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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14 1957 ■eX < 31° 9 ^ ^
NO. 24
U. S. Announces Aid To Israel
On Industrial Management
WASHINGTON, May 27, (JTA)
— The U. S. International Co
operation Administration an
nounced today a new program to
assist Israel in developing edu
cational and professional pro
grams in industrial management,
business administration and exe
cutive management. The three-
year project will be carried out
under contracts between the Uni
versity of the State of New York
and two Israeli institutions — the
Hebrew University and the Tech-
nion at Haifa.
Contracts were signed at the
Israeli Embassy with representa
tives of the University of the
State of New York. As part of
the U. S. technical cooperation
program, ICA will defray the es
timated $1,200,000 American por
tion of the total contracts costs.
Israel will finance local require
ments of the university team in
that country. The university will
send a staff of professors and
specialists to Israel and bring Is
raeli participants to the United
States for study.
A business administration pro
gram will be introduced this fall
at the Eliezer Kaplan School of
Economics and Social Sciences at
Hebrew University. Two Ameri
can faculty members, one an ac
counting specialist and one a
management specialist, will or
ganize and assist this project. The
Hebrew University will send
three of its most promising grad
uates to New York for graduate
study each year during the three-
year period. After completing
their studies they will return to
Hebrew University as members
of its teaching staff and research
department,
A graduate study in industrial
management will be developed
at the Technion by two American
specialists. The Technion will
send two members of its staff
here each year for graduate study
and program training. An execu
tive management training pro
gram, keyed to the industrial
economy of Israel, also will be or
ganized. This is to be done by
a group of four experts in the
Predict Nasser
To Let Israel
Ship Pass Suez
WASHINGTON, (AJP)—Com
menting upon the recent private
talk between Secretary of State
Dulles and Sen. Humphrey (D.-
Minn.), who has just returned
from an extensive tour of the
Middle East, columnist Robert S.
Allen revealed the following:
Dulles to Humphrey: “You don’t
think Nasser will attempt to stop
a ship flying the Israeli flag?”
Humphrey: “No, I don’t think
he will. I am of the definite
opinion that is not in his cards.
I base that on what Nasser told
me of his plan to take this is
sue immediately to the World
Court for a speedy ruling. He in
dicated he will permit an Israeli
ship to transit the canal and then
forthwith to challenge the legal
ity of that in the Court at Hague.”
Dulles: “That is •exciting news.
I hope you are right.”
Senator Humphrey, at the re
quest of Premier Ben Gurion,
brought Mr. Dulles three pro
posals. These are:
I. A military exchange training
program similar to those the U.S.
has with other countries; 2. An
unspecified amount of farm sur
pluses, particularly grain, to meet
the pressing requirements of Is
rael’s constantly expanding popu
lation, and 3. Immediate release of
13 million dollars of previously
granted aid.
fields of organization and finan
cial management control, pro
ductivity and quality control, per
sonnel management and indust
rial relations, and marketing for
foreign trade.
To acquaint Israel managers
with American management train
ing, twenty such Israelis will visit
the United States each year. Dr.
B. Bernard Greidinger, a profes
sor of accounting, has been ap
pointed coordinator of the over
all program. Dr. Greidinger said
he anticipates that at the end of
the three-year program the Is
raelis will be completely in
charge of the over-all program
in business administration, in
dustrial management and execu
tive management training.
The project grew out of requests
from the Israeli Government for
assistance in these three fields
Dr. Greidinger visited Israel last
summer to confer with officials
of that country and the ICA mis
sion to Israel. Results of his sur
vey formed the basis for plans
for specific phases of the pro
gram.
Barney Medintz Honored
At National UJA Rescue Parley
Special to The Southern Israelite
NEW YORK—Barney Medintz,
of Atlanta who served as co-
Chairman of the National Cash-
For-Rescue drive in the $100,000,-
000 Emergency Rescue Fund and
regular 1957 United Jewish Ap
peal campaign, received an award
for “Dedicated Service” at the
National Rescue Conference at the
Hotel Roosevelt here Sunday June
9.
The Conference marked the
culmination of the UJA’s vital
nationwide cash collection push,
which for the last six weeks has
been conducted in communities
throughout the United States as
a “Cash-For-Rescue Drive.” Ob
ject of the campaign was to raise
cash on pledges made earlier this
year to the Emergency Rescue
Fund and the regular 1957 UJA
drive. A total of $44,865,000 was
raised at the Conference. Atlanta
presented a check for $200,000 on
its 1956 balance and towards its
1957 goal.
