Heart Association Gets Funds
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 3
Realizing that the greatest benefit t the individual heart patient will come from advances in scientific understanding of the cardiovascular diseases, which can only be gained through research, the San Diego County Heart Association isinvesting $40,394.00 in research and fellowship grants this year, Henry F. Hansen, president of the San Diego County Heart Association announced today.
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Jewish Center News
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 3
Camp Jaycee will celebrate a tenth anniversary Birthday Party on Friday, August 17, in the University Ball Room, 4009 Central Avenue.
The camper and staff will be seated around 12 large tables according to the birth month of the individual. A special lunch will be served with a birthday cake for each table as dessert. Following lunch, each moth will present a program depicting the reasons why that month is famous. The birthday banquet will officially close the 1956 season of Camp Jaycee.
Parents and friends are invited to witness the program following lunch at 1:30 p.m.
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A donation of nursery school placques, pictures and materials has been made to the Cooperative Nursery School by Mrs. Rose Winnick Gilmour. These posters will be used to decorate the new quarters of the Jewish Community Center when it moves to its University Ave. location on Octob er 1st. Display cases were also donated by Mrs. Gilmour.
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Nursery School – Nursery school memberships are now available for the fall semester at the Cooperative Nursery School, says Mrs. Lester Friedman, President. The school is under the direction of Mrs. Norma Wilson and is an
activity of the Jewish Community Center. Interested parents should contact Mrs. Carl Prager, 1930 Rexford Dr., Congress 2-1194.
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The fall and winter program for the Jewish Community is being put into final form this month. Announcements in the form of a news letter will be mailed to all members of the Jewish Community Center in September.
With the acquisition of the University Ballroom, 4009 Central Ave., every Wednesday evening, plans are being made to have a special once-a-month program for the single adults, teenage high school youth and junior high group. Three committees are working on a concert, lecture and film series to be presented this fall and winter season. The JCC is expected to move by Octoer to its new location at 4056 University Ave.
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The Gaylarks (Young Adult Group) will have a patio supper followed by music, dancing and sociability at the
home of Jay Borushek, 4902 67th St., on Tuesday evening, august 21 at 6 p.m. Reservations are necessary and will be taken on Tuesday, August 14 at the Jewish Community Center starting at 7:30 p.m.
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Cottage of Israel
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 3
The date of our Annual Open Meeting and election of officers has been changed to Sept. 29 and will be held at the Wednesday Club, 6th and Ivy Lane.
Besides election and installation of officers an excellent program is being prepared. Refreshments and dancing will cose the evening. Watch for later announcement of the detailed program.
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“Inside Music”
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 3
The concluding concert of the San Diego Symphony’s “Inside Music Series” will be Robert Shaw’s second annual religious offering, Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Massin B Minor” to be given at 7:30 p.m., Friday, August 17, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 2729 Fifth Avenue.
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Dick Moorsteen To Visit Soviet Union
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 3
Richard Moorsteen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Moorsteen of San Diego, will fly to the Soviet union tomorrow for a four-week stay. Mr. Moorsten, whose field of study has been Soviet economics, is going on a grant provided by the Carnegie Foundation.
In September, he will be joined by his wife, Patricia, and then both will spend a month in Italy before returning to the West Coast. Mr. Moorsteen has accepted a position with the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica and will reside in Los Angeles.
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Press Notes
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 4
By Julia Kaufman
Man’s Best (and most expensive) Friend
My visit to the Del Mar Race Track last week was profitable – not only did I come away a winner but I learned some interesting facts on the breeding and training of thoroughbreds. Like most visitors, I usually buy myself a program, racing form and sometimes a tip sheet. After carefully viewing the situation from all angles, I wait to study the odds, then dash to place my $2.00 bet. If I’m lucky I make the window without meeting a friend with a hot tip. Being touted off your own hunches is one of the hazards of betting. To most of the visitors at the track, a horse either wins or loses for them – they are usually too busy figuring out the next race to dwell overlong on why a favorite sometimes fails to come through.
A visit to the stables with Bess and Harry Snyder brought me a little closer to the heartbreaks on the other side of the track. The stark reality of the barn was a sharp contrast to the glamour of the Turf Club. Here was the sweating, straining, worrying end of racing.
With five carrots as bait, I got close to Bull Rampant, the bay horse owned by the Snyders and learned that a thoroughbred’s life is not all hay. At the time of my visit he was out out the running because of a bowed tendon. I started to ask so many questions that I was turned over to authority Roy Colosia, breeder-trainer and horse owner.
I learned that all thoroughbreds celebrate their birthdays on the same day—January 1st. This fact should help in case you were thinking of sending birthday greetings to the long shot who pulled you out of a hole in the ninth
race. Birth among thoroughbreds is not left to chance or romance. The canny breeders mate the mare and stallion around February 10 so that the foal will have a January birthday. (The mare carries eleven months).
You can win money by betting that a “horse” never won a Kentucky Derby. Why? Because only three year old colts
or fillies are entered in this famous race. Out of little colts big horses grow but it takes five years to turn the trick. Females mature faster so a filly becomes a mare in four years.
In the world of thoroughbreds, a horse becomes a stallion only after he is taken out of racing for stud purposes. A gelding could have been a colt or a filly but it can never be a stallion or a mare. (If you’re confused, there’s always the dictionary.)
On his first birthday, the foal is known as a “Yearling.” At the age of sixteen to eighteen months, the breaking or training period begins. Every day for about sixty days the animal is allowed a slow gallop for one-eighth of a mile. The pace and distance is gradually increased to three-eighths of a mile and about this time the thoroughbred is a “Two Year Old” and ready for his first race. From then on he comes under racing rules and
regulations. He must be “broken” three times out of the starting gate and receive the o.k. of the starting steward before permission to race is granted. The jockey is not permitted to use a whip until the colt has raced at least five times. (Some animals never require a whip to bring out more speed). Thus are winners (or losers) brought into the field of competition.
