Pioneer Women Plan Seminar This Summer
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 4
The Pioneer Women, Negba and Shoshanah Clubs, are planning a three day seminar the early part of August. Mrs. Rose Kaufman, member of the National Advisory Board of Pioneer Women will conduct the seminar.
Mrs. Kaufman has traveled extensively throughout Europe, North Africa and Israel visiting social service institutions maintained by Pioneer Women’s sister organization, the Moetzet Hapoalot (Working Women’s Council in Israel.) A graduate of Western Reserve University in Cleveland, she has rendered devoted service to her home community and in 1955 the Women’s Division of the Jewish National Fund, comprising Hadassah, Mizrachi, Pioneer and B’nai B’rith Women, dedicated in Israel a Rose Kaufman Forest as their new project.
At the seminar she will share with local Pioneer Women the knowledge she has gathered both hewre and abroad.
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Center Bldg. Takes Shape
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 4
Concrete was poured last week, and actual building began this week for San Diego’s new Jewish Community Center at 54th Street near University Avenue.
“Center officials want the Community building ready for occupancy by April 1,” William B. Schwartz, Center President, stated, “and are pressing in every way possible to have it completed by that date.”
Maury Novak and Sidney Rose, Building Chairman, said that every effort will be made to have the building completely equipped and the swimming pool ready with an ongoing program on the target date.
Irvin Mortin, Center Assistant Director, and Murray Schnier, Program Director, are working with the Program Committee to develop an outstanding activity of both cultural and recreational activities.
The contemporary ranch style building will be 28,000 square feet in size and will complete the first building phase in the plans of the Center. It is being built to house all Jewish community agencies, as well as the many cultural, recreational and leisure time activities of the Center program.
Two large meeting rooms and six small meeting rooms will be available for social and fraternal organizations, as well as a kitchen facility for those organizations which wish to serve during their meetings.
Novak and Rose also said that tentative plans are being made for dedication of the cornerstone in the very near future.
The Building Finance Committee of the Jewish Community Center reported to center leadership that an additional $100,000 in cash will be necessary before completion of the building. This, they said, must be provided by converting the pledges from the first building fund campaign into cash as fast as possible and from a new building fund campaign sometime in early winter.
It is anticipated that for the first six months membership will have to be limited in numbers until it can be seen how many families can be served adequately and efficiently by the facility and continue the very high standards set by the Board of Directors.
Schwartz said that anyone wishing to serve on Center committees should immediately notify Irving Mortin, Assistant Center Director, at AT-1-7744.
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Governor Signs Law To Allow Residents of Calif. Make Bequests to Israel
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 4
A bill by Senator Richard Richards (Dem, Los Angeles) to permit monetary bequests to the Israeli Government by California residents (SB 1857) was this week signed into law by Governor Goodwin J. Knight.
The bill had been finally approved by the Legislature on June 6. Under existing California law it has not been legal to leave money by will to foreign countries, and the bill was introduced by Senator Richardson at the request of members of the Jewish community who desired to leave bequests to Israel.
The effect of the new law will permit such bequests to anhy foreign state with which the United States has reciprocal agreements in this field.
The law will become effective on September 11, three months after final adjournment of the Legislature.
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Security Title in New Quarters
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 4
Security Title Insurance Company broke ground in San Diego Friday, July 12 for its new ultra-modern office building costing in excess of $500,000 to be constructed on the northeast corner of Third Avenue and A Street in the heart of the financial district.
Mayor Charles Dail; George E. Courser, Chief San Diego Fire Department; O.W. Campbell, City Manager of San Diego, and Ralph Phillips, president of the San Diego Chamber of Commerce and vice president of the San Diego Gas and Electric Co., were among the business and civic leaders participating in the ceremonies. William Breliant, chairman of the Board of the Security Title Insurance Company, and Gordon B. Cairns, vice president and assistant manager of the San Diego office, scooped the first blade full of earth with a giant skip loader.
Occupancy has been scheduled for February 1, 1968, Cairns said.
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Open House To Welcome New J.C.C. Worker
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 5
All persons who are interested in the Jewish Community Center are invited to attend the gala champagne Open House to be held on Sunday, July 28, at the home of Mr. Wm. Schwartz, the Center’s president, and his wife, Jean, at 9297 Wister Drive in La Mesa. On hand to greet you will be Mrs. Norman Gelman, Women’s League President, and members of her board. They will introduce you to Mr. Murray Schneider, newly appointed Program Chairman for the Center, and his wife.
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Bullfights Offer Good Card Sunday
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 5
TIJUANA (Special to the Jewish Press)–A pair of topnotch bullfights are in the offing within the next two weeks. Sunday, July 28, will see two of Mexico’s best, and a Spaniard on the card. Juan Silveti, rated as one of the top three in Mexico, and Antonio Velazquez, colorful Mexicans, headline the card. The Spaniard is Victoriano Posada. They will each fight two Tequisquiapan bullls.
