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Friday, July 5, 1957
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HARRY FATERNICK treasurer of the Leo Spector
Memorial Fund, presents a check to HY FOGELMAN, repre-
senting Kupat Holim, Israel medical organization, which is
the recipient of the fund. The presentation marks the com-
pletion of the drive for $20,000 for the Leo M. Spector Clinic
at Pardess Chana, Israel. A plaque will be erected in the
clinic to indicate the memorial is a gift of the scrap industry
of Detroit. Pictured at the presentation ceremonies, left to
right, are: IRV FELDMAN, Mr. Spector's son-in-law; MAX
WEINER, a committee member; Faternick, Fogelman, SAM
SCHWARTZBERG, committee member; and PHIL MINKIN,
another son-in-law.
23,000 Young People in 19 Countries
Aided During Year by World ORT
About 23,000 young people
and adults were taught occupa-
tional skills last year at trade
schools and other vocational
programs of the Organization
for Rehabilitation through
Training in 19 countries, ac-
cording to a report by the
American ORT Federation.
Hundreds of Hungarian and
Egyptian Jewish refugees were
among those aided.
ORT is the world-wide"
agency for vocational training
and economic aid to Jews in
need and distress. The report,
in the form of an "ORT Year-
book-1957," was released by
Dr. William Haber, president
of the American ORT Federa-
tion.
Educators Urge
Inter-Group Schools
Eighty-five educators, sociolo-
gists, psychologists and inter-
group relations specialists, in a
report released this week, urged
that, in the interests of better
intergroup relations, public
schools draw pupils from "di-
versified" rather than from
"homogeneous" districts.
At the least, the group of
experts remarked, public school
system should "integrate their
faculties, school districting pro-
cedures to ensure against gerry-
mandering for the purpose of
excluding particular groups"
and take particular precautions
to avoid overly large classes
and to provide high quality of
instruction in "difficult tension
areas."
They recommended "that
careful, sympathetic considera-
tion be given to suggestions for
redistricting and rezoning
school districts to eliminate seg-
regation and for other steps
aimed at curbing the growing
drift toward one-group schools."
"Vocational training in Eu-
rope, which had declined since
the DP days," has once again
become an urgent necessity" as
a result of the large numbers
of "new refugees" from Hun-
gary and Egypt, the report ob-
serves The largeest ORT pro-
gram is in Israel, where over a
third of the trade schools for
youth in the country are main-
tained by ORT, the report
states. In all, there were 81
training units of ORT in Israel
last year, located in 21 cities
and towns.
According to the Yearbook,
ORT conducted 391 trade high
schools, adult worshops appren-
tice plans and agricultural sta-
tions in 1956. More than 60
different skills were taught to
22,716 persons by 757 teachers.
About three-fourths of this stu-
dent body consisted of boys and
girls in their teens, who were
provided with two, three and
four year secondary educations,
along with technical studies.
For • these youth, most of them
in North Africa, Israel and Iran,
the ORT school was the only
means available for a high ed-
ucation, the report notes.
Cost of ORT activities was
$4,125,391 in 1956.
Israel Faces
$500 Million
Home Project
NEW YORK (JTA)—Levi
Ashkol, Israel Minister of Fi-
nance, declared here that Israel
faces the necessity of embark-
ing on a five-year building pro-
gram to construct 25,000 to 30,-
000 homes annually at a total
cost of $500,000,000 to house an
estimated immigration of more
than 300,000 refugees during
that period.
Speaking at a dinner that
marked the launching of a new
$3,000 denomination Israel bond
for housing development, the
Israel government leader
stressed that the building pro-
gram in Israel was essential to
meet "a wave of immigration"
from Eastern Europe, North Af-
rica and other parts of the
world.
"A million Jews face our an-
cient misfortune, forced wan-
dering," he told 700 persons
attending the dinner a the
Roosevelt Hotel.
"About a third of a million
are waiting impatiently to come
to Israel and they will come
in the next few years."
In response to Eshkol's re-
port on Israel's needs, William
Mazer, chairman of the Greater
New York Israel Bond Commit-
tee, who presided, announced
that more than $500,000 in Israel
bonds had been purchased at
the dinner.
Eshkol pointed up the
portance of the new $3,000 Is-
rael bond that was issued spe-
cially to aid in meeting the
housing crisis.
Explaining that each housing
unit would cost approximately
$3,000, he said "Israel bonds
are now being issued in a new
and special denomination of
$3,000, specifically for immi-
grant housing. Those who buy
the new issues will be invest-
ing in building homes for new-
comers—and they will be known
as Builders of Israel."
Report Rival
Nominations for
Arab. League Post
LONDON, (WJA)—Col. Nas-
ser intends to nominate Mah-
moud Fawzi, the present Egyp-
tian Foreign Minister, as Sec-
retary-General of the Arab
League in succession to Has-
sounah, according to a Cairo
radio report.
This was described as one
aspect of the disagreements be- 1
tween the Egyptian and other
Arab governments about the
Arab League. It was added that
Iraq intended to nominate Taw-
fiq al-Suwaydi for the post.
Briscoe Out By
Drop of a Hat
DUBLIN, (Special) — Ex-
actly as he won his job a year
ago—by the drop of a hat—
Lord Mayor Robert Briscoe,
of Dublin, Ireland, lost it
this week.
The dynamic Briscoe, first
Jew ever to hold office as
Dublin's chief magistrate,
tied with James Carroll at 21
votes apiece in the city coun-
cil.
The election was decided
by drawing from a hat. Car-
roll won the straw just as
Briscoe had won it last year
after he had tied with Dennis
Larkin.
During his tenure in office,
Briscoe toured this country,
both on behalf of promoting
Irish tourism and speaking
for the United Jewish Ap-
peal.
Only a week ago, the dra-
matic story of his life as an
Irishman and a Jew was
shown by Columbia Broad-
casting System in a 90-min-
ute telecast in major cities
throughout the United States.
Briscoe appeared in De-
troit for UJA in March, when
he officially opened the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign.
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LaMed Awards
for '56 Presented
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Louis LaIVIed Foundation has
announced the winners of its
17th annual award for the best
Yiddish and Hebrew works
produced in 1956 in countries
in North and South America.
The winners in Yiddish were
Jacob Glatstein for his b6ok
of collected poems, "All My ,
Toil," and Isaac Bashevis-
Singer for his book of memoirs,
"My Father's Courthouse."
The Hebrew winners were
Dr. Shimon Bernstein, for an
anthology of medieval Hebrew
poetry, "By the Rivers of
Spain," and Dr. Meyer Wax-
man, for his "In the Paths of
Hebrew Literature and Essays." j
Each honor carries a cash
award of $500.
TEL AVIV — Israel will
launch an effort next week to
increase such exports as fresh
fruits and fashion goods to
Europe, particularly West Ger-
many, with special cargo flights
by El Al Israel National Air-
line, it was announced Tues-
day.
J1 Al will use new Viking
planes capable of carrying
3 1/2 tons of cargo on a weekly
schedule Gperating every
Wednesday. Dusseldorf will be
one of the landing points in
Europe.
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To Screen Wandering Jew'
Buddy Adler, 20th Century-
Fox executive, plans production
of "The Wandering Jew," based
on the play by E. T emp la
Thurston. Writer-director Nun-
nally Johnson, who had the
story property in the works for
several years, now prepares
his final script. An early fall
shooting date is set for loca-
tions in Israel, Spain and Sicily.
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