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<XXV, No.-29, TAAAMUZ 27, 5717      VANCOUVER, B.C., FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1957
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EISENHOWEirWIUflS TO AiUB LEADERS
WASHINGTON—Persona! letters have been written by President Eis(^n-hower to King Saud of Saudi-Arabia aind to the heads of other Arab stat^ in an efifort to countqr^t Arab resentment over American support of Israeli-shippmgngbts m tbe ouu oi Aqaba. - -
It is reported that the President restated the U.S. position in support of isrikel's right Xxy use the Gulf, jfa Cairo; it was disclosed last-weeksjjd that Saudi-Arf^bia has begun to fortify the enhance to the Gulf of Aq&ba.
Danish ship goes through Suez to Israel biit lirael sailor idietaiiied
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Tlie Danish freighter Birgitte Toftj bound for Israelwith a cargo of Buritta ^cd; was permitted to 'pass;fltfbngh the ^Sttez, Caiisa this week. However; an-"fefaelil s^OT aboard the vessel, Riai|Jhael •Eylon, Was detained Egyptian authorities and turned over to the ^CTptian intelligence department: .  According ^ the'Egyptian authori-tiejr^EylQfn was taken into ^nistody; because he was trying to take pic^j tiu«s without permission. His^^^ was confiscated *to protect tht security of the state."
In' regard to the passage of the freighter through the Suez Canal,!
Egyptian officials' said it Was fniw^ ^ihal prpceddriei k»:
per^t^ ^Climit^ npijf^sitr^tegic car-^ ^goi|d^go^tto ;:by[^d:ifd[ti^; .addressed! tojndi^; vidual < importer^ ^and carrying by a i|on-Iscaeli ship.
Israel Aas demoded ;fliat Egypt re-Jesse the, deieMoed 3ai|or and^tiiat he
•relgLUest ii>x acfibV m tliis .case h^ been sent to.U.N. Secretary Gecei&I Dag Hammarskjold, to the.Security iCouncU and to the International Red Cross. Israel'says'that Egypt is noi estiticd to take, anyone firom a ship passmg through the Canals
ADDS REFUGEES FROM EGYPT
WASfflNGTON^The U.S. government has-allocated $763,175 to assist' in the movement ^ to new homes of over 17,000 refugees from Egypt including about 12,000 Jews-
ISRAEI/S SECURITY \ PRpBi:£MS^. NOT. YET SO£VS:i>~.BEN GURION *
JERUSALEM ~ Jews throughout! the World should ndt be under tbe "dangerous delusion'* that IsraeFd se?! curity pi^blems were'solved by the Smai cam^aign^P^toiier. David'Ben 'Gurion .Wsu^ed last^ we^end'in ani address,.before \the-V2^oilist Actions Committee. > , .'^ ' ^" " ' \ 'Ben Gurion disa said that it was
Homf for Ag^ turns down 5 fipjiliciiib
Five 1a|3^can,t$ seeking admis^ sion to the Jewish Home for Ifce; Aged &ive been turned down dur^ in^jti&bfast fe^ weieks^-tiie. Bnl-; iett^ Cwas told this weelt by: Abe; Wpsliir president of tjie Home, k >The .only jr^asop jfqr re^i^l oi| these^appiie^^^, < l^r. Wosir state^^;; is because^ ^ ipresenlt-ltdme is fiUe4 to, capacity and there<<i5.no furthqij
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A siieciaicmeetin^s has beenr call&d: ^y the execnitive of the Hoipe for the Aged to consider anew;: the problem created by the extremely limited facili-l ties of: the present Home and to review the: situatioa with regard to plans for a new. building. The Community Council has Jbeen invited to send it?; representatives to this meetings ,
Mr; Wosk stated that he is still* hopeful that a reasonable plan can be^ worked out for tibe building of avUew; Jewish Home for. the Aged to meet theirequked needs at the lowest pos-; sible cost, to the community.   . ,.
