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6 THE SUNDAY PRESS Binghamton, N.Y., April 22, 1973 ALORICH-Willlem B. Aldrich, 69, of 51 RITTAIN Robert Brlttaln 74, Franklin, N. Y. died Saturday, April 21, at his home In Franklin. He Is survived by his stepmother, Mrs.

Mary Brlttaln, iFruits of Progress Divide Israelis KUMPON-John J. Kumpon, 71, of Rldo Road, Mt. Prospect, died unexpectedly Friday morning at Binghamton General Hospital. He Is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Mlcheel (Marl) Hurben, Mrs.

Paul (Elizabeth) Ford, both of Binghamton, Sister Msrcella, Swoyer-vllle. and Mri. Theresa Redag, Luterne, two brothers, Paul and Joseph Kumpon, both of Binghamton; several nieces and nephew. He was a retired employ of th Parks Dept. of Binghamton, a member of St.

Cyril Method Church, member of th First Ward American Legion, Post 1254, an Army veteran of World War II. Th funeral service will held at :30 l. m. Tuesday at th Grskovlc-tdtock Funeral Home, 161 Clinton Binghamton, and 10 a.m. at SS.

Cyril Method Church. Burial will In Spring Forest Cemetery, In th veterans' plot. Friends may call from 7 to 9 this evening and from 1 to 4 and 7 to p. m. Monday at th funeral horn.

Recitation of th Rosary will be at 7:30 Monday vnlng at th funeral horn. Twenty-five years ago, Israel proclaimed itself a nation. That was the easy part. This promised land born of war and persecution has known little peace in its first quarter-century. And the struggle goes on.

the fees to send my children to high school. Some boys on the street are in jail. "The Ashekazis Westerners get everything, but the government ignores us," he protests. The Hebrew poet Chaim Bialik once said Tel Aviv would never be a city until it produced its first Jewish thief and its first streetwalker. With the new prosperity, the epigram has become real.

Crime, prostitution and drugs are on the increase. FRICTION GRATES between Orthodox Jews and non-religious Israelis who want to scrap the old rabbinical rules. "People around the world are discarding things like suits and ties, but the Israelis are just starting to wear them. Israeli women suddenly think they have to wear high fashions," says Ya'acov Kirschen, the American immigrant. La mew Binghamton, one sister, Mrs.

Molly Aber, Grand Villa, Ohio) two brothers, Dr. Knox Brlttaln, Speneerport, N. Evan Brlttaln, Harrlsburg, Pa. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, April 24, at 2 p.m. at the Kenneth L.

Bennett Funeral Home, II Main Franklin, N. Y. Burial will be In th Ouleout Valley Cemetery, Franklin. Friends may call Monday at th funeral home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p. m.

Memorial gifts may be mad to th Franklin Emergency Squad. CROWLEY Mrs. Anna (Sweeney) Crow ley, 7a, formerly of 37 Ely Binghamton, died at 2:30 a.m. Friday at Asa Park Manor, Montrose, after a long Illness. She was th widow of John J.

Crowley. She Is survived by a sister. Sister Molra C.S.J., St. Peter's Convent, Rome, N. also several nieces.

Including Sister Charlen, C.S.J., St. Patrick's Convent, Binghamton; also several nephews. Including th Rev. Robert L. Sweeney, McAllen, Tex.

She was a member of St. Paul' Church, and of Its Altar and Rosary Society, also member of the Ladles Auxiliary of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Th funeral services will be held Monday at a. m. from the J.

A. McCor-mack Sons Funeral Home, 141 Main Binghamton, and at 9:30 a.m. at St. Paul's Church, where a Concele-brated Mass of th Resurrection will be offered. Burial will be In St.

Patrick's Cemetery, Johnson Cltv. The family will recelv friends at th fu neral home today from 2 to 4 ana( 7 to 9 p.m. Tne Rosary win recitea at p.m. this evening at th funeral home. FLEMING Mrs.

Mary Fleming, 72, of RD 3, Marathon, N. Y. died Friday at the Cortland Memorial Hospital. She Is survived by her husband, James Fleming, Marathon; five sons, Robert and David Fleming, RD 3, Marathon, James Fleming, St. Louis, Joseph Fleming, Glastonbury, Stephen Fleming, Endicott; four' daughters, Mrs.

Richard (Catherine) Terry, Glens Falls, N. Mrs; Raymond (Dorothy) Beattle, RD Marathon, Mrs. Robert (Eileen) Haw, West Chester, Mrs. Maurice (Joan) Inner, Marathon; three brothers, Patrick, Pater and Harry Corr, all of Ty-rone, Ireland. She was a communicant of St.

