Verhovayak Lapja, 1943. július-december (26. évfolyam, 26-53. szám)

1943-08-12 / 33. szám

August 12, 1943

________:____________Verhovayak Lapja

VERHOVAY SPORTSMEN of BRANCH 164

------------------ CHICAGO, ILLINOIS ------------------With only a few weeks left before our convention, it is not unusual that all our Hungarian- Americans and mostly those who are not Verhovay members, have their plans about matters which the convention should or should not discuss. Naturally, that goes for Chicago and Branch 164 also. Our two delegates have our most sincere confidence to act in behalf of the organization and we all know that they will do their best.

I have polished up my Hungarian in the past few weeks b’y reading some of the District Reports in our Journal. I have also read the records of many of our English speaking branches. I must say, that the proposals of the English speaking branches in many respects, are more interesting and beneficial than the old thrash-machine reports of some of the Hungarian districts. Now, understand me. Dear Readers, X do not intend to pull a finger in favor of our English speaking branches. In fact, I believe and will always believe that our great organization makes no personal differences in its membership, still up until todays reports, the English branches, perhaps influenced by their more Americanized elders, are in front with their ideals.

I have studied the articles written by the “Ferret”, also by the '“Scribe of Kőszeg” and last but not least, Pvt. Bill Kohut, whose Hungarian-American activities are very familiar to me. To let out a little secret here, 1 have helped a Verhovay member write a series of articles about his adventures of the great Verhovay European Excursion in 1938 and there have met with Pvt. Kohut’s name several times. Up until several weeks ago 1 have known Pvt. Bill Kohut as the explorer of never-say-die Parisian flop-houses, also as a very industrious wine importer.

Thanks to the “Ferret”, 1 now know that Pvt. Bill Kohut has no ambition to make a Military career, the Verhovay is good enough for him, and we, the women of Verhovay, the

backbone of our organization (as chairman Joseph Darago

mentioned in one of his Chicago speeches) will listen in the

future to the “Ferret” and will elect Pvt. Bill Kohut for one

of our Directors, but first he must come to the conclusion that We Verhovay members are all equal.

Coming back to the convention, which will be called to order the second Monday in September, our best wishes are with it for a very successful program. We, members of Branch 164, sure hope that the Hospitalization Plán will be given more consideration than the other small matters which by insurance laws were ordered to our Home Office but have already given much controversy at District meetings. Let our War Convention with Hospitalization, with a plan for our boys in the Armed Service, with equal rights to every member, be the outstanding convention of all Conventions.

months. We didn’t do much pickling, there wasn’t enough of us to do so, but we made several important decisions. That just reminds me that all these decisions did not come in our regular meetings but, as 1 am informed, were taken up at our half-yearly officers’ gathering. The first is the abolishing, for the duration only, of our Social Club. The treasurer, Mrs. Rak, was authorized to buy another War Bond at our 3rd National Drive which begins September 9th. It was decided that the birthdays of our soldiers and sailors will be remembered in some form and this matter was given over to a committee of five women. (I hope the “Ferret” sees this.)

It was also decided, as I perhaps mentioned before, that our Annual Card and Bunco Party will benefit our boys in the Service. The party is planned for the second or third Saturday in October at the Rainbow Hall at 333 W. North Ave. I’ll have more details about this later.

I have a report from our Chairman Zavatkay of our Entertainment Committee that our War Bond and Stamp drive is coming along in good shape. ^ Let me quote a letter received from Member Rozoljia Kish, a former member of one of our Cleveland branches. Quote;

“Enclosed is stub and $1.00 check for book of tickets 'i asked you to send me. Thank you kindly for complying. It seems so little we can do to make others happy and I’m glad to be able to, even if it is small.

Signed:

ROZOLIA KISH”.

Member Kish has sold several books for us.

civilian clothes for G. I. issue, has spent several weeks in a hospital somewhere in sunny California with second degree burns. The cause of his troubles was a cigar lighter that accidentally exploded.

Corp. Tarnoczy (you know Steve changes his title from Corporal to Sergeant and back to Corporal again like he changes a work shirt) is in the hospital with a cut that took eight stitches to mend. Where and how the accident happened, I do not know. It’s the usual Military secret.

Our last hospital patient is Corp. Edward Exner, of the Marine Paratroops who has been troubled with stomach disorders.

