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Boston Evening Globe Wednesday, February 11, 1970 41 Roy Johnson Catholic orders heed shifting tides of 70s Grand Canyon pioneer a model for amputees 1 Mire '-rnK' I i 3 in1 lf 4 liyh'-i: rp rar-- i-H'. '-1 'f uT Illinois college. He was interested in geology and ethnology. The success of his expedition made him a national figure. He lectured in many cities and wrote a report that, eventually, became the basis for U.S.

Government policy on the uses of wild public lands. It also resulted in the establishment of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1879 and Powell became its director in 1881. He learned to speak Indian languages and addressed a great Indian congress in 1872. He was appointed U.

S. commissioner to visit Indians of Utah and Eastern Nevada to induce them to settle on reservations. His life is an inspiration to every handicapped person in the United States. Unfortunates who have lost a limb should take courage from the example of John Wesley Powell, a one-armed hero, who led a 10-man crew, the first to brave the wild waters of the Grand Canyon in frail small boats. The centenary of his feat is being observed by scientists.

Maj Powell lost his right arm in the Battle of Shiloh, until then the most sanguinary of the Civil War. Powell's expedition started out from Green River City, Wyo. The boats carried rations for 10 months, guns, ammunition, extra clothing, tools to build cabins and repair boats, plus scientific instruments. Ahead of them lay an unexplored region. The Green River, where the boats were launched, is 6000 feet above sea level.

The explorers only knew that the Green joined the Grand River somewhere far to the south, to form the Colorado. Only the lower reaches of the Colorado were known. In between was a vast stretch of gorges canyons, cliffs and rapids. Three months after they started, five exhausted men in two boats, came out of the Grand Canyon only 1000 feet above sea level. Powell's expedition aimed at collectinb scientific information about this spectacular region.

It gave the world its first knowledge of how a river like the Colorado cuts its way through rocks and carries tons of earth to far distant points. After the war Powell had been a professor of natural history at a small gun on ground SLAYING SCENE IN CHARLESTOWN Bullet-riddled body of Thomas J. Ballou, 39, was found in this alley this morning. Note Nev. gaming houses rake in S522.5M CARSON CITY, Nev.

Nevada's gambling industry took in a record $522.5 million in 1969 and can expect business to continue "quite bullish," according to state officials. Winnings in casinos and other establishments which have gambling devices are computed before business expenses and taxes are deducted. Edward Bowers, secretary of the State Gaming Commission, said the 1969 total was 17.9 percent over the previous year. He said Clark County, with its Las Vegas strip, led the state with winnings of $338.4 million a 24.2 percent gain over 1968. depth psychology has caused religious communities to take a serious look at one of the most important of human values the freedom of the individual to make choices.

"Accordingly she continued," the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth were given the right of choosing the type of work they would do and where they would doit" Sr. Winifred Ann said "openness to new apostolic directions requires a sister to be willing to move into new types of work possibly in cooperation with other religious and civic groups or in ecumencial situa- In a notice of the decision to pastors and administrators of their schools in the archdiocese, the Kentucky-based order with provincial headquarters in Wakefield urged them to re-evaluate these schools. While not advocating abandonment of all traditional forms of the educational apostolate, the order expressed a "concern for the needs of thousands, even millions, of other children and adults who can not enroll in those (parochial) schools." Another example of this new thinking came to light when the Jesuits recently announced the closing of Xavier High School in Concord. Rev. John R.

Vig-neau, S.J., the headmaster, related to parents the usual reasons for closing a school: rising costs, declining enrollment and shortage of religious teachers. He then touched on the "most basic and difficult to explain." Fr. Vigneau told of the "gnawing doubt which over the years became a conviction that we were not fulfilling service for the greater good of God's people at Xavier." Fr. Vigneau told Xavier parents and supporters "we do not reject you but we sincerely have tried to raise the basic question of whether we can serve God best here or elsewhere and the answer for some of us whispers back that there are other more demanding needs. "We as Jesuits," Fr.

Vigneau said, "have no other choice we follow that call." And it is this same call that is causing many religious orders to ponder whether "God is using the very difficulties of the day to redirect their apostolic endeavors in the broad field of education." C.S. director of novices for the 1700-rn ember order, said the formation procedures are continually changing to keep abreast of the times. She points out that everyone, both in religious and secular life, is trying to find a place in today's society where he can provide the best kind of service to God and man. Much the same is true with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, the second largest order functioning within the archdiocese. While they also encourage girls to spend two years in college or business before entering religious News analysis life, the Notre Dame order will accept a girl from high school or one year out under certain conditions.

Sr. Evelyn Margaret, S.N.D., director of postulants for Massachusetts Province with headquarters in Ipswich, said applicants are screened much more thoroughly than in the past and a better determination is made of their aptitude and their mood. If a girl is ready to start formal training immediately, Sister said, she would be admitted without the two-year delay. Currently there are 12 girls in the postulate, 20 in the canonical year and 18 in the second year of novitiate for a total of 50 candidates in the formation period prior to initial commitment. Most of the orders agree that the drop in the number of applicants and in the number of professed nuns experienced in the post Vatican II years has leveled off.

