Modern Hotel Overwhelms Tots in Iran Ghetto, OFFICIALS TO ISRAEL NEW YORK — David Matlin of Los Angeles, immediate past pres- ident of the National AAU, and the organization's executive director, Col. Donald F. Hull of New York, have accepted invitations from the eighth World Maccabia Games organizing committee to attend the games. The competition will run July 28-Aug. 7 in Israel. PHOTOGRAPHY CARSON ZELTZER 547-4805 WEDDINGS — BAR MITZVAS SPECIAL OCCASIONS MUSIC BY SAM BARNETT AND HIS ORCHESTRA Music the Stein-Way LI 1-2563 DICK STEIN & ORCHESTRA LI 7-2770 ----- She saw them first in a JDC-supported kindergarten in Iran. This time they were in a kindergarten in Israel. Evelyn Peters, chief day care consultant for the Joint Distribution Committee, visited Israel in preparation for a five-week tour of American-Jewish communities. a • By LOIS HACKETT JDC Geneva Dr. Morris H. Masserman 's Poems SHIRAZ—For children from the M ghetto of this ancient Persian city, I - . arked by Dry Wit and Humor the marvels of a modern hotel put Dry wit and humor mark the State University. He and his wife, Queen Scheherazade's 1001 Nights poems of Dr. Morris H. Masser- Mollie. reside at 19973 Marlowe. in the shade. man. His new book, "The Artificial He has lived in Detroit for 50 Kleenex, flush toilets, inner- Falls and Other Poems," is a not- years. spring mattresses—all were thrill- able edition to his creative efforts. Dr. Masserman has received ing new experiences for a group of Dr. Masserman is an optometrist wide praise for his poetry. eight pre-school youngsters from whose avocation is poetry. He has One of the poems, was inspired the Joint Distribution Committee's written hundreds of poems, which by a trip to Israel. Entitled "In day care center here who recently have been published in various Upper Galilee," it reads: Went on their first field trip. Or- magazines throughout the country. The "The bus rides ganized by Evelyn Peters, chief He received his degree from :he On shaky hills of Time up, past tombs, JDC day care consultant, it took Massachusetts College of Optom- Up, ringed, the form of a visit to the hotel etry after attending Detroit City Of cloud martyred rabbis, narrow defiles of dec th where she was staying. College, predecessor of Wayne Through In the sacred dust The youngsters are among 200 Which is History, Saviors brood who attend the kindergarten in On the somnolent hills. Shiraz, one of a network of five Permits to Return Home The centuries gleam day care centers which JDC has Unwanted Among Former In the marble sun." Another acclaimed poem. "A created in four of the largest Good Woman." reads: Jewish communities in Iran, West Bank Residents "A good woman (Direct JTA Teletype Wire with funds from the United Jew- Is a boon to The Jewish News) poor fish ish Appeal. JERUSALEM — Of the 7,000 To To a make him smooth presentable. With technical as well as finan- permits granted to former West .4nd She cuts his tail off cial support from JDC, they serve Bank residents to return to their To keep him from Swashbuckling mischief some 850 underprivileged 3-to 5- previous homes, only 1.000 have A”dpombl injury year-olds. Each center is sponsor- been used, an interior ministry And h e ad.' What does he need a head ed by a local women's committee spokesman said Wednesday. Filled with fishy ideas which helps raise funds and sets Permits were issued early last If he has .4 good tcontati7" personnel and program policies. year, but 7,000 of them remained (Miss Peters was in the United unused. Their holders were given States this month for a five-week six weeks to return. Only a few Czech President Svoboda. tour of American-Jewish communi- of them did, and it was decided Dubcek Honor War Dead ties. She reported on latest devel- to transfer the unused permits to LONDON (JTA)—President Lud- opments in JDC welfare programs 7.000 other former residents of vik Svoboda of Czechoslovakia led in North Africa. Israel and other the West Bank who would apply to an assemblage officially estimated areas:) return. When the additional three at more than 50,000 Sunday at a Miss Peters said she organized months under the extension were peace rally at Terezin honoring the expedition to show the director up 6,000 permits still remained the more than 30,000 men, women and teachers in the kindergarten unused. and children who died there in the bow a simple field trip can enrich Theresienstadt concentration camp, the children's program of activi- Disturbed Teens Aided which the Nazis frequently de- ties. BALTIMORE (JTA)—A 10-week scribed as a model Jewish ghetto. , The meeting was held on the ' "The children know only the experimental group counseling pro- mahalleh (ghetto)" she explained. gram for troubled teen-agers in a site of the camp, and the raised "Many of the parents are unedu- Baltimore high school has been set platform for the notables and cated. The majority of the chil- up by the Jewish Family and Chil- speakers overlooked the rows of dren have never seen a movie, dren's Service at the request of the Jewish graves in the national cemetery. Among those with Presi- never seen television, never been Baltimore public school system. The program which was started dent Svoboda were Alexander Dub- exposed to books in thir homes. A walk down the main street of in March, has two goals: To meet cek, former first secretary of the Shiraz on Saturday is about as far a general need and to serve as a Communist Party, and leaders of as they ever venture into the great demonstration project so school the reform movement. Dubcek, the principal speaker. wide world. How can you expect counselors will be able to establish them to bubble over with ideas similar programs as the need noted that most of the concentra- tion camp victims had been Jewish and curiosity when they come to arises. The program is the only one of and denounced the "inhuman the kindergarten?" In Iran for her yearly round of its kind conducted by a social ideology of anti-Semitism." agency in a public school in Balti- Consultations, supervision and re- fresher training of the day care more, and is believed to be one of Jewish Books Seized staff, Miss Peters, the director and the very few such programs in the by Polish Customs Aides one of the teachers, set out with United States, LONDON (JTA) — Polish cus- the Children early one morning to toms authorities confiscated two walk to her hotel, where the man- `adjah' (surprise) as they took books of Jewish interest—one a ager had agreed to receive them, turns Hushing it. book on Yiddish literature and "The piece de resistance was "Then the room telephone rang the other on Zionism — among a visit to my room," Miss Peters and the switchboard operator—I dozens of other books shipped to said. "They were wide-eyed at had arranged for this—asked for Warsaw to be shown in the Inter- the sight of the bathroom, since Rafael. Rafael had never held a national Book Fair which opened they only knew the public baths, telephone before and he stared at there Monday. Every child had to have his turn us—paralyzed—while the operator The books, which the Polish at running the water into the tried to make conversation with authorities described as "unde- tub, and putting in and taking him. Finally 4-year-old Farahnaz sirable," were seized in a raid out the plug. And none of them took over and—just like a woman on the Palace of Science and Cul- had ever seen a Western type of —chatted away as if she'd been ture. The customs officials said toilet before. They kept saying doing it all her life." the books would be returned to the publishers after the exhibit 40,--Pricloy.'.11 4ay 1969' " THE DETROIT JEWISH. NEWS closes. 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