Verhovayak Lapja, 1945 (28. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)

1945 / Verhovay Journal

October 10, 1945 Verhovay Journal Page 3 LET TRUTH BE UNCONFINED CHICAGO BRANCH 503 “It takes two to speak the truth,—one to speak, and another to hear.” (Thoreau.) CORPORAL Mike Szopo (Detroit Michigan) wrote us on August 23rd from Contrexevilie, France, and with it sent a picture which is published in this column. Writes Mike in papt: “Well, 1 guess it won’t be long now ... as we were transferred into the 17th Airborne Division and were told to inform all persons not to write. . . . Just got back from southern France on a few days furlough. Too bad 1 couldn’t complete it as the weather was swell down at Nice. Also took in Cannes, Antibes, Antess, St. Ralphal and a few other surround­ing places in Riviera. Everything is just fine with me and am in high spirit of reaching the good old U. S. A. soon.” Yes, sir, Mike, we too hope it will be quick unless you are already on the way. We’ll be waiting . . . * * * HELEN and ANN CSONTOS wrote on September 2nd that they Were in Galveston, Texas ... in the Southwest’s playground. ‘‘Hav­ing a grand time; going swimming and getting tan. Got up at 4 A.M. and motored out; went to 7 o’clock mass at the cathedral.” * * * SGT. STEVE FIRTKO (Racine, Wisconsin) wrote the latter part of August that he has it very easy these last couple of weeks. “On August 2nd 1 was awarded the cer­tificate of merit for the work 1 did in the Cherbourg campaign. The 18th of August will be 3 years that 1 have been overseas.” Com­ing back soon, Sergeant? * * * PFC. JOHN S. HUZIANY writes from Luzon on August 24th: “I haven’t seen more than two or three beautiful WACs out here. The Philipinos are much prettier thaiAsome of our WACs. ... 1 was in Manila at the time of the celebration and got pretty close to the Jap delegates. As they got off the plane, 1 first noticed the big swords, their medals and then ' the small rats . . . That’s just the way they looked . . . More i than 85 per cent of us in our regiment are wearing four ribbons and a fifth one is coming: Good Conduct; ETO ribbon; Asiatic theatre; Philippine; and the fifth' is the Victory in Europe. We all have five battle stars for the ETO. We’ll look as decorated as a Christmas tree when we get home—probably around Easter.” Well, we certainly hope it won’t be that long John. We hope it will be closer to Christmas that you will be here. Meanwhile the best of luck to you, ENGINEER JOHN! «' * « Staff Sergeant Paul Szabady of our own 503 is a modest man. He didn’t tell us that CAMP PICKET NEWS on June 1, 1944, had a picture of him and a write-up about the excellent mural he did for the Camp Lee soldiers. The picture and story as it appeared are published elsewhere in the Journal. S/Sgt. Szabady has had a colorful career, since he was a stu­dent of art in Hungary and other places. We take rightful pride in this American of Magyar origin for his efforts have been recog­nized by his fellow soldiers. « x x FRANK V. HUZA1NY, S 1-C, was home recently on 30 day rehabilitation leave. A few weeks ago he left for Frisco again and we are waiting to hear from him. Frank served in the southwest Pacific, specifically in the New Guinea campaign. But to start from the beginning, in brief: he signed up in January 1943, was sent for training to Michigan; Norfolk, Virginia; Alameda, California; Wilmington, Delaware; Catalina Island. He was on several ships on patrol and convoy duty and also on invasions with the 7th Am­phibious Force. He was at the Hollandia invasion, at Wake, Biak (where he says it was the tough­est), Schouten Islands and at San­­sapor. He related some of his travels to Samoa, Milne Bay, Buna, Finschafen, the Admiralty Islands, etc. He was down and out for a while with malaria. Frank has now reported back to Frisco and thinks he is to serve another 6 months. * ■* x CORPORAL JULIUS NAGY (De­troit, Mich.) sent a picture to this column, showing himself atop the gun-barrel on his tank-destroyer. We hope the editor will see fit to publish the picture which was sent to him. (Editor’s note: Julius won’t show on the picture but since we haven’t yet published any pictures of this kind, an exception is made.) THE SCRIBE OF KŐSZEG. Friday, September 21, 1945. • -----------v----------­If we are to make the most of the opportunity which will be offered to us in. the post-war period, there must be no inner demobilization. For this time, the duration will last longer than the war! We must mobilize all of the psychological, physical and spirit­ual resources at our command. —Rev. Walton E. Cole------------V-----------­How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy. —Thomas Jefferson BUY VICTORY BONDS THE REPORT OF THE AUDITING COMMITTEE MIND T E S taken at the Home Office of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, 345 Fourth Avenue, Pitts­burgh, Pa., at the regular audit held by the Auditing Committee from September 10 to 22, 1945, inc. Ernest Kunstadt, recording secretary, states that, in accordance with the provisions of the By-laws, the place of the late Joseph Bumbulucz, former chairman of the Auditing Committee, who passed away last June, was taken by Alexander N yirati, alternate member of the Auditing Committee. The Committee appoints Ernest Kunstadt chairman and Jolán Lucas recording secretary. In the course of a detailed examination we found that all monthly dues, sent in by the Branches between May 1st and August 31st, 1945, all interests received on loans and bonds, and payments on loans, have been deposited in full at regular intervals. We also found that the official data published by the Home Office in the Official Journal render a true picture of the financial state of the Association. All bonds, deposited in the safety vaults of the Mellon National Bank have been found and listed and it has been established that the purchases and sales of bonds had been conducted with the utmost circumspection. The statement of assets as of the months May, June, July and August, follows: August 31, 1945 _______________________$7,145,280.31 