The Southern Israelite. (Augusta, Ga.) 1925-1986, December 16, 1966, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextTHE 80UTHERN ISRAELITE Pifi ltn» Friday, December 16, 1966 Somerfin Reaches Agreement Israel May l\ot Suffer Loss JERUSALEM (JTA) — Final agreement was reached here last week with all creditors of the debt-ridden Somerfin Company. As a result, it was expected that the Israeli Government, the ship firm’s principal creditor, will probably not suffer any loss. The shipping line recently ran into trouble with various cred itors and guarantors which in cluded not only the Israeli Gov- B’nai B’rith Adopts 1967 Budget — $12,105,672 WASHINGTON (JTA)— B’nai B’rith has adopted a budget total ing $12,105,672 for 1967 and al located 44 percent of it—a record $5,320,000—for cultural and edu cational youth activities. Despite a $435,000 increase for its teen-through-college age ac tivities which now serve some 175,000 Jewish youths, Rabbi Jay Kaufman, executive vice president of B’nai B’rth, said that the bud get allows for only “minimal | growth” and does not “match strides’ with increases in the Jew ish youth population and “the greater receptivity of Jewish youth to organized Jewish activ ities.” Rabbi Kaufman expressed “dis appointment” with allocations granted B’nai Brith youth pro grams by Jewish federations and welfare funds which, he said, ac counted for 22.3 percent of B’nai B’rith youth expenditures in 1952, but have proportionately decreas ed to less than 12.5 percent by 1965. In the same period, B’nai B’rith had a 250 percent growth in the cost of its youth work, he stated. The budget was adopted here OPEN ALL NIGHT Ponce de Leon at Highland 1008 Peachtree, N.E. At Tenth TR. 6 0616 Atlanta, Ga. LADIES’ and MEN’S HATS last week at a meeting of the B nai B’rith board of governors which, among its resolutions, ap pealed to the United States to cre ate “the conditions for a cease fire in Viet Nam.” The resolution on that subject noted that Presi dent Johnson “has vigorously though vainly pursued the paths of peace” and urged that the U.S. Government take action “in con cert with the United Nations” to move toward a halt in the Viet Nam shooting war. “B’nai B’rith,” the resolution declared, “finds itself tom be tween the desperate desire to see the war end and the realization that premature withdrawal by the allied forces in South Viet Nam would open South Viet Nam to the rule of might and not right or the will of the people.” The measure noted approvingly that “the right of free expression and open dissent has remained un trammeled.” It added that Amer ican initiative toward a cease-fire must take into account a need for safeguards hy the United Na tions and the major powers that small nations “would be sheltered from the incursions of aggres sion.” The possibility of establishing a branch of the B’nai Brith in Spain when that country’s con stitutional reforms and proposed laws on religious freedom are enacted and put into practice was indicated by Dr William Wexler, B’nai B’rith president, addressing the Board of Governors. He said he was “encouraged by the indications” that the prospec tive legislation “will provide a legal basis, supported and pro tected by the state, for Spain’s Jews to practice Judaism, indi vidually and as a community, freely and openly.” The effect of the reforms, he said, “can end the isolation of Spain’s 8,000 Jews from the “spiritual and cultural interplay of the Jewish world.” The proposed laws, covering non-Catholics, would provide Spanish Jewry with the right to own and maintain “identifiable” synagogues and other communal institutions, conduct Jewish mar riages, burials and other rituals with full legal sanction, and en gage in Jewish educational and cultural pursuits. Dr. Wexler had visited the country in October. He said that Spanish Jews active in synagogal affairs had advised him of their interest in establish ing formal affifilation with B’nai B’rith which is currently active in 45 countries. The Board of Governors adopt ed a resolution calling upon “the major powers and the United Nations” to treat the Middle East crisis “with utmost urgency” and EVE FLIPPED Over The Fantastic Savings At The Sampler (Savings up to 60% on Ladies’ Ready-to-wear) 2105 N. DECATUR RD. AT CLAIRMONT emment but also a Swiss con sortium and the Anglo-Portugu- ese Bank. The trouble was be lieved to have stemmed- from losses suffered by Somerfin in the operation of its passenger ships. Under today’s agreement, the line’s tanker, the Aurora, will continue operating, and its earn ings will be applied for debt set tlements over the next 10 years. Israel will be free to operate or sell four other Somerfin ships on which she holds first mortgages. The agreement is expected to be prevent frictions in the region from mounting into a major con flict. It urged that both elements —the leading powers and the UN —vigorously move for direct ne gotiations between the Arab states and Israel, and “the explo ration and application of any other acceptable means” of achieving peace and solving the regions problems. approved shortly by the subcom mittee on economic affairs of Is rael’s Cabinet. (Recently, the cruise ship Nili, one of the Somerfin vessels, was ordered sold at auction by an American court in Miami to sat isfy a bankruptcy claim. The 500- passenger ship has been tied up in Miami since November 18, when the Israel Government ask ed for a legal attachment on a claim that Somerfin had failed to meet a mortgage payment.) W. &UnJ ^4 CoJiat W.L~. to visit Atlanta*8 OLDEST Genuine Chinese & American Restaurant PMO rtO ENGLISH TRANSLATION: “The Very Beat!” 26^ CAIN ST., N.E. 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