hi-Fi Magazine, my spiritual
reading-in the seminary, Of
couse, we had a more rigid
schedule for spiritual eXer-
cises, now VIC must fit them
in where we can-you become
an expert in reading in spurts
and the ten-minute cat-nap,"
he said.
He finds time to counsel
and encourage yocations in
the young ~people-Ascenslon
Thursday he was to take a
group of boys to Mi. st. Mary's
Major Seminary for a visit
and to assist at vespers.
YOU CAN SPOT boys who
may have a vocation and help
encourage il. If you take
Tough interest in their other
activities and goals they
won't resent interest in their
spiritual life"
Besides, if you ever get
bored with things around the
rectory, all you have to do is
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Continued from page y
according to the directory's
neurology.
FULL.TIME TEACHING
stats of all educational in
situations under Catholic aus
pices increased by $3.50 to a
record total of 1884, ST.. They
include: 1850 priests, $40
scholastics, 4,807 Brothers,
1886 Sisters and 52,884 lay
teachers. The increases in
Guided $40 priests, 20 Broth
ers, 1886 Sisters and 1878 lay
teachers.
The directory reported TO-
488 parishes with resident
pastors. an increase Of 1873,
and so parishes without resi-
dent pastors-a record total
of 1896 parishes in the so
states. Also listed were 4,387
missions, 1850 stations and
ii, 403 chapels-an increase of
624 places where Mass is Of
fered regularly.
a NEW HIGH OF 13,961
separate educational institu-
tons was listed. These in
clude 96 diocesan seminaries;
AL seminaries or novitiates
and scholasticates of religious
communities; 267 universities
and colleges; 1854 diocesan
and parish high schools; 869
private high schools; 1912
parish elementary schools, an
increase of 235; and 462 pri-
waite elementary schools. Also
listed were 230 protective in
stitutions with a total at
tendance of 1902. There
we're IL new seminaries of
religious communities estab-
liShed during 1860.
THE 96 DIOCESAN semi
naries had a total enrolment
of 81, 800, an increase of 1,042,
while the AL novitiates and
scholasticateS of g 10 u
communities reported a total
enrolment of 20,551, an in
crease of 933. This indicated
a total of 41,781 candidates
for the priesthood.
The directory stated 1945 is
considered generally as the
year for the beginning of the
country's enrolment boom in
schools, II made a comparison
Of the number of schools and
total enrolment in the l945
directory with the current
statistics. This showed an in
crease of 2,919 more institu-
tons, or 26.7 per cent, and a
rise of 3,061,915 more stu
dents, an increase of 1871 per
cent. The figures excluded
orphanages and protective in
stItutions.
THE STATISTICS SHOWED
that in 1945 there were a total
Of 1922 institutions with q
500, $50 students, and in 1861
there are 1881 institutions
with 1862 .575 students. The
breakdown went like this: In
1945 there were 81 semi
carries and novitiates with 81
523 students; 210 colleges and
universities with 92,426 stu
dents; 1851 high schools with
447, 500 students; and 5000.
elementary schools with g.
029,012 students. In 1861
there are 537 seminaries and
noyitiates with 41,871 stu
dents; 267 colleges and uni
versities with 321 500 stu
dents; 2,433 high schools with
$50, 295 Students; and 1854
elementary schools with A.
402, 410 students.
The directory noted the up
ward trend in Catholic uni
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and little boy carrying the
bridal candle.
Many relatives and visitors
we're present al the solemn
service.
Dinner was served TO the
guests.
In the afternoon the Stu
dents of the Freshman Class
and the Glee Club presented
a program tribute of love
and loyalty to the Jubilarians.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-05-12
HFH CLUB MEETS

The Mothers Club Of Holy
Family High School, will hold
its last meeting of the school
year at 7:30 pm, Tuesday,
May Is in st. George Hall.
Skidmore and Broad SITS.
Refreshments will be serv-
nI
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ST.
504 South Gould Rd.

504 South Gould Rd.
Saturday, May 20, from 2
until 5 pm, and Sunday, May
q, from 2 until 5 pm, on
school grounds.
ST. MARY
473 S. Roys Ave.
SATURDAY, MAY 20
Great Western Shopping
Center, 2 until 5 pm.
Sunday, May 81, from 10
am, until 2 pm. on Parkside-
DIR. side of church.
ST. PHILIP THE APOSTLE
1855 Elaine Rd.
Sunday, May 20, from 7 am.
until l pm. on parish park
ing grounds.
ST. DOMINIC
453 N. 10th st.
Saturday, May 20, from noon
until 6 pm. on church
grounds, on DeVois Ave. off
Goth st.
ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE
1892 E. 5th Ave.
Friday, May 26, from $50
until $3.50 pm, and Saturday
May 27, from $3.50 until $50
pm.
ST. MARY LANCASTER
1872 S. High st.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednes-
day, May 22-24, from 4 until
Z pm, High and Main SIS.
CORPUS CHRISTI
1861 LinWoOd Ave.
Saturday, May 81, from | un-
I'll 5 pm. on the church
grounds.
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Study In Confusion ,

go out onto the playground
it will jolt you from any bore
DOM"
TT PENSIONERS RE.
SPEcT for the priesthood,
certainly due to my predeces-
sors, helps you to live up to
the ideal and makes you real
ize the responsibility of be-
ing a priest" he concluded.
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Safety 80.

