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DROPS BORATE-An old D-17 Flying Fortress now used
as a borate bomber drops borate on a grass, briisn and
timber fire near Redding, Calif., early Tuesday. The fire
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that was Hampered by rising north winds covered over
81)1) acres before being brought under control. (UPI)
Quotes From the Nevss
Belgrade, Yugoslavia-Russian Premier Nikila Khrush
chev, outlining the Communist stand on world peace:
"We are struggling for peace, but we shall not tremble
if the most agaressive forces of imperialism those we
call the wild ones unleash war."
Mobile, Ala. - A 10-ycar-old boy, who admitted setting
dozens of fires, as quoted by Sheriff Ray Bridges:
"Something inside of me talks to me and tells me to
do it, and I do it."
Washington - Rep. John W. Byrnes (R-Wis.), top GOP
member of the House Ways & Means committee, on promises
President Kennedy to hold down federal spending:
We heard those platitudes and fine intentions from the
While House before we got a budget with an $11.9 billion
deficit."
Washington - Dr. N. E. Bradbury, director of the Los
Alamos Scientific Laboratory, recommending ratification of
the limited nuclear test ban treaty:
"I myself, with considerable knowledge of nuclear
things, with some knowledge of their military use, but
with only a plain citizen's feolings about people and na
tions and fears, would prefer to try to follow the path of
hope."
SHARE TOAST Playing a role in a different kind of per
formance, television comedian Johnny Carson, 37, and his
bride, the former Joanne. Copcland, of Palo Alto, Calif.,
beam as tliey share toast following their marriage in New
York Saturday. It is the second marriage for both. (UPI)
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Parochial Schools Face
Major Educational Problems
(Editor's note: What are
the hard facts behind the
much discussed "crisis in
Catholic education?" In the
following d i s patch, UPI
correspondent Louis Cas
sels examines in depth the
problerri of too few teach
ers, too many students in
the Catholic educational
system.)
By LOUIS CASSELS
United Press International
Washington -lUPIi- St. Leo's
Catholic school in suburban
Fairfax, Va., is typical of the
thousands of parochial schools
in the United States.
It has a shortage of teach
ers and a surplus of students.
In the past, St. Leo's has of
fered a complete elementary
school program, from kinder
garten through the eighth
grade. This fall, however, it
is dropping its kindergarten
and first grade.
"Wc feel it is more neces
sary to have the upper grades
than the lower grades if we
can't have them all," explain
ed Father Walter F. Malloy.
More Difficult
Throughout the nation, pa
rochial schools are finding it
increasingly difficult, if not
impossible, to expand their
teaching staffs and classroom
space to accommodate an
ever-growing body of appli
cants. More and more of them
are solving the problem, or
at least easing it somewhat,
by dropping their lower
grades.
Some parochial schools in
Cincinnati, Ohio, have al
ready curtailed their lower
grades, and Bishop Paul F.
Lcibold announced recently
that it may be necessary to
drop the first four grades of
all church-operated schools in
the archdiocese.
According to the National
Catholic Welfare conference,
curtailment of lower grades
has also begun in Kansas
City; St. Louis; Cleveland;
Columbus, Ohio; Green Bay,
Wis.; Spokane, Wash.; Fargo,
N.D.; Clinton, Iowa; St. Paul,
Minn., and Richmond, Va. It
is under consideration in
many other dioceses.
Whenever a parochial
school drops one or more
grades, the public schools
serving the same community
experience a sudden spurt in
enrollment.
Proposed Closing
Some Catholic educators
have seriously proposed clos
ing down all the elementary
grades in parochial schools,
in order to concentrate the
church's educational effort on
the high school years.
If this were done, U.S. pub
lic schools would have to find
classrooms and teachers for
4.5 million children more
than they are now educating.
It also would mean a corres
ponding increase in the local
tax load.
Such a drastic shifting of
the educational burden is not
likely to take place in the
foreseeable future. Most
Catholic authorities arc still
committed to the ideal of pro
viding a religiously-oriented
education for Catholic chil
dren throughout their forma
tive years. j
But even the most ardent ;
advocates of this ideal are be- i
ing compelled to admit the '
necessity of making some
compromise with the goal of
"every Catholic child in a 1
Catholic school." j
At present, fewer than half ;
of the nation's Catholic !
youngsters are enrolled in
Catholic schools. About 54 j
per cent are going to public '.
schools, some by choice, many '
because there is simply no ;
room for them in parochial
schools.
Despite the millions of chil
dren who are perforce turned
away each fall, the Catholic
schools in many cities are se
verely overcrowded. Where
public schools are trying to
limit class size to a maximum
of 25 to SO students, many pa
rochial schools have classes
of ISO to 70 students.
This kind of overcrowding
makes it difficult to do an ef
fective job of teaching, and
protests from Catholic par
ents have induced a number
of major dioceses, including
those of St. Louis, Richmond
and Baltimore, to take steps
to limit parochial school
classes to 50 students or less.
Enforcement of this ceiling
will mean turning many addi
tional applicants away to the
public schools.
Why don't Catholics ex
pand their school system to
handle all the children seek
ing admission?
Enrollment Doubled
The answer is that they
have tried to do just that, but
have been overwhelmed by
the sheer magnitude of the
task. Enrollment in Catholic
schools has almost doubled
since 1950. The frantic pace
of expansion is illustrated by
the archdiocese of Chicago,
which has invested more than
SfiO million in new schools
during the past 5 years. Na
tionwide, the total investment
in Catholic school buildings is
now estimated at $5 billion.
There are more than 13.000
Catholic schools of all types.
Their annual operating costs
exceed tt'15 million.
And the coU r rising ,
sharply. In the past. Catholic
schools have been able to pro
vide education at a far lower
cost per child than public
schools because most of their
teachers were unsalaried
nuns. In 1950, only 7 per cent
of all elementary teachers in
Catholic schools were laymen.
Salaried Teachers
But the number of nuns
available for teaching duty
has not grown as fast as the
number of children to be
taught. As a result, Catholic
schools have increasingly had
to hire lay teachers-and pay
them salaries. This fall, about
30 per cent of the elementary
teaching staff in parochial
schools will be composed of
laymen.
To finance the rising cost
of the world's largest private
school system, the Catholic
church relies heavily on vol
untary contributions from its
members, or the proceeds of
fund-raising activities such as
bake sales, bazaars or bingo
games. Tuition payments have
traditionally been kept low
for the sake of poor families
and large families. At the ele
mentary school level, they
rarely exceed S90 to S100 per
year, compared to the S600 to
$1,000 tuition charge which
a parent would encounter at
a private day school.
These are the hard facts be
hind the much-discussed "cri
sis in Catholic education."
They explain why Catholics
feel so strongly about having
parochial schools included in
any general program of fed
eral aid to education . . . why
they are ready to experiment
with "shared time" arrange
ments under which Catholic
school children take some of
their courses in public schools
. . . and why Catholic parents
in a growing number of par
ishes are being told that they
will have to start their chil
dren in a public school, even
though they prefer a paro
chial education.
New York-(UPl-The lowest
temperature reported to the
U. S. Weather Bureau this
morning, excluding Alaska
and Hawaii, was 38 degrees at
Redmond, Ore., and Mullan,
Idaho. The highest tempera
ture reported Wednesday was
106 degrees at Laredo and
Cotulla, Tex.
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