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4. BPEZNA (MARCH) 1959

BROTHERHOOD

ZNACNYr ZAJEM 0 VITCOVAM Call VAYKO

ZnaenS zajem u vyaovini cizkh jazykel Skolni spravy se zajimaji o vyueovani rilznYcth cizYch jazykt ve :Skolnim program'. Vyslechl jsem o tom nekolik pled nakk 2e pomYSli se na to zavesti etyii riane kursy ve vy'S'Sich Skolach a mo2noli i y e Skolach elementarnich.

Pledpoklada se ovS'em, 2e by byl dostateenY za j em a plihlaSly Zakii o tyto kursy a uva2uSe se dosud o nemeine, SpanelStine, destine, francouzStine a in-

lidem cizYm Sifili dobrou porozumein pro dobre snaky, jednali prim p, otevrene a bez zaketne politiky. Pozna vame, 2e takove jednani mall nyni i na,Se pocttve plany dorozumeti se ve svetove krisi.

V anglicke ea.sti otisknut jest elanek zasianY nom bratrem StaSou z Corpus Christi na kterY jsem navazal tuto (Ivahu. jsme tomu povdeene kdy obeas zaslanY jsou nom elaneeky ktere nos pouei a daji namet k fivaze.

8panelStine se ji2 vyueuje v mnohych Vyslechli jsme rtizne plecinaSky o tom Akolach a je mo2no, 2e v blizke budou- to pledmetu a jedenkaZdY dues mule cnosti zavedene budou kursy i ye Skolach doznat ,le v tomto Case kdy sveteve vzda ni2Sich pakli dostateenY zajem tento pc* kus uskuteeni.

Jedna se o to, aby se studenty nautili cizim jazykYm dostateene tak, aby se Na pozvani sucastnili jsme se hostiny mohli dorozumeti a eisti tu kterou lee. kterou okrsek pat* vystrojil orvanisatoNeni tedy ani tak diale2ite, aby si osvo- rUm tketiho okrsku -y e dvora,ne kadu 88. jili cizou led dokonale dle pravidel, ale v Houstonu rninulou nedeli dne 22 imovic se hledi k tomu, aby se mobil posta- ra. eitelne vyjadtiti a porortuneti rozhovor.

NavAteva byla velka a nalada srdeeDnes neklade se plespli10 na to vain]; ne pkatelska. Byl tento den jeden z tech aby Mk nebo osoba dovedla se v3rjadliti kterSr bude dlouho a s povdekem vzpomluvnicky a slohove spravne jako na niinan. CeiY pokad byl peelive plipraven to, aby byla v stavu sve my,Slenky srozu- a zajiste 2e jedenkaZdY s pkitomnYch mitelne vyjadkiti. hostt rnohl bYti nad inira uspokojen I Je tento razor Upine spravnY. — Ne- poteSen. — V anglicke easti tohoto bud'me puntiekati v to veci. pokusili jsme se podrobneje tento NA§ narod, aneb i kterYkoliv jinY se yZacnY den zveeniti a tu zbYva, jen, vSem tim nespasi ani nezanikne, kdy2 obLias HoustonskYm jest: jednou srdeene node. udelame pravopisnou aneb 1 slohovou kovati. Pane a mile jste to provedli. chybu v nag keel. — Vic na torn za.le2i, Nak poklona Vain vSem, abychom ye styku s naSim lidem aneb i s Red.

ina wtezu

lenosti dopravou se tak skratili, jest ta,kl ka nutnosti aby naSe dortstajici mlaciet se pflueila jinYm jazykilm.

IVInc,ho bude nyni zaldeti na Das vS'ach jak se v teto veci zachovame. Mono vzbuditi zajem a naSi. (least? — JednotnYm- postupem dociliti mo2no Aspechu., Na statni universite v Austin se prave ptijimaji plihla'Sky pro osini tYdenni letni kurs pro ueitele franeiny, ruStiny a Spanelainy. Prod neni ani zminka o oe'S tine?

Pkedpoklada, se 2e iv'Sechny ty kteti se prihlasi mail vyhlidky ,ei pfislibena mista vyueovati tyto rilzne keel. Tento kurs bude pod za.§titou 7 "National Defense Education Act", col zketelne svedei, 2e jest tiznavand nutnost plieiniti se vieero jazykfini.

Budete se ptati:— Kde jsme ziistali my? ? ? ) o4 ( For WorthskS, krottiek Bude poladat svoji pli'Sti schfizi dne 12. brezna poeina1e o 10:00 hodin: =3 t. i. ye etvrtek v kadove budove na Roberts Cut off a hostitelkky budou sestry . Millie Waters, Esta Belle flubenak a Tillie Gills.

Jste sestry v'Sechny srdeene zvane. PHved'te te2 Vae na y.S• tevy a platele. — Na se posledni schfize byla velice zdakila a deaf ame, 2e pro dobro naSe a pro naafi unkimnou pfatelskou shodu budeme dobte pokraeovati. — Vestnik se teSi na do bre zpravy ode Vas. — Na zdar.

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SUPREivkE LODGE 13LAVNI (TIIADOVNA EDWARD L MAREK, President JOE B. HEJNY. Vice-President Z. F. CHUPICK. Secretary JOS. KOLILIA, JR. Treasurer R. A. URBANOVSKY. Bookkeeper All in Tem p le, Texas, Box 400 AUGUST KACLR. Attorney Tem p le. Texas DR. MARVIN LESIKAR, Medical Directo P. 0. Box 410 — Ta y lor. Texas flEDITELE — DIRECTORS FRANK V. STEPAN. First District BeBy rne. Texas CHAS. NAVRATIL. Second District 816 E. Ave A. — Tem p le, Texas ROBERT CERVENKA. Third District West. Texas R. E. BROZ. Fourth District Rt. 3. Box 320 — San An g elo. Texas J M. SKRABANEK, Fifth District 4720 Bellaire Blvd.

Bellaire. Texas AlD. P. SRALLA, Sixth District Rt. 1, Box 110, Edna, Texas CHAS. HOLASEK. Seventh District 2513 Nemec St..

Corp us Christi. Texas

Ve sttedu, dne 4. btezna 1959

Od redakEniho toiku Vgechny dopisy musi byti podepsany Nage poznainky pinim jmenem pisatele a mate-li na neVzacnou etnosti je mleenlivast. Znamo vitbec, jak(_‘ nesnaze m 12e zpilsobizi rozg itovani tajenistvi cizich: mimo toho jsou veci jet 11C16CIU tajemstvim ad opatrnosti nezbYVa a lope jest o nich pomleeti. Sternese tedy meal ptatele, mezi bratry zpasobiti pomluvy.

• • Jest nesluSnosti pri na gich shruntaldeni pti ptednake se baviti ze sousedem aneb za zady jineho si nee° geptati nebo davati pokyny, jeZ by tento na sebe mohl vztahovati • • Take se neslugi hledeli nekomu pies rameno Z' pige.

• Neposu uj lidi die toho co mluvi — nYbrZ co eini, a pozoruj je tehdy oni o tom nevedi. Tak je nejlepe poznag. + Kdo se pokougl vypravovati anekdoty, jimi2 stava se sme gnYm nejakST stay, ohiedni se drive, nevi-li nekdo ye spoleenosti, jen2 by tim inohl bYti uraken a mohl posmech na sebe vztahovati.

• • Ve spoleenosti nutno si dati pozor na tee, byclachn roz yladnosti neunavovali, strand tee a Zive yypravovani vice zajima, • • Nestarejme se o skutky syY'ch nieh pokud se nas prima netSrkaji a m ynet" se nemichejme do sporil a rozepte ptatel, pokucl nas o podileni se neMdali.

Je te2 nebezpeeno nabizeti se za smirMho soudee, nehot' east° se stave, k sporne strany se i bez vas dohodnou a soudce pak se znepiliteli s obema.

• Ji2 jednou jsem poznamenal a mo'tno, Z`e i Vy jste poznali s vlastni skuknosti, k jsou meal nami lidi, kterji'm se obdivujeme pro jejich ruzne vlohy, ale — nel ze nam je ctiti pro o gklive wady jejich.

koho "s kopce" v na gem lists svuj spor rovnat nenitiZete.

Nepodepsany dopis jde u Na,s do ko ge.

8koda 4 eentove znamky.

KaZda zminka, v dopisech o "eiselnich larach'' ye vaSich tadech, bude budoucte s dopisech vynechand a nezlobte se pro to.

NejvetAim a nejvaZnei gim majetkem naSich tadu nagi Jednoty jsou nage &bre elenkyne na ge mile a obetave brat ry. Vahne si jich. ♦ • Nage spoleena schilze a slavtiostni 0bed v Houstonu u ladu 88. na g nad miru potesil a povzbudil. Celou dlouhou cgsto domu jsme na Vas v geohny sestry a bratry ktere jste se sfieastnill, Jests jednou dekujeme Vam vsein za pratelstvi projevene. — Vag Redaktor.

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Pravdivost v na gi tea a na.k jednani v Jednote kciekolly milze nam ziskati uctu a pratelstvi ac tim neni teeeno, ze v2cly musime Mei. co si myslirne.

