Personals
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
A pleasant surprise awaited Jerry and Rudy Hess, when they went to the De Angelis Restaurant on their 25th wedding anniversary. Twenty-two friends were waiting to surprise them and present them with a beautiful silver piece commemorating the happy event.
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Mrs. Morton J. Cohn and her sister, Mrs. L.A. Appelbaum, of Sharon, Penn., exchanged children for a month. Morton Jr. is spending his vacation in Sharon, and Carol Ann Appelbaum is visiting in San Diego.
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Thanks –Ossie Ehrlich, recuperating from surgery, is happy to be home again. She thanks her many friends for their kindness during her stay at the hospital.
Mrs. David Sugarman wishes to thank her friends for their cards of good wishes and their kindness after her recent surgery.
Mrs. Sophie Silberman would like to take this opportunity to thank her many friends for their good wishes during her recent stay in the hospital.
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A bridal shower was given in honor of Lois Liff, daughter of Mrs. L. Steinberg, on July 18, at the home of Mrs. William Schwartz. Luncheon was served for over forty in the garden of her Mt. Helix home. Lois also received a kitchen shower on July 21, at the home of Mrs. Charles Feurzeig. Hostesses were Zinna Feruzeig, Mrs. Jerry Schissel and Miss Gale Kahn. A poolside luncheon was served to the guests. Lois Liff and Lenny Weiss will be married August 11 at the Beth Jacob Synagogue.
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In addition to the regular camp activities, Mike Schwartz and Eddie Tennen are learning a lot about music at the Arrowbear Music Camp. They are enjoying both Bop and Bach and playing in the dance band and orchestra. Mike was elected Camp President.
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Evelyn Krantz, bride-to-be of Larry Solomon, was honored at a Brunch-Shower on Julhy 20, at the Mission Valley Country Club. Over 40 guests attended the Bruch hostessed by Alice Solomon, Lois Zlotoff, Tully Kitaen and Ruth Rider. Miss Krantz’s aunt, Mrs. Ray Bernstein, of New York, was an out-of-town guest. The wedding has been set for August 11.
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Coveted honors were earned by Dr. Harold Elden, who was appointed Chief of staff at the Grossmont Hospital, and Dr. Walter Ornstein who will be the new Chief of Staff at the Hillside Hospital.
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Mrs. Pauline Press expresses her gratitude to friends for their kindness during her hospitalization.
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The community welcomes back to San Diego Joan (Steinman) Kaplan and her family who will reside at 3549 Moultrie. Her husband, Dr. Robert S. Kaplan will be associated with dr. David Miller in the practice of surgery.
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Dorothy Elden and her sister, MRs. Harry Bauer, of Chicago, have three weeks to make up for their four years separation. Mrs. Bauer and her daughter, Jennifer, are houseguests at the Elden home.
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(Inventiveness)
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
You’d think that a nation brilliant enough to produce H-bombs could provide a shoe-string that wouldn’t break.
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Fall Fashions To Be Seen at Bay City Tea
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
The Bay City Chapter of B’nai B’rith Women are giving a tea on Wednesday, August 7th, in the Terrace Room of the Lafayette Hotel at 1 p.m. The feature of the afternoon is to be a “Sneak Preview of Fall Fashions,” showing the newest in furs and Fall apparel. The commentator for the show will be MRs. Valia Dennis, with Mrs. Sam Cohen as co-ordinator. Representing the District Lodge will be Mrs. Adolph Kadesh, of Los Angeles.
Mrs. Murray Samuels, chairman of the event, extends a cordial invitation to allj the Jewish women of the community to be their guests.
A drawing will be held for a lovely door prize. For reservations call MRs. Samuels at JU-2-7051 or Mrs. Krasnow at JU-2-2583.
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Next for Starlight ‘Pajama Game’
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
Star-Light’s second production of the all-time musical sensation “South Pacific” will play tonight through Sunday at 8:30 in Balboa Park Bowl. The Rodgers and Hammerstein masterpiece, which set an all-time attendance record when the first produced here two years ago, promises to break its own figure for mass attendance during the next three nights.
Meanwhile, the company is working over-time polishing its next production, the musical that ran to packed houses in New York for more than three years, the hilarious and zany show about love and labor troubles in a small pajama factory: “The Pajama Game.” The cast, loaded with Star-Light’s favorite singers, dancers and comedians, includes: Gene Clarke, Lee Whitney, Charlie Cannon, Johanna Billings and Ole Kittleson. With Polly Puterbaugh, of La Jolla, making her Star-Light debut in the feminine lead of “Babe” Williams.
