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

1947 / Verhovay Journal

FEBRUARY 26, 1947 rOF TRENDS AND FRIENDS IN CHICAGO Branch 164 By Midge Rettmann I What with all the man (and woman) power it took to battle the elements during the past few week's it seems that our Stork and Cradle Club members sus­pended activities — at least no new arrivals have been reported nor have we heard of new appli­cants-to-be. WEDDING Our biggest news gem in local circles is the fact that Dr. Alex Friend, official medico of Branch 1C4, took unto himself a bride, a charming young lady, as of the 15th. All the members and friends of Dr. and Mrs. Friend join in wishing them a future filled with happiness and good luck. BETROTHAL St. Valentine’s Day was well served by Cupid when he prompt­ed William Exner, recently serv­ing in Japan as M.P., to offer a brilliant diamond to Rose Kutska, which was duly accepted together with Bill’s heart. Rose is the “kid” sister of our ex-scribe, Marge Stangret. May the light shining in your eyes continue to dazzle you up to and way be­yond your wedding. ANNIVERSARIES Mr. and Mrs. Carl Heisen cele­brated their 25th wedding anni­versary recently. It all started in the town of I’inkoc, Vas County, and continued blossoming here. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kantor, Sr., again make the headlines with the celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary on February 5th. The same day was daughter Mary’s (Mrs. Carl Szabó) birth­day who upon being asked her age, modestly assented to 27 plus. Only close friends attended the anniversary dinner, with Pop K. as master-of-ceremonies. (He really does manage to wangle the invitations!) A BABY SHOWER was held in honor of Mrs. George Striker, one of our Stork Club me: ibers. It proved very enter­taining and successful. A list of the guests included the Mes­­dames Hancz, Barna, Rose Sabo, Betty Varga (our still expectant grandma), Elizabeth Csonka and Marge Kunstadt. ABOUT OUR MEMBERS We have acquired a lot of mis­cellaneous data which may be of interest concerning the activities of our friends and fellow-mem­bers. wife (the former Mary Risko) and son unexpectedly from Taco­ma, Wash., on sick leave. After a short visit, they all returned to Gil’s base and will stay until May. Then back to the rigors of civilian life. On the coldest day of the year Dr. Friend caught up with Marian Wojtas at her home for the ex­amination prior to the issuance of a $1,000 Endowment certifi­cate. Marian is the young lass who dishes out wrong numbers at the Kedzie exchange (we’re just kidding). Now if Doc can catch our ex-sailor lad at home, the Wojtas family will be 100% Verhovay. Mid-year graduations found two of our young members pushed out into this cold cruel world from the comparative safety of student life — Coloman Gyurka i „ceived his diploma from Roose­velt High and Joseph Kaszas,’ Jr., an honor student, from Lane Technical High. Congratulations and good luck to both of them! On the other side of the ledg­er, Bob Papp, who thrilled Jour­nal readers with stories of South American life, entered Wright College. Bob’s pretty sister Grayce keeps male interest high at the telephone company. Her probable age is the question and if those curious males should read this column, Grayce do.s not yet make out her own in­come tax return. (How come? Do you struggle with it, Pop? Paul and James Kantor of the South Side spend their time trekking to and from the St. Bernath Hospital to visit their Mother. Mrs. Paul Kantor, chair­man of the West Side Ref. Church Knitting Club, had the misfor­tune of breaking her leg early this month. We hope she is re­covering and back at home — this cold spell is no time for the boys to be taking a chance on frostbitten extremities they can­not muffle under heavy woolens. The father of 3 of our juve­niles, -George Sabik, has organiz­ed a Hunting Club. The gang meets once a month at their George St. residence (yes, the street was named after him). Like the usual curious female, I’d like to know what the mem­bers of a hunting club dp in­doors ? Play tiddlcy winks ? To answer inquiries • of our readers: Ted and Lucille Janik are still in Chi. They can be found at the last house on Foster Ave. BOWLING NEWS We hear that Olga Kunstadt is a sales representative of a well­­known dress concern of which Mary (Kantor) Szabó is sales manager. Olga says business is progressing nicely. Not only her mother-in-law but even the al­derman’s wife, are customers. Ol­ga is ably assisted by her child­ren — Ernest III carries her sample case and Susie-Margaret models for prospective buyers. You can’t beat this triangle so submit, girls, and make a date to view this fashion show. * Lt. Gilfoy dropped in on his We Xhve 2 teams making good progress in the Janitor League. Both plan to travel to South Bend for the Verhovay National Bowling Tournament but each team needs an extra bowler as the League carries only 4-man teams. The men bowlers are And­rew Janovics, Charles Drungelo, John Kovács and Louis Fodor and on the distaff side we have Barbara Kovács, Ann Drungelo, Marge Fodor and Grandma Kun­stadt. The question before the House is: how did beauticians and a departmental head get Verhovay Journal__ PAGE 3 passed as janitors? No union to bar them? Seriously, though, any qualified bowlers desiring to join the short-handed teams herein described (no union dues neces­sary) please call Lou Fodor for information. Bowling will play a bigger part in our Branch life next season. We understand William Feifar, Jr. is planning to organize teams for the 1947—48 season and many of the old-timers should be in­terested. There is any amount of good bowling material from which to make up several teams and we are counting on the Zubor’s, Kunstadt’s, Exner’s, Andrew Ris­ko, L. Molnár, John Barnak, Ste­phen Spieler and the Csonka lad to name just a few. Surely, out of a senior membership of over 550, at least 5 or 6 good teams could be organized with a like number of women’s teams. Chi­cago is truly the center of ten pin bowling and provides lots of fun for participants to say noth­ing of the various local tourna­ments in addition to our own. Let’s answer the call next sea­son and disclose the prowess and strength of our Branch. VETERANS DANCE This is the last call for all to attend the evening dedicated to fun and frolic for our returned vets. DO NOT FORGET MARCH Tst, at the North West Hall. Everything will be on the house! BRANCH NEWS Branch 164 has stepped into line with member branches to help promote the Alliance, Ohio, Verhovay Crippled Children’s Fund with a donation of $25.