THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, August 9, 1968-17 Israelis Due to Conclude Contract for Construction of 2 Huge Supertankers
Jewish Golfing Champions
ROTTERDAM (JTA) — A con-
tract was expected to be signed
here this week for the construction
of two 250,000 deadweight ton su-
pertankers for the Israeli shipping
company, Meridon, Ltd, of Haifa.
The vessels, which would rank
among the largest ships afloat,
will be built at the Verolme ship-
yards here.
The Israel government is con-
sidering the construction of a new
oil refinery at Ashdod which would
have an output of 4- to ,5,000,000
tons a year, about equal to Is-
rael's present internal consumption
of oil.
The plant would cost between
BY JESS SILVER
lished the mark in 1946 with a vic-
tory at the Tam O'Shanter All-
it was close but no cigar for
America tournament in Chicago.
Marty Fleckman at the Profession- Barron was the second leading
al Golfers' . Association champion- money winner that year.
ship in San Antonio. A 24-year-old
Byron Nelson, a great golfer and
rookie from Port Arthur,Texas, and gentleman, had something to do
the University of Houston, Fleck-
with Barron's triumph. Haskell
man held the lead, or shared it, Cohen wrote in 1946: "Barron ex-
through the first three rounds and plained early in the week that
finished the tournament in a tie Byron Nelson had been giving him
for fourth place with a three-over- pointers the past few weeks. Nel-
par 66-72-72-73-283 two strokes son had noticed a few defects
in
behind the winner, Julius Boros.
Herman's play and quickly pro-
The PGA situation was remini- ferred his advice.. The advice was
scent of last year's U.S. Open when sound as you can see."
Fleckman led the field going into * *
the last day. On that occasion
Laurie Arius Been, the first Is-
Fleckman, an amateur, skied to raeli golfer to qualify for major
an 80 in the final round. This time,
tournament competition abroad, is
however, he was in contention until spending the summer in the United
the 18th hole on the last day and States. He wants to discover how
won $7,500 for his biggest paycheck he compares with golfers in this
since turning pro at the end of last country. Been, 16, is Israel's 1966
year.
and 1967 junior champion and a
Fleckman, who won the Cajun
three-handicap player. All of his
Classic last year and became the
competition had been confined to
first golfer in history to win the
the Caesarea Golf Course, 35 miles
first tournament he entered as a
from Tel Aviv , and Israel ' s only
professional, had been having dif-
course. It was biult by the Roths-
ficulties for some time before his child family in 1960 and has a
success in the PGA. He credits
fellow Texan Byron Nelson with membership of, 500 persons.
Born in Johannesburg, South
the coaching that helped set him Africa, Been and his family moved
straight. ."BYron got me back on
the track after the U.S. Open this to Israel in 1960 and settled in
Herzlia, outside Tel Aviv. Laurie
- year when I missed the cut," said
Fleckman. "I spent the whole day b began to play golf at age 11. It
working with him then, and I've hasn't been easy. "I try to play
go
possible. Usually, I
been in the money the last five or whenever
once a week during school. We get
six weeks."
Fleckman, who had won $14,420 out of school at 3 p.m. and then
before the PGA, revealed that in-! have a 30-45 minute drive to the
stead of picking up a sponsor, he
! course. Then. after I get home
to do my homework , so
had borrowed $6,500 from a bank I have
rather difficult."
.
it's
before going on the tour. "I've
"The week I left for America,"
been playing golf a long time,"
Fleckman said. "I've hit an awful said Been, I " camped outside the
We
with SO
so m e
golf course N
lot of practice balls. I've worked go
would rise with the sun so we could
very hard to develop my game.
get in 36 holes before the crowd
After all this effort--I couldn't
arrived. I wanted to be extra sharp
see myself finally winning checks
for the trip."
!
and handing them over to someone
* *
else."
New Y o r k pro Sam Sharrow
* * *
spotted Been in 1965 when he
Before the end of the season, was helping Charlie Mandelstam,
Fleckman may top the $23,000 Israel's only pro, with a six-
Herman Barron won in 1946. Bar-
week golf clinic for juniors. A
ron's $10.500 still stands as the
member of Sports for Israel, Shar-
most money won by a Jewish golf- row kept in touch with Been and
er in one tournament. He estab-
Persuaded his parents to let him
visit the United States. Been is
Love, which proclaims thee human staying in Miami Beach with Jay
bids thee know
Rickles, 15, another fine young
A truth more lofty in thy lowliest golfer. They hope to play at the
hour
national junior championship at
Than 'shallow glory taught to
the Brookline Country Club, Brook-
power,
•human
line, Mass., and the national ama-
"What's human is immortal!"
teur tournament at the Sc i o to
Bulwer. Country Club in Columbus, 0.
Will Been become Israel's sec-
ond golf pro? "I've still got to
Ford Foundation Head
serve three years in the Israeli
at Weizmann Institute
Army before I do anything," said
Been. "Then I want to get a col-
lege degree. Everything will be
played by ear but I want to def-
initely maintain my amateur stand-
ing now."
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
$14,000,000 and $24,000,000, ac-
cording to Deputy Finance Minister
Zvi Dinstein. At the same time,
the output of the Haifa oil refin-
eries would be increased from 5- to
6,000,000 tons a year, thus giving
Israel's petrochemical industries a
substantial surplus for export.
David's Tower Opened for First Time Since '48
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David's
Tower in Jerusalem, near the Jaffa
Gate of the Old City Wall, was
opened Aug. 1 to the public for
the first time since the 1948 War
of Liberation.
Jerusalem municipality officials
spent about $80,000 to clear a Jor-
danian barracks structure inside
the citadel which was built 2,000
years ago by Herod. It is the only
part of ancient Jerusalem which
was not destroyed by the Romans.
During the years between 1948,
when Jordain seized the Old City,
and 1967, when Israeli forces lib-
erated it, the citadel was a Jor-
danian Arab Legion fortress over-
looking new Jerusalem.
Pessimism has always been a
destroyer—never a producer.
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MATZOS-
Share of U.S. Exports
to Israed Mounts in '68
WASHINGTON (JTA) — United
States exports had 25.9 per cent of
the Israel import market in 1967
and the American share increased
to 26.7 per cent for the first three
months of 1968. according to fig-
ures released by the Bureau of
International Commerce of the
U.S. Department of Commerce.
The report said that United
States exports to Israel in 1967
amounted to $196 million out of
that country's total imports of $755
million. For the first three months
of this year. the American share
was $56 million out of $249 million
total imports.
The bureau reported that Israel
was one of the countries indicating
"strong interests" in American wa-
ter treatment equipment and Is-
raelis were expected to attend the
exhibit of American desalting and
water purification equipment to
be held in Rome next February.
McGeorge Bundy, president of
the Ford Foundation (left) with
Meyer W. Weisgal, president of
the W e i z m a nn Institute of
Science, at Rehovot campus dur-
ing his recent visit to Israel.
DANIEL WEBSTER
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always ready to guard and
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Speech (June 3, 1834)
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