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The frontiersman., 1955-12-22
NEW BABIES
Stephan

MT and Mrs. Leo Stephan q Eklutna are parents of their flftf child. a daughter, who was 'borr at Valley Presbyterian Hospta December 13. She weighed sl1 pounds. four ounces at birth. MT Stephan is employed at the Al aska Native Service hospital II Anchorage.
 Branfon
 Al daughter, weighing sever pounds. II ounces, was born tc MT. and Mrs. T. Richard Bran ton of Palmer at Providence Hos pital in Anchorage on December 17. She has been named Barbara Joyce. after her mother who dleo shortly after her birth. Maternal grandpartents are MT. and Mrs Toivo Bentti and paternal grand parents are MT. and Mrs. C. Ivan Branton, all of Palmer.
The frontiersman., 1955-12-22

pleted, according to Mary Steel man, leader.
 Home from the University of Washington for the Christmas holidays are Arleen Benson, daughter of Mrs. Irene Benson, and Doyle Ross, son of MT. and Mrs. Lucius Ross, all of Palmer. Pat Chandler, another PHS alu- mni member, is home for the holidays. She returns to Seattle University after the New Year holiday. Margaret Cope, student at Willamette, and daughter of Mrs. Margaret Cope, is also spending the holidays at her home in Palmer.
 Robert IL. Bronson left for Wis consin this weekend where he will spend a winter vacation wis iting his family and ski resorts in the western states. He plans to return to Palmer in March.
 Over 100 turkeys were distri- buted this week by the Matanus- ka Valley Farmers Cooperating Association to it's employees. Each employee received turkey as holiday greetings from the As sociation.
 City of Palmer volunteer fire fighters were called out at around 3 am. Tuesday morning to the home of Mrs. Julia Adams where a downdraft had blown out the fire in space heater, causing a lot of smoke. No damage was re- ported
 All departments of the Matan- uska Valley Farmers Cooperating Association will be closed Mon-I day, December 26, in observance of Christmas.
 The Rev. James P. Snead. pastor of St. MichaoPs CatholicI Church in Palmer, was amongi those attending a dinner held ini Anchorage for Francis Cardinali Spellman, Roman Catholic arch-I bishop of New York.
 A practice and training alert! conducted at Fort Richardson; last Saturday had it's repercus- sions here in Palmer. A number: of troops were dispatched to Pal; mer where they set up in the! Fairgrounds; ready to stay ani hour, day, week, or even months. The alert closed the Arctic SkiS bowl in Anchorage, and cancel-s led out a scheduled basketball game between the Palmer MooseS and an Army team.
The frontiersman., 1955-12-22
SAVE THE TREE

If your tree holder is the type that allows the butt of the tree to rest in water, you can help keep needles from dropping by dissolv- ing plant food in the water. If you use a pebble or rock-flled pail to support the tree. cover the pebbles or rock with plant food solution.
 Use one teaspoonful of plant food Cor one plant food tableD to each gallon of water in the container.
The frontiersman., 1955-12-22
Reporters
 Noelook

Best holiday wishes were re-
 ceived this week from Opal Lu
 Smith, former editor of The From
 tiersman, who is now located in
 Seattle.
 Department Historian Mary
 Steelman returned from Seward
 last week where she had made a
 four-day visitation to the Ameri-
 can Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 5.
 While in Seward Mrs. Steelman
 was guest of Mary Stoeckle, De- i partment second vice-president,
 and was entertained at dinner by
 Seward unti members.
 Everett Adams, Palmer Piggly-
 Wiggly manager, is planning on
 spending the holidays with his family in Seattle.
 Stewart Durrant left yesterday
 for Juneau, enroute to holiday
 visit with his family in Salt Lake
 City.
 Mary Ann Mears, daughter of
 Mir. and Mrs. Lester Mears, is
 home for the Christmas holiday from her studies at the University
 of Nevada. Arriving on the same
 plane was Pat Hagen, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Al Hagen, who
 attends the Annie Wright Semin-
 any, Tacoma, and who will re-
 main home for the holidays. Army manuevers on Saturday of last week cancelled out the scheduled basketball game be- tween an Army team and the Palmer High School players. An nie Oakleys'', were given to bas- ketball fans who turned out to ito see the game, they may be used at future game
 Members of the Matanuska Valley Bank staff and their es- !corts enjoyed their annual Christ mas party on Saturday of this week. The party was held at the home of MT. and Mrs. Richard Jones.
 All employees of the Piggly- Wiggly stores in Alaska were in vited to the company's annual Christmas dinner and party held last Saturday at the Idle Hour Country Club in Anchorage. At tending from Palmer were Ever ett Adams, store manager, and Dale Clark.
 "A large attendance was report ! ed at the American Legion and; Auxiliary annual Christmas party! last Thursday. The family pro-; gram was complete with a beau! tifully decorated Christmas tree, treats, movies, and refreshments! The party was held at Moose; hall. Another Christmas party; where everyone had wonderful! time, was that of Girl Scout; Troop Fl who held their party: at the hotel Saturday morning. In addition to their good time the girls furnished food andi clothing, as a community project; for a Christmas box which will! be added to those boxes the Le-; zion and Auxiliary will distribu-i te for Christmas. Troop Fl is; sponsored by the local Auxiliary! Unit Beginning January 3, members! of Girl Scout Troop Fl will meeti each Tuesday afternoon at Moose! hall, from 3:3O to pm Troop 71i has IA active members at the! present time, and had been meet ing at the Legion building. Meet S ings will be moved to that build s ing as soon as repairs are com
The frontiersman., 1955-12-22