Among the well-known songs from the show are: “I’m not at all in Love,” “There Once Was a Man,” “My Once a Year Day,” “Her Is,” “I’ll Never Be Jealous Again,” “Hernando’s Hideaway,” and, of course, “Hey, There.”
“The Pajama Game,” Star-Light’s contribution to the Fiesta del Pacifico, will run Thursday through Sunday of next week, then reopen for four more nights August 8-11.
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(A Pessimist)
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
A pessimist lives by the theory that if a thing isn’t wrong, it isn’t right.
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Cradle
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
Ushering in a new day Randall Alan Katz was born at seven minutes past midnight on July 18. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Milton Katz announce his weight as 8 lbs, his length 22 inches. HE will share the nursery with his two year old brother, Kenny.
Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Schissell; paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. George Katz of Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Noted Teacher-Pianist San Diego Resident
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
David Kahn, well known pianist and teacher, of Rochester, N.Y., now residing in San Diego, has for years been recognized as one of the prominent educators through his highly successful public appearances as well as through the achievements of many of his pupils.
His experience includes twenty years as instructor in New York City and Rochester, N.Y.; three years as guest instructor, New York School of Music and Arts; two years as associate teacher Roxas Studios, Steinway Hall, New York City. Mr. Kahn was a pupil and protege of the celebrated Liszt interpreter Arthur Fridheim and won first prize at the American Music Festival.
Mr. Kahn has opened a studio of Piano Instruction at Thearle’s Studio Bldg., 640 Broadway, Sutdio 23.
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AZA News
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
Though Bruce Cohen pitched a good game, the AZA ball team was edged 2 to 1 by Atlas Iron in a tense contest July 15. The next big AZA meeting will be on July 31. Boys from the ages 14 to 17, who are interested in this rapidly growing youth organization should contact Mel Brav at AT-4-3434.
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Gross Family Back in Radio
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
Radio and TV pioneer Jack Gross, former owner of KFMB, will return to the broadcasting field as new owner of Station KSON. This time his tow sons, Larry and Jack, will be partners with him in the enterprise. In 1942 Mr. Gross opened the first station, KFMB, in San Diego. Jack and Loretta Gross, who have traveled extensively since the sale of the station, always returned to San Diego and their lovely home in Sunset Cliffs. Several years ago they were co-chairmen on the United Jewish Fund drive.
Station KSON, 1240 on the dial, known as the T.N.T. Station (Tunes, News and Time), is eleven years old and has a top rating. The station was recently moved to new quarters in the U.S. Grant Hotel. An active member of the staff will be Sandra Schoenkopf.
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Dr. Marco Meyer Accepts Position in Hollywood
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 2
Dr. Marco Meyer, who for several years has efficiently cared for the feet of San Diegans his Chiropodist office, will now be focusing his attention on the dialogue from the mouths of motion picture stars. In addition to his position of Dialogue Director he will also served upon as motion picture Film Editor.
Dr. Meyer, who left the motion picture field ten years ago to practice chiropody, never lost his interest in the theater. While in San Diego he and his wife directed and participated in little theatre tgroups. He left Wednesday for a rehearsal, at Mickey Rooney’s home of a new United Artist Production, “Baby Face Nelson,” in which Mr. Rooney stars.
Press Notes
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 3
By Julia Kaufman
I had a chance last week-end of a surprise trip to Las Vegas or writing this column. What would you do? The playgirl in me argued that this would be an opportunity to print that interesting article from the Hebrew Union College which I had been saving for months…furthermore, the heat would be just the thing for that pain in my neck. With arguments like this, my conscience took a back seat as I sat in the front seat of the car en route to Vegas.
With the consideration of a man with ulterior motives, my husband tenderly placed me under a tree on the lawn of the Dunes Hotel before excusing himself for a “short time.” Knowing I wouldn’t see him for hours, I immediately delved into J.L. Talmon’s interesting article in Commentary Magazine, titled “Uniqueness and Universality of Jewish History.” The article does not come under the heading of “light reading.” After a while, I became more and more aware of an ever increasing number of people gathering around me. All had sugar-coated Southern accents and their conversation was interspersed now and then with a juicy Yiddish expression. I noted that the men were wearing multi-colored caps imprinted with “Family Inc., Dallas, Texas.” Feeling like a Yankee, I eavesdropped on what turned out to be a yearly meeting. Fathers, Mothers, Grandparents, Aunts, Cousins, In-Laws…everyone had an opportunity to express himself, with kibbitzers having a field day. Trophies were handed out — one to the winner of the Gin tournament on the bus en route from Dallas, another for a golf tournament. I reluctantly left before they had elected their new leader for the coming year. Qualifications for leadership? The member who proved the biggest nuisance during the past year.
