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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, April 27,1972
Page 14
Moscow native visits here
Irina Shner, a young Russian
Jew who fled with her family to
Israel in 1971 to escape Soviet
persecution, has been made an
honorary citizen of Griffin by
Mayor Louis W. Goldstein.
Mrs. Shner, and her husband
Gidion, were lucky that they
were allowed to leave the Union
of Soviet Socialists Republic
(USSR), because by applying
for a visa to Israel and renounc
ing their citizenship, they were
committing treason under
governmental regulations.
“It is necessary to buy your
way out of Russia if you wish to
leave permanently. There was a
fee of $l,lOO for each person
when we were allowed to
leave,” Mrs. Shner explained.
While she is in the United
States for the next two weeks,
Mrs. Shner will work with
United Jewish Appeal agents as
a part of a international fund
raising effort to aid more than
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Mayor makes her honorary Griffinite
300,000 Jews in 25 countries.
United Jewish Appeal sources
estimate that $35,000 is required
to resettle and retrain a family
of four who flees to Israel.
Bom in Moscow, Mrs. Shner
is a graduate of Moscow
University and is a certified
teacher of English.
Gidion Shner was a chemist in
a Moscow chemical plant for
the past five years.
In November of 1971, Mrs.
Shner, her parents and husband
applied for visas to travel to
Israel.
“My parents were given
almost immediate permission
to leave the country, but Gidion
and I were refused,” she said.
Shortly after applying for the
visa, Gidion Shner was
discharged from lis job at the
chemical plant without a much
needed reference for further
employment.
“My mother would number
each letter she would write to
us, and the first one we received
was number 11, which was
badly censored,” she added.
After participating in a sit-in
demonstration in Moscow last
March, the Shners were allowed
to join friends and relatives in
Israel.
Upon arriving in la*ael in
April, the Shners were placed in
a Ulphan (school) for new
comers where they will learn to
speak Hebrew, Jewish customs,
and other things necessary to
live in their new homeland.
“Gidion will have to serve in
the army for two years and then
he will be in the reserve; three
months service a year; until he
is 55,” she explained.
She will not have to enter
military service, since she is
married. Single Israeli girls are
required the same amount of
military service as men.
When asked if her’s is a typi
cal story of her fellow country
men, replies that it is worse
than some, and nothing com
pared to others.
“A few years ago, there were
100 people a week coming to
Israel; now that many arrive in
a day,” she points out.
Mrs. Shner’s main concern is
no longer for her own personal
safety, but for the friends she
left behind in Russia.
“There was a couple with two
children who applied for a visa
at the same time we did and lost
their jobs, and they are still
waiting,” she said.
She explained that when one
does not work in Russia, there is
no welfare to depend on for
relief.
It takes less
to live in South
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the average American family of
four will have the toughest
time making a go of it finan
cially in northeastern or West
Coast cities, and the easiest
time in the South.
In figures released Wednes
day, the bureau said it
costs the average American
family — an urban working
father of 38, a non-working wife
and two children — $7,214 to
live on a “lower budget.”
If the family is trying to live
on a slightly higher standard, it
will take $10,971 for an “inter
mediate budget,” and it will
cost $15,905 on a “higher budg
et.”
The bureau said the higher
the family income, the more
likely it will own its own home
rather than rent, will have
more household appliances, and
use more services for a fee in
stead of using free community
services.
The statistics show that Aus
tin, Tex., has the lowest aver-
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Mayor Louis Goldstein (I) makes Mrs. Irina Shner (c) an honorary citizen of Griffin while
John Natanson, United Jewish Appeal representatives from New York, looks on.
age cost-of-living than any of
the other 40 cities in the sur
vey.
Atlanta, Nashville and Orlan
do, Fla., had among the lowest
average budget figures and San
Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston
and New York were among the
highest.
Austin is the least expensive
city in America, no matter
what kind of budget you are
on. Living in the Texas capital
on a lower budget costs $6,362,
on an intermediate budget,
$9,408 and on a higher budget,
$13,600.
Although it costs more to live
in Honolulu, Hawaii and An
chorage, Alaska, on any of the
three budgets, San Francisco
has the highest average cost for
living on a low budget in a
mainland city. The cost there,
the bureau said, would be
$7,971.
Boston has the highest inter
mediate cost of living at $12,-
819, and New York is the most
expensive on a higher budget at
$19,230.
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