Interview no. 14

Recounts immigration of family from Lithuania to U. S.; briefly sketches history of Jewish community in El Paso; father\u27s role in founding Congregation of Mena Zion; arranged marriage of parents; opening of pawn shop in South El Paso, City Loan and Jewelry, by father and cousin Sam Ravel; shootings in El Paso at turn of century; purchase of ammunition, guns, and pistols by Pancho Villa; Columbus Raid; Pershing Expedition to Mexico; El Paso\u27s red light district on Ninth Street in 1930s; physical examinations of prostitutes; comments on El Paso\u27s recognition as health center for tuberculosis patients; recounts tuberculosis sanitoriums in El Paso, including Southwestern General Hospital; neurodermatitis patients\u27 move to El Paso; economic struggles during the Depression; advent of sulfas in 1937; availability of antibiotics and penicillin in WW II; incidence of leprosy in El Paso; mentions experience as physician for Texas Wrestling Commission