Rate Berk 'Well
Qualified' for
Legislature
Weizmann Scientists Develop
Cheaper Way of Making Nylon
REHOVOT—A new and cheaper
Former Assistant Attorney Gen- method for making one of the ma-
jor
components of nylon 66 was re-
eral Daniel G. Berk, Democratic
candidate for State Representative cently developed by the Weizmann
Institute's
Plastics Research Labo-
in the 67th District, has received
the "preferred and well qualified" ratory, headed by Prof. David
Vofsi.
rating from the Civic Searchlight
The new method, developed by
and Oakland County Citizens Lea-
gue. The only candidate to receive Prof. Vofsi and Dr. Moshe Levy,
will permit a reduction of over 25
per cent in the cost of producing
Hexamethylene-diamine (HMDA).
which, together with adipic acid, is
used to make nylon 66.
The research on HMDA was sup-
ported by a well-known Belgian
firm, which also financed the
establishment of a pilot plant in
Ostend. The experiments carried
out at that plant, which can pro-
duce half a ton of the material
daily, proved completely success-
ful. The production of the new
compound in Israel will save the
country large sums in foreign cur-
rency, and give Israeli nylon a
competitive advantage in world
markets.
The Makhteshim Co. of Beer-
DANIEL G. BERK
this rating, Berk has also received
the unanimous endorsement of the
Southfield Democratic Club of the
AFL-CIO.
Appointed assistant attorney gen-
eral by Frank J. Kelley in 1967,
Berk also served as a staff mem-
ber with the labor committee of the
House of Representatives, where
he was able to gain first-hand ex-
perience in the law making pro-
cess.
The only candidate with state
governmental experience, Berk is
also the only attorney and college
graduate seeking the nomination,
and this fall he will join the Oak-
land University faculty on a part-
time basis as an instructor in poli-
tical science.
Long active in Democratic Party
activities, Berk is a member of
the executive committee of the
Oakland County Democratic Com-
mittee and currently serves on the
Democratic State Central Commit.
tee.
He has been on the executive
board of the Oak Park Democratic
Club, where he was also a pre-
cinct delegate for eight years, and
at present is secretary of the
Southfield Democratic Club.
Berk, an Oak Park High School
graduate, holds a PD degree in
history from Wayne State Univer-
sity, a JD from Wayne State Uni-
versity Law School, and an MA
in political science from Michigan
State University. Active in com-
munity affairs, Berk is vice-presi-
dent of the Oak Park Symphony
Sociaty.
He is a member of Bnai Brith,
American Arbitration Association,
American Bar Association, Amer-
ican Trial Lawyers Association,
State Bar of Michigan, American
Civil Liberties Union, Detroit His-
torical Society and Historical
Society of Michigan.
Engineers to Hold
Meeting in Tel Aviv
The second World Congress of
Engineers and Architects in*Israel
will be held in Tel Aviv Dec. 14-18
with the theme "Dialogue in Devel-
opment-Integration of Interdiscip-
linary Planning and its Implement-
ation in Development Work."
Prof. Bruno Zevi of Rome, presi-
dent of the International Technical
Cooperation Center, will be the
keynote speaker during the open-
ing session which will be held in
the Frederick Mann Auditorium
there.
Immediately following the four-
day conference especially prepared
tours, accompanied by staff mem-
bers of the Israeli Ministry of
Housing and the Tahal Water Co.,
have been arranged to points of
architectural and engineering in-
terest.
Information on these professional
tours may be obtained by calling
El Al Israel Airlines, 352-5737, or
writing 24100 Southfield Rd., South-
field 48075.
Elsman, Congress
Candidate, Knocks
Apathy of Voters
James L. Elsman, Bloomfield
Township attorney and Democratic
candidate for U.S. Congress, is the
one candidate of three to be rated
qualified for the office by the Oak-
land Citizens League and Civic
Searchlight in ratings released this
week.
Elsman has highlighting in his
campaign the lack of U.S. support
of Israel as a major foreign policy
mistake. He is on record as favor-
ing both economic and military
assistance to Israel and the exten-
sion of credit terms.
Elsman has traveled to Israel to
see the situation first-hand.
Elsman commented on the elec-
tion in the last week of the pri-
mary as follows: "In my opinion,
the greatest domestic concern of
this country may well be citizen
apathy. Less people care than one
would wish — and this at a time
when Russia is threatening the
Middle East and Israel, when our
cities are dying and the economy
really hurting everybody. The best
cure for this apathy may be bet-
ter political leadership and char-
acter in Washington. Perhaps that
is what some of our young people
are trying to tell us. I hope we
older people do not disappoint
them again by failing to get out to
vote this coming Tuesday."
DiMaggio is Rated
Qualified as Judge
"I have practiced law in all
courts of Wayne County, including
the Federal District Court, for 20
years—a large portion of my cases
being in Common Pleas Court, so
that I am thoroughly familiar with
all phases of the procedures of that
court,' is the message to Detroit's
voters from Andrew DiMaggio,
candidate for Common Pleas
Judge, at the primary election
Tuesday.
DiMaggio, 49, a lifelong resident
of Detroit, graduated Corn Laude
from the Liberal Arts College of
Wayne State University, and is
also a graduate of Wayne State
University Law School.
During World War II, he served
with the U.S. Air Force in the
Asiaitic-Pacific theater of opera-
tions.
DiMaggio has served as an attor-
ney for the county for the past
nine years and is currently an
assistant friend of the court as-
signed to the investigation division
of that office.
DiMaggio is endorsed by promin-
ent trial lawyers, labor, business
and professional men, civic, frater-
nal, and religious groups. He is
rated "well qualified" by the De-
troit Bar Association.
Friday, July 31, 1970-17
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
sheba and Futorum-Electrochem
teal Industries in Acre already pro-
duce, as a byproduct, a compound'
known as sodium amalgam, which
is essential for the production of ,
HMDA, according to the Weizmann
Institute process.
The European Chemical Nevis
recently carried a study on the ,
relative cost of producing 113I-
DA by various methods. It show-
ed- that IIMDA made according
to the Monsanto method costs
$475 per ton and by the Weiz-
mann Institute method, $322 per
ton.
Prof. Vofsi, 51, has been elected
depu chairman of the institute's
scientific
fic council in place of Prof.
David Elson, dean of the faculty
of biophysics - biochemistry and
head of the department of bin-
chemistry.
Prof. Gideon Yekutieli of the
Weizmann Institute's nuclear phy-
sics department has been elected
chairman, succeeding Prof. Joseph
Gillis of the applied mathematics
department.
He was born in Dwinsk, Latvia,
and immigrated to this country in
1938. He earned his MSc and PhD
from the Hebrew University and
has spent 13 years at the Institute.
Prof. Yekutieli, 44, was born and
educated in Jerusalem, receiving
his MSc from the Hebrew Univer-
sity in 1949. He was granted a PhD
by Bristol University, England, in
1952. Prof. Yekultieli, who joined
the staff of the institute in 1957,
has done significant work in the
fields of high energy nuclear phy-
sics and elementary particle phy-
sics.
ROGER C. RICHARDS was
elected chairman of the Michigan
Housing Development Authority at
a meeting of the board of gover-
nors in Lansing. Richards has
been a member of the board since
1966, having been originally" ap-
pointed by Governor Romney and
re-appointed by Gov. Milliken.
Richard is president of Metropoli-
tan Federal Savings of Detroit.
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