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The Southern Isr
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Estab
XXXVI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1961
Israel Bond Workers Strike;
Move Called “Unjustified”
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Some 400
professional and clerical em
ployes of the Development Corp
oration for Israel which conducts
the Israel bond campaign in this
country, went out on strike this
week for increased wages and
fringe benefits.
The bond workers, who are
members of the Community and
Social Agency Employes Union,
American Federation of Labor-
Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions, failed to report for work in
bond offices throughout the
country after the union and the
US Nazi Arrested
In DC for Mailing
Anti-Semitic Cards
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Fed
eral authorities announced this
week the arrest of a supporter of
George Rockwell, American Nazi
Party leader, on a warrant charg
ing violation of the U.S. Crimi
nal Code by sending libelous and
threatening anti-Semitic post
cards through the mails.
Ronald Harner, 19, was taken
into custody. Bail was set at
$1,000 by the Federal District
Court and Harner was ordered
to appear Sept. 19 before a United
States Grand Jury. The arrest
resulted from an investigation
by postal inspectors.
UN Sends Jewish
Professor to brad
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP) —
Dr A. C. Abrahamson, a special
ist in the training and teaching
of social welfare workers asso
ciated with the University of
Washington, has gone to Israel
to assist in the establishment of
an in-service and on-the-job
training program for all levels of
social welfare personnel under
the UN Technical Assistance Pro
gram.
Israel-Born Contestant
Is US Bible Champion
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Tuvia
Goldman, an American Jew bom
in Israel and now living in Cin
cinnati, won the United States
final in the country-wide Bible
contest conducted here last week.
As American champion, he will
compete in the International Bi
ble Contest to be conducted at
Jerusalem on October 3.
Mr. Goldman competed against
four other Americans, all non-
Jews. One of these was Mrs.
Myrtle Davis, the Beaufort, Ga.,
housewife who two years ago
was the U.S. champion. She was
selected in Atlanta in regional
competition conducted under
auspices of the S.E. Israel Con
sulate.
The judges of the U.S. finals
competition, which was televised,
were three prominent scholars:
Dr. Harry M. Orlinsky, professor
at the Hebrew Union College-
Jewish Institute of Religion; Fa
ther John LaFarge, a Catholic
scholar and well-known Jesuit;
and Professor James Muhlen
berg, one of this country’s most
prominent Protestant theologians.'
bond organization failed to reach
agreement.
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice-
president of the Israel Bond
Organization, said there was no
justification for the strike by
the union representing its pro
fessional and clerical workers.
He pointed out that the organiza
tion had made the most liberal
and generous concession.
Dr. Schwartz said: “By any
standards, our employees receive
very good salaries and enjoy the
best working conditions and
benefits of aijy organization in
the field. The action of the union
in calling this strike is totally
incomprehensible and the re
sponsibility for any disruption of
our activities in behalf of Israel
will be solely that of the union
leadership and not of manage
ment.”
Charge 90,000 Ration
Cards of Dead Arab
Refugees Used in Jordan
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—At least
90,000 ration cards of Arab refu
gees who are long dead are still
in circulation among the refugees
in Jordan, according to a state
ment to a Jordanian newspaper
made by Roy Lucas, Jordanian
director for the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refguees in the Near
East.
In an interview with a ccrre-
spondent for a Jordanian daily
newspaper, A1 Jihad, Mr. Lucas
said he is negotiating with Jor
danian Government authorities
for the surrender of these 90,000
ration cards.
He said also that a joint com
mission composed of representa
tives of Jordan and UNRWA will
investigate cases of wealthy
“refugees” who continue to draw
rations.
Carla’s Texas Capers Cancel
Many Rosh Hashonah Rites
BY DAVID WHITE, JEWISH HERALD, HOUSTON
AND JIMMIE W1SCH, JEWI8H POST, FT. WORTH,
AS TOLD TO ADOLPH ROSENBERG, SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
GALVESTON, Texas — A ca
vorting Hurricane Carla prevent
ed the Jewish New Year 5722
from being ushered in with
usual dignified and solemn Rosh
Hashonah services earlier this
week.
