▪ 32—Friday, February 20, 1970 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS It's Offcial: Israel Using Pipeline Which Will Bypass the Suez Canal • NEW YORK (JTA)—A coalition of Jewish students and teachers called Sunday upon the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies to allocate more funds from its annual budget to Jewish education and to the set- ting up of a Jewish public library in the city. JERUSALEM — A $136,000,000, , line sought shelter in Ashdod 42-inch pipeline is carrying oil ! Wednesday. Strong winds and from Eilat to Ashkelon 163 miles I high waves forced the vessel to abandon loading operations at away—providing Israel's answer the Ashkelon oil jetty. It is ex- to the Suez Canal — it was an- The coalition of religious and pected to resume loading when nounced last week. radical students and teachers, Con- the weather improves. Although the 18-month building The company is planning a large cerned Jewish Teachers and Stu- project was completed in Decem- dents for a Jewish Education, is- ber, announcement was held up floating jetty at which 250,000-ton sued this demand at the Pedagogi- until Israeli officials could report supertankers could be moored. cal Conference of the Jewish Edu- the oil storage tank farm at Ash- cation Committee, which was at- kelon was filling up normally. tended by several hundred rabbis, will have The line eventually educators, teachers and supervisors a capacity of 60,000,000 tons a of Hebrew and Jewish schools in year, about one-third the ton- New York. nage carried by tankers through The theme of the conference was the canal in its last full year of JERUSALEM (JTA)—The cost "Teaching for Lasting Jewish operation before the Six-Day of living index dropped 0.2 per cent Values." Students from Yeshiva War. Current annual capacity is in January due mainly to a drop University and members of the 20,000,000 tons. in the prices of clothing and foot- Jewish Liberation Project and the Opening of the pipeline came wear, the Central Bureau of Sta- Havura distributed leaflets con- shortly after Egyptian plans for a tistics reported. tending that "The federation allo- rival pipeline west of the Suez The drop occurred before the in- cated only 3.7 per cent of its $22,- Canal had collapsed. troduction of new sales taxes and 000,000 operating budget in 1967-68 Warfare along the canal is said tariffs recently. Seasonal sales in to Jewish education." to have prevented surveys by engi- apparel shops brought the price of A participant in the conference neers from the European consor- clothing down by 5 per cent last reported that Allan Mintz, a tium of Italian, British, French month. The price of shoes declined member of Havura and repre- and German companies that had by 4 per cent and there was a de- senting the coalition, told the agreed to build the Egyptian line. crease in the price of vegetables. meeting that the demonstration At the Eilat terminal, the oil is The ministry of public welfare was an expression of mounting taken from supertankers that announced that payments to needy bring it to Israel from sources families will be increased by 15 anger and frustration with the federation over its "insensitivity which remain undisclosed to pre- per cent bringing the average to the needs of Jewish youth who vent Arab boycott action. At Ash- monthly relief payments to slightly are striving to maintain and kelon it is loaded into smaller over $15. The amount is still below deepen their heritage. We do not tankers for transshipment to ' the poverty line which Bank of seek confrontation with the fed- southern and western Europe. Is- Israel researchers place at $20 per eration. We just want to say rael is confident that it can sell month. The ministry reported that shalom." the surplus oil to European sources 9,000 families are currently on wel- although the price is higher than fare. Their payments cease when oil shipped exclusively by tanker family income exceeds the welfare around the Cape of Good Hope. payments. The 121,000-deadweight-ton Swed- The ministry of commerce ish-built Israeli tanker Nivi plans to order Israel's textile in- brought the oil from sources des- dustry to curtail the production cribed only as "East of Suez." of semi-finished goods such as Israel's Zim Lines has ordered thread and cloth and concentrate two more tankers of 250,000 tons on finished clothing and knitwear deadweight capacity and is con- for export. sidering three more such ships. A bulky report produced by a A tanker loading the first oil study commission under the aus- to be pumped through the pipe- pices of the Productivity Institute concluded that Israeli labor is not enough to allow it to com- Activists Stage Exorcism cheap pete on the international market Rite; Spectators Protest in intermediate textile products. The report said that if the in- NEW YORK (JTA) — A protest demonstration against the han- dustry switches over to finished goods it could become profitable dling of the Chicago conspiracy trial, in which Jewish activists within five years. At present many staged a rite of exorcising the textile factories are run at a loss dybbuk they contend possesses and receive subsidies from the gov- presiding Federal Judge Julius ernment. Hoffman, was held here this week instead of at the originally planned Mental Retardation, site in Chicago. Effects of Poverty The event was ignored by the As director of a research group city's three major newspapers and apparently by most television and selected by the President's Com- mittee on Mental Retardation and radio stations in the city. A f ter the hour-long ceremony as project director of the New was completed, sharp arguments Jersey Division of Mental Retarda- broke out among spectators, some tion, Rodger Hurley is an authority of them calling the rite a "hillul on the subject of poverty in rela- Ha-Shem" (desecration of the Di- tion to retardation. His challenging work, "Poverty vinity) and others giving strong and Mental Retardation—A Causal verbal support to it. Relationship," published by Ran- dom House, traces the many aspects of one of the country's most serious problems. It was first published as a report of the New Jersey Division of Mental Retarda- tion and has been accepted as a very valuable guide in treating the subject that affects this coun- try. In his foreword to the book, U. S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy as- FROM serts there is much corroboration 1. Write your name and address for the author's contention that "On clearly on a plain piece of paper 3"x5". many occasions we are not meas- 2. Enclose your entry with with any uring mental retardation but our of the following: The Maxwell House symbol snipped from the plastic lid society's callousness toward the on any can of Maxwell House Cof- poor." fee. Or the Inner seal from any jar of Instant Maxwell House. Or just There is thoroughness in the the words MAXWELL HOUSE print- author's study of the health crisis, ed In plain block letters on a plain rural poverty, the education prob- piece of paper 3"x5". 3. Mall to: MAXWELL HOUSE COF- lems. Hurley touches upon the FEE, P.O. Box, 44U, Grand Central Station, New York, New York 10017. difficulties created for migrants NO PURCHASE NECESSARY and especially the migrants' chil- dren. Viewing the economic factors in relation to the treatments sought for those with physical and mental disorders, Hurley has provided a basis for more serious action in solving a major American prob- lem. Israel Living Costs Lower; Welfare Payments Raised - Jewish Teachers, Youth Press NY Federation to Increase Annual Allocations to Education Mintz, the participant noted, said one aim of the coalition is to per- suade the federation to have youth representatives on its decision- making councils which deal with determining policies, programs and priorities. Last month, the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston approved the involvement of college youth in such committees there. Federation President George Heyman report- edly noted that the federation can- not allocate funds for such activity when those who contribute to the agency do not concern themselves with these specific needs. 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