011T Parley Accepts a Budget
of S8.851,300; Dr. Haber Asks
for More Schools Overseas
NEW YORK (JTA) — More
than 500 delegates attending the
42nd annual national conference
of the American ORT Federa-
tion here approved programs of
vocational training during 1964
to more than 40.000 Jews in
need and distress overseas.
The delegates, representing
100,000 mem- MWMIA''
bers through-
out the U. S.,
approved a re-
port submitted
by the organi-
zation's presi-
dent, Dr.
Haber, for
stepped up
programs o f
trade schools
for youth and
adults in Is-
r a e 1, France,
Iran, India and
Argentina. Haber
The conference accepted a
budget of $8,851,300 for the
support and maintenance of over
600 technical education proj-
ects in 21 countries and ap-
proved specific allocations of
$3,163,500 toward this total.
An agreement with the
Joint Distribution Committee
providing for $1,950,000 dur-
ing 1964 toward these alloca-
tions was ratified by the meet-
ing. Over 51,215,000 addition-
al is expected from member.
ship income of Women's
American ORT and other af-
filiated groups.
The balance of ORT financial
needs overseas is expected to
be met by ORT organizations in
other countries and by contribu-
tions from governments and
Ivcal communities in the areas
wifiere the ORT vocational pro-
grams are located.
President Johnson, in a mes-
sage read to the delegates at
the conference, said that ORT
"continues to prove that nothing
better serves an important pur-
pose than accomplishment."
He cited the ORT accomplish-
ments in Israel, in North and
West Africa, in Iran, in Poland,
and in Western E u r o p e and
wished the organization success
with its program of enlarging
vocational training facilities for
refugees from Algeria in France.
In reporting on plans for
1964 ORT activities, Dr. Haber
declared that the organiza-
tion would operate on "the
double track principle," aug-
menting its emergency train-
ing services to North African
Jewish refugees in France and
to new immigrants in Israel
while expanding secondary-
level technical schooling for
youth in the 14-18 age bracket.
He announced that the French
government had agreed to fi-
nance between 70 and 80 per
cent of the cost of construction
of new ORT schools for North
African refugee training in
Paris, Toulouse and Marseilles.
These new facilities, he declared,
will make it possible, for ORT
to raise its enrollment by more
than 25 per cent.
He noted 'that . the problem of
integration of the refugees into
the French economy was a mat-
ter of skills not jobs.
Ambassador Katriei Katz, con-
sul general of Israel in New
York, addressed the delegates
on the problem of "integrating
new immigrants by means . of
vocational and educational pro-
grams in order to . make them
productive elements in Israel's
democratic society."
• He urged an intensification
of ORT educational activities for
this purpose.
Mrs. Sadye Roth, chairman
of the executive conunittee of
Women's American ORT, an-
nounced the first of a net-
work of new ORT apprentice-
ship centers would be opened
in Haifa, Israel, next month.
This _center will have an an-
nual training capacity of 2,500
students. It will be named for
the former president of Women's
American ORT, Mrs. Jeannette
0. Gayl.
Four such centers are planned
for the next period, which will
enroll up to 15,000 youth.
Herbert J. Waters, assistant
administrator of the Agency for
International Development
(AID), the U. S. foreign assist-
ance agency, called for "an in-
creased partnership between
AID and American voluntary
organizations in the conduct of
people - to - people development
programs."
As an example of this
"partnership" pattern, Waters
announced that ORT training
projects in the West African
countries of Mali and Guinea,
under contract with AID,
would be expanded.
The new agreements, which
will run to 1966, require ORT
to provide 42 instructors and
specialists in technical fields for
both countries.
Waters also announced that
under what he described as "an
historic agreement with AID,"
under terms of which ORT is
authorized to acquire $750,000
in presses and other machine
tools" had already been forward-
ed to ORT schools abroad.
He described this agreement
as "a significant landmark, for
it was the initial excess prop-
erty agreement between the AID
and a registered American vol-
untary agency for multicountry
projects."
Irving Kane, chairman of the
commission on overseas studies
of the Council of Jewish Federa-
tions and Welfare Funds, speak-
ing at the evening dinner ses-
sion, described major develop-
ments in the field of welfare
services within the Jewish com-
munity.
Adolph Held, vice president
of the American ORT Federa-
tion, eulogized the late Her-
bert H. Lehman, who had been
honorary president of ORT,
and recalled his more than 40
years of association with the
organization.
The conference adopted a res-
olution to explore the possibili-
ties of creating a suitable me-
morial in Israel to Mr. Lehman.
The organization presented an
award in the form of a bronze
plaque to R. Sargent Shriver,
director of the Peace Corps, for
achievement in the field of hu-
man development and training.
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