The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Deschutes County, Or.) 1917-1963, November 28, 1949, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE SIX THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1949 Israel Absorbs Enormous Influx Of Immigrants By Eliav Simon (United Preu Buff CorrMimndrnt) Sde Eliyahu, Israel ui This HtUe communal farm settlement on the Transjordan frontier is waging one of Israel's biggest peace-time battles. It is the job of absorbing im migrants. - Once as exclusive as a college fraternity, Sde Eliyahu (Field of Elijah) today Is becoming a melt ing pot or nations, its memDers call the change-over a ."quiet revolution." Typical of the hundreds of other collective farms in Israel Sde Elijahu, in the hot Beisan valley, is welcoming the immi- grants to relieve its serious man power shortage and to help the new jewisn siaie soive one 01 us most critical problems. At the end of the Palestinian War, Its land area was doubled when it assumed responsibility for cultivating 750 acres aban doned by Arabs. No Easy Task But the job of absorbing for eigners, most of them untrained, is ho -mean task. They've arriv cd from France, Holland, Italy, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Hun garyYemen and Tripoli. The social impact of this influx was described by one of the old- rimers as a severe case of social indigestion." ' Collective settlements like Sde Eliyahu where everyone "works according to his ability and re ceives according to his needs" make up the core of Israel's farm economy. In war-time they serv ed as springboards for offensives and outposts on the defensive. "Until recently our kibbutz (settlement) accepted members who had received intensive train ing and who could assimilate eas ily into our social structure," 33-year-old Eliezer Goldman, a New York xeshlva university student, said. He is the only American here, and is general secretary, one of the top positions in this community. ' 7 Ready for More "Today we are prepared to ab sorb more people," he said. "Those who can't adapt ' themselves to the hard life and we expect this number to be large will drop out automatically." a large number of immigrants have come and gone already , but the large majority have remain ed.," In one year the settlement's population increased from 150 to 250. , This ' compares favorably with the overall hike in Israeal's population of 28 per cent. :, "We have' no big problems," smiled - Goldman, the father of three 'children. "Our main trouble-Is finding a room and a bed for, 'everyone.- Unmarried iople are living in tents second-hand U; S.Varmy tents." v 'He, stressed,' however, that except-. ' for the housing. - problem, villages atfe raqre capable of ab sorbing Israel's .Immigrants than the urban areas.i In .the settlement everyone eata In a (fothmunal dining room, uses a communal sbbwer room, reads communal newspapers and works with communal tools. Most of the farm machinery was made in America.' Unified Politically rlThe cultural level of the Immi grants varies tremendously. But the long 54-hour week and Vic challenge to make this place a permanent home in a generation is helping rub out the differences. - One Paris university graduate who had hidden away in a church in the French capital during the nazi regime was asked by the cor respondent to name t lie new French premier. "I don't know and I don't care. Mr. Bert-Gurlon is my prime min ister now," he said. I - V S 'fhSiTi iff J NEW RAKE FOR OLD LEAVES This mechanical raker leaves little to be desired when it comes to that yearly chore of clearing away mountains of fallen leaves. Invented by Harry Clements of LaPorte, Ind., the machine scoops up not only leaves, but sticks, stones, bottles and bones as well. The machine will sell for $3200. - Mexican Indians See First Movie By Robert Prescott (United Preni Staff Corrnpondent) San Bernabe, Mexico 'IP) The Indians in this tiny and isolated Mexican village have Just seen their first movie, and they earned it. Although San Bernabe is only 14 miles from Mexico City, it has no electricity, no town water sup ply and no roads. Most of its in habitants never have been more than a few miles from home. Only one automobile, a jeep, ever had penetrated through the DlacK lava beds and rocky ridges encircling San Bernabe. rne villagers were curious about the "outside world." When they heard that U.S. embassy sound and camera trucks were showing free motion pictures to Mexicans living in semi-frontier areas, they asked to be counted in, too. Decide to Build The, embassy was willing. But Its technicians couldn't drive a truckload of delicate sound movie equipment apross the lava "bad lands." "Then," announced the village mayor, "we'll build a road." He ordered his townspeople to drop all other work. For three weeks 200 men, women and chil dren chipped and dug rocks and cleared brush. When the embassy truck - headed for San Bernabe with the U.S. state department version of a double-bill program, a well-graded road, hewn in many places out of solid rock, was ready. A guard of honor met the American projectionists at the be ginning of the road and escorted them to the village square, whore every villager and Indians from miles around had been waiting pa tiently for hours. I'urt of Program The coming of the motion pic ture to San Eernabe was part of a U.S. state department education al program which is showing Spanish-language sound films to some 900,000 Mexicans every month. Started by he United States during the war, the proj ect now Is being carried out by the Mexican, Brltluli and U.S. gov ernments, but most of the films are American. The programs, lasting from one to