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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 40

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Oakland Tribunei
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0 0kUn6i(rrlbune Fri, Feb. 24, 1967 Yiddish Dictionary Key To Heritage Like the time she krrrmf from a moving train thawf carrying her toward tfCro chambers at broke both legs in the she escaped the mass ixkci. tions. Sunday she will apeak at t)wZ tions, and preservation of the language is the only way for current and future generations to understand their heritage." Two volumes of the dictW ary are already in print. At the rate money is coming in, a new volume will be completed every two years.

The material for all 10 volumes is prepared, but the total project Mrs. Silkes' Iwture visit to the Bay Area will extend through mid March. Then she moves to Los Angeles, -he's been around the world since she started in 1959. and believes she'll make it around a second time before the dictionary is completed. Her speaking engagements are sprinkled with harrowing tales of the life of Jews in World War II.

A Jewish -Polish refugee, one of the few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto, spent the years of World War II educating Jewish children in underground schools. Mrs. Genia Silkes, now 49, believed the children were the only hope for the future of the Jews, and was willing to fight against the overwhelming anti-Jewish movement for their education. The the enemy wai the Nail Party. Now ahe's working to create a 10-voiume, 250,000 word Yiddish dictionary believing the language is the key for future Jewlah generations.

It opens the door to their European heritage. The enemy now it disinter-eat Mrs. Silkes Is on a worldwide lecture tour, working for the New Yoit-baard Yiddish Plctlunary Committee, which hopes to combat "heritage disinterest' among the younger generation Jews when the project il finished. The language 1 not the official language of the Jewish nation. In Israel Hebrew is spoken, Mrs.

Silkes explains. But the language was that of Jews In Europe, particularly before the Nazi extermina 10 a.m., coffee and convers. fion hour at Temple Abraham, on "The Nostalgia JUUUIUll VI (JCW3 iliruUKQ-. out the World." cost will be nearly minion. bbbbw aawawk.

rrrTYYYin rnrircnn nrmn ipm i ni i ssi aa a am a a am. mm a mm mm mt mm mm at mm li i I A IV XT" 1 1 -i 1 14 4 I Si a I rin i i MRS. GENIA SILKES, YIDDISH LEXICOGRAPHER Survivor of Warsaw Ghetto prepares dictionary Trails Serviced In Oakland Parks I lol ij FOR V. quota Lodge) and their connecting canyon wall link, Laurel Hill Top, Woodminster Cinderella Trail, Cinderella Chaparral Trail, and Leona Skyline Trail. Hikes are scheduled In the hill areas each month except during the winter, and in Lakeside Park during the summer and early falL There daily lectures at the Lakeside Park wildfowl refuge, feeding-time tours of the Junior Zoo, and displays in the science center auditorium.

On Sunday afternoons there are free showings of nature films and talks In the science center. In addition, the park naturalists visit schools, churches, clubs, day camps, and many other places and groups through Individual FOR NON-COLO RFAST FOR C0L0RFAST COTTONS FOR SILKS, WOOLENS FOR PERMANENT PRESS WASH Is WEAR, COTTONS COHONS Yoa get: Yon get: Yon get: Warm-water wash Warm-water wash You get: Cold-water rinse Normal wash action Slow spin speed plus special cooldown spray rinse Yoa get: Warm-water wash Warm-water rinse Normal wash action Fast spin speed Cold-water rinse Gentle wash action 1 Slow spin speed plus special cooldown spray rinse Warm-water wash Cold-water rinse Gentle wash action Fast spin speed Hot-water wash Warm-Water rinse Normal wash action Fast spin speed S.F. CATCH i MHaataaaBMaMMMawaMMiaMaMaaMHaaMHMHHi ia i nMMiak lll'f i -i JU Anyone who decides to take one of those fascinating nature hikes In the Oakland parks this year will be Indebted to several dozen outdoors-men who spent a couple of days making the trails navl-' gable. Trail Days are an institution of approximately 20 years standing, according to Oakland Park naturalist Paul F. Covel.

Primarily with the help of Boy Scouts and members of the Berkeley Hiking Club, he has worked on all the pedestrian trails in the famed Oakland Park system throughout this period. This year during the two Trail Days (held Sunday and Wednesday) the following trails were serviced: Palo Seco Redwood Trail and Sunset View Trail (both above Se- Free Buses For Pupils Demanded A group of Carl B. Munck elementary school parents are having their "day ta court" on their demand that free bus transport be provided their children because of the re-motenessof their hillside homes from the school. The second trial of the case against the Oakland school board opened yesterday before Alameda County Superior Court Judge Robert L. Bos- tick.

Their initial suit before Judge Cecil Mosbacher was declared a mistrial on a tech-, nicality. The hearing is expected to -take seven days. Attorneys Donald B. Falconer and John Finger, representing the parents, said they would have at least 30 witnesses. Among the first witnesses were Simon Barth, Donald White, Evelyn Kutsuris and Lyman H.

Penning. The suing group is headed up by Dr. Hyman M. Katz of 26 Sad-dlebrook Ct Their suit contends that the school board was arbitrary in refusing to provide bus service for the residential area, described as "the largest single' undeveloped area in Oakland." 7 the complaint cites that the attendance area for the school extends from 3 miles to the northeast and 1 miles to the This is described as a stretch greater than the length of Piedmont, and that there Is a greater distance -than between the north and south borders of Berkeley. The parents point to the fact that Berkeley has, 14 elementary schools and Piedmont has three within their district borders.

Cited also are the argu MODEL WA-1050C 10 Snagged In Police Dope Raid A 14 -year -old marijuana saleswoman, two runaway boys, four men and three girls were arrested last night by SanFrancisco police and state narcotics agents during a raid. The raid also netted about 50 pounds of marijuana and a small quantity of LSD. According to police, a young officer working undercover was taken to a pair of adjoining houses at 1403 and 1403tt Lyon St. to buy marijuana. The undercover policeman negotiated for the purchase of 'about 22 pounds of marijuana for $1,100 with three persons identified by police as a 14-year-old girl, Charles Dob-rowsky, 22, and George Mat-zen, 24, the latter two of 184 Clayton St.

All three were arrested on suspicion of sale of marijuana. While officers were at the scene, two other men drove up in a car and entered the house with a red suitcase. Officers found another 22 pounds of marijuana in their car. The two men, Michael Miles, 24 and Paul E. Bingham, 24, both of 1852 Fell were arrested on suspicion of possession and sale of marijuana, police said.

Two brothers, 16 and 17, then arrived. They were found to be runaways. Inside the house at 1403 Lyon police found more marijuana and small quantities of what appeared to be LSD. Also Inside were three Weveir before 95 a G-E Washervalue like thiDs! Distributor's recommended retail price. Permanent Press Setting Exclusive MINI-BASKET Brand new and at a popular price-the big, family-size General Electric Washer that takes all the guesswork put of your laundering! All you do Is press one button, and the "No Guesswork" Washer gives you the exactly right combination of wash action, spin speed, wash temperature and rinse temperature-for every.

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Rafferty to Speak At Farm Bureau FREMONT Dr. Max Rafferty, State Superintendent of Public Schools, will speak at the annual meeting of the Alameda County Farm Bureau. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.tn. tomorrow in International Kitchen, 55S Peralta Blvd. with a no-bost social hour, followed by a steak dinner at 7:30 p.m.

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