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the Arizona Post
Volume 18, Issue No. 2
CJA Kicksoff Record '63 Drive
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SOME FASCINATING in
formation you may have
missed in the confusion of
the day:
A group of busy sociolo
gists at the University of
California reports that fewer
Jews would survive an all
out atomic attack on the
United States than members
of other religious groups.
The reason? A major at
tack would kill more city
dwellers than rural resi
dents. And since Jews are
concentrated in big cities,
they would be harder hit
than other groups.
Solution? Move to Tucson
where all we have are Titan
missiles, a missile manufac
turing plant and a Strategic
Air Force Base. Or convert
from Judaism and stay in
New York or Chicago.
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IN ISRAEL there is a new
crisis.
There is an over-surplus of
bananas.
A few years ago they be
,<?an growing the tropical
fruit in the Jordan Valley.
This year the growers outdid
themselves with a 10 percent
increase in production.
If you have any good re
cipes for bananas please send
them to Israel in care of the
Jewish Agency.
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ANOTHER ITEM of inci
dental, but startling, infor
mation:
The Dean of Yeshiva Col
lege in New York is none
other than Dr. Isaac Bacon.
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ISRAEL’S NATIONAL In
surance has announced that
it is raising “considerably”
its grant for mothers giving
birth to twins or triplets.
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THIS PAST XMAS an Is
raeli company received a
large order from a Tokyo
company for a “holiday
food” to be used as an aper
itif.
The food that won Japa
nese raves was “falafel”—a
strictly Israeli invention.
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YOU CAN NOW breathe
easily when you go to Mex
ico. The ADL reports that
the Mexican Government’s
Tourism Department has de
leted the question of religion
from the tourist card appli
cation form.
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ADVENTURE IN MAKING The Tucson Jewish Community Center is in the midst of
tanning an airborne trip to Paris for its members. Tentative arrangements are being made
by Stanley P. Phillips (left), Tucson manager for Trans World Airlines, and Beniamin N.
Brook, executive vice-president of the Center. The Center is now polling its membership to
study interest in the projected tour for this summer. Other Centers in the west have found
similar adventures to be well-received by their membership.
Many Crops Ruined
Drought Strikes In Negev
JERUSALEM (Special)
A severe winter drought
has imperiled crops in the
Negev, it is reported by
The Jerusalem Post.
A continuing lack of
rainfall already has ruined
100,000 dunams of the 300,-
000 dunams of winter field
crops. The remaining 200,-
000 dunams may also be
lost.
The dry spell also has
resulted in a 50 percent
kill of the flocks of Beduin
Appeal To U.S.
Red Cross Seeks Nazis Release
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Three leading Nazis, still
confined at West Berlin’s
Spandau war crimes prison
may go free if the United
States heeds clemency ap
peals by the West German
Red Cross. The criminals
are Rudolf Hess, once Hit
ler’s top deputy; Baldur
von Schirach, the fanatic
Hitler youth leader; and
Albert Speer, Reichsminis
ter of armaments and
munitions.
The international Nur
emberg tribunal desisted
from sentencing von Schir
ach and Speer to death
only because their testi
mony helped incriminate
the other Nazis on trial.
tribes and 12 sheikhs have
appealed to the Israeli
government for “drought
pay.” The sheikhs called
the drought the “worst
year in living memory.”
The Beduins already are
receiving an allowance for
drought losses in the Ne
gev last year.
North of the Negev the
dry winter has caused far
mers to step up irrigation
to save crops and 500,000
more cubic meters of water
Without their self-serving
testimony, both would have
been executed. They re
ceived 20 years each with
the expectation that this
time would not be reduced
by a single day. Hess es
caped death because of a
mental condition which
may have been feigned. He
was sentenced to life im
prisonment.
The German Red Cross
told American officials
that only a few years re
main to be served by von
Schirach and Speer. Hess
is described as a pitiful vic
tim of psychiatric disturb
ances, who should be al
lowed to spend his remain
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are being used daily than
last winter.
Because of the effect on
the Negev irrigation line
officials are considering
placing restrictions on wa
ter usage.
Despite the drought the
vegetable picture in Israel
is bright. Due to the warm
weather Israelis are pro
ducing a record crop of
vegetables with a heavy
increase of tomatoes and
bananas.
ing years in freedom.