Thanks, Family Inc., Dallas, Teaxs! You-all proved to little old me that the “uniqueness and universality” of Jewish life is vital and growing, notwithstanding Professor Arnold Toynbee’s charge of fossilization.
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First Across the Mountains
Joseph Jonas bragged that he was the first Jew to settle in the Ohio Valley and gloried in the role of pioneer. In Cincinnati, where he long held the title as the city’s only Jew, he wrote of himself in the third person, “Solitary and alone he remained for more than two years.” But Dr. Jacob R. Marcus, Director of the American Jewish Archives, asserts that “No Jew is ever the first Jew anywhere… there is always another who has been there before him.” And with that statement, he introduces the story of James Horwitz, a new contender for Jonas’s pioneering title.
New material just acquired by the American Jewish Archives, a research center located on the Cincinnati campus of the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institution of Religion, sheds fresh light on Jonas Horwitz, the versatile Jewish physician and intellectual and proves that he was there first, though he didn’t stay.
The recently-discovered records reveal that Horwitz was a German-Jewish immigrant, a jack-of-all trades and master of none. To judge by his name, he was a member of one of Europe’s great rabbinical families, and he had an excellent Hebrew education. He received his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1815, just three years after his arrival in America. There is a strong likelihood that Horwitz helped finance his medical education by editing the first Hebrew Bible in America, a beautiful, two-volume work which sold at the then high price of $14. By 1816, Horwitz had started on his travels and there is documented evidence of his arrival in Cincinnati. Pioneer Jonas arrived in 1817. So much for the matter of who was first.
Horwitz had crossed the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies by stagecoach to Pittsubrgh and had taken a keel boat down the river to Cincinnati. On arrival, he advertised in the Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette warning the good citizens of the coming of a smallpox epidemic which would carry off their children by the dozens — unless they turned to him for help. His advertisement proclaimed that he had some “genuine vaccine matter” which he had brought from Philadelphia.
Buy December of 1817, Horwitz had married Deborah Andrews, the granddaughter of the American Revolutionary patriot, Haym Salomon. Horwitz was not a money-maker; in addition to practicing medicine in Philadelphia, he taught Hebrew. When in 1818, he heard that Thomas Jefferson was about to establish a university in Virginia, Horwitz wrote to Jefferson’s friend, Judge Thomas Cooper, asking him to intervene to get him a faculty post. The doctor wanted a job as professor of oriental languages. In a letter he wrote to Jefferson directly, he agreed to teach German as well. He never got the job.
By the early 1820s, he was living in Baltimore. Years later, when the Mexican war broke out in the 1840s, he became the surgeon of a company of Jewish volunteers.
Horwitz founded a family distinguished in American annals. His son, Dr. Jonathan Phineas Horwitz, had a great career. During the Mexican War, he was personal physician to Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy in Lincoln’s cabinet. He was commended by Congress for his work with the United sTates Bureau of Medicine and Surgery to which he was named chief in 1865.
Another direct descendant of Jonas Horwitz and Haym Salomon is the well-known diplomat and statesman, William Christian Bullitt, Jr., former American Ambassador to the Soviet Union and France!
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Scholarship Fund Aids Children in Day Camp
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 3
At least 10% of the children attending Camp Jaycee, sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of San Diego, are referred from social agencies, the County Welfare Department, schools, synagogues and churches for scholarships because of the Center’s special campership program for needy children, according to William B. Schwartz, President.
Funds for the camperships come from a number of individuals and local community organizations and are used exclusively as grants for payment of camp fees for children who without this type aid could not participate in a camping experience during the summer months. The camperships are granted for one or more periods, depending on the need of the child and the family. All applications are cleared through the Jewish Social Services agency and are treated confidentially.
A $465 campership which permits six youngsters to attend Camp Jaycee for a full eight week period was given by the Community Service Organization — the Federation’s young leadership training program.
Other camperships were provided by Shoshona Pioneer Women, National Council of Jewish Women, Junior Charity League, Negba Pioneer Women, Mr. and Mrs. George Borushek, the Jolly Sisteen, Birdie Stodel B’nai B’rith Women, Women’s League, Jewish Community Center. Total scholarshjips amounted to $775.
