Verhovayak Lapja, 1947 (30. évfolyam, 1-24. szám)

1947 / Verhovay Journal

# PAGE 6 Verhovay Journal JANUARY 29. 1947 SJNKIST SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ECHOES Bv Albert B. Steinmetz* S Member of Branch 525 f: \ ! — \ It’s so nice to settle down after the busy holiday season, which for "yours truly” was unusually hectic. The holidays alone, weren’t enough, we had to do other social engagements, that wyre sandwich­ed in between the already Crowd­er' two weeks before New Year;s Day. The ever unusual Sunkist Cali­fornia weather was living up to it’s name, and forgetting the Nor vember rainstdhnis, Xmas was a real “wet blanket.” It really r i -.rted out on December 23-rd, and built up to a No. 1 storm on Xmas day, continued off and on until December 27-th, a total of days , ^ * * * Branch 525’s Bowling League with it's. 5 teams planned a Xmas party and it proved to he a 100% success. On Dee. 21-st, Sat. Eve. We rented a sizeable hall for the t evasion, the Culver City Women’s Club building, in the shade of .the huge M.G.M. Studios. District Manager Gyulay took care of the foods and drinks, Ye’ reporter got the best orchestras ou 2 conti­nents lined up with their jive, boogey-\yoogey, waltzes, polkas, and last but not least, the best csárdás on wax, and o.ver 40 pairs of feet, cut the rug, later sa. g carols in true holiday fashion well into the wee hours of Dec. 22-ntl. There were a few bowlers, who just couldn’t attend the swell par­! ty, due to previous engagements, ; work etc/ So on the group-picture i which our good photographer took • at the party, several good sports are missing-, but even at that, the I nearly 50 people, (bowlers and their friends), will never forget the swell time we all had. Act- ! ing as M.C. for the evening’s en- j tertainment, by popular request j “yours truly” arranged a few j games, funfest, to round out the j gay evening. Last but not the least we all exchanged Xmas pre- [ sents to every one’s delight. * * * Xmas Eve’s, Rainstorm or Clear, * usually sets us out to carry gifts to friends, so again in 4(5 we did lour rounds under very stormy ! conditions, and believe me driv­­j ing- in clear weather is bad enough is Los Angeles, but Xmas eve’ in rainstorm with thousands ' of drivers full of Xmas “spirits,” driving in Los Angeles was sui­cide that pight, in fact for 3 days, when 30 people were killed on >ur { highways. I’ve seen several ac­cidents on Xmas eve’ as I -vas j driving, so naturally I was spe- '• dally -careful. * * * Our Xmas was very nice, rich j with gifts, and lovely ' remem- | branees from scores of friends, j Received many lovely holiday ! cards, telegrams from such peo- j pie as M.G.M. and Republic star ILONA MASSEY, opera singer I BARBARA^PASTI, fellow Jour­nalists, past and present, and from many of my readers. Thank you one and all. * * * On Dec. 28-th a prominently lovely young Magyar Verhovay ouple hao their day. Of course I’m referring to the wedding of Miss Helen Dorothy Hemestray and Mr. Frank Andorko, • about whom I have written an engage­­ment'-story a few months back in a previous column. At that time we "brought the swell photo of the lov?ly bride . . . Came their day, Saturday night to be exact, and ’midst flowers plentiful with­in the walls of the famous “Church of the Recessional” in beautiful Forest Lawn Memorial Lark, here in Glendale, California, we witnessed Helen and Frank become man and 'wife in a double, ring ceremony. Theirs was a beautiful ceremony with an im­ported “maid of honor” in the person of Miss Mathilda Pintér from Cleveland, Ohio. The bride’s best girl friend, and 3 other love­ly bridesmaids from Los Angeles, plus the best man, Mr. Eugune Hemestray, just out frojn the U.S. Navy, gnd 3 other handsome ushers,-plus a cute little lad who carried the rings. It all was so impressive that words couldn’t describe the whole affair. After the * 1 ceremony the more than 100 guests, who were lavishly enter-THE FERRET SEZ-------- Continued from Page 5 vities and they, too, are not fond of dull and boring meetings. No Verhovay member should be forced t- do what he does not want to do; the main thing to remember is to keep them all happy and regular members of the Associa­tion by keeping up their dues. Now to go on just a bit to the volume of business whjch could he swung our way by en­couraging and aiding the new crop of youngsters who are join­ing our Association and creating a new era in our fraternal life. As I slated above, bowling is here to stay. To quote a few figures and facts from an article'which I read in a recent volumne of the Coronet magazine and which puts the whole thing into a nut­shell . . .