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KAMAOM UAGrm MIINSáS
1061 október 5
Gospel Doesn't Clash Wíth Socíalism
GOOD RELATIONS esist befween Church and State in Hiingaiy said Archbishop József Grosz, Cíhalr-man of .the Román CatholicBench of Bishops. at a dlnner ín Buda-pest celebrating the SOtb anniver-eary of his ordination.
The dinner wás given by Catho-lic Action, and among those pre-sent were mmbers of the Bench of Bisbops and Mr. Karoly Olt, president.of the State Office of Church Affaira.
Mr. Olt said that in recent yeavs the lasting ties óf a good x^lation-ship had beeh established between the Román Catholic C5hurch ih Hungary and the State, on the basis of mutual understanding and appreciation.
This relationship had developed positively despite criminal and !r-responsible activities of somé shurchmen who had been mlsled Into damaging the honour of their. own Church.
"We look upon the ppsition taken up on questions of peace by Mgr. Grosz and the Bench of Bishops as extremely important, because Ütey sbowed Uie way to be followed by evcry priest of the Román Catholic Church of Htmi^ry", he added.
"Our state Is guided by the wish to strengthen the understanding and appreciation which have cha-racterized our relationship in the course of recent yeara.
"We firmly believe ttiat the leaders and the priests of the Church will also be guided by the same aspirations. We also believe that the actlvity of Mgr. Grosz will contrlbute to the attainment of this object."
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Archbishop Orosz said in his reply:
"The fifty years we are now commemorajting are no more than
More than one millión books were spld in Hungaiy (population 10,000,0(M)> during book week this year. Totál takings of booksellers during the we^ amounted to 23 milUon forints (about $2,000,000.-00), nearly 3 millión forints more than last year.
Á Hungárián cartoon film "Tlie Spotted Ball" won f irst pri:^ at a festivai of children's films in Ye-nice. The film, directed by Tibor Csermák, was made in the Budapest Pannónia film stúdiós, which last year received the special priza of the Cannes Festivai for the film "Duel".
A 32-member song má dance ehseJnble from Senegal is perform-Ing at Budapest's circus and vari-ety theatre this September. A Sov-tet circus company is schedtiled to appear in October and November. Complete Hungárián circiis en-sembles are performing in Francé, Czechoslovakla and Rumania ac-cording to Director of the Hungárián State Circus linre Budai.
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More than 1,000 students from Bociallst countries took summer courses in Hungary this year. A similar number of Hungárián students visited Bulgária, Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Poland. the Germán Democratic Bélpublio and the Soviet Union,
will be able to receive calls at any point in the building.
Hungary*s leading newspaper "Népszabadság** carried a long ar-ticle to mark the 150th anniver-sary of the birth of William Make-peace Thackeray, author of "Van-ity Fair". Several of Thackeray's novels have been translated into Hungárián.
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Hungary won 22 gold medals .at the intemational horticultural.ex-hibition held at Erfurt in the Germán Democratic Republic. Gold medál exhibits include ápricots and éarly peaches, mprello cherries, roses and gladioli, early whíte cab-bage, spring onions and early po-tatoes.
« * * A film strip about the life of miners in northem Hungary will have sub-titles in Esperanto. Made by the Tatabanya Cultural Centre, copies are to go to Hsperanto as-soclations in other ccmntries.
a lUgitlve moment In the biotoijr of the VtúvetBe, but a long pexiod in humán life,
"Those fifty yeais saw the tem-pest of two world wars blowing over US and causing ágony, misery, and bloodshed to mankind and to our countty, affording a tr^c proof of the inestiraable value of peace, for which we had failed to work and fight wlth due persever-ance.
'"The wheels of history are tum-ing before our very eyes. The life of people is changing and a new world, the world of the future, is emerging on Immense territoiies. And God, to whom I have dedi cated my life, remains unchanged in this world.
"We profess that the gospel is not a social or economic system but a meahs to the service of God, a means that does not prévent any-body f rom taking part in the crea-tion of a better, juster, and more humán life, in the disclosure of Nature's secrets, and in the uti lisation of new discoveries.
