Observer, La Grande, Ore., Sat., Aug. 16 1958 Page 5,
Conflict Between Jewish Elements
By LOUIS CASSELS
..United Press International
Does the term "Jew" designate
a person's religion, race or nation
ality? This question currently is the
subject '- of lively controversy
among Jews, both in Israel and
in the United Slates; ;-
The dispute in lirocl was
loij'chcd off by the government's
decision to issue new identifica
tion cards to all citizens. Each
card shows, among tother things,
whether the bearer js Jewish or
non-Jewish. The Ministry of In
terior has instructed its clerks to
lelach citizen make the deter
mination himself. In other words,
any person who considers himself
a Jew will be officially recorded
as, "one. ; .
Traditional Tests
The ruling has produced sharp
protests from some orthodox rab
bis. They charge that the govern
ment has abandoned the tradition
al tests prescribed in Talmudic
scriptures. According to these
rules, a person is a Jew only if
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'iDABEL. Okla. (UPI) Willie
Hunter, 42, who was recaptured
Wednesday after escaping from
the McCurtain County Jail, told
Sheriff Bob Murphy he had a
good reason for fleeing.
"You can't imagine how un
pleasant it was in there,'' he said.
"It was too darn hot."
Maryland Boy
Wins Rodd-E-O
' WASHINGTON UPI Edward
M. Smith, 17, of Silver Spring,
Md., last night was named as the
nation's champion teen- age
driver.
1 Edward was awarded a $2,000
college scholarship as winner of
the 7th annual National Road-E-O.
He was the youngest 'of the top 10
among 51 contestants from the 48
states, the District of Columbia,
Hawaii and Alaska.
Second place went to Marvin M.
Lowry of Moultrie, Ga. He re
ceived a $1,500 scholarship..
. Other contestants who finished
in the top 10 included: Ronald E.
Timpe, Portland, Ore.; Edward
Long, South Fargo, N.D.; and
David W. Lindslrom, Juneau,
Alaska.
Nautilis To Head For
Home Port Next Monday
PORTLAND, Eng. (UPI) The
U.S. Navy's atomic submarine
Nautilus, which made the historic
underweater crossing of the North
Pole, will sail for home Monday
after a six-day visit here, it was
announced today. The sub will
head for her home port, New Lon
don, Conn. Portland was the ship's
first port after cruising under the
Arctic ice pack from Hawaii to
the North Atlantic.
No turtles have teetli, but the
jaws have homy edges that can
cut hard substances and some
turtles can make painful cuts.
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(1) he has been dedicated to the
faith of Judaism by the rite of
circumcision; and (2) lie has a
Jewish mother.'
Few Jews would argue with the
first test, which is a purely reli
gious standard.
But the second test signifies
that Jewishness also is a matter
of race. And this idea is repug
nant to many people (non-Jews as
well as Jews ) who " remember
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NEWTON. Iowa (UPI) Je'rrv
Alward, 13, Newton, wrote his
parents from a Boone, Iowa, sum
mer camp that he is having a
"pretty good time."
But Jerry added, "When I say
pretty 1 mean I'm not doing so
good."
Jerry said he was doing flips on
the trampoline, missed, hit a steel
bar, bounced off, fell on his back
and hurt his feet, his ribs and
both arms.
Then, his sleeping bag, pillow
and clothes got soaked during a
rainstorm the next day. He moved
his air mattress too close to a
fire and 'burned a hole in it.
Jerry said he dropped his
glasses in the river while return
ing from a two-day caoe trip at
Stockton Man
Dies In Fall
JACKSON, Wyo. (UPI) -Park
rangers -have recovered the body
of a 43-year-old Stockton, Calif.,
man who fell to his death on a
mountain ledge in Grand Teton
National Park Wednesday.
He was Parshall A. Terry, who
slipped and fell 100 feet to a low
er ledge while jumping rocks.
A 12-man recovery team, led
by park ranger John Fonda, found
the body early Thursday about
I, 000 feet from the peak of the
II, 750-foot mountain.
Terry, according to chief park
ranger Russell Dickenson, was
with his two teen-age sons and a
brother-in-law, Francis Andres of
Ruppert, Idaho.
Arabs Maneuver With
New "Secret Weapon"
' DAMASCUS, Syria (UPI) The
United Arab Republic army car
ried out live-ammunition maneu
vers Thursday with a "new secret
weapon," Damascus Radio re
ported. The broadcast said the maneu
vers were watched by Field Mar
shal Abdel ' Hakim Airier, commander-in-chief
of the U.A.R.
forces.
Five "Outlaws" Slain
By Cuban Rural Guards
HAVANA (UPI) Five "out
laws" were killed by rural guards
Thursday on the road between
San Andres and La Guira in west
ern Cuba an area not previ
ously affected by recent disorders
in this country, the army an
nounced Friday.