two hours each, generally in clude a short film on an educa tional or sanitary subject, another about the United States and an other that is pure entertainment. For a large percentage of the Mexicans in the wilderness audi ences, it is the first glimpse of a movie, and most are completely awed. In ono town, after the showing of a health film featuring care of the teeth, every tube of tooth paste In the stores was bought by morning. Most of the purchasers never before had used a tooth brush. The embassy uses trucks, jeeps, motor launches and mules to bring motion pictures to thous ands of Mexicans who otherwise never would see them. Five Vets Build Playground In Cafskill Mountain Area Greenville, N.Y. UPi Five war veterans with an idea and a cheer ful attitude toward hard work have come up with an enterprise here In the Catskill mountains that is attracting considerable at tention in resort circles. The "boys," Al, Ed, Ritter, Lit tle Joe and Joe D., were brought up in the same small town, Little Ferry, N.Y. When the war came, they were scattered, in the army, and navy, on the war fronts from Anzio to Okinawa. They kept in touch, sketchlly, through their families until it was over. Then they drifted, one by one, back to the old home town. Debating the prospects, someone came up with an idea. The prin cipal industries of the region are farming and holiday resorts. Farming doesn't pay too hand somely around here, 'especially for five beginners with newly- acquired wives and children. So they decided on a resort and pooled their resources. With their savlnfv, which aggregated quite a lot over four years, their sev erance pay and contributions from their families, they were able to put up $25,000 for a farm site of 22 acrps which was poorly developed and had been taking In holidayers on a modest scale. Done With Hands Breezy Knoll Acres, It is called. There was one cottage for board ers, a small main house and little else. No running water for guest facilities. No Indoor toilets or baths just outhouses. The "boys" pitched in with their own hands, with a lot of energy and faith. Now there are five buildings; hot and cold running water system, and a casino, bar and dining hall that Is one of the show-places of the Catskills. The latter wouldn't be out of place on Park Avenue. It is in modern decor, two-toned plywood. wirn subdued, indirect lluorescem lighting. The big hexagonal bar can handle 100 people. I here is a great stone fireplace which is a center of attraction on chilly eve nings, uig picture windows over- looK the landscape. ihey did all this themselves without outside labor. Two of them were war wounded, but not crippled. They put up the build ings, did the decorating and paint ing, dug the ditches, laid the drainage and water system their own water from bored wells and all the rest of it. Next year there will be a big outdoor swimming pool. Room for Play For recreation, there is a base-ball-sof tball diamond, tennis courts, basketball, handball, shut fleboard, quoits or horseshoe pitching, etc. Programs of mov ies, hikes, hot dog roasts, hay rides, costume parties and danc ing are promoted. Horseback rid ing and bicycling are available. The energetic five developed tne farm for trucking, supplying their own vegetables. They acquired a herd of 19 milk cows and some pigs. Chickens yet to come. woro ol this enterprise spread and now the "boys" have a wait ing list for the summer season. The plaoe now is valued at $125,000, but the "boys" claim they are just getting started. Of course, there's that $50,uoo first mortgage, but says uttlc Joe: "We're young yet." Elk, Bison Steaks Offered to Public Lawton, Okla. Ui Those who might relish a juicy hunk of braised elk or a sizzling buffalo steak can find it here. The Wichita mountains wild life refuge for the past 15 years has slaughtered and sold bison and elk considered surplus. The federal refuge last year grossed $18,000 from sale of meat, hides and by-products of the slaughter ing. An estimated 160 bison and elk will be butchered and sold this year. Bison sells at $75 for one half carcass and $150 for a whole carcass, dressed, ready for ship ment and delivered to transporta tion facilities. Butchered e 1 k prices are $42.50 and $85. The usual buffalo carcass weighs from 2-10 to 500 pounds. Buyers' requests are filled on a first-come, first-served basis dur ing the slaughtering season each fall. Markets, shops, public eat ing places and clubs may buy one carcass each. Individuals can get one-half a carcass. The National Press club and the Anteaters society, a scientists' group, In Washington, D.C., are among the customers. They sub mit their orders tar in advance, knowing the demand always ex ceeds the supply. Man Who Bought Hitler's Auto Makes Big Profit Chicago 1PI Christopher C. Janus, who bought Adolf Hitler's personal armored automobile, is getting a big kick out of using the car in a way "I'm sure Hitler would not have liked." Already the powerful automo bile, which has toured the coun try in exhibitions, has grossed more than $100,000 and benefit ted 40 charities and worthy causes. "My aim in putting the car on exhibition," Janus said, "was in addition to recovering my invest ment, to have the car do some good. "I felt the more good it did, the worse Hitler would have liked it. In fact, most of the things I did, I'm sure Hitler would have not liked." Here are some of the ways in which money earned by the car was used: Greeks Aided For six poor Greek students, whose families were murdered by the Nazis, to go to Athens col lege, an American institution in Greece. Clothes for displaced persons in Bay City, Mich. Three Jewish boys sent to a camp last