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PARKER, BURROUGHS & WAY
INSURANCE OF ALL KINDS
Norman A. Way * R. W. Peters • A M. Harris, Jr.
BRUNSWICK, GA.
Parker Realty Company
SALES • RENTALS • LOANS • LEASES
APPRAISALS • PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
PARKER BUILDING
BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA
An Institution for Saving* ami Home Owning
BRUNSWICK
FEDERAL SAVINGS
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION
BRUNSWICK, GA.
C. H. SHELDON
President
PAUL MORTON,
Vice-President
NORMAN A WAY,
Secretary-T reasurer
BRUNSWICK HARDWARE COMPANY
HARDWARE, PAINTS, FARMING IMPLEMENTS
AND SPORTING GOODS
Telephones: 53 - 54
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Tel. 228
(1,000 acres) in the Negev.
Their new settlement was lo
cated 20 kilometres north of the
Arab port of Gaza and about 12
kilometres south of Negba. It in
cluded a citrus grove of 100 du
nams, and in the first year of settle
ment, the farmers were able to
pick a moderate crop of citrus fruit
and to join in the export shipments
to British markets.
The first pioneer group went out
from the lush and verdant fields
of Kfar Saba to the arid Negev
wastelands in 1944. A year later
they were joined by their fellow-
settlers, wives and children who
remained in the Kfar Saba region
during the preparatory period.
The first budget they were
granted by the Jewish Agency
amounted to 28,000 pounds and
within a short period the pioneers
were able to install an irrigation
network and other machinery.
The story of Kibbutz Gvar-Am is
the story of most of the pioneering
groups which undertake the ardu
ous task of turning the wilderness
into fertile areas. Year-by-year
the settlers added a little more to
their property; they put up build
ings, built roads and fences, ex
tended their water installations.
They planted gardens and laid
down groves. They acquired live
stock.
In the fall of 1944, there were
about a hundred and sixty men,
women and children on the spot.
It began to assume a civilized ap
pearance wholly out of keeping
with the grim, dour landscape of
the parched Negev. The story par
alleled those of the other frontier
settlements in the southland of
Israel.
As their assets grew, the settlers
started borrowing from local bank
ing agencies for expansion. In
1944. they needed a truck. They
had received permission from the
Palestine (British) Government to
purchase a Chevrolet three-tonner,
and it was to the Central Bank of
Cooperative Institutions in Pales
tine, Ltd., that they applied for a
loan of 1.000 pounds to finance the
purchase. The Central Bank is the
oldest subsidiary of the Palestine
Economic Corporation, veteran
American development company
which has been operating in Israel
since 1926.
Gvar-Am pointed proudly to its
record in the ensuing years. In
1945, it took a group of 30 new im
migrants, survivors of the notori
ous Nazi death camp at Bergen
Belsen. At the end of the year, an
other ten immigrants from the
European DP camps joined it.
They needed housing. Again they
turned to the Central Bank. They
were granted an initial loan of 700
pounds of a joint housing fund con
ducted by the Bank with the Jew
ish Agency.
A most unusual form of collat
eral was taken by the Central
Bank, which administers the fund.
In view of the legal difficulty of
obtaining a mortgage upon unpar
celled, communal property, the
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