Acting Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri will tomorrow morning present a bronze bust of George Washington to a group of 45 leaders of the $250,000,000 United Jewish Appeal, which is leaving tomorrow afternoon by air for Israel where the bust will be presented to President Chaim Weizmann. The presentation ceremony will take place at City Hall.
The delegation, which will mate a three-week survey of the operations of United Jewish Appeal agencies in Europe, North Africa and Israel, began its tour today at the refugee shelter maintained at the Hotel Marseilles, 103rd Street and Broadway, by the United Service for Hew Americans, one of the three constituent agencies of the U.J.A. The Jewish communal leaders, who come from major cities throughout the country, spent the entire day at the shelter studying the U.J.A.-supported program for refugees entering the United States, which will receive 25,000 displaced Jews during 1949. Members of the group shared the normal routine and meals of the residents of shelter.
The bust, which was cast in the l8OO’a from the famous Houdon bust of Washington now in Mount Vernon, bears the following inscription on its black, marble base: “George Washington. First President of the United States of America. Presented to Dr. Chaim Weizmann, First President of Israel by the United Jewish Appeal on Behalf of the American Jewish Community.”
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