Benjamin Wilk, for many years a leading figure in con- gregational and communal ac- tivities in Detroit, was honored Wednesday at a luncheon given him by the National Concrete Masonry Association at Cobo Hall. The luncheon was part of the program of the association's annual convention held Jan. 30- Feb. 2. It was given in recogni- tion of Wilk's services as the first president of the • associa- tion, from 1933 to 1935, and his contributions to the concrete masonry industry during the past 28 years. This week's convention of the association was the first held in Detroit since 1936. The National Concrete Ma- sonry Association consists of 700 of the largest concrete products ItaL manufacturers in the United BENJAMIN WILK States. . Benjamin Wilk is vice-presi- in American efforts in behalf of dent of Standard Building Prod- the Technion—the engineering ucts Co. of Detroit, one of the college in Haifa, Israel. A past leading concrete products manu- president' of the Detroit Tech- nion Society, he is one of its facturers in Michigan. He is one of the most active organizers and, its major leaders. leaders of Temple Beth EL__ a Wilk has visited Israel sev- veteran worker for the Allied eral' times in behalf of Tech- Jewish Campaign and the United nion and the Crush Stone Prod- Foundation and is one of the ucts, a Detroit investment effort most distinguished participants in Israel. Danny Raskin's Morocco Danger Is Unabated LISTENING • Continued from Page 1 • that '"rightfully belong to the Arabs of Palestine." Denying charges of discrimination, he ad- mitted that- Moroccan Jews plan- ning to travel abroad must - un- dergo thorough investigation and that they are refused passports unless they prove they do not intend*to go to Israel. He added that Jews traveling abroad for valid business reasons could get passports. The minister denied reports of wholesale arrests of Moroccan Jews during the recent '.visit - to Casablanca of President Nasser of the United 'Arab Republic, but he admitted that police had detained for identification checks "a number" of Jews "suspected of having prepared demonstrations against Nasser." Moroccan Jewish leaders have described this charge as non- sense. - It was also reported in Paris that sev ere en • sy oue e e ah of Fez, Morocco, we arrested and taken to prison, the first such • arrests in Fez. Sev- eral children were among thos released t rvention ewis United States of America, recall- ing participation of members in the 1942 American landings that ended Vichy-control of Morocco and facilitated subsequent inde- pendence, asked Moroccan Am- bassador D. El-Mehdi Ben Aboud to request his government to abandon anti-Jewish policies. Citing the previous liberalism of Moroccan leaders, the JWV. national executive director, Jo-. seph F. Barr, in a letter to the Ambassador, charged that cur- rent Moroccan discrimination was even more severe than some policies of Nasser's United Arab Republic. The JWV leader suggested that King Mohammed V and Crown Prince Moulay Hassan -be reminded that Nasser permitted Egyptian Jews' to emigrate to Europe and America while Morocco holds its Jewish citizens "captive and incom- municado." BACK IN 1923, when the old Strangers Athletic Club was top dog in the area of sports at the Jewish Community Center on Woodward, Larry "Lou" Chudler and Sam Dictor met each other and played on the championship basketball team that included local-ites Bill and Jack Kaufman, Sam Askowitz, "Chick" Gaines and Harry Kay . . . Prior to that year, Lou was on the city cham- QUALITY PLUS: . pionship softball team "Cincy" Sachs and the res QUANTITY Balch Street gang, as ALWAYS .. . AT known . . . Lou a am were also members of e 1926-27 "The House of Delicacies" Northern_ High otball squad • LUNCHES • DINNERS that spelled terr to their, grid- • SANDWICHES • WAFFLES iron opponents . Lou won all- • PANCAKES • SNACKS city quarterback onors and removed • PIZZAS Harry Newman pla halfback he Beth El spot . . . Harry went Casablanca. It was OPEN 7 DAYS University of Michigan and A that apparently as an American quarterback fame .. . disclosed BUFFET PARTY TRAYS As the years went by, Lou and aspect of the deterioration in GIFT FOOD BASKETS Sam, like Damon and