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The Southern Israelite % 1 I j * A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925 Vol. XLII Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 22, 1967 : : ■ . i ,. ■ .-1 ; : pa ■. - •. .ivT Only Synagogue in Jackson Miss. Blasted By Bomb. JACKSON, Miss. — A violent b ’mb explosion last Monday night blasted this city’s only syn agogue, making rubble of its wails and ripping loose sections of the ceiling. Police quickly ar rested three suspects. Rabbi Perry Nussbaum, spiri tual leader of Beth Israel Tem ple, said he did not believe the vandalism was directed at him personally, although he has been outspoken against racist out breaks in the state and has wel comed Negroes to his services. It was only a last-minute 3 Men Arrested switch in his personal plans, the rabbi said, that prevented him from being in the synagogue when the blast occurred. “I think it was a type of ges ture,” he said, “somebody just wanted to show the ‘Jew boys’ what they could do.” Those apprehended after thie incident were Joe Denver Haw kins, 49; his son, Joe Daniel Haw kins, 23, and J. L. Harper, 23. FBI agents said Hawkins and his son have been “publicly identi fied as active Kb Klux Klan members for a number of years.” First Jewish President of American University CHICAGO (JTA)—The grand son of one of the founders of American Reform Judaism was elected the first Jewish president of an American university. The University of Chicago named Dr. Edward Hirsch Levi, 56, a native of Chicago, who received all of his education at the school, to the post. Dr. Levi, grandson of Rabbi Emil G. Hirsch, will succeed Dr. George Beadle in the fall of 1968. Rabbi Hirsch was one of the university’s first faculty mem bers. Dr. Levi attended classes from kindergarten through law school at the University. Dr. Levi has been provost, the chief academic officer at the uni versity, since 1962. He was elected to the board of trustees last year. Dr. Beadle said that Dr. Levi was “sc clearly and ob viously the right person to serve as president that it has been dif ficult to think seriously about other possibilities.” The new president joined the university law faculty in 1936 and was dean from 1950 to 1962. During a leave from the law school he held a number of posts in the federal Attorney General’s office and Justice Department. U Thant Wants UN As Third Partv In Peace Parleys UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)—Finland, Sweden and Austria submitted a procedural resolution to the special emer gency session of the General As sembly requesting the regular session of the Assembly to con sider the Middle East situation and give it priority. Secretary-General U Thant told a press conference that he believed that the role of the United Nations as a third party in the Arab-Israeli dispute was essential and imperative for a long time to come. “I do not see how the United Nations can wash its hands of the Middle East situation," he declared. He said he could un derstand that some of the parties would prefer direct negotiations which would he an “ideal situa tion.” However, he added, this was not practical under present circumstances. The Secretary-General an nounced that he was not plann ing to visit the Middle East in the near future, and that he did not see any utility in such a visit but if it were “deemed helpful,” he would go, he said. Families Asked To Serve as Hosts TEL AVIV (JTA) — Jewish Agency officials have called on Israeli citizens to serve as High Holy Day hosts to the volunteers who came to Israel to help dur ing the May-June crisis and the Six-Day War. An Agency official said that 1,000 families were needed in this city as hosts to volunteers planning to spend the holiday here. There are about 6,000 volunteers still remaining in Israel. Habitat ’67 Designer Gets Big Assignment WASHINGTON (JTA)—Moshe Safdie, 28-year-old Israeli arch itect whose revolutionary concept of design for multiple dwellings attracted world-wide attention through “Habitat ’67” in Mon treal has been commissioned to design a 600-unit public housing project in Washington. Under Secretary Robert C Wood, of the Department of Housing and Development, said Mr. Safdie had been authorized to try to adapt his design con cepts to see whether they “come within the perimeter of public housing cost.” He has been given six sites here to consider for a “feasibility study.” Fear Czech Return To Anti-Semitism PARIS (JTA)—Fear of a re turn of anti-Semitism to Czech oslovakia was voiced by the World Union of Jewish Students. In a letter to the Czech ambas sador in Paris, the group express ed concern over developments in Czechoslovakia. As evidence of an anti-Jewish trend, the students cited the re cent manifesto for intellectual freedom signed by 300 Czech writers and artists which appear ed recently in the London Times, and the actions of the Czech Government in stripping a noted Czech writer of his citizenship for expressing pro-Israel views. United Artists Head On UN Delegation UNITED NATIONS, N. 1. (JTA) — Robert S. Benjamin, chairman of the board of United Artists Carp., was nominated a member of the United States del egation to the United Nations for the forthcoming General Assem bly. Mr. Benjamin is active in the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute and many other Jewish causes. Near Million for Home for Aged Raised at Spirited Meeting By ACOLPH ROSENBERG The proposed $2,500,000 Jewish home for the aged in Atlanta is at least a million short of its goal—but it has carpet for every room and lounge the