Friday.

September

Page Thirteen

THE JEWISH NEWS

6, 1946

Rep. O'Brien Affirms
Stand on Palestine

Rep. George D. O'Brien this
Week reaffirmed his strong stand
in support of the Jewish position
in Palestine and indicated that
be would press for action on his
resolution calling for the reconsti-
tution of Palestine as a demo-
cratic commonwealth.

"The War has been brought to
a successful conclusion, but the
need for your leadership has
continued. The past year has been
highlighted by the struggles of the
Jews throughout the world to find
a haven and a homeland.
"As you know, I introduced in
the House of Representatives,
House Resolution 699 which called
upon my colleagues in the Con-
gress to go on record: That the
United States shall use its good

offices to the end that the doors
free entry of Jews into that
of Palestine shall be opened for
country, and that there shall be
full opportunity for conlonization
so that the Jewish people may ul-
timately reconstitute Palestine as
a free and democratic common-
wealth. I believe that the words
of this resolution set forth the
objective of the students of this
problem, and may well be a rally-
ing point for effective action."

Prayer Books, Shawls
Produced in Germany
For Jews in DP Camps

MUNICH, (JTA)—The first
part of a printing of 50,000 High
Holy Day prayer books, which are
being produced in German print-
ing plants, has come off the press,
according to the JDC. They will

be distributed chiefly among
Jews in DP camps.
The JDC also reported that
15,000 prayer shawls are being
manufactured in Germany in
preparation for Rosh Hashanah.
With the aid of the Army, JDC
is attempting to procure special
allocations of honey and meat for
distribution among the displaced
Jews during the holidays.

Classified Ads Get Results!

NO GAS

And Am I Burned Up!

take on over 100 more private homes each month ... maybe more.
But that's chicken-feed compared to additional homes they could
have heated under a good storage plan.

burns me up! A few months back when I wanted to
install a gas furnace, Michigan Consolidated said: So sorry.
Big shortage. No more gas for space beating. Now I see that while
the ban is still on for GI home builders and all the other home-
owners in town, Michigan Consolidated is adding about 125
new commercial accounts to its lines each month! What's the
answer, Mr. Contractor?

T

HIS

plan?" That's a new one on me. Tell me more.

"Storage

Well, as I get it, Panhandle Eastern makes 125 million cubic feet
of gas available to Michigan Consolidated every 24 hours. But
Michigan Consolidated only takes the full amount on the coldest
days of winter ... much less when it's warmer. Now, if Michigan
Consolidated took all the gas it has coming each day and stored
underground all that it doesn't immediately sell, it would save up
billions of cubic feet for winter. In 1945 alone, this would have
provided enough gas to heat nearly another 100,000 homes

Well, young fellow; "business is business" Michigan Consoli,

dated likes commercial accounts. They use gas all the year 'round
and pay a highly profitable commercial rate ... much more than
you would pay for house-heating gas.

You mean that a regulated public utility can discriminate like
that ... pick out fat commercial accounts and leave thousands of
private home owners like me out in the cold?

(more than double the number now using gas heat).

Why doesn't Michigan Consolidated do it?

It looks that way. I see by the papers that at a Federal hearing in
Washington the other day someone asked a Michigan Consoli-
dated official, "How come?” and he said he had no explanation.

me. Michigan Consolidated's own engineering advisors
recommended construction 'of a pipe line to their upstate storage
fields back in 1944. And Panhandle Eastern even offered to finance

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as a rough guess, bow many more homes could be heated
with the gas now being given these new commercial customers?

Just

and construct the line, which would have prevented this shortage.

And now

Hard to say, but I'd estimate that Michigan Consolidated could

I can't have gas to heat my house. I don't get it!

COMPANY

PANHANDLE

WORLD'S GREATEST RESERVES - -,
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Panhandle Eastern
produces and trans-
ports natural gas
from the Southwest
to the "gates" of
Detroit, where it is
sold at wholesale to
the local gas utility
for distribution.

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DETROIT

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