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Vol. XLII
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH, 3, 1967
Georgia Law On Vandals Meelln Florida
Gets Interfaith Backing
Three major faiths — Catholic,
Jewish and Protestant- —have sig
nified support of a measure now
pending in the Georgia State Leg
islature which would make it a
felony to deface or desecrate any
place of worship.
House Bill No. 201, already
passed by the lower legislative
body, has been approved in a
joint statement by the Catholic
Archdiocese of Atlanta, the At
lanta Jewish Community Council
and the Georgia Council of
Churches, with an urgent appeal
that it also be acted upon fav
orably by the Senate.
These groups, in the first such
inter-faith action, endorsed the
measure as a means of discour
aging acts of vandalism against
churches and synagogues.
During the discussion of the
bill in the House, Rep. Elliott
Levitas of DeKalb County, one of
the bill’s sponsors, pointed out
that many such desecrative acts
had occurred recently in the met
ropolitan area.
Arab Warfare On Israel
Condemned by AFL-CIO
Times Says 'Wayne' Could Happen
In Thousand Other Communities
community that stints on the
schooling of its children com
promises its future,” the Times
continued. Moreover, a town that
stigmatizes candidates because of
their racial or religious back
ground becomes a house divided,
a victim of home-bred hatreds.
“Wayne has stamped itself as a
place where parents prefer to
save a few dollars on the tax rate
to investing in education of their
own children. Out of desire to
protect its pocketbook, Wayne has
not only countenanced bigotry
but embraced it. And there is no
reason to believe that what hap
pened in Wayne could not hap
pen in a thousand other com
munities,” the Times concluded.
NEW YORK (WUP) — “There
is no reason to believe that what
happened in Wayne could not
happen in a thousand other com
munities.”
Thus commented the New York
Times in an editorial on the anti-
Semitic school-board scandal in
the township of Wayne, New
Jersey, involving the defeat of
two Jewish candidates, Jack
Mandell and Robert L. Kraus,
following an interboard struggle
over an increased budget between
Protestant Newton Miller and its
Jewish incumbent Jack Mandel.
The Wayne eruption started
when Mr. Miller charged that
“most Jewish people are liberals,
especially when it comes to
spending for education. If (they)
are elected it would only take
two more votes for a majority,
and Wayne could be in real fi
nancial trouble. Two more votes
and we could lose what is left
of Christ in our Christmas cele
brations in our schools.”
“Judged charitably, the school
board election in suburban
Wayne was a victory for fool
ishness,” the Times said. “The
voters defeated two Jewish cand
idates after an incumbent mem
ber of the board warned that
“most Jewish people are liberals,
especially when it comes to
spending for education.” In the
same election the voters rejected
the proposed school budget.
"Education has long since
proved the indispensable pass
word to progress. A state or a
Arms Showdown
In Middle East
Sought by U.S.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
United States Government is do
ing everything possible to slow
down the arms race in the Mid
dle East in order to redress any
imbalance of power that may
threaten Israel’s independence,
Vice President Hubert H. Humph
rey told a session of members of
the United Jewish Appeal’s Na
tional Young Leadership Cabinet.
The remarks by the Vice Pres
ident were made during a two-
day parley in the nation’s cap
ital, where 118 members of the
Youth Cabinet were given in
tensive briefings on international
and domestic affiars ( by officials
of the Departments of State, De
fense, Health and Welfare and the
Office of Economic Opportunity.
Mr. Humphrey’s remarks on
the Middle East arms race emerg
ed during a general discussion on
the United States Government’s
efforts to achieve peaceful rela
tions among all the sovereign
powers. The Vice President also
stressed that it was the Govern
ment’s policy to preserve the sov
ereignty and territorial integrity
of all the nations in the Middle
East.
