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i» Tuesday, June 20, 1967 Griffin Daily News
Israel Saddled With Near
Insoluble Refugee Problem
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
, United Press International
JERUSALEM, Israel (UPD—
Israel has awakened suddenly
to the realization that she has
» saddled herself with a trouble
some and perhaps insoluble
refugee problem as a byproduct
to her lightning victory over the
• Arabs.
In the Gaza Strip and in the
western part of Jordan con
quered by her troops, Israel has
, inherited responsibility for an
estimated half million or more
Arab refugees. They are Pales
tinian Arabs who fled from the
newly bora state of Israel at the
time of its 1948 independence
war. They sought refuge just
outside Israel’s borders in the
Gaza Strip administered by
'* Egypt and in western Jordan.
Since then, most of them have
lived and propagated furiously
in subsidized idleness in vast
» refugee camps, kept alive
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largely by monthly United
Nations food handouts and
pittances provided by the
Egyptian and Jordanian govern
ments. They hate the state of
Israel and everything Jewish.
Arabs Recruit Refugees
The refugees provided most of
the recruits for the fanatically
anti - Jewish, Egyptian - trained
Palestine Liberation Army,
which fought on Egypt’s side in
the recent Israel-Arab war.
In Jordan many of the
refugees have supplemented
their U. N. food handouts by
holding small jobs or growing
some food but in the Gaza Strip
the majority are permanently
jobless.
Israeli officials say they were
almost totally unprepared to
take over this headache which
their victorious army won for
them.
Now they are hurrying to size
up the problem, work out a
coherent refugee policy and
seek a permanent solution for
one of the most troublesome
issues in the Middle East.
Tlie first difficulty is that no
one really knows how many
refugees there are.
Figures Unreliable
Figures provided by the U. N.
Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA), which is responsible
for feeding them, give the
number of Arab refugees in
western Jordan at about 394,000,
including 106,000 living in
camps; and In the Gaza Strip at
about 220,000 to 225,000, almost
all living in camps.
But these figures admittedly
are totally unreliable.
Israeli officials say the
Egyptian and Jordanian govern
ments grossly padded the
refugee rolls, including in them
thousands of persons who had
been dead for years, in order to
boost the size of monthly U. N
food handouts.
One of the long term
proposals for dealing with the
refugee problem is to move the
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whole refugee population from
the Gaza Strip and to resettle it
in western Jordan. Officials say
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I- 75 Checked For
Built - In Hazards
WASHINGTON (UPD—Nine
new sections of the interstate
highway system came under
the scrutiny of the House high
way investigating subcommittee
today as examples of built-in
road hazards that can kill or
inaim motorists.
The new highways in nine
states were all opened to traf
fic within the last year or less
and represent the most recent
ly completed projects in the
multi-billion-dollar program.
While some include examples
of good design, all point up the
basic deficiencies which the
subcommittee has found con
tribute to the nation’s unsafe
roads.
John Constanday, assistant
chief counsel, and a represen
tative of the Bureau of Public
Roads visited the projects and
photographed them for the sec
ond round of hearings on the
design and operational efficien-
this would be feasible, although
it would involve a huge financial
investment by Israel.
cy of the nation s highways.
One of the projects to be dis
sected by a panel of national
experts will be on heavily trav
eled Interstate 75 between At
lanta and Marietta, Ga., in
Cobb County.
The five -mile stretch, from
interstate 285 to Georgia 120
which connects Marietta with
Roswell, passes the huge Lock
heed-Georgia airplane plant. It
was opened in three stages
from November 1966 to last
February.
The first hearings revealed an
assortment of dangerous haz
ards designed and built into the
national highway system.
Joseph Linko, a Bronx TV re
pairman who has spent the past
four years studying dangerous
road hazards in the metropoli
tan New York area, appalled
the subcommittee with his testi
mony.
“Nobody’s doin’ nothin’ about
It,” Linko complained as he
showed hundreds of slides of
cars smashed against roadside
signs or pierced by carelessly
placed guardrails.
