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F*g« Two the southern israeute Friday, Oct. 24, 1969 CARL ALPERT Cotton, Chickens, Flowers, Coffee HAIFA—Israel grows oranges. What else? The list is long and impressive, but four items com manded our attention last week. Cotton. Fifteen years ago the “experts” said cotton could not be grown economically in Israel. First attempts had failed. But Sam Hamburger of the U.S.A. insisted that he could do in Is rael what he had succeeded in doing on his California ranch. He was right. Today almost 80,000 acres of Israel land are under cotton cul tivation. The local crop meets the entire demand of the local textile industry, with enough left over for profitable export. There are few labor problems because the entire process is mechanized, aerial spraying through mech anical picking. As a result, the yield per acre sets a world rec ord, more than double the U. S. and Egyptian figures. The result is felt in the local textile industry which provides employment for 24,000 workers. Textiles are now Israel’s second largest industrial export, ex ceeding $50,000,000 last year. And who remembers that cotton is a vital ingredient of gunpowder? Chickens. The first hens were brought to Palestine by the Jews returning from exile in Bab ylonia to rebuild the second tem- LENOX THEATRE —I Arlo Guthrie in “ALICE’S RESTAURANT” Features- (R) 3:00-5:10-7:25-9:35 LENOX THEATRE—II “MIDNIGHT CO^VBOY” All Seats $2.-50 No one under 18 Admitted 2:50-5:00 - 7:10-9:20 LATE SHOW 11:15 Color by DeLuxe Co. Lenox Square Shopping Center 233-0338 The Businessman's Buffet Monday thru Friday 11=30 to 2:30 The Sunday Buffet noon till 4:30 Inn-dubitably the per fect place for those visiting friends or relatives ... and that “escape week" you’ve been planning on. pi?. The poultry industry has had its ups and downs since then, but today it is second only to citrus as Israel’s major agri cultural produce. During periods of surplus Israel exports large quantities of eggs, and has also built up an overseas market for day-old chicks, shipped by air. The major markets are at home, however, and the consumption of fowl here rivals the best rec ords of fund-raising dinners overseas. Surely this must be a record of some kind: Israelis consume a billion eggs a year, about 400 eggs per person, and 80,000 tons of chicken meat. Flowers. Last year we export ed 8 million roses. This year we marketed 20 million. And the prospects are for 34 million roses to be sold overseas next year. In second place this year were anemones, followed by gladioli, carnations and irises. Skilfully packed, and shipped quickly by air, Israel’s blooms command By BEN GALLOB Many Jewish teenagers who might be in need of expert counseling on their problems “wouldn’t come to us” out of mis trust for the Jewish Establish ment, “so we went to them,” the Allied Jewish Community Ser vices of Montreal has disclosed. In a recent “out-reach” effort, staff members of the Montreal YM-YWHA sought the youngs ters out “in the shopping centers, the comer hang-outs, the ham burger joints and, when neces sary, the bars.” Emanuel Weiner, assistant ex ecutive directof the AJCS, said the younger generation was troubled by ‘‘the pressures around us,” including “Quebec separatism, the Middle East, Vietnam, the manufacture of napalm, university confrontations and so on.” He said that the teenagers also were concerned with matters closer to home such as identification with the com munity, use of drugs, sex and career choices. “We knew these young people would talk about their problems if they were given the chance, the right people to talk to, a place to meet and if we could get to them,” he added. “But they wouldn’t come to us so we went to them. We approached them on their own territory and when we gained their confidence, they started to come to us.” He reported that when the teenagers did discuss their prob lems with the Y workers, the lat- HERB MENDEL Ready To Trade Your WAY NOW BOOMERSHINE PONTIAC INCORPORATED 425 Spring St., N. W. Atlanta, Ga. Telephone 523-5871 good prices in Europe’s markets. A total of 40 million flowers went overseas this year, com pared to only 18.5 milion the year before. And the 1970 target is 70 million! Who would have dared predict these figures twenty years ago —or ten—or even three? Coffee. Israel spends $3,000,000 a year importing coffee beans which are processed here. Raise our own coffee? Can’t be done, the experts said. The coffee tree needs a