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Arms Policy
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1956
To Probe U. S.
On Middle East
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An
inquiry into the State Depart
ment’s arms policy on Israel and
the Arab countries will be start
ed this Friday, or early next
week, by the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee, it wa# indi
cated here today by Sen. Walter
F. George, chairman of the com
mittee. He said that he intends
to summon Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles and Under
Secretary Herbert Hoover, Jr.,
to appear before the committee.
Demands for full scale investi
gation of the State Department’s
Middle East arms policy were
voiced today by a number of
members of Congress following
A check for $2,000 has been
presented to the new building
fund of the Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Center by the Yiddish
and English speaking branches
of the Workmen’s Qircle. •
Taking part in the ceremony
with the front of the new build
ing as a backdrop, were Nathan
Stolar, Harold Bauman, M. J.
Merlin, one of the early stalwarts
of the Workmen’s Circle and a
the embarrassing situation that
"has been created by the impo
sition and immediate revocation
of a ban on the shipment of 18
American army tanks to Saudi
Arabia. The tanks left the port
of Brooklyn today for Saudi
Arabia on the freighter James
Monroe. It was reported that be
sides its cargo of tanks, the
freighter also carried about 20
dismantled jet planes for Saudi
Arabia, but these reports could
not be confirmed.
State Department circles indi
cated that no definite plans have
been made so far for Secretary
Dulles to report to Congress on
the Middle East arms policy.
Department spokesman Lincoln
Center Board member, Mrs. Mar
cus Firestone, President Meyer
Balser who accepted the check
in behalf of the Center, Jack
Chilnick, Center executive di
rector, and K. Ruskin.
In making the presentation,
both Mr. and Mrs. Merlin and
Mr. Bauman expressed the pleas
ure “of” our local Workmen’s
Circle branches in joining in the
new Center building program.
White declined to reveal the re
action of the State Department
to Senator George’s suggestion
that the Department publish in
detail a list of arms furnished
to various Middle East countries
in the $16,000,000 sales mention
ed in the statement issued by the
Department two days ago.
Mr. White indicated that Is
rael’s $50,000,000 arms request
was being handled separately
from other Israel requests, but
that it was all included in the
regional total of $150,000,000 in
applications mentioned in that
statement. He said that it was
still the Department’s policy to
avoid an arms race between Is
rael and the Arab countries.
Many of the older members re
member the pleasant surround
ings and activities of the old
Jewish Educational Alliance. The
younger members have more re
cently participated in the new
Center program and are all eag
erly looking forward to the new
program. We are happy to take
part in a community venture of
which Atlanta Jewry will be
justly proud.”
By Adolph
The State of Israel will estab
lish a Consulate in Atlanta, it was
learned this week by The South
ern Israelite.
The Consul will be Nahum As-
tar, who has been serving in a
similar post in Chicago for the
past four years.
Mr. Astar is scheduled to ar
rive in Atlanta Friday, with de
tails of his staff and location of
the offices itself to be announced
later. He will probably be join
ed later by his wife and two
children.
A Consul, who has no diplo
matic status, is a commercial re
presentative for his government.
He aids in issuing visas, pass
ports, facilitates trade contracts
and data, and represents his
country in commercial enter
prises.
The Atlanta Consulate will
serve nine Southeastern states—
the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Tennessee and Oklahoma.
France, Germany, Great Brit
ain, Belgium Austria, Mexico,
Peru, Dominican Republic, Uru
guay and Costa Rica have con
sulates in Atlanta.
Mr. Astar, a colorful figure in
the development of Israel, was
born in Kassel, Germany, in
Rosenberg
1911. He settled in Palestine in
1933 and studied archeology and
history at Hebrew University in
Jerusalem.
He became a member of the
Kibbutz of Raanana and later of
the Kibbutz of Maow. At the out
break of the Arab disturbance
in 1936, he joined the Palestine
Police Force and subsequently
served for a number of years as
public relations officer of the
Jewish Agency in Jerusalem.
Upon the establishment of the
State of Israel in May 1947, Mr.
Astar joined the Israel Ministry
for Foreign Affairs as Chief Pub
lic Relations Officer, and in 1950,
he became a senior official at
tached to the American Division
of the Ministry for Foreign Af
fairs. Early in 1952, he was ap
pointed Consul of Israel in Chi
cago. He is married and has two
children.
Folo Labor Copy
WASHINGTON — President
Eisenhower’s message to Cong
ress and revising the immigration
and nationality laws was wel
comed as a "long step forward
in removing inequities” by Philip
M. Kultznick, world president of
B’nai B’rith.