More Witnesses
Called In
Murder Trial
ATLANTA (UPD—More pro
secution witnesses were expect
ed to testify today in Fulton
County Superior Court during
the second day of the murder
trial of Jessie Leon Jones.
Jones is charged with the
shooting death May 17 of Atlan
ta Police Lt. E. B. Mitchell.
Fulton County Sol. Gen.
Lewis Slaton, who is personally
heading the state’s case, said
dozens of witnesses would be
called. Slaton predicted the
trial may last more than a
week.
Judge Luther Alverson Mon
day dismissed motions by the
defendant’s court - appointed
lawyer, Frank Hester, to have
the case thrown out. Three wit
nesses, an Atlanta police officer
and two medical experts, testi
fied Monday.
Mitchell, 26, was shot and
killed while on duty in south
west Atlanta. Jones, an escapee
from the Oglethorpe County
Work Camp, was found hiding
in the attic of an apartment
building near the scene of the
shooting.
Mitchell was the son-in-law of
Fulton County Chief Deputy
Sheriff Leroy Stynchcombe.
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Blanche Thebom
To Direct
Opera Division
ATLANTA (UPD — Blanche
Thebom, star of the Metropoli
tan Opera, will become artistic
director of the opera division of
the Atlanta Municipal Theater
in a “culture explosion” for the
city.
Miss Thebom’s appointment
follows that of Robert Shaw,
the noted chorale conductor,
who will become musical direc
tor of the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra this fall.
Miss Thebdm's first produc
tion in her new position will be
that of “Aida” in the outdoor
amphitheater after the end of
the regular summer series of
musical comedies.
However, her main duty will
be to form and direct a profes
sional resident opera company
which plans a 40-week season
in a 900-seat threater in the sl3
million Atlanta Memorial Cen
ter now under construction.
Miss Thebom, 47, made her
operatic debut with the Met in
1944 and developed into a lead
ing mezzo - soprano with the
Metropolitan and European
opera companies.
She said she would be in
volved in every phase of opera
productions in Atlanta.
Maddox Tells
Os Needs In
Road System
ATLANTA (UPI) —Gov.
Lester Maddox said Monday
that “glaring needs still re
main” in Georgia’s interstate
highway system.
Speaking before an Atlanta
club meeting, Maddox said the
state must turn immediate at
tention to the completion of the
system.
“I believe Georgia has come
a long way with her highway
program,” Maddox said, but
he called the choking off of the
downtown Atlanta area a result
of failure to complete interstate
and perimeter routes.
The governor said the great
est needs concern the arteries
.such as the South Expressway,
which lead into the state’s
major metropolitan area.
Nine miles of perimeter route
1-285 around Atlanta should be
completed by the first of next
year, according to Maddox.
BARBS
By WALTER C. PARKES
Soviet destroyers ran down
the U. S. destroyer Walker
not once but twice in the
Sea of Japan—proof to Rus
sians, of course, that the U. S.
destroyer was nothing but a
clumsy, careless, vicious, im
perialistic jay Walker.
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There is doubtless no
truth to rumors that col
lege applicants are being
asked if they plan to major
in tests or protests.
A football fan could go ofl
his rocker trying to dig this
crazy soccer.
» * »
You can’t blame a tired
business man for envying
his wife for having all that
fun at home with their five
small kids while he has to
sweat it out assigning work
to his secretary with the
air conditioning acting up.
Sen. Adams
To Head
Committee
ATLANTA (UPD — Lt. Gov.
George T. Smith has appointed
a Senate committee to investi
gate the possibility of regulat
ing the state’s collection
agencies.
Sen. Billy Adams will head
the committee which was cre
ated by resolution during the
past legislative session. The
committee was expected to
spend up to five days investi
gating the feasibility of li
censing and regulating the col
lection agencies.
Other members appointed
were; Sens. Eugene Holley of
Augusta, Ben Johnson of De
catur, W. W. Fincher Jr. of
Chatsworth and Armstrong Smi
th of East Point.
A report of the Investigation
wiil be delivered to the 1968
session of the Senate.
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