Robert D. Stein, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Sol I. Stein, of - 18225
Fairfield, was installed student
president of the Bnai Brith
Hillel Foundation at the Univer-
sity of Michigan, at the annual
honors and installation program
held in its building Sunday.
Formerly executive vice-pres-
ident, Bob Stein has held sev-
eral posts in the Foundation.
His place has been filled by the
election of Myron Eisenman, of
18965 Monica.
Other Detroiters who will be
serving with the new executive
board include Allan Nachman,
Howard Saxer and Dale Teitle-
baum.
Among the students of the De-
troit area who were honored for
achievements of service and
leadership were:
Eli Burkow, a recipient of
a book award and a $25 cash

Friction Forces
Work Suspension
at Copper Mines

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

ELATH — A breakdown in
pumps supplied by West Ger-
man firms for processing ore in
the fabled King Solomon Cop-
per Mines at Timna has re-
sulted in complete suspension
of work at the 26,000.000 pound
installations. Repairs will take
at least six months, it was re-
vealed Wednesday.
The Israel press revealed the
situation several we e k s ago,
attributing it to internal fric-
tions allegedly" caused by the
dismissal of Chief Engineer
Beth Esh who supervised con-
struction of the plant. Officials
of the Israel Development Min-
istry responded with either
denials or assurances that dam-
age to machinery had been
minor.
The pumps were supplied by
West German firms which have
business relations with the Dor
Oliver firm, an American Engi-
neering Company which under-
took supervision and counseling
services on construction of the
plant to the point of starting
actual production.
The Israel Mining Corpora-
tion, which accused the West
German firms of responsibility,
said that both American and
Israeli experts warned that the
pumps were deficient but that
the Germans insisted their
equipment was up to specifica-
tions and refused to make any
changes.
When test runs of machinery
proved that the pumps shOrt-
comings were major obstacle to
production, the Dor Oliver firm
agreed to repair the machinery
for which it was responsible
while the German firms sent
their experts to Israel to handle
repair of their pumps. Mean-
while 250 production workers
have been kept on maintenance
activities pending the start of
production scheduled to yield
some 70,000 tons of cop ,p e r
annually.

Detroit-Israel Shipping
Service Increased by
Railway Express Agency

The Foreign Commerce
Weekly, issued by the U. S.
Department of Commerce, re-
ports that American Export
Lines had added a 14-day non-
stop express service via four
cargo vessels from New York to
Tel Aviv and Haifa starting on
March 27, W. A. Meyers, gen-
eral agent of Railway Express
Agency, has advised. This repre-
sents additional through ship-
ping service between Detroit
and those ports by the Railway
Express World Wide Thruway
shipping service. -

award given by the Michigan
Bnai Brith Council for inter-
faith activity; Sidney Jackson,,
for outstanding membership
work; Elaine Lerman, for so-
cial activity; Philip Diskin,
for work with the Hillel Play-
ers; Muriel . Greenspon, for
service in the Hillel Choir.
Other Detroiters who re-
ceived awards were:
Faye Mathis, editor of the
Hillel Herald; Judy Kaplan, for
cultural planning; Abba Fried-
man, cantor and reader at High
Holy Day services; Richard
Schiller, for assistance in re-
ligious programs; Ralph Wise.
Out of the metropolitan area,
Erwin Madorsky of Mt. Clemens
was selected for an award, as
were many outstate students, in-
cluding Phyllis Parnes of Flint,
Mark • Lutvak of Lansing, Ruth
Caminer of Grand Rapids and
Eugene W. Alpern of Bay City.
At the same time, honors
were conferred upon Leonard M.
Simons and Charles E. Feinberg
for special services to the Foun-
dation.
Announcement was made by
Dr. Philip J. Elving, professor
of chemistry at the University
of Michigan and member of the
Hillel advisory committee, that
members of the building corp-
oration are presenting Dr. Her-
man Jacobs, director of the
Foundation, as he completes five
years of devoted and outstand-
ing service, with a gift, in the
form of a trip to Israel, where,
with Mrs. Jacobs, he will spend
the summer as a member of
the Hillel directors' study tour.
The speaker of the afternoon
was Donald M. D. Thurber,
member of the Board of Regents
of the university.

Federation, this week announced
the appointment of Louis La-
Med as chairman of the Feder-
ation education budget and
planning division. He also
named Mandell L. Berman as
a s s ociate
chairman.
LaMed,
former associ-
ate chairman
of the division,
succeeds Mor-
r i s Garvett.
He serves on
the boards of
the United
H e b r e w
LaMed
Schools, t h e
Jewish Community Council and
the Jewish Welfare Federation.
Vitally concerned with the
progress of Jewish Education,
LaMed is chairman of the
Midrasha and one of the stal-
warts of the Community
Center's annual book fair.
He created the LaMed Liter-
ary Foundation which has been
awarding annual 'prizes in the
field of Yiddish and Hebrew
literature since 1939 and en-
dowed the LaMed Prosessor-
ship of Hebrew Studies at
Wayne University.
In praising Garvett's work as
division chairman, Judge Levin
pointed out that he was one of
the incorporating members of
the Federation, serving during
the six years that the United
Hebrew Schools made agree-
ments with five of our cities'
synagogues to provide Hebrew
education for both the chil-
dren of their members \ and
other neighborhood children
within the synagogue facilities.
Berman serves on the boards
of the Detroit Service Group
and the United Hebrew Schools.