summer in Palatine, III. Recruiting aided in the U. S. army and air force in New York. School books for poor children in Montgomery, W. Va. Rehabilitation of war veterans in several hospitals, and a wed ding gown for a needy Greek girl whose parents were killed during the war. Helped to build a barn on a poor boys farm in Macon, Ga., and a bank in Mantezuma, Ga. Uniforms for the Lions Boys club in Miami, Fla. Upkeep I.s High Janus said the car still runs well, but averages only 3V4 miles to a gallon of gasoline. "We have spent more than $2, 500 for repairs," he added. Some of the charities have ex hibited the car on an admission basis, while others asked for do nations. All aid has been offered without regard to religion, race, color or creed. Janus said he is greatly amus ed at the numerous threats and warning he has received from people all over the world. "They say that Hitler's ghost is lurking in trie car and one day will get even with me," he observed. Oversized Berries ! Resemble Lemons Parkersburg, W.Va. U'' A farmer who claims to have de veloped strawberries as big as small lemons hopes some day to grow them the size of grape fruits. The horticulturally-mindeu grower, Frank Fults of nearby Stockport, O., says he turned the trick by enriching his soil with a home-made fertilizer formula and a process of selection. Fults said Uie berries in his crop measured 2 inches in dia meter instead of the usual one inch variety yielded before the discovery. They were "extremely sweet, very solid and highly adaptable to deep freezing." Cripple Answers Jury Duty Call LaGrange, Ind. UP) When Mrs. Fred Booth, 54, received a sum mons to appear for jury duty, she went to court to fulfill her citizenship obligation. But Judge Donald Hunter promptly excused her, although she didn.'t ask to be excused. Hunter said she needn't have showed dp in the first place. For Mrs. Booth was carried into court by her husband, who explained she had been crippled by arthritis for 27 years and can not walk a step. Scientific Test Improves Health Rochester, Minn. Dr. Rus sell M. Wilder of the Mayo Foundation here says a scientific experiment in human nutrition has improved the "quality and quantity" of life in Newfound land. Wilder was one of nine medical scientists from Canada, England and the United States who made the study. It covered the entire population. ' The experiment consisted simp ly of fortifying margarine with vitamin A and enriching flour with vitamins, thiamine, ribofla vin and niacin, Wilder said. Outward signs of malnutrition became less prevalent in New foundland in 1948 than they were in 1944, when jhe experiment Degan. "Much of the apathy and list lessness so characteristic of the 1944 popul a t i o n disappeared," Wilder said. The death rate from all causes fell from 12.1 to 10.5 per thou, sard people. Deaths from tuber culosis decreased sharply in the first two years of the experiment. It fell from 135 per 100,000 to 101, he said. "Infant mortality rates dropped in the first three years of the test from 102.3 per 1,000 to 61," Wilder reported. "The bearing of these data on the significance to public health of the bread and flour enrichment program of the United States warrants emphasis." Wilder said enrichment helps control the normal function if the nervous system, strengthen the body tissues to resist lnie;tion and promotes growtn generally. Chinese Shell American Ship wnchinntnn njnv 98 illi State department officials reported that Chinese nationalist warsiups uu Shanghai today shelled the Amer ican freighter sir jonn rruniwiu. The vessel was hit 12 times, they said. The Sir John Franklin, owned ku tho Tchrnnritspn Co. Of NeW York, was fired upon while try ing to run tne nationalist uiutn ade of Shanghai. The vessel was en route from Hong Kong to Shanghai. Tho ctntp Hpnartmpnt announce ment, based on a report from the ItC -nnnanlnta in Khnnphoi. Said the attack occurred at 5 p.m. to day, Shanghai time (4 a.m. EST). Tho Ctf Tnhn VrnnUMn was the latest in a series of Isbrandtsen ships to run Into trouDie on Shanghai. The company's Flying Tr-.-lap wug cVifallfwl nnri rlnmacred November 15 as it leu smangnai. Use classified ads in The Bulle tin for quick results. Aluminum bathtubs are being mafln in Nniunv it is rpnorPcl: they are glazed with a type of enamel which resists cracking or chipping. Scientists Study "How Hot Is Hot" Waco, Tex. tlPi How hot is 100 degrees? In the interest oi ukkiux, ub Baylor university department of physics conducted an experiment. Dr. Herbert D. Schwetman did the checking and found it was: 100 in the sun same as the official weather bureau reading. 98 in the shade. 114 on an aluminum surface exposed to the sunlight. And 14U on a stone reuge ex posed similarly. NOT DIRTY ENOUGH Camp Hill, Pa. UPi Two Jersey r .--.l I..,-.- nf tnn ciil wpro urf ed by a justice of the peace to supply airtier airt. v.uiuint-rs ui Joseph M. Ingentlo and Michael J. Morley complained that the "high grade" earth they bought' from the two men was no more than plain garden variety soil. The men were fined $25 aplet. CROW IS EPICIJRE Ashland, Va. 'IB A -pet crow owned by Mrs. Robert W. Parker here Is fond of imported sardines and tiny Chinese grapes. Cut Hauling Costs! 1 PRICE5 I N 1 JJeep trucks Come in now see these trucks that save you money every mile. TWO GREAT LINES-2-wheel drive, 118 wheelbase 4-wheel drive, 118 wheelbase. Popular body styles. See us before you make any deal! HUTCHINS MOTORS 167 Greenwood Phone 259 Bulletin Classifieds Bring Results New Miracle Drug Stops Cold Symptoms in a Single Day ANAKSST NEOHETRAMINE Get It at City Drug Co. 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