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BATTLE FOR KREBIOZEN—
Cancer Patients l ight for Life-Drug
Augusta Spotlight
By David Benarone
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP)—
Two years ago the UN General
Assembly adopted a resolution,
unanimously, calling on all gov
ernments to fight the galloping
scourge of cancer. It also award
ed the sum of $50,000 to be paid
out every two years to aid this
medical battle.
During the past week over 500
cancer-stricken “end-stage" pa
tients made use of this resolu
tion to put a “Death-Watch”
picket line around the White
House in a resperate demand
that Krebiozen—the controversi
al cancer-controlling drug which
they maintain has kept them
alive—be restored to them.
The drug was recently banned
by the Food and Drug Depart
ment from inter-state distribu
tion as a result of a technical
and legalistic dispute with the
Promak Laboratories, the pro
ducers of Krebiozen. The drug
has been used for fourteen years
on an experimental basis with
the approval of the U S. Govern
ment.
Following some negotiations,
SAYS GOD GETS BORED—
Catholic Priest
Admonishes
Lip-Worshippers
NEW YORK (WUP)—The Rev.
William McDonald, a Maryknoll
missionary on leave from Yuca
tan, Mexico, has strongly crit
icized people who pray automat
ically from standard prayer books
and merely indulge in lip-wor
ship.
Preaching recently at a solemn
mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
here, Rev. McDonald declared
that “the people who come to
church know what they want
to say but they feel that the pro
fessional letter writer can ex
press it better than them. We do
something like this when we use
prayers that have been composed
for us for certain occasions,
prayers to petition, praise or
thank God. But this manner of
prayer,” he added, “is not the
most natural . . . We all know
how bored we get with long-
winded persons. It seems that God
gets bored too.”
Dr. Stevan Durovic, discoverer
of the magic drug a harmless,
non-toxic chemical—cut off the
negotiations because of alleged
harassments by the F.D.A. which
has sought to put the drug out
of use.
Some of the patients, inter
viewed by this writer, claim
that behind the cold war against
Dr Durovic’s Krebiozen stand
some powerful chemical and
pharmaceutical interests with
millions invested in the pursuit
of the same kind of drug but
who have been beaten by Dr,
Durovic. The charge is that the
strategy is to hold back Krebio
zen until the big concerns make
their own break-through.
Meanwhile, the plight of the
patients, who have submitted to
the Krebiozen test and who are
surviving painlessly on it, is a
desperate one. Since Krebiozen
is not a cure but a control (the
word Krebiozen itself is ancient
Greek meaning control) and acts
very much like insulin, their
Youth Parley—
—from page 1
adopted by the conference was
one calling for the establishment
of a continuing consultative com
mittee for cooperation among
world Jewish youth. This was ap
proved, however, only after it was
changed from a steering commit
tee version calling for the setting
up of a “coordinating council.”
The change was insisted on by
some of the delegates to assure
that the new body would have
no power to legislate or issue di
rectives between conferences.
A series of drafts calling for
education In Jewish communities
outside Israel to encourage Zion
ism and Immigration to Israel
were adopted as “recommenda
tions" and not as resolutions.
That formula was used to end the
threat of withdrawal from the
conference of American youth
organizations. Delegates of four
American non-Zionist groups
strongly objected to resolutions of
Zionist content. They declared
their participation In the confer
ence was on condition that all
resolutions be adopted unanim
ously. They were B’nal B’rith,
J' W' V * I E W S
ST. PETERSBURG
At the July meeting of the Abe
Ader Post No. 246, Commander
Edw. M. Cohen set forth a new
format for Post meetings. Every
other meeting will be designated
as a program meeting and each
post officer will take his turn as
program chairman.
In keeping with this policy,
Senior Vice Commander Abe
Baker has been chosen as chair
man for a Special Program
Meeting on Wednesday, August
21, at the Florida Power Idea
Center, 16th Street and First Ave.,
Center, 16th Street and First Ave
North, at 8 p. m. . . . The speaker
will be Dr. J. Marshall Taxay,
Rabbi of Temple B’nai Israel of
Clearwater, Fla. Abe Ader Post
was fortunate in having Rabbi
Taxay fill in for Rabbi Chapman
at Bay Pines Services on Tues
day mornings. Services for pati
ents at Bay Pines are well attend
ed and the Post Volunteer Serv
ice Committee were more than
pleased with the Rabbi’s spiritual
offering.
Rabbi J. Marshall Taxay is a
veteran having served in the
Armed Services of the United
States and has a long history of
activities in veterans affairs. He
held the post of Chaplain in the
Department of Ohio, Jewish War
Veterans of the United States of
America, also, as Commander of
Akron Ohio Post, and Liaison Of
ficer of American Legion in the
Department of Indiana, 6th Dis
trict. In community affairs he
was president of B’nai B’rith,
District Lodge No. 2, Ohio. He
also served as a director of the
Jewish Welfare Board.
In addition to administering
the spiritual needs of the Clear
water community. Rabbi Taxey
is a lecturer, radio news analyist
and foreign correspondent. His
eloquence and command of the
English language in giving us an
interesting message wili make the
evening of August 21 a memora
ble one. Members and friends are
invited.
The next Council of Admini
stration Quarterly meeting of the
Department of Florida will be
held in Orlando in early Septem
ber. The newly elected Com
mander of the Department, Man
ny Mandel, will preside. The
Jewish War Veterans Post will
act as host The Orlando Post was
reactivated last year and are
doing well with their member
ship.
