A number of Jews were elected to significant municipal posts in Toronto and in some of the suburbs of this city, according to final tabulation of last week’s balloting completed here today. However, Mayor Philip Givens, a Jew who had headed the city government for the last three years, was defeated. Mr. Givens, 44, an attorney, had been the city’s second Jewish mayor. The first, from 1953 to 1966, was Nathan Phillips.
Jews elected included Herbert Orliffe, who will serve another term on the Board of Control; David Rotenberg and Monte Harris, chosen as aldermen; and Mrs. Elise Grossberg, elected to the Board of Education in the Third Ward.
In the suburbs, Philip White, 44, a pharmacist, was elected controller in the new Borough of York; and Ben Nobleman, a public relations counsel, was chosen an alderman. In the Boroughs of York and North York, aldermen and school trustees elected included four Jews: Jack Young, Saul Cowan, Paul Godfrey and Murray Chusid.
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