THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
26—Friday, May 17, 1974
Oak Park Chorus Sets Spring Show
The Oak Park Civic Chorus
will present its annual spring
concert 8 p.m. Sunday at the
Oak Park High School.
The concert . will feature
Broadway show tunes and
songs from around the world,
including folk and operatic
pieces. Charles Weiner is
conductor.
Tickets will be available
at the door.
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Volunteer Food Distribution Program to Needy Continues
CANS, the canned food dis_
tribution program for dis-
tressed Jews in the Detroit
area, is still in operation and
in need of contributions of
food and money, according
to a spokesman for the pro-
gram.
Sheila Ordin said that the
high cost of food coupled
with the general inflationary
trend makes it difficult for
many families and elderly
perszns to adequately feed
themselves. She added that
Dr. Walter C. Lowdermilk,
international authority on soil
conservation, one of the very
great Christian Zionists
whose Jordan Valley Author-
ity advice led to the develop-
ment of the Israel water
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tions have dwindled, Mrs.
Ordin said. Barney Kasoff
purchases food daily. Volun-
teers distribute the cartons
on Sundays, each family re-
ceiving the foods and other
items once a month.
Mrs. Ordin cited the
Temple Beth El Men's Club
and Shalom and Eleanor
Roosevelt groups of Hadas-
sah for their continued as-
sistance as volunteers. A
number of individuals also
make deliveries; they include
a retiree and his son, as well
as a young woman of 22 who
has missed only one Sunday
since the program began
seven months ago.
Each week, a Gentile
couple and their three chil-
dren drive from their home
in Lafayette Park to make
deliveries, Mrs. Ordin said.
Mrs. Ordin said she would
welcome contributions and
volunteers, particularly youth
groups. For information, call
her at 354-6100.
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May 8 at the age of 81 in
Miami Beach, Fla.
He was a retired hosiery
executive, a past national
president of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America , a
Jewish leader in the South,
and active for decades in
Zionist and Jewish communal
organizations.
Mr. May was for many
years a member of the World
Zionist Actions Committee
and attended every World
Zionist Congress since 1939.
Mr. May, who was presi-
At the time of his death,
he also was an active mem-
ber of the ZOA's national ex-
ecutive committee. He was
president of the Southeast
ZOA Region, of the Temple
in Nashville, and of the Nash-
ville Jewish Community Coun-
cil.
Herman L. Weisman, presi-
dent of the ZOA, described
Mr. May "as one of the most
prominent leaders in the
South' in political and civil
life as well as Jewish nublic
affairs. To him the Zionist
leading positions as an offi-
cer or member of the board
of many organizations, includ-
ing the Council of Jewish
Federations and Welfare
Funds, the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations,
American Association for
Jewish Education, United Is-
rael Appeal, American Fund
for Israel Institutions, Heb-
rew Union College-Jewish
Institute of Religion, Israel
Bonds, American Jewish
I Congress, American Commit-
.ENTERTAINMENT TUES.-SAT.
Samuel Kobaker, Noted Zionist,
JNF Devotee, Dies at Age of 78
Enjoy the New and Different
Tantalizing Tastes of
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Cocktails,
Exotic Drinks
and
Fine Wines
HOURS:
WALTER C. LOWDERMILK
Mon. thru Thurs.
11 to 10 p.m.
Fri. & Sat.
11 to 12 midnight
Sunday
12 to 10 p.m.
projects and to irrigation
improvements in Israel, died
at age 86 in his home in
Berkeley, Calif., May 6.
Author of "Palestine—Land
of Promise," one of the most
effective Zionist documents
which went into 14 printings
and sold throughout the
world, Dr. Lowdermilk lec-
tured on Israel in scores of
communities and was among
the leaders in Christian
ranks urging the establish-
ment of the Jewish state in
the 1930s and 1940s.
Technion, the Israel Insti-
tute of Technology in Haifa,
established the Lowdermilk
School of Agricultural En-
gineering in his honor.
On his numerous trips to
Palestine and then to Israel
with Mrs. Lowdermilk, the
two eminent Christian Zion-
ists saw the realization of
the Lowdermilk programs
for prevention of erosion in
Israel.
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Noted Christian Mortimer May, Past ZOA President, 81
NEW YORK (JTA)—Fun- dent of the ZOA from 1954- idea was intimately inter-
Zionist, Dead
eral services were held in 56, also served the ZOA as twined with Judaism."
Nashville, Tenn, May 10 for past chairman of the national
During decades of activit
Lowdermilk,
Mortimer May who died executive committee.
in Jewish life, Mr. May held
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DINNERS SERVED
MON.-SAT., 5 to 11 p.m.