The little metal trumpets deco rating Christmas trees date from early Danish custom of blowing in the Yule with four hymns repre- senting the four corners of the world
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05

of the Hebrew Union College, he was foremost
Jewish scholar of his day. But his name does not
appear in the first Jewish "Who's Who" published
in this country because of a humorous prank. The
publication society had asked him to prepare
short biography for insertion He complied with
the request, supplying very fancful tale indeed,
saying among other things that he had at one
time been engaged to the granddaughter of the
Dali Lama, but the engagement was broken be-
cause the lady refused to go to Mikveh. His bio
graphy was omitted on this account
Deutsch, who looked like one of the ancient He
brew prophets-a big man with large flowing
white beard-could not resist the impulse to
humor anymore than Prof. Solomon Schechter his
contemporary and the president of the Jewish
Theological Seminary. Schechter was full of jokes.
When he first came to the United States, as
member of the faculty of Columbia University, he
was visited by the Catholic chaplain of Columbia.
The latter sent up his card describing himself as
a member of the Jesuit order. When the chaplain
arrived, Schechter said to him, "You know, don't
like Jesuits so now sit down, and let's be friends
Probably the oldest American rabbincal story
is the one about the dinner attended by Cardinal
Gibbons and Rabbi Krauskopf. when" asked the
Cardinal, twill you begin eating him?"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05
Rubbis Can Joke

"At your wedding, your Emnence," replied
Rabbi KrauSkopf.
Incidentally Cardinal Gibbons could pull off a
nifty himself He was something of a Catholic
"modernist' as they were called in those days
and he was asked whether he believed in the doc
trine of Papal infaliblity. Well he replied, when
the Pope received him the Pope had called him
Cardinal gibbons.
The late Rabbi Edward Israel of Baltimore was
presented to audience by the chairman
who was a Yale alumnus. The rabbi, said the
chairman had the youthfulness symbolzed by the
"Y" of Yale, the ability of the letter "A" in Yale
the loyalty of the letter ''L" in the and so
on. When Rabbi Israel arose to speak, he told
the audience it should be grateful that the chair
man was not graduate of the Massachusetts, In
stitute of Technology.
Chief Rabbi Herman Adler of England once
stopped a "nudnick' who wearying him with
one bit of scandal after another by exclaiming
cts lie.'
Rabbi, the man asked, 'How can you say it
is lie, when you were not there?" II know it's
lie" said Rabbi Adler, because you say you
heard it, and I know you never stop talking
long enough to hear anyone"
Rabbi Jacob Widrewitz of Moscow was once
designated by the Czarist Government to adjudi-
cate dispute between a rabbi and the congrega-
ton He upheld the right of the congregation to
dismiss the rabbi.
'But the house we built for the Rabbi, asked
the president of the congregation, shave we the
right to evict the rabbi from it?'
"No No, that would not be right" said Rabbi
Widrewitz 81 suggest instead, that the members
of the congregation move out of town and leave
the rabbi all alone.'
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05