- “There’s no longer arid doubt about it — bowling is America’s most popular adult sport. It out­ranks baseball, football, prize fights and horse racing ‘combined in the number of participants.”. (In other words, my dear read­ers, bowling is the greatest par­ticipant sport in the country!) To go on, “Some 16,000,000 to 20,- 000,000 men and women spend $221,000.000 a year howling t>n some 75,000 individual alleys in America . . . Bowlers have their own organizations, The American Bowling Congress. With local as­sociations in 1,350 communities and an active membership of more than 1,000,000 the ABC is one of the largest sports organizations in the world . . . The Women’s In­ternational Bowling Congress is already the world’s largest wo­man’s sports organizations . . . j What’s more, bowling is the foun­dation of most industrial recrea­tion programs in the country, the I Chrysler Corporation alone hav­ing more than 800 teams within I its nation-wide organization . . . I many bowling alleys remain open i 20 hours a day, one group of J bowlers shoving the preceding Í group out of the way almost I around the clock. Housewives in the morning, offieeworkers at noon, more housewives in the af­ternoon, organized leagues dur­ing the early evening, assorted ei- I tizens till midnight, and then j chorus girls and musicians till j <i .wn . . . People who don’t bowl j find tilt current craze a little , hard to understand. Actually j there are a lot ,of very solid rea­sons for the remarkable popula­rity in bowling. In the first place, I it is one of the few sports for j which you don’t have to buy a j single item of equipment. All you ; have to bring to the arenp. is I your right hand. (Or in case of Ferret, a leftie Possibly the greatest reason for bowling’s popularity, however, is the won­derful chance it gives you just to knock things to hell. A men who has h (I a fight with his boss, or j a lady whose cake has fallen, can I hasten down to Joe’s and take it out on the timber . . . Bowling is one of the few sports at which a woman can often beat a man . . . Another unusual ad­vantage of bowling if that a poor bowler doesn’t hamper a skilled companion. It is an individual contest, somewhat akin to target shooting . . .” And so on and etc. .The article is good enough to. read and re­read, and the advantages of grand-scale advertising for the Verhovay Association, which your Ferret can see, should make us stop and think, that to encourage the participants in this wonderful and popular 'sport will add not j only to the Associations”,member­­: ship but to its popularity as well. To sum up, if the Sports Grant would be made a little easier to j • ^ *" „- I . > I secure as per our Resolution, the Association gains, the individual I gains. One hundred fifty dollars ! per year will finance two teams satisfactorily, as to wit . . . Ifivé men and five women would I have entry feeg for the organized leagues paid, ten shirts at a J minimum of five-dolars each, and j possibly a little saved towards the j Verhovay National Bpwling Tour- I nament’s expenses. This year we note that the Directors will aid towards traveling expenses. All city, state, national ar.d Verho­vay Tournaments’ entry fees and other expenses to be paid by the individual . . . there is no sensq to hogging 'everything and your Ferret feels that if all branches will allow the' same amount to their teams, internal strife and tension will be eased to the point where everyone will be happy and tickled pink to belong to the Ver­hovay Fraternal Insurance Asso­ciation! Comments pro and con wel­comed ... let’s iron this thing out! I tair.ed, dined and wined, as well as- “scotch and soda-d,” toasted the rewly weds, while DUDÁS’ 4 piece Orchestra played until the next early morning hours. Here, too, by special request, Your Sunkist Reporter had to be the Master of Ceremonies for the occasion. His duties were to read the many congratulatory te­legrams, greetings, introducing the special guests from the State of Oregon to far away Cleveland, etc. A special story based on the ^imaginative love-life of the bride and groom in a humorous ve; , rich with short poems in Hunga­rian and American written spe­cially for the occasion and read by this reporter,' was very wdl receive/. Mr. Gyulay, the Verhovay West Coast Organizer, a friend of the newlyweds’ parents, also spoke a few words of greetings as well as others (lack of space prohibits me to mention them all here). God bless you both, Helen and Frank, may you have a happy married life. . * * * On New Years Eve we cele­brated in a strictly private man­ner at home, where such friends as the Markovits family from Wilkinsburg, Pa. and