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Zpriva z Taylor, Texas Bratr B, Mikolaj, Distriktni organisator oznamuje na. gini organisatorum prvniho i druheho okrsku, ze nasledkem toho, druhY' okrsek nedocilil vet giny noySrch pojistek v poslednim zaxodu, jsme hotove vyslouiiti viteznernu prvnimu ku hostinu. — Bude se vysluhovat na Koval. dne 12 btezna v sini tadu 38. — Nage vybrane or ganisatory obouch distriktu jsou k Oast fictive z yane. Bratr Mi kolaj zcleluje, ze rozeslal poz yCi.nky na organisatory a pakli jste je neobdrbli, hlaste se u br. 'V Batiny, Smithville Rt. 1 pro podrobnosti teto hostiny viteza.

Pamatujte na den hostiny v sini na Kovat pri Smitny ille dne 12. btezna, to jest ye etvrtek (Thursday) veeer.

Nebud'meubj-rmi k nikomu, bud'ine ochotne, nebut' vlidnost a laskavost zi.risKovf VtBOR — PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE skaji nam povaly lasku a naklonnost.

Citim se, 2'e jest moji povinnosti nage DR. EDUARD baCEK. Chairman V nagich tildavYch a jirrYch schtwich tady a vbory techto dirtklive na to uUniversit y Station. Austin, Texas jednejrae ptimo ale poiikly zhovivave.

MRS. 1117_,DA BRTIS, Secrete. pozornit, by nez-li budou opet potadat • • Buckholts. Texas spoleeenskou hru "Vyvolani eisel" piesMRS. FRANCES OLEXA 6402 Ta gg art St., Houston, Texas Pamatujine ha to, k na zi Vesinik jest vedeiti se u mistnich -Cif-drift s ySth zda to nejrozAiteriMMin h'eskYrn Casopisem nit to hra jest u nisi. clovc,leo..

STANOVIvi V BOR — BY-LAW COMMITTEE eelern jihu a ie nam na torn mnoho 01710 STEHLIK. Chairman Mohlo by se pilhortit, ze budete za poP. 0. Box 1464 sYYrn obsahem representoval aby vsklitku tadani teto hry (Bingo) fitedne stihane.

Wichita Falls. Texas STEPHEN VALCIK. Secretary. v pravde. bratrskcu a sesterskou ;FeNeodkladejte toto yawl/aril nepov gimnu6402 Pra g ue Street Mauston 7. Tem dnotu. to! 1,

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VESTNtK — WEST, TEXAS

— Zaslechl jsem tea, ae Edwin Hors z West byl 4tym ye vYhte v tak zvanem1"Calf scramble" 14. ii. flora ye spojeni v San Antonio rodeo. V dobe kaadeho z -hi et •nacti ptedstaveni rodeo, 20 hoelau Co pies Odell jsem zasleehl bud' z FFA nebo 4-H chin sfzeastroli - Ze z Houston St'astne se vratali Dal- se chytani telat a jest pry to velika zalaske sestry a bratti domu. bava pro obecenstvo.

Co pies tgrden jse

bratr a sestra Kazda jsou opet do1-1 ilettsrcn ma po svem yYletu do Novell° Mexika.

Zaaili po ceste potadnou zimu, snih a leBratte Gallio dekujeme za oznameni. dovatici a tedy ae pry vSude dobte ale Tvoje adresa bude zmenena s testy pate Boma nejlip. na cestu druhou. — Zvla.kin eisla jsem zaslal.

- Ze ptihlaSky okrskovYch sclrezi se u# 4, • teSene mnoai.

• • Na g nav evv - Ze bratr Bead& se tea uchazt o miBr. Slovak z Dallas se na kratAi hovor sto mayora mesta West. u nas v tiskarne zastavil. — Byl zde na - Ze druhY okrsek s bratreni Mikola em poinim sveho bratra Antoua. Slo yaka -v 'dole bude hostit organisatoil prvniho Br. Kazda a Kostohryz tea nas navSteyou poteSily rovnea bratr J. Ktiaan okrsku na 4 Kasik. — Ptijd'te zas! )♦4•( - Ze sleena Dorothy Jeta.bkova z West byla vyvolena ptedsedkyni "Texas Home Kr uiek Economics College" na rok 1959-1960.

• Dallas, Texas - Ze v Corpus Christi poteda, Sokol kloPlUti schilze bteznova Krouaku desbasovou veeeti dne 8. btezna hi ged pc) k'ch aen jak nam bylo oznameno sestrou kadove schtzi. Vic o tom v jejich dopi- Mary Dedek z Dallas, Texas, bude se kosu nat dne 5. btezna u pani Alex Bunker ♦ ♦ 3306. Clinton Ave Ye Fort Worth, Tex. — Tea jsme zaslechli. ae snad ye Spoj.

Ze pry yetSin.a sester DallaskYch tam Statech znaene ptibYva, vdov, mei by planuje jet navStevou po busu a ktere tento sta y bYti pro nak mild bratry bed- sestry pojedou, hled'me abychom jeli laci povzbuzujici. spoleene a jen si ptejern aby bylo Pe♦ ♦ kne poeasi v ten den — pik pain De- K pamatnemu dnu 7. btezna zaslala dek Nagim milym sestram ptejeme sestra Boaena Tupd na poeest presidenta vkchen jen many zdar a kea by jejich Masaryka peknou basal. PovSnanete ptiklad i v jinYch mistech naSe sestry teto lasakve. k organisovani krouaku povzbudil.

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Ve Waco zpivala nak Jarmila Novotni, minulY tYden.. Veeer ten jen Indio oznamovan mel jen slabou neast.

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Zaslechli jsme, ae mesto Corpus je nebezpeei ztratiti namotni dilny Jule se opravovali stroje a vfloava pro namotnictvo. — Byla by to ovkm velka a'koda, nebot' tam zamestnano kolem ttech tisic osob. ♦

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- Tteba ae se trestu smrti zloeinci nejvie boji, je nyni v statni zakonodarne pa cland ptedloba aby trest smrti byl zrukn a nahraaen doaivotnim aalatem. ♦ • - Kdys v lete bude nas mestsky spolek SVPS pojiSt'ovaci proti ohni a jinVch pc hrorn konat svitj vain* sjezd ye meste Caldwell Ikeditel naleho bratrstva Karel Holasek jest jeho ptedsedou. Beala me, ae nam bude unfoaneno se sjezdu sneastnit.

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Prosim, ptedloate veho pojiSteni a ptee..ete dopis ve VaSi. schnzi.

Sestry a bratti:— Zde jest nas drubY vYkaz novella pc).jiSteni tohoto roku, tivedi ham obrios, v Uhrigu $394,500.00 sa Ova- mesice.

Doufarn, ae kaki* z Vas \Typo-ulnae, v teto naSi organisaeni praci. Mr:aete tak udelati kdya dodate VaSeibu GrgarliSatOYU jmena tech co vite, ao by incli bYt pojiSteny. ti kteti byste si ptali aby .byli naSi eleny.

Kdya si udraime planner kterY mame v ptiloaenem vYkazu, pak dcsohneme naSi kvotu $2,125,000.00 tento rok.

Za yk, co pro nak oreanisatory v Leto praci udelate, Vain dekuji.

S ptanim Vain zdravi a alaru, .*em S brattskYm pozdravem, Edward L. Marek.

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zor ok Texas.

VSiclani ortranisatoti prvniho okrsku, kteig ste prodali pet tisic neb vice poji.;le ni po dobu kontestu mezi p.rvnini a dru hYin okrskem, jste podie ujedriani opravnene k hostine p10 asla y e nakho vitez stvi.

Prosim , poznaete sobe Min 12 btezna 1959 a jistotrie ptijed'te k nam na Koval ten yeeer.

Bratr Mikolaj proto ae kontest probrad bude nas i nak manaelky tam ten weer hostit peeernma norkruna a linYmi dobroty.

Pozval sobe i eleny T lavni tatadcvny i jejich manaelky, redaktora a i jine hooey. jsem jisty ae vain to bride opravdu stat zato mezi nas ten vetoer ptilei•a se a nerni vtomi pekue pn3)aaiit. 1911,- ,_eine Yes vkctiny na jisto oeekava 6. a te:'.'inee so 110.

Krava, kiwi a pes ptell se o to, kohc z nich ma hospodat nejradelL , "Jiste mne", pravil kun, "ja, jenm pluh i brany taigam, dkivi z lesa vozim, na mne on do mesta jezdi, dim byl by bete m*e?"

"Nikoliv, nine ma hospodat nejradeji", tekla krava. "Jo, celou jeho rodinu mlekem krmim."

"0 ne", zahovotil pes. "Mne ma rejvice rad, nebot' sttehu jeho statek."

Uslykl jejich soor hospodat, prayi: "Ptestarite se marne hadati, ySichni jste mi prospe§ni a kaadeho main rad — na jeho mister ) • 4. 4 Chuela kna • "Prosim o nejaky ptispevek, pane profesore. Mtitj mua yetra rem tel a nemame na pohteb." -- Pan pro- WS. S pozdravem a na shledanou ten vee,or fesor: — "Jsou to napady, prod vy tako vi chudi Tide pOtadate pohteb. To si ne- zustavam vas VaclaV Batina, dist. ore:. eislo 1. milae kaadY dovolit!"

