Verhovayak Lapja, 1947 (30. évfolyam, 1-24. szám)
1947 / Verhovay Journal
December 31, 1947 Verhovay Journal PAGE 9 NEWS From The Field (Continued from page 8) Ninth St., North Pelham, 65, N. Y., District Manager: Joseph Toma, 205 East 85 St., New York 28, N. Y. Meetings are held on the second Friday of each month at Forester’s Rendezvous, 146 East 81th St., New f ork City. JOSEPH TOMA, District Mgr. CHICAGO, ILL. Branch 96 VALENTINE DANCE Everybody is invited to the An- j nual Valentine-Dance of Branch 96, j to be held on Saturday, February | 7th, beginning at 8 P.M., at the Schitz Hall, 15 9th and Morgan Streets. Admission 75 cents. Food and refreshments will be served. Music will be furnished by the Kovács and Suto orchestra. GEORGE SHAMEL, Manager. GARY, IND. Branch 138 ELECTION REPORT The following officers have been elected at the annual meeting of Branch 138: President Andrew Ban, 1126 Ellsworth St., vice-president Louis Verbich Sr., 1137 Pierce St., recording secretary Charles Bodnar, sick visitor John Toth, auditor John Beres Sr., and Maynard Halaschak, Manager Julius J. Danch, 1161 Pierce St. Chairman of the Bowling Committee: Maynard Halaschak. JULIUS J. DANCH. Manager. ELWOOD CITY, PA. Branch 141 ELECTION NOTICE ' { AH members of Branch 141 are requested to attend the monthly meeting to be held on the second Sunday of January in the Ellwood City Hungarian Home. The officers of the branch will be elected at that time and, also, the dividends will be paid to the members who have not yet received them. We extend our best wishes for a happy New Year to all of our fellowmembers. JOHN BOKOR, President, JOHN MONDELL, Manager. SCHANTON, PA. Branch 174 ELECTION RESULTS The following are the officers elected at the annual meeting of Branch 174, Scranton, Pa., on December 7th, 1947: President John I. Nemeth; ' District Manager Joseph Cibolya; auditors Joseph Fuzi and Ignacz Hajner; sick visitors Joseph Kish in Scranton, Frank Sipos in North Scranton, John Nemeth in Dunmore, Louis Kovács in Throop, Joseph Cibolya in Dickonson. The elected officers pledged their wholehearted cooperation with the plans adopted by the National Convention and their willingness to do their part, in the advancement of the Association with a view of attaining a membership of 75,000 for the next Convention, under the able leadership of our National President. JOSEPH CIBOLYA, District Mgr. ST. LOUIS, MO. Branch 209 ANNUAL MEETING The Annual Meeting of Branch 209 will be held on January 11th, beginning at 2 o’clock, when the reports of the officers will be presented to the membership and the officers will be elected for the following term. All members are urged to attend this important meeting. MASKED BALL A masked ball, for the benefit of the Hungarian Orphan’s Fund of Branch 209 will be held on Saturday, January 17th, at the St. Louis Hungarian Home. All members and friends of the Verhovay in St. Louis and vicinity are cordially invited. NICHOLAS LABANICS, President. CHARLES SCHAFNITZ, Manager. LYNCH, KY. Branch 310 ANNUAL MEETING All members of Branch 310 are requested to attend at least this one meeting of the year which will be held on Sunday, January 4th, beginning at 2 P.51., for the election of the officers. The meeting will be held at the home of the Branch Manager. Please, attend! ANDY ANDER, Manager. CLEVELAND, O. Branch 361 4MD04VS’ DANCE The customary annual Widows’ Dance will be held on Saturday, January 10th, in the evening, at the Verhovay Home. Music will be furnished by the Szabadkai orchestra. Food and refreshments will be served. Everybody is invited! MRS. EMERY GAL, Manager. DETROIT, MICH. Branch 443 ELECTION REPORT ■ The following officers were elected by the members of Branch 443 at their annual meeting on December 7th. 1947: President Michael Burdohan; vice-president Stephen Szalai; Manager Joseph Szabó, 9089 Lyon St.; recording secretary I Charles Berghoffer; Comptroller Stephen Nagy; sick visitor Joseph Trimai; auditors Daniel Rob, Mrs. Stephen Orris and Coloman Vizsi. At this time I wish to call the attention of my fellow-members to the following: all those eligible to receive dividends may call for them at the district office on any Friday evening between 7 and 9, or at the next meeting on January 4th. Also, I would like to request my fellowmembers to pay their dues on time as our records m.ust be closed at a certain date each month. Hoping for the cooperation of my fellowmembers and extending my best wishes for a happy New Y’ear to all, I am Fraternally JOSEPH SZABÓ, Manager. A man attains in the measure that he aspires. His longing to be is the gauge of what he can be. To fix the mind is to foreordain the achievement.—(James Allen.) TO THE CONTRIBUTORS The next issue of the Journal will be published on Wednesday, January 14th. Contributions for that issue should be in not later than January 7th, Wednesday. Contributions should be typewritten, on one side of the paper only, double spaced, and not exceed 1,200 words, .or 6,000 letters. Address contributions to VERHOVAY JOURNAL, ENGLISH SECTION, 436 Fourth Ave., Pittsburgh 19, Pa. i i VERHOVAY MINERS HONOR WAR DEAD IN LOGAN, W. VA. — Portraits of Alexander Disco and Louis Ivan Presented by National Secretary. — “We have come home. Because whenever we are among Verhovay miners, we are at home.” — said National Secretary Coloman Revesz in his memorial address, paying tribute to the founders of the Association and to those many thousands of miners who as members of the Verhovay have faithfully carried on in the same spirit. There is a rare beauty in the spiritual oneness of the memberships of Verhovay’s mining branches, which was revealed in its fullness at the memorial ceremonies held on Sunday, December 14th, at the Italian Hall in Logan, W. Va., where a great crowd assembled