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Show Jerusalem Urban RenewalStirs Up Protes Page 24—THE HERALD, Provo, Utah Friday, October15, 1971 - ~ Senate has approved and sent to the House a bill determining how to hand out $15.7 million the Shoshone Indians were awarded Criticism over what's being done to Jerusalem started It was sparked by the publication last year of a master plan for the city’s development by the Indian Claims Commission and by a conclave of international experts in architec ture and city planning gath- The money is compensation for 38 million acres of land on which tne Indians laid claims ered by Mayor Teddy Kollek. At the time, the Israeli for compensation. press was running lengthy critiques of the new construction going on in the former Jordanian sector of the city and on the Jewish fathers’ intentions for other parts of the municipal area One of the most trenchant critics of the 19 Minister of Housing Ze’ev Sherf, He declered at a press rush to build was author of Israel was best-seller the “The Isra lis: Founders and Sons.” Elon contended that applying out moded tactics—that times have changed andthat it is no longer necessary MODERN APARTMENTbuildings are being constructed by the Israelis on this plot, formerly Jordanianterried protests both inside and outside the Holy City tory. The Israeli building program in Jerusalem has rais' that Jews actually be living in a place for Israel to claim sovereignty over it. Other Israeli critics voiced fears that insufficient attention was being devoted to Jeru- salem’s historic landscape and unique architectural qualities While non-Israeli parties— among them the Jordanians, British and the Vatican— raised protests on political, aesthetic and religious grounr's, Israel's internal debate was stili unresolved when a group of Hebrew University students brought things to a head by planting saplings on a site earmarked for a big hotel. They charged it would ruin the skyline. Then the real uproar was kicked off by a seemingly blithe, though far from innocuous, remark made by luncheon that he didn’t care how Jerusalem would lock after the year 2000 because it’s being dwarfed... it's t coming moreof a city, say like Manhattan. This is not what we want.’ But Jerusalem’s Israeli administration is convinced that the new housing and hedidn’t expect to be around then to see it. But, he went on, he is determined to pro- other urban development are vide dwelling units for 100,- dictated by pressing social, 000 more Jews in the city rather than political needs and to make sure that JeruAn aidé to Kollek, Mrs. salem can have a Jewish Tamar Eshel, cites these majority sufficient to assure considerations in defending that it will remain Israeli. the incredible pace at which The blunt statement dis- new apartment houses, turbed even manyinfluential streets and roads are being Israelis. They were partic- completed. ularly concerned over the She notes that a third of ministry's plans to develop Jerusalem's newly Nebi Samwil, the hilltop stay in the city be overlooking Jerusalem the lack of suitable accomwhere the Prophet Samuel modations. She added that is believed to have been laid slum clearance is urgent and to rest. apartments must be readied ‘ue debate soon spilled over into the former Jordanian sector of the city, where Anwar Nusseibeh, a former official in King Hussein’s “thousandinn government said, grants” « lem Progress, development and time and each genera tion brings a change in the city,” she says. “We don't have in mind to keep Jeru salem as a fossilized museum to be looked at. It is a living, viable city, which will develop. However, we are extremely careful to maintain the historic heritage, to conserve monuments, to keepits special character.” Mrs. Eshel went on to say that two of every three new apartments being built in Jerusalem are going up on the formerIsraeli side of the one-time armistice line. As for the 2,000 new flats in the prewar Jordanian sector, she contende! that these wel i constru don “I think that this architecture cn this terrain, as a result of the new building projects, is gradually being swamped... empty lots and that no Arab houses were demolished and thus no Arab was evicted to makeroom for them Mrs. Eshel pointed ou a start has been 1 new housing for Je Arabs, with the first se ies of 20 apartments nowavailable at $25,000 per unit Her clinching argument had to do with the Jewishownedland abandonedin the 1948 war with Jordan. She The money is to be split, $500,000 and its interest to the Shoshone-Bannocktribes of the it really is so. T’m nottrying to suggest tha. Ft. Hall Reservation, I da h 0; $1.38 million andinterest to the a hospitalis a jolly place to be. northwestern bands of Shoshone It isn't. But I never really expected it to be. What Indians, who have no reservation yet, and the remainder of surprised me was the discovery the money for the Shoshone- that there are certain aspects Bannock tribes of the Ft. Hall of a heart attack which can Reservation and the Wind River invest the whole experience Reservation, Wyo., under an egreement the two tribes en- tered in 1965. 2-Hospital Concept Is Stalled FARMINGTON, Utah (UP1)— A two - hospital concept for Davis County residents has been stalled by the State Medical the Jordanians, We are Facilities Council which wants merelyreturning to it now,” to study plans fora centrally loshe says. cated single facility. cites suburban Neve Yaakov as an example: “That was a Jewish village destroyed by Commissioner (Jay Bushinsky is Middle East correspondent for the Group Wradiostations.) (NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSN.) from fear, and anxiety, and Of God and Man petty ambitions. By LOUIS CASSELS The inner happiness, which UPISenior Editor sometimesis a strange fruit of Sericus illness can be a illness, does not continuc blessing. without interruption. Like all T've been reading assurances other human moods, it has its to that effect in the Bible for ups and downs. In cardiac manyyears. But ou paper they cases particularly, there are sounded pretty far-fetched, and periodic attacks of acute I guess I didn’t take them very psychological depression, 30 seriously. Now I know, from familiar to destors they are recent personal experience, that considered a progression of the Stanley M. Smoot said the council has delayed approval of the two-hospital plan to study the single facility. with good cheer, disease. Tests Are Continuing Into Drug Death joyfulness, even a kind ofzest. The author of the 23rd Psalm glimpsed the basic reason, I think. When you walk through what is called the ‘valley of the shadow of death,” your natural fear can be quite remarkably allayed bya strong SALT LAKE CITY year-old Salt Lake City man whose body was found in his bed in a local drug crisis cen: ter were continuing today. Authorities said the body of William: Lonnie Walker was beawareness that God is with you. ing examined and results of It is importantto realize that tests would not be known fer this phrase means exactly what several more days. it says: God is “with” you. Walker was found Monday What He extends in an hour of real crisis is a sense of His morning at Project Reality, a presence—not magical protec- drug rehabilitation center. Potion from the natural conse- lice said early today they still had not ruled out foul play in quences of your illness. This feeling that God is with the case, you is a very wonderful thing. It does not merely comfort you. Dogs andcats see well, but It gives you a new outlook, a different perspective on all they cannotsee different colyour plans, problems, ambitions ors, so theylive in a world and worries, It liberates you— which is gray and drab e JERUSALEM MAYORTeddy Kolle k, left, organized a gathering of city planners and architects that helped spark criticism of the Israelis’ Jerusalem renewal rojects. But the real trouble came when housing miaiter Ze'ev Sherf, right, said all he wanted was to give store Jewsplacesto live in Jerusalem and didn’t care __wnat the citywill look like in the year 2000. Herald Want Ads GetResults FOR ONLY YOU CAN OWNA 1972 #, y Oo If aman answers, QUALITYSNOWMOBILE it could be because the (Full-Size Coit (not a toy!) (015 Inch Steel-Cleated Track (1) 12 H.P., 175c¢ Polaris Star Engine lady’s making connections. (Hydraulic Disc Brakes (J PowerSlide Suspension (Sleek New Styling (1 Traditional Polaris Dependability C Lightweight, Only 286 Lbs. 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