Stephens Church, Marathon and a member of Its Altar Rosary Society. Funeral services will be at 9:30 a. m. Monday at th Baker Funeral Home, Marathon, followed by Mass at 10 a.m. at St.

Stephens Church, the Rev. John Come-sky, officiating. Burial will be In the Marathon Cemetery. Friends may call at th funeral home today from 7 to 9 p. m.

The Rosary will be recited at 8 p.m. I 1 drives a 13-year-old car that cost him $1,500. IN 1956 ISRAEL won another war, the Suez campaign. Amir's father served as an army communications officer and Amir and his baby sister went into the shelters for Arab air raids that never came. The Israeli kidnaping, trial and execution of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in 1962 made Sabras like Amir aware, for the first time, of what other Jews had endured.

"We were numbed. At school we stopped playing at lunchtime to hear the trial on the radio. We were all about 13 years old and we were like zombies." As day after day of testimony recalled the gas ovens, "we began to understand why our parents feared for our survival." "I think the Eichmann lesson had a stronger influence on my life than anything I have says Amir. "I think that was the reason my friends and I worked so hard in the 1967 war." "Hanging Eichmann couldn't atone for Germany's crimes," says Miss Rosen, but Schiller Binghamton. died Friday morning at Our Lady of Lourdei Hos pital, Binghamton.

He It survived by nis wife, Mrs. Hazel Aldrich, Bingham. ton; one daughter, Mra. Joan Wycker, Seneca Falls, N. on sister, Mrs.

Mrorle Patton, Oneonta. The funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. Monday at th Wm. R.

Chase (, Son Funeral Horn, 737 Chenango Port Dickinson. The Rev. William A. Calhoun, assistant minister of the West Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Burial will be In Rlverhurst Cemetery, En- oicon.

BENSON Esther R. Benson, 71, of 41 Laurel Susquehanna, died Friday evening at her home. She Is sur vived by her husband. Jay Benson, Susquehanna; three daughters, Mrs. William (Doris) Faso, Valley Stream, Long island; Mrs.

William (jean) Schuette, Parma, Ohio, Mrs. James (Maxlan) eievins, Ashvllle, N. two sons, stew- art Benson, Columbus. Ohio, William Benson, Ford City, la grandchildren; on great-grandchild; a sister. Mrs.

Ruth Goundry, Binghamton; two brothers-in-law, Lawrence Benson, Buffalo, Gordon Benson, Susquehanna; also several nieces and nephews. He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Susquehanna. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Richard Woodcock, Pastor, officiating.

Burial will be In North Jackson Cemetery. Friends may call at the Lanaford Fu neral Chapel, 241 Main Susquehanna today after 7 p.m. and Monday irom 2 id a ana ra p.m. Eggs Carry Lib Message BOISE, Idaho (AP) Gov. Cecil D.

Andrus got an anonymous Easter basket with a women's liberation message on the colored eggs. When the eggs were arranged as directed by an unsigned note, the message read: "Woman power: It's too good to lose." The last egg had a woman's clenched fist on it. 2,098 Accepted At Harvard CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Harvard and Radcliffe colleges Saturday mailed acceptances to 2,098 of 10,742 applicants to next fall's freshman classes. The 7,590 men who applied to Harvard marked a decline from last year's figure of 7,859, a spokesman said.

Radcliffe applications increased from 2,832 to 3,152. I 7 QYE YOURSELF A BREAK THIS See The New AMF LAWN MOWERS RIDERS Spxin Special Now On Service Repairs On Other Makes GROOVER'S SALES SERVICE R.D. 6, Colesville Binghamton 775-0874 If IS TMo-Jf 'Of) DONIA ROSEN ro hit "1 am sad and worried to see how materialistic the young people and adults have become," says Donia Rosen. Avishai Amir admits the deterioration, but contends, "People want to live good lives because we are sick of living in tension. Most of us hold two jobs to make ends meet.

"Peace will come eventually and then everything will improve. The old generation will die out and the immigrants will vanish as a class, and we will be a strong, united nation." Many disagree that peace alone will solve Israel's problems. Yet European immigrants like Donia Rosen, young Israelis like Avishai Amir, newcomers like Ya'acov Kirschen, all agree that Israel's main challenge at 25 is to attain, somehow, peace with the Arabs. Some heroes of Israel's birth are still alive to glow at its achievements and fret over its future. Moshe Dayan, the dashing young officer of 1948, is minister of defense.

