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THE JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
November 5, 1942
The Center
Round Towner
By Cecil E. Dannenbaam
tbc Houston Jewish Commun-
ity in general end the Community
Center in particular are “all out”
in the American Way for every
wjrtfcy cause. ,
e • •
Waiting of the American Way
. don’t miss the play, “The
American Way." under the sus-
pires ai Temple Beth El at the
Scottish Rite Cathedral on the
evening of November 10th and
lltti
• • * *
We can all well be proud of
the part played by our people in
the recent War Chest Drive and
your Jewish Community Center
is a recipent thereof.
• • •
Shortly the Center at 4701
Caroline will be open to service-
men on Sunday afternoons under
the auspices of the local JWB
Army and Navy Committee with
the girls at the Victory Club
serving as hostesses. Frances
Scjhlosser. chib vice president,
will be in charge.
• • •
Armistice Day will be a big
day to Houston with hundreds of
servicemen in town. The local
U$0 groups will have charge of
entertaining and feeding these
Mrs. Joe Robinowitz of the
Jewish community will rep-
us on the Houston USO
On Saturday evening. Nov. 7th,
Victory Club will entertain
servicemen in this area with
Armistice Dance at the Rice
Ball Room.
• • •
ist Friday evening at Reli-
■ Services at Ellington Field
a— Houston Army and Navy
Committee USO-JWB and Vic-
tory Club bade farewell to Chap-
lain Howard Johnson, who is
being transferred to another post
groups presented the Chap-
vith several gifts of token
affection for his many acts in
interest of all the boys under
kits command.
• • •
Orchids to Houston Lodge B'nai
on their adaption of a U.S.
The lodge is now the
brothers to some men in our
fleet M N. Dannenbaum
if committee chairman in raising
funds for this project
• • •
A salute to the many of our
Jewish beys who answered
call at their country. Many
boys are temporarily
Ellington Field.
• • •
. the Junior Council
Social for servicemen two weeks
ago was a huge success. Every
girl was dated before the evening
Was over. 1 ^
• ••
HERE IT IS FELLOWS — The
Senior Basketball League of the
Center opens Sunday and is a tree
for-all race in the offing. We
believe there will be some close
games worth watching tor the
spectators too.
...
Now is the time to join the
Center. Your Center is the back-
bone of your Jewish Community;
lend a hand
...
HITTING THE HIGH SPOTS
AROUND THE CENTER — At-
tention to War Wivaa: the Jewish
Defalt CENTER BANNER
Published by The Jewish Community Center of Houston, Texas
AN AGENCY OF THE COMMUNITY CHEST_
Army Team Wins
Center Preseason
Tournament
. j, ■ ^
Living up to their namesakes,
the four teams in the Third An-
nual Pre-Season Basketball Tour-
nament of the Jewish Community
Center “Army, Navy. Marine and
Coast Guard” exhibited a stamina
and a fighting spirit that could
win any war. The tournament
was held last Sunday at the Cent-
er Gym.
The four teams were so evenly
matched that It was only the will
to win that made the ultimate
difference in the final play-off
tilt between the “Army" team led
by Simon Wiederman and Al
Schlosser’s "Marines.”
And a story-book play-off it
was for, with but two minutes to
play, the Army overcame a five-
point lead to win 33 to 32.
Lil Harry Halpin’s “Coast
Guards" who might have easily
won the tournament, dropped
their first game to the Marines,
by the score of 31-34. The Ma-
rines were leading at the half,
17-16, and it was nip-and-tuck
throughout. Li’l Harry seemed
more concerned with playing his
entire squad than in winning, but
it was Schlosser’s BIG 17 points
that made the difference. Saul
Gerber scored 10 points and
Tartakov 8 for the losers, with
All-City tackle Joe Wagman scor-
ing 6 and coming in on every
play. Leon Testa scored 7 points
and played heads-up ball through-
out ,
The second game, Marines vs.
Army, end£d to another 3-point
difference to score, with the Ma-
rines winning 29-26. Although
tailing 8-18 at the half, the Army
showed plenty of hustle but
couldn't keep up with the sharp-
shooting of Herman Nathan and
Jerry Ribnick, who scored 9 and
7 respectively. Wiederman and
Burtachell racked up 10 apiece
for the losers. Free throws made
the difference for the Marines.
Even though Captain Bussy
Bell’s Navy team had Buddy
Lewis, the butcher boy, at center
position, the Coast Guard com-
bination of jumpin’ Joe Smolen-
sky, Milton Freedman, and bustin'
Community Center is organizing
the war wives and you are urged
to phone the Center, K. 3-7361 for
particulars . . . the Public Affairs
Forum will bold its next session
Nov. 18th . . . Consumers Center
Classes meet at the Center five
days a week ... If you are in-
terested to Advance Red Cross
Classes phone the Center.
• • •
THE PASSING PARADE 4
Mamye Feldt was seen on Main
Street lata one averting but we
promised not to tell . . . San Ja-
cinto High School Eas five Jewish
boys on the squad and when they
play on Friday night, they usually
win . Reye Mayer,
who recently became engaged,
has joined the Monday night gym
class to keep her cute figure she
caught him with ... a business
without a profit — a Wartime
Marriage Bureau or Let’s Hold
a Dance . . . Ada Zeitz, president
of Junior Hadassah, is real proud
of her Chapter because they won
toe Ruth Lea Wolf Memorial
Trophy again this year.
Bernie Smolensky sank the Navy
47-33. Bernie Smolensky’s 20
points were high for all seven
games played to the tournament
And although the Smolensky
brothers were all over Lewis,
Buddy still came through with
13 points.
