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Envis H • spital Nearing Reality;
I clu ed In Greater Detroit Fund

Dramatic announcement of the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund to include the Jewish Hospital Association for the sum of
$2,500,000 in the city-wide . drive for $19,720,000 was followed promptly by word from Max Osnos, president of the Jewish Hospital
Association, that Albert Kahn Associated Architects, Inc., have been authorized to proceed at once to secure bids so that contracts
may be awarded and actual construction may get under way in the very near future.
A Jewish hospital in Detroit as a tangible structure, on the 35-acre site bounded by Outer Drive, Whitcomb-, Lauder and Mc-
Nichols Road now is assured, fulfilling the Jewish community's dream and assuring a modern center of health and healing. as a
major contribution to medical advancement in behalf of the entire 'city. ,
. Early this week a series of conferences was held between the architects and Dr. Jacob J. Golub, noted hospital authority and •
planning consultant to the Jewish Hospital, with a , view to expediting the program of actual building. The $2,400,000 contributed
to the Jewish Hospital drive in 1944 and 1945, together with - the additional funds to be provided by the city-wide campaign, advance
stages of which already have been set in motion, will lift the project out of the blueprint stage and will result in an early an,
nouncement of actual breaking of ground and of the rapid completion of the institutional plant.
Associated with Mr. Osnos on the board of directors which sponsored the 1944 drive and which has been directing the deVel-
Opment of the project are Henry Wineman, Nate Shapero, Morris Schaver, Sidney J. Allen, Harry Frank, Irwin I. Cohn, Israel-David-
son, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Irving W. Blumberg, Julian H. Krolik, Maurice Aronsson, Frank —A. Wetman and Abe Srere. Serving as executive secretary of

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the Association is William Avrunin, associate director of
the Jewish Welfare Federation. The Federation 'also has been
acting as coordinating and fiscal agency.' .
A total of 1,572 new beds will be added to existing or
contemplated hospitals as the result of the new city-wide
campaign now being launched. Inclusion of the Jewish Hos-
pital is in recognition of the progress already made by the
Jewish community in the 1944 campaign, the social desir-
ability of the kind of institution envisaged and the evidence
over many .years throughout the country that Jewish COM-
munities can make .a positive contribution to the develop-
merit• of -medical treatment and the general= .advance : of
science, teaching andresearchi Last summer, when the
Jewish Hospital Association was considering appealing to
the contributing public for additional funds and 'was about

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Neglia Hero Honored:

Christian and Jewish leaders joined in honoring

CAPTAIN YAAKOV WAYLAND (second from the right), hero of Negba, in Israel, at a reception

in his honor at Hotel Steller on- Dec. 9. Among th ose who participated in the program were (left to
right in the photograph): FRANK X. MARTEL, president of Detroit and Wayne County Federations
of Labor; Governor-elect' G. MENNEN WILLIAM S; GEORGE EDWARDS, president of the Detroit
City Council; Captain Wayland and BARNEY H OPKINS, secretary-treasurer of the Detroit CIO
Council. Morris Ueberman, president of the Det roit Labor Zionist Organization, introduced Mr.
Edwards as chairman of the program. Captain Wayland was in Detroit in behalf of the 1949 Israel
Histadrut campaign. (Story on Page 2.)

ENGINEER
ALFRED A. STRELSIN

SECRET NEGEV OIL WELL

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R. IL O'CONNOR, BOSS
DRILLER

—International, Photos

Oil—Crux of Negev Dispute:

Oil is the reason for the increas-
ing interest in the presumably worthless Negev desert area af Palestine, says American engineer
ALFRED A. STRELSIN, just back from Middle East where he witnessed the Israel-Egyptian battle for the
Negev. (Jews, outnumbered 8 to I, won easily, he says.) Strelsin reports there are three oil sites (photo
above was taken 10 miles northeast of Gaza, a battleground; oil came in at 2,200-foot depth). Hand-
picked Arab workers sworn to secrecy work under th e direction of English and french technicians. The
Negev was designated Jewish in the original partition plan. The English have vast oil interests in

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&lib countries.

—International Photos

Israel's Airport:

As the great airport in Lydda,
Israel, is reopened to civilian plane traffic, members of the airport's

ground personnel (bottom), get on the job. Top, M. TAUSSIG,
resident manager of the Czech Airlines, marks the scheduled arrival
of the first civilian ship from Czechoslovakia to land there since the
British left on April 27. Held for a time k Arabs, the airport was

recaptured by the Israeli army.

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