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Ly te (mew, 5-27-63) ; ‘ 1: __ ~ TROURULS. QUAKERS TQ GIVE CUBA HELP . twit Fly to Havana Friday ' With Storm Relief 5 | ee a nd By KATHLEEN TELTSCH. |, te Special to The Now York Times UNITED NATIONS, N. x, Oct, 29 — Cuba has agreed to) have four United States citizens, 1 of them Quakers—fly in: te arrange the ‘ an airlift of relief supplies te! Cuban victims of the recent hur |: ricane. 4 dicta isn a distribution ot. : Premicr Fidel Castro‘s Gov- ernment accepted the assistance from the “American Friends}}. Service Committee after having rejected offers from the Amer-; fean Red Cross and other wel- fare agencies. The relief supplies. valued at! $30,000, will be flown from|* Philadelphia on Friday. The four Americans have been|"" Promised visas hy the Cuban Covernmoent when they lend [n! Werserns $s distributs the chip! ‘ents of drugs, clothing ard } Swas\ 4 They are Herbert Page! oover, a retired State Depart-' ment official who once was; leonsut gencral in Havana; Dr.| Georse Forera. associate dean ot Columbia University’s School of Medicine; Prof. Hiram Hitvl of Guilford Colleze in North} Carolina, and Frank Hunt. whu{ has administered Quaker aid in the Middle s#ast and North!. Africa. The first three speak! ° panish fluently. Permission Granted Tharsday Cuban permission to land the ane and the American welfare team was given last Thursday after Colin Bell, exccutive sec-/ retary of the American Friends* Service Committee, had cabled e Premicr Castro, repeating the: Quakers’ wish to help the a a einai tities atl a Np epee oe ra an BS cae ee wee oe oe . ': Ficane victims “solely for hu- mManitarian reasons.” - The United States State De-f + ‘partment and the Commerceg- and Treasury Departments ap-f 3 Proved the hecessary licenses} < and passport validations for the four Quakers to make the tmp with their 23.000 pounds of re- a . Pre eee awe: vee bee AM Nef supplies aboard a Pan| + American World Airways DC-| 5 iss ~ peewee em ee ae ee me “ sommittee. The program was worked] « ortTh negotiations here between| | Carlos M. Lechuza, chief Cu- ban delecate. and William Hunt ington, who directs the Quakerj United Nations program for the . . . \ wo ~ The talks began immedi hs : after Hurricane Flora brousn gleath to thousands in Cuba and os ‘“levastated crops and the fishing ~ industry. The Friends also are Suppiving relief to Haiti, also ‘mit by the same storms. which ‘began Sept. 30 and continued fotaiwes: aa ‘ bal at ara oe Q “Mw. w = aks . elke ~ . 2, . ‘ as a : ee ¢ yY coereele 7 . * . 4 rd - Loe * . iad . a te . va a2 : . ed r. .¢ _ > wee ee ee repo r Lg ae ee cme ee ee ee oe ao eta The Washington Post and . Times Heraid The Washington Daily New The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune | New York Journal-Americe New York Mirror ) -_ New York Dally News oe od ‘ . The New Leader * The Wall Street Journs! — ‘fhe National Observer — : le’a World People s W3"s —yy _ Bete , New York Post The New York Times f reg Worker