FIRST PICTURES OF QUADRUPLETS AT ONE DAY OF AGE
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Babies (reft fo right): Girl - 5 lbs., 7 ozs.; Boy - 5 lbs.; Boy - 4 lbs.. 15 ozs.; ond Girl 4 lbs., 8 ozs.
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Quadruplets born to local Jewish parents
Two-year-old Benjamin Becker is a tall, healthy boy who is already learning that in the art of public speaking it is import-ssnt iQ^kn<)w jEOiprovise.
Alex Becker, Benjamin had
Centre launches campaign for
Charter members
prepared a little speech to welcome hcrnie the new Becker baby. It was: "Good afternoon, Baby!"
He is now practising the revised version: "liGtood a£terhoon«
The improvisation was ?made necess£M-y on Friday, August 3, when, his mother gave birth to British Columbia's only set of living quadruplets. The four babies—two girls and two boys —^were born by Caesarian sec-
tion at Vancouver General hospital.
The first baby, a girl weigh-
ing five pounds, seven ounces, arrived ai, 5:15 a.m. She was followed by two boys, the first weighing five ipoimds and the second four pounds, fifteen ounces. The fout|h was a girl weighihs foiir poiincts, eight ounces. Total weight of the babies: nineteen pounds, fourteen ounces.
Mother and children are all doing well under the constant attention of doctors and special hospital nurses.
Incidence of quadruplets is (Continued on Page 6) See QUADRUPLETS
Alex Jackson, Membership Chairman of the New Jewish Community Centre, annoimced today that the Charter Membership drive for the New Centre would commence on August 15»
'*Any contributor to the capital campaign of the Nev/^ Centre is eligible for Charter Membership," Mr. Jackson stated. "All contributors will be receiving their membership information and application forms by August 15. All Charter Members will receive a special gold membership card to commemorate their enrolling as Charter Members of the Centre."
"I would like to emphasize," Mr. Jackson continued, "that we (Continued' on Page 5)
See CHARTER MEMBERS
RABBI BERNARD GOLDENBERG
[Goldenbergs return to city August 16
Rabbi and Mrs. Bernard Gol-denberg are returning to Vancouver on Thursday, August 16 after a year's stay in Israel where the Ralbbi attended the Hebrew University.
In honor of their homecoming. Congregation Schara Tzedeck will hold a reception in the auditorium of the synagogue on Sunday, August 19, at 8 p.m.
Members of the congregation as well as the entire community are cordially invited to attend and say "welcome home."
THE QUADS STORY:
Medical team makes history
By SAMUEL KAPLAN
When British Columbia's only living quadruplets were born last Friday, the attending doctors and nurses were aware that the odds against giving birth to quadruplets are something like 750,000 to one.
That is why they employed all of the latest medical and hospital techniques, all of the appropriate discoveries developed by modern science, many
months Defore "D" (delivery) Day.
It was a few months after Mrs. Alex Becker first came to see her obstetrician. Dr. Sidney Evans, that the drama began to unfold.
The first indication of a multiple birth was the rapid weight gain of the petite patient whose normal weight is about 105. (Continued on Page 8) See MEDICAL TEAM
ISRAELI
Nofhird ferm
JERUSALEM — Without regard to party affiliation most Knesset members favor the reelection this winter of President Ben-Zvi for a third term but reliable sources report he wished to retire and devote himself to writing and research.
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Death struggle
JERUSALEM — Citing a war with Egypt as a death struggle for Israel, Premier David Ben-Gurion stated that if Israel won, Egypt would stiU remain, whereas Egyptian victory would mean the utter destruction of Israel. "Above all we must keep our intellectual, moral and spiritual superiority without which we will be defeated," he said.
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No tinti«Semiti$ni ^
- TiSL^ AVIV H W
University Dean of Economics recently returned from a conclave in Budapest reported no apparent anti-Semitism in Hungary, that the Jewish community was partly integrated into the new social pattern but that many Jews would like to emigrate to Israel to reunite with relatives, if permitted to leave Hungary.
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African tour
JERUSALEM — A 17-day tour was undertaken by President Ben-Zvi which will take him to four African countries, the two Republics of Congo, the Central African Republic and Liberia. In each country he will be the guest of its president.
Canada census reports over 250,000 Jews
MONTREAL — According to the Dominion Bureau of Statistics the result of the 1961 census shows that the Jewish population rose 24.2% during the period 1951-1961; it numbered 254,368 in 1961 as compared to 204,836 in 1951. Canada's total population jumped 30.2% in the 1951-1961 period.
BRIT Am TO DEPORT ROCKWELL
Anti-Jewish terrorism in
South America continues
BUENOS AIRES —■ Following a brief period of quiet in both Montevideo, Uruguay and in Argentina,, three separate attacks took plckce on Jewish business enterprises in tl^e small
town of San
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ALEX JACKSON
Miguel near Buenos Aires. A bomb, Molo-
Diaest cocktails
^ and gun fire
were used as anti-Semitic terrorism was resumed.
No one was injured in any of the attacks and San Miguel's i police commissioner declared it I was his belief that all three at-i tacks were ^carried out by jper-isons "not expert in such activities." He ordered a search of the town for the perpetrators.
Meanwhile, a special joint conference in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, strongly condenmed the anti-Semitic violence which has mounted sharply in Monte-i video. Undertaken by joint aus«
pices of the University Student* Federation, the Federation of Labor, the Uruguayan Medical Association and the Press Association of Uruguay, the public rally adopted a resolution calling for the resignations of Montevideo's chief of police and the chief of Uruguay's secret service. It was a protest demon-tration against recent anti-Jewish terrorism which had culminated in the street killing of a (Continued on Page 4) See DIGEST
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