, • 8,000 See Tri-Level Home Despite 74 Rain; Week-End Sales $2,000,000 IN 't4 7wwwwc-ww""' ''s>\ 'TrVri"I'r , ... Over 8,000 people visited the newly opened American )., Beauty Tri-level home at Southfield Farms on Sunday, despite c4 almost continuous rain. Gross sales, for the weekend, of over $2,000,000, are reported by William Holland, president of _Regal E4 Realty Co., who is handling sales for the 150 luxury home development. Les Taubman, president of American Community Builders, the building company for the development, said he believed the amount sets a record for weekend home sales in this area. The American Beauty Tri-level home was opened officially on Saturday; by Louis Miriani and TV personality Lee Meri- wether of Garroway's "Today" show. Miss Meriwether also acted as hostess, pointing out the features of the home's Philco built-in kitchen equipment. Offering of the Philco built-in oven, range, refrigerator and freezer with these homes; at no extra cost, marks the national launching of this new Philco custom kitchen line. A newsreel of the tri-level's opening ceremonies was fea- tured on the "Today" show, coast to coast, over the NBC net- work, on May 7. The model home, located between Greenfield and Southfield on Ten Mile Road, is open to visitors 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily. Regal Realty 'offices are at 15605 W. McNichols. Local Committee Joins Sid Shmarak's National Sponsors Business Briefs Of Yiddish Dictionary ,;'-'•" Choose '55 LaMed U.S.-Israel Exchange Naval Courtesy Prize Winners As Cruiser 'Albany' Sails into Haifa NEW YORK, (JTA)—Chaim Grade, H. Leivick, Moshe Avig- dor Shulvass and A. R. Malachi have been announced as the winners of the Louis LaMed prizes for their Yiddish and He- brew books which were pub- lished last year. This is the 16th year in which the prizes, which the LaMed Foundation awards annually to two books in each of the languages, have been awarded. Competition for the $500 prizes is restricted to works published in the Americas. The prizes for Yiddish works went to Mr. Grade's "Der Mam- me's Shaboism" (Mother's Sab- baths), a prose work, and Mr. Leivick's collection of poems entitled "A Blatt Ovf Am Apple- boym" (A Leaf On An Apple Tree). Winners in the Hebrew language category were "Chay- el Hayehudim B'Ihalia B'Tkufat Ha-Renaissance" (The Life of the Jews in Italy in the Period of the Renaissance), by Mr. Shulvass, and to Mr. Malachi's "Otzar Halexiikografia Haivrit" (A Treasury of Hebrew Lexi- cography). Members of the jury which made the awards were Shlomo Bickel, Reuben Wallen- rod, and Jacob Shatzky. Dr. Barr Gets Award PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—Dr. Martin Barr, associate piofes- A Detroit committee for the sor of pharmacy at the Philadel- BLOCK'S CLOTHES, 19132 publication of a Yiddish diction- phia College of Pharmacy and Livernois, this week introduced ary was recently formed, and Science, has been awarded the has associated itself with a na- to the community, beautiful the Ebert Med-al for 1956 by the Swiss woven, hand rolled hand- tional project emanating from kerchiefs with embroidered in- American Pharmaceutical As- New York. itials in Hebrew. They are sociation. T h e dictionary committee available in white - on - white, numbers among its sponsors au- thor Maurice Samuel, Prof.. wtih initials in a variety of Abraham Katch, of New York colors. * * University; Horace Kallen, New Because of many requests, School for Social Research; Shimon ,Rabidowitch, of Bran- ELITE STRICTLY KOSHER deis University; and Samuel RESTAURANT, located at 18246 Belkin, president, Yeshiva Uni- Wyonling near Curtis, is now accepting reservations for par- versity. ties and club group dinners. For Editors of the Yiddish. diction- UN. 3-5935. ary will be Yudel Mark and information call * * * Yuda Jaffe., WYOMING-CURTIS FISH & Wolf Snyder is president of SEA FOODS, 18252 Wyoming, the local committee, on which recently announced a new pol- serve J. Rosenshein, vice-presi- icy of delivery to the North- dent; Sarah Friedman and Adele west, Oak Park and Huntington Mondry, secretaries; and Max Woods areas. They carry a com- Tepper. treasurer. plete selection of fish, cooked Other members are Samuel shrimp and lobster tails. As a Sigal, Moishe Haar, Saul Maltz, service to the housewife, fish Emanuel Mark, Morris Fried- are skinned, boned and - ground man, Sam Jacobson, Harry Mon- free of charge. Call U-N. 2-9677. dry and David Sislin. The dictionary will contain words, local expressions, idioms and phrases and their