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, Blizzard at JCC: IA Littte Soup... OMAHA - UtUc did the Charlei Taylor family stMpect, when they left their all-eiectric home in Yutan, Neb., thai they «rould end up apending Friday night in Omaha's new Jewlah Community Center. Nor did most of the iqyproximately <S other people who wound up weathering the Jan. 10 biizMTd in the warm conflnMof the new facility. It wai a caie of finding a haven in an unexpected place - with a little chicken (whoops, malie that turkey) soup thrown in. Cfanek Arnold ftands between Or, M aopdinr obaarvar put two Moot •iowdrma at JOC it, •nmat batter ptaoa could • ptraon hope forT Food, warmth, television, tatture htt Yutan, gameffwm. tymnaslum, a AnttiBgeMliwheat baatth dub, fwtmming pool, a Zero visibility In unfamiliar UbnBtf... wluil mope would territory is probably the worel yauDMdT" king of "being lost" there is, For Hy Tabachnick. JCC and the Taylors found executive director, it began thenyelves marooned •lowly. He had been con- somewhere near Dodge and •Mering cloeing the Center 132nd Street, hoping to wait early that day. SOHM em- the storm out. Some four ployees, such a« JMn. llae hours later, as cold crecped Kuttner, the racaptlanW, bad bito the car. turning fingers managed to arrive by bus at and feel numb, a truck came 10:30 a.m.. only to hear they by. The driver knew where the might be leaving by noon. Center was; he'd drive them "But at noon." tifd there. Tabachnick. "it was iiilll The road up to the Center bkiwingaod Mowing oitf there, was ck>gged with care and and one guy aald to ne there snow and the truck had to be were etn pMcM afl akmg abandoned. TayhM- wrapped 132IMI Street. So I then called up their infant while his wife, the radto statkm and told Barbara, held onto the 2 and 3them to announee that people year-olds. In (he area ot iSZnd Street As the family battled Its way could find shelter ai the through the swirling, blinding Cmwimmlty Center." snow, the S-year-old boy * DM aeverlty of the storm slipped from his nioiher's and Its coldness was such that -grasp and became Instantly tome of the people who Invisible. struggled^ into the Center At about 4 p.m. Chuck Araoeded oxyge* from the nold. JCC physical education Center's first-aid tanks director, had been called to Oeeaute their lungs were administer oxygen to people taking In ao much cold air. reachtaig the Center. The Center was a haven lor Shortly thereafter. theM<> thoae who knew wliere they exAlabamktackle: BillStott. , were end where H was. Nine Center basketball coach and monUw agiK of toune, It Boys Town teacher and Greg hadn't been open. Johnson, another Boys Town hoee who a|^ teacher who was at the Cendkl B^ksow wbife ter, were sununcmed to help lead people up the drive way and through the six-foot drin they «Mre IB the Utodh« anw blocking the main entrance to — wee OH ngrtir ImaOf. the Center.. Ther had beaded tar OBUfea It waa afeund S p-ni. «id a nUUnft bent uttm a (Continuedon Page 2)
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SERVING DE8 MOINES,, Vol. UV No. 14
.COUNCIL BLUFFS LINCOLN, OMAHA Omaha, Neb., Fri., January 17.197S
'Enthusiastic' Indianan Is Worlishops' Speaker OMAHA — A young woman from South Bend, Ind., who has been very succeuful In helping other Jewish American women to better underatand their relatkMwhlp to Israel and the needs of today's Jews will speak at several Omaha Women's Division workshops beginning Monday, Jan. 27. 9)e is Marilyn Brown, a foremost leader of the United Jewish Appeal as well as her South Bend community, who has served for several years as general chairman erf the Women's Division and earlier was co-chairman and chairman of the Women's UfesaverOiviakp. Havlnig an American q)eak to other Americans In Philanthropies workshops is a departure fcom the plan of the past couple of years, according to Eunice Denenberg, a Philanthropies co-publlelat. "Tlw tact that Ac's an enUiualaatle, y\Xii vndkt Marfljrn Brawn weoMO, and an Ainerif an, we' teit. would tMlp our people relate better to the cause o( Indiana Community RalatkMis Center. The series opens with Council. a workshop Monday, Jan. 27, RtUanthroples. ^ Her efforts earaed her an at 7:30 p.m.. then follows with "She Is coming to ignite our appohitment to the national workshops at 9 a.m. and 12:30 campaign, boost our en- board of the UJA Women's p.m. on Tuesday. Jan. 2>, and thusiasm at our warksiN|is," DivMon and designatktn as a Wednesday, Jan. 29. said Mrs. Deneberg. The delegate to the Jewish 0NEMBETIN6 woritsbope begin the general RBSCHEDtUSD Agency. Omaha Women's Campaign Sbe'c made several vMta to OMAHA - Due to the Jan. tor the itTSPhllanthi^aples. teed "and brli«B to Ixr 10 blizzard, the 1975 Jewish Miss Brown's other acUvtty a dsap undentaading Philanthropies Women's leadership roles include being .of ttiat uuuBliy's pnMemi, Campaign Pacesetters a cQ<halrman of her com- ••d of ourrale In helping to committee meeting scheduled mittee for CRT. She has been aoive tbem," said Mrs. for Monday, Jan. 13, was postponed until Monday, Jan. active in Hadasaah, B'nai All five workshops will be 20, at the home of Chairman B'rith. the Urban Coalition of St. Joseph County and the held at the Jewish Community Mre. Phil Katzman.