Golda Meir, who disguised herself as a Bedouin to bargain with the Arabs, is prime minister. But more of the old Zionists, who tried to build a model Socialist state with their bare hands in the sand and the swamps, have not survived to its 25th birthday. Israeli writer Amos Elon once described them as "remnants of a small group of Eastern European romantics stopped, burned out by the fires of their youth, and yet surrounded by the sovereign power of a nation which half a century before had been but a figment of their wild imagination." It would take just as wild an imagination to forecast Israel's future. OKEGNTA, M.Y. f4 By MARCUS ELIASON JERUSALEM (AP) "We were landing in Israel and it almost drove us insane with emotion.

It wasn't a dream any longer it was the homeland." Pale and emaciated from years in concentration camps, her family wiped out by Nazi bestiality, Donia Rosen and 2,500 other survivors stared over the rail of a rusty refugee ship at the port of Haifa. It was 1948, Donia Rosen was 17 years old, and Hafia Was panicky barbed wire in the streets, patrolled by British troops, Arabs and Jews sniping from the rooftops. Today Haifa is one of the quietest and most picturesque cities in Israel. Most of its Arab population has fled. Elderly Jews sun themselves in the cafes on Mount Camel, sipping tea and watching bustling Haifa harbor, where computers are being installed to handle more than five million tons of cargo a year.

And today Donia Rosen, the orphan from Poland, is an Israeli, an attractive blonde of 42, in charge of a government offfice tracing gentiles who helped Jews in World War II. She rarely wakes up with nightmares now, but sitting alone in her Jerusalem apartment, she worries that Israel is losing its sense of values and joining the rat race of the West. Avishai Amir has never suffered from nightmares, and he has few worries about Israel's future. Amir is a "sabra" the name for a native-born Is-r a 1 1 from the country's prickly, but sweet cactus plant." Amir was born in the same year as the State of Israel, 1948. Like Israel, he grew up in war, austerity, and a sense of economic uncertainty so strong that Israeli cynics used to joke, "Whoever leaves the country last, please turn off the lights and give the keys to the United Nations." BUT ISRAEL celebrates its 25th anniversary May 7, and nobody jokes anymore about leaving except American and other prosperous immigrants who complain that the phones don't work, the red tape is maddening and the taxes are ruinous.

Plans for the $5 million anniversary parade illuminate a cocky self-confidence that sometimes borders on arrogance. Two thousand troops with 200 tanks and guns are marching in Jerusalem, past the walled Arab city that contains the Jewish Wailing Wall, captured in the 1967 war, and through the newer sections where stunningly designed university buildings and museums underline the ancient past and imaginative future of the Jewish nation. Off the parade route are the slums that show the huge problems still to be solved. "There are a lot of things that haven't been done here yet," says Ya'cov Kirschen of New York, a 35-year-old artist, who once drew cartoons for Playboy magazine and now writes Israel's only comic strip, "Dry Bones." The atrip attacks the bureaucracy, the inefficiency and the irritants of life in Israel, although Kirschen insists life is pleasanter and more natural than in New York. "Sure, Israel could be better and many things are wrong with it," says Kirschen, who lives in the new desert city of Arad and led the town's first demonstration, against housing problems.

"But the fact is that the Hebrew language has been restored to everyday use, the Jewish people are being in-gathered as the Bible said, and Tel Aviv is a thriving city. It's all amazing. "Twenty-five years ago, who would have bet on this happening?" Who would have bet that Israel would survive, let alone develop far beyond the Arab world that tried to wipe it out? When Britain pulled out of Palestine and David Ben-Gu-rion proclaimed Israel independent May 14, 1948 the anniversary date changes because of the Jewish calaendar the state had no real government, no civil service, no official army. It was bankrupt. Thousands of homeless Jews were arriving on the seashore.

Arab troops invaded from Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, and the state, armed only with smuggled guns, was born in war. "I was working on a farm, but I spent the war making uoinbs and bullets in a factory," says Donia Rosen. Other young Jews, still shattered by their lives in concentration camps, went straight from the immigrant ships into battle. Miss Rosen joined the makeshift army as a secretary, ADDITIONAL DEATH NOTICES ON FOLLOWING PAGE LANDSCAPING MAINTENANCE Residential Commercial Call celled between 1:30 10 II A.M.ond 8:30 to 11PM. 7) 278-3559 LOTUS GARDENS STEVE MCCARTHY CLASS and (SCREENS REPAIRED PICKUP DELIVERY PH.