Louisiana, Mo.. (Mr. Markovits is an Engi­neer with the Bureau of Mines stationed out here bv Uncle Sam.) I V’m. Lovas and family, Mr. and Mrs. Win. Szabó, rounded out the “Verhovay Good Fellows” party along with Miss Mathilda Pintér from Cleveland, and Mr. and Mrs. Federholzer fron) Portland, Ore­gon. All of us toasted in young ’47 in a cheery manner. Mrs, Steinmetz deserves a special round of applause for the swell Dalian spagheti dinner, etc. (It is very seldom that my B.W. (Beautiful Wife”) gets into print.) HAPPY NEW YEAR, EVERYBODY . . * * * Today beinff the first Sunday in ’47 I atended services at the First Hungarian Reformed church in Los Angeles, and listened for the first time to a sermon preached One of my nephews. Assistant Sec­retary of the United States Treasury Edward II. Eoiey, made a few re­marks the other day which are worth the attention and action of all my other nieces and nephews. In talk­ing about buying Savings Bonds through the payroll savings plan, he said: “Workers are doing them­selves a favor when they increase their take-home savings. The man who has saved up a reserve has a sense of security which the man who lives from hand to mouth can never know. He gets more out of life. He can take today ax'it conies, rather ; than spend it worrying about to­­morrow.” The same reasoning ap­plies not only to Americans on some­body’s payroll but to the millions of men and women who earn their liv­ing as doctors, lawyers and inde­pendent business men who can ar­range for regular purchases of Sav­ings Bonds at their banks. 1. (J. S. Treasury Departrttini Uncle Sam Says by the new Pastor of that church, the Reverend Anthony Szabó. Al­so present there was my good friend ILONA MASSEY, who sang gloriously two hymns in Hungarian. Miss Massey is an Honorary member of the above p'entioned church, (shall I say that she had to write autographs for one hour straight, after the church service?) I shall also tell all ILONA MASSEY fans that her latest yet untitled Republic Studios’ musical comedy picture, very similiar to the Russian “Ba­lalaika”, again with Nelson Eddy, is just completed. It’^s another success, take it from me, (this is a Russian type picture though), and soon she will definitely do another one with Nelson Eddy, also for Republic Studios. I shall also tell yoti that she announced her engagement to a former U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander JAY D. KURTZ here i few week's ago. She met the handsome officer on her i.S.O. toip: in 1943 in British New Guinea. The date of her wedding will not be set until her mother (jorues out here, from Nagykőrös, Hungary, sometime in March, she told me today. She also told me that she will go to Florida with­in a few days on a Concert tour with Xavier Cougat’s Orchestra, (she appeared with Cougat you know, in her last picture “Holiday in Mexico.”) <= * * The Young folk§ at the Hun­garian Reformed Church this morning sure were thrilled to greet the lovely star and special­ly requested this reporter to men­tion their Pew organization in this column, and because so many of you are good Verhova yang, and like to read these columns, I shall do i therewith. Under the able leadership of President Viola Marek, Vice President Ernest Fin­tor, “chaplain” Betty Gacsályi, and others, the Y.P.C. (Young People’s Club) was organized at the Ref. Church just a few months ago, and are doing splen­did social work amongst the young folks. Socials, Dances, Par­ties, etc. are being held from time to time. All young folks are in­vited to join this, group here in Los Angeles, regardless of, reli­gious belief. * * * It’s a 7 lbs. 2 oz. bundle from heaven named ROSEMARIE LO­VAS. Date of arrival December 15-th 1946. Mr. and Mrs. George Lovas both are doing fine. ✓ * * # Keep March I-st Saturday night open because Branch 525 will on that date hoíd their biggest and best Verhovay Dance,' the 1-st in ’47, at the huge auditorium of the “Sons of Herman Hall.” 120 East 25-th Str. in Los Angeles. * * * Rumor has it that a group of Verhovay Bowlers are going to invade our fair city from the state of Indiana early this Spring during fhe 1947 A.B.C. Conven­tion. Better let us know ahead folks, how many of you and how long will you stay etc.? We wel­come ymf, in fact will try to make your stay nice, also will arrange to have L. A. Verhova* Bowlers team bowl against you in “friendly competition”. Let’s hear from you or from any other teams contemplating to attend the A.B.C. meet in L. A. Time’s a-Wastin. “You’ve been standing there watching me for two hoifrs. Why don’t you try fishing yourself?” “I haven’t the patience.”

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