As a matter of fact, Jewish
congregations in a dozen or so
communities in the affected area
either skipped Rosh Hashonah
services altogether — or held
modified or delayed rites with
greatly reduceed attendance.
Hundreds of Jewish residents
had fled the areas with the ad
vance storm warnings and high
winds and buffeting tides and
waves which pounded the shores
and surrounding lowland towns
and settlements.
Services at Galveston’s syna
gogues were out of the questipn
with such adverse conditions.
The Orthodox synagogue Beth
Jacob was four feet under water.
Beth Israel, the Reform Temple,
was affected by the rising tides
and winds and services could
not be held there.
At nearby Houston, twenty-
miles inland from the gulf front
on an inland bay, some 60,000
refugees sought shelter from the
low coastal region.s
Advance warnings had indi
cated that Carla was headed into
Houston and the residence braced
for the blow and a possible secon
dary refugeeing surge of great
proportions. Although the hurri
cane’s route veered away spar
ing Houston, weather conditions
were so adverse that Temple
Beth Israel cancelled its Sunday
evening and Monday morning
services. Beth Israel slated serv
ices for Tuesday evening and
again with power lines down had
to cancel. The rites were held
Tuesday evening and Wednesday
morning. Meanwhile the Ortho
dox synagogue held services but
with sparse attendance. The Con
servative congregation cancelled
altogether.
Shulemberg escaped damage,
while conditions at Port Arthur
where the wires were down and
where the Synagogue was near
the water, had been unreported.
Corpus Christi, with its 1200
to 1400 Jews, was hit as heavy
as any community. What the
Jewish congregations did has not
been learned yet, but in all like
lihood services were not held
due to weather conditions and a
diminishing congregations fleeing
the area for safety.
At El Campa and Wharton'
there was little damage and prob
ably no services cither.
Meanwhile the community of
Galveston was hit by a secondary
storm as a tornado spawned by *
Carla doubled back and left con
siderable damage.
It has been estimated that poss
ibly a billion dollars in damage
resulted from the storm, parti
cularly to the unharvested rice
v crops and to business and resi
dential areas.
Losses to Jewjtb residents
through damage to .thgif homes
and their busineo* , Mi hitched,
have been considerfbl4*8$ JBuat
have been the loooeo'to the vaca
tion craft and' farihtM which
many Jewish people owned in
this Carla-afflicted vacation dtoa.
Victoria,. Texas, originally a
haven for the refugee* was bat
tered so severely by the storm
Sunday that services had to be
postponed.
Beaumont postponed services.,
Services were held on
at Austin.
B'nai B'rith Leaders
Rebuffed by Reds
by DAVID HOROWITZ
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Propos
als from a United States Jewish
delegation to high Soviet officials
in Moscow about Jewish religion
and education for Soviet Jews
were dismissed by the officials,
delegation members reported
here this week. Both officials
gave the same answer—that such
requests would have to come
from synagogues in the Soviet
Union.
The delegation was made up
of B’nai B’rith leaders led by
Label A. Katz, B’nai B’rith presi
dent. They met separately with
Alexander N. Kutznetsov, First
Deputy Minister of Culture, and
V. Riasanov, deputy chairman
of the Council for Affairs of Re
ligious Cults.
The delegation urged that So
viet Jews be present at a forth
coming international conference
on Jewish education, and other
future non-political gatherings
on Jewish affairs, and that “as
an act of friendship,” the B’nai
B’rith wanted to send to Russian
synagogues a gift of such religi
ous articles as Old Testament,
prayer books and prayer shawls
which are in short supply in
Russia.
Mr. Kats reported that the
delegation’s observations on the
lack of Jewish instftntioiM In the
USSR did not correspond with
what the delegation was told by
Russian officials — that Soviet
Jews simply were not interested.
The B’nai B’rith leader assert
ed that Jewish cultural interests
would flourish in the USSR if
they were “accorded the same
encouragement shown other So-
aia ms aejegauon nao ume
its 440 and
viet ethnic groups. In our brief
but intensive contacts, we found
a persistent streak of Jewish
consciousness, even among young
Jews. But they are without al
most any cultural means to ex
press it.
