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April 02, 1965 - Image 34

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1965-04-02

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--------"= John O'Hair Points Out ' 'Hooded Americanism
Role of Common Pleas Tells Story of KKK
gewry

The importance of the Common When David M. Chalmers was
Pleas Court to Detroit residents a schoolboy in Washington, D.C.,
1 1 is pointed out by John D. O'Hair, he was a Civil War enthusiast. So
! • candidate for judge of common were his friends. They read all
This Week's Radio and
I pleas. O'Hair is now an assistant the books, drew maps, tramped
Television Programs
corporation counsel for the city around battlefields - and refought
ETERNAL LIGHT RADIO
of Detroit with eight years' ex- battles. They each took a hero-
Time: 10:30 p.m. Sunday.
perience in presenting and defend- Chalmers' was General Nathan
Station: WWJ.
ing hundreds of cases in Common Bedford Forrest, who was later
Feature: "Engineer of the Pleas Court. to become the first Imperial Wiz
Soul," a dramatized biography of
"Hundred of thousands of wage and of the Ku Klux Klan.
Rabbi Jacob X. Cohen, former garnishments are issued against
On April 16, Mr. Chalmers'
rabbi of the Free Synagogue in working men and women every "Hooded Americanism," the com-
New York, who struggled against year by this court," O'Hair said. plete story of the Ku Klux Klan
anti-Semitism in the 1930s and
"It emphasizes the absolute nec- from 1865 to the present, will be
against segregation in the U.S. cessity that each judge be under- published by Doubleday.
Army during World War II, will standing and watchful of human
"Hooded Americanism" is the
be presented as the fourth pro- rights and liberties," O'Hair said
gram in the series "Between Man he was concerned that these rights result of a compelling interest in
vigilante groups, for David M.
and Man."
must not be lost in the tangle of Chalmers has long been a student
* * *
legal machinery.
of violence and social movements.
MESSAGE OF ISRAEL
During the primary election of He took part in his first mob at
Time: 6 a.m. Sunday.
Feb. 15, O'Hair led all candidates the age of 8 and watched his first
Station: WXYZ.
for the vacancy to be filled April race riot at 15. He has observed
Feature: Rabbi Philip S. Bern- 5.
students riots in Paris, Sikh Corn-
stein, spiritual leader of Temple
He was the only judicial candi- munal agitation in the Amritsar
Brith Kodesh in Rochester, N. Y., date in the primary rated "pre- ! and Zengakuren demonstrations in
and former president of the Cen- ferred and well-qualified" by Civic Tokyo. For the past eight years,
tral Conference of American Rab- Searchlight, an independent citi- Chalmers has attended Klan meet-
bis, will speak on "The Goodness zen's organization.
ings and interviewed Klansmen,
of Life," as the first in a series
their leaders and friends. The
of programs on "Passover , and
RICHARD B. KRAMER and course he teaches at the University
the Meaning of Life."-
ALBERT A. KRAMER announce of Florida on the "American
their association for the practice Vigilante Tradition" is the only
TO DWELL TOGETHER
of law with offices in the First one of its kind in any American
Time: 9:15 a.m. Sunday.
National Bldg.
University.
Station: Channel 2 and WJBK.
Feature: "Beersheba — Melting
Pot of Israel," a discussion of the
biblical and modern gateway to
the Negev area in Israel, will be
presented by Eliahu Navi, mayor
of Beersheba, and Joseph Edel-
man, former director of the cul-
ture commission of the Jewish
Community Council of Metropoli-
tan Detroit.
• * *
THE JEWISH HERITAGE
Time: 11:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WCAR.
Feature: "Our Responsibility in
the Human Rights Struggle" will
be discussed by Louis Rosenzweig,
chairman of the community rela-
tions committee of the Jewish
Community Council; Dr. Leon
Fram, rabbi of Temple Israel and
president of the Michigan Council
of the American Jewish Congress:
and Walter E. Klein, Jewish Com-
munity Council executive director.

en the Air

ti

'ote Next Monday,' Judge Shifman
Urges Electors in Oak Park Election

Judge Burton R. Shifman, who 1 ests of our democracy that voters
is running for re-election to the j should not be indifferent, that
Oak Park Municipal Court, made 1 they should go to the polls and cast
a strong plea this week to all vot- their ballots whenever there is an
ers to cast their ballots at the election. I sincerely hope that our
voters will not permit anything to
election on Monday.
"People become apathetic," he stand in their way of going to the
said. "and it is in the best inter- polls on April 5."

IN OAK PARK IT'S

FOR JUDGE

ON MONDAY, APRIL 5TH

Voters of Southfield
t y Suburban - Vote for Durbin

VOTE FOR

*

* *

SURVIVAL
Time: 7 p.m. Sunday.
Station: Channel 4.
Feature: Denmark's role during
World War II in saving refugees
from the Nazis \yin be dramatized
in "Danish Resistance."

* * *

SPECIAL
Time: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Station: Channel 4.
Feature: "Let My People Go,"
a documentary film of the Jewish
people's 2,000-year search for their
promised homeland, will be pre- ..
sented, utilizing films never before
seen publicly. Produced by David
L. Wolper and written by Marshall
Flaum, the film will be narrated
by Richard Basehart.

Councilman Shayne Seeks
Oak Park Re-election

Councilman Sidney L. Shayne,
who is seeking reelection to his
second four-year term on the Oak
Park City Council, urged the citi-
zens of Oak Park to participate
actively in their city government
on Election Day Monday.
Shayne has served Oak Park for
the past 10 years in community,
school and civic activities.
Shayne, 39, lives with his wife
Jane and four daughters at 24620
Sussex. He is vice president of
the Oak Park Civic Improvement is
League; president of Oak Park
Area PTA Council; and member
of the Oak Park Employes' Re-
tirement System, Cong. Bnai David,
Morganthau Lodge Bnai Brith, Oak
Park JWV, Oak Park human rela-
tions committee, Friends of the is
Oak . Park Library, and Oak Park
chairman of the boy scout mem-
bership drive.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

34—Friday, April 2, 1965

Confident Leadership

Responsible Authority

Experience and Integrity

VOTE FOR:

Durbin

Clarence

FOR

CIVIC AND
COMMUNITY SERVICE

MAYOR

LEADERSHIP

DEDICATION

* Member of Southfield City Council
for the last six years, with a perfect
attendance record

* Been a member of Kiwanis for 17
years with perfect attendance, and
served as president in 1954

* Southfield Township Tax Board of
Review-4 years
* Secretary, Southfield Township Zon-
ing Board of Appeals-31/2 years
* Chairman, City of Southfield Zoning
ing Board of Appeals-2 1 /2 years

* Oakland County Board of Health
* Oakland County Salaries Committee

* Member of first Charter Commission
City of Southfield

* Oakland County Special Government
Study Committee

* Oakland County Board of Supervisors
—Perfect Attendance

* Served as Area Captain for South-
field Goodfellows for 10 years.

* Was Secretary and member of the
Board of Directors of the Southfield
Upper Teens Club for 3 years

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