Mr. Medintz, who received his
award from Morris W. Berinstein,
UJA President, was lauded for
his “untiring dedication in the
cause of the distressed and home
less Jewish refugees driven from
Egypt, Hungary and other coun
tries where tyranny and oppres
sion are the order of the day. He
has made every effort to help
raise the cash needed to speed
these victims of vicious, inhuman
power politics to new homes
where they can start life anew
with hope and security.”
Mr. Medintz, is a prominent
member of the Atlanta Jewish
community, a member of the UJA.
National Campaign Cabinet, and
is currently president of the Fed
eration for Jewish Social Service.
He was accompanied to New
York by his wife, Dorothy Med
intz; Edward M. Kahn, executive
director of the Atlanta Jewish
Welfare Fund; Nathan Lipton and
Sidney Gulden, both leaders in
36 Jewish Grads
at U. S. Academies
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Thirty-
six Jewish graduates of the U. S.
Military Academy at West Point,
the U. S. Naval Academy at An
napolis, the U. S. Merchant Ma
rine Academy at Kings Point,
and the U. S. Coast Guard Acad
emy at New London, Conn., will
be commissioned at the 1957 com
mencement exercises of those in
stitutions, the National Jewish
Welfare Board reported today.
The 10 newly-commissioned
Jewish second lieutenants at the
U. S. Military Academy and the
five newly-commissioned ensings
at the U. S. Merchant Marine
Academy will each receive per
sonally inscribed copies of the
Bible from the JWB at special
Jewish baccalaureate services ar
ranged by the Jewish chaplains at
the academies. The 20 newly-
commissioned ensigns at the U.S.
Naval Academy received their
Bibles at earlier exercises.
2,500-Member Cleveland
Reform Congregation
Dedicates New Synagogue
CLEVELAND, (JTA) — Three
days of ceremonies were conduct
ed here this week in dedication of
the Fairmount Temple, this city’s
newest and most modern syna
gogue.
Known formerly as the Euclid
Avenue Temple, the congrega
tion is under the spiritual lead
ership of Rabbi Barnett R.
Brickner. It is considered the
largest Reform congregation in
the country, with 2,500 members.
The main sanctuary of the new
temple has seats for 800 wor
shippers. A specially designed
Ark, made of olid marble from
the hills of Galilee in Israel, dom
inates the Sanctuary.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The pos
sible return by 1965 of tightly
restricted admission policies for
medical schools in the United
States, based on religious and ra
cial quotas, is foreseen in a study
made public by the American
Jewish Committee.
At the present time, although
the “quota” system has been vir
tually abandoned in medical
schools, discriminatory admission
policies still exist particularly
against Jewish students and
Catholics of Italian descent. The
“quota” system, devised more
than 30 years ago when applica
tions to rqedical schools increas
ed sharply, allotted a quota of
admissions to religious and eth
nic groups in the U.S. based on
each group’s proportionate num
ber to the total population.
The AJC study warned that “a
likely result of the increased
competition for medical school
places” will be “the tightening up
Chaplain Goldberg To Address
Jewish War Veterans Banquet
Captain Joshua Goldberg, chief
Jewish chaplain in the Navy, will
be the guest of honor in Atlanta
Sunday, June 30, at the conven
tion of the Jewish War Veterans-
Department of Georgia and South
Carolina, according to Coleman
Medintz, commander.
His talk will feature the annual
commander’s banquet and dance
at 6:30 p.m. at the Progressive
Club. The Tokye Trio will fur
nish music.
Captain Goldberg, a favorite
among Atlanta audiences, has
made several appearances at reg
ional events in this area, mainly
for sessions of the Jewish Wel
fare Board - Armed Services
Division.
Tickets for the banquet and
dance are $3.50 per person. Reser
vations can be made with Ar
thur Weiss, Ja. 4-8026 or Tr. 5-
1997 or Alfred Schwartz, ME. 4-
4566 or JA 3-2531.
the Atlanta Welfare Fund cam
paign.
Sums raised at the Cash Con
ference will be used to provide
transportation and resettlement
in Israel and other free countries
for 100,000 Jewish men, women
and children in flight from Egypt,
Hungary, other lands in Europe,
North Africa and the Middle East.”
