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Jewish Center Activities

Abe Cohen to DisCuss
Anglo-U. S. Zion Report
The implicationS of the Anglo-
American Committee report on
Palestine will be discussed by
Abe COhen of the Jewish' Com-
munity Council; at the Jewish
. Center, under auspices of the
Business and Professional discus-
sion group, next • Wednesday, at
8:30 p. m.
The group is planning to hold
outdoor meetings this summer in
the Center courtyard.
All adults are invited to the
informal discussions.
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Teen-Age Fashion Show
At the Center, May 19
On May 19, Jewish Center girls
will model fashionable clothes in
the teen-age fashion show, "Par-
adise a la Carte," in the Center
auditorium, at 2:30 p. m.. Sam
Neuschatz, rfitermediate director;
announces..
Frank and Seder will provide
the clothes for the show. The
Louis Marshall Bnai Brith girls
have joined the following partici-
pating clubs: Genies, Remets,
Senior Young Judea and Diana
Mallerman Bnai Brith Girls.
Little Women of Hadassah are
planning to join the committee.
Teen-age girl group interested in
°AP participating in the program
should contact Ruth Lefko‘vitz,
TY. 6-7620, or Mr. Neuschatz,
MA. 8400. Ruth Lefkowitz, Betty
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Brayer, Norma Shapiro and Har-
riet Warrat are the advisors.
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Center Delegates to Attend
Social Welfare Parley
The Jewish Center will be rep-
resented at the National Confer-
ence of Jewish Social Welfare
to be held in Atlantic City, May
26-29.
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Photography Club Seeks
Overseas Photos for Display
As part of its contribution to
the campaign, the Center Photo-1
graphy Club is planning an ex-
hibition of photographs ;depicting
the plight of the Jewish survivors
overseas. Veterans who have
photos of this nature taken while
in service in the ETO are asked
to - loan them to the Center for
display, by calling Harold Arian,
assistant director of the Center.
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Scouts'. Court of Honor
A court of honor will be held
by the Scouts of Troop 369 in
Butzel Hall on May 23. The troop
is under the leadership of Ruben
Goldstein, scoutmaster, and M.
Wachts, chairman.
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Center to Aid A. J. C.
The Center will assist in the
Allied Jewish campaign. A seri*s
of programs will be conducted to
insure wholehearted participation
by Center groups in this •urgent
drive.

State Checker Champ
To Play 30 Matches
At 12th St. Center

The newly crowned state check-
er champion, Carrol A. Binsack,
will play 30 checker games si-
multaneoltsly at the 12th St.
Council Center, 8687 12th, Wed-
nesday, May 15, at 8 p.m., it is
announced by Harold Weiss ',di-
rector of extension division of the
Center. -
This event is sponsored by the
Chess and Checker Club of the
12th St. Council Center as part
of its program to popularize chess
and checkers.
Members of the club play with
official equipment according to
up-to-date rules. The games are
taught to those who participate
in the club's activities, and a li-
brary is maintained for members
who wish to improve.
In May, 1945, George Fabian,
librarian of the Detroit Chess and
Checker Club, saw the need of
a chess and checker club on a
community scale in the 12th St.
neighborhood, and a chapter was
formed upon consultation with
Mr. Weiss. The club's charter
membefship of 15 has grown to
40.
The public is invited, free of
charge, to witness the compe

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Thomas and Schwartz Win
Handball Tournament Places
Max Thomas and Louis Sch-
wartz, Center. Handball players
who took fourth place in the re-
cent state doubles tournament
here, won the All Center Doubles
Tournament composed of 16 com-
peting teams. Joe Tolchin and
George Schreiber took second
place honors.
A ladder of Class A handball
players has been posted in the
lobby of the main courts. Players
listed there will have exclusive
use of courts number 1 and 2 on
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 5 to 8
p. in., to relieve the courts' con-
gestion during the current play-
ing season. A system of play for
challenge matches among Class
A players is being established by
the Center's handball committee.
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Red Cross Offers Senior
Life Saving Courses
American Red Cross senior- life
saving courses for men are given
every Monday and Wednesday,
6 to 7 13; m., and on Tuesdays,
from 8 to 9 p. m. for women.
Register for these courses with
Sol Cohen or Ben Wolinsky.
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Holiday Hop May 19
The last Holiday Hop dance
until next fall will take place in
the Center on Sunday, May 19, it
is announced by Estelle Starr and
Danny Raskin, co-chairmen of
the committee. It will be a Lag
b'Omer dance with music by
Phil Brestoff and his orchestra.
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Miss Collins to Address
2 Mothers' Clubs, May 15
Miss Laurentine Collins, direc-
tor of inter-cultural relations. in
the Public School system, will be
the guest speaker at a joint meet-
ing of the Woodward Study Club
and the Young Women's Study
Club at the Center on Wednes-
day, May 15, at 1:30 p. m.
All Mothers' clubs wil discuss
"The Transition from War to
Peace" at their. meetings.
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Form New Scout Troop
Two ex- GIs, Harold Rosenthal
and Sheldon Bessman, will lead a
new senior Scout troop for boys,
14-16, being formed at the Center.
The first meeting will be May 15,
7:30 p. m., in room 205. Bessinan
and ROsenthal, former Scouts, re-
cently returned to civilian life
after service with the Army Air
Corps.

