THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
30 Friday, July 20, 1919
Danny Raskin's
LISTENING
POST
THE STORY HAS been
told of Steve • Petix
Clothiers' amazing rise
from one store on W.
McNichols with six em-
ployees, to four locales now
and 42 employees . . . plus
his own builidng built al-
most 10 years ago on South-
field north of 13 Mile Rd.
It used to be a big thing
for Steve to win a blue rib-
bon at the annual custom
tailors conventions . . . To-
day, it would be news if he
didn't win one!
But the biggest accom-
plishment that Steve has
achieved is his uncanny
ability to surround himself
with the best personnel . . .
people who have been with
him a long time and have
assisted greatly in his huge
success.
Phil Formaro, with
Steve 23 years, used to be
a designer of ladies
clothes in Chicago . . .
and today is among
America's finest in cus-
tom men's and women's
garments . . the best on
husband and wife suits
. . . Tony Vettiaino
started with Steve in 1.943
when he was 12-years-old
. . . and today is
president and general
manager (Steve is board
chairman-) . . . Son
Jimmy was eight-years-
old, doing" clean-up and
odd jobs for dad . . .
Today he is vice
president . . .
Then there's Lew Davis,
21 years; Geno Gigliotti, 12
years; Edna Rutz, head
bookkeeper, about 29 years;
Don Sanders, buyer, 12
years; Bob Cats, comptrol-
ler, 15 years; Ed Davenport,
who opened the shoe de-
partment at Steve's South-
field building.
Also in the office for so
many years is his daughter
Norma Scullen . . . and her
daughter', 15-year-old
Stephanie . . . Of course, at
his side from the beginning,
the person most responsible
for Steve's great success
. . . his wonderful wife
Palmi, to whom he has been
married 43 years come Sept.
2.
Steve and Palrni know
how to enjoy life . . their
devoted love is beautiful
. . . with philosophies that
are remarkably alike . . .
They now spend six months
in Florida, five months here
. . . and one month in
California with son Steven
II, a U.S. district attorney,
his wife Mary and Steven
-
The store Steve Petix
started at on W.
McNichols and San Juan
after leaving Bernie
Frant and Mansfield
Clothes, is still there . . .
and still a Steve Petix op-
eration . . . for tuxedo
rental . . . as are one on
Grand - River and Eight
Mile Rd. and another at
Gratiot and Eight.
His Southfield Rd. custom
and ready-made emporium
has been remodeled.
Every Steve Petix em-
ployee has something else
besides loyalty and much
talent . . . they're friendly
. . . The highest compli-
ment is not how good his
merchandise is or how won-
derful his help . . . These
had to be so for Steve to get
where he has . . . It's the
warm feeling of friendship
that surrounds everyone
there.
CONGRATS . . . on
50th anniversary . . to
Pearl and Sid Broida.
IN BALTIMORE, Md.,
there's a law firm called
Sherbow and Sherbow . . .
No relation, but Bud and
Murt Sherbow certainly
hope the day comes when
their two sons, Mark and
Jeff, join together in a law
partnership by the same
name . . . What a thrill
that will be for Murt and
Bud, now celebrating their
36th anniversary.
Legal work prevented
Jeff from getting downtown
recently for his brother and
eventual partner's move to
new offices at First Na-
tional Bank Building . . .
Mark and Jerome Bock
share larger quarters now
with barrister Fred Rosen
following the move from an-
other floor by Mark and
Jerry.
Plenty of food and cham-
pagne . . . coordinated by
Sue Burrier, legislative
assistant in Lansing . . .
Murt made a couple of de-
licious dishes . . . chopped
liver mold and a shrimp
mold . . . Pastries galore
from Knudsen's . . . Bertha
Nelson proudest grand-
mother in the world . . .
with piftures of little Laura
and Caryn, 16-month-apart
children of daughter Sharon
and son-in-law Dr. Harry
Lubetsky.
Steven Weiss of Brooks
Leather on 1'1 Mile in Oak
Park still waiting for the
10 cents Mark owes him.
Mark and Steve were two
of four musketeer friends
. . . Leon Botkin, now an
attorney here and Stephen
Granat, hospital adminis-
trator in Los Angeles . . .
Sherbow and Sherbow
. . . doesn't that sound nice?
. . . Murt and Bud sure
think so.
Booklet Details
Spanish Jewry
NEW YORK — The last-
ing Sephardic heritage in
Spain is the subject of a
booklet, "Exploring the
Jewish Heritage in Spain,"
offered free by the Spanish
National Tourist Office in
New York.
The booklet is written by
Samuel and Tamar Grand.
For copies of the booklet,
write the Spanish National
Tourist Office, 665 Fifth
Ave., New York, 10022.
Qaddafi to Replace Syria Jets,
Threatens Egypt's Oil Pipeline
NEW YORK — Col.
Muammar Qaddafi of Libya
was quoted in Damascus
last week as promising to
replace any Syrian fighter
planes that are lost in battle
with Israel.
Qaddafi was in Syria at
the end of a tour of 10 Arab
countries in which he tried
to harden Arab opposition
to the Israeli-Egyptian
peace treaty.
Qaddafi's
statement
about replacing fighters
was in reference to the June
27 battle over Lebanon in
which six Syrian MiG 21
jets were shot down by Is-
rael and a seventh dam-
aged.
Libya has approx-
imately 400 fighter
planes, most of them
Soviet MiGs. Qaddafi had
earlier promised to help
finance a major share of
Syria's military pur-
chases from the Soviet
Union.
Damascus Radio said
Qaddafi will tighten Arab
economic reprisals against
Egypt by obtaining a prom-
ise from Arab oil-producing
countries to not ship oil
through Egypt's pipeline to
the Mediterranean.
Following his visit to
Syria, Qaddafi had planned
to visit Lebanon but the trip
was canceled after the
Shiite Moslem community
called a strike and blocked
streets in protest.
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provincial governments.
The synagogue in
Eisenstadt, a town south-
east of Vienna near the bor-
der with Hungary, will be
part of a larger complex
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