Canadfiim Maccablah team may iiave two Vancouver athletes
rated atblefes^^iejcpectedta re-presmt Canada^ at the fifih^^^j^^ ipalwahi jSmes; ih^ ill Tjd 15. iThe 't^artap^E^
mitt^j^ filaded by Beck^
4ol'M6ntreiaIii/;is^1a^ ;s|weiiai? appeM^^^^ meet
the ^^xpenses of thiei^l^
't6anii">vvv-:--^^f---•■ ■ ; ^ Viinctouveir re^^ Caihadian Miujcabiahj Conunittee ai^ iU)e Chark^
I^ R.apha;el^;SenbfaI committee representative. Mt^Gharkow, Mr- Raphaj^l and Pav^, Sily^ heading thfe Ma(x;a|>iahr in yancoii-
ver. This wltoe first time tibiat y^Vr. iciouyer is beihgf as^ for direct siipr :port for the^^UTaccabiah It i$
also the furst time that yancbuver will be represented by at least one and possibly two athletes on the Canadian Maccabiah team; Freyda Bennan has already been accepted ^nd Peter Bak-i onyi, B.C. fendng champion, is. being considered. V
Peter ^akonyi wa^ a fencing champion in Hiingaiiy^ and won the B.C. championship soon after ainriving h^^^^ a few months ago. He is rated aii excellent prospect for the Maccabi^ team if he can get to the trials takipg place shortly in Montreal.
Dave Berman, the father of Freyda
a,mistaken notion to assume that present. differences in the Arab camp strengthens Israel's security. "No good will jcome to Israel from the split-up of !the Arab: cam|> into Soviet satelf litesand American satellites^'he said. Arms : in Arab hands/ whether- supplied by the east or west, are intend-r ed i>y Arab leaders to bb used against le-hel, he asserted, not against corn-' munism or democracy.
"The Sinai campaign secured for os.a usefollnieej^ Mr. Ben Garimi Aded. This trc^d help speed Ae mahi taski of immigrant abso^tioii and deyelopment,: he stated.] Tli« Sinaifcaropa^'increased Israel's prestige "among its friends, enemies and the disistcrested,** the Pirime Minister addend,, and it was no cohici^ence vtibat Fakistan*^ Pre* mier now advises tiie Ar^bs to re? coglkize btael and India's Fremieir gives fh^ same advice to Nasser, he declared."
FIR^T A J£W^ THEI^ AK JSRAfXJ ,
Expressing lu$ personal outlook, the .'^ael/^eft>Jfcr,declared yhhnS^. first
State o^fsraeFwas created f(>r"an< by the me^-its of the Jewish people; "But the future of the Jewish people from now on - depends on; the ^exisr tence, growih and - strength of the state," he added.
Israel does not represent any non-Israeli Jew, he stated, but every Jew is amember.of the Jewish nation and^ unity of nationality. binds all Jews to a common historic eternal faith, Even non-Israeli JeWs in the free countries do not have freedom and full rights as men and as Jews, he claimed, adding that as a member of a minority, the Jew was dependent, knowingly or not, on the will of th€ majority.
^ Israel makes no distinction bejtween the Jew who has just arrived and the veteran settler or native born, Ben-Gurion said. All have equal rights. He also stated that there was ho difference between the Jew abroad who
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Urgent need for jobs for Jewish refugees
There is a very desperate need for jobs for some garian Tewishrefugees who are still unemployed here, the: Bulletin was told this wefek    Miss IxUa Azoulay; coordina-" tor of the Congress Refugee committee.
Miss Azoulay repbrte tiliat slie is getting no assistance whatsoever
^t the present time from anyone in tie community in trying to findi employment for ihe^e people. Some of them have been unemployed for
' three to four months and among theU are quite a few people with dif-^ ferent skiUsjincluding taiioi^, auta'n^echam^ draftsmen, bookkeepers,
/dress leakers; and mechanical engineers;:
... !l^issrA2x>ulay w^ns-thajt some of tiiese men are becoming desper-* ate,and\&at;this4nay lead to all kinds of trouble for the community. S^e. points out tiiat there are also avfewmiddle-aged men who were ^ .previously business men in Hungary who have nor technical skills- , These present a particularly severe problem and community assistance ' in rehabilitating t^^pi is absolutely essential. ^
Miss Azoulay sti-essed the urgent need for some volunteer response' ] fronith&conununity in helping to find jobsrfor these men.