­­voted towards this noble move­ment, plus an extra $5.00 from our Senior Manager. The official Journal and local newspapers have lauded our ef­forts for taking part in various fraternal and charitable activi­ties in the past, such as helping those in Hungary, the Budapest Christmas party, etc. As we hope to be able to continue along these lines and already have, for instances, assumed the care of an orphan through our local Re­lief Chapter No. 48, contributed to the Alliance Fund for Verho­­vay’s Crippled Children and are determined to keep on assisting our Hungarian brothers, we re­quest our members to continue donating the 5 cents per month by which each member does his or her share in these matters. As one cannot expect our Branch officials to bring this matter up at each and every call, we ask you to voluntarily add a nickel to your monthly dues when paying them so that the growing heap of glittering coins can be put to useful work. Our branch officials would prefer not to make a per­sonal request, in each instance, for these nickels, as they hope that you’ll make your contribu­tion in the same fraternal spirit with which they fulfill their ob­ligation to the membership. Our Senior Manager received a letter dated December 20th, from Mr. Acs, Executive .Vice- President of the Hungarian World Federation, in reference to the Christmas party planned for our little friends in Budapest. It seems that the various strikes of last fall had far reaching effects in that shipments of overseas packages are still running far behind" schedule and, as a result, our candy packages had not . ar­rived in time. Not wanting to disappoint the anxious children, Mr. Acs found a splendid solu­tion. Adding 32 forints and 70 IMPORTANT for senders of money abroad to remember: Make Your Remittances via American Express Service it is easy to do, and dependable, as thou­sands of users know. You have only to call at any of our own offices, at Railway Express, and at any of the hundreds of neighborhood agen­cies and banks offering this American Express service. You can remit as you wish, by cable or mail. Both are safe and by no means costly, but cable means quicker delivery. Always ask for an American Express receipt, and remember the name EUCAN Express Foreign Remittances NEWS From The Field DETROIT, MICH. NEW SCHEDULE OF DISTRICT OFFICE 8005 West Jefferson Ave., Room 12. — Members of the Detroit branch­es are requested to observe the TRADITIONALLY FAMOUS DINNERS from *125 Gypsy&Dance Orchestras Enchanting; Floor Show following schedule of the District j Office: Daytime: Stephen Lukacs, Lo­cal Organizer, Manager of Branch 36, is in charge of the District Office from Monday to Friday from 3 to 4:30 P.M. and on Sat­urday from noon to 4:30 P.M. Officers in charge during even­ing hours: Tuesday, from 7 to 9 P.M., Benyo, Manager of Branch Paul ; 511. Í Wednesday, from 7 to 9 P.M. Ri­chard Phillips director Manager of Branch 356. Friday from 7 to 9 P.M., Jo­seph Szabó, Manager of Branch 443. Mrs. Jolán Lucas, Manager of Branch 429, and District Man­ager Nicholas Takacs will sub­stitute for officers who, for some reason or other, are unable to be present at the hours designat­ed to them. fillers to the 687.30 sent by us, 33 families, with 72 children, were presented with 10—10 fo­rints for each child. The candy — something the poor children didn’t have for years, writes Mr. Acs, will be sent to the same children immediately upon arrival. Naturally, he is as sorry as we are that plans had to be chang­ed in this manner, but it is a great comfort to know' that the children had not been deprived of Christmas cheer . . . Already we have received a letter from Mrs Zsigmond Zsitt­­nyai, of Liliom u 31, III., 19, Budapest IX., thanking us for the 30 forints received by her children. She writes: “I send my warmest greetings to all -of you who, living in the New World, have remained brothers and sis­ters of the Hungarian people. Our country’s future is the fu­ture of our children and, there­fore, we live and work for the sole purpose of making their common destiny a worthwhile one . . .” And that gives me the thought, dear Mrs. Zsitt­­nyai . . . wouldn’t it be time for all of us here to think of OUR COUNTRY in terms of OUR CHILDREN’S FUTURE? Fraternally yours, Midge. The fellow-members of the lo­cal branches are requested to pay dues and attend to all other official matters only during the above hours as no authorized of­ficers will be present at other times. It will be a great help if the fellow-members effect the payment of dues during hours when the managers of their own resp. branches are in charge of the District Office, however, those unable to call at such times, will be gladly served i y any of the officers authorized to conduct the business of the As­sociation at the District Office. The cooperation of the Detroit membership will be sincerely ap­preciated. 3 HE MANAGERS of branches - 36, 356, 429, 443 and 511, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. Branch 52. Notice is served to the mem­bers of Branch 52 and all in­terested fellow-members that I have moved. In the future, please contact me at my new address: 370 Delevan St., New Bruns­wick, New Jersey, telephone NB 2-9529-W. Mailing address: PO Box 445, New Brunswick, N. J. ADAM SIMON JR., Manager,

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