Verhovayak Lapja, 1950 (33. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1950 / Verhovay Journal
PAGE 8 NEWS d From The Field (Continued from page 6) that a serious duty falls on the, members to be present at this meetin«;. JOSEPH KANTOROM anager. GRANITE CITY, ILL. Branch 187 ANNOUNCEMENT Brauch 187 will hold its year end meeting on December 10, 1950, at 2:00 P.M., in the Magyar Home. Elections will be held to choose branch officers for 1951 and delegates to the Convention next year. The members are urged to turn out in full attendance at this most important meeting of the year. MOSES CSÖMÖR, Manager. McKeesport, pa Brauch 220 ANNOUNCEMENT Branch 226 will hold its final meeting of the year on Sunday, December 10, 1950 at I p.m. in the regular meeting place, 209 Market Street, 2nd floor. Elections will take place and preliminaries to the coming Convention discussed. The members are advised to be present at this most important meeting of the year. Frank Debreczeni, President. Ernest Fazekas, Manager. KENT, PA. Branch 247 ANNOUNCEMENT The next regular meeting of Br. 247 will be held at Clune, Pa. on December 3, 1950. The members are asked to make an earnest effort to attend this meeting. ANDREW YUHASZ, Manager. JOHNSTON CITY, ILLINOIS Branch 340 ANNOUNCEMENT The members of this branch are strongly urged to attend the regular monthly meeting to be held in December. Many important matters are to be discussed and decided on. The By- Laws must be reviewed for poásiblo modifacations, elections held for district delegates and other matters pertinent to the Convention. The members are asked to pay their dues to date, and especially to make payments ou loans. BELA KOVÁCS, Manager. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Branch 342 ANNOUNCEMENT All members are requested to attend the year end meeting which will be held on December 11, 1950, Monday at 8 p.m. at Lachman Hall, 4122 West Lake Street. The annual election of branch officers and delegates to the District Sessions will take place. Other important matters pertaining to the Convention will be acted upon. This meeting the membership will have an opportunity to meet the new district manager, Mr. Frank Nemeth, who was recently appointed head of the new district made up of Branches 164, 342 and 503. Members áré requested to pay monthly dues and loan payments to Mr. Nemeth whose home address is 2910 N. Major Avenue, Chicago 34, Illinois. All matters pertaining to sick benefits, death benefits and other insurance prob-Jems should be referred to Mr. Nemeth. ANTON LACHMAN, Secretary. PERRYOPOLIS, PA. Branch 389 ANNOUNCEMENT The attention of the members of ; this branch is called to the very important meeting which will be held on December 17, 1950. At this meeting the activities and | business of the year will be reviewed, and preparations must be made for the Convention next year. From this it can be readily seen that a large I attendance at the meeting is not only desirable but necessary for the best | interests of the branch. Members are also requested not to be delinquent in their dues. The monthly dues should be paid before i the 25th of the month so that all1 the dues may be sent to the Home Office on time. .JOSEPH DOMONKOS, Manager. DETROIT, MICH. Branch J43 ANNIVERSARY As announced previously tentative plans had been made for the celebration of the 15th anniversary of the organization of Branch 443. Due to the fact, however, that reservations have not been made in sufficient number to guarantee the success of a banquet, the plans have been cancelled and the 15th anniversary of the branch will be observed at the annual meeting of Branch 443, to be held on December 3rd, 1950. AH members are urged to attend this meeting and thereby express their appreciation of the services of all ! those officers and members who had been instrumental in the advancement of our branch as well as that of the Association. The least these ambitious., and . devoted., fellowmembers deserve (hat a word of thanks be given them, on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of J the branch, in recognition of their contributions to the growth of the Vcrhovav. I sincerely hope that every member of Branch 443 will consider it an obligation to attend our anniversary meeting on December 3rd. JOSEPH, SZABÓ, Mgr. w NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J. Branch 518 ANNOUNCEMENT The regular December Branch Meeting will be held on December 17, 1950, Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, at the A'eteran Center.N This meeting will be very important because branch officers and delegates to the District Sessions will j be elected. Also it will be necessary j to act upon the proposed By-Law modifications. A full attendance is urged to make this meeting a complete success. MICHAEL PUSKAS, Manager. South Bend Member Elected President Judge John S. Gonas, member of Branch 132, received high honors at the Indiana Fraternal Congress annual convention held at Indianapolis. He was elected president, succeeding F. J. Leibold, Maccabees, Indianapolis. Judge Gonas has been an active fraternalist for many years, holding membership in several fraternal societies. The Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association can rightfully be proud of this illustrious fraternal brother. It is our wish that the j