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VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1959
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urgently needed for UJA rescue work
The Zionist Organization of B.C. has made a loan of $100,-000 from the bank. This represents monies which will be coming to the United Israel Appeal from pledges from the 1959 Vancouver UJA Campaign. . The urgent need for cash to be used for rescue and absorption work in Israel, was brought to the attention of Irving Chertkow, Regional Chairman for the Pacific Region of the Zionist Organization of Canada, in a recent letter from Zionist headquarters.
The letter, in part, reads: 'The pressure on us from Jerusalem is unceasing and most demanding. As their financial situation there becomes more pressing, their pleas to us for cash become constantly more serious."
Mr. Chertkow has urged that all
NEW JEWISH HOME FOR AGED TO OPEN IN EARLY JULY
The new Jewish Home for the Aged at 54th Avenue and Oak Street will be completed at the beginning of July, according to Abe Wosk, president.
Mr. Wosk has announced that applications on behalf of prospective residents in the new Home will be taken at the old Home, 1190 W. 13th Ayenue each' Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., beginning this Sunday, May 31 until the new Home is ready to open its doors for the first time.
Construction is proceeding at a rapid pace and it is already possible to gain a very good idea of the spa-
those who have not already pledged to UJA do so immediately so that the maximum amount of cash can be made available to the Jewish Agency at the earliest possible moment. Canvassers who have not yet completed their cards are requested to do so without delay.
The burden being placed on the Israel economy by Exodus 1959 is staggering. The Canadian Jewish community has undertaken the task of supplying $1,600,000 over and above last year. This increase, which
has been called the Rescue Fund, is being earmarked specifically for the rescue of eastern European Jewry.
The Vancouver UJA campaign for 1959 has set as its goal $285,000 The campaign total at present stands at $225,000,000.
Morris - Jacobson, campaign cliair-man for this year, has expressed confidence in the Vancouver Jewish community and feels that Vancouver's increased response this year will enable the UJA to reach its goal.
U.S. will maintain aid to Israel at low level
(COMPILED FROM DISPATCHES) JERUSALEM — The State Department has agreed to Congressional demands for.the restoration of Israel to the 1960 grant-in-aid program, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee will recommend in its re-
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ciousness and elegant appearance of this modern edifice. It will accommodate 60 residents in home-like comfort, and is situated on grounds which promise much opportunity for gracious landscaping. Many stately trees have been preserved and there will still be room for adequate parking facilities.
One of the outstanding features of the new Jewish Home for the Aged is the large auditorium complete with two kitchens on the lower level. Community organizations will be able to rent it for weddings and other formal affairs without disturbing the residents. A separate entrance reached by a driveway makes this possible, though the auditorium can also be entered from the main floor. Residents themselves will be using it as a chapel, since there is provision for a built-in ark. Lighting is all concealed.
Enquiries are being received from a variety of cities and there have been 25 so far.
port   a $7.5m. grant, the same as for 1959, and the State Department will raise no objections, the Post reported. The United States grant was made of 3,000,000 Israel pounds for development of Israel^ ra&wa^^^ HOPES FOR RESUMPTION OF ROMANIAN EMIGRATION
NEW YORK A New York Times report this Week quotes a cable from its correspondent in Bucharest as saying that Western diplomats there hope, the Romanian government "will soon permit the resumption of Jewish migration to Israel on a sizeable scale." The hopes are based on a belief that the same "humanitarian consideration" that caused the Bucharest regime to' facilitate the migration ekrlier would bring about its resumption, according to the report. ISRAEL CURRENCY RESTRICTIONS EASED
JERUSALEM — Regulations intended to liberalize Israeli currency restrictions are expected to be published soon by the Israel Finance Ministry. They will allow foreign investors the right to take unlimited profits out of Israel, while present rules permit investors to take out annually a maximum of profits of up to 10 per cent of their investments.
Finance Minister Levi Eshkol cited some of the liberalization measures to businessmen from 15 countries last weekend, including one which entitles foreign residents, paying in foreign currency for some types of stocks registered on the stock exchange, to receive other dividends or their capital if they sell them in foreign currency. He said that such steps were "rather venturesome" for Israel's young economy but that these actions would create better conditions for foreign capital investment. CONDOLENCES ON DULLES* DEATH
WASHINGTON —Israel's charge d'affaires, Yaacov Herzog has conveyed condolences to the American State Department at the death of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles last Sunday. His cable on behalf of the Israel government reads in part: "The people of Israel will always remember that he viewed the renewal of its statehood in its ancient homeland as an expression
of the spiritual continuity enshrined in the Biblical heritage."
Major American Jewish organizations also expressed their condolences to the State Department.
ATOMIC REACTOR EXPERIMENT FOR ISRAEL SOON iREADY
TEL AVIV—A new phase in Israel scientific studies will open with an experimental atomic reactor south of Tel Aviv, scheduled to be in operation by the end of this year. The announcement of its near completion was made jointly by Prof. D. E. Bergman, chairman of the Israel Atomic Energy Commission and William Baxter, American Charge d'Affaires in Israel. ^^^-The project was:.m^de.'^^Hjssible through a 1957 agreement between Israel and America based on the American Atoms for Peace plan. A grant of $350,000 by the United States helped in the $800,000 purchase from the American Machinery and Foundries Company.
While the reactor cannot be used for atomic power production, Israeli scientists will be able to study various aspects of operating it and the reactor will also allow them to conduct research in isotopes for medical and agricultural purposes.
FRANCE BEFRIENDS ISRAEL
TEL AVIV—A message of friendship from the French nation and assurance of active support if Israel faced danger again were conveyed here last week in a speech to the Israel-French Friendship League by Guy MoUet. Mr. MoUet was Premier of France at the time of the Suez campaign. The message came from President Charles De Gaulle.
