•OPERA TION ABOLITION*
Film Conflict Rages Across U. S.
By The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Rival de
fenders of American liberties are
embroiled in a nationwide conflict
of intensifying bitterness, roused
ly a pieced-together movie of the
San Francisco City Hall student
not of last May 13.
The disturbances in the City
Hall rotunda climaxed a protest
taonstration by college students
igainst a hearing by the House
Committee on Un-American Ac
tivities.
Sixty-four students from San
Francisco area campuses were ar
rested after police turned fire
loses on the demonstrators inside
City Hall. Riot charges against
i3 were dismissed. The one re
maining accused goes to trial on
Hatch 6.
The movie, “Operation Aboli
tion,” was put together from tel
evision newsreel clips subpoenaed
ly the committee.
The 45-minutes film has been
sold and shown in all the 50 states.
In the film, committee mem-
krs declare the student demon
strators were “toying with trea
son” as the dupes of a Communist
irive to destroy the committee
sad wreck the nation’s security
system.
'.. Dishonest Distortion’
Committee foes charge the film
is a dishonest distortion. They
(all the movie the principal in
strument of “vivid stimulus”
spreading a grass roots revival of
HcCarthyism—without a personal
loader like the late Red-hunting
k Joseph McCarthy.
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover
said last summer the FBI inves
tigation made it evident that stu-
ients participating in the demon
stration were incited and used as
lipes by Communist subversives.
In a year-end report Hoover
said in December that “the Com-
nunist hope to repeat the suc-
(ess which they achieved last May
is leading mob demonstrations by
college students and other young
people against a committee of
Congress.”
The violent disagreement has
reached into churches, schools and
isdustry across the nation, and
is'continuing to spread.
Protests against the film have
flared at universities and colleges
across the country — at Rutgers,
Harvard, Minnesota, Nebraska and
on Indiana campuses.
Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike
Wared the movie’s “distorted
presentation” was encouraging a
"growth of the radical right and
its fellow travelers that has reach
ed much greater proportions than
in the days of McCarthy himself.”
Student Vulnerability
Dr. Fred C. Schwarz, Australian
physician who heads the Christian
Anti-Communist Crusade with
headquarters at Long Beach,
Calif., declared: “Almost everyone
4o views the film with an open
mind is most profoundly aroused
and disturbed by it. It suggests
ihe vulnerability of the student
lo the clever Communist agitator.”
The National Council of
Churches, meeting in Syracuse,
Exes To Discuss
Law School At TU
Fdlir Aggie-Exes now attending
the University of Texas Law
School will present a panel dis-
ntssion for the Pre-Law Society
luesday in the Memorial Student
Center. The chairman of the group
"ill be Rip Woodard ’58, former
president of the A&M Pre-Law So
ciety and now a senior law stu
dent at the University. Also on
the panel are Bob Pfeuffer ’59,
Jim Barlow ’60 and Clayte Binion
’80.
“What to Expect in Law School”
xill be the topic that the panel
till discuss. A question and an
swer period will be held at the
close of the program. All inter
ested are urged to attend.
ITS
Coming
N. Y., last week, voiced misgiv
ings about the fairness of the
film. It prepared an advisory to
churches not to show the film
without presenting supplementary
facts about it.
The council said the film “does
not contribute to a realistic un
derstanding of communism and its
dangers to the United States.”
The Rev. Dr. Curtis Nims, pas
tor of San Francisco’s First Bap
tist Church, resigned as director
of the Northern California-Nevada
Council of Churches in February
because the council’s board cau
tioned member churches about
showing “Operation Abolition.”
More than 600 print copies of
the film have been sold, at $100 a
copy, reported George Johnson,
president of Washington Video
Productions, Inc. Johnson said
Fulton Lewis III, committee staff
membier and son of radio broad
casted Fulton Lewis Jr., edited the
film .
Because of questions raised in
Minnesota,, the St, Paul area
Chamber of Commerce sent Jack
McCauley, public relations direc
tor, to San Francisco in January
to check.
‘... Tell the Real Story’
San Francisco Mayor George
Christopher recorded for McCau
ley a statement saying: “The pic
tures speak for themselves. They
are true. They are authentic.
They tell the real story and, of
course, they are most unfortun
ate.”
The St. Paul chamber declared
subsequently: “We feel the film
will continue to be of benefit to
our American ideals program.”
