Verhovayak Lapja, 1946 (29. évfolyam, 1-52. szám)
1946 / Verhovay Journal
Page 6 Verhovay Journal August 14, 1946 The Verhovay Album of Branch Managers STEPHEN BOTOS — BRANCH 192 — MIDDLETOWN, O. Justly proud of his record of 32 years’ service as millwright at the American Rolling Mill Co., Stephen Botos is one of the best known, generally respected residents of Middletown, O. Born at Tiszaeszlar, Szabolcs county, Hungary, in 1889, he entered the United States in 1912, the year in which his employment at the mill started. Four years later he joined the Verhovay at Branch 192 and after serving the membership as sick-visitor for 5ne year, he was elected nanager in 1923 and has held this position ever since. His is one of Verhovay’s smallest branches which, with a membership of 65, midway between Dayton and Cincinnati, O., leads a quiet and isolated existence. Yet in spite of his handicapped position, brother Stephen Botos succeeded in gaining such recognition among the sister branches in that district that he was thrice elected delegate to the National Convention of the Verhovay, a rare distinction, indeed, for a manager of a tiny branch. He attended the conventions held in 1935, 1939 and 1943, and has secured more than a 100 new members for the Association. He married the former Eszther Dudás in the year of his arrival in the United States and they had 12 children of whom one, Esther, died. The others are Stephen, 30, Andy, 26, Elizabeth, 2*5, Joe, 23, Frank, 21, John G., 20, Susan, 17, Ladislaus, 15, Alexander, 13, Helen, 11, and Esther M., 8. Four of their sons, Pvt. Stephen, Pvt. Andrew, S. 2/c John and BM. 2/c Joseph, served in World War II, and Andrew was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action in Germany on April 15, 1945. Mary, Stephen, Elizabeth and Frank are married and including 7 grand-children, 23 of the family are members of the Verhovay. What Would You Ho If Someone Gave You a Thousand Dollars This question popped into our mind the other day, possibly as a result of these hot days that make it so difficult to concentrate on more substantial problems. So we decided to make this question the subject of our first and exclusive Gallup Poll and the results are submitted to the readers for what they are worth if anything. Let’s see what Mr., Mrs- and Miss Average Citizen has to say . . . THE GROUCH: “Who the h ... would give me a thousand dollars?” Well, the first attempt was a flop, for we couldn’t help but agree. Undounted, however, we continued our search for the Sensible Answer. THE CHARWOMAN: “I'd get a gasoline station for my grandson and maybe he would take care of me so that I wouldn’t have to scrub floors anymore.” We didn’t want to disillusion the poor soul ... it was hot and she was tired and all she had left was her dream . . . and that’s one thing the OPA has never put a ceiling to . . . But somehow we couldn’t see that she was making the best plans for the thousand dollars supposedly to be given to her . . . That wouldn’t pay for a gasoline station and sooner or later grandson would turn against her for burdening him with a mortgage and he would probably put her to scrubbing the floor. . . . (Not bad, not bad coming from a—gold digger!) SWEET SIXTEEN: “I’d give my mother an operation. She suffers from cancer . . . she has been going down-hill for the last year and a half . . .” (Too bad, too bad—we thought wishing we had the thousand bucks . . . still, it would be too late to help the poor lady, anyhow . . .) HOUSEWIFE: “All my life I struggled, scrubbed, laundered, cooked and I have nothing to show for all I did . . .You know what I would do I’d make a downpayment on a mink— coat . . .” (Ouch!) TIRED MAN: “I have lived on the same place ever since I was born. I am tired of it, of my surroundings, my neighbors, my home and my job. I am tired of everything. I would go away for six months. . .” (Quite right brother, but you would have to come back, wouldn’t you. VETERAN: “I was a flyer in the war. I would get me a small plane. That would just about cover the down payment.” (You would, would you? And what would it get you? You may not be able to meet the payments, or you may crash and that would be a shame after having been lucky enough to escape from the fate that had overtaken so many of our brave airmen . . .) THE GOLD DIGGER: “Why, that’s easy I would marry the guy .. . there is more where the first thousand came