Verhovayak Lapja, 1951 (34. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1951 / Verhovay Journal
Verhovay Journal July 18, 1951 MINUTES OF THE DISTRICT MEETINGS (Continued from page 4) to become delegates to the National, Convention, who are members of thei Sick Benefit department. All of the 52 members present voted in favor of this stand. Valentine Konyha, Jr., was elected delegate to the National Convention and Stephen Ruman alternate delegate. The district meeting instructed the elected delegate to attend to his! duties in the spirit of progress, keeping the best interests of the Association before his eyes at all times. MICHAEL FAZEKAS, District President, GABRIEL NAGY, District Secretary. DISTRICT 17 Sharon, Pa. Minutes taken at the regular meeting of District 17, held on June 17, 1951, in the Hungarian Hall of Sharon, Pa. Frank Molnár, District Secretary, calls' the meeting to order at 10:30, cordially welcoming the delegates present, including Joseph Bumbulucz, President of Branch 171, who also extends warm greetings to thei assembled representatives. John Bumbulucz, manager of the Hungarian Hall, also welcomes the assembled delegates. Secretary Molnár announces that due to the resignation of Thomas; Kuti, District President, it becomes necessary to elect a new District President. John Bumbulucz and John Bokor are nominated. John Bumbulucz retires from the nomination and John Bokor is unanimously elected District President. Roll call is ordered by the chairman. It is found that of the 13 branches assigned to the district, 9 are represented by the following 11 delegates: Stephen Dobozy and Paul Hanzley, from Branch 26, Michael Zoltani from Branch 66, Frank Safran from Branch 106, John Bokor from Branch 141, John Bumbulucz and Joseph Bumbulucz from Branch 171, James Sera from Branch 189, Stephen Varga from Branch 338, John Agardy from Branch 438 and Frank J. Molnár, Sr., from Branch 514. Branches 142, 146, 180 and 467 were not represented. District Secretary reads the minutes of the last meeting to which the only objection is that the name of Louis Murányi has been omitted. After this correction, the minutes are adopted and approved. The election of the district secretary follows. The motion of Pauli Hanzley that Frank Molnár be retained as Secretary, is unanimously adopted. The District President and Secretary express their thanks to the delegates for the confidence placed in them and they urge the representatives to cooperate in view of the importance of the meeting. Director Joseph Turner appears before the District Meeting and extends his greetings and best wishes to the delegates. Stephen Dobozi puts a question to director Turner in regards to the work of the Board of Directors, to which director Turner replies to the! satisfaction of the meeting. John Agardy moves that deliberations on the proposed amendments to the By-Laws be eliminated as unnecessary in view of the fact that they have been approved by the branches. The motion is seconded by delegate' Dobozi, but representative Hanzley wishes that the proposals be discussed. James Sera and secretary Frank Molnár read the proposed amendments item by item, which, with ai few exceptions, are approved. The. proposed amendments to paragraph 4 on page 33 and section 11 on page 50 (membership certificates in force for two years) are opposed. Following the fifth paragraph on page 57 the delegates wish to insert an amendment allowing dividends to all members. They also wish to retain without any change the fifth paragraph on page 100. John Agardy moves that childbirth benefits be awarded only if the parents promise to enter the child in the Association. Dobozi moves that Paid-Up Certificates be issued at age 75 rather than at age 85 to those who have been members of the Association for 30 years. The motion is carried. John Agardy moves that all representatives shall be entitled to per diem fees and travelling expenses. The motion is carried. James Sera; moves that the district meeting adopt1 the recommendation of the Board of Directors to reduce the number of directors from thirteen to nine. The motion is carried. Stephen Dobozi moves that in case of injury sick benefits shall be payable from the first! day of disability. James Sera seconds the motion which is carried. James Sera moves that the directors be elected not according to districts. The motion is carried. James Sera moves that English and Hungarian directors be not separately elected. The motion is seconded by John Agardy. The following are elected delegates to the National Convention: 1.) Frank J. Molnár, Sr., from Branch 514, 2.) John Bumbulucz from Branch 171, 3. ) John Bokor from Branch 141 and 4. ) James Sera from Branch 189. Alternates: 1.) Stephen Varga from Branch 338, 2.) John Agardy from Branch 438 and 3.) Stephen Dobozi from Branch 26. There being no further business, President John Bokor adjourns , the meeting at 4:30 p.m. He .announces that the next District meeting will; again be held in Sharon, Pa. JOHN BOKOR, District President, FRANK J. MOLNÁR, District Secretary. DISTRICT 20 Canton, O. Minutes taken at the meeting of District 20, held on June 10, 1951, in Canton, O. Present are seven delegates, two from Branch 91 and one each from branches 47, 63, 64, 418 and 533. District President AVm. Takács welcomes the assembled delegates and calls the meeting to order. 1.) The delegates present their credentials which are found in order by the District Secretary. 2.) The minutes of the meeting held four years ago are read by the District Secretary and approved by the meeting.. 3.) William Takacs is elected District President and John Szász District Secretary for the following four year term. 4.) The reports brought from the branches are discussed. District 20 discusses the excerpts of minutes distributed for a vote in December, 1950, and because the Hungarian excerpt was not considered legally valid due to its form lacking in good faith, said excerpt is declared objectionable by District 20. In the legal sense, this document was not properly executed, because the ‘yes’ as well as the ‘no’ should have appeared thereon. If at least it would have been executed like the English excerpt, but this way the procedure: was deemed improper. 5.) District 20 deems it improper that some individuals derive income from two and even three sources during the Convention. For instance, there was a press representative who represented two papers and received the honorarium for both papers. Also, there has been a delegate who was representative of a newspaper at the same time. District 20 requests the National Convention to make provisions for the sake of economy, that such occurrences be not repeated. 