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ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Monday, May 22, 1961 19 MCA Worker Among Refugees Describes Help Through $500 Gift C. J. Van Niel, Former Kodak Official, Dies Cornelius J. Van Niel, a retired Eastman Kodak Co. executive, died yesterday i wv II I By HUGH WELLS The gaunt stare of a starving child in Syria.

The bony arms of a boy with tuberculosis in Tibet. The bloated body of W(May 21, 1961) crossed the border last year from the Communist sector and are still pouring across at the rate of 400 per day. "They voted with their feet that communism is no good," commented Deane, who Is an Australian by birth. In Algeria, he said, some two million have been displaced by the war. "And just think what an absolute -nin nis nome, iBuckland Brighton, after a long illness.

He was 67. shambles would occur if Algeria severs its a Baluba one of 200 dying daily. Few men in the world know the suffering of our era as well as Douglas M. Deane, secretary for work with refugees done by the YMCA, who works out of Geneva, Switzerland. Yesterday he stopped ministering to the world's sore spots long enough to tell the lV mi.

van iiici VxTf was general I com Dtr oiler of ISk, mil Kodak for about Cornelius J. 21 years. He ROCHESTER Van Niel retired from Douglas M. Deane the company in 1956 after 44 relations with France," he said. JJThe Frenchmen, who are the leaders, the artisans, the skilled, will leave and one million Algerians will return from France." In the Middle East, Deane sees the situation as one of the "fishes and the loaves." The U.N., he said, is feeding, housing, educating and taking care of the health of almost a million refugees for just three dollars per month per person.

Millions of Refugees In Karachi, Pakistan, he said, there are years of service but con children at Third Presbyterian Church how $500 given to him by their church, had been spent. One hundred dollars went to four orphan ages in Tunis, housing part of the 300,000 Algerians who have fled their country. Two hundred dollars went towards giving the 150,000 Arab youths in refugee camps in the Middle East some kind of recreation. three million Moslem refugees from India; in Calcutta, India, there are four million Hindu refugees from Pakistan. tinued' on a special project for Kodak management until January, 1957.

At the time of his retirement the Kodak board of directors paid tribute in a special resolution to Mr. Van Niel's career and for his work with professional and community groups. joined Firm in 1912 Mr Van Niel joined the company in 1912 as a member of the Camera Works accounting department, transferring to Kodak Office accounting two years later. In! In Hong Kong, the population has jumped Homes in Himalayas One hundred dollars went to two chil from a half million in 1945 to more than three million in 1961. Deane quoted the dren's homes being run by the sister of the governor of the British Colony as saying.

Dali Lama some 6,000 feet up in the Himalayan Mountains. 'If our trade is ever cut off, we 11 be the largest soup kitchen in the world." The last $100 went to Camp Junk" What the answer? The very core of which attempts to put a little food into the aching stomachs of Hong Kong children, especially those among the 137,000 "floating population" which clusters the bay in small boats called junks. the problem Deane sees as birth control. He said that relocation of large numbers of persons is possible and will be done but the problem itself will not be solved unless stringent birth control measures are exercised by the people. "This is the crux of the matter," he said, but there was little hope in his voice that the solution was near at hand.

In an interview later, Deane, who looks, acts and carries his age like Cary Grant, took this reporter on a world tour of the suffering. In West Germany, some 155,000 persons 1930 he was elected assistant comptroller in charge of accounting at Kodak Park Works, and, under his direction, a standard cost procedure was developed at that division. He was elected comptroller In 1933, and two years later he became the first person to hold the title of general comptroller for the com X. A. i -zZj.

any. In this position, he had wide authority over account ing and auditing policies of the company, including ho dak associate companies abroad, during a period of extensive business growth. A director of Rochester General Hospital for many years, he was president of Medical Center Will Expand Miner Library Construction will start this summer on a $500,000 expansion and renovation of the Edward G. Miner Library at the University of Rochester Medical Center, LaRoy B. Thompson, vice president and treasurer of the university, announced yesterday.

Bids for the project will be let next month and construction will start around July 1, Thompson said. The major portion of the project a 40x100 foot addition to the library is expected to be ready next spring. Completion of the total project, including renovation of present the hospital board of diree tors in 1952 and 1953. He was a former director of the V' Jt'V 1 fri i i if I 1 i 2 -S I "fc I Wt Controllership Foundation and a member of the National Association of Cost Accountants and the Control lers Institute of America. Served in France Mr.

Van Niel served as an Army second lieutenant in France in World War I. He was a native of Haarlem, The Netherlands, where he re library facilities, is scheduled ceived his early education for September, 1962. and business mm The University of Roches ter Medical Alumni Associa Surviving are his widow, Muriel; two sons, Cornelius R. of Aiken, and Robert serving in the Navy in California; two daughters, tion has been conducting an intensive fund campaign for expansion of the library. As of May 1, contributions by Mrs.

Robert W. Clarke and Mrs. John II. Taylor of Roch alumni, faculty, friends, cor ester; two brothers, Jeremias porations, and foundations had brought the drive to J. of Rochester and Eduard of Upper Montclair.