to pay tribute to the two members of Branch 248 who had made the supreme sacrifice in World 5Var II. Andrew Wagner, President of Branch 248, welcomed the audience and introduced his charming daughter, Miss Bette Wagner, as the announcer. The National Anthem was sung, followed by the invocation offered by the Rev. W. J. B. Livingston, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Logan. The choir of Branch 248, conducted by Miss Mary Lou Wagner, sang “Rock of Ages” and, then, John Sabo, National Auditor, was called upon to speak. “The sacrifices of the war”, said Mr. Sabo, “will not have been made in vain only if we persist in our determination to accomplish the purpose of the war for all people, even for the defeated nations. This war was fought for Freedom — freedom from fear, from oppression, from want — and thought the war had been victoriously concluded, this freedom has not yet been attained. The struggle against injustice, oppression must continue and, at the same time, we must be ready to make further sacrifices in order to save the needy people of the world from starvation. This is our duty especially in regards to the nation from which vr descended . . .” Edward Eiland, Commander of the American Legion West Logan Post was the next speaker. Paying tribute to the fallen heroes of Branch 248, he said: “When these men went into battle, they did not obey only the commands of their officers. They were driven by a forceful conviction that injustice must be defeated and replaced with justice.” “Nearer my God to Thee”, was the next selection of the Branch 248 choir, which was followed by Andrew Dobos, retiring director of the Association, who attended as a special guest of Branch 248. After paying tribute to the heroes of the Verhovay and extending expressions of sincere sympathy to the bereaved families, he, bade farewell to his many friends and fellow-members in the southern 5Vest Virginia coal fields. “Wherever life may take me,” he said, “my heart will always remain here with you, the miners of the Verhovay . . .” Appropriate selections by the Veres Brothers’ orchestra followed, and, then, Andy Wagner Jr., sang the “Lord’s Prayer.” The Rev. Father Joseph Norton, pastor of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church, was the principal speaker whose memorial address made deep impression on the responsive audience. He said: “These young men have not died in vain. The great purpose for which they were called upon to make the supreme sacrifice, will be attained. It is only fitting, therefore, that their parents shall bear proudly, rather than with sorrow, the cross of their bereave-V ment.” Speaking of the purpose of the last war, he stated: “There can be no peace on earth, unless men will strive to live in peace and understanding with one another. How can there be peace between nations if there is no peace between brothers and sisters, between families and neighbours? World-wide peace can be the outgrowth only of peaceful living on a smaller scale by each individual in all his relations with his fellow-men. This, however, can be accomplished only by yielding to the Will of God and by living up to the teachings of our Savior.” The presentation of the portraits was made by National Secretary Coloman Revesz. “We have come home to you”, he said, “and with us came two of your beloved sons and féllow-members, Alexander Disco and Louis Ivan. Their spirits are with us now in this solemn hour in which I am to present their portraits to their fathers and mothers, as tokens of the sympathy and gratitude of all Verhovayans. These heroes had played no lesser role in the history of human freedom, than had been played by Col. Kovats, the great hero of Washington’s army, or the many others who had followed his footsteps in the War Between the States and all subsequent wars of our nation. They have paid with their lives for the liberty which we enjoy and which it is our duty to preserve to the utmost measure of devotion. They have kept faith with the noblest traditions of both, the Hungarian and American people, and, like they, we, too shall keep faith with those ideals of liberty which have filled the hearts of Hungarians for thousand years..” Deeply moved, the audience arose as Mr. Revesz unveiled the portrait of Alexander Disco, who was killed in action on June 18th, 1944, at Saipan, and of Louis Ivan, who was killed in action on July 3rd, 1944, in France. Taps were sounded, followed by the benediction spoken by the Rev. Father Norton and, then, the memorial program concluded with the singing of the Hungarian National Anthem. — In addition to those appearing on the program, the memorial ceremonies were attended by Mr. Andrew Fay Fisher of Pittsburgh, Pa., editor of the Hungarian Miners’ Journal, Gabor Farkas, Secretary of Branch 87, Passaic, N. J., Joseph Bokkon, President, and Alex Tarsoly Manager of Branch 350, Holden, W. Va., Mi’s. Stephen Szepessy, secretary of Branch 373 of the American Sick Benefit Association and Mr. Steve Bozsika, Secretary of Branch 98 of the Rákóczi Aid Association. Joseph Bokkon and Alex Tarsoly, the two officers of Blanch 350, and the parents of Louis Ivan donated the flowers. Helen Bency, Barbara Ann Schwab, Mary Lou Wagner, Andy Wagner Jr., Lucy Ruiz, Johnny Ruiz are the members and Sophie Bushkar the piano accompanist of the Branch 248 Choir whose selections added color to the impressive ceremonies. Following the program a dinner was served to the out-of-town guests by Mrs. Wagner, Mrs. John Vizi and the Misses Mary Lou and Betty Lou Wagner. Branch-president Wagner, Manager John Vizi and the members of Branch 248 outdid themselves in hospitality and friendliness as well as in giving a fine demonstration of the noblest fraternal sentiments on the occasion of this memorable event.