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Victoria County eislo 32, 97, 98, 143.,, Celkein tecly 31. i'ad.U.

KALENDAA TaylorskY tad oznamuje, 2e jejich vYrani Majova oslava bude se konati prvni nedeli v kvetnu t. j. 3 kvetna a podrobnosti tohoto dne a to slavnosti budou zaveas oznamene. - Dale tento tad Pra ha, eislo 29. planuje potadat sve 60ti leti vYroei zaloleni sla y nostnim zpiisobem a site 4tou nedeli v eervenci to jest dne 26 dervence a kaZdY ndS ptitel jest na tyto oba dny active zvan. Vice bude vYborem podrobne oznameno.

Rad -els. 20 KomenskY v Gran9:er oznamuje dillelitou sehtlzi faclo you na nedeli doe 8 btezna a kaZdY Glen by se reel .,Peclilet.

Bude vy6luhovand, po schtjzi s yaeina.

Neoponiente, budeme Vas dekat. ) Rad 133. v San Antonio bode oslavm 42 leti vYroei sveho zaloleni dne 22. latezna, celcdenni slavnosti, spolednY obed i vedete, tanec a nak hudba. Povkinnete si oznameni v dopisu br. Sazayskeho. () ChytrST eigan Cikan ukradl kone a vede jej po ceste. Na nekesti potkal detniky. Ti se hoed ptaji: "Kdes ukradl toho kcne, cigane?"

Cigan se dovolaval vAech svatYch, ko rle neukradl, ale poctive koupil. Ale delniktim se nechce vetiti. CoZ cigani kone kupuji? Chteji vziti s sebou kone i cigana. Tti pravi cigar) • "Kdy2 nevetite, pa ni, 2e jsem kone poctive koupil, podkejte ptivedu yarn hospodate, kterY mi jej pro dal." Cetnici souhiasili. Cigan jim dal kone a odekl. Nikdy vS'ak se nevratil zpet.

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)krsek Prvni distriirt oznamuje, 2e jejich jarni schUze se buck; kone t pH College Station tketi necteli v kvetnu to jest one 17. kvetna 1959 y Shilow Hall a nak zdrtOene lady v tointo 'clistriktu jsou k ikasti z-vane. V:prvnim oknku zdru2ene ,jsou tyto rady° 22, 33, 37, 44, 59, 60, 68, Eastd op 18, 38 ✓ 131;1(‘ ✓ c ....resu1.3t . a.zos J9, 129. ✓ okre.,It Burleson 7, 9, 17, 34, 190, 116, 120. ✓ okresu -Fayette 1, 2, 11, 12, 21, 51, 64, 67, 103, 106. ✓ okresu Gonzales 57 105.

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C. 34 tacit.

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ti okrsek tajemnice ti'etiho okrsku oznamuje, e jarni schfte tohoto okrsku honati se bude v Dallas u tadu 84 na Floyd • dne 22. btezna (4ta nedele). Potad bude zaveas oznamen. V 3tim okrsku zdrolene jsou, v Cooke County tad 101, ✓Dallas County tady 34, 130, v Ellis Cum ty 25, 82, 135. v Grayson County lad 5, v Hill County tady 71, 145, v Kaufman tad 110, v -McLennan -lady 6. 35, 36, 54, 66, 126, 158. v Tarrant County ta.dy 92, 154 Celkenn t A y 21 tadti.

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SetlinSTokrsek oznamuje svoji sennzi na den 26 tam ciubna to .jest ei.vrta neciele v dubnu, u Lr u La Parita eislo 161.. p91 Jourdanten,.

Texas .3:'it" tajeranik 3. Shortn.e:: Zada ostatni okrsky aby jim tato nedele pro tub) .schnzi, byla laskave ponechana,: Podrobny proFrarn bade v das cznamen.

HjiZt'uji yes, pain profesoroya,,, nemohu ani spat; tak jsem za,milovan do vaSi sleeny deety!"

"Tedy se s iii oletite.!” maminka like, Ze to nespavOst "0 bez svatby pFejder Mlada, pain: -Pek:n1 mi, Vojtechu, co bys byl udelai, kclybych to byla odmitla, kcl yb:\'s rune byl nedostal?" hezMantel: "Co bych byl udelal? pochyby bankrot1" • Stark pan, srazivk by e na ulici s ladAnn muZem . "Prominte, prosim."

"Oh, prosim, prosim., byic to moji vinou."

"Tak pa druhe, nemotoro, nekoukejte kcle co leti a clavejte pozor na cestu druhe poi-adf? To je truant ‘rsr,soko Je -ocltamtud nee() videt?

--- To si myslim! ZvlaSte kdyZ v prvnim potadi jsou damy v modernich tooletach.

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okrsek okrsku SPJST stanovoila na tleti nedeli v duonu o jedne Kdyz jsem opou'kel mej stark byt. tak hodine odpoledne due 19 dubna (April) kvait3"frska pla.kala jako dite!

1959 v,Moravia Rt. 4. Schulenburg, tad Bra! V torn ptipade bode nejlebe, kdyZ eislo 23. • se s vypotticlate! ii prvni Nebudete litov s',htlize by ✓ pada nejake na stauovenY den zltosti navkivite nemela b.('t Zacla aby byl o torsi uvedomen Fri zmene VaAl adresy dined :1117,. inobla byt ptelolena pouiljte tohoto kuponu d .L jinak schnze bode ye sta.na 1.

Supreme Lodge SPJST. oznameno. novc11 box 100, Temple, Texas. line okrsky budou brat fi.c:.tarri Vas o zmenu me adresy jak no ohloc: na rv",,:-". .r a. sleduje:-DalSi oznameni a pro gram pozd'eji.

Moje nova adresa lest:Budete piijemne piekVapeue a dosved 8 0 tilt svoji itavAtevou zaroveii, ie se zaji✓ ,,w,'LC: , n c1.1 sku jsou tyto nrflte e ponielry jak tam naiSe staienky a staficlicove iija. VAS upfimnS, zajem bude Callican Connty Cislo 41. oby zuarnost o tomto 61sla 8, 83, 144 Mole stare adresa°ederm Texasu 31, 125 Dee\ t Cc Jackson Cr,anv::,, Cislo 133, 153 ente, (;isla 3, 4, 1C, 16, 19, 23, Lawuou, q t. za. i5ornov ye yaSieh kiPlimluvte 27, 4.,. 63, 141). E--5. ovSreh sehiizieb.

Mata9o, a. C(, , inty Cislo 148 163 Pat im k tadu eislo Ipiky Vern piedern.

Wh:nlen Cuanty eislo 28, 30, 40, 50, 58, S pozdrsvem 51. podpI MOTWITCMIIIMILIMIIIIELM11111.17ntaimralua

Ve str.edu , dne 4, bfezna 1959

ODDE DOPISOVATEll 'id 133, San Antonio, Texas 42. vyroei:— 1;ac-1 San Antonio Oslo 133, bode slavit 41 /Yroei toho radii 22. brezna v Cononanche Park v San Antonio. Tao bude celodenni slavnost. Bode obed, y eeere a taneeni pofad k nudbe San Antonio Czech Orchestra, KaedY je srdeane zvan aby se siteastnil. ' Ceske Radio —CeskY radiovY program nazva,n. "Ceske Radio" je, vysilan katdou nedeli v 5:00 laidin odpoledne. Tato pfilhoclinka je ,vysilana z radiove stanice KGNB, 1420 na vakm radiu, New Braunfels a milk Vrti slykna at na 100 mil od San Antonio.

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Needville disio 81.

Sestry a bratfi•-Na vedomost yam davam, ze piiti schtze naeeho tadu je velice dilletita„ a proto Vas veechny eadam abyste do jedne ho se dostavili. Schtze se bude konat druhou nedeli v bfeznu odpoledrie dne 8. biezna March) v obvyklY das. — Musirn pochvalit jak jsme se dobfe pomeli v Houston kde hosti 5 okrsek viteznY 3 okrsek u fadu 88. -- Naveteva byla velIto, a banquet prvotiddni. fte'onici Ilborne a pfatelska nalada pfevladala. 0 eiznive bylo dobfe postarano a vfibec vee bylo dobre a vesele. Nee jsme se ria.dali byl Bas se vratit domu.

S OptimnSrm bratrsky- m pozdravem John Blinka, tajemnik e 4, • (

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(Moje poznamka) S -- Wichni piaenjem pro dobro celku.

Pritel Valeik Z Houstonu zase planuje treti zajezd do Ceskoslovenska letadlein KLM. vYpravu pry nasedne do letadla 6. deryna. A VybYzi kteil chteji nav'Stivit vlast aby si co nejdriv zaopattili pas a viso.

Co se tyee me ja, jsem, navAtivit vlast dvakrat za sebou. — Let z Hot/storm do Prahy byl radostnY — Oeskuslovensko je nine krasna, pina, ptivabit a remantiky vent zemskY raj to na polled. A Praha jest krasna je nazYvana Praha -,tovnata. Plna, historickYch pamatek Stem yeti vyzpivala Praha hymnits c lido dobrem a hrdinskem ktery nepokoten utiskern prekonal nLpijizeri osudu a vitezne vykro ail k slavnYrn. zittkum.