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"I fought in the war and moved to Beersheba in 1949," says Herbert Ben-Adi, a Yugoslav Jew, now 68. "There were 50 families of us we were the Mayflower generationand Beersheba was an abandoned Arab town. Only one Arab stayed behind, as a coffee maker for the Israeli military governor. "My wife and I were assigned to a two-room Arab house with a mud floor, no doors, no windows, no water or sanitation, no electricity. There was a bus once a week to Tel Aviv.

President Welz-mann came in 1949 and promised a kindergarten for the children. At the time we had 6,000 newer imigrants living in tents outside town." Today Beersheba boasts its own university and a population of 100,000, most housed in trim apartment buildings. New immigrants, many of them Russians, move straight into modern housing. An industrial complex for chemicals and textiles has replaced the tents. Bedouin Arabs of the surrounding desert are being gradually housed in apartments.

"The town's first budget in 1950 was 60,000 Israel pounds or $168,000," says Ben-Adi. "This year it is $15 million." The entire state budget for 1949 was $78 million. This year it is $4.76 billion, almost one-third of it for defense. Since the state began, Jews around the world have contributed about $2.6 billion and Israel bonds have raised another $2 billion. Israeli exports have soared and the balance of payments deficit has dropped to $1 billion.

Many survivors of the German death camps settled into lives of numb stagnation, but Donia Rosen struggled as Israel struggled learning Hebrew, fitting into a new life, forgetting the horrors. She went to university and studied literature. But she is reminded daily of the past since university she has worked at Yad Vash-em, the government authority and museum commemorating the Nazi holocaust. Sabras like Avishai Amir remember only the hardships. "I remember there was no butter and little meat when I was small," says Amir.

"Six of us lived in a 1 Ms-room house in the sand dunes north of Tel Aviv" now the city's most fashionable quarter. "I remember hearing about food riots by hungry immigrants, and floods in their tents, but I didn't know how difficult things were." Amir's Russian father was a construction laborer then and his mother worked in a textile factory. In 1961, they bought an apartment and a motor scooter. Now the father runs his own dry goods factory. Avishai is now a reporter for the Maariv newspaper.

He is paying his way through university in Jerusalem, where he shares an apartment He West Germany was doing its best. Since 1952, Bonn has given about 50 billion marks some $16 billion to Jewish war victims, and the money has helped Israel prosper. Israel's prosperity sagged in the 1960's. Immigrants began leaving. But the lightning war of 1967 started a boom that hasn't slowed yet.

"When we were kids, everyone wanted to be an officer," Amir recalls. "But I didn't want to fight the Egyptians or Jordanians." But like all Israelis over 18 he was in the military and he headed a ground crew at an air force base. "I got the call-up order one Friday night. It was stuck on the door because nobody was home. I caught a bus to the base.

"We worked and worked without a stop. What devotion it was beautiful to see. Loading bombs, refueling, at three times the normal speed. The planes just came and went, came and went. In six days it was over." In her air raid shelter, Miss Rosen didn't share the elation.

"I was terrified. Being defeated was too disastrous to imagine. Three Arab armies, threatening to throw us into the sea, and our army so small "I knew we deserved this country." Israel lost 803 men in the war, the Arabs about 30,000. Israel, the midget, emerged from the war a goliath, holding 26,000 square miles of Arab land western Jordan, part of Syria, the Gaza Strip and the entire Sinai Peninsula with its Egyptian oil wells. BUT THE FIGHTING resumed in 1968 on the Suez Canal and the borders, and Israel lost another 827 soldiers and civilians.

With the American-sponsored cease-fire of 1970, most of the guns fell silent. Since then Israelis have had time and leisure to look more closely at themselves than ever before. And many worry about what they see. Scandals and" mismanagement came to light. Israelis were shocked to hear of war profiteering by contractors supplying the army and building fortifications.

Colossal waste was disclosed in government enterprises. Israel's plan to become an automobile-producing country collapsed in a $25-million controversy. -Young couples who fought in the army complain that new immigrants are given housing while they can't find or pay for a place to live. Others grumble that taxes in their Socialist state among the heaviest in the world are not fairly spread between the poor and the well-to-do. Black Panther agitators have appeared on the scene, claiming Israel discriminates against Oriental Jews 65 per cent of the population in favor of Jews of Western descent, or the Russian immigrants now coming at the rate of 3,000 a month.

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