THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 62 Friday, March 19, 1982 FoMoCo Research Official to Address Technion Body Political Moves TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Former Prime Minister Yit- zhak Rabin was shut out from six internal Labor Party chairmanships last week. At the same time, the newspaper Yediot Ahronot reported that there is wide- spread belief within the party that Shimon Peres will lead Labor into a gov- ernment of national unity with Likud after Israel's withdrawal from Sinai is completed April 25. Dutch Bias Suit AMSTERDAM (ZINS) — A published letter to the editor of a newspaper in De- nmark charged a member of the Dutch parliament with being anti-Semitic because of his "anti-Zionist" views. The Member of Parlia- ment is now suing the letter-writer for slander, claiming that his anti- Zionist views can not be characterized as anti- Semitic. Dr. W. Dale Compton, Ford Motor Co. vice presi- dent in charge of research, will discuss "The Future Automobile" as guest speaker at the American Society for Technion, De- troit Chapter, public meet- ing to be held 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at the main United Hebrew Schools building. The meeting, part of a series of free lectures deal- ing with science, technology and industry relating to Is- rael and which are open to the public, will be chaired by Julius J. Harwood. DR. COMPTON The program will include a short film "Agriculture in by the U.S. Naval Re- search Laboratories. the '80s." For information, call the Before joining Ford, Dr. Compton was profes- Technion office, 559-5190. sor of physics and direc- tor of the Coordinated Army Tightens Sciences Laboratory at WB,,Golan Rein the University of Illionis. TEL AVIV (JTA) — The Prior to joining the uni- Israeli army appears to versity, he was employed have tightened up its iron fist policy on the Golan Heights as well as on the West Bank. The Golan Druze village of Majdal Shams was placed under full curfew for some hours Wednesday, as punishment for demonstra- tions there Tuesday against the army sealing-off of the four Druze villages on the 10 V4ttR°s3i‘\ Golan Heights. The Golan ALL THE NEWS Druze are in the third week SJA, of a strike. It was only the second time that a Druze area has been placed under curfew since the heights were cap- tured from Syria in 1967. The army has denied re- ports from Majdal Shams and the other Druze vil- lages, that a measles epidemic has broken, out there and that insufficient medicines are available. The Druze residents h'ave also complained about army activities in the villages. - Israel Worried Over Arab View of U.S. Position 9iachine! THE JEWISH NEWS has something for everyone — no matter what the age or sex To: The Jewish News 17515 W. 9_ Mile Rd., Suite 865 Southfield, Mich. 48075 Please send a year's gift subscription to: NAME ADDRESS CITY FOR: STATE state occasion FROM ❑ $15 enclosed ZIP WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israeli Ambassador Moshe Arens declared that there is concern in Israel about the growing perception among the Arab states that they can continue to receive Un- ited States' arms and other aid while continuing a "pol- icy of belligerency to Is- rael." Arens told the more than 1,500 persons from across the country attending the third annual United Jewish Appeal Young Leadership Conference, that it is his job as ambassador to reverse this perception. He said the U.S. Mideast policy has al- ways been based on a strong Israel and a U.S. - Israeli "partnership." Arens spoke at an Israel buffet dinner which Sens. Alan Cranston (D-Cal.) and Bob Packwood (R-Ore.) were honored for leading the fight last year against the sale of AWACS and other arms to Saudi Arabia. England is the mother of Parliaments. Jack 0. Lefton, Butzel Awardee Ex-Home for Aged Prexy, Dies Jack 0. Lefton, who was chosen for a role among the community elite as a Butzel Award winnner, a former president of the Jewish Home for the Aged and head of numerous important commissions in behalf of the Jewish Welfare Federation, died Thursday at the age of 80. Retired president of Red Seal Oil Co., Mr. Lefton was a member of the Federation borard of governors, as- sociate chairman of Federa- tion's Capital Needs Com- mittee, a member of United Jewish Charities board of directors and on its finance committee. A past president of the Detroit Service Group, Mr. Lefton was active in the Al- lied Jewish Campaign - Is- Hyman Grinstein, Yeshiva U. Prof NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Hyman Grinstein, professor emeritus at Yeshiva Uni- versity which he served for 40 years, died March 10. He was 82. Dr. Grinstein was an au- thor and historian and had been director of the univer- sity's Teachers Institute for Men and university ar- chivist before -retiring in 1976. After relinquishing