Jedna dtenarka "Vestnikir me pile pta se! Zda-li "Rest Home" Taylor. Texas pfijirna chovance jinYch state? Ze kdyby byla nucena do takaveha dom.ova, jeti,"ee by radeji volila teplej gi krajinu ee to zimni padasi jaky u nich Chicago maji zadina, miti neblahe &inky na reumajsraus na ktery trpi.

Mild Pro star§:i lide kdye jie si mohou dovolit na odpodinek, ovsem ze je lepe ziti krajine teplejei a pohoellnerg ye meste meneim.

Ja sam se teeirn na jaro at me bode zahicivati to Texaske slunedko na misto kamna a pefina. — Clove"( kdyt star-ne StUdenou. tak zadina miti Ryby Krev Ja sam jsern zaeal o torn uvatovati ee elovek kdye pocit'uje ueast nad smut.rne nYm eivote k stare ye s.sve osalostl, k takovemu eloveku je lepe jiti do doBratfe redaktore a etenail Vestniku:-mu odpodinku jako se nachazi v Taylor, TYto kadky piSji je den Washingtona Texas. Tam jest vee co stafi lide potak vytoueene jaro zde Texasu mama v tfebuji a to pohodli, dobre jidlo. dobra dohledu. obsluha a 'dist°.

SkutedriST ruch zase zaene na farrnach Siisel jsem ze spravce "Rest home" je tisice traktoril zahudi svoji obvyklou jehodnY k starYrn lidem. dnotvarnou pisefi prace.

Oveem ee musi miti nekcly hodne trpe"Tedy na zdej§ich planich bode shon livosti neb chovanci jsou rirznYch paa prace.

Musime si uvedorniti a vcieeiti taunt rol- van a to trpelivost spravce dornu Runiku delniku a mechanizaci za vzes- dolf Troubil pry ma. tup eivotni firovne, to nejlepe uvidime v Jedne volne spolkove p • icovaiei venu • obchodech pre nakupe, ze V geha zboei ji tuto basmeku, pozdrav a vzpominku: je dostatek a mnoheho i nadbytek.

Za chladne noci vzdychaji rnladonke Literalni pozustalost Amose Komenskeho ky, Ze v lese nemohou ze zeme a ty jsi Zde je jeho odkaz jeho dila jsou stale odemne vzdalena tak daleko ode rune. zive.

Vzduch voni, honi se oblaka v dali se "Wichni sedime ye velkem divadle sve- blejska na easi, a mne se stYbka ach tuta cokoliv se ado deje, tyka se nas veech! ze stYska se mi s“7ska Ach prod asi?

My dale 11dstvo jsme jednim pokolenim, Ptag se mild pittelkyno joky je zde jedne krvi, jednou rodinoo jednim do- Temple spoledeusk;(7 a spolko“r ;dr.-It? — movem, proto praveri. jako Cast Spolee Phsky Zivot 'a. clriSr. A spilkovelm ‘Zi kdye pracoje pomaha ceiku, jak lid po- vote nemohu psati nejni me zndmy nab pa,ma ostatniin fidum Vela jako prislu g nejni vyditelny. "Kde pry je tivot -- tam -nikjedronypmahcelrodin, ruch" A zde? je klid, ale sme t.0 -ipalek mime i my pomahat svYin (11A-thorn -- bratril svornYch panevada nepilidenfo. do

Straits styku. A bratrstvi jaka kdysi bYva t.) od-po diva na tech na gich hrbitovech. Nezda se ti Ze je tomu tak?

Ale vzdor tomu Jednota SPJST nyni zdarne prosperuje a jde ku predu, Zadosti 11S o elenstvi jim se hrnou ze vSech stran.

Humor ee pry je elixir eivota, tak dnes toho taky trochu: Zajiste ze v nagich radech je mnoho voovca, kteti se pokou Seji najiti k zenskemu ordcl. Tak tato hr moreska y am povi jak den dopadl.

Tak pozor l Aby se Vam ireptihodila neco podobneho claran Vas Bar a me take.!,_ DI edeeek vyprivel tuto povidailtu Jednoo se Vain jedna stara oaradenice nepohodla, s eertem. Chtela mermomari aby si ji Bert vzal za ienu ie budou spolu na chalupit hospodatit. "Ale kdepak (ert I 0 teneni ani slykt A veal date, prod se tak zdrand: za staradavna se adavalo jen v kostelich — a jak pak der tern do kostela? A potom ta earodenice byla naramna "Herdek baba" zla porelo vaend hadava, ze by bylo lip smant se peide,, net s ni man elstvi na chalupe hospodatit.

Tak se vSelijak vymlouval vykrucoval vkchno reobie babe sliboval, jen aby ma dala s veselkou pokoj.

Ale baba potad na jedno brdo: jen se• vdavat a vdavat aby se mel o ni kdo starat.

Kdy2 Bert videl, ae si s babou neporadi ozhodl ze ad ni utede. Potaji si zva.zal ranedek a ehtel se patichu babe stra, tit, ale baba to smereila a mildho Berta chytla a jak ha tloukla, tak ho tioukia a :±e ha timidi neptestane dokud s ni nena oddavky.

Oert se branil jak lime' — ale baba byla jako Sail a kdy2 eertil vyrazila, kolik zubir, ptece se mu podatilo vytrhnouti se babe z drapil a uteri.

Tak se koneene zbavil darodenice a ta zalezla do SVe chalupy a Bert mel a to herdek baby pokoj.

Zde Temple se zajmera cetli ve Vestniku ptispevky ad pani rape z Ennis, Taxas. Ptali se me zde zda-li dopi,sovatelku znam? Ov'Sem ze ji znam je to pro' . ka a jeji tvat prozrazuje dozirava 6eg brosrdeenost. — Je to tena Vaclava Tupelt° rolnika na odpodinku. ktery pocha al z Kladna a 6ech.

Kondim ze SokolskSnn pezdravem Na ! zdar!

Joe Zvolariek. ) • jr. • Sokol Corpus Christi timto oznamuje, ze pripravi spolednou klobdsovou ,,redefi v Sakolovni 8. bfezna v nedeli odpoledne hned po schtzi rado y e a po programu Cake Walk Klubu dete SPJST. Tali) kuekakskick dobrot buds pooli-

Strum 6 van za 50 centu pro osobu.

Nate sestry Sokolky jsou opet zdvotile tadany o ptispeni pee:ivem do kuchyne jak obyeejne eini a diky piedern. jsme letos velke vyclani s opravou a barvenim budovy uvnitt sokolovny pies to te nekolik snativYch a etedrYch elenu a elenkyfi venovali mnoho nejen sveho easu, ale i pkidali k tomu finaneni ry, ktere budou oznameny a uvekeineny ye Vestniku a v dechoslovaku v dobe nej blitei. Pro pobaveni po yeeeki bode ndsledovat stoleekova, lira bingo. Nat Sokol jest nevYdeleena politicky a nabotenskY nestranna organisace. Jest to sae disko pro krajany kde se schazime ku spolkovYm sclanzim a spoleenYin zabayam.

Pokraeujeme fispokojive v tej nendroenej praci mitrodiniho fivedomeni mezi natimi krajany. Cvieebni hodiny v So kolovni jsou katdy weer v patek, pod vedenim ndeelnika br. Jim Kueery a mistondeelnika br. Alb. Regmunda. NaCelnice ses. Anna Castro a mistondeelnice ses. Annie Regmund.

Ku eetne naytteve nati etenou vefejnost fictive zve, pokklajici VYbor.

Na zclar!

John Stata, jednateL ) o oye IBad Nova Morava e'islo 23 Sehulenburg, Texas Sestry a bratti•-Pteprcha, a siholi jit nekolik dm'," a je zamradeno. Chladno inu mizerna da nezdravo prO katdeho nada' pro ty nemocne co maji revma, Tak kdyt se ne da moc cleat tak si myslim te miltu do Vestniku tet neco riapsat, s mojiho Bylo mi 10 rokfi kdyt jsem spatkil tuto novou vlast Ameriku bylo posledni 1. dec. roku stareho 1905 sem ptijel do Galvestonu, Texas. Odtud' jsme dojeli do Moravia, Texas s mojim nevla.stnim otcem Peter Brotem a bratrem Josefem nevlastni otec Peter Bra pochazel s te sa me vesnice ye stare viasti na Morave ta vesnice se jmenovala lVfnitei s ktere pachazel obchodnik na Moravia, Texas pan Ignac Jalufka. Oni nrneli nejakou. most ze stare viasti a pro tu pkieinu jsme ptijeli do Moravia, Texas ku Ignac Jalufka obchodniku v Moravia, Texas.

Jsme dojeli d- Moravii by to na zaektku v mesici lednu roku 1906. Mantele Ignac Jalufkovi byli velice dobii Tide a fictive, kclyt jsme k nim dojeli bylo to veeer /TIM pro nas nachystanou bohatou veeeki a tak se msi tenkrate myslel esli to tak bude v Americe nechci vice vida starou vlast kdyt je to tak dobke. Main ka a phi krevni bratki a sestru Pavel, 13o humil a sestra Frances pkijeli za nami ze stare viasti za 15 mesicu bratr (Bohumil) R. E. Bra v San Angelo, Texas je nyni

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keditelem natl. SPJST. 4 Distriktu. Dale a karat nevim jak dlouho jsme byli u man. zelu JalufkovYch. Ja sem se dostal na sluthu opatrovat male deti u Iznace• Hrn Cite ineli 2 dcerualy Mary a Hedvigu.