I also know: that Edward Kolozy is now a Corporal; that James Kolozy rides his motor-, cycle home monthly from an Army airfield near Dayton, Ohio, where he has charge of a repair crew; that P.F.C. John Nagy Jr., is somewhere in Australia; that Ted Sabo is our most intelligent soldier member, he being a member of the Intelligence Dept.; that Arthur Irocky changes camps bi-weekly and is back in California at present where 26 letters and a ten dollar birthday gift. awaited him; that F.F.C. Marvin Kunstadt spent exactly $16 to call his girl on the telephone telling her he’s OK.; that William Bessemer Jr. has finished his basic training in Virginia and his destination is a Naval secret; that Sgt. Frank Kantor is very busy building a home for his wife in the state of Washington, he being a member of the Engineers; that Andy Vash Jr., who for the past twelve months has worn a Navy Uniform, is vacationing in Canton, Ohio with his wife and family; that Henry Can, Seaman First Class, is in Oak Harbor, Washington, after receiving Specialized Training at the Seattle Athletic Club; that Joseph Soo’s promised pictures of the Pacific theatre of War have not arrived yet; that Ernie Kunstadt Jr. commutes home once a month from Scott Field, Illinois to see his wife and baby “Slug”; that sailor (his title I do not know) Joseph Exner Jr. is around the Hawaian Islands again; and that a good picture of Joseph Ardella of the Coast Guards was published in our Journal recently.

I do not 1m ittft whereabouts of member ftawar Fehr, son of our member Doctor Anton Fehr, or the whereabouts of Andrew Gyenes. These two boys have just been called to the colors recently.

I appreciate the letters from our boys in Service and their families. If it weren’t for these letters, I could not keep all our members interested in this column. There isn’t space in the paper to write all the details about all our boys but I’m sure my readers like to know about our boys in Service.

The 3rd National Drive for War Bonds and Stamps begins September 9th. We've all been asked to lend ten per cent ol our Income to the government for Bonds and Stamps. «Now we must make still more of an effort- Figure out your budget ahead of time and put every available cent into War Bonds and Stamps. In this way you help our boys now and will have money after this war is over to buy the things not available now.

Just me,

MARGARET STANGRET, Publicity Agent,

1427 So. Sawyer Ave.

Chicago, 111.

The months of August are called

MISC. NEWS

The only excitement we had was the sudden illness of our senior secretary. Many of my readers by now know, Secretary Kunstadt was stricken with a mild heart attack driving home from his work downtown. A hurried call brought Marge Kunstadt, our -Juvenile Secretary, and pop’s wife, home from her vacation and she had to charter a plane from the northern part of Michigan to get here.

I'm glad to say that our secretary is up and around again and by the time the convention is called to order, he will be ready to give his best for Verhovay Equality.

We know, by now, that the mysterious brunette, who with our lodge doctor, helped our senior secretary on his feet, is an old American friend of the family.

Many of our members, which sorry to say does not include me, have called on our secretary during his convalescence. Louis Sabo and his wife, the former secretary of Branch 69, sent a very appropriate Get-well card which helped his morale very much.

MEETINGS ARMY NEWS

July and Pvt. John Kocsi, who just a the pickle few months ago changed his

r.. and you’ll always have tobacco

inyour old tobacco boxT

XI7HEN I was a kid my * * father used to sine a sone that ended up with this refrain:

“Oh, s»tb up your money ami put it in your box.

And you’ll always have tobacco in your old tobacco box.”

Well, the words stuck with me, but I guess the moral didn’t.

No matter how hard I tried ... I never seemed to be able to save up a red cent.

But it’s all differant nowt

About 10 months ago, I started buying War Bonds on the Payroll Savings Plan. Figured it was the least I could do for Uncle Sam.

And that’s the only way I thought about it . . . until just recently.

Now, all of a sudden, I've discovered that—for the first time in the history of Yours Truly—I’m saving dough. Every month, rain - or - shine, hell-or-high-water I’m sticking away a War Bond, a Bond

that'll bring me back $4.00 for every $3.00 I put in.

Those Bonds are beginning to mount up now. And I’m going to keep them mounting up. For I’ve discovered what a swell feeling it is to be saring... on a plan that’s regular as clockwork and twice as sure.

So I'm singing father's song ... a little different.

“Oh, save up your War Bonds and put them in your box.

And you’ll always hare tobacco in your old tobacco box."

SAVE WITH U.S. WAR BONDS EVERYBODY...EVERY PAYDAY...

AT LEAST 10%