Begin Community
with 20 Families
in Nankin Twp. U.S. to Give Israel

News Round-Up of Israeli Events

About 20 families comprise
the new Jewish community in
Nankin Township. All are mem-
bers of the Livonia Jewish Com-
munity Group "pioneering" at
the Joy and Ann Arbor Trail
area, by Merriman Road.
Other Jewish families are be-
ing invited to come out and
help build the area, and Alger
Homes is introducing a four-
level home, featuring a "con-
verta" room designed for the
husband of the family, for the
prospective residents to see and
live in.
Called the Alger Crown, a
furnished model is located at
Cooley and Merriman roads, be-
tween Joy and Ann Arbor Trail.
The builders believe it is the
first • time that a production
home has offered a specially-
designated husband's room.
It has three bedrooms, a sep-
arate living room, kitchen, a
dining room, a family room,
one and a half baths and the
"converta" room, which is on
the family-room level.
There are two steps between
the kitchen and family-room
level and nine steps between the
living room and the fourth level.
The first level is a basement,
nine steps below the kitchen.
All of the living areas in the
home are at or above grade.
Birch cabinets and conveni-
ence items like food waste dis-
poser and vent fan are provided
in the kitchen. Clay tile feat-
ures, circuit breakers in place
of fuses, and a patio also are
included at the $17,690 price.
FHA down payment is $2,490,
with 30-year and conventional
mortgages also available.
"The Alger Crown," says
Michael TaMes, president of
Alger Bldg. Co., "is the result of
two years of planning. It does
away with the only feature peo-
ple have objected to in • this
type of house because it sup-
plies a basement for the utili-
ties."
Face brick and stone are used
in the exteriors, where variety
is available in six elevations.
Location of the model is only
two blocks from a new elemen-
tary school. A new shopping
center is being completed a
block and a half away. The
subdivision is adjacent to Livo-
nia, but in Nankin Township.
Taines said that 59 of the
homes would be built, but that
12 had been sold prior to the
opening.
The model is open from noon
until 9 p.m.

Americans to Direct
Marine Expedition

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — An
expedition of undersea divers
outfitted for marine archaeolo-
gical exploration will attempt
to uncover the ancient Pales-
tinian seaport of Caesarea in
the spring of 1958. The trip will
be sponsored by the Smith-
sonian Inftitution and the Amer-
ica-Israel Society.
The expedition will be • di-
rected by Edwin A. Link • and
his wife, Marion, the team which
made preliminary exploration of
the site last year, and Mendel
L. Peterson, curator of naval
history at the Smithsonian In-
stitution.
The expedition will attempt to
dig out the ancient harbor built
by King Herod in the first
century before Christ. The
divers will cooperate closely
with the Israeli Department of
Antiquities and Hebrew Uni-
versity Archaeology experts.
The venture is thought to be
the first in marine archaeology.
Divers will operate from a spe-
cially built ship with a power-
ful water jet to blow away
accumulated sand deposits. The
ship will have powerful hoist-
ing equipment. Israeli fishermen
have pulled up many ancient
artifacts in that area in recent
years. The port served the an-
cient -ships of the Hebrews,
Greeks, Phoenicians and others.
It is thought many important
discoveries are possible.

$15 Million for
Development

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
International Cooperation Ad-
ministration announced a:p-
proval of an allotment of U.S.
owned Israeli pounds equivalent
to $16,000,000 for -development
projects in Israel.
This Israeli currency was ac-
quired by the sale of U.S. agri-
cultural commodities to Israel
under Section 402 of the Mutual
Sechrity Act.
An ICA official explained that
this is a formal action trans-
ferring funds previously indi-
cated in the program expected
to total about $26,000,000 in the
current U.S. fiscal year. Most
procurement authorizations have
already been issued under the
program.

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Two N.Y. Stowaways
Barred from Israel Stay

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two
young New York Jews who ar-
rived in Israel as stowaways
and claimed the right to remain
under the Law of the Return
will, besent back to the United
States as soon as possible,
police officials told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency. •
Yehuda Finkel, 21, and Barci
Bezler, 23, were returned to
Haifa to await transportation
back to New York. Police said
it was impossible to permit
them to stay in Israel.
The youths smuggled them-
selves aboard the S. S. Israel
and escaped from the ship while
it was anchoring in Hiafa. They
were detained in Jerusalem
while officials pondered their
demand to be allowed to stay.
S. S. Israel crew members
told police the two youths ex-
pressed a desire to participate
in the manning of a test ship
via the Suez Canal.

