A
Parade of Ilonoigi Impressive Program for Israel's
Continues for Salk

NEW YORK, • (JTA) — The
parade of honors for Dr. Jonas
E. Salk, conqueror of dread
polio, continued this week. Fore-
most among them was the
award in Washington of a cita-
tion by President Eisenhower.
The President presented cita-
tions to the famed researcher
and Dr. Basil O'Connor, presi-
dent of the National Foundation
for Infantile Paralysis, at a
White House ceremony. The
White House announced that
the citation was being made to
Dr. Salk pending Congressional
action on proposals to set up a
standing award for distin-
guished civilian achievement
an award for just such contri-
butions to humanity as ttiat
made by Dr. Salk.
New York's Mayor Robert F.
Wagner announced the estab-
lishment of eight annual gradu-
ate scholarships of $3,500 each
to graduates of this city's muni-
cipal colleges who would con-
tinue their education in the field
of medical science. The College
of the City of New York, of
- which Dr. Salk is a 1934 gradu-
ate, also announced this week
that it would confer on him the
honorary degree of Doctor of
Laws. It will be only the ninth
time in this-Century. that the
College has conferred such a de-
gree.
A "Jonas Salk Fund" for use
in the field of preventive medi-
cine will probably be set up from
contributions and offers of fi-
nancial aid that have- been
pouring in to the University of
Pittsburgh researcher. He said
that he would "very likely" start
such a special fund.

Independence Day Event, Saturday

Mordecai R. Kidron, Deputy
Permanent Representative of Is-
rael to the United Nations, Con-
gressman- Alvin M. Bentley, and
Circuit Court Judge George Ed-

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MORDECAI R. KIDRON

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Salk Vaccine Victory
Over Racial Prejudice

The Salk polio vaccine- was
hailed in Toronto, as a victory
over prejudice by Rabbi Abra-
ham Feinberg..
"The vaccine of Dr. Salk, a
dew, is not only protection
against the physical plague of
polio but a protest against the
spiritual plague of racial and
religious prejudice," he said.
Many American medic al
schools, Dr. Feinberg charged,
have a "quota" system which
bars Jewish applicants from ad-
mission on no other grounds
except their faith. Only by
chance did Jonas Salk seek
medical training at a Univer-
sity that accepted him in the
year of application.
"He might have been refused,
despite his genius for research,"
he said.
Without the help of his Pro-
testant and Catholic partners,
Dr. Jonas Salk, a Jew, could riot
have reached the full scope of
his special genius," said Rabbi
Feinberg. "The bright hope in•
the war on polio is based on
brotherhood?'

NuMerous Jews Awarded
Guggenheim Fellowship

JUDGE EDWARDS

Ralph Miller, known for her ra
dio and television appearances;
Habonim Dance Group; Sadie
Cooper Braver, violinist, and Lil-
lian Robbins Zellrnan, piano
accompanist. Settings were pre-
pared by Harry Docks. Wayne
University will cooperate in the
arrangements for special light-
ing and sound effects.
The Jewish War Veterans will
present the American colors. The
Israeli flag will be presented by
members of the groups partici-
pating in the Youth Council
sponsored by the Jewish Nation-
al Fund.
Mr. Kidro n, the principal
speaker, served in the Israeli
Army during the War of Inde-
pendence in 1947 and 1948, on
the staff of the military head-
quarters in Jerusalem and as
military governor of North Je-
rusalem during the siege. At the
outbreak of World War II, he
volunteered for service and
served in Africa from 1939 to
1944. After- demobilization, he
joined the political ,department
of the Jewish Agency for Pales-
tine, where he served until the
state was established in 1948.
He served as 'director of the
international organizations divi-
sion of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and as adviser to the
jsrael Delegation to the Sixth
United. Nations General Assem-
bly in Paris in 1951. In 1953, he
headed the Israel delegation to
the conference of UNESCO in
Paris. In the same year he be-
came Deputy Permanent Repre-
sentative of Israel to the United
Nations.
Congressman Bentley, who last
year was seriously wounded by
Puerto Rican Nationalists, in the
House of Representatives cham-
ber, was the only freshman
member of the House to be
named to the powerful Commit-
tee on Foreign Affairs.

