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Friday, Nov. 2, 1962
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE nw
Augusta News—
Ben Klein Guiding Augusta
Center and Federation
Soviet Missile Build-up in Cuba
Spurred Sale of Hawks to Israel
Benjamin J. Klein, 48, former
ly of Montgomery, Ala., has been
named executive director of the
newly-combined offices of the
Jewish Community Center —
YMHA — and the Federation of
Jewish Charities, Monday.
The Jewish institutions were
formerly headed by two men.
Both have been placed under
Klein to achieve a greater unity
and to create a broader recrea
tional and cultural program. It
will also increase assistance to
national Jewish agencies and Is
rael.
"1 intend to study the situation
and hope to institute a program
at the center which will involve
the entire family,” Klein said.
He said the facilities located
just off Sibley Road, should be
the envy of many larger com
munities with its olympic-sized
outdoor swimming pool, lounge,
club room and day camp equip
ment.
The new Jewish executive di
rector previously served five years
as USO Club director in Mont
gomery and was also associate
director of a Columbia, S. C., USO
Club.
He has worked in similar ca
pacities in Pittsburgh, but has
lived in the South for the past
10 years.
He will reside at 1125 Magnolia
Dr., with his wife, Joyce and their
boy and daughter.
Klein graduated from the City
Post No. 531, Jewish War Vet
erans, has presented 2,000 books
to the Ft. Gordon library and to
the Lenwood and Forest Hills di
visions of the Veterans Admini
stration Hospitals.
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Augusta’s B’nai B’rith Youth
Organizations will name their
sweetheart and beau Saturday at
the Abram Pomerance Memorial
Hall of Adas Yeshuron Synagogue.
Services will be attended Friday
evening at Walton Way Temple
by both groups.
• • ♦
Mrs. Max Schenk of Brooklyn,
N. Y., a national vice president of
Hadassah, a founder and first
president of the Washington
Heights group of the New York
Chapter, was the guest speaker
at the Tuesday night meeting of
the Augusta Chapter of Hadassah
The program also included an
original presentation, “Ballad of
Hadassah” by Mrs. David Rabhan
of Savannah.
♦ • •
The monthly meeting of the
Evergreen Garden Club was held
at the home of Mrs. Abe Korn.
At the meeting, Mrs. Sidney
Singer and Mrs. Neil Melcher
were welcomed as new members.
Mr. Gene Gibson spoke on the
subject of combining artifical
plant material with live plant ma
terial. The talk was accompanied
by a demonstration. A gift of
ashtrays was presented to the Au
gusta Council of Garden Clubs,
to be used in the Garden Cen
ter.
College of New York with a B.S.
degree. He also holds a masters
degree in social work from the
University of Pennsylvania.
Morris Marks is president of
the Jewish Center of Augusta and
M. J. Isenberg serves as presi
dent of the Federation. Assisting
in the work of the two Jewish
facilities are Hill Silver, Dr. Mar
tin Wittenberg, E. Harry Steine,
Maxwell Estoff, M. K. Steineberg,
Mrs. Doris Bernestine and Dr. Ira
Goldberg.
PHILADELPHIA ( J T A ) —
Closed circuit television will be
used in the study and treatment
of emotionally disturbed children
in the million-dollar Irving
Schwartz Institute for Children
and Youth of the Philadelphia
Psychiatric Center.
Dedication ceremonies for the
Institute, which is sponsored
jointly by the Center board and
the Federation of Jewish Agen
cies, will be held on November
11.
Closed-circuit television will
be used by the institute staff to
teach, train and disseminate com
munity education on mental
health, according to the Institute
Director, Dr. Morris Parmet. The
television instruction will be mon
itored in the auditorium and con
ference rooms to groups of phy
sicians, teachers and students who
Arrested Nazi Sues
ADL Philadelphia
For $1,100,000
PHILADELPHIA ( J T A ) —
Ralph Forbes, 22-year-old “troo
per” in George Lincoln Rockwell’s
American Nazi party, acted as his
own attorney in U. S. District
Court in arguing against a mo
tion to dismiss his $1,000,000 dam
age suit arising from his arrest
while picketing the film “Exodus”
here.
He is suing the City of Phila
delphia, the police department
and the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith, asking $100,000
for alleged suffering and incon
venience which followed his ar
rest. The $1,000,000 balance is
“punitive,” he claims. Leonard
Orloff, ADL attorney, countered
with a motion to dismiss the suit.
The neo-nazi argued that the
ADL had “conspired” in collusion
with the City and the police to
deny the Nazi party its political
rights because the Jewish people
were trying to set themselves up
as “a superior race.”
WASHINGTON (JTA)F- The
Soviet missile build-up in Cuba
may not be entirely dissociated
from other world trouble spots
and developments, including the
introduction of missiles in the
Arab-Israel cold war, members of
Congress were told here last
weekend at a top-level briefing.