April 30, 1945 _________________________$6,921,666.03 Increase ________________________$ 223,614.28 In the examination of the Sick and Death Benefits paid special attention was given to the amounts issued as to their correctness and also to all matters pertaining to the Trust Fund and to the receipts and disbursements of the New Office Building. It is our unanimous conviction that the funds of the Association are handled conscientiously and to the best interests of our Association. ERNEST KUNSTADT chairman of the Auditing Committee ALEXANDER NYIRATI JOLÁN LUCAS member of the Auditing Committee Secretary of the Auditing Committee A VISIT IN ALLIANCE Where Fratemalism Is a Reality. — Unity and Ccoperatien Lead To Success There are not more than eigthy American Hungarians fa­milies in Alliance, O. We have two branches in that city, 189 and 369, but because of the lim­ited size of the Hungarian colony, these branches secure their new members from among native Americans as well as other na­tionalities. But even though Hungarians are few in number — they are strong. That little colony is powerful because it has learned the true meaning of cooperation. But let’s start at the beginning. For almost a year the fellow­­members in Alliance had been preparing for a mortgage — burn­ing celebration. Branches 189 and 369 jointly own a Verhovay Home the indebtedness of which has been steadily reduced until it became a matter of a few months to make the Home free of all obligations. — At the spring­meeting of the Board of Directors, John Kőrösfőy, director, and manager of Branch 369, extended an invitation to the members of the Board to attend the mort­gage burning ceremonies to be held in fall. And on September 18th, Tuesday, Director Kőrösfőy reiterated the invitation in be­half of the Branch, for the 20th of September, Thursday even­ing. Naturally, the invitation was accepted for it came from good people who, by their desire to have the officers and directors present at this occasion, de­monstrated their sense of be­longing to the great family of Verhovay ans, in contrast to the sectionalism apparent in many branches which set themselves apart by restricting their rela­tions to the Home Office and the sister-branches to the routine of insurance-business. The invitation which included the Home Office force, too, was gladly accepted and a chartered bus took us to Alliance on Thurs­day afternoon. THE V.-HOME IN ALLIANCE. The bus stopped in the heast of the city. We got off and looking around were pleasantly surprised by the neat appearance of the es­tablishment. The Home itself is built of red bricks which glistered in the rays of the setting sun. A fine pax-king lot is provided, be­yond which a pretty garden lends the whole place a home-like quality. A beautiful flowerbed in the middle and lovely little pine-trees surrounding the garden made us linger for a while for they spoke of the love of beauty for which the membership of this Home found such attractive expression. A wooden fence and a beautiful portal, made in Transylvanian folk-style, separates the garden from the parking lot. On top of the portal little American flags lustily waved in the cool evening breeze . . . There were thirteen of them, in memory of the 13 miners who founded the Associa­tion. -Then /we entered the Home. The doors open to a huge hall with a fine stage at its opposite end. Everything was ready for the banquet that was to precede the mortgage burning ceremonies. The tables were set with snow white table-clothes rind a bouquet of various flowers on every table symbolized the hospitality with which the guests were received. There still was time before the beginning of the banquet and everyone went dow-nstairs ta have a look (and a few other things) at the bar-room. That, too, turned out to be a nice, cozy place, furnished with modem implements and an unusually long bar, manned by busy but ever smiling George Toth, the manager of the Home. Everything was spick and span, light, friendly, a real home for the great family of Alliance Ver* hovayans. THE BANQUET. i Soon the hall was filled. The members of the Women’s Can­teen Club arrived in a bedy, everyone of them wearing a red —rose. The National Anthem was sung, the Rev. Anthony Kruscio offered grace and the ladies served the best chickens and doughnuts ever made for such on occasion. A special word cf praise must be inserted here fer the ladies who served the meal with unusual efficiency and un­surpassable friendliness. Evei y­­thing was organized to the last detail and soon the program be­gan with a welcoming address by Martin Magyaros, chair-man of the House-Committee who greet­ed the guests who came írem near and far to attend this un­usual celebration. INTRODUCTIONS. Michael Simo, District Manager, took over as Master of Cere­monies and called upon Director Kőrösfőy to introduce the guests. As a rule, introductions are considered an unavoidable evil, and meet with little patience, but this was an exceptional event and every introduction brought something like a surprise, be­cause then we learned what a real family-reunion this occasion was. Director Kőrösfőy did an ex­cellent job. He had a few, mostly humorous remarks for every guest as he introduced John Bencze, Supreme President, Coleman Re­vesz, Supreme Secretary, John Szalanczy, Supreme Treasurer, Mrs. George Lauranchok nea Emma Phillips, Deputy Auditor, Joseph Szalay, Albert B. Aii, vice-presidents, Frank Brogley, Andrew Dobos Jr., John- P. Kele­men, Julius Macker, Joseph H. Prince M.D., Aloysius Falussy, Joseph Turner, Louis Vizi, direc­tors and the following employees of the Home Office: editor F. W. Rettmann, Stephen Gabor, former Supreme Secretary, Zoltán Ne* meth, Mrs. Margaret Waddell, and the members of the Au­diting Committee: Ernest Kun­stadt, Jolán Lucas and Alexander Nyirati, Samuel Gcmcry M.D., Chief Medical Counsel, and Mrs. Joseph Prince, Mrs. Alexander Nyirati. Then Mr. Simo continued in­troducing Mr. Stephen Matyassy, (Continued on Page 5)

Next

/
  • Layout
  • Zoom
  • Rotation
Thumbnails
Contents