Quartermaster Leon Glassman
urges all members of the Abe
Ader Post who are In arrears with
their dues to please mail their
checks. We are in need of funds
for our program at Bay Pines
Hospital.
Abe Ader Post mourns the
passing of Comrade J. II. Silbar.
May his soul rest In peace . . .
Best wishes for a speedy recovery
to Mrs. Mark Dantlgrr. wife of
Comrade I>r. Mark Danzlger.
Welcome home to Rabbi I>r. Mor
ris Chapman who just returned
from a European tour and vaca
tion.
JOIN THE JEWISH WAR
VETERANS, THE OLDEST AC
TIVE VETERANS ORGANIZA
TION IN THE HISTORY OF
THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
failure to get the drug now is
throwing them back into the
pain and panic they had experi
enced before the welcome drug
had come their way.
Unable to get anywhere with
the FDA., the patients staged
their appeal before the White
House, calling on the President
to intervene personally on their
behalf. They appealed to him to
save them from death. However,
when they learned that his new
born baby was in trouble, they
called off their picket-line. The
President has failed to heed
their appeal. Undismayed, how
ever, they are now enlisting
their many friends in the Sen
ate and Congress who are being
asked to rush through an emerg
ency bill to give them the drug.
The whole campaign of the
patients, who are organized into
a Committee of Cancer Survi
vors on Krebiozen, is guided by
an outstanding personality con
nected with the UN.
HUIel, United Synagogue Youth
and the National Federation of
Temple Youth with a total mem
bership of 250,000.
One of the most disputed prop
osed resolutions calling on Jew
ish educators to recognize that
“a full independent Jewish life”
was possible only in Israel, where
pioneering also offered the pos
sibility of creating a new Jewish
society based on social justice.
Among the recommendations
which will be submitted by the
delegates to their respective or
ganizations were appeals to Jews
who have left Cuba and Algeria
and Jews of the “disintegrating”
communities of Latin America, as
well as Jews who returned to
Germany, to immigrate to Israel,
and an appeal to Jewish organi
zations and movements to recog
nise that conditions in many
countries were conducive to as
similation. The recommendation
stated that assimilation was
threatened in those countries and
that, to ward off this danger, ef
forts should be made to
Elliott C. Serotta, Augusta
CPA , has been appointed to
three committees of the Georgia
Society of CPA’s professional
development, public relations
and chairman of history and
archives. He has also been ap
pointed to the following commit
tees of the Optimist Club of
Augusta Youth Appreciation,
July Program Chairman, Chair
man Public Relations and Pub
licity He has also been ap
pointed to the BBYO Committee
of District No. 5, B’nai B’rith.
Maxwell J Estroff, president
of Stapleton Garment Company,
has announced that his firm
will sponsor the first four-year
scholarship to the Augusta Col
lege. A scholarship will be giv
en as of September to a child of
one of the plant’s employees.
A total of five girls will be
enrolled in September, 1963, at
the Barrett School of Nursing,
University Hospietal, through a
scholarship program sponsored
by the Libby P. Fink Founda
tion and Belle S. Marks Foun
dation.
Mrs. Bessie Tanenbaum and
Mrs. Mollie Schneider have re
turned home from a vacation at
Miami, Beach.
Ivevy—Reilly
HONOLULU, Hawaii — Misa
Barbara Levy and Lt. Iain Reil
ly were married July 4 at Fort
Shatter Chapel, Honolulu.
The bride is the daughter ot
Col. and Mrs. Julius W. Levy,
formerly of Augusta, and the
bridegroom is the son of Lt
Col. and Mrs. J. C. Reilly, Ft.
Huachuca.
Lt. Robert Carroll was best
man and Miss Judith Levy, sis
ter of the bride, was maid of
honor.
After a wedding trip to th*
island of Kauai, the couple lef$
for a visit with the bridegroom’!
family and then for Ft. Gordod
and Ft. Benning. They will ret
turn to Honolulu in April toi
duty with the 25th Infantry Dif
vision .
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strengthen Jewish life in various
fields and through stronger ties
to Israel.
Another recommendation call
ed on the Jewish Agency to in
crease emissaries for education
and guidance, and urged that
such emissaries to non-Israel
Jewries be oriented in “know
ledge and love” for Jewish cul
ture, religion and general Jew
ish values. The proposal also call
ed on youth organizations to in
clude at least one year’s stay in
Israel in educational programs for
members.
The Israeli delegation, which
initially had sided with the Zion
ist-oriented Latin American and
European organizations for adop
tion of the disputed propsals as
resolutions, decided at the last
minute to support the four Amer
ican youth group delegations.
The Americans also objected to
the exclusion of religious, cultur
al and other values as an objec
tive of Jewish education In com
munities outside Israel from res
olutions which set down Zionism
and Immigration to Israel as
specific objectives.
Benzion Shalom, chairman of
the conference organization com
mittee, said In a summary state
ment that, despite all “procedural
and other errors,” the conference
had proved worthwhile.
The closing session also heard
an address by Moshe Sharett,
chairman of the Jewish Agency
executive, who said that, while it
was harder to be a Jew today
than it was for many centuries
before, “there has never been a
period in which it was more
worthwhile to be one.” He told
the delegates that they faced a
constant struggle against “indif
ference, shallowness and apathy"
and that It was the destiny ot
Jewish life everywhere to be "»
life of high tension, spiritually,
emotionally and intellectually.”
(Sec report of Atlanta Delegate
B. Caine on Page 11.)
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