The American decision to pro
vide defensive, Hawk ground-to-
air missiles to Israel was cited as
motivated as a response to the
Soviet supply of jet bombers and
missiles to a number of Arab
states, including the United Arab
Republic. This was mentioned in
will thus be able to watch the
children both at play and in
treatment situations.
“Here, in a scientifically des
igned observation area, children
will be acting out a whole spec
trum of emotional patterns, as
skilled personnel watch through
one-way mirrors,” he said. “Like
the living theater, the sick child
acts out many of his problems,
thus manifesting some of the
underlying causes of his illness.”
Dr. Parmet added that the
transmission of voices of the chil
dren through microphones “is
another means of observation and
study” of such children. He said
tape recordings could be made for
later evaluations and formulations
for treatment.
Abe Cooper, president of the
center, said that the use of elec
tronics in combating mental ill
ness in children between the ages
of 2 and 8 was only one “of the
many factors in what may be
termed the most advanced build
ing designed specifically for chil
dren.”
In another area which attempts
to aid adults disabled by emo
tional problems, the Jewish Em
ployment and Vocational Service
here has reported progress. A
report issued by the JEVS shows
that more than 55 per cent of
such persons who have completed
the agency’s 12-week work ad
justment program were “success
fully rehabilitated and placed in
fulltime jobs.”
An additional 15 per cent were
placed in vocational training or
long term sheltered employment,
for a total of 70 per cent who di
rectly benefited from the pro
gram. Clients also earned more
than $85,000 in wages while being
aided at the Work Adjustment
Center.
In the preface of the report,
Leonard E. Liss, JEVS, president,
said: “The value of the work ad
justment procedure was clearly
demonstrated. It made possible a
high rate of successful rehabili
tation. It was economical to op
erate in terms of the cost per
case, and it introduced a new
a review of the world scene re
lated to the current Soviet-Amer-
ican showdown in Cuba.
Officials said the Hawk decis
ion resulted from a conclusion
that an arms imbalance had oc
curred In the Arab-Israel situa
tion because of Soviet weapons
provided to the Arabs. Israel was
at a disadvantage, it was said,
that increased danger of Arab ag
gression or a preventive war by
Israel, to restore a balance and
maintain regional peace, the
United States sold the Hawks to
Israel.
State Department sources said
technique for resolving a hither
to difficult problem in adjusting
people to work. As a result of its
experience with the project, the
JEVS has extended its resources
to continue support of the proj
ect in full.”
The three-year project was op
erated under a grant from the
United States Office of Vocation
al Rehabilitation with matching
funds from the agency. Initially
521 clients were evaluated in the
Work Adjustment Center Diag
nostic Shop, with 65 per cent
being judged capable of entering
work adjustment training. They
ranged in age from 16 to 65; 70
per cent had less than a high
school education; 83 per cent had
an employment history of less
than one year; 24 per cent had
never held a job; and 61 per cent
had been out of work for six
months or more before entering
the program.
Classified according to disabil
ity, 42 per cent were psychotic,
28 per cent psychoneurotic, 10
per cent were mentally retard
ed, and 20 per cent had other
psychological and neurological
disorders. All clients were un
employable at the outset, and
were referred by public and
private health and welfare agen
cies.
this weekend that, although the
Foreign Assistance Act stipulates
that no U. S. economic assistance
be given nations permitting their
ships to carry cargoes to Cuba,
this probably would not be ap
plied to an Arab League state,
Lebanon, whose Cuba-bound
freighter was the first to be
boarded in the U. S. naval block
ade operation. The ship, S.S. Mar-
cula, carried a Soviet cargo.
After some foreign ship owners
ignored the American request,
and foreign governments failed to
act, Congress added a clause to
the aid bill. It provided that “no
economic assistance shall be fur
nished to any country which sells,
furnishes or permits ships under
its registry to carry items of eco
nomic assistance to Cuba, as long
as it is governed by the Castro
regime.” Tne only exemption
from this clause is a determina
tion by the White House that sev
erance of aid “would be contrary
to the national interests.”
There was speculation here that
the Lebanese ship would furnish
a test case of the new provision.
But the Lebanese Government has
reassured Washington of its sup
port of Fhesident Kennedy’s
Cuban stand. It was still unde
termined whether other Lebanese
freighters would continue in the
Soviet-Cuban trade.
Through the year 1961, Leban
on received from the United
States $77,000,000 in economic aid,
and $9,000,000 in military aid.
(At the United Nations, this
week, Israel’s delegation chair
man, Michael S. Comay, accom
panied by his ranking mission
aide, Gideon Rafael, deputy di
rector-general of Israel’s Foreign
Ministry, conferred briefly with
Acting Secretary - General U
Thant. The fact that this meeting
had been squeezed in between
Mr. Thant’s world crisis talks
with U. S. Ambassador Adlai E.
Stevenson and Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin
gave rise to broad speculation as
to whether the visit of the Isrealis
had any direct connection with
the Russo-American impasse over
Cuba.)
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