32—Friday, January 23, 1970

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Consumer Goods Prices Skyrocket
as Debate on Wage Hikes Mounts

Les lie Feldman to Marry
Airman Jerald N. Eller
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The price
of Justice Yaacov Shimshon
of consumer goods shot up in
Shapiro, who is acting finance
supermarkets, cooperatives and
minister in Sapir's absence. Also
privately owned shops all over
at the meeting was Minister of
Israel this week as government
Agriculture Haim Gvati who
and industry leaders argued over
heads the ministerial committee
wage hikes and businessmen in
charged with examining the new
national budget.
general demanded thit the govern-
ment come up with some firm de-
Premier Golda Meir warned Is-
cisions on tax and tariff policies raelis that they would have to
for the coming year.
tighten their belts in order to meet
The price of 153 items sold on the financial burdens of defense,
the retail level jumped by about which she described as the nation's
20 per cent. The retail traders number one priority. Addressing
associations, which have held the the Moetzet Hapoalot (Pioneer
price line at the request of Hista- Women) convention in Tel Aviv,
drut, announced that they could Mrs. Meir said, "We have to
no longer absorb the higher prices struggle, even with our friends, to
MISS LESLIE FELDMAN
demanded by wholesalers and sell us the weapons we need, and
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feldman of
producers and would pass them even when they agree to do us
on to their customers.
that favor, we must begin to pay Templar Ave., Southfield, announce
the engagement of their daughter
An urgent meeting was held because no one gives us gifts."
Leslie Ann to Airman First Class
Monday between the Israel Man-
Jerald Norman Eller, son of Mr.
ufacturers Association and gov-
ORT Director General
and Mrs. Martin Eller of Ottawa
ernment fiscal officers. The in-
Dr., Pontiac, and Mrs. Sally Eller
dustrialists proposed wage in-
to Address NY Parley
of
North Miami Beach.
creases to be paid only in gov-
NEW YORK — Max A. Braude,
The bride-elect is a senior at
ernment bonds. But there was
ORT director-general, will deliver Wayne State University majoring
argument over whether the rise a key report at the 48th annual
should be 5.2 or 2.6 per cent of national conference of the Ameri- in special education. Mr. Eller is
in the U.S. Air Force stationed in
the current wage levels.
can ORT Federation, Sunday at Okinawa.
The manufacturers said they the American a
A June 28 wedding is planned.
would have to increase prices con- Hotel, it was an-
siderably if they were required to nounced this
Israeli Police Minister,
pay additional wages in cash. But week by Dr. Wil-
pressure for substantial wage in- liam Haber,
Arab Leaders Meet
creases continued to mount. A Amer ican ORT
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arab
committee of economic experts president.
leaders from East Jerusalem met
working on behalf of various pro-
Braude, who is
officially for the first time with a
fessional employes associations, responsible for
member of Israel's cabinet. They
reported that professional salaries the operations of
were received by Minister of Pa
have fallen 17 per cent behind the 21 country tech-
lice Shlomo Hillel at the ministry
salaries of executives during the nical school sys-
and discussed the effects of ter-
past four years in which salaries tems at its head-
rorist activities on both Arabs and
in
were supposedly "frozen."
quarters
Jews.
Braude
Hillel's visitors were Sheikh
The committee recommended Geneva will focus
23-25 per cent wage increases for on the recent sweeping changes in Hilmi el Muhtasib, chairman of
all personnel grades on the pro- Jewish life in North Africa, the Moslem Council; Saad el Din
fessional scale, including doctors, Europe, Iran and other areas of el Alami, the Mufti of Jerusalem;
engineers, n u r se s, technicians, ORT programs, and particularly Anwar Nuseibeh, the former Jor-
pharmacists, journalists and other on the role of education in the danian defense minister; and
professionals who are not self- economic development and sur- Unwar el Khatib, the former Jor-
vival of Israel.
danian governor of Jerusalem.
employed.
Sheikh Muhtasib's son was killed
Monday's break in prices was
attributed to the prolonged de- Israel Reported Seeking by a terrorist grenade in Hebron
recently.
Hillel expressed condo-
liberations on wage and price Aid of U.S. Millionaires
lences, and the Sheikh replied
increases and on the failure of the
JERUSALEM
(ZINS)—Premier
that
he
was
praying for an end
government to agree so far on a
program of tax increases and Golda Meir is considering extend- of the killing in which Arabs and
ing an invitation to 40 American Jews alike lose their sons.
other levies for 1970.
Jewish millionaires to come to Is-
The uncertainty caused by the rael as guests of the government, Ex-Warsaw Professor
indecision of the higher authori- according to informed sources.
Says Liberal Ideas Were
ties affects importers and whole-
The idea is to request each in- Reason for Dismissal
salers who had been maintaining
dividual
that
he
"tax"
himself
at
a more or less unified stand on
NEW YORK (JTA) A former
prices in order to keep them the rate of $1,000,000 as an assist Polish representative to the United
stable. The price rises that went to Israel in her current military Nations, now exiled in Denmark,
into effect Monday stemmed main. and economic plight. This group maintains that the fact that he
will have been the second invited was Jewish was only part of the
ly from individual decisions.
Mark Moshevitz, president of the to Israel in the past three months, reason for his dismissal from War-
Manufacturers Association, cabled according to Israel press reports. saw University in 1968, where he
The first conference took place had been a professor of interna-
Finance Minister Pinhas Saphir
who is abroad, to see to it that no six weeks ago when 40 million- tional relations and diplomatic
aires
participated and contribut- history.
decisions on wage increases are
ed the sum of U5,588,000.
taken in his absence.
In a new York Times article,
The cable was, in effect, a call
The new invitation by Premier Julius Katz-Suchy, now an asso-
to Sapir to come home and take Golda Meir to a similar group is ciate professor at Aarhus Univer-
action to end the uncertainty. being strongly protested by the sity in Jutland, was quoted as
But a finance ministry spokes. UJA leadership in America, which stating that his opposition to cer-
man said that Sapir would not
argues that these "dramatic" tain internal policies and his calls
cut short his tour. He was repre- meetings could harm regular fund- for freer discussions were the
sented at Monday's meeting with raising efforts of the UJA in the main reason for his disinissal.
"This technique was used
the manufacturers by Minister United States.

