Friday, April 3, 1959
THE DETROIT JEWISH NE
Help Detroit's
School System!!
WILLIAM D. MERRIFIELD
Re-Elect This
Educator
to the
DETROIT BOARD
OF EDUCATION
APRIL 6, 1959
MERRIFIELD
understands school needs
from the viewpoint of the
teacher, the principal, the
parent, the leader of a parent-
teacher's group, and the edu-
cational administrator
because he has served his
community in all of these
capacities.
favors a representative Board
of Education—one that repre-
sents all the people of Detroit
and is concerned with the
educational needs of all the
children.
MERRIFIELD
seeks an educational program
that will prepare the 85 % of
our students who do not go
to college for getting jobs
and meeting the challenges
of responsible citizenship.
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works for .a program that
will attract and keep the
most able teachers and ad-
ministrators in the educa-
tional field ... and a prictical
retirement program for all
employees in the school
system.
MERRIFIELD
wants the best possible use
made of the taxpayer's dollar;
he favors the building of
economical, but efficient
school buildings.
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insists on improved communi-
cations between the schools,
the parents and community
groups so that each under-
stands school problems and
what they can do to help
solve them.
MERRIFIELD
gives complete support to
the Citizens Advisory Com-
mittee recommendations for
the Detroit school system.
* * *
Detroiter,
William D.
Merrifield was educated in
the Highland Park public
schools—holds an A.B. degree
from Georgetown and M. Ed
degree from University of
Kentucky. For 11 years he
was a high_ school teacher
and principal. Past president
of James Vernor P.T.A. Now
personnel executive with
Chrysler Corporation.
•
MERRIFIELD
11 the kind of man to keep
ON OUR SCHOOL BOARD
People Make News
Dr. Abraham J. Feldman, of
Hartford, Conn., chairrhan of
the International Affairs Corn•
mission of the Synagogue Coun-
cil of America
and past presi-
dent of SCA,
has been ap-
pointed a
member of the
board of the
United States
Committee for
Refugees, it
has been
a nnounced
by Rabbi
Theodore L.
Adams, S C A
president. The Dr. Feldman
committee, concerned with the
refugee problem on a global
scale, was formed in January.
The first function of the new
committee will be the develop-
ment of plans to implement in
the United States the observ-
ance of World Refugee Year,
which begins in July,
* * *
For the first time in its 500-
year history, Switzerland's Uni-
versity of Basel has conferred
an honorary professorship on
an American scholar. Dr.
GUIDO KISCH, historian and
expert in Renaissance history
of law, and retired professor
of the New York school of He-
brew Union College-Jewish In-
stitute of Religion, has just
received word from the uni-
versity of his election as
"Ehrendozent."
* * *
GEORGE MEANY, president
of the American Federation of
Labor and Congress of Indus-
trial Organizations, has been
named a Fellow of Brandeis
University. •
* * *
Dr. ALEXANDER ALTMANN,
director of the Institute of
Jewish Studies and Chief Rabbi
of the University of Manches-
ter in England, has been named
Philip Lown Professor . of Judaic
Studies at Brandeis University
beginning with the academic
year 1959-60.
* * *
WILLIAM • F. HERRMANN,
assistant manager of the Mark
Twain Branch since November
18, 1957, will be the manager
of the new Auto Bank being
constructed at Fort and Wayne
in downtown Detroit, accord-
'ing to the announcement by
Howard P. Parshall, president
of Bank of the Commonwealth.
*' * . *
DR. GERALD ROSENBAUM,
associate profeSsor of psycholo-
gy at Wayne State University,
has been awarded a federal
grant to enable him to conduct
research in psychology at the
University of Rome, Italy. Dr.
Rosenbaum, of 20245 Arinches-
ter, is one of more than 400
professors who have received
grants under the Fulbright Act
during the 1959-60 academic
year.
* * *
General ALFRED M. G-RUEN-
THER, president of the Ameri-
can National Red Cross, will
salute Bnai Brith Women at the
golden anniversary luncheon of
the national Jewish women's
service organization on April 16
in Washington, D. C.
Bremen Donates Funds
to Replace Synagogue
BREMEN (JTA)—The local
government office for indem-
nification of victims of Nazism
announced that it has ap-
propriated funds for construc-
tion of a synagogue.
The house of worship will
replace the synagogue de-
stroyed here by the Nazis dur-
ing the infamous "Crystal
Night" in November, 1938.
Bremen's Jewish population is
approximately 150. There were
1,600 Jews living in this city
when the Nazi regime came
into power.
The appointment of Marcus
Ginsburg, Fort .Worth, Tex., at-
torney and Jewish communal
leader, as a member of the
United States
National Corn
mission for
UNESCO was
announced:.
this week.!:.
Ginsburg will
be the repre-
senta tive of
the American
Jewish C o n-
gress on t h e
U. S. Commis-
s i o n, accord-
ing to a letter
from Andrew
H. Berding,
Assistant Sec- Ginsburg
retary of State. The commission
advises the State Department
on American policy towards
UNESCO and carries out activ-
ities in the United States re-
lated to the international pro-
gram of UNESCO.
