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G MEDFORD. ORE. MEDFORD MAl2 TRIBUNE, alien s larges o Q o MONDAY. JANUARY 30. 1961 J t Relfgious Body, Enigma To iany Faith Embraces Over 40 M In United Sloiss By LOUIS CASSn.S UPI Correpondei.i At the start of this cmlm-v. there wore abmil 10 iviliion Roman Catholics in the Un.'.rU States, They were heavily con centrated in a few v$ cltif of the Northeast. M'tny uf them were immi'.irnnts. They exerted rolivilv liule in fluence on the hi'- 01 a p:v rinminnntly Protest :mt nation. Today America has more than -10 millifMi Cithoht. They arc widely dowsed throughout the country. The great majority are second or third generation eiti::ens. On Jan. 20, one of them w;i inaugurated PresirlenL of the United Stales. Although it is now the na tion's largest religious body, the Catholic Church remains an enigma to most of the 140 million Americans who arc outside its fold. The average non-Catholic knows little and understands less about the churchy in which the new Chief Executive was re:rej. In this and four subsociue'd dispatches, an attempt will be made to answer some of the questions which noa-Cathoiic-ask about Catholicism, and perhaps to clear up a few popular misconceptions. One Misconception P-nnful The misconcup'. inn vh;r'i pains Catholics most is the idea that their churuii is a monolithic soeeity in which everyone thinks alike and aiis alike, and all decisions are handed down from above. Actually there is ereal va riety - religious, political, so cial, and cultural - in the Catholic family. There are Catholics who at tach great importance to holy water. candles, cruciJiNf-s, i-.1- ligious medals, staims of IhO: Virgin Mary and olher pin si-j cal aids to devotion. And there ! are others who find no spir-, ilual help in these- "sacra- ' mentals" and therefore do iml , use them. 1 There are Catholic? who are ultra-conservative in no'Itics, and those who pre in the van guard of way - out liberal causes. Some look upon the United Nations as ;n insiru-j men! of the devil; others (in cluding the recent Pones) are ardent internationalists. I You can find Catholics in ' Spain, for example, who be lieve that the eawerrMnont should give spinal privihes to their church and res; rict the rights of other religion.-;. You can find Catholics (es pecially in America) who be lieve strongly in church-state separation and religious free dom for all. Soms Anti-Clerical Some Cclhoiu's arii'In" their pnesls; others a;e m,L tanily anti-cleric;?!. Seme try to heed ev !' coun'l ot thi church; others db'nbey its most explicit moral Jeaehings. such as the ban on use of con traceptives. Tiie Catholic ( lincii be some ignorant and un!- 'ercd members who embi'oid--:- Uy teachings wirh f. stitions oi their has brilliant inVM Jacques Mari;a:n, . ney Murray ae.d Chaidin. In s h o r l . lb church is what i plies- Catholic, or a Its catholicity is ir to include the ,, v ate woman who s; at the V.'hiie Pui millionaire H'Tv;n who lives there. However rnurh may differ they are una. o herence to cei iitin i practic' s There are, tor r few specific reli : In California J 31 J (. 4 & 7 $ r5 l in in mm hiirn us i ar r w mm mw wm w m w w ;sn Bernardino Sy U!,;;'l Pr?5r, In!.?rnational ' CVv Krnun'.ci G. I'rtnyn an m '.n.'.-'Sfl Unit iie v is prepared ! in S(T.rt surplus fo-ti to San ' B e r nnrrtino r uml.v s 13. 501) huP'.:i'v fanillio.-. lie s :id (l'c if x;s'u:is wovilcl be -'e'ivc?-'d. if the tounty -upe:--.':s:r; ;'sl. toy iMeni. un- e iill liu!''.'.i r! ijy I'rfitli-iU John F. Kennedy. Brown se' u! ' I a myelins ! in SiKT-ur,. v.-:Vi Paul' Your.".;, riuiinn m of l''e coim-1 Iv s',n)ervi!'Or.s, and X a n c y fituiUi. a h'lard mriiilior, to di--rii- ihr s:a::ri"P. j -Th.-v v:!l 'dl; phmit fi- ri-mc-::!': '' a p..;es,na'-, for the j '.- iv: -.! r s.ed. "aud Jie pns.;i- !ii:ly of n fe" ?n'l mo jilnn ' In pay coft of ti'e surplus ! feud." Tteworts Eeid True r.rov.n laid his news enn feronce lie had senl one of his 'a:.' n n' rri Pieha'yl Kline. 10 San n -i'-' -di-io io check reports oi hi caused ly heavy enj!.ij-lo;.inent. and , whifh arc cnioino on every praclieinc C; Uiolic. They in- ' i !n. i ') :, . i iH: nri 'i1 ATat; Oil ! Sundays, ab-liaence from! n-eat cn ''riays. and recep nni.s o Holy Communion at le: st oe.re a year. Many Calh i olies :o In yond these mini ' mum tint: byl no Catholic : may fail s'.mr! of thorn without Jrr.rfm frum his taith. l.very Cai'iolic also is ro I quirt d io ac epy as divinely rcvwlfd trnlii. the basic doc trinal tea'-ian 's oi the church. ; Many oi the ihir.-'s wliich the j i Cai'-iol.c Chus.-h ( ach.cs about ! ! fe'd. Cl-rif! :-itl Hie Bible are! iy-yica or'-'eery similar to! !'y l)i li of other Christian j cpure'a s. Tty re are. liowever, j sonio Catholic beliefs - for exaaiplo alviul the Virgin . si:;"", r.'-y: irn iliiniiity and he ;? - .v'.ich differ sharp-, ty fr-a-i '-e u-liefs of Tro:, s- t-r.t C ..!!!. Seipe i f the ; ciri!iu-i:ivc Cat 'olic docirinesl will i o diru.