Compiled by San Diego Jewish World staff
Lasker Lodge News
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 13, 1956, Page 5
Father and Child Night, Lasker Lodge’s annual festive night for parents and children, will be at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, April 23rd, at Temple Center. An hour-long variety show, m.c.’d byu Al Kaye, will feature an evening of fun and refreshments.
Everyone is invited. Members and their wives are urged to bring their own and neighbor children to the gala occasion. Children from the San Diego Orphan Home will be entertained at the event, according to Sam Bennett, Chairman of Father and Child Night.
“We don’t say ‘no’ often enough to our children,” declared Lou Stein, teacher, at a panel discussion on juvenile delinquency at the last Lasker meeting. Gary Fine, AZA leader, Dr. David Miller, and attorney Howard Harris completed the panel.
Local hospitalized veterans and military personnel on duty here will be the targets of stepped up hospitality next week by four members of Lasker Lodge in observance of National VAVS (Veterans Administration voluntary Service) Week, April 15-21, reports Joe Feldman, SCAF (Service Committee for the Armed Forces and Veterans) chairman for the lodge of B’nai B’rith, the world’s largest and oldest Jewish service organization.
Special delegations are being recruited to bring programs and gifts to hospitalized veterans and to afford extra hospitality to armed forces men and women in the area. SCAF is a year-round activity in the Lodge.
Newly elected delegates to the coming Grand Lodge Convention in Los Angeles are Harry Wax, Milton Fredman, and Edwared Breitbard. Alternates are Sam Bennett, Harold Lasker, Abe Sklar and Jerry Aranoff.
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North County, Coronado To Open U.J.F. Drive
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 13, 1956, Page 5
Alex Maisel and Stuart Ferer, young community leaders, have accepted leadership responsibilities in the 1956 United Jewish Fund campaign, according to Milton Y. Roberts, General Campaign Chairman.
Maisel, Escondido Chairman, will head the North County campaign, which includes Oceanside, Fallbrook, Escondido, Vista, San Clemente, Carlsbad and Poway. He will be assisted as co-chairman by Maurice Levy, Carlsbad resident, President of the North County Jewish Community Center.
In Coronado Stuart Ferer, young executive of the Coronado Department Store, has accepted the chairmanship. He will be assisted by past chairmen Arthur I. Cohen, Lewis Kipperman and Irwin Sonnabaum.
To Have Meetings—For the first time both areas will have community meetings on behalf of the
United Jewish Fund campaign. In Coronado there will be a social evening and meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kipperman, 1647 Miguel. The guest of honor will be Mr. Ranan Sivan, Israel Consul for the 12 western states.
Residents of the North County will gather at their Jewish Community Center, 310 North Tremont, Oceanside, on Sunday, April 15, at 6:30 p.m. to hear Yaacov Adam, a young Israeli Naval Officer who captained an Israeli war ship. In the United States for the past two weeks, Adam has just come from Israel and North Africa.
Solicitations in both county areas will open immediately after the meetings.
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Deceased
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 13, 1956, Page 5
Samuel N. Fischer, 45, died of a heart ailment on April 2. Mr. Fischer had lived here for eight years.
He was a director of the Guardians of the Hebrew Home for the Aged, a member of B’nai B’rith, and Temple Beth Israel.
Surviving are his widow, Diana; a son, Arnold, a daughter, Carol, all of San Diego, and two sisters in Los Angeles.
Rites were held on April 5 in Greenwood Mortuary, Rabbi Morton J. Cohn officiating. Entombment is in Greenwood’s Shalom Mausoleum.
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Etta Raymond Barrin, beloved mother of Mrs. Leon Solomon and Mrs. Alfred Solomon, died on April 3rd of a heart ailment. She resided in san Diego since 1929.
Services were conducted on April 5th at the Lewis Colonial Mortuary by Rabbi Morton J. Cohn. Entombment is in the Cypress View Mausoleum.
Mrs. Barrin was a member of the City of Hope Auxiliary and the Beth Jacob Sisterhood Auxiliary. She leaves, besides her two daughters, three grandchildren, Larry Solomon, Jrry Solomon and Barbara Solomon Hoffer. Also a sister, MRs. Sonya Ariel of Tujunga, California.
