Mae A month-long on-the-spot study of the morale and wel- fare needs of American mili- tary personnel on duty in Eng- land, France, Germany,, Italy, Greece and Turkey and a paral- lel appraisal of Jewish Com- munity Center developments and trends in Western Europe and Israel is being made dur- ing February by S. D. GER- SHOVITZ, executive vice-presi- dent of the Jewish Welfare Board. * * * L. W. NEUMARK was elected president of the Jewish Com- munity Federation of Cleve- land. He succeeds Max Simon. * * * NATHAN STRAUSS III was re-elected president of the American - Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The organization reported that the volume of U. S.-Israel economic relations surpassed $250,000,000 in 1958, due to a rise in tour- ism and investments. * * * RALPH FRIEDMAN, econo- mist and industrialist, of New York, has been named chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the American Jewish Com- mittee. B-G Sees Great Modern Exodus from E. Europe TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The pres- ent large-scale and growing emi- gration of Jews from East Euro- pean countries to Israel will open the gates to a still greater emigration from the greatest Jewish center in the world, Pre- mier David Ben-Gurion declared here. "I have sound grounds for hope," Ben-Gurion said, without naming the country which he termed "the greatest Jewish center." He called on all Isra- elis and world Jewry for an all- out effort to finance the absorp- tion of this mass exodus which he termed "expulsion." He es- timated that 8,000 emigrants from Eastern Europe would ar- rive in Israel this month and still greater numbers would come in February. Ben-Gurion made his remarks at a meeting of representatives of Histadrut committees engag- ed in raising funds for the 20,000,000 pound national volun- tary loan to help finance the reception of new immigrants. In a ceremony after his address, the Premier was handed a total of 6,500,000 pounds in pledges, toward the Histadrut goal of 10,000,000 pounds. The Premier called on the people of Israel to "rise to the occasion" presented by this unique opportunity for the in- gathering of the exiles" who will "constitute an important asset to Israel's economy." These peo- ple he said, included profes- sionals and skilled workers bad- ly needed by Israel. Admitting that even he did not know how these newcomers would be absorbed, he said that with redoubled efforts by Isra- elis and with world Jewry's help, large numbers would be integrated into the country's economy. He hoped that both Israel and world Jewry would feel the "blessing of this great hour" and would understand that "the future of Israel and of the Jewish nation was at stake. Expulsion or extermination can be changed to redemption." Dov Joseph, Jewish Agency treasurer, who also addressed the meeting, said that 60 per cent of the 20,000,000 pound loan had already been raised and expressed his conviction that Israelis would respond to additional calls when more im- migrants arrive. News Dr. ABRAM L. SACHAR, president of Brandeis Univer- sity, will be honored on his 60th birthday, Feb. 15, in New York City. The board of trustees and Fellows of the university are tendering the celebration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in observ- ance of his birthday and his ten years as president of the uni- versity. * * D. H. WHITE, editor of the Jewish Herald-Voice of Houston and publisher of the Jewish Di- gest, has been appointed chair- man of the Houston 1959 United Jewish Chairman which will seek to raise $758,000. * * * ARTHUR B. LORBER, Colo- rado businessman, has been elected president of the Jewish National Home for Asthmatic Children at Denver. * * * LEONARD PEARLMAN of Winnipeg has been appointed Permanent conductor of the Civic Symphony of St. Cather- ines, Ont., where he made his debut as a conductor last No- vember. * * * MORRIS A. GRAY, Winnipeg, Jewish communal leader and Manitoba Legislature member, has been selected by the Winni- peg Tribune as Manitoba's Citi- zen of the Year for 1958. The newspaper annually chooses a Manitoban citizen for "an out- standing contribution to the community." The panel of edi- tors said the selection was "in particular recognition" of Gray's "untiring efforts in social wel- fare." He has been a member of the Legislature for the past 18 years. * * * Dilworth, Paxson, K a 1 i s h, Kohn & Dilks, prominent Phila- delphia law firm, announces that JUDGE LOUIS E. LEVIN- THAL has become associated with it as Counsel. Danny Raskin's LISTENING OUR MOST RECENT TRAV- ELING companion, New York barrister Phil Gray, says he tried traveling by boat but wound up on the rails . . . Phil was so seasick for six days after he was on land that he was afraid to yawn . .. But statistics tell us that there are very few train wrecks . . . Ninety-nine out of a hundred were wrecks before they got on the train! . . . In our years of traveling on public conveyances, we have come to one