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Drop Religious Question
From '60 Federal Census

Zinkoff Joins
Pearson- Tour

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The 1960 U.S. popu-
lation census will not inchide an inquiry on re-
ligion. This decision was announced by director
Robert W. Burgess of the Bureau of the Census,
U. S. Department of Commerce.
The primary reason for the decision, Dr.
Burgess said, was -recognition that at this time a
considerable number of citizens would be reluctant
to answer such a question in the census where a
reply is mandatory.
The decision of the Bureau of the Census was
greeted throughout the country by Jewish and other
groups concerned with basic liberties which had
opposed the plan as an invasion of individual Con-
stitutional Rights.
Dr. Burgess called attention to the fact that the
decision does not deal with the question of inclusion
of an inquiry on religion, or perhaps a modified
basis, in later censuses. Nor does the decision per-
tain to the publication of information based on an
inquiry on religion asked of a national sample of
individuals on a voluntary basis.
Many religious groups as well as social workers
and educators had asked that the question be in-
cluded. But, said Dr. Burgess, exception was taken
by the American Jewish Congress and the Church
of Christ Scientist (Christian Scientist), both of
which came out vigorously against the proposal.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American
Jewish Congress, who led in the fight against in-
cluding the religious question greeted the decision
as "a far-reaching victory for traditonal American
freedoms." He said the decision conformed to the
view that the proposal was "unconstitutional and
an unwarranted, invasion of the privacy of Ameri-
cans."
"The religious affiliations or beliefs of the people
are not a legitimate concern , of a democratic gov-
ernment committed to the principle of the separa-
tion of Church and State," he asserted.
Commenting on the announcement by Dr. Bur-
gess, Dr. Goldstein declared. that "it would be un-
wise for the Bureau to publish information based
on religion conducted early this year, according to
the bureau, on a voluntary basis."

AFL-CIO Attacks U.S. Appeasement
of Arabs; Ask Guarantees for Israel

ATLANTIC CITY, (JTA) —
The American Federation of
Labor-Congress of Industrial Or-
ganizations, at its convention
here, adopted a declaration ask-
ing the United States to use its
influence in the United Nations
to provide protection to Israel
as a country surrounded by
enemy nations.
"Shifting from appeasement

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Dave Zinkoff, manager of the
Harlem Globetrotters interna-
tionally known basketball team
and well known radio sports
announcer, is accompanying
Drew Pearson on the col-
umnist's two-week tour of U.S.
Army boses in North Africa.
The columnist's aim is to
bring an entertainment unit
to the military bases.
The troupe, similar in na-
ture to the USO units which
entertained World War II sol-
diers, will contain members of
the famous Globetrotter team
and their coach, Abe Saper-
stein. Zinkoff and Saperstein
will supervise 10 basketball ex-
hibition games by the Trotters
against an all-star team.
. In addition to Zinkoff, Saper-
stein and the cagers, the Pear-
son group includes Lisa Ferra-
day, TV actress, and former
boxing champion Barney Ross.
The unit will visit bases. in
Tripoli, Libya, Mdrocco and
other locations in North Africa.
The tour, which began last
week, will return to this coun-
try on Tuesday.

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Nixon Gets Doctorate
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at Yeshiva-U.
Dinner

NEW YORK (JTA) — Vice
President Richard M. Nixon was
presented herd with an honor-
ary degree of Doctor of Laws
from Yeshiva University. The
award was made at a special
academic convocation at the
Waldorf Astoria followed by
the university's 29th annual
scholarship dinner at which
Nixon was the principal speak-
er.
A highlight of the dinner
which benefitted the university's
$750,000 scholarship fund from
which 2,600 students are aided,
was the presentation of the
Mordecai Ben David Award to
Dr. Bela Schick, veteran pedia-
trician and discoverer of the
diphtheria susceptibility test
which bears his name.
In his address, Vice Presi-
dent Nixon said that Yeshiva
University was in the "great tra-
dition" of privately-supported
liberal arts and universities. He
noted that the university's pro-
vision of scholarship assistance
to 84 percent of the student
body meant the development of
"brain power which otherwise
would lie fallow."

of Nasser to the appeasement of
King Saud hardly constitutes an
adequate policy for the Middle
East," the declaration read.
"There are elements in this re-
gion more vital and more com-
bustible.- than oil." The declara-
tion then urged the United
States Government:
1. To propose within the 29,000 Jews Reach
United Nations the convening
of an emergency conference of Israel from Poland
all countries in the Middle East
VIENNA (JTA) — Approxi-
for the purpose of eliminating mately 29,000 Jews emigrated
the disputes in this explosive this year from Poland to Israel,
area, that now threaten the according to official statistics
peace of the entire world.
issued by the Warsaw govern-
2. To seek immediate estab- ment.
lishment by the United Nations
The emigration was per-
of an initial fund of $500,000,- mitted, the announcement said,
000 to be extended for the solu- "in order to reunite families."
tion of the Arab refugee prob-
The National Minorities Com-
lem.
mission of the Polish Commun-
3. To take immediate and ist Party has criticized the Min-
positive steps in concert with
the United Nations to prevent istry of Art and Culture for in-
outbreaks of aggression in the adequate activity in promoting
Middle East and to lay the basis the Yiddish language, another
for peaceful relations among the report from Warsaw said.
The Ministry had been or-
countries that are based upon
the following principles: mutual dered to • intensify and expand
respect for territorial integrity its work among national minori-
and sovereignty; non-aggres- ties "in the mother tongue" of
sion; non-interference in inter- each minority' group. Specifical-
nal affairs; equality in relation- ly, the party's central commit-
ships with one another, and re- tee told the Ministry to in-
gional economic cooperation and crease Yiddish lectures over
development.
the Polish radio and to see that
In another resolution, the more books are published in
AFL-CIO convention greeted the , Yiddish language.
the Histadrut in Israel, ex-
pressed "pride" in the friend- Norwalk Jewish Center
ship and support which has Sold to Negro Congregation
marked the relationship be-
NORWALK, Conn. (JTA)-
tween the United States and Is-
rael, looked forward "with con- The Norwalk Jewish Center was
fidence" to an extension and sold to the Grace Baptist
deepening of this friendship Church, the largest Negro con-
"so that Israel may continue gregation in the city. The price
its dynamic progress in peace was reported to be $125,000.
and freedom," and called upon Meanwhile, center officials an-
the United States "to take all nounced that they were com-
measures to ensure the eco- pleting negotiations for a new
nomic growth and the inde- site away from the downtown
area of Norwalk.
pendence of Israel."

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