United Hias Service reported Monday that 30 Jewish emigrants, constituting nine family units from Eastern Europe, arrived at Kennedy Airport on six separate flights last week. They were reunited with relatives in Youngstown and Akron, Ohio; Hartford, Conn.; Los Angeles, Philadelphia and Metropolitan New York. Of the new arrivals, 25 came from the Soviet Union, 12 of whom entered this country through the US Attorney General’s parole authority. Three emigrants came from Hungary and two from Poland.
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