Bernard Arenson, Day Camp Chairman, reported that there were still a few openings left for the last period of Camp Jaycee beginning on August 5. He warned that registrations will not be accepted after the maximum amount of campers have signed up for the last two weeks. “Camp Jaycee,” he said, “has maintained extremely high standards in day camping, by limiting the registration based on the number of counselors and method of transportation. Therefore we cannot accept registration after the full quota of campers has been secured.”
Registration for the last period may be made by contacting the Jewish Community Center, AT-1-7744.
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As The Psychologist Sees You
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 3
By Irving R. Stone, Psychological Consultant
Delinquency Prevention in England and Germany
In the study of delinquency, whether at home or abroad, one is constantly aware of the cultural factors involved and the factors that tradition plays. Each country shapes its treatment of offenders, whether juveniles or adults, on the codes which have become part of their legal standards, and many of these codes are of long standing with few modifications.
England, for example, is a prime case in point. While there have been some modifications in legal rules, many if not most have weathered the years now as they were when England was a very young nation. Within recent years, attempts have been made to modify these rules and codes which apply to juveniles. However even today youngsters are considered under rules that apply to adults and when they are brought to court they are thought of as being guilty and sent to special institutions for punishment.
Unlike the United States, there is a federal or national system of probation which allows for a unified form of care throughout the nation. In America, each state has its own probation program with wide variation from one state to another. Some, therefore, are more rigid and exacting than others. Probation officers in England are more carefully trained. Preventive measures include those used in most countries with added emphasis on careful psychiatric studies, child care programs, parent education and outdoor activities.
Germany has made as much progress in the prevention of delinquency as it has in its reconstructive measures. As there is almost no unemployment, almost every youngster who wishes to work can do so. They have developed the apprenticeship system to a high degree so that young boys and girls are able to go from school directly to a training program and then to a job. Those too young to work are carefully protected and any child who is neglected can be taken from the home and given the care they need. Each province has a youth director who works closely with the community council, supervising activities of the youth and providing programs that will cut delinquency to a minimum. For example, when the Youth Director in Bonn found that cheap, unfaborable movies were being showin in movie houses, he was able to arrange for free pictures of a higher calibre to be shown in competition with the commercial houses. Germany uses the Youth Hostel movement extensively and juveniles are constantly on the move, by foot or bike, to see their neighboring communities or countries. Inexpensive rail and bus trips are provided with volunteer leaders to supervise the children.
We have much to learn from European methods for the prevention of delinquency. True, they have not solved the problem but neither have we.
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With The Guardians
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 3
By Morrie Pomeranz
The annual “Man of the Year” award dinner held on July 11 must be considered, by all standards, the finest one to date– numerous judges, councilmen, lawyers, bankers, business men and outstanding civic leaders — an auspicious gathering assembled for one purpose – to pay due respect to Nate Baranov–the meeting was ably presided by Sammy Addleson–congratulatory telegrams and letters poured in–short but sincere addresses were made by Judge Weinberger, deGraf Austin, Chester Schneider, Rabbi Cohn, George A. Scott, and Monsignor Ott–plus a warm and inspiring presentation of the plaque by Murray Goodrich — the recipient, Nate Baranov, surprised all with his unimpaired humor and his effective needling of Murray–there were several representatives of the coming Fiesta del Pacifico–all clean-shaven–but the only two men in the entire assemblage sporting neatly-trimmed Vandykes were Lou Lipton and Dave Stotsky.
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The five-year-old grandson of one of our beloved Guardians finally decided on his fture. “You know what I’m gonna be when I grow up?” inquired the youth to his ‘gramps’ — “Now what is y our newest decision?” The youth indicated that this was a result of no flash judgment but something he had arrived at by studious application. “I’m gonna be a scarecrow!” “A scarecrow?” — ‘gramps’ a retired businessman, was understandably amused, but patiently tried to point out the bad features, etc. — but the youngster, oriented by modern thinking, was ready with the clincher: “So what’s wrong with being a scarecrow if the location is right.”
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We can only report the following — any question of accuracy must be resolved by the reader: Julius Penn and Sam Porter took time off from their respective tasks to go fishing off the Coronado Islands last Tuesday. The two stood alongside each other aboard the rolling sports boat–each using similar equipment — Penn had already sacked 4 yellows and three large barracudas, but Porter was yet to get his first nibble. “Say Julie,” asked Porter, “what am I doing wrong?” “I dunno,” said Penn, “but I’ll tell you what let’s do–you take my fishing pole and come stand in my spot.” This little maneuver was tried — Porter cast out and as he did, two fine yellowtail broke the surface–one yellow pointed a fin at Porter and asked: “Say, where’s Julius?”
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