* * *
Rabbi Judah Rosenberg re-
cently received semicha (or-
dination) at Yeshiva University
in New York.
The 19-year-
old rabbi be-
came the 561st
to have that
distinction
conferred up-
: on him by
Dr. Samuel
Belkin, presi-
dent of the
u n iv ersity.
This is be-
lieved to be
the largest
number con-
Rabbi
ferred by one
Rosenberg man in the
history of the American Jewish
community. Rabbi Rosenberg
has the distinction of being the
youngest man to be ordained
and to occupy a pulpit in the
United States.
WILLIAM T. GOSSETT, vice
president and general counsel
of Ford Motor Cdmpany, has
been named state chairman in
Michigan for the 1959 observ-
ance of National Library Week,
April 12-18. His acceptance of
the chairmanship was an-
nounced by Mrs. Loleta D.
Fyan, state librarian in Lansing.
`Great Powers' Scored
for Apathy to UN Treaty
UNITED -NATIONS, N,Y.
(JTA) -- Chaim Cohn, Israel's
Attorney General, criticized
"the Great Powers" who are
members of the United Nations
for their disinterest in the
adoption of the human rights
covenants that have - been pend-
ing for years before the Gen-
eral Assembly.
Cohn has been, for three
years, a member of the UN
Human Rights Commission,
representing Israel.
The covenants must be
adopted by the Assembly, and
Cohn said he saw "no prospect
at all of those covenants corn-
ing into force in the near
future."
Report Russia Deporting
Romanians to Birobidjan
Approve $55 Million
Foreign Currency
Budget for Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Cabinet approved Israel's
foreign currency budget for
1959-60, which will be sent for
ratification to the finance com-
mittee of the Parliament. The
budget envisages receipts from
grants, German reparations,
contributions and income from
exports totalling $500,000,000.
to
The Cabinet decided
LONDON (JTA) Many
Jews from Bukovina and Bes-
sarabia, former Romanian prov-
inces •now in the Soviet Union,
are being deported to Biro-
bidjan, and many of them have
"succumbed in the face of The
rigorous climate there," a re-
port issued here by the "Free
Romanian Press Agency" de-
clares.
rpcoenize the World Hebrew
union as an orvan;7at;nn
for
the dissemination of the He-
brew lang_macr.e in countries ont-
sirle Israel. As an arm of the
World Zinricqt ornni7ati•yn, the
Union will also receive co-
operation on the part of Is-
rael's Foreig.f.P 'ministry and the
Ministry of Prlitcation for the
nromotion of its activities in
12 countries on all continents.
The government requested
Canada to take energetic steps
for the release of three Tel
Aviv girls who were arrested
in Gaza and are imprisoned
in .a Cairo jail. The girls were
transported to Gaza by Cana-
dians serving on the United
Nations Emergency Force, on
the Israel-Egyptian frontier,
and Israel expects the Cana-
dian government to effect their
return to Israel.
Plan Reorganization
of Religious Councils
ELECT
GEORGE
Bashara
CIRCUIT JUDGE
Qualified
JERUSALEM (JTA) —Rabbi
Yaacov Toledano, Minister for
Religions, announced he would
soon propose regulations for
new religious councils.
These are local units made
up of appointees of synagogues,
municipalities and • the rab-
binate. The councils, he said,
need broadening because they
are no longer representative.
The budget of Rabbi Tole-
dano's Ministry drew a sharp
denunciation from a National
Religious party deputy in the
Knesset, when it was intro-
duced last week. Itzhak Rafael,
emphasizing he was not criticiz-
ing Rabbi Toledano, said no
Orthodox Jew could defend the
budget.
Asserting that he assumed
that Rabbi Toledano was acting
in good faith, Rafael declared
that the only reductions in the
national budget for 1959-1960
were for the Chief Rabbinate
and the Kashrut supervision
department.
• Qualified by
Detroit Citizens League
• 35-Year Successful
Detroit Law Practice
• Has Represented Many
Trade Associations
GEORGE BASHARA
Impartial
• Represents People
In All Walks of Life
• Honorary Consul of
Lebanon for 10 Years
GEORGE BASHARA
Endorsed
• By Many Business
Associations
• By Many Church
Groups
No. 7 5 on Your Ballot
CIRCUIT JUDGE
BASHARA
Be Sure to Vote Monday
Remember . . .
WILFRED A.
STEINER
FOR
WAYNE COUNTY
CIRCUIT JUDGE
• PRACTICING ATTORNEY FOR 26 YEARS
LECT , .
Donald S. Leonard
JUDGE OF
Recorder's Court
• Former Detroit and State Police Commissioner
“P Attorney . . . Native Detroiter . . . Alumnus of Wayne
State University and University of Michigan.
Detroit's Criminal Court will be strengthened by a man of LEONARD'S
proven ability, experience and fairness.
DONALD S. LEONARD p No. 129 Non-Partisan Ballot
"Preferred" by Civic Searchlight