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TBB SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 1, 1958
The Southern Israelite
Published Weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Court-
land St., N.E., Atlanta 3, Georgia, TR. 6-8249, TR. 6-8240. Entered
a» second class matter at the post office, Atlanta, Georgia under the
Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription five dollars. The Southern
Israelite Invites literary contributions and correspondence but Is not
to be considered as sharing the views expressed by writers. DEAD
LINE is 12:30 P.M., TUESDAY, but material received earlier will
have a much better chance of publication.
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Margaret Merryman, Sylvia Kletzky
Karen Hurtig, Kathleen Nease
Public Press Condemns Hate Mongers
AJCC
Summer Activities
Cub Scout’s Registration
Registration for all Cub Scouts
and Webelos (boys eight through
ten years of age), will be held
Sunday, August 10 at 10:00 a.m.
at the Atlanta Jewish Communi
ty Center.
Parents are asked to attend a
meeting at the time of registra
tion in order to set up the adult
organization, which includes Den
Mothers and Pack Committee
members, so that each boy may
continue as a Cub in the fall.
PIT. this week quickly and boldly U , p.reo.-bo, pro.r.m
condemned the “ill-assorted men arrested for attempting t^
carry out an anti-Semitic street demonstration, including dis
play of false and inflamatory posters.” They were as explicit
in praising the prompt police action which circumvented the
demonstration almost before it was begun and confiscated
a considerable amount of hate literature.
Wrote the Atlanta Constitution:
• • - The ordinance under which they were arrested is
one which every city of necessity includes in its laws to pre
vent actions calculated to create violence and disorder. The
code section follows:
" ‘It shall be unlawful for any person to act in a violent,
turbulent, quarrelsome, boisterous, indecent or disorderly
manner or to use profane, vulgar or obscene language or to
do anything tending to disturb the good order, morals, peace
or dignity of the city.
• • . One wonders . . . who financed <hem, supplied
them with hate materials and encouraged tnp~r>. Investiga
tion may reveal the answer.
“One thing is sure. There is no place in Ali. ua or Ameri
ca for such vicious, anti-American forces. Wo congratulate
the Atlanta police for their efficient work.”
Editorialized The Atlanta Journal:
i i j" 1 *, is S omfortin g to reflect that a tradition of just this
kind of police action is one reason why incidents of this kind
are so rare in Atlanta.
“Persons capable of hate-peddling long have understood
that they have no allies among local police. They do not
ordinarily atempt what demonstratively will bring trouble
to themselves.
“But a police force that is unsympathetic to them is only
one reason for their timidity.
“Atlanta as a community of progressive citizens just
does not provide a good climate for hate-peddlers and rabble-
rousers who would hope to stir up ill-will for minority groups
among us.
“Unhappily, as the demonstration reminds us, there are
in our midst a misguided few whose frustrated, ugly thoughts
lead them into stupid acts and could, even, lead them into
desperate acts.
“The latter must be avoided. Partly this calls for police
vigilance, and partly it calls for demonstrations of citywide
scorn and digust for any and all who make hate their' busi
ness.
“The minor eruption of anti-Jewishness deserves one
word: Atlanta Jews are among the best and finest citizens
in the city and Atlanta would not be what it is without them
it could not do without them.”
Suburban Chicago
Synagogue Smeared
With Swatiska
CHICAGO, (JTA)—Police re
ported no progress this week in
the hunt for the vandals who
smeared a Nazi swatiska on one
of the walls of the new building
of the Skokie Valley Traditional
Synagogue now being built in
Suburban Niles Township.
Synagogue officials reported
that contractors told them the
defaced wall must have new
bricks because the substance
used to make the Swatiska could
not be removed by sandblasting
or chemical action.
After a meeting of the con
gregants, the issue was placed
before the Niles Township Jew
ish Community Council which
is consulting with the Human
Relations Council of Niles Town
ship, a suburban inter-faith
group.
Spokesman for the congrega
tion said that this was the third
descration since construction was
started. Widespread sympathy
was reported among ministers
and Christians lay leaders who
said they wanted to help “bring
the perpetrators of this crime”
and only with full parent parti
cipation can this be a successful
and worthwhile venture.
Grunt and Groaners
Hold Successful Clinic
Fifty delighted wrestling fans
watched Ray Gunkel, Southern
Professional Wrestling Cham
pion, exchange grunts and groans
with Bibber McCoy, another pro
fessional wrestler, in a Clinic
held at the Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Center Wednesday, July
23. Special holds and escapes
which are useful in the art of
self-defense were demonstrated
by the wrestlers as well as holds
in professional and collegiate
wrestling. At the end of the
show, a question and answer
period was held. Each person in
attendance also received an auto
graphed picture of Mr. Gunkel.
Rutledge Visitor’s Day
Parents arc cordially invited to
visit their children at the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center's
Camp Rutledge on Sunday, Aug
ust 3. The children will be ex
pecting their visitors to arrive
at camp at 2:15 p.m., since early
arrivals will affect the children’s
rest period prior to this hour.