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Israel Expects 250,000
Jews in Three Years

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israel
expects 250,000 Jews to arrive
between 1957 and 1959, Finance
Minister, Levi Eshkol told the
Parliamentary Finance Commit-
tee.
Housing alone for these immi-
grants would cost half a billion
pounds, he estimated. Mr. Esh-
kol reported that 3,000 housing
units were going up each
month.
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Israel To Complain to U.N.
On Gaza Mine Incident
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel's
delegation at the United •a-
tions will be instructed to com-
plain to the Security Council
against "the latest Egyptian out-
rage," as a result of the death
of one Israeli and the wounding
of another who were riding a
tractor that hit a land-mine this
week near Kissufim, about three
miles from the Gaza Strip fron-
tier.
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Israel Communists Meet
with Blessings from Tito
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Israel Communist Party opened
its 13th national convention
with an address by its general
secretary, Shrnuel Mikunis, who
attacked the Israel government
for adhering to the Eisenhower
Doctrine. Messages of greetings
from ,Marshal Tito of Yugo-
slavia and the Czechoslovak
Communist Party, which fol-
lows an Orthodox Communist
line, were read to the session.
The delegates met in camera
today.

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U.S. to Field Team of 100
in Fifth Israel Maccabiah

TEL AVIV, (AJP) — Dr. R.
Atlas, director of Sport activi-
ties of the Fifth Maccabiah
scheduled for September, de-
clared at a meeting of the World
Executive of Maccabi that 20
nations have already applied for
participation in the international
event. He said that the U.S.
team will include some 100 par-
ticipants.

Israel Awaits French
Clarification on Suez

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
is holding up on its decision to
send a "test" ship through the
Suez Canal pending clarification
of France's intentions in respect
to using the waterway and until
the Ben-Gurion government can
make up its mind to earlier
reports, it was stated in in-
formed circles. Israel has not
promised the United States not
to use force to push a ship
through the canal.
An Israeli decision can be
expected within two to three
weeks, if, as has been reported,
the French decide to negotiate
transit of French shipping.
There is no indication that
Israel has softened to the slight-
est extent in its opposition to
taking the Suez question to the
Hague Court.
Israel feels that a Security
Council decision establishing its
right to use the Suez channel
is already on the books - and
what is needed is a means of
implementing that decision —
something the court' is unlikely
to offer.

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Israelis Have Mail
Troubles; Treasury
Bonds Not Delivered

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Is-
raelis have post office troubles
too.
, Special. Popular Loan Certifi-
cates with a total value of
50,000 pounds, which the Israel
Treasury sent to taxpayers in
1955 by registered mail, never
reached +he owners.
Levi Eshkol, Finance Minis-
ter, reporting on the loss, said
a post office investigation had
failed to trace the lost letters.
Since the certificates are
registered, the Knesset ap-
proved a bill to invalidate the
missing certificates. New ones
will be issued.
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First Closed Circuit

Television Is Planited

For Israel Exhibit

TEL AVIV (JTA)—The first
closed circuit television in Is-
rael will be used next month at
a home and garden exhibition.
The equipment was brought
from the United States on the
S.S. Israel and is now being
installed. A television camera
will pick up for public viewing
on 21-inch sets the various ex-
hibits.
In addition to televising en-
tertainment and information,
the closed circuit show will give
visitors a chance to see them-
selves on television.
The equipment was brought
to Israel by arrangements be-
tween the Agricultural and De-
velopment Exhibition Co., spon-
sor of the exhibition, and the
Radio Corporation of America.