Workmen's Circle Presents $2,000
Check To AJCCs Building Fund
Workmen’s Circle Give $2,000 to AJCC
Bainbridge’s Temple Beth El
To Observe 50th Anniversary
Special to The Southern Israelite
BAINBRIDGE, GA. — The
fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of Temple Beth El in Bain-
bridge will be observed with
appropriate ceremonies and spec
ial services on Tuesday evening,
February 28.
The public is cordially invited
to attend these services, starting
at 8 p.m., at Temple Beth Ell
located at the corner of Broad
and Evans Streets. Following the
services, the ladies of the Temple
Guild will entertain with a re
ception in Friedman Hall, the so
cial rooms of the temple.
Bertram A. Ehrlich, past-pres
ident of the congregation and
chairman of the anniversary ob
servance, announced that the
services will be conducted by
Rabbi Louis A. Josephson of
Tallahassee, who also serves
Temple Beth El, and that the
sermon will be delivered by Rab
bi Julius KraveU who formerly
served Tallahassee and Bain-
bridge and who is now associat
ed with the University of Florida
in Gainesville. Participating in
the program will be Joe Groll-
man, president of -Temple Beth
El, Mayor R. A. (Cheney) Grif
fin, and Dr. L. W. Landau of
Albany. Special music for the
services will be provided by the
choir from the College of Music
at Florida State University in
Tallahassee.
The history of Temple Beth
El is one that is reviewed with
pride by the approximately
twenty-two Jewish families liv
ing in Bainbridge today. The
founding of the Temple in 1906
by a group of eight families was
the culmination of many years
of planning and hope, and was
a remarkable achievement for
such few men and women of
Jewish faith in a town the size
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Fund Chairmen Hear
Results of 1955 Drive
Special to The Southern Isarelite
After the ceremony, Mr. Bal
ser and Mr. Chilnick took the
group on a tour of the neV
Center. Each expressed his ex
citement and all indicated they
had already reenrolled in the
membership program. Mr. Balser
also took this opportunity to an
nounce that similar tours would
be initiated as soon as good wea
ther permits.
In the meantime, the AJCC
president urged all members to
send in their re-enrollment
checks. He added that to date
seventy per cent have been re
enrolled via mail.
“This means,” he said “that the
Center membership committee,
headed by Joe Gerson and Mrs.
Sam Alterman, can devote their
energies to planning for the
membership program in the new
building.”
In preparation for the 1956
campaign the General Chairman
of this year’s campaign, Stan
ford Makover, A. J. Weinberg
and Morton L. Weiss, were very
much encouraged this week by
a report which they received from
the 1955 Co-Chairmen, Dan Gar-
son, Milton Weinstein and Irwin
Zaban, regarding the result of
the 1955 campaign.
In 1954 the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund raised approximate
ly a little over $614,000.00.
$625,000.00. But the greatest in
terest is not merely the amount
but the base of participation in
the campaign and in the response
and in the support.
As the 1955 Chairmen said,
“Let there be no mistake — the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare ITund is
not the product of a handful of
people—nor is it the achievement
of the few. It commands the
broadest participation of all age
groups among the Jewish Com
munity.
“In 1955, 1,870 men contributed
to the Men’s Division a total of
$532,485.00. 2,625 women contrib
uted a total of $88,447.00. 1,206
children of all ages attending re
ligious schools contributed $2,-
348.00. Teenagers who attend
high school, college or are work
ing, in the number of 327, con
tributed $845.00.
“Besides these contributors
there were a number of non-
Jewish contributions which were
the expression of good will to
wards the Jewish community and
understanding of the purposes
for which the Welfare Fund
raised its funds.
“At the end of 1955 the total
results amounted to $624,358.00
contributed to by 6,035 individ
uals. This is more than half of
the entire Jewish community.
“The foregoing figures are
cited as proof of the statement
that the Jewish Welfare E*und is
the most popular organization in
the community and receives the
wholehearted generous support
of the largest number in the com
munity. This means that big con
tributors and little contributors
all together form the pattern of
participation, interest and support
on' behalf of those in need the
world over because it can be
said truly that the Welfare Fund
dollar circles the globe.”
For 1955 the total is nearing
r Founder Oberdorfer at USO’s 15th Birthday
Col. Eugene Oberdorfer, one of the original founders of National
USO, is shown at the Atlanta Center cutting the birthday cake at the
recent joint celebration of the fifteenth anniversaiy of USO, by USO-
JWB and all other USO agencies in Atlanta. He is shown with (1. to
r.) Cpl. Jack D Hart, Culver City, Calif; Miss Atlanta USO, Judy Lee
Taylor; Pvt. Ralph Ellis, Johnson City, N.Y.; and CpL O. O. Williams,
Dallas, Tex., Col. Oberdorfer is Third Army Chairman of the JWB-
Armed Services Committee. Leo C. Richard was city-wide program
chairman for the event.