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Campaign Scoreboard Division Cards Regular Emergency Total MEN Cards 1968 1969 19G8 1969 1968 1969 Pacesetters 108 $225,405.00 $244,050.00 $195,904.00 $289,640.00 $421,309.00 $533,690.00 Initial Gift 86 31,445.00 33,695.00 8,630.0CL 13,895.00 40,085.00 47,580.00 Senior Executives ... 137 22,677.00 24,052.00 10,518.97 15,930.00 33,195.97 39,982.00 Young Executives ... 100 17,200.00 19,645.00 5,255.00 9.485.O0 22,455.00 29,130.00 General M e n / 434 8,601.50 11,551.00 2,264.00 7,076.00 10,865.50 18,627.00 Misc. Emergency ... 6 1,000.00 • 310.25 1,310.25 WOMEN Pacesetters 285 /37,793.00 46,383.00 7,079.00 15,209.00 44,872.00 61,652.00 General Women 765 12,320.50 13,372.50 1,516.25 .3,341.75 13,836.75 16,714.25 Young Women ....... 132 1,436.00 1,938.50 236.00 870.00 1,672.00 2,808.50 B u s i n e s s w o m e n . . . . 181 3,313.50 3,477.25 1,909.09 1,384.50 4,222.59 4,861.75 MISCELLANEOUS High School 59 46.25 168.50 85.00 258.50 131.25 427.00 Men's Organization.. 5 100.00 365.00 465.00 Women's Organization 8 > 1,817.50 325.00 2,142.50 .TOTAL 2,301 $360,237.75 $401,250.25 $232,407.31 $358,150.00 $592,645.06 $759,400.25
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Jewish Defense League New York (JTA) — The militant Jewish Defense League was denounced - by a Reform rabbinical leader as "in essence, no different" from the Ku KIux Klan and as a group which "violates every ethic and tradition of Judaism and every concept of civil liberties and democratic process in American life. Rabbi Maurice N. ,Eisendrath, president of t h e
Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the Reform congregational body, made the charge in a report to the UAHC board of trustees which is bolding its semi-annual three-day meeting. Rabbi Eisendrath's attack on the Jewish Defense League was the first from 'any Jewish organization, A number of League members gathered last week in front of Temple Emanu-El, armed with baseball bats and chains for an expected confrontation with James Forman of the National Black Economic Development Conference, which is demanding '"reparations" from churches and synagogues of half a billion dollars. Forman did not appear at the Reform synagogue and its Rabbi Nathan A. Perilman, deplored the presence of the Defense League: members. • Rabbi Eisendrath called the pointed out that "if we lose a JDL members "batsmen" who war, for us that is the last war. were "spoiling to commit asThen we are not here any more. sault and battery, believing If one doesn't understand this, that had s i m i l a r tactics, Rabbi Eisendrath then one doesn't understand our been used by German Jews, obstinacy." the Holocaust might never have Asked what Israel would do happened." He added: "Jews if the Big Four agreed on a carrying baseball bats and Middle East settlement that Ischains, standing in phalanxes, rael did not like, Mrs. Meir like goon squads, in front of1 jsaid she had "no illusions" synagogues, led by rabbis, are about the difficulties that would Jerusalem (JTA)—The Unitr no less offensive and, in esarise but insisted that "we will ed Nations cease-fire mission is sence, no different from whites say no. It won't be easy." relocating its observer posts at carrying robes and hoods, led the Suez Canal, including those by self-styled ministers of the on the Israeli side which have standing in front of been apparent targets of Egyp- ospel, urningjcrpSses.'i_He^.asserted t i a n artillery shelling, UN that "neither "Jews nor "Chris-" sources here reported. They nor America. need such said that the number of UN tians 'protectors.' If these be out posts would remain unchanged friends, then God preserve us Summer volunteers are need- but that the relocations would from our enemies." He said ed for a number of Tutorial be to improved vantage points. that thus far, the League was Programs operating in the city. On the other side of the ca- limited to.New York City "but Adults, college and high school nal, Egyptian Army postsTiw-- ' in a climate of emotionalism, students are eligible to serve cluding artillery units, h a v e such vigilantism may grow." as tutors for the programs been moved to points often only sponsored by GOCA, Wesley a yard or two away from the House, North Christ Child Cen- UN posts, positions considered How to Solve the ter, Neighborhood House and by UN personnel too close for Ames Avenue M e t h o d i s t comfort. It was reported that Hunger Problem Church. the new UN sites are not on We hear.more- and more A training session for volun- - the canal edge, as are the presabout the problem of hunger teer tutors will be held at UNO ent posts, but further inland on in many parts of the United slightly higher ground. The UN the week of June 16. ; States. If we make our first Further information a b o u t Observers said they hoped to be woman President a Jewish these volunteer programs is able to see what was happening Mother, that problem will available from Mrs. Robert without being directly in the be solved immediately. line of fire. Kully, 556-4465.