CONGRESSMAN BENTLEY

4ardg will address the commu-
nity-wide celebration of the
Seventh Anniversary of Israel's
Independence, Saturday, 8:30
p. m., in the Mumford High
School auditorium.
The event will feature dra-
matic and musical script, "Corn-
ing Home . . .", by Joseph Edel-
man, director of the culture
commission of the Jewish Com-
munity Council. The cast will
include Rubin Weiss, formerly
director of WXYZ-TV; Mrs.

NEW YORK, (JTA)—A num-
ber of Jews were named as - re-
cipients today of 1955 Guggen-
heim Fellowships in a variety
of fields. The John Simon Gug -
genheim Memorial • Foundation
announced grants to 248 Amer-
icans totalling $968,000. Among Mayor Wagner Proclaims
the Jews awarded grants were:
May UJA Month in N.Y.

Dr. Max Weinreich, associate professor
of Yiddish studies at City College of New
York, for work on the history of the
Yiddish • language; Dr. Alexander Wein-
stein, associate professor of applied
mathematics, at the University of Mary-
land; Dr. Daniel, Zelinsky, associate pro-
fessor of mathematics at Northwestern
University; -Dr. Sol Kramer, research
associate in zoology at New York Uni-
versity; Dr. , Gertrude Himmelfafb, re-
search historian of London, England; Dr.
Irvin Ehrenpreis, assistant professor of
English at Indiana University.
Dr. Bernard Weinberg, professor of
romance languages and literatures at
Northwestern University; Noah Green-
berg, choral director in New York; Dr.
Isaac Barshad, associate soil chemist at
the University of California; Saul Bellow,
novelist and teacher at Bard College;
Miss Hortense Calisher, writer of Nyack,
New York; Dr. Jacob J. Finkelstein, re-
search assistant of the Department • of
Near Eastern languages and literatures
at Yale University; Dr. Harold Levine,
lecturer in applied science at Harvard
University; Dr. Isadore Pelman, profes-
sor of chemistry at the University of
California and Dr. Eugene Rabinowitch,

professor of botany at the University of

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Mayor
Robert F. Wagner proclaimed
May United Jewish Appeal
Month in New York, and ac-
cepted on behalf of the city's
people seven sapling trees sent
from Israel as a token of appre-
ciation for the aid the United
Jewish Appeal of Greater New
York has given the people of
that young democracy.
In prdclaiming May "UJA
Month," Mayor Wagner called
upon "my fellow citizens of all
faiths to join \ in contributing
generously" to the campaign.
The Mayor is chairman of the
Non-Sectarian Community Com-
mittee for the United Jewish
Appeal of Greater New York.

SAUL BERCH is a name that
has become so closely linked
with automobiles that a deal
made through
him is like a
guarantee of a
perfect deal
. . And all
who have pur-
chased Pon-
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him will tell
that to deal
with Saul
Berch means to be assured of
excellent service on the car
. . . On your next deal, you
must contact SAUL BERCH,
at Picker Pontiac, 18650 Liv-
erno'is. Call him NOW, at
UN. 3-9300. Adv.

Friday, April 29, 1955

Hebrew University
Graduates 395; Won't
'Yield' Mt. Scopus

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-5

JERUSALEM, ( J T A ) — The
Hebrew University's old campus
on Mt. Scopus, isolated by Jor-
dan since the war for independ-
ence, "will never be yielded," al-
though a new campus is now
being built "as an addition," Dr.
Benjamin Mazar, president of
the University, declared at corn-
mencement exercises in which
degrees were awarded to 395
graduates.
Israel's' President Itzhak Ben
Zvi attended the exercises and
addressed the graduates, re-
minding them of the country's

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dependence upon science and
education in its efforts to build
"a prosperous and he a l t h y
state."
Philip Klutznick, Bnai Brith
president, was tendered a lunch-
eon by the Hebrew University,
Later, he was received by Presi-
dent Ben Zvi and members of
the Cabinet.

From 'Moo' to 'Nu'
The latest story from Israel
is that the Guernsey cow has
been crossed with the Holstein
bull, and the new cow, called
"Goldstein," instead of "moo"
utters a "nu."

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