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MONTREAL, (JTA)—A pro-
posal' that school taxes paid by
Jews in the Province of Quebec
be used as subventions to Jew-
ish-schools teaching secular sub-
jects, as well as to the existing
Jewish Day Schools, was made
by a prominent Jewish expert
on education, M. H. Myerson,
who is acting as consultant to
the Committee on the Position
of Jews in the Educational Sys-
tem in the Province of Quebec.
Myerson, formerly a member
of the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress 1‘1. tional Executive, said
he was speaking solely as an
individual, since the Canadian
Jewish Congress has as yet
taken no definite position on
the issue. It is expected that
the CJC may coordinate Jewish
thinking on the problem before
hearings are begun by a re-
cently named Quebec Royal
Commission on Education.

"2. Young Jewish boys and
girls who obtain highest marks
entitling them to scholarships
if they were non-Jews, cannot
claim these scholarships as a
matter of right. If they do get
them, it is again an 'act of
grace.' "
A front-page editorial in the
Canadian Jewish Chronicle
here, presenting Myerson's indi-
vidual views, declared: "The
problem of the education of our
Jewish children in the Province
of Quebec has been a burning
issue for the past 30 years. It
has become more acute today as
Jewish leaders and the Cana-
dian Jewish Congress grope for
a solution which will satisfy all
segments of the Community."

According to Myer s o n,
there are 4,000 Jewish chil-
dren enrolled in the Jewish
day schools or parochial
schools which teach the ordi-
nary school curriculum as
well as subjects pertaining to
Judaism and Jewish culture.
These schools are financed
entirely by tuition fees and
from Jewish voluntary contri-
butions, receiving no tax
funds whatever.
Between 16,000 and 17,000

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
World Bank authorized a loan
equivalent to $25,000,000 to
Israel, to finance a huge expan-
sion of facilities for producing
potash and bromine from Dead
Sea brine, and the construction
of new facilities for production
of bromine chemicals and mag-
nesite. The loan was issued to
Mifalei Yam Hamelah, B. M.
(Dead Sea Works, Ltd.) at
Beersheba.
The executive directors of
the World Bank approved the
loan, which is partial financing
of an expansion program to
cost eventually $72,000,000. In
addition to the World Bank
loan, the Israeli company will
obtain funds from the proceeds
of a new share issue of 27,000,-
000 Israeli pounds ($15,000,-
000), from retained earnings
and from other borrowings.
The shares will, be registered
on the Tel Aviv Stock Ex-
change, and this offering will
be underwritten by a syndicate
of Israel banks, headed by
Bank Leumi Le-Israel. The loan
agreement between the World
Bank and the .Dead Sea Works,
Ltd., will b_e signed after the
share issue has been taken up.
This is expected early in July.
The loan will be guaranteed
by the Government of Israel.

Jewish pupils are enrolled in
schools conducted by the Pro-
testant Board. In addition to the
Protestant school system, there
is a separate Catholic school
system in this Province. Both
the Protestant and the • Catholic
school systems are financed
through school taxes. •
Myerson contended that Jews
pay about 53 percent of the Pro-
testant school taxes. On the
other hand, he stated, the edu-
cational law as it now stands
holds that "the Jew is deemed
to be Protestant." He added
that Jews have no say whatever
in the determination of the
secular teaching programs in
the Protestant school system.

Emphasizing that the Pro-
testant Board "does not exer-
cise its legal right to discrim-
inate against Jews, and "has,
as a matter of fact, engaged
many Jewish teachers," Myer-
son pointed out that the Pro-
testant Board does have
rights that are unpalatable to
the Jewish population. He
made two points in that re-
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gard:

"1. Jewish young men and
women who enter the teaching
profession do so at considerable
risk. They may never be en-
gaged by the Protestant Board.
There is a specific rule to that
effect. If they are engaged, it
is an 'act of grace.' " He asked
whether this 'act of grace' con-
stitutes "indignities engender-
ing 'disgrace' to the J e‘w i s h
community in 1961."