his post as Teachers Institute director, he continued to, serve as professor of Ameri- can Jewish history through 1970 at Yeshiva College and at the university's Ber- nard Revel Graduate School. Born in Dallas, he re- ceived his early education there and in Israel. He re- ceived his BA, MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. As an author and histo- rian, Dr. Grinstein's best known works were "The Rise of the Jewish Com- munity Of New York" (Jewish Publication Society of America) and "A Short History of the Jews in the United States," published in 1980 by Soncino Press Ltd., London. M. Saperstein Meyer "Red" Saperstein, a retired vending machine executive, died March 11 at age 76. Born in New York, Mr. Saperstein founded the Re- liable Vending Machine Co. in 1938. He retired five years ago. He was one of • the 12 founding members in 1948 of the Detroit Tennis Club and is a past president of the organization. He played in the state squash champion- ships in 1945 and was on the winning Class A team. He leaves his wife, Anne; two sons, Dr. Harvey and Melvyn; a daughter, Mrs. Michael (Lynne) Kukes; a brother, David "Toots" of Newport News, Va.; and seven grandchildren. _ Federation Jewish Apartments and Jewish Community Center. Mr. Lefton was named to the Sinai Hospital board of directors in 1959 and elected a lifetime member in 1971. In 1973, he was elected president of the Metropolitan Northwest Detroit Hospital Corp. He has also served as president of the Michi- Volunteer Agencies Gi for Unemployment Instil.- ance. (- - Among his many other af- filiations, Mr. Lefton was associated with Franklin JACK 0. LEFTON Hills Country Club and rael Emergency Fund. He Standard City Club. Mr. Lefton was a was a member of the 1976 Campaign Cabinet. In past member of-Temple Israel years he has held many pos- and its board and was a itions including pre- vice president of the tem- ple for 15 years. Campaign chairmanship. He leaves his wife, Celia; He was a former presi- dent of Jewish Home for a daughter, Mrs. Norman Aged, where he has held (Sydney) Stern; and three various posts over the grandchildren. Services 1 f years. He also was a p.m. Sunday at Ira Kauf- former vice president of man Chapel. . Judges Seeking Re-Election Michigan Court of Appe- als Judges Michael J. Kelly and William R. Beasley have filed for re-election. Both incumbent judges represent the second appel- late district, which consists of 14 counties, including Oakland, Macomb, Genesee and Ingham. Kelly practiced law for 18 years prior to his election to an eight-year term on the Appeals Court in 1974. He was graduated from the University of Detroit Law School in 1956. While in private prac- tice, he also served as a Special Assistant Michi- gan Attorney General and taught at Walsh Col- lege. Kelly in May will receive a Master of Judicial Process degree from the University of Virginia School of Law. KELLY BEASLEY Association and the Michi- gan Judges Association. Kelly is on the Board of Advisers of the Saint Vin- cent and Sarah Fisher Center in Farmington Hills. He also is vice president of Boysville at Clinton, Mich. Beasley, who was graduated from the Uni- versity of Michigan Law School, practiced law until elected Oakland County Circuit Judge in 1967. He was re-elected to that post in 1973. In April 1976, he was ap- pointed Court of Appeals He is currently chairman of the Michigan. Judicial judge by Governor William Tenure Commission, which Milliken and was elected to the court for a six-year tetra oversees conduct of the at the end of that year. state's judges. His profes- Beasley is a former city sional affiliations include memberships in the Insti- attorney, school board at- tute of Judicial Administra- torney and city commis- ri tion, Appellate Judges Sec- sioner in several Oakland tion of the American Bar County municipalities, in- cluding Birmingham, Ferndale and Huntington Lois Morrison Woods. He was an adjunct Lois Morrison, a member professor of legal advocacy of Jewish women's organi- at Lansing's ThomaP nations, died March 12 at Cooley Law School, a member of the Oakland age 53. Born in Toledo, Ohio, Law Enforcement Commit- Mrs. Morrison was a tee. He also is a past presi- member of Morgenthau dent of the Oakland County Chapter of Bnai Brith Bar Association. His non-judicial associa- Women and Women's American ORT. She was a tions have included direc- student at Oakland Com- torships in the American Red Cross and the Oakland munity College. She leaves her husband, Citizens League. Beasley has served with Bernard; three daughters, Patti of Los Angeles, Calif., the United Foundation, Kim of Jamestown, Colo., South Oakland Hospital and Debbie; her mother, Authority and Ferndale's Mrs. Anne Farber of Sun- Board of Commerce, Lib- rise, Fla., and a sister, Mrs. rary Board and Rotary Harry (Gloria) Michalson. Club.