The 18 Indiana communities represented in the Indiana Jewish Community Relations Council will assume complete responsibility for the Council’s budget when allocations from the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith run out in 1955, Martin D. Schwartz, of Muncie, the Council president, reported to its executive committee here.
The two national organizations, which carried some 80 percent of the Council’s budget from 1947 to 1949, have been reducing their participation and in 1955, the last year of their financial aid to the Council, will contribute $3,200 or about 16 percent of the Council budget. The council is a member of the National Community Relations Advisory Council.
Mr. Schwartz told the committee that the national organizations had rejected a proposal he made that they taper off their support of the Council over the next three years to “avert abrupt change which the termination of national supplementation of financial aid will now entail.”
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