And they agree that while there are fewer girls entering there is a much larger percentage of retention. Another change in policy is reflected in the decision of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth that they would not be able to guarantee a given number of nuns to any one school after this academic year. A year ago the order gave its members the privilege of choosing their own assignments and this year they are being allowed to refuse assignments which, in effect, makes each nun an independent contractor. In explaining the order's decision the provincial, Sr. Winifred Ann, S.C.N., told the Globe, "consideration of the emphasis on the individual person in modern By Gerard Weidmann Globe Staff Much is being said these days about the problems confronting the Catholic schools systems in the nation and especially the vast system in the archdiocese of Boston.

Exhausted sources of funds and the decline in vocations are two major factors. But another reason for closing or curtailing of Catholic schools is a spiritual one the question raised by religious educators as to whether they are personally doing the greater good for the greater number. Many religious orders are conducting surveys to determine their future course and others are encouraging diocesan and parish councils to reevaluate Catholic schools in the light of the larger teaching mission of the Church and to search for new modes of carrying out that mission. Even the manner in which the orders rercuit and train prospective members has come under scrutiny. This academic year no one entered the Sisters of St.

Joseph. On the surface such a statement might seem a forecast of doom for the archdiocesan order which formerly averaged well over 50 girls entering annually. But there is more to this fact than meets the eye. The Congreagtion of the Sisters of St. Joseph, an archdiocesan order which recently opened a new and enlarged motherhouse on the grounds of Mt.

St. Joseph Academy in Brighton, is one of those orders revamping its formation procedures. Now, girls are requested to spend two years in college or the business world before formally entering the congregation as a postulant. During this period they have individual contact with members of the novitiate staff who offer academic and spiritual guidance. And the order is given an opportunity to screen applicants more efficiently.

Upon entering the novitiate in Framingham, a girl's formation period varies according to individual needs but stays within certain broad limits. Sr. Mary Elizabeth, Plane talk Ballou murder seen triggering gangland vengeance slayings soon in foreground. (Phil Preston photo) to-five year State Prison sentence in 1966. He was paroled about two and a half years later.

He had been working steadily as a longshoreman ever since. Abraham Lincoln Man of Compassion' is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well, look well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness or the complexion of courtesy has faded away. Abraham Lincoln AAen who have been great in a tru sense in goodness of heart as well as in elevation of mind have seldom been indifferent to the wrongs and unmoved by the suffering SLAYING Continued from Page 1 Ballou served time in Walpole State Prison on gun-carrying charges stemming from his association with McLean, the slain Somerville tough guy, whose running feud with the McLaughlin brothers of Charlestown touched off a wave of gangland slayings in Boston in the early '60s. Sources close to the underworld in Boston expressed the opinion this morning that Ballou's murder would trigger another wave of gangland vengeance slayings in the very near future.

"Ballou had a lot more friends than he had enemies," said one acquaintance. "This may be the start of real trouble." Sgt Robert Hudson of the Homicide Bureau, heading up the preliminary investigation, said that at least four residents in the immediate area, whose homes overlook the Jefferson av. alley, told of hearing what sounded like a car backfiring some time between 2 and 3:30 this morning. He said it appeared Ballou's assailant or assailants ran up Jefferson av. towards Bartlett dumping the gun in the muddy embankment en route.

This morning, police blocked off the alley while they searched the area for clues. Charlestown High students use the alley going to and from school. Shortly after officers Olsen and Johnston discovered the murder, two men approached them and asked, "May we look at w-wi the body, we're longshoremen and we may know who it is." The officers allowed the pair to take a look. "That's Tommy Tommy Ballou said one of the men. "Yeah, that's Tommy," added the other.

"He was a nice guy. This is going to start something." Then, police said, the two walked away without making their identities known. News of the slaying spread quickly through the Bunker Hill district and, in a nearby coffee shop, where early morning workers gather for a few minutes, there was a hushed silence except for an occasional remark, such as: "Did ya hear what happened? It was Tommy Ballou. Too bad." Ballou was arrested in the Fall of 1965 on a gun-carrying charge while he was leaving a Somerville funeral parlor where McLean was being waked. His conviction by a Suffolk Superior Court judge was appealed later by his attorney, F.

Lee Bailey, on the grounds of illegal search and seizure on the part of police. The case posed a challenge to judicial interpretations of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions on search and seizure. It went before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and that body upheld the conviction, ruling that the police search of Ballou's person was "reasonable and lawful" since the police had reason to believe Ballou was carrying a gun. Ballou was given a four- curb criticism the Brighton Division.

The unit consists of another lieutenant, 15 sergeants, four detectives and 41 patrolmen. Comr McNamara said the officers and men were selected for their experience in the drug f.eld. The commissioner said increased emphasis was being placed on the problem because drug abuse has spread into every section of the community. He said "punishing the Victim, however, is not the answer to the drug problem. A more determined effort must be made to reduce the unlawful drug traffic by attacking its source of supply." He called on teachers and parents to aid in coping with the growing Aircraft industries seen solving air pollution I tit LA of the humble and defenseless, be he man or beast.

