Philip Givens, 42, was returned for a two year term as mayor of Toronto, Canada’s second city, by a majority of 30,000 over his runner-up. Mr. Givens assumed the mayoralty a year ago to fill out the term of Donald Summerville who died of a heart attack in November 1963. His opponent Allan Lamport, 62, was a veteran municipal politician who had been mayor of Toronto three times in the early 1950’s.
Mr. Givens, second Jewish mayor in (Toronto’s history born Giverts) is a product of the Eitz Chaim Talmud Torah and an officer of the Zionist Organization of Canada. Other Jewish candidates who succeeded in the Toronto elections were Herbert Orliffe, Board of Control, and David Rotenberg, Alderman. Edwin Pivnick, 40-year-old attorney, was re-elected Reeve (i. e. mayor) of Forest Hill Village, and Irving Paisley was elected Controller in North York Township.
The total number of Jewish candidates elected, re-elected or returned by acclamation in the Metropolitan Toronto area was 20, mainly in the city of Toronto, Village of Forest Hill and townships of York and North York.
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