Verhovayak Lapja, 1943. január-június (26. évfolyam, 1-25. szám)

1943-04-08 / 14. szám

April 8, 1943 Page S The Ferret Sez ♦ ♦ ♦ BRANCH 429 — DEARBORN, MICHIGAN NOTICE TO MEMBERS: The April meeting' of Branch 429 will be held Sunday, April 18, 1943 at 3:00 p. m. SHARP (not 4 o’clock as in March) at the Ver­­hovay Home. All those mem- Mrs. Jolán Lucas bers who are in arrears will please pay their dues at this meeting. Also, please bring a friend; if not to join as a member, then to take part in our card parties after the meeting. These card parties are rather slow in taking a hold, although all members present take a huge interest in the monthly Jack Pot, which was won by Ethel Koy in February, and by Steve Horvath in March. Let’s really play cards or some­thing in April — not just draw for the prizes (although that was a lot of fun). * * * NEW MEMBERS: Velma Handa is our newest member, sponsored by Ethel Koy. Velma is a prospect for next season’s bowling team, and is a good mixer. Mrs. Konrad Kuhary, whose mother Mrs. András Kovács and brother Andy, were recently transferred from Pocahontas, Va., is our newest member. Let’s see you folks at our monthly meet­ings. Recent transfers: We now have Mr. and Mrs. Julius N. Szalay, transferred from Br. 356, and Mr. and Mrs. Malcolm MacLeaod also of that branch. Julius was a contest winner and so was his wife, the former Mary Fabian — remember that Verhovay romance of a few years ago? Two contest winners on the way to Europe, meet, fall in love, marry, now 429-ers. * * * Mrs. Samuel Toth, who has been very ill recently, has re­covered and has promised to be at our next meeting. We are glad to hear you are feeling better, Mrs. Toth. Mrs. Peter Soos, also has been ill — why don’t you members let us know earlier — all members Of 429 are sick visitors, not only those who are sick benefit holders. Glad you two ladies feel better. Come to our April meeting. Joseph Kertai, whose father, John, is secretary of Branch 53 in Bradley, Ohio, has promised to either transfer to 429 or take out an additional certificate. His friend, also, will join if Joe can be induced to hurry up and make up his mind. Two good prospective bowlers, and Joe plans on organizing a baseball team — not much luck this year, I’m afraid, Joe, because of the shortage of males, but if you want to manage a girl’s soft ball team, Helen. Kastura and gang will play. Helen wanted to know why we couldn’t play softball after bowling season ends — well, why not? Got two good leagues in the neighborhood — games start at 6:00 p. m. once or twice a week, five innings and good prizes, and it’s lots of fun — that is, if we Ferrets don’t go to the lake for the summer. I’ll look around and get all the dope on softball. * * * How about you 1942 and 1943 auditors coming to the April meeting and getting the books audited and signed. — — — Let’s see, there is Mary Rakoczy Toth, Steve Hor­vath, Comptroller for both years, Cecelia Herman Magee, Mary Horvath, and Daniel Robb. We always audit our books ,at the end of a three month period, so now’s the time. * * * Guess Mary' Raffee will probably be getting her transfer soon--------— Saw a cute pic­ture of our W. A. A. C. Helen Zaker — looks nice in her uniform — she’s being trans­ferred either to Florida or Atlantic City — — — How about coming to the April 18 meeting, Joseph Bartko haven’t seen you since the first of January. — — — Alexander Berchency showed up at the Feb. meeting; what happened in March?­Ethey Koy is having a party for the girls to celebrate her birthday; sweaters, skirts, hair ribbon bows, ankle socks and sport shoes; should be lots of fun — let you know next issue------------What happened to Private Andrew Boonie? After that letter regarding his dis­charge, nothing but silence------­Mary Fisher should be on our bowling team, she rolled 185 __ — — Did I tell you Mrs. Mary Horvath is at the Aircraft at the Ford Motor Co.? They all received a nice Army-Navy “E” pin — so did Daniel Robb------------the Red Cross Tea given by the Verhovay . Club was a nice affair — ------ they had a Mrs. Turi there who gave a howling monologue in Hungarian; now there’s something some of you gals should perfect; then you could be the success of any social gathering; — saw Ann V. “Mystricky” Bero at the Red Cross Tea — we talked about her Johnny “Shadow” Jerkovich who recently sent me an interesting letter from “over there” — how come when Corporal Mike Szopo comes home on furlough I don’t even get a buzz on the phone-------— I know the “ferret” is an old lady, but