Kdyt sem u nich sloutil pies zhnu mne posilali do anglicke ekoly za cot sem jinn do dnetka povdeeen. A tak jet-Le neco ze slutby u I gnac Hrneike oni nine naueili cleat jak se zde v Texasu pracuje neb sem sloutil u nich 3 roky kdyt nekam na beseedu jell tee mne sebou vzali ale ne vtdycky ponechali nine nekdy dorm.

Jednou bylo to na jate mei' hodne kurat a tak aby zfistal doma ze mi za to neco pekneho koupi jak pojedou do mesta. Tak ja sem byl spokojeny, ale dali moc pkikazani co nemain Mat aby nestalo. Tet aby nebral patrony a flintu do ruky, ze by se mi mohlo neco stat a te by se moh nahodou zranit nebo zabit. Jak odjeli na tu besedu k rodine mi to pokad letelo v hlave ta flinta a ty patrony veechno sem tidelal co arm naporueeno at na tu flintu a patrony se mi zdalo te hospodat mote stkilet s flinty proe ja by nemoch to skosit IvIeli okolo domu hodne stromh. jak pkiletelo tam nekolik ptakfi blue jay, ja honem pro flintu dal sem do ni naboj a tel na ty blue ptaky namekil sem a has ptak spadnul trefenY ale ramerto moje Lune zabolelo jak kdyby mne kopnul kun a do tvate nine udefilo, hued mi voda tekla s oei tak sem se sam potrestal.

• Tak ta nate okrskova schfize se Nit! Cho okrsku ktera bude konand zde na Moravia, Texas v mistnosti osadni sin! dne 19. dubna 1959. Jo. potte•ba aby se v ptieti kadove schnzi u nateho facia eislo 23 rias hodne pkielO do schnze. Eratki a sestry budenie hodne pottebovat point) ci abychom se pattiene mohli dojednat v pravidelne selnazi ptitti. Bude se konat druhou necleli v mesioi bkeznii o civaush, hodinach odpoledne dne 8ho bkezna tak nezapomente a pkijd'te do sante v S bratrskYm pOzdravem J. Kahanek. )•

Ve stkedu, dne 4. bkezna 1959 •tich narodnich a vlasteneckYch slo2ek, ktere posledni dobou zavladly mezi tern! naeimi krajanskYmi rodinami a potkebu ji povzbuzeni.

Ano, dovolili jsme v natich vlastnich rodinach zanedbavat matetskY jazyk.

Nastala jedenacta hodiny, aby vtechny povolane hlavy se daly dohromady, pro zachranu a fidrteni keel s yYch rodiet a syYch slavnYch ptedku, ku cti naroda s nehot jsme vzetli.

Zde :se nam opet nask;ytuje vhodna pii letitost chopit se dila, pokud jest jette mezi nami chut' a sila.

Nati profesoki na statni univeersite a A and M College, s jejich bYvalyrni a pkitomnYmi studenty slovanskYch jazy ku, za pomoci vtech natich kra,janskYch podpfirnYch pojitt'uncich spolkfi a organisaci, by nerneli na dale ignorovat dilletitost nateho narodniho postaveni v zastoupeni ye vYueovani Ceske feei ye vtech statnich vetejnYch tkolach.

Pro oddaleni zaniku nati krajanske ye tve v tejto zemi ve smesi rfiznYch narodu by se mei° ptejiti od slov k einum.

Ku povzbuzeni sama sebe. Kdyt pkiletitost vola a jest tteclra ku katdemu sna tivemu obeanu by poutil vtech motnYch prosttedkil ktere maji sloutit k obohace ni osobnich vedomosti pro lepti zittek v jeho domove v jeho sousedstvi a vhbec cele jeho zemi ye ktere the a pfisobi.

V natich stanovach Jednoty SPJST jest elanek 2 jeho ohlaveni zni • teel Jednoty. Tento elanek by reel vejiti vice ye znamost mezi nate elenstvo a proto jej zde plikladam pro easove pkiponienuti obeznameni se s nim. teel Jednoty C',1anek 2. Ireelem teto Jednoty jest pcskytovati naSenau 1ldta Ceskoslovenskemu a jeho pkiznivofirn vYhodnou tivotni ochranu ve zpfisobu dobreho tivotnlho pojitteni a peeovati o zachovani Ceskeho jazyka v teto zemi; a snatiti se o vacobecne povzneseni spolurodakfi naeich jak v mravnim tak i dutevnim a blahobytnem ohledu a portistava z Menu' platicich na pojitteni a spoleeenskSrch z nicht katti mush bYti pkielenen k nekteremu kasha.

Take nam v Texas chybi zdrhteni CieskVeh profesoru a heitelfi.

S bratrskVin pozdravem na ve-echny etenake zustava John Stata —) • et•

Corpus Christi, Texas Mill etenaki:-V dennim e.asopisu Corpus Christi Caller 19. finora 1959 jsem Ceti zpravu, ktera pojednava o zamyelenem zavedeni tirtiho vyueovani cizich jazyku neb teei, nevyjimaje i naei Ceske keel. v natich vetejnYch statnich tkolach.

Pro dfdetitost onoho obsahu, posilam Ikád Nova Morava 61$1.9 23 SPJST tedy vY, Akitek a tech novin Moravia, Texas glicke Cast! nateho Vestniku, pro tirai Sestry a bratki nateho kadu Cisla 23. jsou se obeznarrieni, onoho elanku. Doufarn tadani aby se dostavili do scinizev sini te nebude za tetke pro br. redaktora to nateho ka,du druhou nedeli v bteznu dne otisknout 1 v natl tee! motno-li v tom 8ho, o dvou hodinach odpoledne a..posamem rnohli nam- vypracovat plan ..prospkitti Snad to pohne tou neteenosti tech na- okrskovou schfizi testeho okrsku, ktera

Ve sttedu, dne 4. bfezna 2959 se bude odbvati v nedeli 29 dubna zde na Moravii.

Sestry budou addany aby obstaraly la-. skave peeivo do kuchyne neb obyeejne bkva zvykem po schazi davat svaainu atd. Tedy bude nutno abychom se dohodli jak to budem Mat. Vde ptitomnost je addouci.

Okrskova schaze bude se konat v osadni sini pti kostele, protoae tarn ,rnalep g. zatizeni, S pozdravena Frank OlSovsk;;7

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Mile sestry, bratti, a etend redakce naSell° Vestniku:— Kdya tak norovnavarne ten velikY rozdii, mezi y kdeleenYmi pojiSt'ujieirni spoleenostini a spolky bratrskYmi a nose vztahy a '2 ivot rozmanitkch ndich spoleeenstvi, to musime uznati, ze bratrske pojiSt'ovnictvi je vysoce ciftleaitYm einitelem v ndim spoleeenskYin aivote, jak toho je dokladern stalY rozmach a pozoruhodnY pokrok rok od roku jena tyto po j ik'ujici spiky bratrsRe zaznamenavaji.

Nebot' zde panuje to stare sousedskost a teple bratrstvi a sesterstvi, kdeato tech vkdeleenkch spoleenosti par..uje dolor, nebo to neznam. ✓ tom ndem bratrstvi a sesterstvi se stale na gmi sehazemi a jinyrni zhromaadenimi osveaujeme abychom sve srdce napinili poteknim, jena picinag jedine spoleena sluaba obeenemu blahu.

A tak pies vSechny rozmanite vlivy, ktere aivot dne gni doby rozrduje a mysl nag odvraci, to jsou ty nde tadove ze, stale konanY a tern zakladnirn idealum bratrske a sesterske vzajenmosti je stale oddane a verne slouaeno rozdil je kde maaeme k tomu take dodati. ae alvotni poji geni, u bratrskkch jednot, kde elenove sarni skrze sve zastupce v nagich hlavnich sjezdech voli si svoje atedniky a ureuje pro net zasady pro jejich fize-ni, je idealnim spilsobern roL dine ochrany. l3adovy spftsob aivota, ze syYmi moannc,stmi k projevenI ridich na hied!, v zaleaitostech spoleeneho zajrnu, a vedorni, ae jsme spolumajitele na g tak silne a, tak krasne iednoty, kde na v: ech ny deny, jsou -rozcieleny stejnomerne body, umoariene svedomitm konanina na gch povincsti a poctivkin Hzenim, take veclornim nag zodpovednosti pro sta lk pokrok. Jinkmi slovy, virne, ae to co pros-0641am pro svoji Jednotu koname, koname vlasthe pro sebe a pro stale pevnei g a spolebliy ej g oehranu nagch rodin a ndich spolubratra a sester S pozdravern Ig. S ' e kytik, Dist. org .

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Fort Worth, Texas Mile sestry a bratti:— Po padesatidvou letem meho aiti zde v tonato Texasu se mi naskytla ptile g -tosavhdnkpreaspoclivtrchu po tom Texasa.