Ben-Gurion Urges
Farmers to Settle
Negev Wasteland

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Premier
David Ben-Gurion called on
Israel's individual farmers to
take the initiative and settle in
Israel's southern wasteland
which, he underlined, composes
four-fifths of its area.
Speaking at the opening ses-
sion of the eighth general con-
vention of the Farmers Federa-
tion, an organization of those
Israeli farmers who are not
members of cooperatives, Ben-
Gurion asserted that both indi-
vidual and cooperative farmers
are needed to develop Israel's
agriculture and that the econo-
my could not get along without
either one.
Zvi Izakson, federation presi-
dent, reported that Israel has
achieved about 76 per cent of
agricultural self-sufficiency.
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Ben-Gurion Invites
Polish-Jewish Youth
to Visit Kibbutzim

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Poland's
Minister of Agriculture, Ed-
ward Ochab, will be given a
special message from Israel's
Prime - Minister, David Ben
Gurion, inviting Poland_to send
30 youths to work• and study in
kibbutzim here. The invitation
will be relayed by Boleslaw
Drobner, dean of the Polish
Sejm (Parliament), and chair-
man of the Polish Parliamen-
tary delegation concluded its
visit to this country.
Drobner, a Jew, and members
of his delegation, left for War-
saw. Drobner and Ben-Gurion
had a long talk. In an address
at a farewell function tendered
by Foreign Minister Golda
Meir, Drobner scored the pro-
Stalin regime in his country
which was overturned by the
P olish "October Revolution"
which placed Wladyslaw' Go-
mulka at the head of the Po-
lish Communist Party. He could
not have visited Israel before
the G-omulka regime came to
power. He called anti-Semitism
in his country "an imported
article."

German Restitution Brings
$1 1 1/2 Million in 4 Months

JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
transfer to Israel banks of Ger-
man restitution payments made
to Israeli residents totalled the
equivalent of $11,500,000 in the
first four months of 1967, a gain
of 50 per cent over the same
period last year, the Treasury
announced.
The increase has been attri-
buted to a more favorable rate
of exchange between German
marks and Israeli pounds
allowed by the Treasury. This
has induced many Israelis who
withheld restitution funds to
transfer them through official
sources. A prOposal that the
Treasury make a further con-
cession in the matter of ex-
change rate is being resisted by
Treasury officials on the
grounds that the average re-
cipient is satisfied with the
present rate.
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Nine Americans, Israelis
Win Weiimann Awards

TEL AVIV (JTA) — Three
American scientists and six Is-
raeli professors from the Weiz-
mann Institute of Science at
Rehovoth have been awarded.
Chaim Weizmann scholarships.
The Americans will spend a
year at the Institute, while the
Israelis do research at various
American hospitals, universities
and research centers.
The scholarship winners are
Dr. Jacob Goldberg, of Stanford
University; Dr. Richard Hin-
man of Iowa State University;
Dr. Seymour Katcoff, of Brook-
haven National Laboratories;
Dr. NiEema Haran-Ghera, Ora
Kedem, Dr. Alex Meisels, Dr.
Abraham Patchornik, Abraham
Raviv and Dr. David Samuel.
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Israel Cabinet Approves
Record Foreign Currency
Budget of $571,000,000
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Israel Cabinet approved a for-
eign currency budget of $577,-
000,000 for the fiscal year of
1957. The increase over last year
of $55,000,000 in foreign cur-
rency expenditures, has been
necessitated by security pur-
chases and a rise in world
priceS.

Cash Collection Drive Inaugurated
by Detroit Allied Jewish Campaign

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250 Israeli Leftists
to Join Moscow Festival

TEL AVIV, -(JTA)—Some 250
young Israelis will participate
in the World Youth Festival in
Moscow next July, left-wing
organizations here decide d.
They will be going in three dis-
tinct groups: Communist, Ach-
dut Avodah and a combined unit
from the several Mapam fac-
tions. Among the various groups
will be dancing troupes includ-
ing an Arab group, musical
bands and sports teams.
Israel Chief Rabbi Isaac Her-
zog cabled greetings to Rabbi
M. Levin who has been named
to succeed the late Solomon
Schlieffer as Chief Rabbi of
Moscow. Rabbi Herzog sent the
"blessings of the Torah and the
Land of Israel" on the occasion
of Rabbi Levin's appointment.
A complete set of stamps is-
sued in Israel's nine-year his-
tory will be exhibited in Mos-
cow at a philatelic exhibition in
July, the Post Office announced
today. It'revealed that an invi-
tation to exhibit at a forthcom-
ing international stamp confer-
ence here was handed to the
Moscow Post Office. •

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Jews, and to facilitate their settlement in Israel, Detroit's
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