Rift in Israel-U.S. Views Prompts Meir Visit to U.S.
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Jerusalem (JTA)—Diplomatic of the Strait of Tiran and Issources have linked plans for rael's utter isolation when no Premier Golda Meir to visit the power or combination of powUnited States within the next ers came to its help or even few weeks with growing con- promised to do so within a reacern here that there may be sonable time. some erosion of the hitherto Outlines Views warmly pro-Israel position of Mrs. Meir said her country the United States in its bilater- would be "much happier" If al talks in Washington with the the U.S. and other countries Soviet Union. The American saw the situaEmbassy in Tel Aviv was re- tion in the Midported to be in communication dle East as Iswith the State Department on raelis did,-butj the timetable and schedule for she a s s e r t e d ! the_prpposed visit, that "if 1 am to . Thp concern over possible,. chqosje a good' - erosion of the American posi- p r e s s in the1-, tion stems from a mounting world with many; realization here that the Israeli things about am position is not fully understood Israel that isn't abroad. . here any more,' One reason for Mrs. Mcir's or unfair critl- G. Meir visit to the U.S. would be to cism- of an Is. explain Israel's Inslstance on rael that is still in existence, , direct negotiations to President then I choose the latter." In an interview with the ediI Nixon, For the same reason, i Israel's diplomatic representa- tors of Time, appearing in the . Hves abroad will be instructed current issue of the* magazine, , to stress the events preceding Mrs. Meir expressed convic; the Six-Day War in 1967, re- tion that, in the same circum! minding foreign statesmen of stances, the U.S. and other the massing of the Arab armies countries would act "exactly , on Israel's borders, the closure as we are." She said Israelis were vitally interested in an understanding between the U.S. •and the Soviet Union, "but to say It very bluntly, not at our expense." Mrs. Meir told her InterviewChicago (JTA)—Two alder- ers that she found no difference man have asked the Chicago In the mood of President GamCity C o u n c i 1 to investigate al Abdel Nasser of Egypt, and means by which state laws said that while Israel did not could be used to make the Il- believe a new war was immilinois Bell Telephone Co. re- nent, "we have to be prepared fuse racist recorded messages also in case we misjudge." She after one such message was banned at the r e q u e s t of a ..United States Attorney. The Sentinel, an English-Jewish weekly, raised the issue over a message w h i c h the "weekly charged openly called for extinction of Negroes and A Distinguished P r ofessorJews. It purportedly had been ship has been established in arranged by the National So- the University-of N o b r a s k a cialist White People's Party, Foundation in honor of Meyer successor to the defunct Amer- Katzman of Omaha. ican Nazi Party of the late The Chair will be supported George Lincoln Rockwell. by a $5,000 annual contribution Donald Sharp, vice-president from the Meyer Katzman Founand general c o u n s e l of the dation, with his children servtelephone firm, told the City ing as trustees. It is the hopo Council committee on utilities -of lire Katzman Foundation to that "we cannot dictate or_cen- fully endow the Chair in tha sor the contents of any mes- future, according to Harry F. sage." The recording was then Hnynie, University Foundation banned at the request of U. S. president. Attorney T h o m a s A, Foran. The professorship is being esAlderman Paul T. WJgoda and tablished by the K a t z m a n Ralph H. Metcalfe, in asking Family, Mr. Haynie said, in for the probe by the council's recognition and appreciation of committee on utilities, indi- the opportunities made availcated that there s h o u l d l e able to all American youth un; specified legal means to bar der the state university educasuch messages;* .-; • tional system. ; ,
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U.N. Observers Relocating Posts
Tutors Needed for Summer Programs
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Life On Israel's Border Settlements
Nebraska U. Chair Established in Honor Or Meyer Kalzman
Children in settlements throughout Israel's Bet Shean Valley have been sleeping deep underground. at the kibbutzim since the end of the Six-Day War in June, 1967. Pictured above, a child waits in front of a bomb shelter at one of the beleaguered kibbutzim. Inside the shelter, parents prepare the cribs la which the children will once agaiu spend the nlghtv ' : ' v :'