Camp Rutledge is located in
the beautiful woodland of Hard
Labor Creek State Park, fifty-
five miles southeast of Atlanta
near Rutledge, Georgia. Camp
Director, Edward Jackel, sug
gests that parents who plan to
picnic with their children use
nearby Brantley Park, where
swimming and rowing are avail
able, since the State Parks De
partment does not allow visitors
to picnic on Camp Grounds.
Rainy Day Variety
AJECOMCE Day Camp
In two more weeks, the At
lanta Jewish Community Center’s
Day Camp, Ajecomce, will com
plete its summer session. The
children have had an opportuni
ty to participate in varied activi
ties of an educational and recrea
tional nature. Even though the
recent rain made it impossible
for the campers to swim every
morning at the Progressive Club,
they engaged in substitute games,
such as a field day of relay races,
a trip to Garden Park Zoo, a
scavenger hunt, a circus with
the children performing as strong
men, midgets, giants, and trap
eze artists, a carnival featuring
a fortune teller and games of
chance, and movies ranging from
films on Israel to that old-time
comedian, Woody Woodpecker.
The children learned to be con
structive in their play even
though their much-beloved swims
were curtailed.
Parents are invited to attend
the special Friday programs put
on by the campers in the audi
torium of Morningside School at
3:00 p.m. Alternate groups of
children produce programs of
singing, dancing, dramatics, and
games, complete with costumes
and backdrops.
Last week, a typical program
opened with the lighting of the
Sabbath candles followed by a
prayer. The counsellors were
first on the agenda. To the tune
of “Geting to Know You,” they
shook each child’s hand and in
vited the children to join them
as they circled the group.
The program incorporated the
camp’s theme of “Israel—You
Are There” in the children’s per
formances. Farmers dressed in
paper bag hats and blue aprons
of crepe paper sang about plant
ing time in Eretz Israel and the
desert girls of the Negev ended
their original song with, “You
can always tell a desert girl,
but you can’t tell her much.
Costumed merchants chanted
their wares in an Israeli outdoor
market complete with booths and
a group of musicians created an
unknown tune with piccolos,
triangles, cymbals and drums.
In contrast to several Israeli
songs and dances, the children
swung into an old-fashioned
Virginia Reel followed by a
group singing of “Johnny Apple-
seed. The day campers ended
their performance with a Sab
bath song and a cheerful “Shal
om.”
Catholic Suburbanite Lends
Basement to Orthodox Group
fied before the Louisiana State
Senate in opposition to a bill
to justice as quickly as possible,
which would schedule all prim
ary elections on Saturdays. Be
cause of the overwhelming na
ture of Democratic Party sup
port in this state, winning a
primary contest is tantamount to
election.
In his testimony, Mr. Katz
pointed out that if primaries are
held on Saturdays observant
Jews would have the unpleasant
choice of violating their religi
ous principles or being disen
franchised. Mr. Katz noted that
certain Christian groups, such as
the Seventh Day Adventists,
would be in the same beat.
VALLEY STREAM, N Y. t (J
TA)—Japser Millione, a member
of the Holy Name of Mary
Church of Valley Stream, is
probably the only Catholic in
the United States whose home
houses an Orthodox Jewish con
gregation.
The newly-formed Sunrie Jew
ish Center holds its regular ser
vices in the playroom of Milli-
one’s home. This unique arrange
ment for a Jewish congregation
will last for several months—at
least as long as it takes the con
gregation to find permanent
quarters.
It began when the 28-year-old
Brooklyn salesman and Albert
Minken, executive secretary of
the congregation and Millione’s
next-door neighbor, happened to
discusss plans of the congrega
tion to build a synagogue.
Said Millione: “Where are you
people going to meet until you
get a building up?”
Replied Minken” “I don’t
know.
Millione thereupon reported
that the playroom in his subur
ban home could hold 100 people
and that it was not being used.
“Be my guest,” he said. Minken
arranged for Yeshiva University
to supply a part-itime rabbi and
for a funeral home to lend 40
chairs for the worshippers.
Minken, 46, and, like Millione,
father of two children, said the
two spend several evenings week
ly playing table tennis, bowling,
or ‘‘just visiting.”
Millione explains to the curi
ous: “Why should they go out
and rent a place when they can
use my house and put the money
to better use?’’
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New Orleans Jews
Oppose Bill Setting
Primary on Saturday
NEW ORLEANS, (JTA) —
Label A. Katz, chairman of a
special committee of the New
Orleans Jewish Federation, testi-
-invitation to DL PMu
Paid Political Ad
ROBERT D. "BOB" TAND
Would Appreciate Hla Friends
Voting for him for
DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEEMAN,
5th WARD
Sept. 10, DemocraUc Primary
Sam Bredow, Atlanta Jewish Com
munity Center Softball League
Chairman, invites the public and
members of the AJCC to witness the
Men’s Softball games held every —
Thursday—S:30 P.M.
Sunday — 9:30 A.M.
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