He said his delegation had thf
chance' ...
contradiction
- toward
groups during a 60-minute con
ference with Kwtanetoo▼, one of
the’ Soviet officials "whig Attri
buted the almost total absence of
Jewish-content newspapers and
periodicals, either in Yiddish or
the Russian language, and of
Jewish educational facilities, or
even secular school courses in
Yiddish or Hebrew* to a disinter
est among Jews themselves."
Katz told the Soviet official
that there was still widespread
use of Yiddish among 8oviet
Jews and that it was hard to
agree that Russian Jews "would
not support enthusiastically a
Yiddish press and other Yiddish
cultural facilitiis, as well as He
brew and Russian language in
stitutions, if they were Jewishly
oriented.”
To this the Soviet official re
plied that his Government, as
well sa Soviet Jews, favored the
continued growth of a dominant
Soviet culture and the elimina
tion of other cultures that might
tend to set groups apart. The
American Jews replied, first, that
the American experience had
shown that the strengthening of
diverse ethnic cnltnres enhanced
rather than weakened t* **-
(Continued on page 8)
Ben-Gurion Hopes Next Maccabiah
Will Include Russian Athletes
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — A hope
that the next world Maccabiah
may include Jewish athletes
from the Soviet Union and other
Iron Curtain countries was ex
pressed at Ramat Gan Stadium,
before an audience of 45,000 this
week by Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion. He was the princi
pal speaker at colorful cere
monies that formally concluded
the week-long sixth Maccabiah
Games, in which Jewish athletes
from 26 countries participated.
“It is our wish and hope,” said
the Premier, “that, in the next
Maccabiah, side by side with
you, there will also be groups
from North African countries,
from Poland, Hungary, Checho
slovakia, Rumania and Soviet
Russia. There is nothing to pre
vent them — when freedom
spreads also in those countries—
from coming to Israel, even if
only for a few days.”
Mr. Gen-Gurion also proposed
that the next world Maccabiah
include contests in Hebrew, read
ing of the Bible in the Hebrew
language, and Jewish history.
Mike Herman, former New
York University track star, was
awarded a special plaque for
having amassed the highest
number of gold medals among
the men.
The women’s championship
plaque was awarded to Made-
lame Bergman, of Australia.
Jewish athletes from the
United States came out with the
most gold medals during the
week-long contests.
United States teams garnered
a total of 58 gold medals. Israel
was second over-all winner, with
29 medals. The Americans won
29 silver and 24 bronze medals.
Israel got 47 silver and 38 bronze
medals.
In the final days of competi
tion, U.S. teams, led by Gary
Gubner and Dick Savitt, both
New Yorkers, won 16 gold med
als. Gubner won an unusual
triple—winning the shot-put and
discus titles in track and field,
then following through by tak
ing first place in the heavy
weight weightlifting. Savitt, who
had won the Wimbledon tennis
championship in 1M1, took too
tennis titles here.
During the final day, the U.S.
also won five gold medals in
swimming; four, in addition to
Gubner’s, in weightlifting; two
in fencing; and one in shooting.
The Americans were simply ter
rific in swimming, taking 17
victories, while Canada was next
in these events with two wins.
The United States also won the
women’s team foil-fencing by de
feating Israel 5-4, in the final.
In gymnastics, Ron Barak, of
Los Angeles, acquired a total of
eight gold medals, one silver and
one bronze. Mike Herman, of
Yonkers, N.Y., won his third gold
medal in track and field, finish-
ond place relay team which Brit
ain won. Previously, Herman had
won the broad jump, and retain
ed his decathlon title.
Americans also swept six of
seven medals in swimming and
diving, Kathy Flicker, J4, of Mil-
burn, N.J., and Dickie Morse, 17,
of Nashville, each collected
throe-meter diving gold medals.
Accompanying the Awertesn
team to totnel to Sal Marshall,
pahdcky representative tor the
ptop. Mr. Marshall was a recent
visitor toi dttonta, whpse at ton
time he wetted with The Sen-
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