Jelikoa jsem na torn odpoe,inktt tak nnim vice east'. Ptileallost se n,-,kytla tim, ae moje manaelka Aloisie (Tetieka Lejska) po Wound leta dopisovatelka do Noveho Dornova v Hallettsville hyla poz\Tana na sjezd dopisovatelft Noveho Domo va do Hallettsville Zaroven v tom Case dne 15. anora v nedeli pan Vladimir Malec vydavatel 0noho listu slavil se svoji manaelkou 50ti lete ykroei jejich snatku. Tak na to oslavu byli jsme pozvnani. Tak jsme se vydali na cestu do Hallettsville clne 19ho v sobotu rano. PM to prileaitosti nas innysl nebylo jen Hallettsville a oslava, ale tea si prohiednout okoll eeskYch osad a vkznamna rnista Texasu, tea moo he nage zname a ptatele pokud to bylo moane navativiti.

Proto mile etonati a redakce Vestniku a elenove yaw mejte trochu strpeni a dostanem se po troche na v§ecky stejnYrn dilem a pochvala vS"ern die americkeho zpfisobil.

Ted' ptikroeim k popisu na g cesty- Ne jell jsme hned ptimou cestou, ele zajeli jsme do Ennis kde jsme moll ptibrat pana a pi. Igna.c Parmovy, kterY tea byli zvanI, ale pan Parma onemocnel v ten gas tak jsme jell sarni na Corsicana pak ptimou cestou do Hearne pak do Caldwell a La Gran ge kde jsme se stavili na chvilku u ptitele L .T. Sulaka. bkvaleho statniho senatora a vydavatele Feyette County Record. Byly jsme v ieho kancelati a pak v jeho dome kde jsme si pobovotili. 1VIanaele Sulakovy nas pohosg tily pak jsme jell do Schulonbur kde jsme ptijeli ye 4'30 yeeer a to byl nas cil ten den, neb jsme to meli spraveno s panem Parmou zajet k Crrnrkfim, ses try pana Parmy kde jsme ptenocovall a tea byli tadrie pohosteni. V nedeli rano jsme dojeli do Hallettsville, v 8 . 30 k tiska.rne Noveho Domova kde jsme se setkali s panem Maleern pak jsme Ill do osad ni sine kde jsme se setkall s ninolychna hosti ktere jia dojeli z daleka i blIzka.

Kratee pied desatou jsme lli ptes ulici do tamniho katolickeho kostela, kcie slou ail in g svatou Ms 5?-.r. Alois MokkevskY. PH. nig svate pibtomni zpivall iiesky a pal mg mei piihodne kazani dp. Jan Ha naeek ze Whiner ve kterem ocenil praci nanaelit 1VialcovYch mezi na gm lidem. Po msi jsme sii zpet do sine kde se braly oh razky. Rodiny Malcove a tech dopiscvatel.& V poledne byla hostina v sini ktera, byla ptipravena elenkami tamniho spol-

Strana 7 ku KJ2T a bylo zaeastneno pies tti sta hosta.

Ptitomno bylo mnoho statnich (Aresnich a niestskych atednika Ovkin nikdo nevyhovi vSemu lidu a jejich smYSIeni, ale ja sam mohu iic, ae NovY Domov za jeho 65 let vychazeni byl ndemu: lidu velkou posilou a atecliou. Nutrio tea ptiponienout, ae mirno elena rodiny Vladimira Malce tea byl pritomen jeho bratr Josef, z Ornaby Nebrasky. Po hosting brand znovu nekolik obrazkil a hoste se rozchazell. Poeasi bylo nad mire ptijemne na toto obdobi roku. Po rozlotreen s rod iVialcovou a ptitomnYmi host! jsme pak jege nayStivili no pozvani p. a pi. Josef Pavlu do jejich domu, kde byli uhosteni a si pahovoiili. Pi. Bonita Pavia je nyni ptedsedkyne KJZT. Byly jsme je ge mine na yStivit atadovnu ZT Jednoty v Yoakum a pak jsme jegte milli mineni navgivit katolickou atulnu ✓ Hilije ale pak jsme od toho upustili neb bylo by vzalo vice cast; nee nail jsmc byli ptipraveni. Tak jsme se vydali spat ky do Sehulenbure, krie isms toa. tostne nav givill St sestra M. Reginald,, vlastni sestra elena naleho tadu 92, Josefa F. Kubane ktera nas provedla tamni velkou osadni 'Skolou co g nas zajimalo, po ptenocovani u. pani 6ernoAkoye (vdovel ktera nas znovu dobte uhostila a s ni si pohovotilj o leciaeern. rano brzi jsrne jell do La Grange, ov'Som ria ceste jsme se t(a na chvilku na torn Hostkne. V La Gnn yge jsme zastavili ✓fitaclovne KJT lode Mis uvital pan Amos Potom jsme se stav(3li u pi. Frank • Mika a pi. Aneaky Haea. Pfa.tele to deny ndelio svna Roberta. Po deli rozmluve bylo zji geno. ae zesnulk pan Frank Mika byl rafij viastni bratranec. Po rozhovo ru jsme se vydali cestou domu ale pies Austin, neb jsme chteli nav givit a podavat se dovnitt ndeho statniho kapitolu se Pam_ al/162SO uvnitl libil. Auj r'stin je hezke mesto a ten kappeci dna nejkrasnej g aeth i buclova ve Spoj.

Statech.

Bylo prave neco po dvanacte tak jsrne nebyli zaeastneni zasedani zastupca •ani senatu. V:Se jsrne si clobte prohledli ale nechteli jsme se cllouho zdraet neb jsme meli namiteno se nodi32at do Taylor no to frtulnu FPJST kterou jsme snadno pobill mesta naSli Tam nas provedi v§ude J. C. Wolf, kterk je tam chovanec. Zagy jsme tea do kaneelafe kde jsme si protnlu viii s tiditelem p. R. Troubilem a pak jege s nekolika chovanci. Pak jsme usnail, ae je to doble upravend budova pro ten Ude'. V Cistern a tin em okoli spokojenost chovanct nas ptesvecteila, ae ma dobrY Adel. Pak jsme se vydali do Temple pfehlednout si mesto a to na g Hlavni iitadovnu SPJST.

Strana 8 Naki jsme budovu snadno. Er. Chupick, tajemnik, nas uvital a provedl tadovnou a mistnosti kde jsou chovane vgecky rekordy, certifikaty i Mluvili jsme chvili s br. ptedsedou, Ed. Markem a mtlau rici, ge jsme byli se vg im na dobro uspokojeni. Ja zvlagte neb jsem stale tou gil navgtivit tyto mista, ale na torn je g te nebylo dost, ten den nagim cilem bylo je gte navAtivit tiskarnu Cechoslovaka a Vestnika a or. L. 0. Hog ka v fitadovne Vestnika. Ale pkjjeli jsme do West bylo ji g 5 . 30. Jeli jsme hlavni cestou okolo fltadovny ale my jsme si toho nepov gimli talc jsme jell ptes drahu do rnesta k Nemeekowich obchodu kde nam tekli kde br. Hoek bydli, ale pravili, ze -nahodou je gte nekoho naicl eme v tiskarne, ale lige Bohu gel by-- qmeene, uZ bylo 6 talc jsme se radeji ubirali domu Lituji, ge jsme se talc opozdili, nebylo nam doprano si promluvit s br. Holaskem a br. Hogkem.

Zastavili jsme se je gte v Ennis a sestry me geny pan a pi. Vinklen. Pak domu ces ta po torn Texasu je zajimava a v ge co jsme kde videli a s tim dobrVm lidem pohovotili bylo nam vSe nad miru prospeS, no. Jen jegte muslin dodat, ge se tomu nemohu vynadivit, ge takova maid hrstka tech Texan(' dobyla od tech IVIexikarni takovV knisrnV firodriS7 kus zeme, ten nas krasnr Texas.

S pozdravern bratrsk3'7m, Josef Beean, 'Oen radu 92

Posrortnii vznominka na John Ja•ealc ktery se narodil ye stare vlasti dne 4. cervenci 186& a zeintel po krat gi nemoci v Caldwell, Texas dne 30. ledna 1959. — Zanecha.1 zde ditky, Vlastu, Millii, a Lidii. — ZesnulY bratr byl po slu gbach br, Rev. H. E. Besedy pochovan z emB kostela na htbitov San Antonio Prairie. -Bratr Jureak po dlouha leta slou gil temet y e vgech Atadech mistniho fadu SPJST a tea ve spolku RVOS a bylo nem znamo, ze pov gdy byl on ochoten vypomoci kdy g byl o to pogada.n. jenae na gemu bratru klidneho yeeneho spanku a cele, rodine plati na ge uptimnd soustrast.

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Vt STNiK — WEST, TEXAS

Ve stkedu, dne 4. btezna 1959 se a nima poteg ila i a vnoueaty a moji malou pravnuekou, budu met na co vapominat. Dcera a zet' si postavili velkY peknY novY domov, vSechno moderni zatizeni, jen Ze jsme ted' daleko od sebe, deli nas asi 6 mil. Dtive bYvali vedle a tak ted' je mi po nich a detech smutno, ale s karou to brzy pfejede, vidime se 'Caste.

