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IN OUR ELEVENTH YEAR
THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1957
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Texoma B’nai B’rith Youth Presidents
At the Dec. 28 meeting of the Texoma BBYO Convention
held at the Hilton Hotel in Fort Worth, Leanore Gallinn of El
Paso and Gary Nordheimer of Houston were elected presidents
of Texoma BBG and AZA. Also elected to regional BBG offices
were Gail Goldstein of Dallas and Sharon Sobol of Oklahoma
City, vice presidents; Ellen Simon of San Antonio, secretary;
Bonnie Borg of Tulsa, reporter, and Lois Levin of Houston,
counselor.
Other officers of the boys’ division, Aleph Zadik Aleph, are
Jerome Smith of Tyler, vice president; Martin Cohen of Dallas,
secretary; Harvey Stahl of Dallas, reporter; and Milton Nirken
of Houston, chaplain.
Herbert Shore Heads New Officers Named
At Texas Gerontological Society Meeting
POLICY PUSH
THE DAILY PRESS is cur-
rently carrying the report that
President Eisenhower is deter-
mined to go before the Con-
gress and push through his
proposal for a bi-partisan plan
£or the containment of com-
munism in the Middle East.
Inferred highlight of the plan
is a tremendous loan to be
used for the improvement of
the Middle East.
One of the main reasons for
the plan is that Secretary of
State Dulles has decided that
the United States Government
can not forsake Western
Europe’s economy by allowing
the entire resevoir of Middle
Eastern oil to fall into the
hands and under the control of
the Soviet Union.
We’ve been shouting from
our masthead about the cost-
liness of ignoring the real rea-
sons for the Soviet penetra-
tion of the Middle East. We
said time and again that it was
not to aid poor Arab refugees
but it was to secure the vast
supply of Middle Eastern oil,
and to gain a year round warm
water port.
We’ve refuted platitudes id.
othefr newspapers and hjhve
carried on a running debate
with one of the leading dailies
of the Southwest to prove this
point. Alas, too late to hejp the
British and French, the Secre-
tary of State has come up with
one, of the prime reasons few
our vital interests in the Middle
East.
It would have been much
more expedient, regardless of
the practicality of thei political
campaign, to have supported
our allies in the Middle East.
We would have demonstrated
to the world that we were con-
taining the Soviet Union’s
march of aggression across the
Middle East. They would have
been strong words then and
they would have had the poten-
tial of opening the Suez Canal,
restoring a bonafide peace to
the Middle East, protecting
Western Europe, and, more-
over, bolstering our friendship
with our Allies. Instead we
chose a policy of chastisement.
We opened the gates for a Rus-
sian propaganda victory. Rus-
sian tanks and planes dominate
Syria and other Arab nations
today.
The new Policy Push had to
be made, regardless of the tim-
ing or tardiness. The fact that
it is made now is proof that it
should have been made then!
We fully realize that the milk
has been wasted and there’s no
point in yelping now. The point
is to discover a method of pro-
fiting by our past experience.
We berated Israel and praised
the Hungarians. We believe
future Historians will show the
events were tied together and
that it took tiny Israel to stop
Soviet penetration in the Mid-
dle East a few weeks ago.
Egypt was all for surrender to
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At a meeting held recently
in Fort Worth a group of 32
interested persons organized
the Texas Gerontological Soci-
ety. The great significance in
the establishment of the Soci-
ety is that for the first time
there will exist in the State a
non political organization dec
voted to the scientific study
of aging for lay and profes-
sional leaders, public and pri-
vate agencies and membership
organizations and the old(er
person himself. The Society
will attempt to be of assistance
to all groups on a local and
statewide level, serve as an ex-
change and clearing house so
that activities can be coordinat-
ed and duplication eliminated.
One of its first announced ob-
jectives — to direct its ener-
gies and all of its resources to-
ward calling on the Governor
to establish a Statewide Com-
mittee on Aging.
Herbert Shore, Executive
Director of Golden Acres, Dal-
las Home for Jewish Aged, was
elected President of the Tex-
as Gerontological Society at
this meeting.
National Federation Temple Sisterhood Veep
To Conduct Workshop In Fort Worth Jan. 7
An open board meeting and
workshop for all Beth _,i Sis-
terhood members will be held
at the Temple Center on Jan-
uary 7, 10 a.m. Coffee and re-
freshments will be served.
The workshop will be con-
ducted by Mrs. Harry Jacob-
son, Des Moines, Iowa, 3rd
vice-president of the National
Federation of Temple Sister-
hoods, who also heads the De-
partment on Membership and
Administrative Services. A
past president of District No.
20, which is comprised of Sis-
terhood units in Iowa, Kansas,
Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado
and New Mexico, she is also
past president of Temple B’nai
B’rith Jeshurun Sisterhood,
Des Moines, and has served as
Ohairman of the Women’s Di-
v.
Mrs. Harry Jacobson
vision of the United Jewish
Appeal for her city. Mrs.