Max Varon, Israel Consul in
New York, this week disputed
the claims of the American Ex-
press Co. that the reason it did
not do business in Israel is that
it was unprofitable.
Mr. Varon said that Ameri-
can Express had yielded to
pressure from Arab quarters.
This charge, he asserted, comes
"as result of the most careful
examination of factual evidence
at our disposal."
He said that the indictment is
"not based upon their boycot-
ting tourism to Israel, but em-
phasizes the fact that they
ceased to operate under their
own flag." Thus, he added, "the
Arab boycott achieved a moral
victory of some importance."

Disputing the claim of the
American Express Co. that it
had operated over a• period of
five years at a loss of $50,000,
he offered the following statis-
tical data to show that travel to
and from Israel has increased.

NUMBER OF ISRAELIS WHO
TRAVELLED ABROAD 1954
THROUGH APRIL 1958
1954
30,897
1955
34,321
1956
41,950
1957
48,255
Jan.-Apr. 1958 (approx.)
13,000

168,423
TOURISTS TO ISRAEL WHO
RETURNED TO THEIR RESPEC-
TIVE HOME COUNTRIES
1954'
36.871
1955
46.358
1956
42,064
1957*
*'The figures for 1957 reflect the
ban on travel to the Middle East
imposed on U.S. citizens and
lifted on April 1, 1957.

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Parents' Organizational Meeting,
Public Servants Week Scheduled
at Wayne School May 25, June 4

Highlights of this year's pro-
gram commemorating Public
Servants Week at the Wayne
County Training School, North-
ville, Mich., will include per-
formances by the resident chil-
dren of group dancing, precision
roller skating, and choral sing-
ing. Tours of the classes, which
will be in session, and a social

Captain Leaves
MarriagetoRabbi

JERUSALEM (JTA)—A cou-
ple frustrated in their desire
for a shipboard marriage
aboard an Israeli liner bound
from New York to Haifa has
provided the Israeli Ministry
of Justice with a new legal
problem.
Having been - forced to wait
until the vessel docked to seek
out a rabbi and be married,
the couple complained to the
Ministry against the captain's
refusal to perform the cere-
mony—a hallowed tradition of
the sea. To add to their sense
of injustice, they were told
that, had they been non-Jew-
ish, the captain would have
performed the ceremony.
When he was asked to offi-
ciate, the captain sought the
advice of a passenger—a
prominent American attorney.
The latter warned the mariner
that Israeli law provided that
Jews could only be wed by a
rabbi and that he had no legal
authority to substitute as a
spiritual leader. The captain
thereupon refused to officiate
and the stage was set for the
appeal to the Ministry of Jus-
tice.

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hour are other aspects of the
special activities planned for
Wednesday, June 4, 1 to 3:30
p.m.
The public • is invited to attend
this program, which is part of
a nation-wide observance to fo-
cus attention on various govern-
mental agencies and the person-
nel who provide public service.
Dr. Pasquale BuoniConto is
the medical director of the
school.
Another event at the school •
will be an organizational meet-
ing at 2 p.m. this Sunday of
the Wayne County Training
School Association for Parents
and Friends. There will be a
panel discussion with the fol-
lowing participants: Dr. An-
thony Abruzzo, assistant medi-
cal superintendent; Thomas
Rossettie, child care director;
Mrs. Marcella Douglas, school
principal; Dr. Sidney Rosen-
blum, director, psychology de-
partment, and George Ebling,
Jr., director of social services.
The Training School is a
county agency which has been
devoted since 1926 tb the educa-
tion and rehabilitation of re-
tarded boys and girls for effec-
tive community living. Over 750
children are currently in resi-
dence, and more than 5,000 have
been helped back to a place in
society over the years.
Pioneer work with the men-
tally retarded has won the
Training School an international
reputation as leader in the field,
and current projects, including
a specialized unit for emotion-
ally disturbed boys and a day
school program for young chil-
dren, are part of the total pro-
gram designed to provide re-
sponsible service in the public
interest.

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7-THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, May 23,

Detroiters Honored at U. M. Hillel; LaMed Named
Israel Consul Max Varon, Disputes
Feinberg, Simons Given Awards;
to JWF Post
American Express Co. Claims, Says
Judge Theodore Levin, presi-
Dr. Jacobs Gets Trip to Israel
dent of the Jewish Welfare U.S. Firm Yielded to Arab Boycott

