12—Friday, June 11, 1971
Publishers Protest Postal Curtailments;
Jimmy Wisch Re-Elected AJPA President
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
QUALITY • SERVICE • PRICE
DALLAS—Jimmy Wisch, editor
and publisher of the Texas Jewish
Post, was re-elected to a third
term as president of the American
Jewish Press Association at its
29th annual convention held June
2-5 at the Fairmont Hotel here.
Also elected were:
Albert Bloom, Pittsburgh, vice
president for editorial matters;
Adolph Rosenberg, Atlanta, vice
president for public relations; Con-
rad Isenberg, Worcester, Mass.,
vice 'president for membership and
advertising; Mrs. Ben Hammer-
man, Dayton, treasurer; and Rob-
ert A. Cohn, St. Louis, secretary.
In a major address at the con-
vention, Rabbi Levi Olan stressed
AJPA officers are (from left) Adolph Rosenberg, Atlanta; Con-
the "vital role to be played by the rad Isenberg, Worcester, Mass.; Jimmy Wisch, Dallas; Mrs. Ben
American Jewish press in inter- Hammerman, Dayton, O.; Robert Cohen, St. Louis; and Albert Bloom,
preting Jewish ethnic values in Pittsburgh.
the pluralistic American society
of the future, which will replace delegates also discussed ways and Fred K. Schochet, Miami; and Jo-
the melting pot ideal of the past." means of improving the quality of seph Weisberg, Boston. Honorary
Sam Bloom, president of Bloom the American Jewish press.
vice presidents are Jacques Back,
Advertising Co., spoke on the
Members of the AJP executive Nashville; Elias R. Jacobs, Buf-
"Challenge to all phases of media,
falo; and Leo H. Frisch, Minnea-
both advertising and news, to keep board, who also were re-elected polis.
are:
Mrs.
Robert
Gerelick,
Omaha;
pace with the tremendous rate of
The AJP delegates adopted a
change in modern society, where Morris Janoff, Jersey City; Milton
things are often obsolete before Pinsky, Columbus; Milton Fire- series of resolutions covering the
stone, Kansas City; Joseph Cum- following area s: Commending
they can be marketed."
The editors also heard presenta- mins. Los Angeles; and Philip Jimmy Wisch and the Texas Jew-
ish Post on reaching its 25th year;
tions by Wisch on "Government Slomovitz, Detroit.
Threats to the Press," and a speech The AJP Advisory Board in- reaffirming the AJP's opposition
by Robert Cohn on "Agnewing the eludes: Jack Fishbein, Chicago; to any further curtailment of sec-
Press," which discussed the recent Max Goldberg, • Denver; Philip ond class mailing privileges for
trend to blame news media for the .Hochstein, Washington and New newspapers or other economic
bad news which is reported. The York; Jules Miller, Philadelphia; pressures by government on the
press; expressing solidarity with
and concern for Jews in the Soviet
and Arab nations, and for
t ReceiveIsrael Medallion Union
Jewish journalists in nations which
.At 3 p.m. next Wednesday, at district council, and then was ap- utilize censorship; commending the
the Detroit City Hall, Mayor Ro- pointed to a senior position in the American Zionist Federation for
man S. Gribbs will receive the local government civil service ad- helping to bring about greater unity
bOth Anniversary Medallion of the ministration.
in the Zionist movement; express-
City of Ramat Gan, the third larg-
In 1963 he was appointed mayor ing support for the continued de-
est city in Israel.
of Beersheba. Since 1964, he is velopment of an independent and
It will 'be presented by the dep- director-general of Bar-Ilan Uni- high quality Jewish press on Amer-
nty mayor of Ramat Gan, Prof. versity, and serves in the elected ican college campuses, and en-
Maiityahu Adler, director-general position as deputy mayor of Ramat couraging Jewish community sup-
or B:.er-Ilan University, who will Gan. He is married and has three port for such efforts.
be in Detroit for this occasion. Dr. children, the oldest serving in the
Adler will be accompanied by lead- Israel defense force.
ing members of the Bar-Han Uni-
versity Committee.
NORTHLAND FORD
LEADS THE WAY
SO DOES
GEORGE RUSKIN
NORTHLAND FORD
10 MILE & GREENFIELD
C61:tbs
Research Grant
Given Bar-Ilan
by U.S. Bureau
Prof. Adler, who was born in
Prague, Czechoslovakia, came to
Israel in 1939. He received his
MA in political science at the
..Fiebrew University, served in high
civic positions with the Jewish
Agency before the establishment
of the Jewish state and in 1949
became a member of the ministry
of the interior. He headed the rural
.• . .
RAMAT GAN—The U.S. Nation-
al Bureau of Standards has award-
ed a 110,250 pound ($31,500) grant
to the department of mathematics
and computer 'sciences at Bar-Ilan
University for research in infor-
mation retrieval methods.
This study is part of a larger
project dealing with the computer-
ized recording of Responsa Litera-
ture which is a joint undertaking
of Bar-Ilan University and the
Weizmann: Institute of Science.
Professor Aviezri Frankel, head
of the prOject, was invited by the
National Bureau of Standards,
(NBS), to\ present a proposal on
this topicid also to participate
in a symposihm on the new meth-
ods of information retrieval in
which 10 leading experts from
the U.S., Canada, Germany and
Israel participated.
The symposium dealt with a
PROF. MATITYAHU ADLER
joint project of the NBS and the
U.S. Department of Patents re-
Fire Prevention in Israel garding the computerization of
patent classification systems.
TEL AVIV—A nationwide cam- The Responsa Literature project
paign to acquaint the public with has developed original methods
the dangers of forest fires and the which have recently been applied
ways to prevent them has been to searches in various topics or-
initiated by the Jewish National dered by individuals and institu-
Fund as the picnic season. begins Lions here, in Great Britain and
in Israel. the U.S. IBM in Israel has award-
In past years, careless visitors ed a grant for this project to the
have caused serious damage, de- Weizrnann Institute of Science. I
spite the JNF's modern fire- The institute for the study of
prevention system, which includes "Mishpat Ivri" at the Hebrew
watchtowers, fire lanes, fire-fighting University participated in and
equipment and a network of wire-' partially supported the initial I
less tran.imitters.
phase of this project.
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