'•Mán shall not live by bread alone, Jesus said uni» the Temp-ter, from which it follows that he shall live also by bread. And, as a sérvant of God, I dedare: I fuily support every action striving after a bigger piece of bread and the raising of the cultural and livüig standards of the Hungárián people.
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•We think — ánd this is my
personal conviction too —- that
serving God and the gospel must
not come into confUct with sup-portihg the construction of the new world.
"We can, with perfect confi-dence, build our socialist country without coming up against the gospel.
"We have established good rela-tions betwéen the State and the Church. This fact must give great joy and satisfaction to all the eaders of the Román Catholic Church of Hungaxy.
"Our relations are characterized by good will and mutual understanding. I firmly believe that their maintenance and strengthen> mg will continue to be to our com-mon interests."
ATHLETES EIND BKTTAIN JUST TOO STRONG FOR THEM
BRITAIN Ecored a 171 to 147 Jby the sports, authorities to tabo points victoiy over the 60-strong over the direction of the French team of Hungartan athletes which [ national water polo team. flew to London for the Augustl * *
hoUday match. 1 -^^^^ 356 competitions in
In the men's events the ecorej which Hungárián sportsmen will was closer (110-102) but the Hun-jmeet International competitloa garian girls were outelassed bylnext year are three full-scale 61-45. Imatches withEngland — footbaU
From öie Hungárián point Pf , view üiere were tiuree higWights *eam totiiematch: ^. m Budap^t ^^^o^
1. István Rozsavolgyi'a sensatio-1 _ «« ^ \. nal spurt 300 yarda fíom home to ,^ .^^*f^*»^^J.J«^^^
üie iLt lap of tiie 5.0(M) metres ^^^.^^^ Amateur to snatch victory from Bruce Tul^ l^íf loh ánd Gordon Pirié, who had
made tíie pace aU the way. His |?Í W «*^
u^^. tA J^i^ óo ^^n. hfts totalhng 672 Ibs. Hungary'a time:jl4 mm 2.2 sec. , Huszka was second ut^ml
2. Blonde Jolán Kontsek'sBrI-LyeightaadG.Totii second at
tish aU-comers record-discus tlwow jigjji^jjgavyweight.
of 171 ft 71/2 ins, with team-mate # » *
Judit Bognár second. Women's European rowing
3. János Mskei's winning pole chanápion for the fourth time ia vauit of 14 ft 1% in, equal to the Mrs. KorneUa E^pp. She got gold British national record. medaí Kö. 4 in Prague on August
Other Hungariaa fírst places 119. And Hüngárians took four first were: places in the European kayak and
3,000 metre steeplechase: Attila jcanoechampionshipsat Poznan.
Simon, in 8 min. 51.6 sec. | " .■ .V.'.-'"'!■ ...... ^ .....■
3,000 metre invitation (not couhted in the match)t Attila Simon, in 8 min. 7 sec.
Hammer: Gyula Zsivotszigr, 202 ft 5 in.
Discus: József Szecsenyi, 187 ft. 3% in.
Wás he really? A mother took her son to con-sult a psychiatrist. When they were shown into the consulting •r « , ^ . ro>om, the ánalyst greeted thera
Javelm: Gergely Kulcsár. 236 ft. witii; "And what is űie trouble
7 in.
800 metres: Péter Pársch, 1 min, 49.9 sec.
Hop, step, jump: Gyula Czapa-ai, 49 ft 9% in.
with tíiis boy?" "Hé suffers from delusions," she told him. "He thinks he is a hen." ^The cbnsultaht said soothingly that patíents often suffered from
NEW BOTEL OPEN
A new hotel, the "Royal"» opened ín Budapest in August It is the biggest and most modem in Hun-garJ^
Each of the 367 rooms and suit^ is eqtiipped with telephoné and rádió, and all but 50 have baths.
The five-story hotel has two restaurants — one of which will seat SOO ~ as weU as an espresso-buffet to accomodate 500. It also has a tallor'a shop^ hairdre^ng sálon, and post oifice.