tropical, rainy climate. It can not survive Israel’s oc casional frosts, nor Israel’s frequ ent hot, dry Hamseens. But the stubborn lovers of the caffein drink persisted. It is known that there are numerous coffee trees already growing in Israel as backyard hobbies. They are all flourishing. And why not? If bananas can adapt so successful ly to Israel, why not coffee? Widespread, carefully controll ed test planting is now taking place. If they meet with the same success as cotton, all that is required is 9,000 acres to meet local demand. Beyond that—ex port. Cotton, chickens, flowers, cof fee. Who needs the moon, any how? ter realized that specialists often were needed to handle requests for information and help. A meeting of appropriate AJCS agencies was convened to help make available at the Y, where the youngsters were beginning to gather, such experts as psychi atrists, job counselors, group workers and medical personnel. The agencies agreed to provide staff members for specified day and evening periods. Mr. Weiner said the professionals are now available as needed or can be reached for an appointment al most immediately. He explained that the gatherings at the Y do not have any formal structure. Space, facilities and staff are made available. Whatever the youngsters decide to do is done, he said. The experience of the project to date indicates that if a teen ager is comfortable with such adults and if he knows he can speak freely without being ridi culed or “squealed on,” he will “open up,” and give both himself and the professional a chance to get at the root of his problems, Mr. Weiner reported. He said also that “we try to gain an un derstanding of the person and not judge him on the basis of right versus wrong. We look for the motivation that causes him to behave in a certain way and we study his background to try to find out what circumstances led to his behavior.” He added that the young people can and have learned to trust the work ers and that they then tell “what’s bugging them,’ but, he declared, “the community must provide the services. If we can do this and the right staff is available at the right time, we will have taken a giant step for ward.” (Copyright, 1969—JTA) ONE STOP SERVICE H a Specialty J azan ^ 1 Hour Service Tailors & Cleaners 1008 Peachtree, N.E. At Tenth 8M-M11 Atlanta, Ga. Troubled Teenagers Sought Out in Haunts By Y Workers Reparations Projection In Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — Plans for a campaign by the Black Economic Development Conference to present demands for reparations to the Philadel phia Jewish community, keyed to the theme that “the concept of reparations as repentence is part of a moral heritage, part of the Judeo- Christian tradition,” have been announced here by an official of the black group. Muhammed Kenyatba, 26, vice- president and Pennsylvania di rector of the black group, said SCLC Deplores Persecutions In Arab States PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The regional director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference issued a statement here on behalf of the organiza tion deploring persecution of the Jews in the Arab states and con demning it as “morally despic able.” Rev. Leonard Smalls de clared that “the mass executions which are in reality lynchings of Christians, Moslems, and Jews by the Iraqi Government, bear direct and dreadful witness to that Government’s dismal policy of mistreatment and persecution of religious and ethnic minori ties.” The Negro leader also con demned the continued detention in Syria of two Israelis, seized from the hijacked Trans World Airlines plane on Aug. 29. He said that “these despicable acts totally contradict Christian and Moslem moral principles.” Rev. Smalls also protested the “sad plight of the several thousand Jews in Syria, Iraq and Egypt.” He said his organization called on the United States Government, the United Nations and men of goodwill everywhere to prevail on the Arab regimes “to end, once and for all, the persecution of their Jewish and other minori ties.” the demands will be presented this month and next, according to the Exponent, local Jewish weekly. He told a heavily-at tended meeting at the Central YMCA Luncheon Forum that his organization would address the congregation of the Main Line Reform Temple by invitation but added that synagogues in Phil adelphia appeared to be basically hostile to the reparations de mands. 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