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JERUSALEM — Experiments
conducted at a farm in the arid
area of the southern Negev
have proven that it is possible
to collect water there in quan-
tities similar to the amounts
obtained in the fertile areas of
northern Israel.
A report on these experi-
ments • was given Monday to
delegates attending the Inter-
national Farmers Convention
here.
The report was presented by
Prof. Michael Evenari, well
known Israel botanist who con-
ducted convention delegates on
a tour of the experimental farm
at Subeita in the southern
Negev.
At that site, Israeli scientists
have constructed a farm where
the water collection facilities
are exactly the same as those
used by ancient Judean and
Nabatean farmers hundreds of
years before the Christian era.
Dr. Evenari showed the agri-
cultural experts, who are attend-
Violin-playing comedian Jack Benny is backed up by the
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a benefit concert for the. orchestra's pension fund. At right
is director Leonard Bernstein. Benny's interpretations were
his own, including "Love in Bloom."
Merger of Labor Groups Urged
by Ben-Gurion at Mapai Convention
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Calling
on Israel political parties to
conduct the forthcoming cam-
paign for November's general
elections in a spirit of educa-
tion 'in true democracy, Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion de-
clared that separate labor
parties in Israel must sooner
or later merge.
Ben-Gurion v o i c e d these
sentiments here in delivering
the address which concluded
the. two-day convention of
Israel's dominant p o l i t i cal
party, Mapai.
The parley drafted platforms
for its participation in two
election campaigns — the elec-
tions of Histadrut. Israel's fed-
eration of labor, and the na-
tional balloting for Parliament.
A five-year plan for guiding
Israel toward economic inde-
pendence, calling for doubling
of the investments in industry
and tripling of Israel's exports,
was presented to the conven-
tion by Finance Minister Levi
Eshkol.
The platform also proposed
the setting up of an industrial
advisory committee for the gov-
ernment which would include
representatives of workers, the
Histadrut and other sectors in
management-worker relations..
Mapai Party membership fig-
ures, revealed to the delegates,
showed that 45 percent of the
members are "non-Ashkenazi"
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tries other than European. Fif-
teen percent of the members
are Israeli-born.
One of the chief purposes of
this year's convention was the
drafting of an election platform
for Mapai, which the party will
place before the country in the
next general elections, sched-
uled for November.
The platform also will be
laid before the electorate of
Histadrut, the Israel Federation
of Labor, which will ballot for
officers prior to the country's
general elections.
Eshkol's plan envisages an
annual increase of eight per-
cent in Israel production and
stabilization of consumption.
Above all, the Finance Minis-
ter said, Israel must take ad-
vantage of the great possibil-
ities for developing its natural
resources in minerals, mining
and oil.
Choir to Assist Peerce
at Miami Sedorim
MIAMI BEACH—Two of the
nation's outstanding choir di-
rectors are training and will
conduct the choir for the Com-
munity Passover Seder with Jan
Peerce here, on Wednesday and
Thursday, at the new Exhibi-
tion Hall.
Sponsors of the seder, being
given for Miami Beach vacation-
ers, said that composer-conduc-
tor Robert Strassburg and choir
director A. Samuels have be-
gun extensive training of the
choir for the seder.
Peerce, leading tenor with
the Metropolitan Opera Com-
pany, will chant the Passover
service, which is expected to
attract some 4,000 residents and
vacationers for each seder night.
ing the convention from all over
the world, special dikes and
channels on the experimental
farm, duplicating those employ
ed by the ancient Nabateans.
During a three-month period
this winter, the scientists ob-
tained from slopes adjacent to
the farm at Subeita a total of
800 cubic meters of water per
dunam, equivalent to rainfall
of 800 millimeters. These waters
were collected during severe
drought when the rainfall in the
area had totalled only 72 milli-
meters.
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Christian Herter is on holiday
will fall on the Economic Un-
der-Secretary, Douglas Dillon.
"A smooth, round-faced man
of forty-nine, he makes a sharp
contrast with the austere figure
of Dulles. As Ambassador to
Paris for four years, he was a
well-known bon viveur and
socialite, and spent hours visit-
ing museums. His father, a
shrewd and worldly New York
banker of Polish-Jewish origins,
listed by Fortune magazine as
one of America's seventy rich-
est men, lived in Paris between
the wars—where among other
things he bought one of the
world's finest vineyards, the
Chateau Haut Brion.
With this rich inheritance,
Douglas Dillon is very detached,
very European and fully con-
vinced of the importance of for-
eign aid—on an idealistic basis,
rather than as a counter to
Communism. In Paris he was
known for his lively, though not
always well-informed, reports.
He has been a life-long Repub-
lican, and wrote speeches for
Dewey; but it remains to be
seen whether he is tough enough
to stand up to a serious political
battering."
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1 3 THE D ETROIT J EWISH NEWS -- F ri day, April 17 , 1959
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