Kathleen Straus Seeks WSU Post Miss Shiffman to Be Local MD Says
Kathleen Straus, Democra- State Board of Education and
FDA Hampers
tic candidate for the Wayne a former elected trustee of Mrs. Gershenson
State University Board of the Wayne County Commu-
Aid to Retarded
Governors, has had many nity College.
years of involvement with
Jewish organizations.
Vice president of the De-
troit Chapter, American Jew-
ish Committee, she serves on
the AJC national executive
council and national housing
committee. She is a member
of the National Council of
Jewish Women, Women's
American ORT and the
United Order of True Sisters.
She served on the Jewish
Community Council commu-
nity relations committee and
is currently on the urban
affairs subcommittee. She
also was on the board of the
Women's Division of the Jew-
ish Welfare Federation.
Mrs. Straus is a past presi-
dent of the Detroit League of
Women Voters, past presi-
dent of the Schulze School
PTA, former member of the
advisory committee on high-
er education appointed by the
; Judge Gilbert Seeks
`Smooth Transition'
of '73 Court Cases
Alice L. Gilbert, presiding
judge of the 48th District
• Court, has asked the presid-
ing Oakland County Circuit
Court judge to call a meeting
of candidates for circuit
.3, court judgeships and the
court administrator to meet
now to discuss facilitating a
smooth transition of cases
preparatory to the 1973 court
I calendar.
Judge Gilbert is seeking a
six-year term on the Oak-
land County Circuit Court in
, November after racking up
/ the biggest vote of the seven
i candidates in the August pri-
mary.
She asked the candi-
-I dates for the 48th District
Court to meet to discuss the
district's 1973 court calendar.
Judge Gilbert also was
critical of all segments of
the community in what she
described as the failure to
stem the tragedy of suicides
among youth.
--. "The court is here to help,
not merely to punish ... but
we need information which
should be supplied by the
--prosecutor, the defense and
the law enforcement _agency
on the conditions and circum-
stances of the offense. Co-
operation could help us al-
leviate the problem."
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In a recently published
book, Detroit physician Dr.
Henry Turkel charges. the
U.S. Food and Drug Admin-
istration with obstructing ef-
forts to improve the condi-
tion of the mentally retarded.
"New Hope for the Men-
tally Retarded — Stymied by
the FDA" is the title of this
Vantage Press book, which
For several years Mrs.
Straus served as an econo-
mist for the Federal Reserve
Bank. She was assistant di-
rector for the Mayor's Com-
mittee for Community Re-
newal in 1968, and she was
later deputy director of the
Model Neighborhood Agency
of Detroit. Currently, she is
a staff officer for the South-
east Michigan Council of
Governments.
If elected, Mrs. Straus
would be the sole woman on
the eight-person WSU board
of governors.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, Oct. 27, 1972-35
Israeli Contacts Are Urged in Lebanon
HAIFA — A group Of med- raeli students, and said they
ical students at a Beirut uni- were ready to visit Israel, if
versity have set up corn- permitted, to discuss with
mittee to press the Lebanese their counterparts issues of
government to "improve" common interest to the two
relations with Israel, accord- countries.
ing to Archbishop Joseph
Raya, who returned too Haifa
from Lebanon.
The archbishop slid he
had met with seven of the
students, who included two
includes numerous case his- Jews. They asked his help in
establishing
contact With Is-
tories.
Dr. Turkel is the developer
of the so-called "U" Series
drugs which have been used
in many countries — with
MISS SUSAN SHIFFMAN great success, he said — to
give
help to "mongoloid"
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Shiff-
man of Shrewsbury Rd. an- children. Such children are
mentally and physically re-
nounce the engagement of tarded because of chromoso-
their daughter Susan Maxine
mal
or genetic defects.
to Bruce Alan Gershenson,
Ile said their condition has
With a view toward insur- son of Mr. and Mrs. William
ing the fairness of the Gershenson of Balmoral Dr. improved both physically and
mentally following his meth-
criminal administration of
Miss Shiffman received a
justice in Detroit, James A. BA degree from the Univer- od of treatment, which dim-
Hathaway, candidate for sity of Michigan and is at- inishes excessive metabolites
judge of Recorder's Court tending graduate school at responsible for their retarda-
and presently president of Wayne State University. Mr. tion. For evidence, he in-
the Detroit Board of Educa- Gershenson is a student in cludes photographs and
X-ray pictures of retarded
tion, proposed a three-point WSU's law school.
individuals he has treated
program.
and helped.
Hathaway's proposals in-
However, Dr. Turkel
clude a call to institute a
charges, the FDA has large-
"sentencing panel" in the
ly thwarted his efforts. He
court "to reduce the dis-
has been allowed to use the
parity in the sentencing of
drugs in Michigan, but be-
criminals." There is current-
ririr
(9r1 the •t
cause the FDA never ap-
ly a voluntary sentencing
proved them for national dis-
This Week's Radio and
council program "but there
tribution, many mongoloids
Television Programs
is an immediate and justifi-
have been denied the chance
able need for an expansion REFLECTIONS IN SOUND to overcome their handicap,
of such a program," said
Dr. Turkel said.
Time: 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
Hathaway.
Born in Austria, Dr. Tur-
Station: WCAR.
He also urged the in-
Feature: Rabbi Harold S. kel received his MD degree
creased use of computers in
from
the University of Michi-
Loss will explore some fun-
the courtroom and in related
damental Jewish themes gan. He has lectured and
clerical fields, thus decreas-
presented exhibits on mongo-
present in today's popular.
ing the time period between
lism and inborn errors of
arrest and courtroom ap- music.
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He called for increased use
Time: 10 p.m. Sunday.
of referees to handle simple
Station: WBRB-FM (102.7).
misdemeanor cases, and thus
Feature: Phil Blazer pro-
free judges to give more
time to serious crimes that vides a contemporary pot-
pourri of Jewish humor,
come before the bench.
music, cultura and literature.
Dip in Western Aliya
Seen as Continuing
JERUSALEM ( Z INS) —
During January—May 1972,
there were 1,900 Ohm from
Western Europe, compared
with 2,100 in the same period
the year before.
American and Canadian
immigration was 2,100, com-
pared with 2,170 in the pre-
vious year.
Realistic estimates by the
Jewish Agency are that, for
the year 1972, there will be
some 8,000 new ohm from
Canada and the U.S., as
against 9,000 in 1971. Im-
migration from France and
England has also declined
somewhat in the current
year.
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Time: 7 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WMZK-FM (98).
Feature: Jock Robert of-
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HIGHLIGHTS
Time: 9:45 a.m. Sunday.
Station: WJBK.
Feature: "Hadassah — an
Israel Report" with Golda
Meir and Teddy Kollek, is a
filmed report of Hadassah's
work in Israel.
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former chairman of the de-
partment of economics at
Harvard University, has
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Time: 12:30 p.m. Sunday.
Station: WWJ.
Feature: Mark Van Doren
and Maurice Samuel discuss
the city of Jerusalem, its
topography, sieges. assaults,
blockades and many recon-
structions, in the last pro-
gram of a 15-week series on
"The Cities and Surround-
ings of the Bible." Next
week, a new series will be-
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MRS. SYLVIA DEUTCH,
director of the American
Jewish Congress' New York
Metropolitan C o c i I, was
sworn in as a member of
the City Planning Commis•
sion by Mayor John Lindsay
l ast Saturday. Mrs. Deutch,
of East Flatbush, Brooklyn,
is the third woman appointed
to the commission since it
was established in 1938. Her
term expires on Dec. 31,
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