United States authorities
were asked to extend spe
cial consideration to the
three. The Soviet Union
still has a say at Spandau
prison, owing to the old
so u r-power arrangement.
But America is urged to
find a formula to remove
the prisoners from Rus
sian “tyranny.”
After dissolution in 1948
of the four-power Control
Council in Germany, there
was no supreme authority
which could grant clem
ency to the last inmates of
Spandau.
The German Red Cross
thinks the age of these
final three major prisoners
Community-wide
Dinner Slated
For Jan. 31
Off to its greatest start in Tucson history, the Com
bined Jewish Appeal kicks off a record-breaking 1963 cam
paign with a gala dinner open to all men contributors.
There is no minimum donation required.
The CJA opening will be held Jan. 31 at 6 p.m. in the
Max H. Volk Auditorium of
the Tucson Jewish Commu
nity Center. Dinner will fol
low the cocktail hour at
6:30 p.m.
An invitation to all men
of the community was voiced
jointly by Jerome H. Court
ney, CJA general chairman;
David A. Bloom, advance
gifts chairman; Stanley
Weinstein, key gifts chair
man; Jack Davis, trade divi
sion chairman; Leo Morris,
community business division
chairman and William Hart,
residential division chairman.
The joint invitation said:
‘We are urging all men to
attend this important com
munity affair, and point out
that all are invited with no
minimum donation set. At
tending this dinner is a sign
of recognition of the vital is
sues of the CJA campaign
in a year when help is great
ly needed.”
This year the Combined
Jewish Appeal is seeking to
raise an all-time high goal
of $255,000 and campaign
leaders are hoping that the
lead of the special gifts di
vision will be followed to
wards a successful drive.
The special gifts division
opened with $116,100 in gifts
—a 20 percent increase over
last year and the highest in
CJA history.
Reservations for the Jan.
31 dinner can be made by
calling the CJA office at MA
4-8603.
A highlight of the commu
nity-wide dinner will be the
appearance of Jeanne Da
man, the Belgian under
ground worker who aided
many Jewish children dur
ing Nazi occupation in her
country during World War
should be considered, and
that compassion is indi
cated. American officials
seem to agree. German
public opinion is depicted
as feeling that continued
imprisonment of men who
served their country and
fought Communism is in
humane. Indeed, the only
people who seem to care
very much are the surviv
ors of the Nazi oppression
which these three helped
conceive and implement.
The Jewish War Veter
ans of the U.S.A. has
served notice in Washing
ton that too many lives
were snuffed out by Nazi
bestiality to grant further
charity to leading Nazis.
Lend Your Aid
to CJA in J 963
Friday, January 25, 196
Hi H HI
JEANNE DAMAN
H. The war heroine was
honored nationally on Chet
Huntley’s TV show, “T h e
Righteous”. Since the end of
the war she has been aiding
the United Jewish Appeal
and recently made a tour of
Europe and Israel to study
the needs of immigration
and absorption.
Wo men Open Drive
Miss Daman also will be
the guest speaker at the
opening coffee affair of the
CJA women’s division Jan.
31 at 10 a.m. at the home
of Mrs. I. Horwitz.
Mrs. Leon Levy is chair
man for the affair and host
esses are Mmes. Bernard J.
Friedman, Henry H. Kauf
mann, Mel Ritter, Elmer E.
Present, David A. Garber,
Alex Gelb, Ben Klimist, Phil
ip Aries, Bernard Bloch, Jer
ome H. Courtney, Bernard
Rosenbaum, Arthur Grune
wald and Paul Present.
Mrs. Present is women’s
general chairman and Mrs.
Grunewald is chairman of
the special gifts division
which is sponsoring the cof
fee. Reservations may be
made by calling Mrs. Hor
witz.
UJA’s Strike
Is Quickly
Settled
NEW YORK, Jan. 7
(JTA) —A strike of field
men of the national United
Jewish Appeal, which took
place the weekend of Jan.
5-6, was settled here.
Agreement was reached
in discussions between rep
resentatives of the UJA ex
ecutive office and the
Field Men’s Union. All field
representatives have re
turned to their posts.