Fulton Lewis III obtained May
or Christopher’s permission to use
the mayor’s statement on his fath
er’s radio network program.
Irving Hall, 24, California grad
uate student from Pomona, joined
six other demonstration leaders in
a statement disputing the mayor.
It noted that Christopher did not
witness the riot, but was speaking
in suburban Burlingame at the
time.
The Miami, Fla., school board
purchased an “Operation Aboli
tion” print for showing to high
school classes. The board took
under advisement a Florida Civil
Liberties Union request that the
classes be given “the whole pic
ture” with a report of the criti
cisms.
The Lockheed Missiles and Space
division with headquarters at
Sunnyvale, Calif., shows the film
to employes.
“But, we always advise the em
ploye pudiences that Lockheed
neither supports nor opposes the
House committee, but uses the
film to show the actions of iden
tified Communists in this area,”
said Ed Long, security training
and education officer.
Following an October showing
of “Operation Abolition” on the
University of Minnesota campus,
the student newspaper, Minnesota
Daily, said editorially: “Yester
day we saw a spectacle-hardly a
spectacular-conceived in fallacy
and aimed at the third grade
mind.”
It urged: “The House of Rep
resentatives ought to take a long
second look at the HCUA and a
longer look at the Constitution.”
John P. Greenagel, vice presi
dent of the Student Conservative
Club which had sponsored the
showing, sharply protested the
student paper’s news and editorial
treatment as “applauding open
defiance of the law.”
A judicial review of the hotly
disputed film report on the riot
may be written in the trial of
Robert J. Meisenbach, the one stu
dent against whom charges are
still pending.
In dismissing charges against
the others, Municipal Judge Al
bert A. Axelrod said, “I am con
vinced that they are not engaged
in subversive activities, nor in
spreading subversive propaganda.
‘...Wrong Means’
“However, they chose the wrong
means to accomplish their purpose
and let themselves become vic
tims of those who profit by cre
ating unrest, riots and the type of
conduct whicfc is outlawed by the
penal code.”
Meisenbach, 22, an education
senior at the University of Cali
fornia, is charged with beating a
police officer on the head with
the patrolman’s own night stick.
“I believe all the facts surround
ing the City Hall incident must
be brought out to give him a fair
trial,” declared Jack Berman,
Meisenbach’s attorney.
“Neither Meisenbach nor any
other student started the riot. The
cause of the violence was the turn
ing on of the hoses by the police
without warning.”
Robert Maurer, assistant dis
trict attorney, said the prosecu
tion regards the trial as being
strictly limited to the question—
did or did not Meisenbach assault
patrolman Ralph Schaumleffel ?
While the trial could shed light
on what happened May 13, the
bitter debate over authenticity of
the film goes on and on.
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- BATTALION Friday, March 3, 1961 College Station, Texas Page 3
Area Churches Announce
Schedules For Weekend
Thieves Raid
Poker Game
By The Associated Press
BEEVILLE, Tex. —Three ban
dits using tear gas robbed a ranch
er and his poker game guests of
about $26,000 Thursday.
Melvin Sugarek, 39, said there
were 17 other men in the room
with him as the holdup men smash
ed a door at his Lazy S Ranch
about 4 a.m., lobbed the gas in
side and announced: “This is it.
We’re going to take it all or every
body is going to get killed.”
The following is a schedule of
church services in College Station
this Sunday:
A&M Methodist Church
Church school at 9:45 a.m., Morn
ing Worship at 10:55 a.m. and the
Communion at 7 p.m.
A&M Church of Christ
Church school at 9:45 a.m., Morn
ing Worship at 10:45 a.m. and the
Evening Worship at 7:15 p.m. An
A&M Presbyterian Church
Aggie welcome coffee at 9:30
a.m., Sunday School at 9:45 a.m.,
Morning Worship at 11 a.m., Lea
gues at 5 p.m. and Bible studies
at 7 p.m. The Bible studies series
will start this week for the first
time and will be led by Dr. L. G.
Jones. The studies and discussions
will be based on the book “Basic
Beliefs of Reformed Faith” by
Felix B. Gear.
St. Thomas’ Chapel
Holy Communion at 8 a.m., Fam
ily Service at 9:15 a.m., Church
School at 9:45 a.m., Holy Com
munion at 11 a.m., Youn People’s
Service League at 6 p.m. and Even
ing Prayer at 7 p.m.
The Church.. For a Fuller Life. For You..