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USO-JWB
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 13, 1956, Page 5
By Claire Kaplan
Sidelights on Operation Seder, 1956! – Mystery of the moment .. Foreign Intrigue bit… She came to us from out of nowhere … attractively gowned, beautifully tanned, model-type female! Participates in the Seder ritual, voluntarily waited on tables, chatted with service personnel, a very charming addition to the USO-JWB Seder. Later nformed (through proper channels) this, in the flesh, was Miss Israel of 1949, now the wife of a Marine Sergeant, stationed in San Diego at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot.
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In the Mail: From Pvt and Mrs. Jack Grodin, Los Angeles. “My husband and I were in San Diego and attended the lovely Seder you held at the El Cortez Hotel. We certainly appreciated being invited, it really made us feel at home.” Enclosed was a United Jewish Fund Pledge Card and a check in the amount of $5.00.
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As The Psychologist Sees You
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 13, 1956, Page 6
By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant
The Poverty of Mental Health Facilities
This is an age of science and notable discoveries and inventions. It is a period of progress with new hope for the millions who are suffering from polio and cancer and new fears for the possible extermination of society. It is a time of uncertainty then, with science discovering both ways to keep people alive longer as well as to shorten their lives.
Mental illness has been called the Nation’s number one health problem because of the increasing number of persons afflicted with emotional problems. Small wonder that this situation should exist when the uncertainty of society’s goals leaves us all mentally weary and confused. True, science has discovered new methods for the treatment f the mentally ill, yet the number of those needing mental health care is increasing faster than we are curing them. “The poverty of Mental Health Facilities” is a factor which contributes to this condition.
Every study that has been made of the number of existing facilities for the care and treatment of the mentally ill has shown that we are far below established standards. Under the National Mental Health Act of 1946, the goal of one full-time clinic for every 100,000 people was established. Although it is eight years since that was determined as our need, we have less than half our minimum national need. Only 29 out of 168 metropolitan regions have enough clinics to meet 80 percent or more of our minimum needs.
In a study made about a year ago not a single city in California was rated as Good with relation to existing facilities. In fact, not a single one was even rated Fair. Throughout the nation 97 percent of our major metropolitan areas were rated Poor. Locally, San Diego is meeting only 12 ½ percent of the need, placing us in the unenviable position of being lowest in terms of service.
Clinics and hospitals cost money and even though the amount allowed in the recently passed budget to the Department of Mental Hygiene in the State of California is the highest in history, it is still far too low to take care of those needing services. Clinics in the state have waiting lists of people who must wait six or more months before they can be served and every mental hospital is operating beyond capacity. There is a great shortage of trained personnel and schools are unable to turn out the required number of psychiatrists, psychologists, psychiatric social workers, and nurses. Psychiatric technicians, formerly called attendant, are much in demand too.
All the advance that science has made will be of little value unless we approximate the minimum needs for the care and treatment of those with mental and emotional problems.
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San Diego is Passover Host to Services
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 13, 1956, Page 6
Scene at USO-JWB Seder held at the El Cortez Hotel, March 26, for 253 servicemen and families. Seated at the head table are Mr. and Mrs. Milton Fredman, V.C. of JWB’s 6th Army Area; Harry Handlery, owner of hotel; Rear Adm. And Mrs. Charles C. Hartman; Com. 11th Naval Distict; Chaplain Elihu H. Rickel and Mrs. Rickel; Rar Adm. and Mrs. Thornton C. Miller, Dist. Chaplain; Mr. and Mrs. Morris W. Douglas, Chairman of JWB’s Armed Services Committee.
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New Restaurant Opens in Escondido
Southwestern Jewish Press, April 13, 1956, Page 6
Jan and Geoge Stillings (formerly manager of the El Cortez Hotel) have opened the Palms Restaurant in Escondido, on Highway 395.
A program of special “nights” has been planned. Each Sunday will be “family night,” Stillings said, with other nights devoted to “Gourmet Club” dinner, special steak dinners, seafood dinners and foreign cuisine.
The dining room will be open from 8 a.m. to 1 a.m. daily.
More than $25,000 has been expended in remodeling. Chef Ulrich Ehlers will be in charge of food and beverage.
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