Tak bratti a sestry, nezapomente na schezi a ptijd'te v gichni. Doufam, ge i br. redaktor, s jeho milou mang"elkou ptijede, vite, ae Vas vgdy radi totig jestli je Vam mo gno ptijet.

Srdeene zdravim vaechny etouci, Marie Juran, dopisovatelka. .7. • Vzpominka Ennis, Texas K 7. lateznu 109 wiroei narozeni prvniSvaz cechoslovanii eislo 92 ho presidenta Oeskoslovenske republiky Fort Worth, Texas Tomage G. Masaryka: Mild sestry a brattPAadova schtize nam pripacla na Tri pouha, pismena jen T.O.M. 8. brezna, (March) a jako valy ye 2 nod. jak v-:)znamna v gak ve slogeni svern! odp. Olen' jsou Zadani, by v hojnem po- Nam vybavi vady nrnoho vzpominek budi fictu neamernou i yak, eta do schtize se dostavili. --- Po schtizi bude opet svaeina, tak mil sestry, manse Ji g za to, v Hodonine morayskem prinest_ peeivo a salaty, neb co jineho Ze zrodil se nam vildce T.G.M. k masu — jak ji g vSiohni vite, maso daruje rad. — Bratr Rudolph Koei mi., syn To ueenec byl, velk7 clemokrat jena ptedevann vkly tilo y eka mel rad, br. a ses. Rud Koei st., se neda yno o2.ejej podle price timel hodnotit nil, se sl. Claudia Joan, dcerou, p a pi. a nabadal, jen ec ,stne skrome Zit. Carl Spauldink Zdavky meli v Methodist BS.ft uptimm'Im jak bVval T.G.M. kostele v Benbrook. zde ve Fort Worth, a i v rodine, zvla gt' sySrm ku &tem, hostinu v &move rodine nevesty. Po kratgim tripu se usadi zde. Ptejeme novo die Jana Husa, Komenskeho tea mangelfun vg echno to nejlep gi na jejich vgdy hajil pravdu, potiraje lea nove draze givotni. a trhat doved lzi i tetezy, neb Mil, ge jen Pravda vitezi.

Vyslovujeme v gichni srdeenou swatA proto v prve yalce svetove, rast na gi spolusestte, Justina Chaloupka a rodine nad nmrtim jeji maminky, gel za hranice v duchu Husove, ses. Annie Motl, ktera zemtela v Seaton, by nennavne mohl pracovat pro samostatnost za svobodnST stat.

Texas a na tamnim hititove pochovana. k •

Illidka Zen

Tea br. Sammie George a rodine nad ztratou jeho maminky pi. Josephine George, kterd zemtela zde ye Fort Worth, y e stati 64 let. Pohteb se konal s kapie od Shannon a pochovana byla na Mt. Olivet, htbitove. Obema ptejeme tichk spa nek a zarmoucene portistale pote g Bah. Ve etvrtek, 12. Unora na pres. Linedna narozeniny mel na g Krou gek den schu zi a sestry se dozvedely, ge ten den jsou i moje narozeniny a talc mi ptipravily pkekvapeni a ja, nic netu gila ag zaealy zpivat "Happy Birthday" a pane okra,glenk dort z roz gatSimi sviekami na stole. Srdeene Vain dekuji, mile sestry za to ptijemne pi:ekvapeni a tolika ptani s darky i penelite, sestte Dona Hubefiakove, za ten kra.sii* dort, nikdy na to neHdyi jinak nemiliete sve iednote pro- zapomenu. spell, prosim po pkeeteni Vestnik dejte Na to v nedeli jsem byla pozvana k svenou sousedu neb pfitely, kteri dosud moji dceti Anne Polk, kde mi dell phineni v nagi Jednote. chystaly velk9' obed a d'arky, tak jsem

A z na gich z Ruska z jihu z Francie, pro odboj tvotil slavne legie.

Jeg pod praporem vlasti s T.G.M. svet celST pinili pak fidivem.

Jak vgude statne dovedly se bit ag zdatilo se pine zvitezit.

Tim napinil svej givot T.G M. spoleene s na gim vnittnim odbojem i v stall se on vydal bojovat by narod na g mei neodvisiSi stat.

Jak mistr Hus a Karel Havlie'ek se neptatehl nikdy nezalek je na gi pravdou mu gne odzbrojil a v pled gel dal, kam slovanskS, ved cii.

Duch jeho neznai pohodli a zvyk to myslitel byl, Torrid§ Masaryk vgdy polc.rokovr vedec, ueitel a president na g — Osvoboditel.

On tvrirce na gi Republiky byl -jen pro ni do posledni chvile

Ve sttedu, dnei 4. bfezna 1959

VESTNiK — WEST, TEXAS

A my vkly verne, vdeene vzpomenem jak o net stet zasloutil . se T.G.M, S pozdravem Botena T‘ipa.

Pozn. red •— Nat dik za peknY prispevek. ) • • • Lodge cis. 88 Houston, Texas.

Mile sestry:— Ptipominam vain vtern, te nate mesieni schtze je druhou sttedu v mesici a to dne liho htezna.

Sestry se sejdou v 10 hodin a v poledne obed.

1llinuly mesic jsme restrain ktere meli narozeniny zazpivali jim Happy Birthday a pteds. ses. E. Kelly jim ptedtikala Dekne blahopfani. bylo ujednano ye schfizi te sestry od nateho kroutku zakoupi opet nove bi le ubruse pro vte,chny stoly a taktet neje ke natini pfikoupi do kuchyne.

Hostitelkami pro mesic btezen budou sestry a sice A. Haluska, S. Hruby, R. Zimerman a F. Walla.

Navttevnice ktere prisli mezi nas minub./ mesic do senate byli pi. C. Conner, pi. R. Kotrla, p1. Godwin, pi. Haupnian pi. Toman.

Taktet mutove, kteti piisli mezi nas k obedu jsou br. RuckV, F. Zimerman.

Al. Hilsher, Rubach, A. 2Svestka a L. Hanut. Diky vtem ze jste posit mezi nas.

Sestry ktere slavi sve naroreniny v me sici bteznu jsou: ses. A. Hrutka, V. Knebl D. Drab a A. Elzner.

Tak nezapomente piijit do schitze ve sttedu dne 11. btezna.

Pozdrav na vtechny as Birthday Club pite, Sophie Hruby. ) 4,

tina eeskYch lidi oni se odali farma.feni. Start' pan Kutel dbal o to, aby jeho syni (deer nemel) chodili pravidelne do. tkoly, Tak se ji mna tu dobu dostalo dobreho tkolnilao vzdelani, ktere mi mnozi tak postradame.

Chodeni do tkoly v tu dobu nebylo tak snadne. Rozdili nabotenske a narodnost ni byly :late velike a deft fijrytaku (Irish) kter:ych zde bylo hodne usazenych, detem jinYch narodnosti hodne ublitovali tak te nekteree deti se baly do tkoly cho diti.

Bratti Kutelovi vlastni zde vice farem, kdyt, jedete z Buckohits po silnici na poledni strunu tedy asi d ye mile od mesta pojedete kolem farms Jana Kutela.

Pekne vystavnosti s fadou velkYch slepitnikil to vte ukazuje prosperytu. Na jine strane cesty jsou zase pozemky pana Vilema Kutela. Pan Vilein Kaki je jeden z nejlepe znamYch lidi v natem 0kresu. Zestaval nfact cestovniho komisafe, do ktereho .fitadu byl zvolen vtdy velkou vettinou hlasft. 0 tteti terinin se jit nechtel uchazet nebot' tirn motel hodne zaneclbavat zemedelstvi ktere on mel tak red.

Pak byl proti sve vfili zvolen za sonciho( 9 ) sveho obvodu. cad ten zastaval asi pail roku Rek1 mi tehdy BuckholtskY konttebl: "Ja. jezdim a restuju lidi a Mr. Kutel si s nimi no mluvi a bez pokuty je propoutti nasvobaclu. Ne•nel k tomu srdce aby nekoho pro male provineni pokutoval, radeji se toho fitaclu vzdal. Dnes tije ut se svou tenon, pan! Ku2elovou na odpotinku na sve fame. De mesta je to jen kousek, a ja, yam teknu on a ti jeho kamaradi ti hrat domino.

eislo 15 Buckholts, Texas Unorova scheze nateho radu byla malo navttiveria. Bylo nas jen asi 16 tienu ptitomno. Bylo hodne zima a katdY zit stal radeji doma u kamen.

V natem faclu pfevlada jmeno Svetlikit. Mame totit vice elenil toho jmena net elenfi jjnYch jmen, atkoliv nektere skupiny jmen jinYch nezfistavaji moo pozadu. Zminim se o nich v nekterem syYin daltim dopisu.

