Verhovayak Lapja, 1953 (36. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1953 / Verhovay Journal
P AGE 4 Verhovay Verhovay Journal. Journal of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Ass’n. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION 79U7 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Mich. PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association Managing Editor: JOHN BENCZE Editor: JOHN SABO Editor’s Office: <56—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. Telephone: COurt 1-5454 or 1-5455 AU articles and changes of address should be sent to the VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASSOCIATION 436—442 FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: United States and Canada ........................ Foreign Countries ...............—, ___ tl.00 a year ....... $1.50 a year Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan under the Act of March 8, 1879. A RIDDLE What Can You Give Away, Rut Still Have? The answer is BLOOD! You can donate a pint to the National Blood Program but still have alL-your blood ... because your body makes more io take its place. It’s just that simple. As an average healthy persons, you have 12 to 13 pints of blood. Your blood is constantly being replenished. The removal of a pint calls for no special effort on the body’s part. The liquid part is replaced almost immediately, the cells and minerals after a few days. Donating a pint of blood is comparable to an afternoon’s exercise. A person in good health can do either safely. So, you can give . . . again and again .. . actually to gain back every drop. When you donate a pint of blood, the only feeling you have is one of satisfaction in helping someone live. A few minutes of your time may mean a lifetime to someone else. To meet the Nation’s need for whole blood and derivatives, the National Blood Program must receive the voluntary donation of over 5,000,600 pints this year. To Federal Civil Defense for building reserves of serum albumin, to accident victims in need of whole blood transfusions, to wounded service men in need of shock units of serum albumin, and to children exposed to polio in need of the blood derivative Gamma Globulin, YOUR BLOOD IS VITAL. Your donation means so much and costs you absolutely nothing. Y^our blood'spells life and health to so many without your really losing a thing. Call your local Ret! Cross, Community or Armed Forces Blood Donor Center today and schedule 1 OUR donation of blood. N. F. C. Blood Donor Program Organized and Operating It is logic, and good sense after Fraternal Benefit Societies have contributed funds to buy Bloodmobiles for the Red Cross to enlist their members as blood donors. Those who are familiar with Red Cross work know that is is difficult to get gifts of blood, not because of individuals’ reluctance but because it takes a widespread organization mostly of volunteers to bring the blood donors and the facilities of the Red Cross Chapters together. With millions of people belonging to local lodges of the 306 Societies of the National Fraternal Congress, the potential number of members which could be used as an objective for prospects for giving blood is over eight million. The National Fraternal Congress Fraternal Week Committee has been working steadily and has much cooperation to report. The plan adopted to reach the local lodges is to act through the Home Office of each Fraternal Society participating in the plan. The Office of Defense Mobilization together with the National Blood Program, the Red Cross and the Civilian Defense will reproduce a letter from the President of any Society, a letter from the O.D.M., a Fact Sheet giving the details of the cooperation between the local lodges of various Societies änd the Chapters of the American Red Cro^s, and a circular descriptive of the Blood Program. All a society has to do is to receive the large envelopes from the National Blood Program and addressograph the names of the local lodge Secretaries or collectors of premiums and return them to Washington when they will be mailed with the information stated above. The Chairman of the Fra; ternal Week Committee, Vice! President Frank Mallett of the Journal Protected Home Circle of Sharon, Pa., reports that up to April 21st thirty-one Societies have agreed to cooperate in the plan. These Societies have a total membership of over 3.058,000 and the number of lodges represented by these thirty-one Societies is 27,141. Some Societies already have in operation or in the planningstage Blood Donor campaigns of their own. These Societies, however, will report totals of blood donors when the National Fraternal Congress report is made before Flag Day, June 14th. This early report shows a very encouraging response and brings the project to a size which makes a worthwhile contribution from the Fraternal Society members to the National Blood Program. It is hoped and believed that more Societies will participate in this wonderful opportunity for the Societies to do their part in this important work. After the mailing of the letters and literature from the headquarters of the American Red Cross, the next step will be the organization in each local lodge of a special Blood Donor Pledge committee, or to act through the officers of the local Chapter of the American Red Cross to secure Blood Donor pledge cards for the Fraternal Society members to sign. It v/ill then be the function of the Red Cross Chapters to schedule them with the facilities for taking the blood. All pledges from groups of members in various Societies for donations of blood in 1953 are to be counted in the campaign and a report is to be made to the Chairman of the committee, /Mr. Mallett, in time for an announcement on Flag Day, June 14th. The campaign, however, will continue until the total membership has had an opportunity to make a pledge of blood. Pittsburgh Magyar Group Celebrates 35th Anniversary The 35th anniversary of the founding of the American Hungarian Social Association (Pittsburghi Magyar Társaskör) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was jubilantly observed by Pittsburgh area Hungarians and their friends in the Pittsburgh Hungarian Home, 120 Flowers .Avenue, Saturday, April 18, 1953. The home, owned and operated by the American Hungarian Social Association, was beautifully decorated for the ceremonies and banquet which began at 6 o’clock that evening in the large auditorium. The orderliness of the entire program is a compliment to the careful preparations the committee made for the success of the event, and the delicious supper and the prompt table service are long to be remembered to the credit of the ladies who took part in that phase of the occasion. Notable gueste were the Honorable David L. Lawrence, Mayor of Pittsburgh, who forewent a program in Youngstown, Ohio for W. Overall Ilarriman, the former Mutual Security Director, in order to be present at the Pittsburgh Hungarian affair; Coloman Revesz, Verhovay National Secretary, who spoke eloquently on the ties between the American Hungarian Social Association and the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association, and begged for continuance of the harmony existing between the two societies, .stressing ihe multiple advantages of close cooperation and good will; Henry Gross, Pittsburgh Verhovay Direct or; Gaspar Papp, Detroit, Michigan, and Andrew Bandy, Depew, New York, Chairman and Member, respectively, of the Verhovay Auditing- Committee, who by coincidence were in Pittsburgh conducting the semiannual Home Office audit w-ith the third member of the Auditing Committee. Mention should he made of Branch 34, Hazelwood Pittsburgh, for the large part it played in the successful growth of the Pittsburgh Hungarian Social Association We congratulate the Pittsburgh Hungarian Social Association oh its 35th anniversary and we wish the group much success in the future. May 20, 1953 News of Joseph D a r a g o ’ a death received after dateline— .story to follow in next issue. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE VERHOVAY FRATERNAL INSURANCE ASS’N. announces with profound sorrow the death of JOSEPH DARAGO ACKNOWLEDGED MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATION, for many years, the Supreme President of the Association. on May 11, 1953. The Board of Directors, paying final tribute to the memory of our Acknowledged Fellow Member, conveys on behalf of the membership of the Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association its deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.
