Jews, Officials Discuss Ethroo- Issue (Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) WASHINGTON —Sukkot came early for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.• Negroes of the Poor Peoples' Campaign were dem- onstrating outside the Department, demanding a better share of the harvest, and shaking the building like a lulov (palm stalk). Inside, a Jewish delegation was protesting a newly-imposed ban on the impor- tation from Israel of the Sukkot citrus known as the ethrog. The Negroes had marched from their succah (booths) in Resurrection City. Rev. Ralph Abernathy like- ened them to the Jews who wan- dered in the desert without proper housing. He also compared him- self to Moses. Pickets sounded trumpets, denouncing the Agri- LAWN SPRINKLERS REPAIR AND I NSTALLATION Quality Work at Reasonable Prices! 527-5044 "Get Our Price Last" culture Department as the citadel of Jericho. Mannah came down from Heaven in the form of a liber- alized food stamp policy. Police meanwhile • descended from patrol wagons in an effort to stop the commotion. The Jews, however, did more than march outside the Promised Land. They actually entered the building and met with Agriculture officials. The delegation included Rabbi Morris Sherer, president of Agudath Israel of America and Roy H. Millenson, a U.S. Senate staff official who represented Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York Repub- lican. A ban was imposed on ethrog last April to protect the American citrus industry from possible Medi- terranean fruit-fly infestation. Suk- kot comes this year On October 6. The ritual blessing on a ethrog grown in Israel is commanded in the Bible. Approximately 50,000 of this ethrog species are imported yearly from Israel and used dur- ing Sukkot by more than one mil- lion Jews. The Plant Quarantine Division of the Agriculture Department said it had no objection to admission of the citrus, provided it was sprayed with a chemical, ethelene dibromide, before entry. 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Another problem emerged. The ethrog cannot be properly tested before it ripens. The resistance of the peel de- creases with the ripening process. The harvest season extends from the end of July through the end of September. This would make it impossible for importation of the ethrog in time for the holiday observance in early October. Ethrog experts suggested that the testing proceed but that it be applied to the 1969 import season. This year, because of the time factor, every ethrog destined for the United States would be inspected by the Israeli Depart- ment of Agriculture. An incubation period would be imposed. The fruit would be stored in a special ware- house. Rabbi Sherer pointed out that the Mediterranean fruit-fly renders the ethrog unsuitable for use because of punctures made by the insect. So there are also ritual reasons for vigilance. Israel will pay for a U.S. Agri- culture inspector to come to Israel to supervise all examination, pack- ing and shipping. This plan would serve as an interim measure pend- ing the results of the chemical tests. Mr. Johnston has requested 100 samples of the ethrog for test- ing in the United States. Because of the harvest timing, they could not arrive here until August ... But the department has mean- while agreed to seriously consider the problem of this year's Sukkot. It may accept the interim plan By MILTON FRIEDMAN (Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.) Verna) ELECTRONIC formulated by Rabbi Sherer and the Israeli ethrogists. Agriculture officials feel that they have enough trouble with minority groups over food problems. Ritual debates with Orthodox Jews they can do with- out. "We are trying to meet the com- plaints of the colored people on the food issue and would prefer to avoid this Talmudic question about the color of an ethrog," said an official. 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