transla- tions in English. Over 130 lin- guists are now working on the Farber Replies to Laikin project in many parts of the Editor: The • Jewish News: world. Iri reply to the provocative. When completed, the diction- letter by B. M. Laikin, in which ary is expected to be composed he takes Dr. EisenStein to task of from five to seven volumes. on his interpretation of Judaism: The Reconstructionist move- Information on the project may be obtained by writing Mrs. ment does not assert that the Sarah Friedman, 19931 Sussex. majority is always right or that we can dispense with a sense responsibility to God for our `Club AZA' to Feature of acts — whether individual or AZA713BG Revue collective. Reconstructionists be- lieve that our decisions must be The Detroit-Windsor Chapters our own. of the Aleph Zedek are spon- Dr. Eisenstein does not "de- soring . "Club AZA," featuring bunk traditional Judaism." He cabaret entertainment, refresh- ments; and the crowning of gave a survey of the growth of "AZA. Sweetheart" on Saturday Judaism. It is unfair to insinuate that evening at Cong. Bnai Moshe, Dr. Eisenstein proposes to throw Dexter at Lawrence. A special night club style the Pentateuch, Talmud, and the revue will include the follow- Prophets overboard. The philos- ing members of the AZA and ophy of Reconstructionist Juda- ism believes -in revitalizing Bnai Brith Girls.: Margo Woolf, Harriet Levine, Jewish religion through a con- Allen Shulah, Barbara Herman, tinuity of belief and practice. Mr. Laikin is a bit unfair to Allen Hurwitz, Jeff Levy, San- ford Fenkell, Norton Bicoll, Dr. Eisenstein when he implies Noel Lawson, Al Orman, Mike that non-believers are among Gaines and Ronnie Aronson; as the proponents of Reconstruc- MC. - tionism. Would he call Mordecai Committee members arrang- Kaplan, Milton Steinberg, Solo- ing the affair include Carl Shu- mon Goldman, Eugene Kohn, lak, chairman, Sheldon Winkel- Jacob Weinstein, Roland Gittel- man, arrangements, Ronnie sohn, non-believers? We, in our age, have as much Aronson, entertainment a n d Lennie S o 1 o in a n and Jerry right to interpret Jewish life as did Rabbi Yohanan Ben Zakkai, Uzanski, contact. Tickets can be purchased or Rabbi Tanchumah, or Rav, from any AZA member, or at in their day. Walter Farber ate door. (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News TEL AVIV—The U.S. Cruiser Albany sailed into Haifa Har- bor Tuesday on a goodwill visit. The cruiser exchanged - a 21-gun salute with an Israeli naval craft in the port. As the Albany dropped her anchor overboard, a crew of 1,500 stood at attention on her main deck. The band played "Hatikvah," the Israeli anthem, and the Israeli flag vas hoisted aloft. The ship's band paraded Publishers Plan Seminar May 24 A seminar on the subject of mutual relations in which exec- utives and publicity directors of ranking national organizations have been ;invited to participate, will highlight the annual con- vention of the American Asso- ciation of English-Jewish News- papers, to be held in New York May 24-27. Following the panel discussion, the publishers will entertain their guests at a lunch- eon. Tentative plans provide for an address by a nationally- prominent leader in Jewish af- fairs. The first day of the assembly will be given over to considera- tion of vital association matters, reports and appointment of committees. Later the group will act on matters previously dis- cussed and elect officers and board members. and played in Tel Aviv Tues- day and gave a repeat per- formance in Haifa Wednesday. The mission of the Sixth U.S. Fleet stationed in the Mediter- ranean Sea is, among other things, to "be ready to take instant naval action in case of emergency in which the security an freedom of our friends are jeopardized," Rear Admiral Ephraim McLean, commander of the Albany and of the Second Cruiser Division of the Sixth Fleet, told Israeli naval officers at a luncheon Tuesday aboard the Albany. He told his guests, who in- cluded the head of the Israeli Navy, Cmdr. Shmuel Tankus, that the fleet's mission also in- cluded training officers and men in Mediterranean waters, giving crews an oppOrtunity to im- prove their knowledge of various nations of the region and to visit their ports and to protect American inter ests "as our naval units protect them all over the world." Junior Hadassah Schedules Cocktail Party on Sunday Detroit Chapter of Junior Hadassah will hold a cocktail party at 8:30 p.m., Sunday, at 13351 Borgman, Huntington Woods. 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