20,000 Rare Silver Dollars Await
American Savings Depositors Monday
Brevities
Youthful and handsome, full of
spirit and good humor, President
John F. Kennedy was truly the
young people's President. Because
they thought of him as one of
them, the children and teen-agers
of America wrote often to the
President and to his family. JOHN
F. KENNEDY AND THE YOUNG
PEOPLE OF AMERICA, compiled
and edited by Bill Adler, to be
published by McKay Oct. 22, is a
collection of letters from the young
people of this country to President
and Mrs. Kennedy, a record of
the warmth and affection that they
felt for him. The book also includes
some 60 photographs of the Presi-
dent in informal moments with his
own children and with young peo-
ple from all over the country.
Alfred L. Deutsch (center), president of American Savings &
Loan Association, Detroit, looking over some of the rare Morgan
silver dollars, among 20,000 of them to be given away to persons
opening savings accounts of $200 and up or adding $200 or more to
their present accounts. With Deutsch are George M. Zeltzer (left),
executive vice president of American, and Joseph Walters, the
association's director of marketing.
A giveaway of 20,000 rare, un-
circulated Morgan silver dollars, all
worth considerably more than face
value, and many eagerly sought by
coin collectors, is starting at 9:30
a.m. Monday, at the main office of
American Savings and Loan As-
sociation, 600 Woodward, and its
11 branches in the metropolitan
area.
Alfred L. Deutsch, president of
American, describes the giveaway
as "free silver for savers."
Here is all that is necessary to
get one of these much-sought
coins:"
Go to any American Savings of-
fice and open a new savings ac-
count for $200 or more, or add at
least $200 to your present Ameri-
can Savings account.
Deutsch expects a heavy demand
for the rare silver cartwheels. The
give-away will last until the supply
is exhausted.
Since the value of the silver
dollars varies in the collectors'
market, rules are that each silver
dollar given away will be taken
from a bag of the coins like a
lucky number pulled out of a hat.
Dates on most of the coins run
from 1881 through 1887.
Anomer advantage of the "free
silver" days, said Deutsch, is that
every dollar put into an American
savings account earns 4 per cent
per year, with earnings paid and
compounded quarterly.
About a year ago the United
States Treasury in Washington
found a vault full of these Morgan
silver dollars. They had been
minted in the years between the
end of the Civil War and 1904.
The hard-to-get Morgans at-
tracted swarms of collectors to the
Treasury when the government al-
lowed their purchase for paper
currency.
As many as 2,000 persons showed
up in a single day at the height
of the "run." While the rush was
on, the Treasury's supply of the
rare coins was reduced from
18,000,000 to a bare 3,000,000. One
dealer offered to pay the United
States $40,000 for a bag of a thou-
sand Morgan dollars which were
minted at Carson City, Nev., in
1879.
In the first quarter of this year,
65.5 per cent of all Savings Bonds
sold were in the $25 to $200 de-
nominations—an increase of about
3 per cent over a year ago.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
24—Friday, October 1, 1965
YMCA in Israel
Boasts 3,000 Jews
A leader of the Young Men's
Christian Association in Israel de-
scribed this week what it's like to
plan programs for over 3,000 Jew-
ish members.
Haig Mekhalian of Jerusalem, in
Detroit this week for a YMCA con-
ference, said 90 per cent of the
3,500 members in Israel's Y are
Jewish, as well as many of the
staff members. It dates back to
1928, and has been growing at such
a pace since 1950, that a branch
is now under construction in Naz-
areth. Both Jewish and Christian
groups in Canada are helping fin-
ance the latter.
Mekhalian said political and re-
ligious leaders in Israel favor the
YMCA because the organization's
program focuses on athletics and
other similar traditional programs,
rather than on recruitment to
Christianity.
Annual Socialite Dance
Set Yom Kippur Night
Detroit Socialites will host the
Jewish community at its annual
Yom Kippur Night Dance 9 p.m.
Wednesday at Beth Abraham Syna-
gogue.
Max Twig, social chairman for
the dance, announces dancing will
be to the music of Eric Rosenow
and his Continental Orchestra. Re-
freshments will be served.
