DIED. BISHOP JOSEPH DURICK, 79, clergyman; in Bessemer, Alabama. At 40, Durick was one of the youngest bishops in the country when, in 1955, he was appointed to the Mobile-Birmingham diocese. During the '60s Durick became one of the region's most outspoken supporters of civil rights for black Southerners, inspired by the social concerns of Pope John XXIII's Vatican II reforms and the crusade of Martin Luther King. Durick at one time implored King to abandon his confrontational style. The minister's response was the stirring "Letter from Birmingham Jail."