The Herut, now the second
strongest party in the country, has
captured over Is percent of the
vote, better than doubling it's
strength. The General Zionists
moved into third place with II
percent and the Religious Front,
composed of the Mizrachi and
Labor Mizrachi parties, stand at
95 percent. The Leachduth
Avodah captured eight percent of
the vote while the Mapam ended
up with seven percent. The
Agudah has five percent, the Pro-
gressives 4.6 percent and the Com
munists, four. The other states re-
ceived less than one percent of the
total and, under the constitution,
are not entitled to seats in the
120-member Parliament.
The anticipated distribution of
seats in the Knesset is: Mapai. 40:
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05

apai-affiliated Arab parties 4:
Herut. is: General Zionists, IA;
Religious Front. IL: Agudah. 6:
Leachdutch Avodah. 10: Mapam,
8: Progressives. S: and Commu-
nists. S.
Commenting on the drubbing
which his party took, DR.. Peretz
Bernstein, former Minister of
Trade and leader of the centrist
General Zionists, blamed the "un-
restrained attack" by all parties
on the General Zionists. He ex-
pressed disappointment in the re-
suits and said he thought the
voters were mistaken in their
judgment"
Arieh Ben Eliezer. Herut
spokesman. jubilantlY called the
gains of his party a voters re-
volt" predicted that from here on
the Mapai would decline in power
and insisted that the election re-
suits were an indication of the
general feeling of insecurity and
isolation of Israel. He said that on
the basis of the results the party
would intensity its activities in
the Zionist declarations of all coun-
tries and would seek TO capture
the Zionist movement.
Coda Myerson, Mapai's Labor
Minister, expressed concern over
the Herut's gaining of seven per-
centage points. She blamed Gen
eral Zionists and Leachduth
Avodah attacks on the last Mapai-
led government for the victory of
the rightiSts.
Mapai Registers Gains in
Tel Aviv. Haifa
In the municipal elections,
which took place simultaneously,
the Mapai in Tel Aviv was report
ed as having increased its lead
over the General Zionists' who
have held the post of mayor for
decades. Evening papers reported
that Coda Myerson, candidate of
the Mapai may become the Mayor
of Tel Aviv with the support of
a coalition among the Mapai, Miz-
rachi groups and Agudas Israel.
In Haifa. the Mapai won 8 seats
in the municipality. the General
Zionists 8. Herut 2. Achdut
Avodah 2. while the Religious
Bloc. Agudah. Communist Party
and Sephardic group secured one
seat each.
Without waiting for the final re-
suits, a date was fixed for the
opening of the new Parliament.
The Knesset will open on August
Is and will elect a Speaker and a
Deputy Speaker, after which it
will adjourn untilO after the High
Holidays. Premier Sharett has, in
the meantime, left on a short va
cation. Upon his return, negotia-
tons will be started for the for
nation of a new Cabinet.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05
Results of Election
Popular in Israel

Copyright 1855, By The Jewish Telegraphc Agency
TEL AVN. GTA - With virtually ballots except those
cast by members dtv the
apa PartYs total in the Knesset
the votes plus another 2 parties affiliated
with the Labor Party The soldier ballot expected to be
completed this
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05

Heine said Is minutes of laugh
ter daily should be part of ones
religious devotions. According to
the Talmud, Elijah was once ask
ed who was sure of going to
Heaven and he pointed to a CO.
median. For tightening the hearts
of people he was entitled to it.
Prof Gotthard Deutsch was not
a rabbi himself but a teacher of
rabbis. A member of the faculty
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05
PLAIN TALK.
RABBI MAMA
BY ALFRED SEGAL

4ne question:: Wou10 De happy
at the feet of lady rabbi in
temple? The question comes by
way of the Central Conference of
American Rabbis (Reform). On
the recent convention of these
rabbis it came up through a pro-
posal that Reform approve the
ordination of women as rabbis. II
believe it was offered by Rabbi
Barnett Brickner of Cleveland.)
The rabbis, it seems, weren't
quite ready to say yes or to say
no as to whether ladies should be
taken into their holy profession.
So decision was postponed for
consideration at a later meeting.
thought maybe the rabbis
might care to hear from a lay
man on this. since. after all. lay
men are the principal consumers
of rabbis. you might say. and that
IaYman shall be me.
Well, I remember mama and,
really, must say haven't as yet
met or heard of rabbi more ex-
cellent than my mama was in our
household. Yes, mama was the
rabbi in our house, and what
more sacred altar?
She showed us the way to go.
and certainly. isn't that the main
function of a rabbi? She didn't
preach exactly. but she told US:
told US what was right and what
was wrong; she did this between
cooking and scrubbing the kitchen
floor and making the beds and
washing the dishes and keeping
the house in order generally: TO
say nothing of the help she gave
the washerwoman who came TO
our house every Monday.
can't think of any male rabbi
who influenced my life nearly so
much as Rabbi Mama did. A rabbi
is a guy preaching from high up
on a pulpit; he's never in the
kitchen. He's so far off, preaching
on what to do about the whole
world; not at all like the un-
ordained rabbi who was mama
and who spoke to me with words
l could understand. (You know,
there have been times when just
can't make out everything rabbi
up in a pulpit hands DOWN.
never disputed Rabbi Mama's
judgment: though must confess
that even in the hottest hours I
have found myself arguing silent
ly with rabbis up in pulpits.
Mama always was so right. She
was the first rabbi I ever met.
Her teaching was always very
Jewish. It had to do with the way
: a boy like me should behave to-
ward other people. with the duty
never TO tell a lie. with the mean
ing of our holidays TO the ways of
my own life.
Her altar was fragrant with the
incense of her cooking for the
holidays and the Sabbath, too.
She told me Rosh Hashonah didn't
mean a thing to me unless made
up my mind to be better boy in
the New Year; that Purim was a
day in which to think of the
rights of other people, since it
was a holiday that celebrated a
victory for the rights of Jewish
people; that Pesach was a time
to renew our appreciation at being
free.
F@~.Gs-..aS - DaHa ~
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05