Sunday, Aug. 4, marks the return to this arena of Luis Procuna, the world’s most colorful matador. Luis recently starred in a motion picture, “Torero,” and it won several awards at the Cannes Film Festival. On the card with Procuna is the new youthful sensation of Mexico, Ramon Tirado. He is regarded as one of the men who eventually will become an all time great. Andres Blando, capable veteran, will be the third matador. The bulls for the later card will be from Mexico’s best farm of fight bulls, La Punta.
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Day At the Races For Hadassah Gals
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 5
Mrs. Harry Farb on Monday, July 22nd at 1 p.m., was hostess to 44 Hadassah women in her Alvarado Estate home. These women form the committee for the exciting date at Del Mar, “Hadassah’s Day at the Races,” on Friday, August 23rd.
The committee is being chaired by Mrs. Harry Snyder with the able assistance of President, Mrs. Morton Thaler, and Mmes. Victor Schulman, Jack Gross, Victor Selten, Lewis Solomon, Harry Wax, David Sapp, Ben Snyder, Ray Lieberman, Harry Felson, Gabriel Berg, Irvin Kahn, Edward Kitaen, Elmer Wohl, Harry Farb, David Block, Frank Goldberg, Hebert Solomon, Alan Geist, Charles Feuerzeig, Murray Goodrich, Lewis Kipperman,m Norman Smith, Harold Elden, Ray Bass, Sam Cohen, Rodin Horrow, Herbert Haimsohn, Fred Leeds, Yale Kahn, Martin Ernest, Herman Sarfan, Abe Sklar, Carl Esenoff, David Doctor, Lawrence Cantor, Milton Fredman, Robert M. Stone, Eddie Cantor, Sidney Smith, Sammy Stein, Leonard Zlotoff.
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Couples Club Holds Cinema Party
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 5
The 4 C’s of the J.C.C. will hold a Cinema Party on Saturday, July 27th, at 8:00 p.m. in the Center, 4056 University Ave. Refreshments and dancing will be held after the party. Call CO-2-1523 for further information. All couples invited.
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C.S.O. To Hear Dr. William C. Rust
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 5
Dr. William C. Rust, President of California-Western University, will be the guest speaker at the August meeting of the Community Service Organization on Tuesday evening, August 13, according to Dr. Gerald Kobernick, President.
A member of the San Diego Federation of Jewish Agencies, the CSO consists of young business and professional executives who are interested in serving their community and are training themselves for such leadership.
Dr. Rust, second in the series of speakers and discussion leaders to appear before the leadership group, will discuss “Higher Education in San Diego.”
An unusual format for the speaker has been worked out by the Program Chairman. The speaker gives the background material of r the subject for one half hour and then there is an hour’s question and answer period.
Other speakers to be presented by the Community Service Organization are Sam Kaminker of the American Association for Jewish Education, who will discuss Jewish education; John Pennock, director of the San Diego Coordinating Council, discussing juvenile delinquency; James Britton, art editor of San Diego Magazine, and James Senn, Executive Director of the Southern California office of the Anti-Defamation League.
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Knight Signs Kosher Bill
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 5
Word has just been received from Governor Goodwin J. Knight’s press secretary that the Governor has signed Assembly Bill 2880, which is popularly known as the Kosher Bill.
AB 2880 was introduced into the Legislature by Representative Joe Shell of Los Angeles. It passed the House with only two dissenting votes, and it passed the Senate unanimously.
AB 3880 is an Act to add enforcement to Section 383b of the Penal Code of the State of California. Simply applied, if a butcher advertises “kosher” he can be prosecuted under AB 2880. It gives the same protection to kashruth-observing families as families are protected generally from misrepresentations by the various pure food laws.
Section 383b of the Penal Code was passed by the California State Legislature in 1932, but it had no enforcement provision.
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Yo-Ma-Co News
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 5
With Dave Cohen acting as Master of Ceremonies, Yo-Ma-Co Club held its Installation Dinner and Dance at the Bali Hi. Installed as President was Macy Abrams. He will have the following officers serving with him for the new term: Vice Pres., Bill Wagner; Record. Sec., Lil Nadler; Corr. sec., Evelyn Lavine; Treas, Sid Steckel; Membership Sec., Betty Abrams; Sargeant-at-Arms, Lou Schwartz.
Highlight of the enjoyable affair were several funny skits performed by club members. Outgoing President, Vic Silverstein, and his staff were complimented for a job well done.
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The ‘Potting Shed’ Now at La Jolla
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
La Jolla Playhouse is living up to its reputation of being the nation’s “prestige” theatre as well as its “most star-studded” with its current presentation of “The Potting Shed,” a “detective story for grownups,” by Graham Greene.
The La Jolla production is the first in the world outside New York, and its star, Gladys Cooper, has been asked to star in the London production next winter after she completes the making of the motion picture, “Separate Tables.”
Co-starred with Miss Cooper at La Jolla are: Leo G. Carroll, known to millions of TV viewers as “Topper”; Tom Helmore, whjo replaced Rex Harrison in “My Fair Lady” for a period last season; Cecil Kellaway, who will be seen soon co-starring with Ethyl Barrymore in “Johnny Trouble,” and Stephen Bekassy, whose most recent TV success was on CBS’s “Myerling.” Featured in supporting roles are Marian Seldes, Hilda Plowright, Nora O’Mahony, Richard Peel, Carolyn Kearney, and Paul Comi.