Continued from page y
til 7 pm. on the school
grounds.
CHRIST THE KING
1885 Z. Livingston Ave.
Saturday, May 90 from 2
until s pm, and Sunday, May
q, from 2 until 6 pm, on
the school grounds, off Dover
Rd.
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DIAMOND, GOLDEN, SILVER:
Nuns Mark Jubilee
At New Lexington

NEW LEXINGTON - The Chapel Of Saint Alloy
sius Academy was the scene of a beautiful and i'm
pressive ceremony, Sunday, April 30, when three
Sisters celebrated the anniversary Of their religious
nrnfncclnn
Evening star., 1961-12-15
Trailer Park
Plans Given
Fairfax OK

Fairfax County Planning
Commissioners last night ap-
proved final blueprints for the
first phase of a 100-acre. TOO
unit trailer park which had
been bitterly opposed by Rich
mond highway citizen groups
and currently is the object of
a circuit court suit challenging
the board of supervisors right
to rezone the property.
The project. a joint effort by
Developers Paul Peachey and
George Faigen. is located at
Hybla Valley about four miles
south of Alexandria. The land
was rezoned for mobile-home
use July 26 on a 4-3 vote of
the county board of super
visors.
Citizens in the area who pro-
tested that Richmond highway
already had too many trailer
parks filed suit against the SUI
pervisors and two developers.
Fairfax Circuit Judge E. Call
win Van Dyck heard preliminary
evidence in the case last week.
He is expected to give a decision
early next week.
Mr.. Peachey, present last
night as the commission re-
viewed his detailed engineering
plan, said he would begin con-
Struction today.
Evening star., 1961-12-15
MoryIonder
Hits Nativity
Scene FIun

A Greenbelt resident is op-
posing plans for a Nativity
scene next to a community
Christmas tree in a Federal
park between Greenbelt and
Glenn Dale roads. in Prince
Georges County.
Leonard A. Baron. 19 North
Ridge road, said the biblical
scene on national property
would violate the principle of
separation of church and state.
He registered his objection with
National Capital Parks.
Greenbelt Homes, Inc, which
decorateS TIE commu unit y
Christmas tree. wrote NCP for
permission for the Nativity
scene to be set up by the Sodal-
ity of St. Hugh's Catholic
Church, in Greenbelt. The
Greenbelt City Council on De-
cember 4 voted 80 to override
Mr.. ,Baron's objection, and not
to oppose the Nativity scene.
Cornelius Heine, chief of the
Public Use section of Mop. in
dicaEed permission would be
granted if the figurines are not
large enough to distract motor
lists and cause a driving hazard.
A policeman will check the size
of the figures today. he said.
NCP Supt. T. Sutton Jett
noted that Nativity scene is
part of the Christmas display at
the Pageant of Peace on the
Ellipse.
Mr.. Baron. a Labor Depart
ment economist, said he
planned to take the matter to
court if permission is granted
for the Nativity scene.
Evening star., 1961-12-15

District licensing officials de-
cided today to give Ross Rosen-
berg the lsed-car salesman's
license after all.
The city's board of appeals
and review again on Wednes-
day granted Mr.. Rosenberg. a
former car dealer here, a IL
cense to sell used cars after
reconsidering its earlier deci-
sion to award him the license
Officials in the Department
of Licenses and Inspections,
however, reported then they
would refuse, as they did after
the boards first decision, to
give him his permit.
But after a morning long
meeting with members of the
city's legal staff, Department
Supt. j. J. Ilgenfritz said:
I'VE have been directed to
issue the license by the Dis
Evening star., 1961-12-15
Sergeant Shot in Siege by Police,
Suffers Critical Head Wounds

three children besides Randy
and Ronnie. They are 15-year-
old twins. Janice and Joyce,
who were in school at the time
of the gun battle, and another
boy, Billy, 10, whose where
abouts could not be learned.
The chain Of events leading
up to the shooting affray
began at 9:l8 am. yesterday
when Pvts. Saunders and Stat
ford answered a call to the
Takoma Park Fire Department,
where a woman had asked for
a policeman. There they found
Mrs. Stahl. The policemen said
she told them her husband
had beaten her earlier in the
morning and had threatened
to kill her.
Pvt. Saunders said he told
her police could do nothing un-
less she swore out a warrant
for his arrest.
Mrs. Stahl went to a JUS
tice Of the peace. obtained
the assault and battery war
rant and appeared at the Ia
koma Park police station with
it, accompanied by two military
policemen. PvtS. Saunders anc
Stafford met Mrs. Stahl and
the MPs and went to the home
near the District Montgomery
County line at 1881 pm.
Feared for Children
When they arrived at the
house, the policemen said Mrs
Stahl told them: He has a
rifle and he may use it." She
also said she feared for the
safety of Randy and Ronnie.
Pvt. Saunders told Mrs. Stahl
to wait in the Armed Services
Police car with the MPs while
they went up to serve the war
rant.
When Pvt. Saunders and his
partner reached a point 10 feet
from the steps of the house,
they said they could see Sergt.
Stahl talking on the phone in
the hallway. AS soon as he
saw them, they said, he
slammed down the phone and
pointed a rifle at them. The
two boys were with him, each
with a toy gun.
Pvt. Saunders took cover be-
hind a tree in the yard and