6.) In reference to the proposed change of the name ‘Verhovay,’ District 20 favors the retaining of the old name. First because such change involves large expenditures arising from the cost of changing the name on charters and bonds. Second, because when the Hungarians disappear, the three large Hungarian national societies will have to merge sooner or later and at that time the three large societies can jointly assume a good designation. 7.) District 20 does not approve of the recommendation of the Board of Directors in regards to the exclusion from official positions of subversive elements. This position is taken on the ground that if they are good enough to be admitted to membership, they shall be good enough also for holding office. 8.) Nor does the district approve of the recommendation that every member holding a $509 membership certificate, shall be eligible to become delegate, a national officer or any kind of officer, even if he is not a member of the sick benefit department. This provision should remain unchanged. 9.) District 20 requests the Convention not to allow the Board of Directors more rights than those held by the National Convention. The Board of Directors shall have no right to change whatever the National Convention has decided, as it happened in the case of the Verhovay Journal. 10.) District 20 opposes the plan of having the Home Office place secretaries and managers in the branches. Let thei branches retain their right to elect the seeretary-manager. The Home Office shall appoint a.wt place the organizers, but it shall not deprive the branches of their rights. 11.) The meeting thoroughly diseussed the matter of dividends. Why can other societies, without exception, pay dividends to every member? But the . Verhovay pays dividends in a discriminatory manner. We request that; either everyone who has been a member long enough shall be paid dividends, or no one should receive any, because this causes a great deal of embarrr ssment in the branches. 12.) The National Convention shall find a wav to create a fund for helping the disabled, aged members, who have been members for at least 30 years, in paying their dues. 13.) We request the National Convention to restore the Hungarian Journal to at least semi-monthly appearance because our aged members are always awaiting it and they like to read the paper. 14.) The above resolutions, having been carefully and with a clear conscience weighed and discussed, are unanimously adopted by the meeting. The delegates to the National Convention are urged to conscientiously weigh them, also, at the time of the convention. 15.) The delegates to the National Convention are elected. William Takacs is elected delegate and John Mazalin alternate. There being no further business, President William Takacs expressed his thanks to the delegates for their participation and sincere devotion and adjourns the meeting. JOHN SZÁSZ, District Secretary. DISTRICT 23 Cincinnati, O. Minutes taken at the regular meeting of District 23 of the VFIA held on June 3, 1951, in Cincinnati, O. Present are: Frank Swarzkop, representative of Branch 344, Richmond, Ind., District Secretary Stephen Botos of Branch 192, Middletown, O., John P. Kelemen, Andrew Hankoczky and Leslie Veszi of Branch 249, Dayton, O., John Palotas Of Branch 114, Cincinnati, O., Michael Sneer of Branch * 230, Terre Haute, Ind., Mrs. Alfred Bruder of Branch 69, Indianapolis, I Ind., John Bakos, of Branch 236, Newark, O., Michael Csapó of Branch 570, Newark, O., and Andrew Varga, of Branch 186, Congo, O. The District Secretary finds that all of the delegates appeared with properly executed credentials and that they are to be considered accredited representatives. Delegate Frank Swarzkopf, former District President, calls the meeting to order and announces that following the examination of the credentials, the first item of business is the reorganization of the District meeting and the election of its officers. Immediately and unanimously the meeting elects John P. Kelemen District' President and Stephen Botos District Secretary. John P. Kelemen assumes the chair and after a brief greeting requests that a schedule of business be agreed upon. It is agreed, that first the amendments to the By- Laws proposed by the Board of Directors be discussed item by item in such manner that at each item the comments and possible recommendations of the branches be heard. The amendments to the By-Laws proposed by the Board of Directors are approved up to the third paragraph on page 7, after which the District recommends the following amendment: “Only members who have been elected to these offices by the membership, are eligible to become delegates to the District Meeting and the National Convention.” The fifth paragraph on page 8 shall be amended as follows: “The Chairman of the Convention shall be elected by the Convention. The National President also is eligible to become permanent chairman of the Convention.” Provision a.) on pages 10-11 shall he amended to the effect that amendments to the Constitution and By- Laws shall take effect only if they have been approved by the District1 Sessions and the membership of the' branches. The district recommends that the provisions in the third paragraph on page 14 be retained without any change whatsoever. Similarly, the district recommends the retaining of the provision in the third paragraph on page 33 without any change. The provision in the following paragraph on page 33 shall be amended to the effect that a branch manager can be appointed only upon recommendation and approval by the branch. The first paragraph on page 81 shall remain unchanged. The district also is unanimously m favor of retaining without any change whatsoever the following paragraph on page 81, as against the proposed amendment. The same action is taken in regards to the proposed amendments to the provisions in the second and fourth paragraph on page 82. The old provisions shall be retained in both places. In reference to the proposed change of name of the Association the district meeting resolves that suchchange is to be allowed if required by the interest of the Association. The district meeting recommends the introduction of a hospitalization insurance plan. The district meeting recommends that metnbers of the Board of Directors and the Auditing Committee shall be eligible for no more than two consecutive terms. The member of the Board of Directors or the Auditing Committee who has served for two consecutive terms, shall again be eligible after resting for one term. The district meeting instructs the elected delegates to the National Convention to request an investigation to determine what results are produced in membership increase by the Bowling Tournaments. The fifth paragraph on page 100 (Continued on page 6)