Businessmen guests will be áble to carry miniatűré radio-tdephones while in; the Jiotel, so that they
GOMPANY TOWN
From *<Conunon C^se*% paper of the Minera* Fedeiatíon of Australia.
. Thts is the tale oi a minmg town Where the miners worked for J. and A. Brown: They slaved and sweatedt every man. And iurníshed their home on the H. P. plan. And built round the mine quite a nice little town ^ And boosted the profits oÍ /. and A. Brown.
Thé manager satd, the ways things seem, What this pit needs a bonus scheme; justboost production and then it*s SüTO The rest oi your íives yoiíll be secure, They boosted production tor J. and A, Brown —- And now t&e útíne is cíosing down,
Atíd Somebody's made quite a pih oi gold, But the men have bou^s that can*t be soíd. And there aren*t any /ofes, only bilis to pay. And the kiddies ask wbat's ior dinner today. And deatb creeps over the inining town —And proiits are soaring ior /. and A. Brown,
High Jump: János Medovarszky, leven more peculiár delusions, and 6 ft 7% in. asked how löng the boy had
Weight (women): Judit Bognár, thought he was a hen. 47 ft. 5 in. j fAbout twp years!" she said.
* * * "Two years!" echoed the psychi
Vasas football club have celeb- U^^st "Why «Hdh't you bring bim rated the fiftteth anniversary of to see me long ago?" their founding by winning the na-1 "Well, fránWy/' admitted the
tional league championship.
When the season ended on Juné 25, Vasas led with 38 points, Újpest Dózsa vas second with 34, and the once all-conquering M.TJC third with 32 points.
[mother, ••wehéeded the egg^!"
Forman's report A splnster was shocked by the languagé used by electricians wir-ing up a new hoiise next door. Sbo
^Relegated totiie second division L^te* ^ letter to tiie company. í^t^oo Síf f Tf ^i^Sy^^- Their foreman was requested imme-SZ"".^t ^^í^"" firkately to write a ?eport it read
ing town of Komló and the steel-1 making town of Ozd.
as follows: "Mé and Mike was on la Job^ I was up the ladder, trying
Average age of ^űie new cham- thi~service, ánd i dropped the
n^D":;r'4';^^*^r "^^t^t St^e SS^t dS Mike^^eck.
i^.P!!T« Bundzsák and Laszlo fooked up at me and said:.
ín«I^ o^«í«**„«„ , , meally. Harry, you must be more
Somé soccer fans are complain-i«-,««fiii*» • ing that the championship was not so much won by Vasas as lost by Dózsa, who failed to take double points in any of their last eight
Straage I^d Two Tankee transport driverg
games. Tliis was due, they say, to were taking a cárgo into Canada the poor form shown by young'ln- time. Late in tha
temationals <3orocs and Kuhatsz- öi®y ^^PP®^ ^ *
ky. town^ parked their truck and ei-
But Dózsa were In winning N®'®** * A cüte waitress ap-
mood on August 6, when they beat Proachéd them.
Racing aub of Paris 5-3. *
The Hungárián Swimmtojg As-sociation has pröposed to the intemational swlnmüng association the establishment by 1965 of a world water polo championship, and has offered to be host for the first
One óf Hungarys most famous water polo players, former captain dezso Lemhenyi, has been released
SHBLL BMP HBRB
"What town is tWs?" asked one
of the dcivera. ^ "Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
sang: out thé waitress.
The^driver tumed to his com-panion and éxclaimed: "Now we're in a r^ mesa They don't evefl speak English here!"
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Cosmic Oomn^t "K there is l^e on other solar planets. it couldfa't be very intel-ligenf*, says a scientist. Conditions seem to be about the same aU over in this neck of the universe.
Náme Change A IBami writer says: "That ly Hotel in Havana is now Comrafle Haton/'
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Add Definition Peaceful coeaástence: Perpetuai oonunotiGOL,
Cerfainty . There are few thiiíjga certain m this world. and one of Ö^emj* thai no woman isr wearing soo^
too Iar|p&i for :her.