Earlier, police had announced
the arrest of 12 men and two
women accused of plotting to as
sassinate government leaders with
an air gun that fired poisoned
darts. .....
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how Hitler used it as an excuse
for exterminating six million peo
ple. In the United States, the ques
tion has become involved in a
larger controversy between Zion
ists and non-Zionists over the re
lationship of American Jews to
the state of Israel.
Zionists regard Israel -as the
"Jewish Homeland" to which all
Jews owe the same loyalty and
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the YMCA summer camp.
"My left foot's big toe is broken
and on my right foot a bone fur
ther upr" he wrote. "And without
my glasses I'm not doing so
good."
Jerry" added a post script.
"Forget about taking me home
a day early for the junior Olym
pics because probably 1 won't get
the cast off for five weeks. And
bring the other air mattress."
Tiffany's
Willing To
Try Again
NEW YORK i(UPD Tiffany's
remained undaunted today in the
face of a brazen theft of gems
from its display windows.
There were reports the Fifth
Avenue ultra-fashionable jewelry
shop would henceforth use imita
tion gems in its sidewalk windows
in view of Sunday's burglary, in
which thieves smashed open two
display windows and hauled off
jewels valued at $171,500.
But Tiffany's was not to be
daunted. As curious pedestrians
clustered about the windows the
store unveiled its news display
and new windows containing
diamond-encrusted jewelry val
ued at $131,000.
Scientists Warn Pets
Are Tuberculosis Hazard
' STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI)
An international scientists' com
mittee warned Friday night that
pets are a growing tuberculosis
hazard to human beings. The com
mittee particularly singled out
dogs; cats, parrots and monkeys
as potential sources of the disease.
The group, miyle up of experts of
United Nations food and health
agencies, is holding a five-day
meeting to discuss animal dis
eases that can be transmitted to
humans.
TV Channel Swim Highlights
By WILLIAM EWALD
United Press International
The Channel Swim: The first
Bob Banner special for CBS-TV
will be "The Ginger Rogers
Show," a one-hour live musical
variety one-shot on Oct. 15. Jackie
Cooper will sub for Monty Hall as
emcee of CBS-TV's "Keep Talking"
on Aug. 19. There's a good chance
a cigarette sponsor will back
"Keep Talking" as a fall show.
Robert Saudek Associates, pack
agers of "Omnibus", landed an
auto sponsor for its new taped
scries of New York Philharmonic
concerts the series, called "Pre
views," will be seen at least four
times during the season on Sun
day afternoons, probably on CBS
TV. "Omnibus," incidentally will
unbutton its NBC-TV season of 15
shows on Oct. 26.
MGM's "Thin Man" series, slat
ed for the boncyard on NBC-TV
after the summer, got a reprieve
and will continue in its present
Friday slot. "Midsummer," the
Vina Delmar play that James,
Pamela and Portland Mason have
been doing in summer stock, is
ticketed in for CBS-TVs "U.S.
Steel Hour" in October there's
a good chance the Mason family
may adorn the TV adaptation.
The Channel Swim: Albert Mc
Cleery, who bossed the late "Mat
inee Theater" on NBC-TV, will
produce a new live color 60-min-ute
series, "The Further Adven
tures of Ellery Queen," for NBC
TV. It'll be seen on Friday's be
ginning Sept. 26.
1 Shelley Bcrman has been signed
for six shots on the CBS-TV "Ed
Sullivan Show". The 90-minute
colorcast of "Kiss Me Kate" with
Alfred Drake and Patricia Morri
son is set for No 20 on NBC-TV.
Hildy Parks is shaping up as Sgt.
Bilko's new love interest in the
CBS-TV "Phil Silvers Show" the
first Silvers show of the fall sea
son will be "Gold Fever" on
Sept. 26.
The Channel Swim: "Northwest
Passage," the half-hour color se
ries orginally ticketed for Friday
night on NBC- TV this fall, now
has been shifted to Sunday in the
spot just before Steve Allen's
hour. Some of the gals scheduled
for feature in "Northwest Pas
sage" should give it an interna
tional flavor Ziva Rodann, a for
mer Miss Israel, Taina Elg of Fin
land and Lisa Montell of Mexico.
"Rawhide," the 60-minutc West
ern that CBS- TV was touting for
the fall, now looks like a doubtful
starter. However, "Rawhide"
films will continue to be produced
with an eye toward shoving them
into a breach later in the season.
"Pursuit," a' one hour live series
from Hollywood with Norman Fel-
Reviewed
affection that a Scot feels for
Scotland or a Frenchman for
France. This concept of "Jewish
nationalism" has been heavily
stressed in U. S. campaigns to
raise funds for Israel.
