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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Wilkes-Barre Community Copes With Tragedy
Leon Cohan Named VP at Detroit Edison
By GARY SIEGEL
"The synagogue was a
mess. It smelled musty. The
wax on the floor was re-
moved. And water marks
were very apparent.
"But the people were there
for the services."
Mrs. Ruth S. Getz, staff
social worker of the Jewish
Family and Children's Serv-
ice, described this situation
as typical of the spirit and
devotion of the Jewish com-
munity of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.,
a city ravaged by floods last
June as a result of storm
Agnes.
Mrs. Getz recently served
two weeks as a case worker
in Wilkes-Barre„ while on
temporary loan. from the
JFCS. She was involved in
casework interviews and
family, indiVidual and finan-
cial counseling with Jewish
families..
"I mainly dealth with fam•
Hies in' the middle-class Jew-
ish community." Mrs. Getz
said. "I never saw such a
love for a Jewish community
and Jewish institutions as I
did in these people."
Although about 90 per cent
of the 1,400 Jewish families
in Wilkes-Barre lost home or
business or both because of
the floods, Mrs. Getz said
most of the families plan to
return to the city and many
already have come back.
Some families are living in
trailers in the driveways of responses from Jewish agen- sided In the relief work, like
their homes. Others are cies to the assistance pro- Mrs. Getz, have left town,
the work continues.
using only the second floors gram was considerable.
of their damaged dwellings.
The administration of the
The CJFWF was instru-
And area trailer parks house mental, in the aftermath of effort to aid the Jewish com-
other families wanting to re- the tragedy, in providing the munity in Wilkes-Barre has
main in or near their home Jewish community with con- been turned over to the local
town.
tinuation of Jewish com• community under the direc-
Samuel Lerner, JFCS ex• munal services, individual tion of Louis Smith, execu-
relative director, described needs, business, loans, res- tive director of Pennsylva-
the events that led to Mrs. toration of Jewish institu• nia's Wyoming Jewish Com-
Getz being sent to Wilkes- lions and scholarship loans mittee.
Barre to aid in casework:
for higher education.
"The Wilkes-Barre Jewish
More than $2,000,000 in
Welfare Federation asked financial aid had been pro-
Albert Butler to coordinate vided by tie Jewish federa-
the Council of Jewish Fed- tions of America. Case work-
erations and Welfare Funds ers had come from Jewish
rehabilitation effort in the agencies in Philadelphia,
a Pittsburgh, New York, Essex
community. (Hotter is
This Week's Radio and
former head of the Chicago County, N. J., and Baltimore.
Television Programs
.lewish Federation). He ac-
"The
government. Red
cepted and began to call
ETERNAL IJGHT
Cross and Jewish agencies
Jewish agencies, mainly in
-Time: 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
all are partly responsible far
the eastern United States, to
Station: WWJ.
the survival of the Jewish
contribute financial aid and
Feature: Dr. Avraham Bi-
community in Wilkes-Barre,"
case workers.
ran,
director of the depart-
Mrs. Getz said. "But main
"Huller later asked for
resensibility rests with the m e n t of antiquities a n d
help from outside the East- community.
museums of the State of Is-
era states, and the Detroit
"The Wilkes-Barre Jewish rael, interviews Dr. Claire
Federation received a re-
community is highly organ- Epstein, a free lance arche-
quest for an experienced
ized. It has strong, central ologist who has worked for
family counselor. Federation
forces and institutions which the department on antiquities
quickly called JFSC Presi-
on numerous digs in the sec-
enhance the sense of re-
dent Herbert P. Sillman, and
ond of a five-part series
sponsibility in the people.
he presented the request to
"Israeli Women in Arche-
"The survival of the com-
the JFCS board of directors.
ology." Dr. Epstein will also
munity probably was insured
It was approved."
talk about life on the kibutz.
before the flood."
Mrs. Getz, who volunteered
The Jewish help being
to go to Wilkes-Barre, has
HIGHLIGHTS
given is to meet special
worked 20 years for the
Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday.
needs not met by the Red
JFCS. By the time she ar-
Station: WJItK.
Cross and the government,
rived in Wilkes-Barre, the
Feature: Author Robert
and is not a substitute for
St.
John, whose special in-
them.
terest is in Israel and the
Approximate figures on the
Middle East, will discuss his
types of services given to the
new biographical novel with
Wilkes-Barre community by
"Insight on Abba Eban."
Jewish agencies are as fol-
lows: Of the 396 families
REFLECTIONS IN SOUND
served, 39 per cent received
Time: 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
counseling and referral in-
Station: WCAR.
formation; 46 per cent were
Feature: Rabbi Harold S.
recipients of financial assist-
ance; and IS per cent re- Loss will explore some fun-
ceived both financial and damental Jewish themes
present in today's popular
counseling services.
music.
Mrs. Getz said the people
BNAI SHOLOM
she counseled felt uneasy
Time: 10 p.m. Sunday.
about coming for aid and
Station: WBRB-FM (102.7).
advice.