conclusion ... the American people will do anything asked of them except move to the rear of the bus! PHIL, WIFE MARION and 20-year-old son Alan made a re- cent trip to Europe where "we loved Scotland and the people there. All that talk about Scots- men being cheap is "free pub- licity." IF YOU'RE TRAVELING through Europe with your eyes, ears and wallet open, you can make a lot of friends . . . and collect a lot of stories, beams Phil. WHILE TALKING ABOUT the building boom in Israel, Phil relates that pedestrians have a new worry in Tel Aviv . . . Now, they have to get out of the way of buildings." Benjamin D. Burdick, Detroit attorney, announced that he will seek nomination as a .candidate for the board of governors of Wayne State University at the Republican state convention, Feb. 14, in De- troit. Burdick, a life-long Re- publican, will be bidding for one of the six posts on the newly - c r e- ated board of the state Uni- Burdick versity. Active in GOP circles in Mich- igan for more than two decades, Burdick served from 1936-56 as district chairman of the 15th Republican district. When he stepped down from the post three years ago, he was voted honorary lifetime chair- man of the district. He was a delegate to the 1948 and 1956 National Republic conventions and served three terms on the Republican state central committee. Burdick said he was seeking election to the WSU board of governors because of his close affiliation to the school for the past 30 years. In 1928, he was graduated with the first law class at Wayne State. He is a past pres- ident of the law alumni asso- ciation of the university and presently serves as a board member of that association. He also is a member of a "Wayne family." His two broth- ers, Irwin H. and Herbert, also attorneys, are Wayne State law school graduates. His sister, Rosalind, also is a Wayne grad- uate. Burdick served on the old state rent control advisory board and as Wayne County public administrator from 1941- 1949. He was chief public ad- ministrator in the county from 1951-55 and is a former special counsel to the FHA in Detroit. He also is active in numerous professional, civic and religious organizations, including Bnai Brith, the Torch Fund, the Allied Jewish Campaign, Mos- lem Shrine, Anti-Defamation League, is vice president of Business and Professional Lodge of American Jewish Congress, and a member of Detroit, Mich- igan, Federal and American Bar Associations. He also is on the board of trustees of Brigh- ton Hospital. Burdick, with offices at 1917 Dime Building, lives at 19515 Roslyn with his wife, Mary, and their two children. Israel Drops Rationing on All Consumer Goods JERUSALEM (JTA)—Ration- ing was abolished on all edibles and consumer goods. The move was made possible by an im- proved supply situation, chiefly as a result of increased sup- plies of local produce. Many items which have never before been off the ration list will now be available at com- petitive prices on the open market. The end of rationing quickly brought a drop in the price of such commodities as butter, rice, meat and cheese. Price drops varied from 10 to 50 per cent. political Zionism from Czarist ious trees of renewed state- RuSsia to the creation of the hood." Jewish State which he served Representatives of the Arab as Speaker of its Parliament, population and leaders of the was laid to rest with full state Moslem and Christian commu- honors in the national cemetery nities passed by the grave, each on Mt. Herzl last Friday. throwing a handful of earth on The four-hour 11 was at- the t o m b, in tribute to Mr. tended by President Yitzhak Sprinzak. Ben Zvi, Prime. Minister David Jewish organizations in the Ben-Gurion the e n t i r e diplo- United States, including the matic corps, the Israel Chief American Section of the Jew- Justices, Cabinet Ministers, Par- ish Agency and the United liament members and thousands Jewish Appeal, issued state- of people who came from places ments mourning the death of as far away as Elath and the Mr. Sprinzak. Lebanese border. Statements in tribute to Mr. More than 50,000 people Sprinzak and mourning his passed the bier which lay in death were issued by Mrs. Rose state in the Knesset the day be- Halprin, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency; Morris W. Ber- fore the funeral. The coffin was carried from instein, general chairman of the Knesset. Deputy Speaker the United Jewish Appeal; the Israel Rokach said farewell in American Zionist Council and the name of the Knesset. Chief Jewish leaders in communities Chaplain Shlomo Goren read a throughout the world. The Knesset of Israel held no Psalm. Then the procession moved to the Jewish Agency business sessions all week in building where Agency Execu- memory of Sprinzak. At the grave, Premier Ben- tive chairman S. Shazar eulo- gized the deceased in the name Gurion spoke of Sprinzak's dedi- cation to an "ideal, a mission of the Zionist movement. 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