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Friday, Dec. 12, 1969 THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE Page TMitwn Tri - Faith Social Services Pace 'Hunger Day' Observance Dec 15 dent of the Emma us House chapter, National Welfare Rights Organization. Funds received for hunger re lief will be divided equally among the four sponsor organi zations, unless otherwise desig nated by donors. Mayor Ivan Allen Jr. has pro claimed Monday, Dec. 15, “Hun ger Day” in Atlanta. His action came in response to a request from Atlanta’s Prot estant, Catholic and Jewish so cial services and the city’s Welfare Rights Organization. Atlantans are asked, in the proclamation, to live for that day on a welfare food budget of 14 cents per person, per meal — the amount allowed in President Richard M. Nixon’s new welfare reform proposal. What they save, and any thing they can add to it, may be sent to “Hunger,” Box 7115, At lanta 30301 to be used by Atlan ta’s Christian and Jewish social service agencies and the local chapter, National Welfare Rights Organization, for hunger relief during the holiday season. Citizens concerned about hun ger are also being asked, by the sponsor organization, to write their congressmen and state leg islators, urging them to sponsor or support legislation aimed at doing something about the causes of hunger. The “Hunger Day” observance is intended, according to Dr. Harmon Moore, executive secre tary of the Christian Council of Metropolitan Atlanta, to focus attention on the hunger problem in Atlanta. Research by the Community Council of the Atlanta Area, Inc., completed in July, 1968, he said, indicates that one of every four Atlanta families is living on a poverty income, defined by the U.S. government as under $3,000, when the study was made. This and other studies assem bled by the “Hunger Day” planners indicates that Georgia, and Atlanta, have a higher level of hunger than the national average. Concerned, representatives of the Christian Council of Metro politan Atlanta, the Jewish Wel fare Federation, Inc., Catholic Fred’s Delicatessen 1403 N. Highland We wish all our customers and friends a Happy and Healthy Hanuka Mr. and Mrs. Leon Markowicz * *»»**»»»+»*»»*»*-* | I • HANUKA GREETINGS i j t ★ * 835 Wylie St, S.E. * Atlanta, Ga. * 522-0630 Bill’s Delivery Service +** ********* ***** * ♦ * ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ 5 ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ ¥ Season’s Greetings Scottdale Mills Sales Room SCOTTDALE, GA. • Drapery and Curtain Materials • Slip Cover • Corduroys Social Services and the Atlanta chapter, National Welfare Rights Organization, began planning in October for a “Hunger Day” to bring the matter to public at tention. Churches and other groups are being asked to sponsor “Hunger Day” meals, with grits, collards and whatever else meal plan ners can afford on a 14 cent per person budget. Families are be ing asked to do the same thing. Atlanta’s “Hunger Day” ob servance follows a similar Dec. 1-7 national “test” sponsored by the Churches’ Crusade Against Hunger, a national group. Pub lic officials and others were asked to live for a week on a welfare budget, to test the ade quacy of the Nixon administra tion’s proposed minimum assis tance level for a family of four of $1,600 a year. Planning committee for the Atlanta “Hunger Day’ includes Max C. Gettinger, director ; of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fed eration; Father J. A. Bollmer of the Catholic Archdiocese of At lanta Department of Social Ser vices; Dr. Moore, executive di rector of the Christian Council of .Metropolitan Atlanta, and Christian Council representa tives Dr. Robert J. Rea and the Rey. Calvin E. Houston; and Mrs. Ethel Mae Matthews, presi- GRACIOUS GREETINGS fdriarctiff- ^lormancly ^djpartmente 1144 Brlarcliff Rd.. N.E. Atlanta C, Oa AFFILIATE ATLANTA REWEAVERS 1084 Peachtree Street TR 2-7011 WONDER WEAVERS 57 Forsyth St JA 8-0180 Lobby of Healey Bldg. We do “wonders” for your damaged garments French Reweaving • Art Mending • Alterations for Men and Women j Knit Dresses and Sweaters Rewoven GRACIOUS GREETINGS Collections & Adjustments Georgia Savings Bank 525-1881 Esther and George Abramson Atlanta, Georgia >»#>»##>#>! 1 (Jracioud CjreetincjS 5k ii ^Jjanuha Foster’s of Atlanta, Inc. 3213 Roswell Rd. 237-8293 “Custom work a speciality 1 * Cjracioud (jreelings 8 Jor ^JlanuLa Western Electric MANUFACTURING AND SUPPLY UNIT OF THE BELL SYSTEM