Pythias, MoroCcan-Jewish relations, David Azoulay, secretary of the Casa- 4 grew up Jogether as dear friends Liberty 9-5535 blanca Jewish community, was inviting him to lecture in its . . . A fond memory that Sam replaced as secretary of the (Continued from Page 1) "He has participated in every business school. As psident of cherishes is the time, 29 years Chamber of .Commerce and In- aspect of community organiza- the Hillel Foundation he has ago, when he coaxed Lou to at- dustry of Casablanca by a DELICATESSEN tion. As chairman of the Allied helped bring the positive value tend a dance given by the Moslem. & RESTAURANT Jewish Campaign he has directed of Jewish life to the students Strangers at the Jewish Center Envoy Asked to Intervene 13 Mile & Woodward at Coolidge IN THE NORTHWOOD • • ; It was here that Lou met the fund-raising that finances on campus. WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The SHOPPING CENTER Ann Vinitsky, soon after to be- community progress. As an offi- "He has long been a board Jewish War Veterans of the cer of many of the Federation member of Detroit's • Urban come his wife and the mother member agencies and as a mem- League and an active partici- of their two daughters and a son ber of the Federation Board of pant in its program of provid- . . . Sam eventually moved to Governors, he has helped solve ing camping for needy children. California but it still didn't keep the day-by-day problems inher- "Irwin Cohn has no "special" them apart . . . He flew into De- ent in operating, a'' myriad of interests. -His areas of concern troit continually for festive oc- public services. ' are as broad as the community casions like. Lou and Ann's 25th "As the greater community itself. He has helped promote Anniversary, which they cele- has taken advantage of his serv- medical care; recreation, Jew- brated four years ago . . . never ices, he has found time . for the ish education, free loans, care dreaming that he would be mak- stewardship of these general of the aged and assistance for ing a quick trip back for another causes without affecting the his fellow-Jews overseas and reason—to fulfill a , pact made by the two friends 18 years ago enormous amount of energy and particularly in 'Israel. devotiOn expended in behalf of "In awarding him the 1961 when Sain left for the west the - Jewish community. Fred M. Butzel Memorial coast . . . Sam had returned from "Irwin Cohn has given his Award, the 'Jewish Welfare Fed- Hawaii when he received a phone legal talent freely' to the entire eratiOn takes pleasure in recog- call informing him that Lou, community. His service on the nizin t • utstanding services only 51- years old, had died in De- Detroit House of Correcti ndered and troit . . •• The agreement made Commission has shown fly years was that no matter where they love and respect fo ion to were, whichever passed away preclude advoc prog- first, the other would attend his funeral . . . It came sooner than humane trea Fine American d Italian F they though t, but life-long violate it I 1 will esent friends Open daity .m.- a.tn Larry "Lou" Chudler and CLOSE D "He served his . State as Lla ort as sident Banquet COCKTAIL BAR mem i f the Detroi at Mon meet- Sam. Dictor had fulfilled their 17632 WOODWARD — North of 6 Mile tan ea Planning e me will be pact. t * His a mater, the for the of gov- Lavish SMORGASBORD with finest GOOD- THING Freddy Rosen- inated ,and smoked fi zens h chigan, has berg was playing when .the cold dishes, Complete tin Cornell Dance School basketball —steaks, chops, lobsters, duck, etc.,BeautifUl priv Or Home and business catering. Lunch from T. 95. squads recently played • three parties. FREE PARKING 1014 E: JEFFERSON. 42 games with the St. Francis Home • • • The intermediate and var- sity cha-cha niks lost their cage iv Banquet e n t il = Ffroer ILI d i n duels but the sixth grade division the World's Finest 'Steaks. Chops more than 26 years. All Beef ag wound up winning, 10-7 . . . with CHOP HOUSE Freddy scoring all 10 points. * * - LIQUORS TV ACTOR RUBE . WEISS BANQ CILITIES insists that television 'has af- Specializing in Pizza Pie and Famous Ita F JAMES COUZENS AT GREENFIELD fected everything .-.. 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