Cseh Valentin szerk.: „70 éve alakult a MAORT” – tanulmányok egy bányavállalat történetéből (2009)
Zsuzsa Kovács: The Oil Age and Its Impact on Everyday Village Life In Zala County's Settlements
which probably had a role in providing chilised recreation to workers, in addition to an aesthetic function. : '" Leisure time, entertainment, and generalfeeling in the townlike village Leisure time in the modern sense, that is time spent on rest and recreation was something of which the peasantry had no concept. Activities tend to converge in village farming, time, therefore, is not measured by days or months, rather the as the chain of activities. 292 As a result of the reorganisation of agriculture, and taking jobs in industry, however, daily routine became divided into working for a specified amount of time, and leisure time apart from this. A part of this time was spent on maintaining subsidiary husbandry, while the rest of the time was given to new kinds of leisure time activities, such as listening to the radio, then watching TV. 293 Bands of young people preferred to seek each other's company, and found meeting and relaxation opportunities at the community centre's programs. In addition, there was a 300-seat movie theatre in Gellénháza, which was very popular initially, but was forced into the background at the end of the sixties, when an increasing number of families could afford to purchase a television set. 294 The Nagylengyel Miner Sports Society, later christened Gellénház Sports Society, was also popular. Football, bowling, swimming, handball, tennis, table-tennis, and chess departments functioned here. In the urbanising village, where there were numerous occasions for young people to enjoy themselves, youths started to slip from parental strictness and official control as well. The situation was made all the more difficult because of the fact that by the 1960s, the village's population swelled to more than double of what it was (1950: 750 inhabitants, in 1964 there were 1671 295 ), many of the younger people also worked for the oil company, earned money, became more and more independent, and the community's control over norms was less and less. The questions associated with juveniles becoming corrupted that appeared more frequently in the EC minutes as the years passed is ample proof of the problem which became ever more concerning. According to the council members, the inappropriate and insolent behaviour of youths working at the company left a lot to be desired, namely they did not surrender their seat to mothers with small children on the bus, and their conduct with the elderly also lacked respect, since they did not greet them in advance. 296 Youths were caught drinking or engaged in higher stake card games on several occasions, and this was also looked up frowningly. 29 The possibility of gross misdemeanour arose on one occasion, when two juveniles attempted to rape a little girl, so the EC's members urged the controlling of school-aged youths' evenings out. 2 ' 8 Nevertheless it was not just the young that perpetrated acts of crime. Residents complained about the increase of theft first and foremost, making a grievance of workers - who made their wav home through the vineyards - frequently stealing grapes, and grabbing anything else thev : " ZML Gellénháza Village Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, April 13, 1967. ,: MN, Társadalom, 2000, 989. : " s MN, Társadalom, 200(1, 990. ZML Gellénháza Village Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, September 19, 1968. m KSH 1964 "'' ZML Gellénháza Milage Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, February 22, 1962. ZML Gellénháza Milage Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, |anuarv 20, 1966 "* ZML Gellénháza Village Council Executive Committee minutes of meeting, November9, 1962.