from!” COLLEGE BOY: “I would buy myself a good second hand car.” (Boy, you don’t know what you are talking about. There are no TOURNAMENT BOWLERS FROM BRANCH 20, FAIRPORT HARBOR, O. Upon request by the President and the members of Branch 20, we present their bowling team. Standing are, from left to right: Joseph Waltus, Steve Kish, President of Branch 20, and Gabor Kutie; and Steve Sutch, Jr., manager of Branch 20, Steve Reho and John Vendely, Jr., are seen in front. The team of Branch 20 won the Fourth Prize, $50.00, in the Verhovay National Bowling Tournament Men’s Division! “good” second hand cars . . .) THE ROMANTIC: “I would marry the girl I love . ..” (Yep, and find out afterwards that you paid too much for her? What’s the matter with her without a thousand dollars?) THE MANAGER: “This restaurant is getting too small for my customers. I would enlarge it.” (Oh yeah? And poison more people with the lousy food you serve? Nothing doing!) DREAM GIRL: ‘‘I would go to Hollywood.” (No thousand dollars for you either, sis’ . . . Girls like you are a dime a dozen out there and you would just come back broke and disappointed. You look like a million dollars, what is a thousand to you?) THE STUDENT: ‘‘I would go to college and get an education.” (Not for a thousand dollars my boy . . .) THE WRITER: “I would publish my book for which I can’t find a publisher . . .” (It’s just as well that nobody is going to give you a thousand dollars. If you can’t sell your book, don’t waste your money on it ) FRUSTRATED: “I would get out and have me a real good old time.” (Yeah, and a real good old headache!) THE MISER: “Into the bank with it! Let it earn some interest!” (Some interest, indeed, at the rate of one per cent . . . How would you like to earn only one per cent of what you are worth? No thousand for you either!) SUGAR DADDY: “I would spend it on my new stenographer . . . Boy you should see her.......... (Not me, old mad, not me! And lucky, you don’t have the thousand dollars to spend on her. Boy, you should see her leaving you as flat as yesterday’s pancake once the dole is gone . . . ) MOURNER: ‘‘I would buy a beautiful marble gravestone for my poor wife . . . She died two years ago leaving me with three small children ...” (Too late, buddy, to spend it on her now . . . The dead don’t need any ornaments . . . You probably want to do this because you didn’t get her any nice things while she was alive . . . There are the three kids, why not think first of them?) INVENTOR: “I would set up a lab and get working on my new invention. . (Isn’t that so? Bet, you would invent another atomic bomb? Or a juke-box? No lab for you!) COUNTRY LOVER: “I would buy me a chicken farm . . .” (Some turkeys, too, I presume? And have a nice little epidemic catch you unawares killing your chicks left and right until there is nothing left but the unpaid food-bills. Do you know anything about chickens or do you speak of those cute little chicks for whom you think you could care? OLD HAVE-NOT: “I’d stop worrying about not having any life insurance . . (Wait a minute, old man! 1 think you got something there- You wouldn’t fling your thousand dollars away . . . Nor would you invest it in some risky undertaking ... You wouldn’t buy something that would turn into a disappointment ... You wouldn’t freeze the money, nor would you spend it on something that wofddn’t help you nor anyone else ... Yet, it would relieve you of 'a worry that’s eating on your mind ... It would change your outlook and restore your self-respect ... It would give you and yours a sense of security .. . Of all the people I asked, you are the man who would get the greatest benefit out of a thousand dollars . . . You win. I wish I had a thousand dollars to give you.) CALIFORNIA ECHOES----(Continued from Page 5) nation of $1.00 or more receives a record. There are two Hungarian and one English record (6 sides) in the set and I recommend them to those that love good singing-—these are special recordings. Congratulations for the novel idea, Rev. Kinda and Choir. Miss Katalin' Szerdahelyi, oi the International Information Service, ó-utca 12, Budapest, wishes to get in touch with sincere young American men in order that she may improve hei English correspondence. Swamj her with letters, boys. The picture of her in my possessioi beats many of our Hollywooc stars, I assure you! She i; young, that is all I can say now Write to the above address.