gee, just say “hello pal; thanks for those nice letters you send me” — — — Got a card from Seaman Szopko, he wants to see us bowl — to think any­­body’d wanta see us bowl — since Bartko went home, no one cares how the gals’ team goes------------Julia Rákosi works in a defense plant out Plymouth way — she’s a nice gal and should come to our meetings — — — How about the Greenwald’s — Joe and Marge, we sure have nice meetings lately, the kind you used to dream about; don’t let defense work be the excuse; “for the duration” seems to cover a multitude of “sins”------------­How did you all like my little pal’s letter — I mean Johnny “Dirk” Phillips’ letter? That guy didn’t lose his sense of humor and am I ever glad? P. S. Just received two won­derful letters from my Johnny boy — after I censor some of it and treasure it a bit — I’ll send them to our editor, to be printed in the next issue. They are a rare treat, I assure you. So long for now, and let’s hear more branch news in the Journal — Don’t let the war get everybody down. A request to all branch secretaries! All branch-secretaries are requested to send the payments from both the adult branches and junior order branches on separate checks or money orders, when turning in the monthly dues to the Home Office. It is not our purpose to add to the duties of the busy secretaries. It is, however, in the best interests of the sec­retaries themselves that they do so. On the other hand, the bookkeeping system of the Home Office makes it imperative that the dues from the two departments be received separately. The Juvenile Order is an entirely separate order, con­sequently its funds are to be handled separately. The Supreme Treasurer of our Association, therefore, deposits all payments from the Juvenile order in the “First National Bank”, while payments from the adult branches are deposited with another institution, the “Mellon National Bank”. Whenever a branch-secretary sends the payments from both orders on one and the same check or money order, the supreme treasurer has to divide the amount represented on the check and deposit the equivalent of the payments from the juvenile order in one bank and the payments from the adult de­partment in the other one. Since the check cannot be split, the supreme treasurer has to group the incoming checks so that the total amount of checks deposited in each bank represents the total amount of dues received from each respective department. This requires an extraordinary amount of complicated work, which, on the other hand, opens the way to possible errors which in an institution, like ours, can­not be tolerated. If, however, the branch secretaries send the payments from the two orders on separate checks or money orders, then the Supr. Treasurer simply de­posits each check with the respective bank, thus avoiding the possibility of an error. Such procedure serves the best interest of the branch­­secretaries also, because if they turn in the payments from the ■two different orders on separate Checks, they will have a proper receipt for each payment made from each resp. order, and thus they will be enabled to show al­ways the exact amounts turned in to the Home Office from each department, which will greatly facilitate their handling of their resp. accounts. It is therefore imperative that the dues re­ceived from both orders be not Verhovayak Lapja BE 100% WITH YOUR MYSTRICKY Detroit, Michigan Dear Molly: Before I get half-way through my story you will be thinking of me as “Suitcase Annie”, and I won’t blame you. There'are two reasons in the year that I get the urge to “be on the road”. The wanderlust spirit comes in Spring and Autumn, especially the “Indian Summer” month of October. My favorite way of traveling is via the Greyhound Bus Lines. In planning my vacation trips, I try to plan them so that I could make a stop-over enroute to Cleveland. Let’s turn back the pages in my Album of Me­mories to the Spring of 1938. Remember how hard the mem­bers worked to be among the contest winners for a trip to beautiful Hungary? Among those members were people whom 1 had the pleasure of meeting after corresponding with them. (Both correspondence and meet­ings took place under the name of yours truly who is so often “Mis­judged”, when I’d rather be less formal.) On my trip home, I paid a visit to the Home Office, where I had the pleasure of meeting our Supreme officers and our girls employed in our Home Office. It was my first visit to the Home Office. This trip also included a short visit with the Goydan Family in McKeesport. A very cordial wel­come was given to me and in a few minutes, I felt very much “at home” with all whom I had the pleasure of meeting. In May, I accepted the cordial invitation to pay a visit to our Dearborn “Horvath Family”, Br. 429, the well-known Holly Street Horvaths you’ve read so much about, but you had better use that “rain-check invitation” in the near futbre, to meet an “ace of a Verhovay Mother”, known by many as well as yours truly, as “Mother Horvath”. 