Joseph Ekn g. cener) and his wife Rose they
Arthur Greeneigh Executive Director
Has Service, many times
by the nearly four and half decades earlier
When they arrived in 1911 they
by aides Of HAS the predecessor organizations
United HAS Service, the agencys shelter
days. their paid Omaha,
tied and raised family and Elkin worked at his trade which
carpentry This his three daughters
ried retired relates
Of honor" that he felt migration agency. They
call they made was at the office Of United HAS Service
far from wealthy man." said Eln "Carpeners
rieh handed anyone that It gave me
much pleasure to give this check United
May long continue good work. nobody help
much a Jew"
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1955-08-05
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

Copyright, 1855, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc)
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1955-09-16
Brownsville, Florida
Samuel Go|dWyn's
Million Dollar Story

1 went back in my mind to the
image of skinny youngster who
before the century began, lived
about seven or eight thousand
miles away from Hollywood. Per-
haps 1 ought to begin about him
in the traditional way that all
fairy tales begin, for his real life
turned out to be a fairy tale far
beyond the widest imaginings of
any teller of tales. So
Once upon a time. there was a
l0-Year- old boy who lived in a
far-off country. His folks were
poor and often there was barely
enough to eat in the house. His
The Southern Jewish weekly., 1955-09-16
At Pensacola "The Air Base City,

father went to work early in the
morning and came home late at
night. SO that the boy saw little
of him except in the Sabbath Day.
It was the boys grandfather. who
also lived in the crowded family
quarters. whose stories started the
boy on the road TO what became.
during the years that followed.
The Million Dollar Story.
A great American writer named
John Dos Passos once wrote about
this same boy:
Many. many years ago there
lived in a crowded slum in a hag-
gard. horrible city under the lead
en- skies of Eastern Europe. poor
little Jewish boy named Samuel.
It was city full of mud and mis-
cry. The police wore great. heavy.
high leather boots just for the
purpose of kicking poor little
boys. and especially poor little
Jewish boys. around. The little
boy was very skinny and very
weak. but there burned in his
heart so great an ambition that
he decided he'd run away.
Far to the West beyond the
Rhine and across the ocean there
was a country called America.
"What did I know about it?" he
says today. 1t was dream.
II was a dream built in the
stories my grandfather used to
tell-for. of course. I was that
boy. Out of all the dim men,
cries of those days. there remain
three things which ! remember
most about my grandfather-his
long white beard. the hours he
spent playing chess with his
cronies and the stories he used to
spin. They were wonderful stories
to hold a youngsters attention.
but the ones that meant the most
TO me and which really fired my
imagination and kindled my
dreams were those about America
"a land where the streets were
paved with gold. TO be sure. but
where there was also something
more than gold TO be found.
My grandfather, of course, had
never been out of Poland. Chances
are that he had never been more
than a few miles away from War
saw, where we lived. But out OF
what he had read, and from let
Continued on Page 1897
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tContinued from Page l5l)
to him but I do remember that
the words "a million-dollar story"
started me off on chain Of
thought that took me back lot
of years and got me to thinking OF
what was the real million-dollar
story of my life.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01

ing of the Rotary, Lions, Business
and Professional Women's Club and
the Kiwani Club to be held in St.
Johns Parish Hall Tuesday eve
ming, May 10 when tie iKwaniS
club will be in charge of the pro-
gram. Husbands and wives of club
members will be guests on this
occasion when 400 persons are ex-
pected to attend. Stensen Petersen
was awarded the attendance prize.
Clarence Stephen, a Genoa Kiwan-
ian was a club visitor.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01
Kiwanis Hears
Easter Program