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Israeli Note To State Department
Complains Of More Fedayeen Raids
WASHINGTON (WNS) —
A note urging the United
States to use its good offices to
halt the mounting incursions
into Israel of Egyptian-directed
fedayeen raiders has been pre-
sented by Israel to the State
Department, it was disclosed
here by a high department of-
ficial who said the note was
under study.
Citing three recent raids, the
Israeli note pointed to the fact
that the incursions began ris-
ing in frequency immediately
after a December 2 broadcast
by the Cairo radio announcing
resumption of fedayeen activi-
ties against Israel. This fact,
the note stressed1, was evidence
that the guerilla attacks were
directed by Egypt in clear vio-
lation of the UN resolution of
December 2 which not only
called for a ceasefire but also
for the ceassation of raids. The
document called attention to
the further fact that on the
very day when the UN resolu-
tion was adopted, the Cairo
radio announced that “feda-
yeen headquarters have decid-
ed to carry out large-scale ac-
tion during the coming winter
season.”
Israel has reported nineteen
raids, mostly from Jordan, be-
tween December 3 and Decem-
ber 24. The three specific in-
cursions referred to in the
Israel note occurred on Decem-
ber 11, when a railroad line
was blown up between Haders
and Lydda, on December 15,
when commando raiders blew
up a house between Tel Aviv
and Haifa, killing a woman
and injuring her child, and on
December 23, when a medical
clinic was blown up at Yokna-
am, twelve miles inside Israel
from the Jordanian border.
A similar memorandum was
reported to have been present-
ed to the French Government
by Israeli Ambassador Tsur.
The note charging Egyptian
renewal of the fedayeen raids
was submitted to Foreign Min-
ister Christian Pineau.
Ben Gurion Reiterates Position
Against Egypt’s Return To Gaza
JERUSALEM (WNS)—Re-
affirmation of Israel’s deter-
mination not to allow Egypt’s
return to the Gaza Strip was
made here by Premier David
Ben Gurion in Knesset when
he called on the parliamentary
body to reject a right-wing re-
solution for a full-dress debate
on the Gaza issue.
The motion for airing the
issue was made by Menahem
Beigin, leader of the Herut
Party. Mr. Ben Gurion told
Knesset that airing of that is-
sue now would not serve the
best interest of the country,
adding that he would not go
beyond his statement of last
week to the effect that Israel
would under no circumstances
consent to the return of Egyp-
tian forces to the Gaza Strip.
Mr. Beigin’s motion went down
to defeat by a vote of 52 to 18.
Meanwhile there were re-
ports of growing concern over
the mounting acts of aggres-
sion against Israel by Egypt
through fedayeen commando
raids. This situation was
brought to the fore in a state-
ment by Walter Eytan, Direc-
tor General of the Foreigq
Ministry, which said that “fe-
dayeen raiders operating un-
der orders from Cairo are har-
assing our villages and com-
munications” in open violation
of the UN resolution “while
we are withdrawing our forces
steadily from Egypt” in good
faith and in conformity with
UN directives.
Declaring that “at the same
time we see the Egyptians get-
ting back the territory from
which they mounted all their
attacks against Israel,” the
statement said:
“They are getting it back,
thanks to United Nations ac-
tion. What guarantee is there
that they will not again put it
to evil uses?
“The same United Nations
resolution that urged the
Israelis to withdraw called up-
on Egypt ‘to desist from raids’
into Israel. But why should
only Israel be expected to com-
ply with this resolution? Why
should Egypt be allowed to get
away with her violations which
bring death and destruction in
their train?
“What now is the United
Nations going to do to secure
Israel’s right of free passage
in the Suez Canal, to keep the
Gulf of Aqaba open to ship-
ping and to stop the murder-
ous fedayeen?
“We are waiting for the ans-
wers.”
American Jewry Rallies Behind UJA Call
For $100,000,000 Emergency Fund
NEW YORK (WNS) — Key figures of the United
Jewish Appeal who have been mobilizing community
leadership across the nation, have reported that the Amer-
ican Jewish community is rallying behind the United Jew-
ish Appeal’s call for a $100,000,000 Emergency Rescue
Fund over and above the regular UJA campaign to cope
with the greatest refugee crisis since the Hitler terror,
William Rosenwald, General Chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, disclosed this week.
The UJA geheral chairman said first reports from
communities “show that swift action is the response of
American Jewry to the extraordinary emergency Fund
voted unanimously at UJA’s Annual National Conference
in New York on December 1st and 2nd.”
The Emergency Rescue Fund seeks $100,000,000 to
transport and re-settle at least 100,000 refugees from
Egypt, Hungary and closed-door countries of Europei,
North Africa and the Middle East. Sums raised in the over-
all nationwide United Jewish Appeal campaign will go for
the welfare and rehabilitation needs of an additional
525,000 distressed men, women and children of Israel and
other countries.
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