$500,000 Prentis Gift
to WSU Memorializes
Helen Prentis Lande

The Meyer and Anna Prentis Family Foundation has contrib-
uted a gift of $500,000 to Wayne State University in memory of
Helen Vera Prentis Lande, daughter of Mrs. Prentis and the late
Mr. Prentis, who was treasurer of General Motors Corp.
WSU President George E. Gullen Jr. announced that the uni-
versity will rename its Medical Research Building in the Detroit

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MADISON, Wis. (JTA) — Prof. Howard M. Temin, of the University of Wiscon-
sin here, who was one of the three cancer research experts named as joint winner of
the 1975 Nobel Prize for Medicine, is Jewish.
The 40-year-old Prof. Temin is a member of the Madison Jewish Community
Council and the Beth Israel Center. His wife is a life member of the Great Lakes
Region Chapter of Hadassah, and the family is active in Beth Israel Synagogue.
Prof. David Baltimore of the Massachusetts Institute of Technodogy, and Dr.
Renato Dubecco of Britain's Cancer Research Fund Laboratory shared in the Nobel
Prize. Prof. Baltimore is also Jewish.

Wisc. Jewish
Cancer Expert
Wins Medicine
Nobel Prize

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Ford Opposes PLO Again;
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Medical Center the Helen Vera Prentis Lande Medical Research
Building.
The Prentis family has made several large contributions to
Wayne State, beginning with Mr. Prentis' efforts in establishing
the WSU School of Business Administration in 1945. That school
is located in the Meyer and Anna Prentis Building on Cass across
from the Detroit Public Library.
A new student apartment building on Third is also named
for the Prentis family, and President Gullen said the gift in
Stories about Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's speech to Congress Wednesday and world
memory of Mrs. Lande shows the family's "continued inter-
reaction to the anti-Zionist resolution in the United Nations appear on Page 56.
est" in Detroit and Wayne State University.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Ford has reaffirmed opposition to Palestinian participation
Mrs. Lande died Sept. 5, 1974 in Montreal where she was
in the Middle East peace negotiations until they recognize the state of Israel and has repeated his
being treated for an illness. Formerly of Detroit, she made her
home in Palm Beach, Fla. There she was a member of Hadassah,
condemnation of the anti-Zionist resolution adopted by the United Nations Third Committee.
Women's American ORT, Temple Israel, the women's auxiliary of
In a news conference taped in Jacksonville, Fla. last weekend, Ford was asked his view about the
Hebrew University and the Jewish Guild for the Blind. She was
attacks in the UN on Zionism as a form of racism by a reporter who also noted that Egyptian Presi-
also active in the American Jewish Congress.
dent Anwar Sadat has made "similar allegations."
A luncheon announcing the Prentis gift was scheduled for
Ford, who met with Sadat in Jacksonville over the weekend, did not mention the Egyptian Presi-
today at the WSU Medical School. Attending were Mrs. Lande's
dent,
but said, "We are doing all we can possibly do in the United Nations to defeat the resolution"
mother, Mrs. Meyer Prentis, and her three sisters, Mrs. Lester
which will be brought up before the General Assembly. He added that, "I am getting more and more
Morris, Mrs. Marvin Frenkel and Mrs. Beverly Straus. Also in
optimistic that the possibility does exist" to defeat the resolution because "it is fundamentally con-
attendance were husbands Lester Morris and Marvin Frenkel, as
trary to the United Nations Charter."
well as Dale Frenkel; her aunt and uncle Mr. and Mrs. Meyer
Steinberg and university officials.
"What we will do if we lose," Ford said, "is a matter that I will pass judgement on at the
The Helen Vera Prentis Lande
time. But I think on sober reflection that a majority of the members of the United Nations will
Medical Research Building is lo-
recognize that that is not in consonance with the Charter of the United Nations."
cated on Canfield north of Grace,
Regarding the participation of the Palestinians in Mideast negotiations, a subject that was dis-
Harper and Children's Hospitals.
cussed last week by Sadat and Ford during which Sadat urged Ford to change his view, the American
The building was completed in
chief executive said:
1964, and was the first of WSU's
"These Palestinians do allege that they have certain rights, and they are insisting on participa-
medical school buildings to be lo-
tion,
for example, at a Geneva conference or any overall conference. But they have refused to recognize
cated in the Detroit Medical Center.
the state of Israel, and we, of course, strongly back
WSU researchers in the four-
the state of Israel in its attitude that there must be
story facility are conducting gov-
ernment-sponsored and privately-
recognition before there can by any contacts or any
A Dutch-born Jew who was serving as a male
funded studies of cancer, heart,
participation by the Palestinians in any negotia-
nurse to the dissident Kurds of northern Iraq, was
lung and other diseases.
tions."
hanged Monday in Iraq after a court ruled he was
Several major studies on blood
A reporter asked whether, if recognition was
an Israeli spy.
disease, thrombosis, and genetics,
forthcoming,
land could be found to create a Pales-
Helen Prentis Lande
See story on Page 32
have been conducted there.
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Iraq Hangs Samaritan

Massive UN Protest Called

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NEW YORK (JTA) — Plans for a massive demonstration on Tuesday in Manhattan's "Garment Dis-
trict" to protest the "grotesque" United Nations draft resolution equating Zionism with racism is being
sponsored by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
Rabbi Israel Miller, Presidents Conference chairman, said the protest had been scheduled for Tuesday
in expectation of early presentation to the General Assembly plenary of the draft resolution approved last
month by the UN Third Committee. He said the demonstration was being organized "to voice the feeling
of all Americans about this obnoxious and obscene display of anti-Semitism at the United Nations."
The two-hour protest will begin at noon. All 32 member organizations in the Presidents Confer-
ence are cooperating in the effort to make this the largest demonstration since Nov. 4, 1974 when an
estimated 200,000 persons gathered here to protest the appearance before the General Assembly of
Yasir Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
A Presidents Conference spokesman said initial reports were that participants in the Tuesday rally
'uld be coming from as far as Cleveland and Toronto.
A Detroit expression of protest against the indignities at the UN and the anti-Zionist resolution will
be heard at a press conference to be held at the Detroit Press Club, Tuesday morning. At that time, local
Zionist spokesmen will be joined by representatives of the Christian community, by labor and black leaders,
in defining the Zionist ideal. It is sponsored by the Detroit Zionist Federation.
It will be part of a nationwide condemnation of the anti-Jewish acts by the Arab-Communist bloc at the
UN.

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Book FairOpens Saturday With Herzog

A rich program of Jewish literature and events, highlighted by well-known Jewish scholars and au-
thors, will be displayed at the 24th annual Jewish Book Fair which opens Saturday evening at the main
Jewish Community Center.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Chaim Herzog, opens the week-long series of lectures,
luncheons, and special events at 8:30 p.m. Saturday with a lecture in the Center's Aaron DeRoy Theater on
"Israel and the United Nations."
Gen. Herzog is former director of Israel's military intelligence, and wrote the recent best-seller "The
War of Atonement." He has been outspoken at the United Nations in opposition to a committee resolution
linking Zionism with racism.
The poster shown at right was commissioned by the Jewish Book Council of the National Jewish
Welfare Board to commemorate Jewish Beck Month in the United States, Oct. 31-Nov. 28.
An editorial and a complete schedule of events from the 24th annual Jewish Book Fair appear on Pages
4 and 12.

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