Washington — Secretary of State Kissinger announced Tuesday that the Soviet Union has renounced Its 1972 commercial agreement with the United States. Kissinger said Moscow had Informed the United States last Friday that it could not accept a trading relationship based on the Trade Reform Act recently passed by Congress. This legislation made the granting of nondiscriminatory trade status contingent on Moscow agreeing to liberalize the emigration of Jews. Kissinger said Moscow regarded this linkage "as contravening ix)th the 1972 agreement which had called for an unconditional elimination of discrimlnaloi-y trade restrictions and the principle of noninterference In domestic affairs." hk> Hardening' . Kissinger said that he had no indication that this development foreshadowed a hardening of Soviet-American relations. "Our policy of detente." he said, "remains in force." But he said, "should the decision herald a period of intensified pressure, the United States would resist with great determination and as a united people." "The administration regrets this turn of events," Kissinger said. "It has regarded and continues to regard an orderly and mutually beneficial trade' relattonship with the Soviet Union M an important element in the overall Improvement of relatkms.'' What this announcement means. Kissinger said, is ttuit \M Soviet Union will not receive most favored nation trading status as provided for in the 1972 agreement, and will not make further payments on its Lend-Lease debts beyond .this year. "NfoPaymcnts The Soviet Union had agreed to repay $722 milik>n In debts Incurred during the 19408. The first tliree payments, the last of which was scheduled for this July, were to total MS million. Two (Continued on Page 2)
Omahans Asked to Help Resettle Russian Families OMAHA - Fourteen Omahans have accepted various Medersfaip positkms wltMn the city's Soviet Jewry Committee and have Issued an eypeel lor volunteers liwn the eomrounlty. The 14 were named tg head various stdxwmmltlees whkd) will pave the way for the city's first two Ruulin Jewish (amilles In becoming adluMed to U(e In America and Omaha. SInoe approval was given by the Jewtsb Federation of t Omaha to the Omaha ComifnUtee for Soviet Jewry to > bring families here, efforts [ have produced i conflrmatkm • ^ •> > [ t, [ r i : I i
from United HIA8 that two famUhM will settle here. The urgency of the situalkm Is enqihaslxed by'the fact the families could arrive at any time. The emigrants could be bi Omaha from Italy within 48 hours, a committee spokesman said. The subcommittees and their co^hairmen art: Housing-Ann Goldstetn; employment—Jack Cohen, Don (MdiMn; Ho^talttyMlma Kreltman, Sylvia Rotlman; Financial MaBagemont-Jack SaferMadleai-Bitar Was,
Bylvla fteftaMi; BdueatkoSaady Tabaebnick. Judy SIman; Funiehtags-rBelhar Wax, Jaanette Nedotf; Furaltura—Bea Papenbetfliar, BaitMua Parittr; OroearlsaAnn OoldrteiB. Judy Staaoii; Traaeportatlon-Lenl CrgiBHe,JaBeColiin. Urgsntly needid also Is at least one pemn who knows the Rusalan I^anguageandcan serve as an Interpreter. Emigrants are given schoolkig In English, but an interpreter will smooth the transition from Russia to America, (he spokesman saki. The oommltlee Is seeking
furniture and furnishings. The families will be placed In housing as close to each other aslapoialbie. in ieeking to eoe the transition for the Russians, the Omahans are studying the programs established In other cities. One of the guides is a booklet tilled "From Kiev to Kowboys" ^ put out by the Houston. Tex.. Jewish Family Service. In (he booklet's Intradudton, H Is noted that, while rsetttltag migrant Jews is nottiing new, this restt4lomeat "is tbe largest the American Jewish community
has had since WotM War D" wUeh ia wliy vohntears are needed to aseist professianals. It also notes that today's volunteer "is often removed by at least two generations from any personal contact with immigrants" and that he has "been trained, usually. In the skills of fund-raising and does not realize that the factcra in successful fundraising often run contrary to good fund-dispensing." The result is that "often the refugee is told one thing by Ihe professional and another by the lay person." Pearl Yager, director of
Omaha's Jewish Family Service, is coordinating efforts to resettle the Russian families. All persons wishing to volunteer their efforts are asked to contact her at 3348200. Mrs. Yager also notes Ihat volunteers are needed to help care for Omaha's elderly Jewish residents—to take them shopping, to appointments or to Center activities and to generally be available when the need arises. Mrs. Yager is compilbig a list of volunteers at 334-R200