18—Friday, June 25, 1971
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Students in Need of Loans Exceed Available Funds, Federation Unit Learns
The Jewish Welfare Federation's
committee on Jewish scholarship
service reports a substantial in-
crease in the number of students
requesting interest-free loans dur-
ing the past year, and it is expect-
ed that the 1971-72 demand will
far exceed the available money
this year. according to John L.
Greenberg, chairman.
Although, historically, the com-
mittee has been able to fill be-
tween 80 and 90 per cent of all
applications for assistance, Green-
berg reports that only 40-50 per
cent of the requests could be met
for the school year now ending.
While there is more money avail-
able to the committee than ever
before, it can meet proportionate-
ly less of the demand.
The increased activity of the
committee reflects the constant-
ly rising cost of higher educa-
tion, the recent cutbacks in gov-
ernment and university loans
and the general state of the
economy. As more young people
pursue higher education and
multiple degrees become com-
monplace—and as public sources
of educational funds close down
—the private philanthropies are
feeling increased pressure to
meet the needs of the students.
Last year, 70 students received
grants totaling $46,000. Nearly two-
thirds-66 per cent—of all applica-
tions came from graduate students,
with medicine being the largest
single field of study. The sharp in-
crease in medical students apply-
ing to the committee is a direct
reflection of the cutback in health
professions loans for the year.
Three-fourths of the students were
attending Michigan schools. The
major fields of study which neces-
sitated out-of-state schools were
osteopathy and the arts.
The committee on Jewish schol-
arship service, staffed by the Jew-
ish Vocational Service, has a dual
function: to serve as a clearing
house for nearly 30 small private
and organizational funds and to
help students be aware of all
scholarships resources available.
The funds are provided by indivi-
duals, by fraternal, social and re-
ligious groups and by Federation
agencies.
Hundreds of students have re-
ceived grants and interest-free
loans through this community ef-
fort. "Assisting students through
Jewish Scholarship Service is a
very personal way to give a chari-
table gift and still control the way
in which your gift is spent,"
Greenberg said.
The individual or organization
setting up a fund may select the
Hits Israel
Wave of Strikes
strike to alleviate a rapidly de-
TEL AVIV (JTA)—About 5,000
government hospital employees and
some 6,000 electric power station
workers were back on the job after
week-long strikes. But labor
troubles continued to simmer on
other fronts.
Police battled striking customs
officers at Ashdod Sunday morning
to force open the port gates for
scores of trucks waiting to deliver
or pick up cargo.
Administrative personnel at non-
government hospitals staged a four
hour work stoppage in support of
the government hospital workers
who were forced to end their walk-
out Friday after the cabinet invok-
ed emergency back-to-work regu-
lations.
Meanwhile, a revolt was brew-
ing in the leftist Mapam faction
whose rank-and-file objected
angrily to their leadership's ac-
quiescence in the government's
action.
The striking hospital employes-
4,000 management and service per-
sonnel and 1,000 physicians—ob-
served the back-to-work order is-
sued Friday by Health Minister
Victor Shemtov of Mapam follow-
ing an emergency session of the
cabinet. But they did so with un-
concealed bitterness. They have
severed all contact with ministry
officials and with the Public Serv-
ice Authority, the umbrella organi-
zation of Israel's civil service em-
ployes.
The electric power workers de-
cided to halt their strike Sunday
morning, only hours before the cab-
inet was scheduled to act in that
situation. They accepted assur-
ances of speedy negotiations to
iron out the complicated situation
that developed when the govern.
ment refused to endorse a new
wage agreement they reached with
the state-owned Israel Electric
Corp. on grounds that it was in-
flationary.
At Ashdod port, the scene of
prolonged labor strife last year,
dock foremen ended a work slow-
down, but the uniformed customs
officers declared a strike for
higher wages and locked the port
gates as trucks lined up block-
ing traffic for hours.
Police intervened and a pitched
battle ensued. The strike was sus-
pended temporarily as the finance
ministry sent a deputation to Ash-
dod for on-the-spot negotiations.
The government was forced to
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students which his money will
benefit or he can select to have
his representative or a member
of the committee make the de-
cision. Some of the funds in-
clude provisions, such as speci-
fying students studying a parti-
cular profession or attending a
particular school. Most funds
have no provisions, making the
funds more easily used for any
needy students.
Students who are eligible to ap-
ply for loans must be Jewish and
reside in the metropolitan Detroit
area. They should be attending a
Michigan school unless they are
studying in a field for which suit-
able training is not available in the
state.
The screening process for stu
dents needing assistance begins
with the professional counselors at
the Jewish Vocational Service, a
Federation agency. The counselors
examine the needs of the students
and help work out a budget for
the school year. After deducting
the amount which the student has
available to him through summer
employment, parental assistance
or other sources, it is determined
the amount of aid which will be
needed.
The student is then assisted in
applying for available scholarships
or grants other than those adminis-
tered by the committee. It is only
after exhausting all other possible
sources of funds that the student's
case is presented to the commit-
tee.
Representatives of each of the
participating funds meet three
times yearly, prior to the opening
of each semester. Each carefully
screened case is presented by a
JVS representative without identi-
fying the student's name. Each
fund then decides to whom it will
grant assistance and for what
amount. Through this process a
student may receive the total
amount of his budget from one
fund or by having a part of it
paid by each of several funds.
His debt is payable after he com-
pletes his education and becomes
established in his field. He then
repays the fund or funds from
whom he received money.
Anyone wishing information on
seting up a scholarship fund, may
contact Kalman Tillem at the Jew-
ish Vocational Service, 833-8100.
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A Histadrut survey revealed that
Or see your travel agent
during 1970, the Israeli economy
A banker is a fellow who lends
Abe Marcus, Exec. Dir. • Michael Paskow, Resident Mgr.
suffered a loss of 300,000 working his umbrella when the sun is shin-
days through strikes. Striking ing and wants it back the minute
secondary school teachers contri- it begins to rain.—Mark Twain.
buted the majority, 190,000 days,
while 40,000 were by striking
nurses.
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NEW ISSUE
1st Cholera Case of Year:
Arab 'From Hebron
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The year's
first cholera case was diagnosed
here Monday. The patient is a 23-
year-old Arab from Hebron. The
Israeli health authorities were un-
certain of the origin of the case.
Last year there were 485 cholera
cases in Israel and in the occupied
Arab territoriees-105 Jews and
380 Arabs—with four of them fatal.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
learned from very reliable health
ministry sources that there have
been outbreaks of cholera in at
least two neighboring Arab states,
which were said to be concealing
their cases—in violation of World
Health Organization rules—so as
not to discourage tourism.
But Dr. Daniel Brachott, head of
the health ministry's infectious di-
seases department, told the JTA
that WHO will henceforth list
cholera cases without reliance on
governmental reports.
Israel Launches Rocket
BEERSHEBA (ZINS)—Scientists
of Haifa's Institute of Technology
have launched a petrol-fueled
rocket, wholly made in Israel, at
an undisclosed military base in
the Negev. According to a Tech-
nion spokesman, the successful
launch of this two-stage missile
has no particular military signific-
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