SUN., 12 NOON-10 p.m
LUNCHEONS SERVED
MON.-SAT., 11 to 2 p.m.
CANS will be phased out only
when all recipient families
are assured of subsidies ade-
quate to meet their food
needs.
Assisted by Dorothy Cole,
Eve Gordon and Marilyn
Schakne, Mrs. Ordin con-
tinues to sort and pack car-
tons of food in the basement
of the Bnai Brith Council
building. Many p r i v ate
sources are donating funds
to keep the program going,
although canned food dona-
Samuel Kobaker, lifelong
Zionist and one of the lead-
ing Jewish National Fund
devotees, a major supporter
of Hillel Day School since its
founding, died May 9 after a
prolonged illness. He would
have been 78 on May 13.
Funeral services were held
Sunday, morning in the Clov-
er Hill Park Cemetery
Chapel.
With his wife, Dora, who
passed away last Aug. 12,
Mr. Kobaker had taken
numerous trips to Israel
where they, together with
other members of the Ko-
baker family, established
many projects through the
JNF. He was last in Israel,
in March and April. He had
taken ill in Jerusalem and
returned here for further
medical treatment.
Born in Clinton, Ill., May
13, 1896, Mr. Kobaker came
to Detroit with his family
shortly before his Bar Mitzva
which he observed in the old
Shaarey Zedek on Willis
Street. For some 50 years,
before affiliating with Cong.
Adat Shalom, the entire
Kobaker family was in the
Shaarey Zedek ranks.
Mr. Kobaker retired as
traffic manager from the
New York Central 14 years
ago.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Kobaker, were leading
Orthodox figures in Detroit
and among the very generous
towards traditional causes
and the Zionist movement
and its affiliates. His brother,
David, and sister, Jeanette,
and his sister, Mrs. Joseph
(Sally) Hanclleman, now of
Miami, joined him and his
SAMUEL KOBAKER
wife in establishing a num-
ber of projects in Israel, in-
cluding the planting of a
forest through the JNF, the
establishment of a syna-
gogue and of a playground,
dy, Dinette, Reinhart and and a Nahla in Givat
Schroeder, accountants in the Yearim, also through the
Dime Building, for more JNF.
A 40-year member of the
than 15 years. He retired
Zionist Organization of De-
some 15 years ago.
troit, Mr. Kobaker also was
He was a member of the active in Israel Bonds and
Detroit Election Commission the Allied Jewish Campaign.
for 25 years.
He is survived by two
Born in Czechoslovakia, daughters, Mrs. Edward
Mr. Schatten lived in the De_ Marcia) K e r s c h, now a
troit area 50 years. He lived resident of Jerusalem with
at 13831 Kellwood, Oak Park. her husband, a prominent Is-
Survivors are two daugh- rael city planner, and their
ters, Mrs. Jack (Beatrice) three children; and Mrs.
Sill and Mrs. Murray (An- Sheldon (Florence) Dulberg;
nette) Sack; two sisters and seven grandchildren and his
sister, Mrs. Handleman,
five grandchildren.
Joseph Schatten, 77, Auditor
of Early Detroit Banking Firm
Joseph A. Schatten, a
founding member of the Na-
tional Bank of Commerce in
1919, which merged in 1935
with the National Bank of
Detroit, died Wednesday at
age 77.
Mr. Schatten, a self-em-
ployed accountant, became
chief auditor with the found-
ing of the Bank of 'Commerce
and left the business follow-
ing its merger.
He later worked for the
Home Owners Loan Corp.,
the Detroit Welfare and So-
cial Services Department and
the accounting firm of Grun-
Mr. May, photographed when
he was ZOA president in
1954.
tee for the Weizmann Insti-
tute, Brandeis Youth Founda-
tion and the Jewish National
Fund. He visited Israel many
times.
During the 1930s he was
personally responsible for
bringing to the U.S. more
than 200 German Jews flee-
ing Nazism.
Born on Dec. 20, 1892, in
Laconia, N.H., he was
brought with his family to
Nashville four years later.
Mr. May received a bach-
elor of arts degree from
Columbia University and was
the holder of the Phi Beta
Kappa Key.
He was associated with the
May Hosiery Mills of Nag'
ville for 50 years, the fi
founded by his father, Jacob.
Yitzhak Kipnis, 78
Russ Jewish Writer
LONDON (JTA) — Yitzhak
Kipnis, a distinguished Yid-
dish writer in the Soviet
Union, has died in Kiev at
age 78, Jewish sources in the
USSR reported.
Mr. Kipnis was the author
of a number of books and
In a n y essays and short
stories and was a holder of
the Opatoshou P r i z e. He
spent four years in jail dur-
ing the Stalin era.
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