Amerikai Magyar Szó, 1981. július-december (35. évfolyam, 27-50. szám)
1981-10-29 / 41. szám
AMERIKAI MAGYAR SZÓ Thursday, Oct. 29. 1981. I PRESS DIGEST || 30 DAYS THAT SHOOK THE W0R1D REMARKS BY ZOLTÁN DEÁK AT THE BANQUET FOR THE PESS ON OCTOBER 18th. When historians of the future write the history United Nations as a solution of the Palestinian of our era, they may very well refer to the month, problem. The rapidly accelerating pace of the anti- immediately preceding our banquet today, as the war movement, both in the US and Europe, entitles “THIRTY DAYS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD”, us to hope that our government will be forced to re- Remember, it was precisely 30 days ago that the turn to the policy of detente, of SALT negotiations spectacular Washington demonstration took place, which is the only sure path to peace and to a better September 19th marks the day when organized la- future, or any future. bor in the United States first appeared on the stage We are proud to point to our modest role in the of American history, not only as the representatives mobilization of the Hungarian American communi- of labor, but as the champion of the entire popula- ty in the all important struggle for peace. The Marion - in close alliance with the black people, with gyár Szó was the only Hungarian language paper other minorities, with tens of millions of senior ci- which publicized the great September 19th march, tizens and with workmen who make up half the po- when it was first being organized. And the Magyar pulation of the USA. This great historic watershed Szo has been the only Hungarian language paper to very likely inspired the tremendous demonstrations hold aloft the banner of peace ever since the start that followed it in Europe. In England the working of the cold war following the end of World War II. class, rallying around its Labor Party, came out We are honoring today those dedicated people, against the Thatcher government and demanded our “Honor Guard”, who, by their loyal support, complete disarmament, In West Germany, 300.000 make possible the continued publication of the Germans and other Europeans,demonstrated against Magvar Szó. All honor to the sustainers in New NATO, against the policy of atomic confrontation. York, Los Angeles, Miami, Detroit, Cleveland, Chi- In Madrid, Spain, 350.000 people demonstrated cago, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Indi- against joining NATO. On this very day the earth ana, etc. and in Canada, where our paper has many is still shaking in Greece. readers. The assasination of Sadat on Octoher 6th, indica- May they livelong, may their generosity help acted the tremendous tension that has been building complish peace in the world, friendship between the up in the Near East ever since former President people of the U.S. and Hungary, may their efforts Carter abruptly changed the course of the peace result in a better world for us, for our children, and talks and abandoned the proposal offered by the our children’s children! Books for the young in Hungary Recently a Central Statistical Office published a report on the development of Hungarian book- publishing. According to the survey 8240 titles were published in 1980, 7 % more than in 1975. The total number of copies rose from 74 million to 95 million. In the last five years progress was the greatest in books for young people. In Hungary the Mora Publishers have been in charge of publishing books for young people and children since 1957. Ferenc Móra (1870-1934) is one of the best and most popular writers of this country for young people. The publishers bearing his name closed their most i successful year in 1980. György Szilvásy, the director of the publishing house described the achievements of the year in the following terms: “Today children get more books from the Mora Publishers alone than from all Hungarian publishing houses in 1938. The average number of copies was 47.000 last year, which is at least four times af. much as the average number of copies in Hungarian publishing. Such popular-science series as the Illustrated History and Illustrated Geography appear in 100.000 copies each. Last year the sixth edition of the Giraffe Children’s Encyclopedia came out in 150.000 copies, while in 1969 it was issued only in 30.000 copies.” The publishers issued 160 titles in 1970, 244 in 1985, and 351 in 1980. During the same period the number of copies rose from 4 million to 17 million copies. let us learn Hungarian Looking for Lodgings Szobnkírcsés 1 hure to see about rooms. :/i you recommend me rjood boarding house in liudapest? I going to take a furnished room in a quiet house. ! you know of a nice I bit for us? I! in you anu rooms to let? Whitt sort of rooms have you to let? I re come to look at the room you have to let. I 'ff you have some furnished rooms to let.