William Penn, 1962 (45. évfolyam, 5-23. szám)

1962-04-18 / 8. szám

PAGE 4 April 18, 1962 William Penn Official Organ of the William Penn Fraternal Association OFFICE OF PUBLICATION RAPID PRINTING COMPANY 7907 West Jefferson Ave. Detroit 17, Michigan PUBLISHED SEMIMONTHLY BY THE William Penn Fraternal Association Managing Editor: JULIUS MACKER Editor’s Office: (36-442 -FOURTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 19, PA. Telephone: COurt 1-3454 or 1-3455 All articles and changes of address should be sent to the WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION (3€ 442 Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh 19, Pa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 'Jnlted States and Canada .....___________.______ $1.00 a year Foreign Countries __________________________ $1-50 a year Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Detroit, Michigan under the Act of March 3, 1879. THERE BUT FOR WILLIAM PENN . . . The soul of old Joseph B. Kutserka must now be eternally grateful to the WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSOCIATION which at the eleventh hour rescued his bódy from the scientific curiosity and study of learned men. William Penn love, better known as William Penn fraterna­­lism, united in a common cause various segments of our society to prevent the final ignominy of a man, a William Penn member, who faded into total obscurity many years ago. Thanks to the cooperative fraternal efforts, combined with the determination springing from sincerity, of Controller John Sabo, Secretary Albert J. Stelkovics, General Counsel Gay B. Banes, Julius Shadi, Manager of Branch 33, Maynard, Ohio, Columbus, Ohio Division Manager Louis Tokár, Mrs. Margaret Beres, secretary to Mr. Stelkovics, and others, the body of veteran 50 year member Kutserka reposes in a decent grave provided by the William Penn. The sad and tragic story of 75 year old Joseph B. Kutserka began many years ago, at least 45 years ago, when Kutserka, then a young man who had joined the Association June 25, 1911 at Branch 5 (now Branch 33), Maynard, Ohio, was committed to the Columbus State Hospital as a mental patient, remaining there until his death on March 14, 1962. As the years of Kutserka’s confinement went by — five, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty-five, thirty, thirty-five, forty, and finally forty-five — he became a forgotten man, last visited perhaps in 1921 or 1922, and in time no one knew him and he had no known relatives. He was only a name among the many thousands in our membership, and he was a member with whom the Branch and the Association had no active contact because of his Paid Up certificate. Time, which earlier had destroyed the mind of a young Kutserka, finally stilled his failing body on March 14. No one immediately claimed the remains of the man who lived to be three score and fifteen and spent more than half of his life as a patient in an institution. Then the poor member who had neither relatives nor friends was removed to the morgue of the Depart­ment of Anatomy, Ohio State University, and science was to benefit. But fate — and the WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSO­CIATION — intervened! Indirectly, and almost too late, word reached Julius Shadi, Manager of Branch 33, Maynard, Ohio that Joseph B. Kutserka, member of the branch, had died. At once Mr. Shadi, and his fellow Branch 33 officers, John Kovach, Pres­ident and Coloman Sabo, Vice President, contacted the Home Office and gave the essential facts. It was then that Controller Sabo, knowing that it might be too late, hurriedly and anxiously telephoned the Columbus State Hospital and, informed that the body was already at Ohio State University’s Department of Anatomy, rushed a call there — just in time! Mr. Sabo claimed the body in the name of our Association. From this point Secretary Stelkovics and his department began the necessary processing of papers, etc., with the prior legal approval of General Counsel Banes who in his professional opinion stated that Kutserka’s $500 Paid Up policy could be used for burial expenses, it being a natural certainty that the 75 year old decedent’s beneficiaries, his parents in Hungary, would not now be alive. Again Controller Sabo assumed the main responsibility. On March 22 he telephoned Division Manager Louis Tokár in Colum­bus, Ohio, requesting him and the membership of Branch 129 to arrange for the funeral services of Kutserka. Mr. Tokár fra­ternally agreed. On the morning of March 24, 1962, at 10 o’clock, an almost forgotten man, one 75 year old Joseph B. Kutserka, was given final religious rites in the Cook and Son Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Gyozo (Victor) Orth, minister of the Hungarian Reformed Church. Fellow William Penn members George Tokár, President, Louis Tokár, Division Manager, Benjamin Seckerson, Treasurer, Louis Miller and Louis Peterfy, all members of Branch 129, bore the remains to a place of rest in Obetz Cemetery. This is our true story of a hoplessly ill and obscure William Penn member whom the WILLIAM PENN FRATERNAL ASSO­CIATION buried honorably. We have a slogan which powerfully expresses our frater­­nalism: ......... “BUSINESS WITH A HEART” 0 REPRINT (Of Timely Interest to Our William Penn Bowlers) The New York Times BOWLING GROWTH CAUSES OPTIMISM Briton Predicts the Sport Is Destined for Olympics LONDON, March 10 (AP) — Will bowling ever be on the Olympic program? Ivor Cooper, an operator who is helping build the game in Britain, says it’s only a matter of time. “The first step is to start a national league here, with teams competing from all over Britain,” Cooper said. “That will automatically lead to the selection of a national team to represent England. “I forsee international matches between England and the continental European countries. The game is getting more and more popular on the Continent. To Late for Tokyo “The next step after that will be the Olympics. We’re too late to get in at Tokyo in 1964. Maybe we’ll make the 1968 games.” Cooper is a director of one of eight firms now operating alleys in Britain. They are springing up everywhere. An estimated $11,200,000 has been invested in bowling equipment since the sport first reached Britain two years ago. The promoters say another $5,600,000 will have been invested by the end of this year. One bowling company has appointed a team of full-time in­structors to teach Britons. No one in Britain has yet scored a perfect 300. George Lord, joint managing director of the firm, said: “We have offered a golf trophy for the first British player to do it, plus a free two-weeks holiday in the United States.” The first man to bowl 300 here will be sent to America and shown the alleys there — and see how Americans play the game. Offer Incentives Lord’s firm also is offering emblems to be worn on bowling­­shirts as a reward for good performances. “In this way we hope to make the whole of Britain bowling­­conscious,” Lord said. “We want to make Britons feel that anyone can become a topclass bowler if they set their minds to it. “In America, today, some bowling- stars are earning tre­mendous sums each year giving bowling demonstrations all over the country. “In a few years’ time some Britons will be in similar posi­tions. Now, maybe, they are driving a bus or selling insurance.” Lord said that at the end of 1960, only about 300,000 Britons lived within three miles of a bowling center. By the end of 1961, he said, one million persons had a center within three miles of their homes. “In five years’ time,” Lord predicted, “most of the popula­tion of this country should be within one mile of a bowling alley.’*

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