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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Fr iday, (Tune 17, 1960 --

New National Museum Planned in Israel

Tel Aviv Granted
Israel to Build
for Expansion
Industrial Plants Loan
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A $3,-
000,000 loan for expansion proj-
for $9,000,000
ects has been granted the Tel

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

Artist's conception of the new National Museum of Israel for which $1,500,000 will be
raised in the United States by the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. To be built on a 25-
acre plot in Jerusalem, adjoining the Hebrew University campus, the new buildings will house
the Bezalel Museum, the Archaeological Museum and the Billy Rose Sculpture Garden.
$1,500,000 is already available for the building in grants from the United States and Israel
governments.

Set Special Depots
for Voter Registration

Fire and Police Precinct
stations, as well as several de-
partment stores, will be util-
ized for the acceptance of
voting registration and record-
ing changes of address from
June 27 to 30, July 1, 2 and 5,
according to Thomas D. Lead-
better, City Clerk.
The special election stations
will be open from 12 noon to
8 p.m. Regular hours of 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m. will also prevail at
the office of the City Election
Commission, room 202, City-
County Bldg.
In announcing the regiStra-
ton sites, Leadbetter advised
that July 5 is the final date
for registration for the Aug. 2
Primary Election. Electors who
have registered or voted since
Jan. 1, 1956 are not required
to re-register.
Among the department stores
with special registration booths
will be J. L. Hudson's main
store; Demery's, Sam's two
downtown and Conner Ave.
stores, and five branches of the
Federal Department Stores,
Grand River-Oakman, • Grand
River Greenfield, Gratiot and
W. 7 Mile, Michigan and 33rd
and Schaefer-McNichols.

Israel Increasing Its Exports of Citrus
Despite Competition from Many Lands

LONDON, (JTA) — Israel's the shipment and marketing of
exports of citrus fruit — the next year's product.
At the same time, it was re-
country's principal export item
—is constantly increasing, ac- p o r t e d here that Israel
exports to Britain during the
cording to Moshe Levine, head first two months of 1960 were
of the Israel Citrus Marketing more than double in value com-
Board in Europe. Citrus ex- pared with imports from Britain
ports to West Germany alone in that period. For the two
this year rose by 29 percent, months Israel exports to Britain
as against last year's figure. reached an all-time peak of 5,-.
Overall, Israel is exporting 300,000 pounds sterling, while
abroad 10 per cent more of Britain exported to Israel prod-
citrus fruits by comparison with ucts valued at 2,600,000 pounds
sterling.
1959, Levine stated.
The comparable figures for
Despite these increases, how-
ever, Levine declared that Is- the same two months in 1959
rael's income from citrus sales were 5,200,000 sterling pounds
is on the decline and is likely worth of imports from Israel
to go lower, due to stiff com- and 1,900,000 sterling pounds
petition from other Mediter- worth of exports to Israel. The
ranean countries and due also largest single commodity ex-
to the customs agreement ported by Israel to Britain
among the countries belonging was citrus fruit. However, other
to the European Common Mar- Israel products, including tex-
ket. These countries are France, tiles, are being exported to Brit-
West Germany, Belgium, Lux- ain in increasing volume.
embourg, Holland and Italy.
Current registration at the
Undeterred by this stiff com-
petition, Levine said, Israel is Beth Zeiroth Mizrachi, Tel Aviv,
already planning to step up a vocational high school spon-
next year's citrus exports. A sored by the Mizrachi Women's
special mission will come here Organization, is 467 girls. Sixty
soon, he said, to negotiate for teachers are on the staff.

Aviv Municipality by the Ampal-
American Israel Corporation
with the participation of the
Bank of America International,
it was announced here by Tel
Aviv Mayor Mordechai Namir
and Peretz Naphtali, chairman
of the finance committee of the
Tel Aviv Municipality.
The loan will be used primar-
ily for expanding Tel Aviv's
school building program, for a
sewage disposal plant" and for
the purification of the city's
b aches, according to the two
officials. Mayor Namir and
Naphtali came to the United
States to negotiate the loan and
to attend the International Con-
ference of Municipalities held
in Chicago earlier this month.
The Ampal Corporation has
also opened preliminary discus-
sions with various brokerage
houses regarding the placement
of .a Tel Aviv_ Municipal bond
issue of $15,000,000 repayable
in 25 years; the Tel Aviv' offi-
cials said. They also announced
that an agreement in principle
had been reached with a group
of private investors • from Cleve-
land concerning the building of
parking facilities in Tel Aviv.

JERUSALEM —Details were
disclosed Wednesday of plans
for creation of Israel's first
petro-chemical industry, based
on two new plants for the pro-
duction of ethylene and poly-
ethylene.
The plant to produce ethy-
lene will be a $4,000,000 project
to be built by Haifa Refineries.
The second plant, which will
produce polyethylene, the basic
raw material of the plastics
industry, will cost $5,000,000.
An agreement for the construc-
tion of the second plant was
signed Tuesday by Pinhas
Sapir, Israel's Minister for Com-
merce and Industry, and Virgil
Stark, president of the North
American Services and Con-
struction Co., which will build
R.
Stark also signed Tuesday an
agreement with the Haifa Oil
Refineries for the required
ethylene.
The government will lend the
company half of the cost of the
polyethylene plant, which is
expected to become the nucleus
of a $50,000,000 petro-chemical
industry.
The two-plant operation for
bin production of polyethylene,
now made in only 10 countries, Sid Shmarak's
is expected to begin in 1965.
Polyethylene is widely used in
food packaging and in container
production of more than 750,000
tons. The new Haifa plant is
ERNIE DEUTSCH, owner of
expected to begin production
at a rate of 3,000 tons a year. COLLEGE PARK ARTISTS
SUPPLY, announces that he
has moved to larger quarters
Police Chief is Charged
across the street from his for-
With Slaughter of Russians mer location. Now located at
HANNOVER, (JTA) — A 7526• W. McNichols, next to
Lower Saxony State police offi- Sanders, he has the largest art-
cial here, Bodo Struck, was ist and drafting supply stock in
arrested on a charge of having the Northwest area. The store
participated in the murder of is currently conducting a 20
Russian Jews during the Nazi percent off sale through the end
push into Russia in 1941 and of June on all artist and draft-
1942. He is accused of having ing supplies. For Father's Day,
been an officer in the Hitler SS, he has a full line of Parker
assigned to a special extermina- pens, including the jotter at
tion squad which slaughtered $1.95 and the Super 21 to $5.
large numbers of Jews in
Russia.
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