-rl later in this Next - t'spal infallibily. Kline found the reports to be true. "If help is not received at once, malnutrition will be a factor." Brown quoted Kline as sayinR. He also said Kline learned from San Bernardino officials that county's residents were "on the edse" of wholesale evictions for failure to pay mortgages ana reins, uiui one title company s evictions have doubled and that payment de linciuencies are up 50 per cent. Turned Away Kline told newsmen that 9 out of 10 persons who applied for aid to Community Chest agencies in Fontana and Col ton were being turned away. "People there are hungry." he said. "They are not dying in the streets but they are going without food." Irving H. Perluss, slate di rector of employment, report ed that unemployment throughout the state averaged 8 per cent in the first three weeks of January, 2 per cent above the level considered serious. In San Bernardino county, employment was re ported running at 10.5 per cent. Elsewhere, there were these developments: Budget: Cov. Edmund G. Brown proposed a hold-the-line state budget of S2.6 bil lion with the lion's share go ing to finance the mounting costs of public education. The spending program for the year starting July 1, he said, is "honestly but narrowly bal anced." It is up only 4.5 per cent over current expenditures, the smallest percentage increase since 10-Ki. The governor ad mitted he was relying heavily on an end to the recession and an upturn in business in the latter part of 1961 to preserve the shaky budget balance. In order to maintain a gen eral fund surplus of $468,000 at the end of the fiscal year on June 30, 1962, Brown dropped his pay-as-you-go" philosophy and ordered the issuance of $100 million in bonds to finance building needs for the university and state colleges. Halaby: Najeeb E. Halaby of Santa Monica, selected by President Kennedy to serve as chief of the Federal Aviation Agency, said he would review the status of the Eleclra air liner. Halabv said that "to re assure the public and myself, I'm going to fly the plane my self." He was a test pilot for Lockheed from 1942 to 1943. Grandmother: A 69-year-old grandmother was found guilty in San Francisco of conspir ing to murder her former son-in-law in a plot she insisted was pure fiction. Mrs. Hen rietta Sidelinger had been accused of asking Bruce Ben ner, 20, a student at San Fran cisco State college, to kill Al fred B. Britton Jr., a San Jose attorney. Powell: Eleanor Powell, dancing star of many movie musicals of the 1930s, an nounced a comeback and ran through her new night club routine dressed in a blue leo tard, black stockings, tap shoes and a familiar top hat. Miss Powell, recently di vorced from film star Glenn Ford, told a news conference in Hollywood she would open a month-long engagement at a Las Vegas, Nev., night club starting Feb. 28. Squaw Valley: John E, Carr, state director of finani:, said he probably will ask the legislature for about $190,000 to pay off final bills of the 1960 Winter Olympic a t Squaw Valley. A financial re port said that despite the fact California poured $12 million into the Olympic Games and the federal government added $3 million more, $188,128 still was needed to pay off final debts. Mont Tremblant, the high est peak in the Laurentians 100 miles north of Montreal, reaches 3,150 feel. (II VANCOUVER III k PORTLAND dT-" 1 37.50 1. Ml III I SAIEM (I ALBANY cPb?sS! 19'40 LMI' li j 2M4 L ML Jll ( EUGENE fTilMlfc 21.48 1. Ml. Hi (A OAKLAND f5fc m i I ROSEBURG Q 'uf 36.28 LMI. GRANTS PASS mmmwllf MEDFORD Increased Use of Concrete Is Noted In Highway Work Contracts for paving Ore gon's interstate highway sfl, torn call for an increase in the use of Portland cement concrete during 1961. accord ing to Richard G. Montgom ery, public relations counsel for the Cement Industry of Oregon. Concrete is being used on 30 per cent of the total lane miles under contract at the present t i m e, Montgomery pointed out. This represents a significant increase, he ex plained, since only 15 per cent of the completed inter slate highway is paved with concrete. Total concrete highway completed or contracted on Oregon's interstate system now amounts lo 204 lane miles. "This is progress for an Oregon industry," he com mented, "considering thai vir tually no concrete highways were constructed in the state during the 15 years previous to 1958." Three Oregon Firms The cement industry Is made up of the three cement- producing companies doing business in the state-Ideal Cement company, Oregon Portland Cement company, and Permanenle Cement company. All of the new concrete work has been confined to portions of the Pacific High way, now officially desig nated as Interstate Highway 5, from north of Albany lo south of Medford, with the exception of the Portland ex tension of the Baldock free way, Montgomery reported. Portions contracted in I960 include 27 lane miles from Seven Oaks to Jackson Street in Medford, 36 lane miles from Grants Pass to Evans Creek, nine lane miles from Rice Hill to North Oakland Junction, 25 lane miles from the McKenzie river to the Willamette river, and 21 lana miles on the Portland freeway. 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