- i ran I one room I two rooms], I want a double(-bed) room. It's for me. litre arc two of us. ! share a room with a friend of mine. Szoba után kell néznem. Tud ajánlani egy jó penziót Budapesten? Bútorozott szobát akarok kivenni egy csendes házban. Nem tudna nekünk egy jó lakást? Van kiadó szobája? Milyen kiadó szobája van? A kiadó szobát jöttem megnézni. Ügy látom, van kiadó bútorozott szobája. Egy (két] szobára van szükségem. Kétágyas szobára van szükségem. A magam részére. Ketten vagyunk. Egy szobában lakom egy barátommal. __ AMERIKAI V MAGYAR SZC USPS 023-980 ISSN 0194-7990 Published weekly, ejcc. last week in July and 1st 2 weeks in August by Hungarian Word Inc. Inc. 130 E 16 St. New York. N.Y. 10003. Ent.as 2nd Class Matter, Dec. 31. 1952 under the Act of March. 2L. 1879, at the P.O.of New York, N.Y. Szerkeszd a Szerkesztő Bizottság Előfizetési árak New Yorkban, az Egvesűlt Államokban egy évre $ 18.- félévre % 10.- Kanadaban es minden más külföldi országban egy évre $ 20.- félévre 112.- Pöstnjastert Send address changes to Hungarian Word, Inc. 130 E 16 St. New York, NY. 10003. Nan’s world is alive with sound of music While her husband goes off jogging and lobbying in the interest of seniors in the state, Nancy Ruhig sits behind her piano and begins a new career. Nan has been taking music which has brewed in her head for 50 years and put it down on paper. Reams and reams of blank-lined music sheets are dotted and smudged with the notes of fog and desert sand - all topped i off with the signature,“Nan Ruhig”. “She is a good example of a late bloomer,” Ted Ruhig said after planting a loving peck on the back of his wife’s head. After teaching piano for several decades, Nan’s composing career began four years ago when a fellow music teacher asked her to write a children’s tune about fog. “After I began to write the first notes,” she said, “I knew I could do it.” “Fog” was followed by “A Valentine Song,” which four school children sang during 21 performances at the Old Eagle Theatre in Old Sacramento. “One time I went to bed and woke up in the middle of the night. I just had to compose. That’s when I wrote ‘Daydreams’. Can you believe it? At three in the morning!” “Sometimes she won’t even come in to eat,” her husband complained. There have been many times when he ducked into her piano room at 11 PM and turned out the lights, his hint that it is time for Nan to go to bed. _________________ Nan has written a series of songs for her grandchildren and young students who request a new piece. At age 62, she created a new set of goals in her life, one of which is to perform at the Grand ol’ I Opry in Nashville. Opry songs were the first pieces of music she listened to 50 years ago on an old crystal radio set. She began a series of composing classes at Sacramento State College, re-entering the school while in her late 50’s. “I was not terrified but I was half-afraid”, she recalled. “I was afraid that the young students would look at me with a jaundiced eye.” But Nan excelled in her music classes, collecting straight A’s. Nan has been involved in music most of her life. She formerly was the conductor of the Downtown Senior Center Chorus in San Francisco, where she commuted two times each week by bus. She has made no attempts to sell her original songs, probably the result of a few early rejections. “She shouldn’t make a career of getting rejection slips”, Ted Ruhig said. “It’s more important to write music.” And write she does - not only music, but several children’s books which were published. When not composing, Nan is collecting material for dozens of students in the Sacramento area. “I am always very busy traipsing around”, she said in her Southern drawl, while walking behind the piano to demonstrate her latest creation. Still unfinished, “California” is a conglomerate of miniconcertos all strung together with a disorderly melodic theme of traffic. “I get very excited when I am composing,” she explained. “I keep thinking all the time;' I am doing it again. Anna Sandoval, Sacramento Union Staff writer. (Ted and Nan Ruhig are the son and daughter-in- law of Mrs. Rose Ruhig, long-time reader of our newspaper.) / J 2.