decorators want to cover “wall to wall.” This extraordinary gift, mount ing into the thousands for a 100- room-plus facility, was one of the donations pledged Sunday even ing during a spirited fund-raising dinner for friends of the Jewish Home. Enthusiastic giving by the group of around 300 men and women carried the campaign for funds to up-date, to enlarge and transfer present facilities serving the Jewish aged in Atlanta and several other communities in Georgia end South Carolina to a point close to a million dollars. Dan Garson is chairman of the fund-raising committee seek ing $2,000,000 for the building itself. The additional half a mil lion (for property, loan retire ment) will be realized through sale of the present property lo cation, now in a top desirability industrial part of Atlanta. The sale will probably total more than half a million but a part must be used to eliminate cur rent indebtedness. Joe Cuba, chairman of the new building committee, told of the research and studies made "in order to crystalize the nature and services of the new proposed home, expected to care for twide the capacity of the current plgde and fully capable of further ex pansion. • Mr. Garson, carrying on the tradition of his father who raised the funds for the current home almost single handed, told of t spontaneous effort of the Lovable employees, particularly the top executives and shop foremen around 90% of whom are non- Jew ish. He said; “These employees, in memory of my father Frank Garson and in honor of myself, have pledged a total of $40,000 over a five- year period. It is a moving exam ple of loyalty and communal in terest.” The magnitude of the gener osity of the Lovable employees was equally as touching for the Sunday evening audience. The majority of the funds pledged at the dinner at Switzer land House came from leading Atlanta philanthropists which in cluded the Garson, Breman, Or- kin, Weinberg, Weinstein, Lip- son and Alterman families. Jewish Home President Bill Breman told of returning Sun day afternoon from a visit with his wife to Asheville for, his mo ther’s ninety-first birthday. She too is making a “sizeable and most generous” pledge in support of the new Jewish home. Morris Zelditch, noted national ~ authority fir the ffield of aged care, told of the studies his group had made in the arena of sen ility. He estimated that in Atlanta’s approximate population of 18,000 Jews that about 1,800 are 65 or over. Between now and 1985, this number will Increase 40%, he continued, implying that the com munity would need to move swiftly and broadly forward to meet the challenge. The situation requires a dif ferent kind of home than a boarding house, he said, a place where men and women can find dignity, interest, respect and love. It must be fireproof, spaciouso and modem and functional if the occupant^ are to live as happy persons. , He lingered on the aspect of senility among the aged end how society has attempted to grope with this aspect of geriatrics. In the old days, the senile were automatically relegated to men tal institutions and the mortality was staggering. The techniques today are different. In his description of the prop osed facilities, Mr. Cuba noted Continued on page 8 Mayim, may ini in the Desert WATER, BLESSED WATER-When Israel captured the arid Sinai, few water pipelines were found—but the Israeli army, helped by volunteers, soon remedied the lack. Here, a seven-branched Menorah spurts life-giving water in celebrating opening of the new El-Arish-Bir Gafgafa pipeline. Israeli Firm In $25,000,000 Deal For Rights to Manufacture Jet JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Aircraft Industry, Ltd., one of Israel’s largest industrial concerns, confirmed this week it had signed a contract with the Rockwell-Standard Corporation, an American producer, for com plete production rights to a twin- engined commercial jetliner in a $25,000,000 transaction. The aircraft is called the Jet Commander. Under the agree ment, the Israeli firm is acquir ing inventory, planes in produc tion, tooling units and related production facilities. The planes are currently being manufac tured at the Bethany, Oklahoma plant of Aero Commander, a Rockweii-Standard subsidiary. Israel Aircraft Industry, which has an aircraft plant at Lod air port and seven other factories in Israel, will integrate its produc tion of the seven-passenger ex ecutive aircraft with the phasing out of production in Bethany and hopes to deliver the jets off its Lod lines within two years. The company has 5,000 employes. It was also learned that the Israeli firm is now developing a prototype for the first STOL short takeoff and landing) plane in Israel, tentatively named the “Arava,” which will carry 22 passengers. The Rockwell-Standard Manu facturing Company sold its Jet Commander business because the Justice Department had blocked a merger of the company with North American Aviation Inc., on grounds that both firms produce executive jet planes. Dead Sea Scrolls Missing from Museum TEL AVIV (JTA)—Jordanian museum officials are either un able or unwilling to report the whereabouts of four Dead Sea Scrolls found missing, according to a group of Israeli experts who checked the contents of the Pale stine Archaeological Museum in the Old City of Jerusalem. Authorities in Jerusalem be lieve the Jordanians removed the scroll fragments for safekeeping just before the outbreak of the June war. The priceless materials are missing, but the showcases in which they were displayed are intact Nothing in the museum was damaged or destroyed dur ing the six days of fgihting.