Friday, February 21, 1 964—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-1 0
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GOP House Committee
Backs Constitution Change
to Permit School Prayers
June holding that such sectarian
WASHINGTON — A proposal activities in schools violated the
for a constitutional change to constitutional ban on establish-
permit prayer and Bible read- ment of a religion.
Rep. Frank J. Hecker, New
ing in the public schools of the
nation had the support Wednes- York Republican, said that a
day of the Republican Policy moved to force a vote on the
Committee of the House of proposal had gained more
backers. He said that 141
Representatives.
Rep. John W. Burnes, Wis- Representatives had signed
consin Republican, said the his petition to pry the pro-
policy committee had endorsed posed amendment out of the
the proposal which would negate House Judiciary Committee,
the Supreme Court ruling last headed by Rep. Emanuel
Celler, New York Democrat,
for a vote on the floor. A
Parochial Schools
majority of the House mem-
bership, or 218 names are re-
in Manitoba May
quired to make such a peti-
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TORONTO, (JTA)—Premier
Rep. Celler, expressing sur-
Duff Roblin of the Province of prise at the GOP policy commit-
Manitob a, in the Canadian tee action, disclosed that com-
prairies, has moved to resolve mittee hearings were planned on
the province's thorny problem some 170 proposals to amend
of financing religiously spon- the Constitution to offset or
sored day schools.
modify the Supreme Court rul-
His plans, outlined in the ing.
legislature in Winnipeg, will
Rep. Celler said the hearings
give no direct financial assist- would be held after staff mem-
ance to parOchial schools and bers completed their study of
this appeared to meet the ma- the issues. He said the staff
jor objections of Protestant would consider such questions
groups and others opposing as to which Bible was meant in
state aid to non-public schools. the proposed constitutional
Under the plan to be studied
changes and who would make
by a special legislative com-
mittee, parochial pupils could the decision in each school as
use manual work, cooking class- to which prayers would be read.
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rooms, science laboratories and
the like within the public
schools and would be entitled The Past is Still Next Door
Knopf published "Next Door,"
to free text books and where
necessary bus transportation to a novel by Johanna Moosdorf.
Its title suggests that the mur-
schools.
Premier Roblin's announce- derers are still at large, the past
ment came after more than is still next door. One such mur-
four years of speculation on derer, a doctor who had experi-
possible steps the government mented with children in a con-
might take to solve the finan- centration camp, is now the head
cial plight of Manitoba's Roman of a large pharmaceutical com-
Catholic school system. Also pany in Germany. The person
involved are Winnipeg's Jewish best qualified to unmask him is
day schools, including the Tal- his first wife, Dorothea, whom
mud Torah, Peretz School and the doctor thought he had suc-
others. Winnipeg has the old- cessfully disposed of when he
est Jewish day school system had her committed to an insane
in Canada and one of the old- asylum. But Dorothea escaped,
est on the continent.
and now lives quietly in the
T h e announcement a 1 s o household of distant relatives
means that the government has who do not understand her odd
rejected "on principle" the ways. She has woven around her-
1959 recommendation of a self a web of daydreams to blot
Royal Commission which sug- out the past, and when first con-
gested that public aid be given fronted with it, at the opening
to private schools by way of of the story, she refuses even to
direct money grants.
admit she knew her husband.
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