Abraham Lincoln was no exception. During the years that he was growing to manhood he lived close to the pulsating heart of nature and amid the wild creatures that inhabit field and forest. He felt the mysterious kinship of all that lived, and his love and compassion embraced the whole range of dumb creation. Common to the backwoods and the frontier was the use of knife and gun, yet some of the finest anecdotes recall his respect for the rights and his pity for the plight of God's lesser creatures. Carl Sandburg records that, as a child, Lincoln once shot one of a flock of wild turkeys flying near his log cabin, with the result that he ever afterwards recoiled from pulling the trigger on game birds.

It was the same author who drew a tender and moving picture of him as "he sat on the main log and ate his noon dinner of corn bread and fried salt pork and joked with the gray squirrels that frisked and peeped at him from high forks of nearby walnut trees." There was at times in his reaction to the suffering of animals, a singular characteristic. Not infrequently he would pass by some dumb creature in need of succor perhaps distraught or deeply absorbed with some engrossing thought. But somewhere in his subconscious mind the incident would not pass unnoted. Ultimately, pity stirred within him, became insistent in its demands for action, and he never failed in the end to turn back howsofar he had travelled on an errand of compassion and mercy. He once declared, "I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." He was the Great Emancipator in the truest sense of the word, not only of human beings both master and bondsman from the debasement of involuntary servitude, but of the human spirit itself from its galling shackles of ignorance and injustice, intolerance and cruelty.

Schopenhauer once wrote, "I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing their public spectacles; it was 'May ad that have life be delivered from The whole vibration of Abraham Lincoln's spiritual being was attuned to such a sentiment. If the appalling cruelties of vivisection, though practiced in his day to a limited extent as compared with today, had come to his knowledge, we are sure he would have been prompt in his denunciation. Hub police official hits nations and nine international organizations attended a worldwide conclave of "Aircraft Noise in the Vicinity of Airports." The event was sponsored by the International Civil Aviation Organization in Montreal. The meeting agreed upon internationally standardized procedures for describing and measuring noise in the vicinity of sky-ports. IACO officials reported that the conclave developed a detailed aircraft noise certification scheme.

This proposal is aimed primarily at controlling the noise of future subsonic airplanes to limits well below those experienced today. Aircraft and engine manufacturers will have to reduce noise to levels which will enable them to comply with these noise certification standards. The conclave also adopted criteria for establishing aircraft noise abatement operating procedures for the population in the vicinity of airports. The seriousness cf the By Arthur A. Riley Globe Staff Noise and pollution from jet aircraft have plagued air carriers and airport operators as well as adjacent residents for some years past But relief appears on the horizon.

The Air Transport Association reports that recent technological improvements include almost smoke-free engines on new aircraft. Plans are under way to begin fitting existing engines with smoke-reducing modifications. ATA officials also reported that engines on the new, widebodied jets (747, DC-10 and L-1011) are virtually smoke free that is, their emissions are barely visible. These aircraft represent 85 percent of all new aircraft slated or delivery to the air carriers over the next four years. During the closing days ef I960, delegates from 29 INtW MtMBtK ot the ialv.

tion Army's Graattr Boston Advisory Board, Rtv. Or. Prton N. Williams. Dr.

Williams is professor of social thiei at Boston University School of Theology. noise factor was expressed by Matthias E. Lukens. president of the Airport Operators Couhcil International in a letter sent to the conference. His message said in part: "the future of the aviation industry is dependent upon its ability to solve the noise problem and make airports compatible with the communities the industry serves.

He added: "extensive tests have demonstrated that the noise levels of retrofitted aircraft can be effectively cut in half on landing and substantially reduced on takeoff. In keeping with this effort. United Aircraft Corporation at East Hartford, will start construction this month on a specialized wind tunnel for use in noise control research. U.S. for drus By Edward Globe Staff Costello Boston Police Comr Edmund L.

McNamara today hit back at the Federal government for its criticism of municipal police for failing to curb the drug problem. Addressing a new police unit designed to cope with the ever-growing problem in this area, the commissioner said, "If the Federal people did their job and fulfilled responsibility of stopping cocaine and heroin from coming into the country illegally, there would be less burden for police departments. Heading the new drug-control force here will be Lt Edward F. Connelly of The for. going article it r.produe.d from Reverence for Life Magazine pubRtd by the England Anti-Viviitction SoeLty.

It wriH.n by Hon. George R. Farnum, of Boston, the Society's Preiident, end Former Attorney General of the United Stei. It offered to readers of this newjpeper as a few thoughts for tenous consideration. The Society tppeah for reeruih to he'p spread its Gospel of Compewlon for all of God's creatures AND NOT FOR CONTRIBUTIONS.

Associate Membership I end Active Membership 5. CO including free subscription to our humane magazine Reverence for Life. 5nl for frre literature MEW ENGLAND ANTI-VIVISECTION SOCIETY Dept. 9 Park Street. Boston.

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