New Jewish Community Center Construction Approved
by Federation; Cost Estimated at About $9,500,000
Plan Use of Maple-Drake Land
for Other Communal Agencies
The board of governors of the Jewish Welfare Federation
voted Tuesday evening to approve plans and authorize the
building of a new Jewish Community Center in the Maple-Drake
Rd. area of West Bloomfield Township.
The new main Jewish Center building will be located on
part of a site of approximately 130 acres which was purchased
by United Jewish Charities in the mid-1960s. Present construc-
tion estimates for the building, including equipment, are that
it will cost about $9,500,000, according to Federation President
Mandel L. Berman and Jewish Center President N. Brewster
Broder.
When completed in 1975, it will have more outdoor facilities
than those at the current Meyers-Curtis location. These will
provide for greater sport and physical education activities and
especially augment opportunities for full•family-oriented pro-
ms.
At Tuesday's meeting, Federation authorized plans for site
improvements, so that the now vacant land will be suitable
for the use of the Center as well as other communal agencies
as required.
The preliminary Center plans were reviewed and approved
by Federation's health and welfare budget and planning divi-
sion and by the capital needs committee, after extensive study
over the past three years. Statements to support the Center's
projections were made to the Federation board by the respec-
tive chairmen of these year-round committees, Arnold Faud-
man and David Handleman.
"The community and its top leadership will be asked to
participate in funding the Center's building costs," said Alan
E. Schwartz, chairman of Federation's executive committee,
which devoted "a series of definitive meetings over the last
six months to the numerous and, at times, perplexing con-
siderations which naturally can be expected around such a
large and significant undertaking."
Berman and Schwartz also stressed that throughout the
long study process, the basic plans were continuously reviewed
by Federation vice presidents Samuel Frankel and Martin E.
Citrin who assisted the Center in its planning.
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June 1, 1973
U.S. Warns UN Security Council
Not to Disturb Resolution 242;
Renews Demand for Negotiation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States Tuesday warned the Security Council to
avoid taking any action which would disturb UN Resolution 242.
The warning came from John Scali, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, in a rare
appearance before newsmen at the White House a week before the council begins what he
called "a sweeping review of the Middle Eastern problem" and the day before Senate hear-
ings begin on the Mid East oil situation and the political situation in the area.
Scali declared the U.S. position is for Israel and the Arab nations to enter into "direct
or indirect" negotiations to reach a settlement. He stressed, in response to newsmen's ques-
tions, that the "continuance" of Resolution 242 "as it is now written" is the "takeoff point"
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Henry Ford 11 Repudiates Arabs' Peace Activities;
Deplores Need for Militarism, Stresses Peace Needs
Henry Ford II's car that was shipped for his use while in Israel was stolen at the Tel Aviv Hilton Hotel, Monday. On Tuesday evening
he broke his arm. But his scheduled appearances at Israel Manufacturers Association functions were not interrupted.
Special to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV—Henry Ford II, chairman of the board of Ford Motor Co., in a speech Tuesday, at a luncheon meeting here marking
the 50th anniversary of the Manufacturers' Association of Israel, declared that peace in the Middle East would bring "enormous positive
benefits" to the economy of the entire region.
Ford participated Wednesday in the official launching of his company's commercial vehicle assembly at the Nazareth plant of
Automotive Industries Limited, a firm owned by Israeli interests. The Nazareth plant assembles Ford Escort passenger cars and since
1968 has employed 600 people. (In his interview with The Jewish News editor last year, upon his return from Israel where he was on a
visit with Max Fisher, he said he was impressed by the employment record at that plant and the inclusion among them of a number of
new immigrants from Russia).
"Israel's technical, scientific and managerial leadership and its modern industrial economy could provide a natural complement to
the vast manpower reserves and the growing financial resources of the Arab world," Ford stated in his speech Tuesday. "If the nations
of the Middle East can find a way to compromise their differences, make peace and work together, they will have an opportunity to raise
the standard of living and improve the quality of life for all their people."
Ford paid special tribute to the state of Israel on its 25th anniversary.
"In all of history, I doubt that any people have ever before accomplished so much, so quickly, with so little in their favor and
such odds against them," he said. "The greatest achievement is that Israel has survived and grown strong enough to assure its future survival."
Although he said that the economy of Is-
rael has shown "a sustained rate of growth
equalled in few other nations," Ford empha-
sized that Israel's future depends "in large
measure on its ability to sell itself to foreign
businessmen, both as a source of industrial
products and as a promising location for direct
investment."
In order to generate substantially greater
revenues from industrial exports, he said,
Israel will need to transform its industrial
economy. In place of small businesses pro-
ducing for local markets, it will need to de-
velop large businesses capable of producing for
world markets.
Ford said that small countries can bet-
ter participate in the growth of motor ve-
hicle manufacturing by specializing in large-
scale production of particular components for
export to established vehicle producers abroad.
"One advantage of this approach is that
it permits local manufacturers to sidestep the
laborious process of penetrating foreign con-
sumer markets and provides an immediate
outlet for volume production," he explained.
"There is no reason why Israel and other
Middle Eastern countries could not eventually
become efficient suppliers of automotive corn-
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Shavuoi
5733
Bar-Ilan Gives
Phillip Stollman
Honorary Degree
Phillip Stoliman, nationally
prominent in the ranks of
Mizrachi - Hapoel HaMizrachi
Religious Zionist Movement,
national chairman of Amer-
ican Friends of Bar-Ilan Uni-
versity, will be awarded an
honorary doctorate at the
Bar-Ilan graduation exer-
cises, June 25, in Ramat Gan,
Israel. Selection of the De-
troiter, who has been among
the most active leaders in the
Allied Jewish Campaign, was
announced this - week by Dr.
Joseph H. Lookstein, chan-
cellor of Bar-Ilan University.
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Day of Vigil
Planned on
Brezhnev's
U.S. Visit
Detailed reports on status
of Russian Jewry and the
American protests, Page 11.
You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, of the
first fruits of the wheat harvest; and the Feast of
lngathering at the turn of the year.—Exodus 34:22.