2 Center Day Camps
Take Registrations

Registration for Camp Habon-
im day camp of the Jewish Cen-
ter, is under way. Applications
for the
e day
ay camp o of the 12th St.
Council Center also are being
accepted.
A competent staff has been
selected to supervise the program
which will utilize the most pro-
gressive techniques in camping
designed to give the children an
enriched social, religious, cultural
and recreational experience.
The camps will meet Mondays
through Fridays, 9 .a. m. to 4 -p. m.
and the extensive indoor and out-
door program will be conducted
at the Center. Supervised excur-
sions, hikes, trips and outings will
be held in the City Parks and
playgrounds.
The 1946 season, July 1 to Aug.
23, is divided into four two-week
periods: July 1 to July 14, July 15
to July 28, July 29 to Aug. 11 and
Aug. 12 to Aug. 23.
The minimum registration per-
iod is two weeks. The camps are
conducted for boys and girls, 6
to 14.
For those who desire it, buses
will make station stops at select-
ed points ,where the children
under supervision will be picked
up and returned.
Every camper will be exam-
ined by the camp doctor before
admission and children .must be
accompanied by parents at regis-
tration. Parents are asked 'to call
MA. 8400 for an appointment for
an interview.
Aviva Gootman, director of the
camp, advises all parents to reg-
ister their children as soon as
possible.

Youth Will Honor
Sinatra at Center

Honoring Frank Sinatra for his
work in bettering inter-racial and
inter-cultural understanding and
relations, AZ - Rex Chapter of
the Center has organized a youth
rally for Monday,- May 13, at
8 p. m., in the Center auditorium.
An extensive program is plan-
ned', with representatives • of the
Center, AZA, Intermediate Coun-
cil, church, Negro and other
national minority youth groups
participating.
Sinatra is being invited to at-
tend-the rally to receive an award
of honor. The program will in-
clude the award, two films,
"Suffer Little Children" and "It's
Your America," youth and adult
speakers. Mr. Sinatra has been
actively combatting anti-Semit-
ism, Negro discrimination • and
other un-democratic tendencies.
The committee for the meeting
includes Ed Shaw, Donald Bard-
enstein, Seymour Lankowskv and
Al Lublin.

Wayne University
Scholarship Society
Initiates Students

In recognition of superior work
during four years of college and
because they were in the schol-
astic top five per cent of their
graduating class, 11 students in
the College of . Liberal Arts at
Wayne university . have been
elected' to membership in the
Scholarship Honor society.
The students were awarded
keys and initiated into the so-
ciety at a dinner held in the War-
dell - Sheraton hotel. Principal
speaker of the evening was Dr.
Victor A. Rapport, dean of Way-
ne's College of Liberal Arts.
The student initiates, and the
high schools from which they
were graduated, include:
Oscar Litoff, 2696 Leslie, North-
ern; Doris L. Miller: 4336 Tyler,
Northwestern; Aaron Rosenblatt,
2039 Virginia, Northern; Daniel
Rosenblatt, 2039 Virginia, North-
ern; Roslyn Silber, 2905 Webb,
Central; Leonard Zubroff, .9354
Broadstreet, Central.

R. H. Isaacs Out of Army,
Opens Advertising Agenc

Ruben H. Isaacs, son of MI-.
and Mrs. Bernard Isaacs, who
has been honorably discharged
from the armed forces, has open-
ed an advertising agency under
the firm name of Ruben Adver-
tising Agency, with office at 707
Hammond Bldg., RA. 8534.
Mr. Isaacs is a graduate of the
United Hebrew Schools of Detroit
and is a former president of the
Junior Alumni of the Hebrew
schools.
He served in the U. S. army
for three years as sergeant-ma-
jor, with the Engineer Fire Fight-
ing School, the only one of its
kind.
Before entering the armed for-
ces he was connected with a lo-
cal advertising firm specializing
in national advertising.