BAL HARBOR, Fla. (JTA) —
The executive council of the
American Federation of Labor-
Congress of Industrial Organiza
tions, meeting here, adopted a
five-point statement on the
mounting threat to peace in the
Middle East. The statement de
clared :
“1. The executive council views
with deep concern the systematic
intensification of Soviet intrigue
in the Middle East during the
past year, especially in Egypt and
Syria;
“2. Notes the repeated acts of
aggression by the Syrian regime
against Israel, thereby threaten
ing the security and stability of
the entire Middle East;
“3. Deplores Nasser’s gas bomb
ing of Ktaf Village on the Saudi-
Yemen border and the provoca
tive aggressive actions by Syria
against Jordan calculated to sub
vert and replace its Government
with a dictatorship which would
follow the warlike course pur
sued by Damascus and instigated
by Cairo;
“4. Draws particular attention
to the incitement and menace of
border warfare against Israel —
such as the infiltration of its ter
ritory for the perpetration of
warlike acts, the laying of mines
and other forms of aggressive ac
tion;
“5. Urges the United States
Government to adopt a strong
stand against such aggression, to
refuse all economic and technical
assistance to those countries spon
soring a policy of encouraging
border warfare and eliminating
their neighbors."
Powers Urged
To Strengthen
Mideast Stand
tJ]\ Truce Chief Seeks
To Resume Peace Talks
Spanish Cabinet
OKs New Status
For Synagogues
MADRID (JTA) — The final
draft of the new freedom-of-
worship law which would give
legal status in Spain to synagog
ues for the first time since the
expulsion of the Jews in 1492,
was approved here by the Council
of Ministers which was attended
also by Generalissimo Francisco
Franco.
The law, which has been in
preparation for 10 years, would ■
permit synagogues and non-Cath-
olic churches in Spain to identify
themselves openly by signs. It
will now be debated by the Cor
tes, Spain’s Parliament, and its
passage there is expected by fall.
There are 6,000 Jews and about
35,000 Protestants today in Spain.
The new law would extend to
them freedom of “external wor
ship.”
Under the old laws, synagogues,
churches and other religious
property of both Jews and Prot
estants had been registered in
the names of individuals or pri
vate corporations, since no non-
Catholic religious societies were
permitted. Synagogues and non-
Catholic churches ^ere also for
bidden under the old laws to
identify their houses of worship
by appropriate signs.
JERUSALEM (JTA)_ An ef
fort will be made by Lt. Gen.
Odd Bull, chief of staff of the
United Nations Truce Supervision
Organization, to break the stale
mate in the UN’s efforts to res
ume discussions by the Israeli-
Syrian Mixed Armistice Commis
sion regarding cultivation rights
ln the demilitarized zones on the
Israeli-Syrian frontiers.
The Commission, which had
held three sessions between Jan-
Israel Air Budget
Set at $63,000,000
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel will
spend 190,000,000 pounds $63,300,-
000) in the next few years to keep
the nation abreast of aviation de
velopment, Transport Minister
Moshe Carmel told the Ninth
Aviation and Aeronautics Confer
ence.
He said that sum included 90,-
000,000 pounds ($30,000,000) for
development of two long runways
and installation of a new term
inal with the most modern land
ing aide devices at Lydda Air
port. Another 90,000,000 pounds
will be allocated to El A1 Israel
Airlines for purchase of new
planes and ground equipment.
The conference was the occas
ion for the first display of a
proto-type of the first Israeli
cargo plane, planned for produc
tion by Israel Aircraft Industries
in 1968. The planned twin turbo
prop aircraft is capable of carry
ing two tons of freight or 20 pas
sengers.
uary 25 and February 10, after
being summoned by United Na
tions Secretary-General U Thant,
found its last scheduled mee'ing
on February 10, adjourned indef
initely when Syria failed to afr-
sure Gen. Bull that it would
stick to the set agenda. Gen. Bvll,
who visited Damascus recently; to
try to persuade Syria to resume
the talks with Israel, was sched
uled to meet with officials of the
Israeli Foreign Ministry to dis
cuss what had been called “new
suggestions” he had brought back,
following a conference on the is
sue he had held at Beirut recent
ly with Mr. Thant.
The next MAC session, if it is
held, is to be convened on Israel’s
side of the B’not Yaacov bridge.
Political circles here, however,
doubted whether Gen. Bull would
succeed in bringing both Syria
and Israel back for another ses
sion of the Mixed Armistice
Commission.
