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ISRAEL BONDS have been the most important factor in the
exploitation of Israel's chemicals and minerals. Shown at the
Dead Sea Bromine Works in S'dom, an engineer and a super-
visor discuss construction of a new section of the Works. The
plant currently produces 3,000 tons of bromine annually, most
of which is exported. Plans call for an eventual production
of some 9,000 tons per year, which will make Israel the world's
second largest source of bromine.

U.S. Saved Embarrassment by
Cancellation of Arab-Planned Tour

BY HAROLD EIDLIN

(Copyright, 1962. Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

WASHINGTON — This is a
story of how the Government's
official tolerance of Arab nation
boycotts against American Jews
almost exploded here recently
with embarrassing conse-
quences.
All plans are off now, but
earlier this year the staff rec-
reational associations of the De-
partment of State and the De-
partment of Health, Education
and Welfare—both strictly un-
official organizations, it should
be noted — had scheduled
Middle East tours this summer
for vacationing travel-minded
department employes.
Included in the proposed
itinerary were visits to Egypt,
Lebanon, Syria and Jordan—
of which the latter two bar
Jews.
Promoted only within the
various internal channels of
each department, the tours re-
ceived little attention outside
the agencies involved until one
employee of the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare
brought them to the attention
of the American-Israel Public
Affairs Committee here. A few
pointed questions followed, and
before anyone knew what had
happened, tour plans were can-
celed. Association officials now
say that lack of applicants
helped prompt their being
called off. But whatever was
the major reason for cancella-
tion, the effect has been to turn
a potentially serious incident
into a clear victory for the
forces of anti-discrimination.
The alert and incensed
HEW staffer had pointed out
that the department's em-
ployee association was spon-
soring a tour for which the
agency's head — Secretary
Abraham Ribicoff—would not
have been eligible. Red-faced
association officers admitted
that this ludicrous situation
was true and promptly notifed
the Lebanese-owned Amer-
ican Middle East Travel and
Transport Co.—the travel ag-
ency which was to handle all
travel arrangements—that the
tour was being canceled.
At the State Department, a
spokesman for the Employees
Recreation Association w a s
apologetic, but she conceded!
that association officers were
aware of the travel ban against
Jews. Plans were projected in

any case, she said, on the as-.
sumption that Jewish staff
members were also aware of the
boycott and would, therefore,
not apply for the tour.
But in retrospect, she con-
ceded that such an assumption
was "probably incorrect." It
would, she admitted, "have un-
doubtedly caused embarrass-
ment" if a Jewish member had
applied for the tour—either to
make a cause celebre, or in com-
plete ignorance of the Arab-im-
posed travel bans.
The incidents, happily, have
not been without their lessons,
and, incidentally, economic con-
sequence for discrimination-
practicing Arab countries.
Spokesmen for both employees
association now say that future
travel plans will carefully avoid
any countries where all of its
members are not free to travel.
An NEA Travel Department
official said the world's larg-
est teachers organization has
not sponsored a tour to the
Middle East since 1956 be-
cause of restrictions against
Jews.
This policy, he said, has re-
sulted in considerable grum
bling among non-Jewish teach-
ers whose complaints are mount-
ing that the Association is
practicing "discrimination in re-
verse" because the policy keeps
touring teachers from visiting
the Holy Land.
If teachers want to express
their righteous indignation, how-
ever, they should direct it to
their government which tacitly
condones bias against American
Jews—not to their association's
board of directors which has
stated clearly and unequivocally
that it takes a position on the
side of equality for all.

Chicago Golf Tourney
Raises Funds for CJA

CHICAGO, (JTA) — Some
1,000 members of six Jewish
Country Clubs in the Chicago
area joined in a benefit golf
tournament for the combined
Jewish Appeal. At dinners
afterward the golf e r s made
gifts of $2,283,852 for the CJA's
annual drive.
Participating clubs were
Briarwood in Deerfield, Bryn
Mawr in Lincolnwood, Green
Acres in Northbrook, Idlewild
in Flossmoor, Ravisloe and
Homewood and Twin Orchard
in Lake Zurich.

