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26—Friday, August 4, 1972

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Joseph Barkman Recalls Family's
History, Contributions in Tawas Area

Man comes into this world
naked and bare.
He goes through this
world
with trouble and care.
When he dies, he goes the Lord
knows where,
I f he does well here, he will do
the same there."

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These Hindu lines were used by
Joseph Barkman's father, Abra-
ham, to answer religious argu-
ments from his neighbors in East
Tawas, Mich. Abraham and Jo-
seph's business wasn't arguing.
It was working in the lumber busi-
ness and building the Tawas area.

Joseph Ilarkma.a, 82, was named
the "Citizet3,,,of the Year" in East
Tawas in .1968
At the banquet
where he was honored for the
award. one of the speakers called
him the - angel of the Tawases"
and lauded him for his gift of land

M asonic 'Temple

The Barkman's have a long
history of involvement in the
Tawases. Abraham Barkman
came to Detroit from Poland in
INGO when he was six years old.
In 1879 he arrived in Tawas to
start working as a clerk in the
store of A. Meyers,
pioneer merchant of East Ta-
was.

Abraham Barkman
started his own store in East Ta-
was and served the community
in his store for 22 years. He also
operated a private bank on a part-
time basis.

In I88.9

Joseph says that when cus-
tomers owed his father a debt,
they would avoid coming into the
store. If Abraham would meet
any of these debtors on the street,
he would give them a receipt in
full and suggest that if they were
having bad luck and if they needed
anything, they should come into
the store.
In 1911 Abraham Barkman got
his start in the lumber business
in Tawas City. lie manufactured
crates for Perfection Oil Company
of Cleveland and blocking materi-
al for Maxwell Motors. Joseph
worked with his father and has
continued to run the lumber husi-
ness until today.
Joseph Barkman says that his
family and other Jewish people
in the Tawas area held their
religious views and observed the
holidays regularly.
"If we did not have a minyan
at the house we were having serv-
ices," recalls Joseph. "we would

Technion VP Post Goes
to Abraham Ginzburg

HAIFA — Prof Abraham Ginn-
burg, de.ie. nf the department of
computer science at the 'realrion.

Israel
Tecnnology, has
been appionted deputy vice presi-
dent of the Technion . Prof. Ginz-
bur.; will begin his two-year term ,
of office in October.
Prof. Ginzburg
was horn in

Poland in 1926 and came to Israel
in 1949 Pt 1969 he was appointed
head of Technions newly-estAi^
lished det artment of •--
ence, and
-oputer sci-
- ...as appointed a full
,-inessor in 1971. Prof. Ginzburg
specialize. in binary systems and
in algeLr,iic theory of automata

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Technn.c ha: appointed 46-year-
old Prof Da% id Hasson as vice
president for research for a two-
year ter: He w ill take up his.
duties in October
Prof. Hasson, who was born in

Israel, received his MSc from the'
Hebrew University in 1950 and his
PhD from the University of London ;
in 1956. lie served as chairman of
the Technion chemistry department '
from 1964-65 and was appointed a
full professor in 1969.
Prot. Hasson specializes in de-
salination.

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have some folks come from Bay
City to help.
"As time went on, our folks
gradually left Tawas or passed
away, so we no longer had our
services here.
"My father always closed his
place of business on the Sabbath
and holidays, and I do likewise.
I have found that people respect
you for this and will wait until
you open up again."
John Cumming, director of
the Clarke Historical Library,
says that one of the main con-
tributions of the Barkman's and
other Jewish merchants along
the Lake Huron shore, was that
they brought competition to the
towns,

"In the lumber camps and in
the lumber mill communities, the
people were often at the mercy
of the company store," Cummings
said. ''These merchants were ahle
to undersell such stores and make
them ineffectual in holding the
employes in the bondage of debt."
Joseph Barkman says he is the
lone survivor in his community—
younger members of the families
moved to the cities and older ones
died.
Ile still runs the lumber busi-
ness. and serves as a repository
of , historical information of the
community. His offices are mu-
, scums of artifacts and pictures,
old phonographs, tool s, t y p e-
riters. documents. Photographs
serve as reminders of the impor-
tant role the Barkmans played in
the past.

JDL Denies Carrying
'Death to Angela' Signs

NEW YORK (JTA)—Nat Rosen-
wasser, a member of the Jewish
Defense League's national execu-
tive board, denied an implication
in a recent Washington Post story
that JDI, members had carried
"Death to Angela" Davis signs
outside a rally here celebrating
the recent acquital of the black
militant of murder charges.
Rosenwasser said that the signs
the JDLers carried demanded "the
same justice that Angela received"
for 10 JOE, members currently fac-
ing federal conspiracy and bomb-
ing charges.

Rosenwasser said that other
JDL signs called on Jews "to
give money to Jewish causes
first," a reference to Jews who
had contributed money to the
Angela Davis bail fund.