Audiences and critics who saw “The Potting Shed” when it opened Tuesday night, seem to agree with Wolcott Gibbs of the New Yorker Magazine, who described the play as “entertaining, in a very good, wide sense of the word” and “a tense and exciting piece of work, by one of the world’s most expert story tellers.”
“The Potting Shed” will run through Sunday, August 4th. It will be followed by another west coast premiere when the Playhouse presents Don Taylor in “Career.”
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‘Around the World’ At Capri Theatre August 1st
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
Michael Todd’s spectacular “Around the World in 80 Days,” in wide, wide-screen Todd-AO and Technicolor begins an exclusive engagement at the Capri Theatre, San Diego, with a gala charity premiere Thursday evening, August 1st.
Winner of over 50 awards, including five Academy Awards, “Around the World” will be shown in the new Todd-AO process, revolutionary system of projections and sound which is now being installed at a cost of $75,000 in the Capri Theatre and marks the only theatre between Los Angeles and Dallas.
The San Diego engagement will be on a road show, reserved seat basis with Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m., nightly at 8:30 p.m., Sunday evenings at 7 p.m. The presentation of the film, which is of historical importance in the motion picture industry, is an entertainment event of major proportions for all the family.
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A&L Escrow Co. Opens New Offices
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
Arthur E. Levy has moved his office to larger quarters at 3766 30th Street. Mr. Levy is affiliated with the A. & :L. Escrow Co. at the same address. He invites all his friends to visit the new conveniently located office one half block south of University Avenue.
The A. & L. Escrow Company is equipped to handle any problem concerning real estate and law.
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(Dead Right)
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
You may have the right of way, but it isn’t worth dying for.
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Popular Concert For Bowl July 30
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
Balboa Park Bowl will be filled with the music of Broadway and the nation Tuesday night, July 30, at 8:30 when San Diego Symphony Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting, is joined by the sensational Hi-Lo’s, male vocal quartet, for the fourth summer series concert.
The popular program planned includes selections from the New York hit show, “My Fair Lady,” the best of George Gershwin’s great songs, and hit tunes of the day.
Tickets for the Hi-Lo’s concert as well as the remaining symphony concerts, are available at the Palmer Box Office, 640 Broadway. Reservations may be made by calling BE-9-4700.
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B.B. G. News
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
The B.B. G.’s last activity was a very successful evening of miniature golf. A great many more interesting events are being planned throughout the summer. Two pool parties are to be the girls’ first fund-raising projects.
Girls interested in joining are urged to contact the President, Hannah Jo Schwartz, at AT-2-6623. Fun and inspiration are guaranteed.
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(Footsteps)
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
The man who follows in the footsteps of another never gets ahead.
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Walker Scott Store To Add Complete Book Department
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
The Walker Scott Company’s new book department will be formally opened August 1 on the eighth floor of the store at Broadway and Fifth Ave., according to George A. Scott, president and general manager.
A feature attraction will be the personal appearance of Harold Mansfield, of Seattle, Wash., author of the best seller, “Vision.” He will be available for autographing from 3 until 4:30 p.m.
The new department, with its specially designed fixtures, will be under the management of Mrs. Edith Korberr.
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Jai Alai To Reopen Thursday, August 15
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
TIJUANA (Special to the Jewish Press)–The Fronton Palace, home of Jai Alai, will reopen Thursday, August 15. That was the word received from the Fronton management at press time.
The Fronton was gutted by fire in March. Few expected the reopening before the end of the year. Many innovations will greet the fans at the new Fronton, which coast $500,000 to rebuild. One big feature will be a closed circuit TV to all the cocktail lounge and snack bars. Fans will be able to sit and watch the game on a large screen.
Although the seating arrangement will be very much the same the Fronton has taken on added beauty. New betting windows, new stairways and new designs are among the many innovations. The playing court and walls are much faster. Then there is the portable back wall for the girls’ players. It comes up right out of the floor, a giant hoist lifting the eight-ton portable wall into place.
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Famous Artist Series Offers Five Events
Southwestern Jewish Press, July 26, 1957, Page 6
In the coming months, San Diego’s Russ Auditorium will be host to a number of excellent musical attractions.
The “Famous Artists Series” promises five outstanding musical events in their 1957-58 season. On November 21, the Symphony Orchestra of the Florence Festival (Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Florentino) will appear on their first American tour. The orchestra is composed of 100 fine musicians from Italy.
Four truly distinguished soloists who have joined as the Festival “quartet” will appear on January 15. The quartet features Szymon Goldberg, violin; William Primrose, viola; Victor Babin, piano; and Nikolai Grauden cellist. A change of pace should be provided with the performance on February 9 by the great Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo.
Claudio Arrau, the noted pianist, visits San Diego on March 8th. Eileen Farrell, the dramatic soprano, will appear on April 21. The latter artists are familiar to music lovers both in this country and abroad. Season tickets for this “Famous Artist Series” are now available at the Palmer Box Office (Thearle’s Music Co.). For information on the concert series and to learn of the numerous benefits which will be forthcoming from purchasing season tickets, call BE-9-4700.
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