This organization, comprised of
adults aged 30 to 50, schedules
social, cultural and philanthropic
activities. For information, call
Gertrude Steingold, 547-1441.
`Back to School' at Akiva
Akiva Hebrew Day School will
hold its annual Back to School
Nights 8:30 p.m. Thursday and
Oct. 26 to orient parents on the
school's educational program. Fac-
ulty members will be present.
Guests invited. For information,
call the school, 342-9119.
"Books are becoming everything
to me. If I had at this moment my
choice of life, I would bury my-
self in one of those immense lib-
raries that we saw together at the
universities, and never pass a wak-
ing hour without a book before
me."
—Thomas Babington Macaulay
Yehudi 1VIenuhin, American violin
virtuoso, and his young son-in-law,
pianist Fou Ts'ong, considered
among the best in his generation,
will appear in a joint recital at
Detroit's Masonic
Oct. 16. V ir-
tually since
he made his de-
but at the age
of 7 in San
Menuhin has en-
thralled his lis-
teners. Although
Foil
Ts'ong is
Menuhin
relatively new to the international
concert scene, he has inspired high-
est praise from the press and has
concerts with major orchestras on
both sides of the Atlantic.
* *
GARELICK'S GALLERY, 20208
Livernois, opens its 15th season
with a special exhibition, "Col-
lector's Choice," featuring a group
of significant and rare works of art
that the gallery has handled during
its 15 years. The shows open on
Sunday, with a reception and pre-
view from 2 until 6 p.m., and will
run through Oct. 23.
* *
Record-making and record-break-
i n g Mantovani, internationally
celebrated Maestro, together with
his virtuosic orchestra, will appear
in a single performance at Detroit's
Masonic Auditorium, Oct. 9, inau-
gurating its 1965-06 season as well
as its newly-created "Pops" series.
Schiff Sites MSU
for Readmission
Paul M. Schiff, a Michigan State
University graduate student, has
filed suit in the U. 5: District
Court in Grand Rapids charging
MSU officials with violating his
constitutional rights in refusing to
allow him to continue his studies
at the University.
The suit, brought under the Fed-
eral civil rights statutes, asserted
that MSU President John A. Han-
nah, Vice-President John Fuzak and
the university's governing board,
all named as defendents, had vio-
lated Schiff's rights of free speech,
press and assembly, thereby deny-
ing him equal protection of the
laws and due process of law under
the Constitution. Ironically, Han-
nah also is chairman of the U. S.
Civil Rights Commission, under
Federal law the statutory watch-
dog of civil rights throughout the
nation.
Schiff asked an immediate pre-
liminary injunction to permit him
to be readmitted to the university
for the fall term. Federal Judge
Noel P. Fox will rule on that re-
quest on Oct 4.
Schiff is represented by ACLU
cooperating attorneys Kenneth
Laing, Jr., of Lansing, Erwin B.
Ellmann of Detroit and Paul A.
Williams of Grand Rapids. Ellmann
is ACLU's general counsel in the
state.
OSS REALTY CO.
Linda Kahldon to Ired I Council Assembly
I. Ronald Sweet in May To Hear Rabbi Kaplan
The Jewish Community Coun-
cil's first delegate assembly of the
196566 season will be held 8:15
p.m., Oct. 14, at the Jewish Center,
it was announced by Council Presi-
dent Dr. Samuel Krohn.
Dr. Krohn will report on his re-
cent trip to Washington, D.C., as
a member of the Detroit delega-
tion to participate in the Eternal
Light Vigil against the discrimina-
tory treatment of Jews in the
Soviet Union.
The agenda will also include a
review of current Council activi-
ties.
Rabbi Harry Kaplan, director of
the H i 11 e 1 Foundation at Ohio
State University, will speak on
"Our Youth on Campus—The Van-
ishing Jew?"
MISS LINDA KAHLDON
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Kahldon
of Northlawn Ave. announce the
engagement of their daughter Lin-
da Gail to I. Ronald Sweet, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Sweet of
Steel Ave.
The bride-elect is a graduate of
Michigan Lutheran College, and
her fiance attended Lawrence In-
stitute of Technology.
A May 22 wedding is planned.
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