An Easter program of songs was
presented at the meeting of the
Port Clinton Kiwanis Club Wednes-
day noon, in the Evangelical United
Brethren church hall, by the high
school chorus of 80 boys and girls
who presented an interesting pro-
gram including Easter selections.
Printy Arthur, instructor Of music
in the high school directed.
President DR.. Richard Semon an
nounced arrangements are being
made for the annual group meet
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01

Bowling with Everett's Pontiac
at EOD, 1t. V. Debellis missed a
perfect game by one pin in the
fourth frame. All other balls were
strikes, and he finished with 279.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01

Joe Prentice, Perry Monument
head, will address the Oak Harbor
Business Men at Monday nights
meeting.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01

Easter Bazaar, Trinity Methodist
Church, Thurs. March 81. Plate
Lunch at Noon, adults 75c, child
rem under IL, soc from l1:00 TO
loo. Chicken supper 4:30 TO ZOO.
adults $1.25, children under II,
Csc. 6-3f
Cards received from Mr.. and
Mrs. Earl Wilson, report that they
are enroute home by boat route,
after having visited Honolulu and
other points of the Hawaiian Is
lands. They expect to arrive home
in a couple of weeks.
Charles Dewitt spent the past
week in Columbus attending the
Hardware Dealers convention.
New Styles and coIors in Spring
fashions. Get the newest for the
Easter Parade, at Kolesar Shoe
Store, ia e. Second. 8-lt
Mrs. Robert Lenke, Oak Harbor,
became new addition to the
clerical staff in Municipal Court
this week.
The Rev. John Braun, pastor of
St John Lotheran church, return
ed Tuesday from Columbus where
he attended a meeting of the Board
of Regents of Capital University.
John Braun, who was home for
between-quarters recess, returned
with him to Columbus.
. aE3E Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
TaSH Wiley (Stella Perkins)
w. Rocky Ridge are par
ents of a daughter, seven pounds,
eight and a half ounces, born at
Magruder hospital Saturday, March
26th.
coIored Easter Egg Sale at
Corner & Wolf, Saturday, April
9Th, 10 am. TO z p.m.-St. Thomas
Altar Guild. IS cents per doz. Call
6753 or 1901.
The Rev. FIR. Karl Brand, pastor
emeritus of the Immaculate Con-
ception Catholic Church, returned
home the latter part of last week
after having spent the past three
months in California and other
points in the west.
The women of the Peace Lut;1-
eran church will hold their annual
Easter Bazaar and fish supper in
the church hall on Monroe street
this Friday afternoon and evening,
April 1St Lunch will be served at
noon.
AES2G A daughter. weigh
NI%3 ing six pounds, seven
NNS and half ozs., was
born to Mr. and Mrs. James Ed
ward Lee Roberta Smith) at Ma
grUder hospital Saturday, March
26th.
Don't miss PC. Jr. Civic club
style show and card party at Guild
hall Mon. Apr. IL, 7:3o pm. 8-2t
An organization meeting called
for Monday night at the Catholic
school auditorium to get Little
League teams underway was can
celled due to inclement weather.
League officials said later meet
ing will be called.
Mr. and Mrs. George Gresham,
Oak-St, are moving Thursday to
the Perry-st apartment vacated by
Mr.. and Mrs. Whitley Riedmaier
who have gone to their Rock Ledge
home.
-
Easter Bazaar and Fish Supper
Fri, Apr. at Peace Lutheran
Church from II Am. TO z Pm.
and a to PM. Fish sandwiches
also available. S-1t
Supt. d. d. Sims will assist in
conducting the group discussions
when neWSpapermen and school
administrators and school board
members of northwestern Ohio get
together at Bowling Green April
II to discuss ways in which they
can work together for better cover
age of school news.
Shoppers Special, Hyacint
plants only S9c at your florist.
klingbiers.
Ronald w. Johnson, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Johnson of T..
Perry-st, received major letter
in wrestling at Illinois Institute of
Technology in Chicago where he
is a senior.
| Mylander
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01

Mrs. Wilson Webster, Put-in-Bay,
is the houseguest this week of Mr..
and Mrs. Darrell Beucler and son.
Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1955-04-01

SCAG Mr.. and Mrs. James
NSIE y Ashton Donna Winke)
N1SE SIS Fulton-St, are par
ents of a son, eight pounds. 141z
ozs., born at Magruder hospital
Thursday, March "a