Original Mayflower Pilgrims Viewed Selves
As Israelites Going to New Promised Land
PLYMOUTH, Mass., (AJP)—The arrival of the Mayflower II this
week has prompted many New Englanders to look up their records
and history of the original vessel carrying the 120 Pilgrim Fathers to
this quaint town in 1620.
One of the records recounts that just before the Mayflower left Eng
land, the leader of the group, Cotton Mather, called together the Pil
grims as he opened the Bible and read to them from 2 Samuel, chapter
7, verse 10, the following:
“And I will appoint a place for My people Israel, and will plant
them, that they may dwell in their own place, and be disquieted no
more; neither shall the children of wickedness afflict them any more
as at the first.”
After reading this passage, Mather said: “We are now going to that
land.’
A.J.C. Visualises Renewed
Restrictions For Students
again of restrictive admission pol
icies both through residential
limitations and through ethnic
and religious quotas.” The present
ratio of two applicants for each
medical school opening is ex
pected to rise to four each by
1965, from a total of 15,000 for
7,800 places to 36,000 for 8,650
openings.
The study disclosed that in
stead of arithmetical quotas,
“personality” has become the de
vice medical schools now resort
to in order to continue their dis
criminatory admission practices.
Citing New York Board of Re
gents data, the study showed
that among applicants with av
erage grades, the ratio of rejec
tion of Jewish students and Cath
olics of Italian descent was more
than twice that of others.
Top scholarship students are
s el d o m rejected by medical
schools that stress grades. The
“personality” factor, however, is
operative for applicants some
what below the top level who
have “good grades:” 64 per cent
of Jewish applicants with good
grades gained admission as con
trasted with 84 per cent of other
applicants with similar grades.
In the “average” and the “be
low average” groups, discrimin
atory practices become even more
marked: 29 per cent of Jewish
applicants with average grades
were admitted compared to 46
per cent of other applicants in
the same grade group. In the
“below average” group, seven per
cent of the Jewish applicants and
20 per cent of all others gained
admission.
First Closed Circuit
Television Planned
for Home Exhibition
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The first
closed circuit television in Israel
will be used next month at a
Home and Garden exhibition.
The equipment was brought
from the United States on the
S.S. Israel and is now being in
stalled. A television camera will
pick up for public viewing on
21-inch sets the various exhibits.
In addition to televising enter
tainment and information, the
closed circuit show will give vis
itors a chance to see themselves
on television.
The equipment was brought to
Israel by arrangements between
the Agricultural and Development
Exhibition Co., sponsor of the ex
hibition, and the Radio Corpora
tion of America.
Form Celebration
Group for
IsraeVs 10th
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Mr.
Meyer W. Weisgal, head of the
Weizmann Institute of Science at
Rehovoth has been appointed by
Premier David Ben Gurion as
chairman of the executive com
mittee for the Tenth Anniver
sary of the State of Israel. The
Central Anniversary Committee
has been entrusted with the task
“to- coordinate initiate and or
ganize a program of events and
functions relating to the observ
ance in Israel and abroad of the
Tenth Anniversary.” The anni
versary celebration period is to
last a full year from April 14,
1958 to April 14, 1959.
Religious Groups
Back Eisenhower*8
Mutual Aid Program
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Rabbi
Abraham J. Feldmen of Hartford,
president of the Synagogue
Council of America, in testimony
before the House Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee, urged Congress
this week to enact the mutual as
sistance program proposed on
May 21 by President Eisenhower.
Rabbi Feldman, appearing as
spokesman for all major Ameri
can Jewish religious groups, said
the United States, as the weal
thiest nation, has a clear moral
obligation “to administer our
material wealth and technical
skills as a public trust given us
by the Creator for use in the
service of mankind” to bring
“hope and help to millions of
people in the underdeveloped
parts of the world.”
The Synagogue Council pres
ident expressed “profound con
cern” over the motive of “self-
interest” and “foreign policy”
which he suggested seemed the
sole justification for providing
aid to “the nearly one billion
people in Asia and Africa who
are fighting the age old scourges
of poverty, disease, and ignor
ance.” He said he welcomed the
separation of non-military eco
nomic assistance from military
needs in President Eisenhower’s
last proposal to Congress.