Indiana Fraternal Congress have a { successful »year under the capable leadership of Judge Gonas. Journal November 15, 1$50 Important Notice to the Members DEAR MEMBERS: The elections at the branches will take place in December. This yeswf not < nly will the branch officers be elected but also delegates to the District Sessions. The time is at hand for us to give serious consideration to the matters we wish to'suhmit to the National Convention. Consequently through our Off'tial Publication I wish to call the attention of all members to these matters. We all know that a new law was passed which kt practice wrill make it compulsory for all those who at present belong or who belonged in the past to an anti-American subversive organization to register with the government authorities. W hen the elections take place we should lake heed ol this new law. I do r.ot believe there would be any who would fall wilhia the interpretation of this law. However, it still would be to our best interests if we would elect only those whose past we know and who would be above any suspicion. My suggestion is that when (he By-Laws modifications are considered provision should be made that only those he admitted as members, and only those he elected to. any position in our Association, who declare that they do not belong, and never belonged, to any anti-American subversive organization, and have always respected the Constitution of The United States of America. There can be no place within our organization for anyone whom this new law« would touch. I further request my fellow members to he very careful who is elected District Delegate. Please elect only those who seriously and sincerely have the interests of the Association at heart. Elect those who will work conscientiously, iho.se who can not be influenced, and those who will stay ©n the straight and narrow path and will not fall prey to cunning speech or threats. In conclusion I speak to those w ho will be elected at the District Sessions as delegates to the National Convention. I request that these fellow members, to, the best uf their abilities, seriously work to bring into effect laws that will he in (he best interests of the Association. Particularly pay attention to the business of soliciting new members, because the solicitation of new members is the basis of the Association's successful future. More and more new members v ill assure our growth, something which every member rightfully expects. the hope that my request and notice will not foil on deaf ears but rather will meet with understanding from all, I remain, Fraternally and respectfully, JOSEPH SZABÓ, Branch Manager Branch 443, Detroit, Michigan — The Common Council lor American Unity helps "later” Americans spike hostile propaganda. — Each year, the 35,000,000 first- and second-generation Americans write some 250 million letters to relatives and friends abroad. To the Comon Council for American Unity (New York) this flood of mail looked like a perfect channel to help give people abroad a clearer, better understanding of the U.S. and its people. So the Council is conducting a “Letters From America” campaign via 182 U.S. foreign-language newspapers, 186 participating foreign language radio programs "hnd 44 nationwide nationality organizations. The combined audiencq has been estimated at more than 8,000,000. The non-profit Common Council supported by foundation grants and contributions from corporations, civic groups, labor unions and individuals, has been working more than 30 years to promote the integration of immigrants and their children into U.S. life. The letters campaign began five months ago following a lenghty survey of European beliefs regarding the U.S., conducted by the council under the direction of associate director Henry Lee Munson, with the advice and cooperation of Elmo Roper. THE PITCH Each week, the council sends out a column, translated into 22 languages, suggesting how the “later” American letter-writer can use his own personal experiences to spread the truth about some aspect of U.S. life, “more convincingly, p'erhaps, than formal speeches or propaganda.” To keep them timely, June graduations and weddings, two-week summer vacations and .Independence and Labor Day have provided pegs for these columns and, naturally, for the let - ■ iters they hope, to prompt. At the request of the U.S.’ United Nations delegation, current columns urge writers to help combat the “success” of the Stockholm Peace Petition and Russian delegate Malik’s UN carryings-on. Special articles, in addition to the regular weekly columns, have been contributed by Bernard M. Baruch, Mrs, J. L. Blair Buck, James B. Carey, Norman Cousins, Gen. S George Marshall, Judge Robert P. Patterson and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. Since the Korean explosion, the i council has turned to Chinese news! vapers, read largely, in New York and San Francisco, to start letters pouring into the Fox' East in an effort to combat Communist propaganda in that part of the world. Among the misconceptions of the U.S. most harmful to world opinion which the council campaign hopes to contradict: American foreign policy is i too changeable; most Americans are j ,too materialistic; Big Business or Wall Street controls U.S. policy; most, j Americans are guilty of persecuting the Negro; Americans are uncultured.