According to him, the JDLers
were demonstrating a block away
from the rally site, and those who
carried the "Death to Angela" signs
were members of either the Na-

tional Renaissance Party or the
American ti „ ,

KLM-Israel Flights
Dispute Continues

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's
foreign ministry stepped into the
growing dispute between the na-
tional airlines of Israel and Hol-
land over the lucrative tourist air
traffic to Lydda Airport by dis-
closing that Israel would give ad-
vance approval to only three of 10
Dutch requests for special KLM
flights to Lydda during the current
tourist season.

The decision' was conveyed to
the Dutch foreign ministry in a
letter that said the other requests
would be considered individually.

Norbert Schmeltzer the Dutch
foreign minister, said he was "ser-
iously concerned and disappointed"
by Israel's attitude on additional
ELM flights to Israel.

Israeli officials said that when
KLM was granted a fourth weekly -
flight to Lydda earlier this year.
It was on the understanding
that "special flights," which the I
Dutch had been running to Lyd-
da during peak periods, would!
be ended. They said the number
of such special -flights topped 70
last year and that Jsrael was no
longer prepared to approve the
special flights in such large num-
bers.

German Jews Protest
Giving Award to Poles

BONN (JTA) — The West Ger-
man Central Council of Jews is
contesting a decision of the Ger-
man Book Trade Committee to
transmit the committee's 1972
Peace Award, awarded post-
humously to Polish-Jewish intellec-
tual Janusz Korczak, to the War-
saw Korczak Committee.

The Central Council is against
giving the $3,500 prize to a Polish
organization "as long as Jews are
being discriminated against in
Poland," a council official said.

Korczak, a teacher and poet
in Poland, volunteered in 1942
to accompany Jewish children
to the Treblinka gas chambers.
He was chosen for this year's
peace prize by the German Book
Trade Committee, which awards
the prize annually to int out-
standing international personal-
ity for his contributions towards
peace.

Program Set for Fall

Jerusalem Studies

JERUSALEM — A program for
the study of Jerusalem will be in-
augurated for the fall 1972 semes-
ter at the American College in
Jerusalem.

"The college will offer this
unique course in response to stu-
dent requests to learn more about
the city in which they are living
and studying," said Dr. Norman
Greenwald, president of the col-
lege.
The American College in Jeru-
salem is Israel's only four-year
English-language institution of
higher learning. Most of the stu-
dents are from the United States,
and despite the language barrier
have worked with underprivileged
Israeli youngsters.

is a growing,
"Jerusalem
dynamic city," said Dr. Green-
wald. "Experts on Jerusalem
Jewish, Christiart and Moslem,
will be invited to lecture. Field
study will be an integral part of
the program.

Russian Jewish Studies programs,
are proof of the rapid and dynamic
growth of the American College
in Jerusalem."

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Leonard Goldstein, dean of ad-
ministration of the college's Ness'
York office, said "This program,
and other new programs, such as
the Russian Area Studies and

HUNDREDS
OF NEW
CHEVROLETS
TO CHOOSE
FROM

Hospital Builds Housing

American doctors who have
volunteered to come to Jerusalem
for a year or more to help the
Hadassah-Hebrew University Med-
ical Center to establish new sub-
specialties will now be able to do
so, as a result of the completioin
of the new Rymland Hadassah
Doctors' Residences on the campus
of the Hadassah-Hebrew Uni-
versity Medical Center.

Judge CLARENCE A. REID JR.
was awarded the Civil Defense
Man of the Year award at the
July 24 Southfield city council
meeting. Col. Arthur C. Becker,
director of civil defense, presented
the award to Judge Reid,

State Sen.

COOPER
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Since Korczak has no living rela-
tives, the committtee decided to
give his prize money to the Polish
body, established in Korczak's
memory.

CONGRESS

DEMOCRAT, AUG. 8th

However, that decision has
drawn strong protest from the Cen-
tral Council of Jews, which is sug-
gesting that the money be given
to the Korczak Committee in Ger-
many, the International Red Cross
for the suffering children of Bang-
ladesh, or to UNICEF.

PAID FOR IT

COOPER FOR CONGRESS

COMMITTEE

The Washington Post story did

not say the JDI, members carried
the "death” signs but said that '
such signs were seen among .
demonstrators who included JD!.-
ers.

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-..cni Holiday Food
Drive to Aid Poor Israelis

Because the High Holy Days
come early this year, the Mizrachi
organization of Detroit already has
begun its annual campaign to as-

sist the needy in Israel.
Zvi Tornkiev ■ ice. executive

di-
rector of Detroit Nfizrachi, said

the influx of Russian Jews - into
Israel makes this year's campaign
even more significant than those
of past years. Ile said that food

packages, at $15 each, will be sent
to families in need. Super-Sol Mar-
kets in Israel again will do the
packaging and delivery, Tomkie•
wicz said.
Checks can he mailed to the
Mizrachi office, 23125 Coolidge,
Oak Park 48237. For information,
call the office, 398-7180,

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