September 15, 1950
From “Jewish Welfare Board Intensifies Activities to Meet Needs of Armed Forces in This Area”
Speeding up activities to meet the stepped-up armed services mobilizations, the local Army-Navy Committee of the Jewish Welfare Board reported this week a series of new projects designed to serve personnel stationed in this area.
A highspot of the recreational and leisure time services extended by the local group is the work of the Committee’s Women’s Division, headed by Mrs. Milton Colton, who has been termed by Army officials “one of the outstanding volunteers ever to work in a military installation.”
According to Mrs. Colton, all of the recreational programs operated by the volunteers have been energetically stimulated during the past six months to match the accelerated armed service activity.
As of this date, the volunteers have initiated entertainment at Letterman General Hospital, Fort Miley, Presidio Servicemen’s Center, Camp Stoneman, Marine Hospital, Fort Ord, and the Veteran’s Home at Yountville.
Typifying the program operated by the women is the entertainment at Letterman, where a “Night in Reno” affair is held monthly, with the servicemen playing games, Reno style, for prizes accumulated by the volunteers.
Aug. 21, 1987
From “Safeway cites its support of Israel, rebuts charges”
Oakland-based Safeway Stores has rejected allegations that it has boycotted Israeli products or companies, maintaining that charges filed against the firm by the U.S. Commerce Department involve only technical provisions of U.S. anti-Arab boycott regulations.
“It is important for the public to understand that none of those allegations could be considered as charging Safeway with boycotting or discrimination against Israel, Israeli firms or American firms doing business with Israel,” declared Peter Magowan, chairman and chief executive officer of the supermarket chain.
“Our actions are neither anti-Jewish nor anti-Israeli,” he added.
Safeway’s latest comments come in the wake of an advisory issued last week by the Jewish Community Relations Council suggesting that, until more facts are known on the case, people would have to use their own conscience in deciding where to shop.
In clarifying its position this week JCRC chairman Andrew M. Colvin and executive director Rita Semel wrote in part, “We are pressing the national agencies whose job it is to monitor these issues to inform us more quickly and thoroughly about the facts in this case as they unfold, so that a proper assessment can be made.”
Magowan, saying, “we are confident that we will be vindicated one we have a chance to set out the facts,” went on to “urge our many friends in the Jewish community not to jump to conclusions on the basis of inaccurate and misleading newspaper reports.”
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