holl Ccmtor Herskovits;' sirfgS here tonight and Sunday
Cantor: Bela Herskowl^'/the Cantor of Bitfbktyn-s ^ Ocean Parkway' Jewish Centeet^.and an"* MGU ^tar at the-fame'.time, makes hk'^t^^^l^alrasce.m
Vancouver this weekend.>!Be witt
CANTOR BELA HERSKOVITS
ABE CHARKOW
Bennan, has already pledged a stahtial contribution towards the^Mac-cabiajh fund. It has been explained by the national Maccabiah Committee? chairman, Mr. Becker^ that al-the accept^tnce of any particular athlete ' depends mainly on merit, the. size of the- team which qjm be sent over does/Jcpend upon the amouht of money raised. Each section of the country expected'to ..raise a fair share in support of its athletics.
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■and will give a concert at Schara' Tzeddck, Sunday night at 8:30 p.m. "
' Music cjitfcs who have heard Caii-tor- Herskovits (throughout United StaC^ have been inspired to originjal lA^i^p^e^SJ^mi^ ms^ heights jglucomp^rison tin writing about lus singing.
The New York Tfaneshas siaid of Cantor Herskovtis ;tiiat he has ^ "brilliant and powerful flexible tenor voice.*'
j New Yoric Daily Mhron "Bela Herskovits is the most exciting tenor since Caruso."
. JewMi Day, ^(ew York; "He sings like nobody else in a generation with his brilliant dramatic tenor voice."
Los Angetes Tunes: "The tenor has a phenomenal three-and-a-half octave range."
Jewidi Conimumty Bnlletiii» San Francisco: "Not only did he sing higher and lower and louder and softer, but he can also hold a note longer than any other tenor-"
HoDywood Reporter: "Bela Herskovits*^ voice sounds like a male Yma Sumac",
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A. J. Arnold, editor and publisher'Of the Jewish Western Bid-iletin, was^one of seven Caidadian jpumalists who received consideration in the social and cultural fields; of the Bowater Awards for joiimalism for 1956. llie winner of the $1,000 top award in the social and cultural field was Fired Poland, feature writer with the Klpntreal Daily Star.
The results of' the 1956 competition were announced this week in Ottawa by James R. Nelson, president^ of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, which is the Oustcdian of the Bowater Awards. These awards for Ca-, nadian jourhalism were inaugurated last year by the Bowater Corporation of America. Two $1,000 prices are given each year, one for the best editonals or articles in the social ind cultural field and the other for the best entry in the economic and business field.
Mr. Poland received his award for a series of medical articles in the
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Mpiitreal Star on "Tension and CureJ*
Entries in the social, and cultiu^ section which received special mention came from E. A. Collard, editor, of the Montreal Gazette; Aniadee daudreault,, feature writer in the Montreal La Presse, Douglas Leiter-, man, Southam 'Press correspondent whose articles appear in the Province; ,Wm. French of the Toronto Globe and Mail; James McCook of the Ottawa Journal; Michael Barkway of the Financial Post; and A. J. Arnold of the Jewish Western Bulletin.
Mr Arnold was given pouits by^ tfie judges for two out of ttiree sets of arildes whldt he subniifted. The \ topics of his submissions, all of which were articles first published in the Bnlletih during 1956, included: (1) Evalnaltion <^ Fahl^ Employment 1 Practices Laws in Csa&idai (2) The Value of Intercnltural Project^ (3) Cultural Pluralism Applied to Canadian History.
Included in the third Abmission
was Mr.; Anipld's article.on "Ethnic Groups in the'B.C. Centenary" which first appeared in last year*s New Year edition of the Bulletin and was reprinted in ih6 VahconvM Sun.
Judges in the social and cultural section were: Pntf. Dtmald Cr^glitiNi, Professor of History, University of Toronto; Dr. Je^n Bmchesi, Deputy Provuicial Secretary of the Province of Quebec; Senator Dcmald Cameron, director of the Banff School of Fine Arts, ^ University of Alberta; Jean Pierre-Honle, chief of the Intematibn-al Relations Division, Air Transport Board, and Flnc^. E<. 1. Pratf^ professor of English at the University t>f Toronto. ,
In announcing this year's results Press Gallery President Mr. Nelson stated that the second year of the contests saw material submitted by even larger groups of Canada's outstanding newspapermen, both editorial and article writers, than compeiteld in the first year.
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