20 Friday, January 4, 1980
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Creative Use of Cottonseed Makes Israel 'Land o' Cotton'
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The land of milk and
honey may become the land
of cotton! Did you ever try
eating bread made of cot-
tonseed flour? Or maybe
chocolate candy made of cot-
tonseed extract?
The bread made of cotton-
seed flour is said to contain
more protein, but, at the
same time, it has less
calories. So eating the Is-
raeli bread made in Haifa
will make it possible for you
to eat more and still not
gain weight. How would
that suit you? And the
chocolate candy won't harm
your teeth as much.
Oil for use in margarine is
also extracted and is now
being sold in great quan-
tities to Sweden. Certain re-
sidual parts of the cotton
plant are used for the man-
ufacture of paints and
cosmetics.
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president of the JDC. "Al-
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Milamour plant in Haifa
started with the process.
ing of 16,000 tons of cot-
ton. Now it is over 60,000
tons. The Jerusalem Post
likens the new role of the
cottonseed plant with the
manna found by the Is-
raelites when they went
forth into the wilderness
after their exit from
Egypt.
When Anwar Sadat vis-
ited Israel recently, the
Haifa cotton plant was one
of the two plants shown him
and apparently he was very
much interested. Egypt is
one of the oldest cotton
growing countries and the
Israeli experiments may do
a great deal for the Egyp-
tian economy.
Thomas Jefferson is said
to have never seen cotton
growing although he was a
farmer himself and knew a
great deal about agricul-
ture. The southerners who
noted its presence didn't
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Prof. Frank M. Lowen-
berg, who conducts the
Bar-Ilan graduate seminar,
stated that the students are
assigned to field work under
the supervision of the un-
versity staff after receiving
an intensive orientation
about the problems experi-
enced by olim and the serv-
ices provided to them by
government and voluntary
agencies.
Describing the field
work program in the
Natanya area, where
there is a high concentra-
tion of new arrivals from
Russia and other coun-
tries, Prof. Lowenberg
said: "A number of stu-
dents work with young
mothers referred by the
local Mother-Child
clinics. In the process
they become painfully
aware of the cultural dif-
ferences separating their
clients from -the commu-
nity.
"Individual case work,
concentrating on the every-
day problems of early
child-care and family plan-
ning, helped young mothers
experiencing fear and inse-
curity in adjusting to their
new environment."
Other students work with
children and teenagers at
the local school. They lead
discussion groups dealing
with the anger and frustra-
tion these youngsters feel
because of difficulties with
language and communica-
tion, their inabilities to
excel or even participate in
the classroom, and parental
pressures.
They also acquaint Rus-
sian children, who had
never been exposed to
Jewish culture, with the
values and customs of Is-
raeli society.
Some students are as-
signed to a nearby absorp-
tion center operated by the
Jewish Agency, where they
assist adult newcomers in
learning Hebrew and in
securing suitable employ-
ment and housing.
think it had any commercial
possibilities because of the
difficulty of separating the
fiber from the seed.
Then a young fellow from
the north, Eli Whitney,,
went south with the purpose
of getting a job teaching
school. He heard the far-
mers talking about cotton
but complaining of the diffi-
culties they had with it.
Whitney's cotton gin
created a virtual revolution
in the south.
The south saw itself
with cotton supplying the
material for the clothes of
the world. No more de-
pendence on the sheep's
wool. One southern farm
could produce more cot-
ton than 500 sheep.
What the Isarelis have
done is to really perform an-
other "Whitney." They have
greatly condensed the ex-
tracting process.
Washington State U. Denies
Role in Award to Qaddafi
SEATTLE (JTA) — Offi-
cials of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai
Brith in Seattle said they
were satisfied that Wash-
ington State University had
"no official role" in a visit to
Libya three months ago by a
faculty member and
graduate students who were
part of a group that pre-
sented the Martin Luther
King Jr. Award to Kibya's
leader Muammar Qaddafi.
Jerome Anches, ADL
advisory board chairman,
said this assurance was re-
ceived from Dr. Glen Ter-
rell, president of the State
University in Pullman,
Wash., in response to a
query last October by the
ADL regional office in Los
Angeles.
Anches and David F.
Stahl, Pacific Northwest
regional director, acknowl-
edged Terrell's recent re-
sponse and stated that "It
was most gratifying to learn
that no state funds were
used for this travel and that
WSU was not involved in
the planning or implement-
ing of this trip."
The matter arose when
the ADL learned from in-
formation released by the
Metro Atlanta Chapter of
the Southern Christian
Leadership Converence
(SCLC) that the black
studies department at
Washington State had
coordinated the visit of 18
black Americans to
Libya to meet with Qad-
dafi and present him with
the award.
Anches said, in a state-
ment released here, that
"Dr. Terrell's response to
our inquiry reassured us in
the league that WSU was
not even indirectly in-
volved in the unpardonable
awarding of the Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Award to
Col Qaddafi, the master-
mind of the recent outrage-
ous takeover of our nation's
embassy in Tripoli.
"I am pleased that Dr.
Terrell clarified the facts
concerning this trip and
clearly indicated that
Washington State Univer-
sity in no way participated
or sponsored the actions of
those individuals who
traveled to Libya in Sep-
tember of this year."
Technion Soil Conditioners
Have Several Applications
patented _products has
NEW YORK — A soil
special properties to ef-
conditioner, which will
enhance the growth of cer- fect specific functions.
tain vegetables and will act Lima and Lia, two of
these, when mixed with
to prevent soil erosion, has
water, produce a trans-
been developed in Israel
parent brown solution
from paper industry waste
which will not precipitate
material.
and can therefore be
The new development is
used with ordinary ag-
the work of a research team
ricultural spraying or
headed by Prof. Dan Zas-
drip irrigation equip-
laysky, a soil physicist in
the Department of Agricul- ment without fear of
tural Engineering at clogging the nozzles.
Copolima and Copoliba.
Technion-Israel Institute of
Technology in Haifa. Work- two other conditioners now
ing with him were Dr. Leb being tested, are stable
Rosenberg, an industrial
emulsions which can also be
used without risk of clog-
chemist who recently mig-
rated from the Soviet ging. These give more per-
Union, and Dr. Joseph manent protections to sand.
Morin of Israel's Ministry of
In addition to their use-
Agriculture.
fulness in agriculture, the
While the possibility of conditioners can be used to
soil conditioning has been
keep down the dust level at
known in principle for some
roadsides, unpaved parking
years, according to the lots, playgrounds and gar-
Technion scientists it was dens. In certain areas, the
not possible to produce con- use of conditioners will pre-
ditioners economically. clude the necessity of shel-
Previous experimental
ters.
products required excessive
Spraying a loaded truck
quantities to achieve or open railway car will fix
limited results. Use of paper the surface of any granular
industry effluents, which
material without fear of pol-
constitute 40 percent of the lution. Similarly, applica-
end products, has radically tion around drainage pipes
decreased the cost of prod- will prevent washing of fine
uction.
particles into the drains and
Each of the new subsequent clogging.