1 was greeted by Mother Horvath and Mary when I arrived for the first time in Detroit. The friendliness of our friend then, is what made your friend decide that sometime in the near future, I would come to Detroit, when I felt the urge to change my surroundings. It was the last week-end in May — the English issue of the Journal had arrived. I’ve not only handled separately but turned in separately also, so that funds of both orders remain separate from the beginning to the end. This requires the writing of but another check or money order each month, but this procedure will actually save time for the branch-secretaries since it will simplify their accounts. The system used by the Home Office makes it absolutely necessary that payments be turned in separately from each order. We wish to call the attention of the branch-secretaries also to the treasury-slips which have to be submitted with each and every payment. This is ab­solutely necessary, yet many secretaries fail to comply with this rule. We urge all branch-secretaries to proceed according to these requests in every case. Your cooperation will be appreciated by THE SUPREME TREASURER. come across another family who were so interested in “What’s what among Verhovayans” in our Journal, as were the Holly Street Horvaths. Of course, they had no idea that their guest, Ann V. Biro, was none other than that “none sensical columnist”. We exchanged our views, each telling what their opinion was, on this and that column. Instead of a week-end visit, it was really a ten days’ vacation visit. The “jinx” is like a shadow — it pops up at the most un­expected moment. One evening, Mary and Steve Horvath (now, Mr. and Mrs. Steve Horvath), decided to entertain me with a visit to the Ford Rotunda. As long as I live, I’ll never forget my embarrassment. At the men­tion of the Ford Rotunda, 1 burst out laughing. It is really one of the most beautiful build­ings I have seen. The floors were waxed and shown like a mirror, (if someone accidently gave an­other a slight push—I needn’t tell you what would happen), and I walked along very cautiously to keep from losing my balance. Just ahead, in the direction we were going, was a crowd of people. They seemed to be very much interested — being only 5’2” — I couldn’t see over their heads and all I heard was a tiny sound — the horn of a Ford motor car. I turned to Mary and in a whisper asked why the horn blew and wondernig what the people were looking at so interestingly. She tried to de­scribe it to me, and of all the silly questions, I’d have to open my lips and whisper, “Do you have to put a nickel in a slot to see which Ford car wins?” Thinking that no one would be listening to our whispered con­versation, I was suddenly met with laughter and was glad to be a little shorter — we soon found ourselves in the crowd and that time, it was a comfort to be just another “shorty”. You will have to visit us some­time, so that you can be enter­tained as I was then. Last Sunday afternoon, I had the opportunity to attend the Red Cross Benefit program at the Verhovay Home in Detroit, Oiir dear friend, Mother Horvath and The Ferret were waiting for me, hoping that my plans had not been changed unexpectedly. After being there a short time, I glanced up to see who was standing in the doorway, think­ing it may be another friend, but it so happened it was an elderly gentleman. He had such a healthy out-door look about him, I turned to our Ferret and said, “Jolán, that gentleman’s complexion must be the envy of others. He looks like one who has spent all the past Winter in Florida” — to which Jolán re­plied, “Oh, him? Don’t let it fool you, that’s just the Hun­garian color!” By this time, I am sure you also have received news from our beloved “Shadow”. If not, I am pleased to inform you that your letter and the copies of the Journal arrived the first part of March. Needless for me to say, how happy it made our “Shadow” Soldier. Many thanks, Molly, and now, with best wishes to you and all. Fraternally yours, Ann V. Bero (Biro)«

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