The Army Goldstein’s 12 points,
M. Oshman’s 14, Weiderman’s 12,
Bass’ 12, and Hy Abramson’s ball-
hawking were too much for the
Navy in the fourth game, the
-Captain Bussy Bell’s boys went
to the bottom of the 52-24 score.
In the fifth game, the Coast
Guard lost another heart-breaker,
38-40, this time to the champion
Army team. Even though Osh-
man of the Army assisted the C.
G.’s with a field goal through the
wrong hoop, they couldn’t over-
come the all-round smoothness of
the Army firing squad.
The opponents to the sixth and
last regular game of the tourna-
ment were the Marines with two
wins and no losses, and the Navy
with two losses and no wins. It
looked as if the Marines had the
tournament championship to
their collective pocket. Bussy
Bell couldn’t play because of
other commitments; so Buddy
Lewis assumed the captaincy, and
decided that if, the Marines were
going to win the pennant they
would have to play the Army a
second time in a playoff. And
with Buddy getting busy and
gathering 14 points on his own,
the game ended 31-25 for the
Navy’s only win. Backing Bud-
dy’s enthusiasm were J. Feinstein,
S. Keeper, M. Backer, M. Waxier,
R. Proler, and B. Wise who
showed no-end of hustle for a
team that had no possible for the
title.
The score for the title game
was Army 33, Marines 32. At the
half, it had been Marines 20,
Army 14. Both teams made 13
field goals, but the Marines lost
6 free throws and thus lost the
game. It was the smoothness of
play and the spirit to come from
behind that. brought the cham-
pionship to Wiederman, Goldstein,
Oshman, Bass, 'and Abramson.
They scored 118 points to their
three regular games, but the
secret of their success was to the
even distribution of the scoring:
Wiederman 30, Oshman 26, Gold-
stein 23, Bass 20, Abramson 10.
M. M. FELD PRESENTS
FLAG AND FLAG POLE
TO JEWISH CENTER
MOSE BECKER SETS TWO
RECORDS IN CENTER
BOWLING LEAGUE
Establishing two new records
and coming through with the
highest average, Mose Becker is
really leading the “children of
Israel” through the wilderness to
the Jewish Community Center
Bowling League, according to an-
nouncement from the Recreation
Palace of games played on Octob.
er 27th.
With his patriarchal “beard”
flowing in the breezes caused by
the flying bowling balls, old Mose
came through with a high indi-
vidual game mark of 244, a high
individual series score of 615, and
a weekly high average of 173.
His team mates' on the Neighbor
Poultry and Feed were treading
close on his heels and followed
his leading example with a high
team game of 861 and a high
team series mark of 2446.
Standing to the league as of
October 27 are Beth Israel Tem-
ple still in first place, Brand Bot-
tlers and Finger Furniture tied
for second, followed by Neighbor
Poultry and Feed, Beth El’s Mens
Club, Uniform Shop, Beth Israel
Brotherhood, Kagan and Rudy,
Southwest Iron and Metal, and
the B’nai B’rith.
Dr. L S. Sondock, president of
the Center league, reports that
there are openings remaining for
replacements on some of the
teams. If you are a bowler and
wish to get in on league compet-
ition, see Doc Sondock or Ralph
Verson, or give your name and
address to a team captain. There
is plenty of room for you to the
league, and you are bound to
have yourself a time with the rest
of the fellows.
Try it just once — you’ll see
what we mean.
You are cordially invited to the
DEDICATION OF THE NEW
JEWISH COMMUNITY
CENTER
at 4701 Caroline
on
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 15
• • •
There will also be held the
dedication of the new flag and
flag-pole, the annual meeting
of the Center and election
of officers
• • •
Complete Announcements in
Next Week’s Edition of the
Herald-Voice
BANANA GROWING IN
PALESTINE SPURRED
Jerusalem (JPS-Palcor) — In
1942 some 8,500 dunams will have
been planted in bananas as against
64 dunams in 1922, it was revealed
here, as Palestine once again re-
turned to the production of a
fruit which this Biblical land is
believed to have produced to
abundance in ancient times.
^ The production of bananas was
not actually started until 1922. By
1926 planters had spread to 820
dunams. By 1930, with consump.
tion responding, the area had
grown to 3,000. In 1930, the Jew-
ish share to the country’s banana
plantations was only 5 per cent.
By 1937 it had risen to 16.5 per
cent. Of the 8,500 dunams planted
this year, it is believed that the
Jewish share is 50 per cent
The main increase is banana
plantations in the Jewish sector is
found to the new workers’ settle-
ments in the Jordan Valley,
where the climate is particularly
suitable. In these settlements,
banana plantations cover 16 to 34
per cent of the land and account
A beautiful new flag pole and
a large American flag have been
presented to the new Jewish Com-
munity Center by M. M. Feld of
Houston, it was announced this
week by the Center office.
Measuring 45 feet to length, the
pole has been set to a concrete
base to the north-west corner of
the grounds at Caroline and Blod-
gett and will serve to support the
large 12-foot “Old Glory” also
donated by Mr. Feld. The flag
will be flown every day that the
Center is open.
Flag and flagpole will be dedi-
cated on November 15.
CENTER SCHEDULE
The Jewish Community Center at 4701 Caroline will be
open, until further notice, during the following hours:
Monday thru Thursday___-__8:30 a. m. to 10:30 p. m.
Friday______________________8:30 a. m. to 5:00 p. m.
Saturday_____________8:00 p. m. to 10:30 p. m.
Sunday_______________10:00 a. m. to 10:00 p. m.
• • • •
The Center Gymnasium at 1401 Chartres will maintain the
following schedule:
Monday thru Thursday______3:00 p. m. to 10:30 p. m.
Friday___ j_______3:00 p. m. to 5:30 p. m.
Saturday_________________Closed all day
Sunday_______________1:30 p. m. to 6:00 p. m.
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