United States Ambassador Edward B. Lawson today handed over a 50,000-pound check from the U.S. Government to Boys Town Jerusalem to further its general educational and vocational training of Israeli youth. The funds are Israeli currency accumulated here in the American policy of encouraging American newspapers and magazines to enter the country by paying the publishers in dollars and accepting local currency.
Ambassador Lawson had honorary citizenship in Boys Town conferred on him by the eight-boy town council and told the assembled residents and staff that this was the most pleasant honor accorded him in 30 years of foreign service. He lauded Boys Town as the transplantation of an “American concept to the Holy Land.”
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