`Land of the Living'
by John Hearne Is
Race Conflict Story

"Land of the Living," a new
novel by John Hearn e, is a
most interesting study of race
conflict. This novel, published
by Harper & Row (49 E. 33rd,
NY16), takes the reader to a
community called Cayuna where
whites live among African's and
where the conflict with the
Dons of Sheba leads to murders,
police action, dramatic motiva-
tions in a love story that in-
volves miscegenation.
It is an excellently written
story with a lessor, for those
who seek to obviate race con-
flicts in human relations. Writ-
ten in the first person by a
narrator who relates his ex-
periences as a university in-
structor, describing the tensions
that arise between whites and
blacks, "Land of the Living"
deals with a native freedom,
movement, the consequences of
suspicions, a love affair and the
eventual family loyalty.
While there is no serious
complication in the fact that
the narrator of the story is the
only survivor in his family from
the h or r ors of Auschwitz,
Dachau and Belsen, indirectly
the story-teller's sense of justice
has a bearing on the theme.
Thirty-year-old John Hearne,
the author of this novel, a
native of Montreal, was raised
in Jamaica where both sides of
his family settled in the early
part of the 18th century. They
were planters, soldiers, civil
servants, churchmen. and some
turned to writing when two
journalist brothers in the time
of the French Revolution. as
the author states, "were forced
to choose between prison or
exile, and decided that the Brit-
ish West Indies offered more
freedom if less scope." The
author also states about his fam-
ily: "The Hearnes were origi-
nally an Irish family but since
1'750 the main stream has re-
ceived generous tributary
strains of Scottish, African,
English, French, Jewish, Span-
ish a n d American Indian
blood."

U.S. Life Grant For Cancer
Research to La. Scientist
LOUISVILLE (JTA) — An
unusual life grant for cancer re-
search, totaling $105,674 in the
first five years alone, was
awarded by the United States
Public Health Service to a Jew-
ish scientist, Dr. William A.
Brodsky, professor of experi-
mental medicine at the Univer-
sity of Louisville School of
Medicine.

Lehman Named Honorary Chmn.
of Silver Anniversary of UJA

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Despite
the fact that no general public-
ity was given by the United
Jewish Appeal this year to the
large number of immigrants
entering Israel, the results of
this year's UJA fund - raising
campaign are very good, it was
reported at a press conference
here by Rabbi Herbert A. Fried-
man, UJA executive vice-pres-
ident.
Rabbi Friedman, who is lead-
ing a UJA Young Leadership
Mission of 120 members here,

, said that the mission proved
to be such a success that it is
now planned to double its
membership next year. He said
that the UJA will celebrate its
silver anniversary in 1962, and
revealed that former Senator
Herbert H.. Lehman will serve
as honorary general chairman
of the celebration.

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Israel Medical Assoc.
Will "Deal Severely"
with Overcharging MD

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A
warning was issued here to physi-
cians in this country that the
Israel Medical Association will
"deal severely" with doctors
who overcharge tourists visiting
Israel. According to the Associa-
tion's official bulletin, complaints
have been received of such over-
charges.
The publication pointed out
that, while there are no maxi-
mum rates set for medical treat-
ment or consultation, "it is be-
neath the dignity of the profes-
sion to charge tourists more than
the rates charged to local resi-
dents." The association's commit-
tee on professional ethics, stated
the bulletin, will act on all com-
plaints found justified.

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STATE SENATOR — DEMOCRAT — 18th DISTRICT

RAYMOND D. DZENDZEL, in the past four
terms, has proven his ability as a very capable
and programatic legislator. He has consistently
worked to make our state a better place to live
in by his efforts to increase job opportunities,
greater health and safety for all by modernizing
industrial safety and workmen's compensation
laws, consumer protection legislation. and im-
proving schools today to meet the new chal-
lenges of our time.
RAYMOND D. DZENDZEL is married, the father
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Bromine Works at Dead Sea

