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. No. 153 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. No. 153 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