In case you are thinking of buying a horse, keep in mind that out of approximately 5,000 thoroughbreds born each year only about 1,000 turn out to be good racers. Some of the expenses involved are training, boarding, feeding,
new shoes, repair of harness, liver shots, leg paint, leg tightener … At this point I neighed, kicked up my heels and ran to place my bet on “MAC,” th 9th horse in the 9th race – yup, the “Nag” ran last.
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Whoa! Did yu note that the horse on the insignias worn by San Diego postmen is running in the opposite direction to the way the men are walking? It is rumored that this horse will be scratched.
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I get a bing bang wathing the cars slow down as soon as a “shamus” appears. Last Sunday on Rt. 101 a motorist got a ticket one foot way from the end of a 35 mile zone … that’s what I call hitting below the speedometer.
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Dick Moorsteen had a good reason for going alone to Russia. Visitors there are only permitted to stay four weeks and must spend $30.00 per day. His wife will join him during his last week there.
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Si(g)nology – In Hong Kong “East of Eden” is advertised as “Licentious Mother and Passionate Son.”
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While still dam from typing the editorial on water, I’d like to tell you about the Heilbrun Castle, in Germany, built over 300 years ago. The original owner,a bishop, was interested in water power, not to benefit his fellow en, but as a means of perpetrating a weird assortment of pranks on his guests. He ingeniously constructed hidden water pipes (controlled centrally) under stonebenches, in statuary and even in guest rooms on his estate. Long before the United States was turning out the latest in plumbing fixtures, his guests were “enjoying” showers for unexpected sources. On the more serious side, he constructed a miniature village where every figure moved – all through water power. It turned out to be one of the gayest tours I took in Europe.
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Water Is Vital To San Diego
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 4
We’d like to quote portions of a letter received from Mrs. Sheridan Hegland, a teacher in La Mesa, and the wife of Assemblyman Hegland who is one of the co-signers of a bill providing funds for plans to study ways and
means of bringing water into California.
“Feather River water coming out of pipes in San Diego County is no pipe dream at all. Right this second if you turn on a light in your home the current may be coming from one of the power plants we visited some five hundred
miles from here. To reach the dam responsible for the power and water development, we drove up peaks so steep our car stalled several times…\ engineers carved out of stone and shale a road to carry men and materials to
build the dam. Nothing more difficult will be encountered by the engineer of the Feather River Project.”
“Once the installations are complete the dam, the flumes, the power plants, the steel towers carrying the wires for the current, man almost bows out of the scene. From then on practically everything is automatic with the staffs spending their time watching dials.
“Power and water developments such as we saw and the others in our state have made the Feather River Project possible and feasible. The Legislature this spring provided the legal structure and the funds. Feather River water n the power it will engender en route is well on its way to us.”
Today, with the rapid growth of our population, San Diego citizens have become aware of the danger of a water shortage. However, the heroes of the water story in san Diego are men with foresight like Fred A. Heilbron, who for years had to battle fellow citizens in order to open up new sources of water supply.
Of vital interest to all Californians is the outcome of the court suit between Arizona and California as to “who gets how much” water from the Colorado River. Meanwhile your representatives are right on tap doing their best to keep you well supplied with the greatest necessities to man. A State Water Department is now being organized; the Oroville Dam site is being purchased; funds are available for the purchase of the San Luis Dam site;
engineering studies are under way for routes to bring water from Northern California to San Fernando Valley and Los Angeles; and another study is being made to bring water from Los Angeles to San Diego.
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A World Jewish Body
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 4
The present leader of the World Jewish Congress, who is also the president of the World Zionist Organization and chairman of the Jewish Agency, has advanced a plan for the formation of a new world Jewish body. The declared purpose is to establish an authoritative spokesman on matters affecting the civic status of Jews the world over.
Several Jewish communal organizations have indicated that they would be willing to endorse this proposal. It is our belief that this plan would not be of service to the Jews of America and our co-religionists elsewhere.
No single group can speak for the Jews of the United States. They, like Americans of other faiths, differ among
themselves on social, economic and political issues. The bonds between Jews of various countries are exclusively those of religion, cultural heritage and common history. Whatever our relations be with the Jews of Israel or Jews in other parts of the word, we speak primarily as American Jews.
Any global body which sets out to deal with issues affecting the civic relationships of Jews in various countries will prove self-defeating since it is inherently inconsistent with the healthy integration of Jews into the
Western democracies.
This is not to say that Jews should not band together for charitable purposes or attempts to secure equal rights for Jews all over the world. However, these efforts should be on a voluntary basis and not controlled by a “”Central Body” whose majority vote would speak for all Jews.
We trust that the National Organizations, who will have to consider this proposal, will recognize the implications and reject the formation of a World Jewish Body.
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Volunteers Needed For Success Drive
Southwestern Jewish Press, August 10, 1956, Page 4
An urgent call for all residents of San Diego to serve as United Success Drive campaign volunteers was issued today by Jack Thompson, Chairman of the fall drive.
He urged all persons with a few spare hours to pitch in and help raise the $2,306,000 United Success goal that is needed to support more than seventy health, welfare and recreation services throughout the county.
Volunteers are needed for all phases of the campaign, he reported. “We especially need top-notch women in the geographic division who will campaign all places of residence and all firms or business with less than five employees within the city,” Thompson said.
A call was also issued for telephone callers, typists, filing clerks and personnel to address and stuff envelopes
at the central United Success Headquarters, 3535 Enterprise Street.
Volunteers for all phases of the campaign should call ACademy 3-7191.
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