CALENDAR OF CHURCH SERVICES
ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC
CHAPEL
7:30, 9:00 & 11:00 A.M.—Sun. Masses
6 ;30 A.M.—Daily Masses (Mon., Wed.,
Fri., & Sat.)
6:20 P.M.—Daily Masses (Tuesday &
Thursday)
6:30-7:30 P.M. ; —Confessions Saturday
& before all masses
7:20 P.M.—Eosary & Benediction Wed,
A&M CHRISTIAN CHURCH
8:30 A.M.—Coffee Time
9:45 A.M.—Sunday School
11:90 A.M.—Morning Service#
BETHEL LUTHERAN
CHURCH
(Missouri Synod)
8:15 A.M.—Morning Worship
0:30 A.M,—Church School
10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship
UNITARIAN FELLOWSHIP
4:»»-6:89 P.M—Friday School, YMCA
I :#0 P.M.—First four Sundays of each
month—Fellowship Meeting, Call VI 6-
5898 for further information.
CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST
OF LATTER DAY SAINTS
26th East and Coulter, Bryan
8:30 A.M.'—Priesthood Meeting
10:00 A.M.—Sunday School
6:80 P.M.—Sacrament Meeting
FAITH CHURCH
UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
6:15 A.M.—Sunday School
10:30 A.M.—Morning Worship
7:30 P.M.—Evening Service
CHURCH OF THE
NAZARENE
10:0> A.M.—Sunday School
11:04 A.M.—Morning Worship
6:30 P.M.—Young People’s Service
7:30 P.M.—Preaching Service
ST. THOMAS
EPISCOPAL CHURCH
8:00 A.M.—Holy Communion
9:15 A.M.—Family Service
11:00 A.M.—Sermon
7:00 P.M.—Evening Prayer
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SOCIETY
9:39 a.m.—Sunday School
11:09 a.m.—Sunday Service
8:00 P.M.—Wed. Evening Service
1:00-4:00 p. m. Tuesdays—Heading
Room
7:00-8:00 P.M.—Wed., Reading Room
A&M CHURCH OF CHRIST
9:45 A.M.—Bible Classes
10:45 A.M.—Morning Worship
6:15 P.M—Bible Class
7:15 P.M.—Evening Service
COLLEGE HEIGHTS
ASSEMBLY OF GOD
9:45 A.M.—Sunday School
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
6:30 P.M.—Young People’s Sendee
7:30 P.M—Evening Worship
A&M METHODIST CHURCH
9:45 A.M.—Sunday School
10:55 A.M.—Morning Worship
5:30 & 6:00 P.M.—MYF Meetings
7:00 P.M.—Evening Worship
OUR SAVIOUR’S
LUTHERAN CHURCH
8:15 & 10:45 A.M.—The Church at
Worship
9:30 A.M.—The Church at Study with
Special Bible Discussion
Classes for Aggies
Holy Communion—First Sunday Each
Month
A&M PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
9.45 A.M.—Church School
11:00 A.M.—Morning Worship
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
9:40 A.M.—Church School
11:00 A.M—Worship
6:15 P.M.—Training Cnloa
7:15 P.M—Worship
Only wise men and hungry children fully
appreciate their blessings!
Many of God’s gifts, like the air we breathe,
are received without thought. Others, like the
abundance of the harvest, we think about only
in season. Still others, like our religious herit
age, get varying degrees of • attention and
response according to our spiritual perception
... or the precariousness of our plight.
This isn’t Christmas ... or Easter. And
we hope it is not a time of personal crisis for
you and your family...
If it’s just a normal week, full of the routine
of life—then it’s an ideal time to remember
your blessings. And Sunday will be an ideal
day to begin, renew or strengthen that whole
some habit of worshipping God in the church
of your choice.
Copyright 1961, Keister Adv. Service, Strasburg, Va.
THE CHURCH FOR ALL . . .
ALL FOR THE CHURCH
The Church is the grealesl factor on
earth for the building of character and
good citizenship. It is a storehouse of
spiritual values. Without a strong Church,
neither democracy nor civilization can
survive. There are four sound reasons
why every person should attend services
regularly and support the Church. They
are: (1) For his own sake. (2) For his
children’s sake. (3) For the sake of his
community and nation. (4) For the sake
of the Church itself, which needs his
moral and material support. Plan to go
to church regularly and read your BiSle
daily.
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