Formation of a committee to create a memorial for Rep. M. Micheal Edelstein was announced by Emanuel Lewis Greene, who was Edelstein’s secretary. Among the projects under consideration are a statue, an East Side community center, a playground, a hospital wing and a college scholarship in political science.
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