activities in Society

Harry Platt, president of Detroit Men's ORT and a national vice
president of the American ORT Federation, and Jerome Hirsch will
attend the 48th annual national conference of the American ORT Fed-
eration this weekend at the Americana Hotel in New York City. Platt
will be chairman of the national organization workshop, which will
review an outline of major areas of need for ORT in 1970 and the
prospects for the program's development in the decade of the '70s.
The needs•of Israel for stepped-up technical training and youth educa-
tion will receive top priority attention at the conference, it was an-
nounced by Dr. William Haber, president.
Adas Shalom Synagogue youth education director Barry S. Bank
joined in dialogue at the second biennial Conference for High School
Youth at the McAlpin Hotel, New York City. Forthcoming from the
conference was a blueprint for a comprehensive Jewish high school
curriculum which will be published by the United Synagogue commis-
sion on Jewish education for its 350 high schools on this continent.
Out-of-own guests at the wedding in Windsor of Gail Croll to
Steven Iczkovitz included Senator David A. Croll and Mrs. Croll, Mr.
and Mrs. David Mouckley, Mrs. Connie Young of Toronto and Mr. and

Mrs.. Richard Forman of Des. Moines.

Gold Market Droops

TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Israel's eco-
nomic situation has become in-
creasingly difficult, according to
Yosef Saphir, minister of com-
merce and industry. Imports in
1969 were 30 per cent higher than
in the previous year, resulting in
a drain on the country's currency
reserves.
In these circumstances, public
confidence in the Israel currency
is undermined and there is a con-
comitant increase on the part of
the population to safegucrd sav-
ings against further devaluation
and inflation, he said. It appears,
however, that some Israelis have
not only lost confidence in the
Israeli pound, but also in the
American dollar. This led to a
rush to buy gold which also back-
fired and resulted in substantial
losses to speculators. The interna-
tional market in gold fell sharply,
hitting many Israelis who had
sought refuge for their capital in
this way, and the result has been
a general stagnation on Lilienblum
St.
The present price of the dollar
is 3.93 pounds (as compared with
4.20 pounds only a few weeks ago).
and the price of a kilo of gold is
now down to 4,650 pounds.

Golden Wedding

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rothenberg
of Meyers Rd. celebrated their
golden wedding anniversary at a
recent family dinner given in their
honor by their children, Mr. and
Mrs. Seymour Rothenberg and Mr.
and Mrs. Sidney Lorfel. Relatives

Israel's Policy in Lecture
Prof. Moshe Czudnowski of the

Hebrew University's department
of political science, will speak in
Hebrew on "Government and Policy
in Israel," 8 p.m., Feb 1 at the
Jewish Center.
Prof. Czudnowski, visiting pro-
fessor at Wayne State University,
received his PhD degree at the
Sorbonne. His talk will be spon-
sored by the Center Hebrew de-
partment. There is a nominal ad-
mission charge. Refreshments will
be served.

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NEW YORK (JTA) — Merkos
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against Jewish civil servants,
too," he said, referring to the
"libelous and slanderous" cam-
paign against him beginning in
March 1968. "My situation is
perhaps typical of that of many
Polish Jews in academic posts."

He emphasized, however, that
similar campaigns have been con-
ducted against non-Jews as well.
Katz-Suchy, who was granted asy-
lum by the Danish government
two weeks ago, said that he still
considered himself a Pole and that
he still believed in socialism "even
if some of my ideas have let me
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