In addition. President De Gaulle "wanted the people of Israel to know that though he had not been in
Esrael to be location of three films
Plans have been announced for the shooting in Israel of three full-length English language films.
United Artists is to film Leon Uris' best-seller, "Exodus" to be directed by  Otto  Preminger,  and Howard
Fast's "My Glorious Brothers" under the direction of Stanley. Kramer. Ty-
rohe puthrie, the British producer
will film "The Dybbuk," with a cast
primarily of Habimah actors.
day camp opep june 29; many chances; in program
Averbach; Counsdlors, Sheldon Cole, Lynn St^inbei^, Cyndi Zimmerman, Eleanor Caplan, Leah Gofdty, Caron Schwartz, Mark White, Susan Brown, Ricki Freeman, Bany Panar.
Among the changes planned for this year is the use of a large school bus that will accommodate the entire camp at one time. This will allow the Camp to utilize park and pool areas in Burnaby and New Westminster for the,first time. Special outings to the Delta and Surrey areas will also be incorporated into the overall program.
The overnight hike for older campers, always a feature of Day Camp, will be centred, this year, around a ski lodge so that bad weather will not interfere. It would appear that Vancouver's public beaches will be open this summer, but if not, arrangements have been made to use various public pools.       / "
Applications are still being accepted for all three periods as follows: June 29 - July 17 ($21.00); July 20 -August 7 ($21.00); August 10 -August 21 ($14.00). Transportation is available and is an additional $7.50 for each of the first two periods and $5.00 for the last period. Applications and information may be obtained at the Centre or by phoning RE 3-1168.
LOU HILFORD
The 1959 edition of the Jewish Community Centre's Summer Day Gamp will be one of variety and change.
The camp, directed by Lou Hilford, the Centre's Program Director, wDl lave a combination of new and old staff, all of whom will participate in an intensive training session to prepare themselves for the coming season. Some of the staff already hired include:   Program  Director, P^e
Emergency resolution proposed by Vancouver delegation at NCJW meet
An Emergency Resolution on the hazards of radioactive fallout from the explosion of nuclear devices, was introduced to the 10th Biennial Convention of the National Council of Jewish Women by the Vancouver Delegation.
This Resolution, which was unanimously adopted by the 100-delegate Conference, urged that the "Federal Government give leadership to the movement for Jnternational Agreements on the cessation of such'tests, and to urge upon all goverimients possessing such devices, the need for halting such explosions."
Mrs. Louis J. Notkin, National Chairman of Public Affairs, who
power during 1956, he had supported fully the French decisions on aid to Israel and on French participation in the Suez campaign."
chaired the session on Resolutions at the time that the Emergency Resolution was introduced, stated "I'm very glad that this timely resolution was the, first one passed, on a first reading, by this convention".
Another important contribution made by the Vancouver Delegation was the presentation of a Brief on the Emotional Needs of Children in Hospital. This was accepted as a new Area of Emphasis, and is of unusual importance in that it will be the first Brief to be considered by the National, in three different National Departments: the Department of Public Affairs, Community Services and Pro-granmiing.
The 7-woman delegation from the Vancouver Section was the second largest'one at the Convention, despite the fact that it was the farthest away geographically from Ottaiwa. (See page 6 Iw full report)
ABE ARNOLD CITED IN BOWATER AWARDS
A. J. Arnold, publisher and editor of the Jewish Western Bulletin was mentioned as "closely following the runner-up" in the Social, Political and Cultural section of the Annual Bowater Awards for Journalism, 1958, by James McCook, President of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, and chairman of the Bowater Awards Board of Trustees.
These are the highest journalistic awards given in Canada.
Mr. Arnold submitted his series on Human Rights which appeared in the Bulletin last fall.
A jointly written series on metropolitan government by Messieurs Jacques Delisle and Fernand Leves-que received the top $1,000 award in the Social, Political and Cultural section. It was the first French-language submission to receive one of these top annual prizes in Canadian jour-
nalism. It appeared in La Presse.
A close second was a series of 53 articles on the Canadian Indian by G. E. Mortimore of the Daily Colonist, Victoria, B.C. It was called "The Strangers".
Following these entries on the award WsXs was Mr. Arnold's and one by Gordon Donaldson in the Toronto Telegram on the international narcotics traffic-Professor Donald Creighton, B.A., M.A. (Oxford), L.L.D., F.R.S.C., Professor of History, University of Toronto was chairman of the panel of judges in this sectioiL Others on the panel were: Dr. Jean Bruchesi, L.L.L., Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Deputy Provincial Secretary, Province of Quebec; Senator Donald Cameron, B.Sc, Director, University of Alberta, Banff School of Fine Arts; M. Jean-Pierre Houle, B.A., LLB., M.A., Chief International  Relations Division, Air
Transport Board.
Winner in the Economic and Business section was Thomas Kent, former editor of the Winnipeg Free Press who submitted an 11-part series on the Gordon Report. Mr. Kent won over Miss Muriel Snider, Torono Globe and Mail, who entered a seven-part series on Canada's Marine Industries. Bruce Hutchison's series on Inflation, in the Victoria Daily Times, and Michael Barkway's on Canada's Defence System in the Financial Post, also received considerable attention from the judges.   Rt. Hon. J. L. Ilsley,  P.C.,  B.A., "D.C.L., LL.D., Chief Justice of Nova Scotia, was chairman of this panel.
Mr. McCook said the trustees were gratified by the . number of entries in the 1958 Awards' competitions, and particularly by the comments of judges on the high quality of these entries.