Atlantic City Zionist
Body Elects 3rd Member
of Family to Presidency

ATLANTIC CITY, (JTA) —
For the third time the Atlantic
City Zionist District's 1,050 mem-
bers have elected a Sandler as
president.
The •first time was 35 years
ago when pioneer Zionist leader
David R. Sandler became head
of the Atlantic City ZOA. The
second time was 12 years ago
when Chaim H. Sandler, older
son of David R. was elected
president.
The third time was just last
week when 37-year-old Ted
Sandler, publisher of the Atlan-
tic City Jewish Record, became
president.
In fact, David R. Sandler may
have been a bit of a prophet at
that. He named his younger son
Theodor Herzl Israel Sandler.
And just to keep it in the
family, Sandler's son-in-law A.
Solomon Menter, is a past presi-
dent of the Syracuse Zionist
organization.

World Bank Authorizes
$25 Million Loan for
Israel Potash Industry

United Hias Sets Up
Community Body

RIO DE JANEIRO, (JTA) —
Ralph Zimmerman arrived here
to serve in the new post of
United Hias Service supervisor
of community organization and
fund-raising for Latin America.
For the past six years, Zimmer-
man was campaign director of
the United Jewish Federation of
Pittsburgh. He also held posts
with the National Conference of
Christians and Jews, and the
United Vocational and Employ-
ment Service of Pittsburgh.
Israel Jacobson, United Hias
service director of Latin America
operations, said that the new posi-
tion had been established at the
urgent request of leaders of a
number of local and national
Jewish organizations. He pointed
out that the world-wide migra-
tion agency's comprehensive re-
settlement program in Latin
America gave rise to the ad-
visability of creating this post.
Jacobson reported that, in
1960, financial assistance for
integration in Latin America was
provided to more than 2,400 re-
settled persons, w h o received
such basic services as cash re-
lief, medical care, education, vo-
cational guidance and placement,
and day nurseries for children
of working mothers. Most of these
people were recent migrants to
Brazil.

Isreal Factories Build Super Sherman Tanks,

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Israeli
military workshops have inau-
gurated assembly-line produc-
tion of super-Sherman a r my
tanks, made of old Sherman
tanks purchased from scrap
depots, it was announced here
after Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion, in his capacity of De-
fense Minister, visited an ord-
nance depot somewhere in
Israel, where he watched six
super-Shermans go down the
assembly line.
The renovated super-
Shermans, now added to Israel's
armored corps, have greater fire
power and higher maneuver-

ability than the old Sherman
tanks. They have double-chained
chassis, and reinforced turrets.
At the same time, it was
announced, Israel's army work-
shops are turning out 100-milli-
meter mortar carriers and half-
tracks which enable the firing
of heavy mortars from a mobile
base, without the need of un-
limbering the firing apparatus
from the base. Several Euro-
pean armies, it was said, have
requested that the Israel Gov-
ernment furnish them with de-
tails of the construction of this
type of half-track.

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100 Passengers Leave
New York on 1st El Al
Non-Stop Trip to Israel

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
first non-stop flight from New
York to Israel was made here
by a jet plane of the El Al-
Israel Airlines, which started
out from Idlewild International
Airport, carrying 100 passen-
gers.
This is the longest non-stop
flight in commercial aviation.
It is estimated that the plane
will land at Lydda Airport in
Israel 10 hours and 20 minutes
after leaving Idlewild.
El Al non-stop service be-
tween New York and Tel Aviv
is now scheduled for departure
every Thursday evening, bring-
ing the passengers to Israel the
next afternoon. A dinner and
ceremony attended by promi-
nent personalities marked the
first • take-off. The guests in-
cluded• a number of personali-
ties who were on hand in May,
1927, to see Charles A. Lind-
bergh begin his history-making
non-stop flight to Paris.

Israelis Asked to Give
Evidence Against Ex-Nazi
Minister to Bulgaria

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The West
German prosecution office has
asked the Israeli police to help
secure evidence from Israeli Jews
against Heinz Beckerle, former
Nazi Minister to Bulgaria, who
was arrested in West Germany
recently on charges of having
caused the death of 11,500 Jews
in Thrace and Macedonia. Those
parts of Greece had been annexed
to Bulgaria during World War IL

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13 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Frida y, June 23, 1961

Quebec Commission on Education
to Hear Plea for Jewish Schools