N.J.; three sisters, Elizabeth, Mrs. fiJx 1 within $100,000 of it goal. The balance will be pro vided by a loan from Univer J. Henry Elferink, and Mrs Charles E. Ives of Rochester; and eight sity funds which, Thonipson said, has been authorized by the University's trustees in Funeral arrangements were the expectation that it will be repaid by future pledges to UPHILL FIGHT Tow truck driver, helper check station wagon found on Genesee River bank.

Birdwatcher Spots Auto Lodged in River Gorge incomplete last night. Chkooractors Rap Stand Of Medical Unit the library fund. The project, which was un dertaken as part of the Uni versity's development pro gram, is the first capital cam paign ever sponsored by the Bird watching placed Medical Alumni Association winch, police searched the bank for the driver, who at Chairman of the fund effort first was thought to be in George A. Power of Greece at the center of a police investigation yesterday morning in Maplewood Park. is Dr.

William S. McCann, pro fessor emeritus of medicine jured. Later it was theorized the car was driverless when Other campaign leaders are it went over. By accident, Power of 55 Dr. Leon L.

Miller, Dr. How Villewood Drive, found an abandoned station wagon, lodged against a tree about ard A. Spindler, Dr. John A. Benjamin, Dr.

Gilbert B. Forbes. Dr. Roger Terry, and ronce said the auto was owned by Thomas Gee Jr. of 75 Duffern Drive, Greece, and had been taken Saturday 50 feet down the bank of the Genesee River Gorge, At the time he had been night -from his driveway.

Its front end was crumpled in the descent. walking just east of the pond. A resolution attacking the New York State Medical Society for its stand against licensing of chiropractors was adopted at a meeting of District 15, Chiropractic Association of the State of New York, it was announced yesterday. The resolution charged "almost complete monopolistic control of the healing profession" by the State Medical Society and called the society's charges "against chiropractic outrageously false and concocted to serve their own selfish interests Ernest Quatro was installed as president of the district at the meeting in the Colonial Hotel. Other officers are James Vandenberg, East Before the wagon was Police were seeking the Lr.

Koiand E. Stevens. Medical Society Will Mark 140th Year The 140th anniversary of brought up by tow truck and missing driver last night. Rochesterian Elected By Credit Group NEW GOLDEN SUMMERTIME COMFORTABLE! Election of Charles W. Pritchard, president of the Stromberg-Carlson Credit a division of General the Monroe County Medical Society will be observed at the society's annual meetine at 8:30 p.m.

tomorrow at the DynamicsElectronics, as vice president of the eastern divi sion of the National Associa Kochester Academy of Medicine. 1441 East Ave. of the Rochester Credit and Financial Management Association, Inci EMPLOYES ELECT Election of Daniel W. Michelson as president of the First Federal Savings Loan Association -Employes Club was announced yesterday. Others elected were vice president, Lillian Peck; secretary, Grace Christ; and treasurer, Edward G.

Pelcher. tion of Credit Management, The program will include Rochester, vice president; Michael Lamendola, secretary; Sheldon Krieger, treasurer; Frank Grayson and T. Warren Mclntyre, local directors; and Mahlon E. Blake, state director. was announced yesterday following the close of the 65th annual Credit Congress in Denver.

Pritchard has served for six years as president, vice president and director! a talk by outgoing president. Dr. Hobart L. Boyd, who will present a report titled "Progress and Problems." He will be succeeded by Dr. Charles R.

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lie to 0 nch tfidittoniu itrm tni hantttmt n4 In'arnnfo cers are: president-elect. Dr. Lynn R. Callin and Dr. Ralph F.

Jacox: vice president. Dr. ter and with a radius of some 50 miles. Frantic scrambling through woods and hedgerows yesterday brought records of at The census is timed to hit the height of the spring ml gration, especially of the mul titude of warblers. At least The embarrassment of riches began with pre-davvn, when virtually all birds are most active.

Last night about 15 of the approximately 30 watchers gathered at the corner of Island Cottage Road and Edge-mere Drive, to compare notes and chase the chill with a cup of coffee. Then, despite the deepening dusk and wearv bones. 28 species of warbers were reported, including the or least 160 species of birds in the annual spring bird census. A Brewster's warbler and a cattle egret were the "finds" of the day, at least up to late last night. Some of the prize bird-watchers still were in the field, so the total was incomplete.

ange-crowned and aforemen irancis E. Browning and Dr. Libby Pulsifer; secretary, Dr. A Gordon Ide; treasurer. Dr.

Charles D. Sherman and assistant treasurer. Dr. T. Paul Guest.

The candidates for president-elect recently expressed their views on methods of financing health care for the aging in the society's publication, the Bulletin. This tradition-braking move has aroused considerable interest among the medical profession. tioned Brewster's. The more hardy bird-watchers arose long before dawn to be in the field by about 4 a.m.. in order to catch owl calls and hear other they struck off for a nearby The annual census is conducted by the Genesee Ornithological SQciety.

It covers an area centering on Roches Star hour today: Downtown 9:30 to 5:45 Ntwork 10 to 5:45 woods to call owls and whistle up a whipporwill. Irondequoit 10 to Eastway 10 to 5:45 Southtow 10 to Phono Ordor Dept. HA 6-4000 open at A. M..

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