LONottN (JTA)—Abba Eton,
Israel’s jWreign minister, declared
here t##t the Israel Government
would/like the four major world
powei£—the United States, Bri
tain, /France and the USSR—“to
supplft the principle of no terri-
toria’change” in the Middle East.
Me#) reiteration of the 1950 Tri-
pai/ite Declaration, in which the
th#e Western powers joined to
guarantee the integrity of the
birders of Israel and the Arab
spites, would be insufficient at
this time, he stated.
“What we ask,” he said, “is for
Israel to be given the means of
assuring her own safety. And we
ask the four great powers to ex
press their readiness to help any
state in the Middle East whose
integrity and security are threat-
ended.”
Mr. Eban made his statement
at a luncheon given in his honor
by the Foreign Press Association.
Among his activities here was a
principal address at the annual
dinner of the Joint Palestine Ap
peal, the British equivalent of
the United Jewish Appeal. He
met here with Prime Minister
Harold,. Wilson, Foreign Secretary
George Brown, and leaders of the
Conservative and Liberal parties.
In his separate talks, the Israeli
foreign minister said he found
“a mutual desire to deepen and
extend bilateral relations,” show
ing “in a very cordial atmos
phere, much knowledge and un
derstanding for Israel.”
In an interview over BBC Mr,
Eban predicted that there will
probably be no “sudden peace” in
the Middle East, but added that
it was unlikely that there would
be war.
School Board Official Ousted
After Opposing Jews as ‘Liberal’
WAYNE, N. J. (JTA)—Newton Miller, the vice president
of the Wayne Township School Board who had earlier this
month called for the defeat of two Jewish candidates to the
board, was himself replaced as tfice president by the only re
maining Jewish member of the board.
Miller, who had urged the defeat of two Jewish candidates
because he said the Jews were “liberals,” especially when it
came to spending for education, stepped down as vice president
in favor of Fred Lafer, whose seat on the board was not up
for election in last week’s balloting. Lafer was elected vice-
president unanimously.
Miller, who was sharply criticized for his remarks, declined
to retract them although he denied he was an anti-Semite.
Jack Mandell and Fred Kraus, two Jews whose defeat Mr.
Miller had called for, were badly defeated in the election.
ZOA Sponsors Experts
On Israel-Arab Tension
A full-dress briefing confer- Hammarskjold; William D. Wolle,
ence under Zionist Organization Foreign Service Officer of the
of America auspices, to clarify Department of State and current-
the issues underlying the con- ly serving in the Directorate for
tinued hostility -y.-,-...—...... , Israel and Arab-Israel Affairs;
of the Aral ! Harry Torczyner, widely known
States t o ware international lawyer and chair-
Israel, m a n i -'' man of the ZOA Public Affairs
tested by con- Committee; former Congressman
stant aggressior James A. Mnckav of ihe fourth
and strife alonj Georgia Congressional District;
borders, will b< and Rabbi Jerome Unger, Direc-
held at the At-tor of the Public Affairs Depart
ial! ta J e w i s 1 ment of the ZOA and former
Community Con Executive Director of the Amer-
ter nn Sunday ican Zionist Council.
March 12, in a joint statement. Robert M.
3:09 to 6:00 p.m. Horowitz Travis and Dr. Sidney Q. Janus,
The theme of the conference will co-chairmen of the conference,
be “Peace in the Middle East.’ called attention to the need of
A distinguished panel of ex- arousing public opinion to the
perts will address the gathering grave dangers inherent in a sit-
of Jewish and non-Jewish leaders uation which could result in a
from all over the South. No ef- major world conflagration unless
fort has been spared to bring to promptly checked. This can be
this important public forum per- brought about only by intema-
sonages who know the facts and tional cooperation spurred by a
can bring authoritative guidance public demand for action. It is
to the discussion. hoped that the conference can
The “Who’s Who” consists of make a contribution to that end
David Horowitz, president of the by furnishing factual information
Foreign Press Association, US and to public opinion moulders.
UN correspondent for Tel Aviv’s The Atlanta Zionist District,
well known daily Ha-Yom, friend headed by Dr. Larry Bregman,
and confidant of the late Dag w m host the conference.