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MACs Bring Back Normal Knesset Action
Activity in 'No Man's Land' Adds Incentive

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HAIFA, Israel—"The trouble with peace is that it doesn't make headlines . .
"No, it's no good for headlines, but it's good for crops, anyway .. ."
That scrap of conversation between Israeli and Egyptian army officers was re-
corded by this reporter at El Auja, a former customs post between Palestine and
Egypt, far south of here in the desert.
A year ago, when El Auja was the site of a fierce battle between Israeli and
Egyptian troops, it was in the headlines the world over. Today, the only battle at El
Auja are the daily horseshoe pitching competitions—the sole recreation available be-
tween sessions of the Egyptian-Israeli Mixed Armistice Commission, which has its
headquarters there.
The Mixed Armistice Commissions — everyone calls
them MACs for short—have become in a quiet, unobtru- Modern Steel
sive way the symbols of the present-day peace in the Holy
Plant to Go up
Land.
The' MACs have brought back to their homes thou- Soon in Israel
sands of Arab and Jewish prisoners, both military and
civilian. The MACs have helped destroy hundreds of dan-
NEW YORK (JTA) For-
gerOus mines, left over from the recent fighting—includ-
mation of a company capi-
ing a three-ton, monster land mine right in the center of talized at $1,000,000 to estab-
lish and operate a modern
Jerusalem.
steel construction plant in
t i possible for Arabs and Jews to Israel, was announced by
They are making
plow their lands and graze their cattle in areas that only Lawrence Schacht, president
esterday were "no-man's lands," out-of-bounds for Arabs of the Schacht Steel Con-
and Jews alike ; they find miss- struction Co.
ing
persons and missing steam-
"The plant will be equipped
On The Road to
rollers and stolen or lost camels with the newest American
Peace—This article on
and cows; and replace the fight- machinery," Schacht said. He
a - little-known aspect
ing lines of yesterday with to- recently returned from Israel
of the United Nations'
day's peaceful demarcation lines. after preliminary exploration
In short, the MACs work stub- of the steel construction field
activity in the Holy
bornly to clear up the mess left there.
Land is by a special
Two of his associates, Sam-
behind the Palestine war.
uel Schacht. and Henry F.
UN feature corres-
Altogether, there are four Pine, left for Israel to com-
pondent now in Israel.
MACs to bear the main burden plete final arrangements.
"I expect that ground will
of practical peacemaking in the
Holy Land. They were set up under the armistice agree- be broken for the plant with-
three months," Schacht de-
ments concluded last spring and summer between Israel in
clared. "My visit to Israel has
and four of her Arab neighbors : Egypt, Lebanon, the Has- impressed
rx-le with the enor-
hemite Kingdom of Jordan and Syria. Each MAC is made mous 'potentialities of - the
up of two or three Israeli and two or three Arab repre-
country."
sentatives, plus a United Nations chairman.'
In Tel Aviv, details of a
broad
building program in
The latter is appointed by the chief of staff of the Jerusalem
to house govern-
UN Truce Supervision Organization in Palestine, Brigadier- ment offices and government
General William E. Riley, whose headquarters are here. workers in that city, as well
Each chairman is assisted by a small staff of American,
as now immigrants and the
Belgian and French officers from General Riley's UN ob-
new headquarters of the
server group, now comprising 36 officers and 40 enlisted World Zionist Congress, were
men, including an aircrew of 18 to operate three white- outlined by Labor Minister
Golda Myerson.
painted UN planes.
El Auja, the headquarters of the Egyptian-Israeli
Mixed Armistice Commission, consists of two 2000-year-
See It Sunday!
old. stone-walled wells and two ramshackle stone houses,
which once
served as a
customs post
between t h e
Holy Land and
-Egypt.
A car can be
driven for
hours in any
-. direction from
An extensive, week-long
El Auja with-
program
of celebrations
out turning up
will
begin
this Sunday af-
anything b u t
desert and
ternoon, to mark the of-
ficial opening of the newly-
vultures a n d
completed Dexter-Davison
hyenas. The
only people
branch of the Jewish Com-
living at that
munity Center.
forsaken spot
Members of the Israeli-Egyptian Mixed
Fronting on Davison, be-
are MAC mem- Armistice Commission iron out a demarca-
tween Holmur and
bers.
tion line problem on the spot in the Palestine
Petoskey, the m o dern
All of t h e desert.
building is an outgrowth of
MAC people
the Center's Dexter exten-
sleep in a dormitory room on the second floor of one of
sion program. Its design
the houses. On the first floor, they hold their meetings. On
and decor prove it admir-
the ground floor of the other house, they take their meals
ably suited to its aim—to
together.
provide a recreational and
On the floor above is the dormitory for the armed
cultural program for resi-
guards who protect the site against desert brigands and
dents of the Dexter area
hyenas. Under an Egyptian-Israeli agreement, the guards
who cannot easily travel to
are drawn from the ranks of Egyptian soldiers for two
the main building of the
weeks at a time, and from Israeli ranks for the next two
Center — children, teen-
weeks.
agers and elderly people.
The main job of the El Auja MAC, as of all four of
Members of the com-
the Mixed Armistice Commissions, is to secure to the for-
munity who take advant-
mer enemies "freedom from fear of attack," as the ar-
age of the Center board's
nistice pacts signed by Israel and four of her Arab neigh-
open house invitation this
bors put it.
Sunday, will be conducted
through the building's cool
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JERUSALEM—The Knesset adopted, at its
first reading, a bill encouraging foreign investments.
All parties except the Communists voted for the bill,
which authorizes lower taxes for foreign investors
and provides facilities for their taking profits and
capital amortization funds out of the country in the
form of currency.

The Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced
plans for increasing Israel's industrial labor force from its
present 76,000 to 176,000 in the next four years, with the
investment of over $360,000. - Gershon Meron, director-gen-
eral of the Ministry announced.

U. S. Loans for Machinery

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The effect of the United States loan of $20,000,000
which was set aside for industrial purposes will be felt this
year, when old machinery is replaced with new equipment.
Loans totalling $140,000 have been advanced to 1,200
Arab farmers for seed and tractors. The Ministry of the
Interior granted the Arab village of Abu Gosh, near Jeru-
salem, the status of a local council.
The Jewish Agency has prohibited Yemenite Jews
from holding a separate drive in the United States. The
campaign has been conducted by Zachariah Glusko.

Name Settlement for Dr. Wise

Three work camps are being set up by the Agency in
the Jerusalem corridor, to accomodate newcomers from
Yemen who are now at Givat Shaul camp. Four more camps
are being completed in Galilee, while a new settlement of
privately owned farms, to be established next week in the
Jerusalem corridor, is to be named Kfar Shmuel, in honor
of the late Stephen S. Wise .

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New AMPAL Bonds on Market

NEW YORK, (JTA)—In a period of a little over a
year AMPAL—the American Palestine Trading Corpora-
tion—has completed the sale of $3,750,000 worth of its 10-
year three per cent sinking fund debentures and has reg-
istered another $3,250,000 of these securities which it is
currently offering for sale to the public.
It is expected that approximately $1,000,000 of the
funds that will be thus realized will be used in the develop-
ment of industries in the Negev.

New Center Branch Designed
For Youngsters, Aged Visitors

By

RUTH L. CASSEL

cream and gray-green cor-
ridors. From the main,
glass-fronted lobby, they
may progress to the large
auditorium, where they will
note the use of exterior
brick on interior walls, an
innovation in institutional
construction according to
architect Sol King of Al-
bert Kahn, Associates. The
room, which has a seating
capacity of 350, or 200 for
dining, has a fully-equipped
stage, with newest lighting
facilities, movie projection
arrangements and two
stage dressing rooms.
The auditorium is being
dedicated to the memory of
Hyman C. B'roder, former
president of the Center.

A complete calendar of
Dedication Week events at
the new Dexter Center ap-
pears on Page S.

Continuing on the first
floor, the tourists may look

into the comfortable lounge
which is expected to be
used primarily by older
visitors to the Center. Next
door, is the library, also
intended as a service to
young people and the eld-
erly. A Yiddish section and
books on Judaica for chil-
dren and teen-agers, as well
as staff reference material,
will be its features.
The main stairway, lead-
ing from the lobby to the
second floor, is distinguish-
ed by a magnified Star of
David, set into the red
brick stair wall, and a full-
length glass brick window
at the landing.
Visitors to the Center,
will probably find what
might be ordinary meeting
rooms, all along the second
floor corridor, of unusual
interest, since each has a
distinctive color scheme—
shades of green, rose, beige

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