Feature: l'hil Blazer pro-
"The discomfort they felt
vides a contemporary pot-
probably stemmed from their
pourri of Jewish humor,
prideful hesitance in request-
music, culture and literature.
ing help," she said. "But we
quickly understood each
JEWISH WORLD
others situation. Their finan-
DR. I. JEROME HAUSER
Time: 7 p.m. Sunday.
cial, family and resettling
Station: WMZK-FM (98).
He is a former president problems were frankly dis-
Feature: Jack Roberts of-
of Detroit Otological Society cussed. and action was taken fers community notes and
and of Phi Delta Epsilon to solve them.
news from Israel.
"Virtually no one had flood
Graduate Club; former na-
tional vice president of the insurance. Insurance com-
Sen. liartke
American Laryngological, panies don't offer it in corn.
Rhinological and Otological munities that don't belong to at American College
Society; and presently pres- a federal flood insurance
JERUSALEM—Sen. Vance
ident of the National Foun- plan requiring a town to take
Ilartke of Indiana was named
dation for the study of Health flood prevention steps."
Mrs. Getz said coping with the first honorary fellow at
Science Liability.
the opening convocation of
He served on the local the tragedy of the flood
caused
severe mental strains the American College in Je-
draft board and Regional
rusalem.
Appeals Draft Board for on many of the people.
Also named honorary fel-
"After the flood, mud
many years.
Ile presently is on the seemed to cover almost low in absentia was Barnes
Jorge
Ilia, prime minister of
everything.
The
stench
was
steering committee of the
the Netherlands Antilles.
Furstenberg Student Study horrible. Normal ways of re.
Sen. Ilartkc, on a tour of
Center at the University of lasing were gone. Watching
television, quiet family the Middle East, spoke at the
Michigan Medical Center.
meals,
the
comfort
of
home
convocation
marking the col-
He has published many
— factors in the vital im- lege's fifth academic year
medical papers.
Dr. Hauser married Diane portance of leisure — werz and its first semester at the
new campus in Kiryat Moshe.
July quickly gone.
Davidon Deutsch in
"The mental breakdowns
Sen. llartke stated that Is
1946. They have two daugh-
and
difficulties
that
occurred
rael
is the affirmation of a
ters, Nina Ilauser of New
Mrs. Michael were expected in that kind small nation looking to the
and
York
of
situation.
way of peace, and in the
(Marjorie) Federman of
"After the flood, the pen- same way, the American Col-
Southfield.
His two brothers are in pie's worries were lessened lege. as a small institution,
the medical profession. Dr. somewhat because they kept is paving the way to a Par -
Maurice Hauser is an ophth- busy. Going to agencies and ticular systern of education
Obtaining clothes, that will speed the advent of
almologist and Dr. Myron offices.
Hauser is an optometrist. food and furniture. Making peace.
The American College in
He has two sisters. Mrs. plans. This all helped to em-
Herbert (Florence) Metz of phasize the future, not the Jerusalem is Israel's only
past."
four-year.
English language
Detroit and Mrs. Yale
While many people who liberal arts college .
I.A.tifsej -Smith Of. -FYInt,
--- , Tett)ry --
a lite
Leon Cohan, right.hand
man to Atty, Gen. Prank
Kelly, has been named vice
president for legal affairs of
the Detroit Edison Co., ef-
fective Jan. 1.
Cohan, 43, has been iO the
attorney general's Office
since 1958. lie was appointed
deputy attorney general in
1960 by former Atty, Gen.
Paul L. Adams:
Cohan said that the out-
come of the election had
nothing to do with his 'deci-
sion to join Edison. Ile said
he has planned the move
since last spring — with
Kelley's knowledge
a n d
blessing.
---
Cohan said he intended to
go into private law practice
until the Edison offer popped
up.
Edison currently does not
have a high-ranking legal of-
ficer on its staff.
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Dr. Hauser, at 65, Honored for
Medical, Social Service Roles
Many years of communal
services, linked with an im-
pressive professional career,
have cemented friendships
that brought Dr. I. Jerome
Hauser many scores of
greetings from people of
crominence in philanthropy
and social service and the
medical profession on his
65th birthday, which he ob-
served Wednesday.
One of the most active
leaders in the. Allied Jewish
as
Campaign, he served
chairman of the physicians
section and co-chairman of
the professional division and
is currently a member of the
Jewish Welfare Federation
board of governors.
A participant in seven
United Jewish Appeal study
missions, he was co-chair-
man of last year's national
UJA physicians mission.
He served as chief of staff
of Sinai Hospital for seven
years and is currently chief
of the ear, Dose and throat
department at Sinai, having
been the first to head that
Sinai unit.
Born Nov. 9, 1907, in Port
Huron, his parents, William
and Mollie Hauser, moved to
Flint when he was six
months old. He was educated
in the Flint schools, earned
his BA, MS, and MD de-
grees at the University of
Michigan, interned at Har-
per Hospital in Detroit and
had his residency in Otor•
hinolaryngology — ear, nose
and throat — at University
Hospital, Ann Arbor, where
he also did graduate re-
search work.
lie served in the U.S. Army
for four and a half years.
reaching the rank of lieuten-
ant colonel.
He is professor of Otola-
ryngology at Wayne State
University School of Medi-
cine, having served on the
WSU faculty for inatly years.
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