Friday, May 10, 1946

Decoration Day Fete
Planned at Omena Inn

Lillian Robbins Sam Weinfeld

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Omena Inn, at Omena, .Mich.,
one of this state's most popular
vacation resorts, announces the
following selections for its staff:
Sam Weinfeld will be the so-
cial director.
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Lillian Robbins, well known
piano teacher and accompanist,
will direct the music. Miss Rob-
bins is a graduate of the Detroit
Institute of Musical Art. She has
had several years of experience
as program director in Michigan
camps. -
- Reservations for Omena Inn
are being taken in Detroit at LE.
8863 or TO. 5-9732.
A special program of entertain-
ment and introductory activities
is planned for Decoration Day
weekend, starting Friday, May 30.
There will be limited accommo-
dations, and reservations are be-
ing taken now.

Center Sports Night
Will Be Held. May 21

The second annual Men's Health
Club sports night will take place
in the main auditorium of the
Center on Tuesday, May 21, at
8 p. m., Robert Schwartz, chair-
man of the Health Club commit-
tee, announces.
Athletic awards will be made
to winners of the recent squash
tournament and to runners-up in
Classes A, Beand C. Center hand-
ball tournament winners also will
receive awards.
Sports celebrities from the De-
troit Tigers are expected, and the
program will include a showing
of the film on the 1945 World
Series, exhibitions of boxing,
tumbling, table tennis.
Refreshments, buffet style, will
be served. Men's Health Club
members and their guests are
invited.

Kurt Saffir Gives

Recital Tuesday

Kurt Saffir, 16-year-old pianist,
will be presented in a recital by
Julius Chajes next Tuesday eve-
ning, in the auditorium of the
Jewish Community Center.
Kurt was born in Vienna and
came to this country six years
ago, studying piano and composi-
tion under a scholarship with the
Center and Mu-sic Study Club,
from Julius Chajes, musical direc-
tor of the Center.
At 12 he was soloist with the
Michigan Symphony Orchestra
under the direction of Valter
Poole. Last month, he won a $25
youth festival award in a na-
tional competition sponsored by
the Grinnell Foundation of Music.

JWB Provides Phone
Calls Home for GIs
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During Mother's Day

BOSTON — Mother's Day will
be a "big day" for the American
servicemen in Paris who will be
given the opportunity to make
telephone calls home to their
Mothers through contributions
made by the Women's Division,
Boston Serve-An-Overseas Hos-
pitality Center Committee of Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board to
the JWB Paris religious and hos-
pitality center, stated Harold J.
Blum, director of the center, in
a letter to the home office of
JWB.
Due to the food shortage in
France, instead of the "adoption"
of servicemen by mothers,, as in
past years, the observance of
Mother's Day in Paris at the JWB
center will be marked by the
"adoption" of 25 Jewish mothers
by 25 Jewish servicemen as their
guests for the afternoon and din-
ner. In. the evening the mothers
will be the guests of honor at
the dance.

Gen. Rose Post to Receive
Colors at Party May 22

A card party will be given by
Gen. Maurice Rose Post, No. 420,
Jewish War Veterans, Wednes-
day, May 22, at 8 p. m., at Con-
gregation Bnai Moshe social hall,
Dexter and Lawrence. Refresh-
ments will be served.
Prior to the card party, the
newly formed post will be pre-
sented with its colors by Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Rosenthal. Officers
of other posts will assist in the
ceremony.

7 Refugee Scholars
Guggenheim Winners

Seven refugee scholars are
among the 132 winners of 1946
fellowship awards from the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation, for work in various
fields of science and the arts, ac-
cording to Joseph E. Beck, New
York executive director of the
National Refugee Service.
Refugee scholars and scientists
were enabled to find haven in
the United States and resume
their careers here largely
JWV Memorial May 19
through tto. efforts of NRS,
The 51st annual national me- whose work is supported by the
morial exercises of Jewish War $100,000,000 UJA campaign.
Veterans of the United States
will be held May 19 at Temple
Emanu-El, 65th St. and 5th Ave.,
New York.

Tennis Instruction
Tennis instruction is given in
the large gym of the Center,
Tuesdays, 7:30 to 8 p. in. Bring
your own tennis racquets and
balls. Classes are open to all in-
termediate, subsenior and senior
women.

Congregational Executive' Director Wanted

by Congregation in Midwest with membership of 1,100. Appli-
cant must have Hebrew background, must have full knowl-
edge of and -ability to direct its activities, including super-
vision of physical aspects of extensive blinding. He must
take full charge of Junior Congregation and other activities
of congregational executive direction Applicant must have fine
personality and ability to cooperate with people. References
required. Write Box 1010, The Jewish News, 2114 Penobscot
Bldg., Detroit 26, Mich.

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