Non-Zionists believe Jewish na
tionalism inevitably will revive
the "Hitler myths" of a Jewish
race, and will lead in time to a
new wave of anti-Semitism.
Under the leadership of Less-
ing J. Roscnwald, former board
chairman of Sjears Roebuck & Co.,
a non-Zionist organization colled
the American Council for Judaism
is trying industriously to persuade
American Jews that their com
mon bond is not national, nor
racial, but strictly religious.
"Judaism is a religion of uni
versal values, not a nationality,'-'
says the council. "What makes
one a Jew is voluntary adherence
to that religion."
One immense difficulty stands
in the way of general acceptance
of a purely religious definition.
There are millions of people who
regard themselves as dews but
do not accept the religious teach
ings of Judaism. These are the
so-called "secular Jews" and they
are numerous in Israel as well as
in the United States.
The influence of "Secular Jews"
on Israeli government policy is a
matter of constant concern to
some devout Jews who believe
that the Jewish homeland should
be completely dedicated to the
religious precepts of Judaism. "
Recent Splits
Ultra-orthodox Jews were hor
rified, for example, when a Jeru
salem hotel owner recently was
granted a permit to build a swim
ming pool to be used by both
sexes. (By ancient Jewish tradi
dition, women are "u n c 1 e a n"
creatures who are not allowed to
bathe in the same facilities used
by men.) They also are disturbed
by the fact that municipally
owned trolleys and buses operate
on the Sabbath in some Israeli
cities.
Other religious Jews feel that
the extreme orthodox factions, by
kicking up a fuss over-swimming
pools and trolleys, are hurting
the case of Judaism. They believe
it is time lo de-emphasize "non
essential" elements, such as the
dietary . laws and strict Sabbath
observance, which are ignored by
most modern Jews, and to con
centrate on the "universal val
ues" of faith, justice and ethical
behavior that Judaism has con
tributed to civilization.
Then, they believe, the vast
majority of Jews will be able to
identify themselves, not with a
nation or an ancestry, but with a
religion, ., . ,
ton as producer, has bobbed up as
a probable starter for Wednesday
night on CliS-TV.
"County Fair," a daily after
noon variety half-hour witli Bert
Parks as emcee, will unpop on
NBC-TV Sept. 22. "Modern Ro
mances" and the last 15 minutes
of "Queen For A Day" will be
dropped to make room for' it
Jack Barry pulled a funny boo-boo
on last Friday's NBC-TV "Tic Tac
Dough" a cartoon character for
his toothpaste sponsor finished off
the commercial with "Look, ma,
no. cavities" and Jack mumbled,
''Look, ma, no teeth," thinking his
mike was off the air. It wasn't.
The Channel Swim: ABC-TV's
"Stars of Jazz" got a reprieve
it'll go into the Friday night spot
currently held by "Tales of ESP"
on Sept. 5. ABC-TV is inserting a
Friday night filmed one-shot, "A
World Alone," a piece about men
tal health, on Aug. 29.
Some of the properties set for
CBS-TV's "Playhouse 90" next sea
son include: two short stories by
Ernest Hemingway and one by
William Faulkner, Joseph Con
rad's "The Heart of Darkness"
and "The Secret Agent," Reginald
Rose's "The Savage," J. P. Mil
ler's "The Days of Wine and
Roses," Robert Alan A r t h u r's
"The Rise and Fall of Wilson
Hunt," and "Seven Against the
Wall," a drama of the Valentine's
Day massacre in Chicago.
The Channel Swim: MGM is
pitching its "Thin Man" series at
ABC-TV it won't be back on
NBC-TV. Mortimer Adler is in as
Mike Wallace's Sept. 7 ABC-TV
guest. Bob Kceshan, who plays
CBS-TV's "Captain Kanaroo,"
takes off for England Sept. 6 to
film some bits for his daily show
which re-opens Sept. 29.
Robert Saudek Associates, pro
ducers of "Omnibus," "New York
Philharmonic Previews" and "An
nals of Medicine," may coax a big
auto sponsor into its fold. Lucille
Ball wants lo do a melodrama for
CBS-TV's "D c s i 1 u Playhouse"
called "The Night The Phone
Rang". Polly Bergen cold-shouldered
the lead in the movie ver
sion of "On The Beach" to be shot
in Australia.
Laurence Olivier, Frederic
March and Jose Ferrer turned
down the Slalin role in CBS-TV's
"Playhouse 90" opener, "The Plot
to Kill Stalin" Rod Steiger.
Peter Ustinov and Van Heflin still
are in the running. Maggie Pierce
is the hottest contender for the
bride role In "Father of The
Bride," a series that'll be seen in
1959-60. CBS-TV, still jiggling its
fall schedules, now has dropped
"Invisible Man" back into a
Wednesday night slot and definite-
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