Prvni rodina Svetlika pfitla do okoli Buckholts asi pied 70ti lety, Venovali se farmateni. Vidirn, te take jette vettina tech mladtich mluvi dobfe tesky atkoliv radeli mluvi anglicky. Jak jsem se jiz zminil skorem vtichni jsou eleny nateeho faclu SPJST. Nejdele mne znami eleny nateho fadu jsou bratti Kutelovi; Jan, Vilem a Henry. Jejich otec s rodinou pfitel do teto krajiny asi v roku 1883. Tak jako vet-

Dne 14. fmora byl den mYch narozenin. Ackoliv jsme eekali vtecky nate den domu na ten den, byl jsem ptekvapen co se sjelo daltIch natich ptatel. Z dennich novin jsem se dozvedel, te jsme rneli 22 hostil Aelioliv Lena mela hochle jidla ptichystano hoste ptivezli jette dal zasoby zvlatte peeiva. Nati ptatele byli fide pfivodu rAznYch narodnosti avtak kdyt nine podavali nice a pkali nine doekati se ;eke mnoho daltich narozenin tu jsem yeti', te to mini uptimne. Jsme hrdi na sve ptatele zjevnYch nepfatel jsme nikdy nemeli at na nejake trochu to zdvisti. Jsou lide ktefi vain dovedou zavidet vtecko aji tu tetkou celodenni praci, neb oni vi, te pfi svem ptitineni si pak miftete potidit \Teci ktere oni si dovolit nemohou.

Jedli a bavili jsme se at do pfilnoci kdy se nate pHtele rozjeli do svYch domovie Nate tti deli zfistali at do pFIttiho dne neb to bylo nedele a oni ne-

ti

Strana 9 museli pospichat.

Jak jsein se jit zminil rname tfi Vtichni maji universitni vzdelani, a te-, time se te v postaveni jake zaujirnaji, jim bude moth° pro lidi a pro svet udelat vice net bylo nein man() udelat.

-Sy . Jerry a dcera Betsy, jsou Cleni .1ST. Patti k natemu tadu zde v Buckbolts. Nejmladti syn Marvin, kterY konei sve studie v mesici kvetriu si pak take mini vziti pojistku u SPJST. ale . gym oznamuji, ze vtecky nate schti ze se budou odbYvat vtdy tteti nedeli-v mesici a nebude to znovu oznamovanO. Teprve prosincova schfize bude bYvat heed prvni nedeli v mesici.

Vzpominarn pana Jana Statu a vybizim ho aby zase napsal dopis do Vertniku a at bude nekdy s panem F. Zajitkem, tak aby na nem vyzvedel jak on etch ryb doved.e tolik nachytat.

S pozdravem na vtecky dobre lidi, jsem Val. Nemec.

Pozn. red.'-- Pro:sim, at zas budete ptitte psati do Vestniku dopis, pitte jej skave inkoustem a nechte tot neer) meter mezi c adky, cot urnotni ?lain misto Jinak jsme nuceni celY pro opravy. dlouhY dopis ptepisovati. Diky ptedem.

4 •( Taft, Texas Ctend redakce a mile sestry a bratti:— Opel ptichazim k Vam abych :si trotku s vain! popovidala.

Muslin s Vami zdeliti, te rate Sokolski sin, byla kra.sne opravena a vymalovana.

Tuto krasnou illohu ptevzali bratti riokolove a vte naletite obnovili. -- Vim jakou to dalo praci, ale nate Sokolove se nieeho neboji a ani te velke date a tin:a, kdyt tam museli vtdk po jejich praci do jitdeti je odstratila a s chuti se dali grace. — Toto vte mame clekovati brattim ktere se o to starali: br. ' ijanskY, br SackY, tera, tor. Stata, br. S rodina Holaskovic, rodina ReginundovYch a nesmim zapornenouti tet pan! Rendl.

Prosim Vas brat''i jesth jsem opoinenu la jine zetastniky jmenovati tak me to prosim odpust"te, nebyla jsem tam pH teto praci. — Jak rada bych se hYvala s moji rodinou zetastnihn bohutel byalime dal.eko od Corpus Christi a tet jsrne ani nemohli pro tolika vody v,. jeti, cesty jsou u. nas stale jette inoc a mot spat` ne.

A tak jsme pfijeli at 15-teho t. m. se podivati na tu jelich praci a vtechna test Vain, krasne a milo je tam dliti.

Tez jsme meli SokolskY kroutek a podavalo se barbecue, maso na toto ba.rbe cue elaroval bratr Re round. — Vz. ptigel mezi nas se podivati na vykonartou praci bratr Troubil s jeho milou 'Z'enu g -kouzTaylrbohu'ecnmohldu

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zdrleti neb ma povinost v Domove Odpoeinku v Taylor, dale pkijela tea navSte va z Bryan a Oklahomy.

Tea Vain zdeluji, ae to poeasi se zde tak trochu jasni, vadyt' jina 'eta jsme uz mYvali tento mesic v2se zasete, ale letos jeSte nic, neb do poli jsme nemohli pro tolik vody. 3 dny bylo pekne ale co to toto piSi se opet pkihlasil ten severak a jest dosti chladno, no jen kdya o trochu yysuSi pak by nebyl tak zly, vid'te! Masime doufati a ne zottfati.

Tea si dovoluji vkin ptipamatovati, koname naSi pravidelnou schfizi SPJST druhou nedeli v likeznu. — Prosim dosta vte se v hojnein peetu.

Dekuji Vain a zustavarn s pozdravem Agnes Elsner Bren Taft.

00 • ( Roman .ly (Pokraeovani) Na kapesniku ostaly jasne eervene skvrny. Emil rychle jej sbalil a zastreil do kapsy. Ale star, Rajnoch vSiml si toho a polekal se.

"Vrat' se, synku, odpoeiri si, to rieni prate pro tebe. Odvykl jsi tomu," pravil mime, a na konci zat'al se jeho zakalen, hlas, jakoby na kamen vrazil.

Emil mekce pohledl na otce.

"Poslechnu vas, tatieku," tekl skrze zu by,' pohybuje v Ustech jazykem, na nema mel pocit mdle zasladle 'St'avy.

Bylo mu bolestno hledeti na otce. jak oei jeho tekali a do clraadla zaryte prsty nasilne piemahaly statecke slzy, ale i on se tka,s1 jako podeschla yetev, jiato sval vichr od aiveho kmene. Usoudil, ae bude nejlepe, odejde-li.

Dal s Bohem sekaam a podpiraje se o hil vlekl se steaka dome, provazen sta le .sta,restliv,in otcovYm pohledem po svaanatem pidhonu.

"Eh, eh," oddychi star, Rajnoch, poS"krabal se v tYle. vzal kosu do rukou rozpfahl se Siroce, aby zapoinnel na pti tomnou bolest, ale nijak nemohl s mysli zb,ti rudYch, krvav,ch skvrn.

Postkikovaly mu oblohu, slunce a semi a jako kryave krilpeje padaly pied nim na sveai otavu. Za horovYm lesem, jena vystuoval mir ne za lukou, rozlehala se rastvinou naboand kostelni pisein kterou zpival nizk,, pasak velk,ch bil,ch odstavajicich boltct a slabornysineho v,razu ye eiroke, vodnate: tvaid. Byl to stargi bratr Jantt y, Michal.

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mohutn, jako polnice, 2e napliioval celou pastvinu.

Pied Min se paslo".estero krav a dve jalovice. NejkrasnejS1 kus, osmileta Btezula, mela na silnem laloku ktapae (aelez zvonec, drsne fineiti). Tato statria krava. j-2 sip tesila pro sve krotke chova.ni zyla."stni p •izni Michalove, se etytini jinYmi kusy pasla se uprostked kdeato d ye. bujne, svehlave jalovice s ostatnirai dvema krava,ma zaloudoly se v biezi. Michal se zvedl s patezu, prokolem Bkezuly, pohiadil ji po S'iji se silnYmi i'svy a polichotil ji! "Tys vadycky stateena (hodna), Btezulko". A :statna krasa, jako by rozumela, pozvedla krk a spokajerie olizovala jazykem giroke py sky.

"A tam ty nalade, vadycky je nekam kuba zanese," mluvil pasak pro sebe, vy hledal jalovice v bkezi a zahnal je zpet k ostatnim kusim do sttedu louky.

Sedl ()pet na pates a °pet se rozzpival.

Michal byl nejstar gi syn Rajnochily a lined z mladi jevil ptiznaky slabeho du cha. Trpel priltrai, a proto nehodil se k teaSim pracim. Od detstvi pas1 dobytek nebo pohanel pti °rani. Jeho bratr Jan mel povinnost aiviti jej, a za to mu phipadl Michaluv podil. Pro tyto hrube sve vady byl Michal odstreen, elo yek. Od naladosti v§ichni ho zanedbavali, nechali ho rirsti jako jedli v lese, a nasledkern toho vyvijela se jeho duk docela jednestrenne, syYm zpiisobem a stvoilla si vla stni svet.

Michal dozpival naboanou pisen. poohiedl se po kravach a netrpelive pfekl pa okraji lose vlden,m, nedbal,m krokem. t ekal no. JJtareho v,minkake S s estaka, jemua v decline pro Sirokou, neobratnou chuzi ptezdivali "str,c Obrtel" a jen tohoto roku hlidal hojne ovoce v vene boucle uprostted S"vestkove aleje, kterou bylo videti od kraje lesa.

"Nalde, a bilde jil nedaleko jedenacte" odhadoval Michal podle v-Oky slunce a stoupajielho vedra, vyndal z kapsy krajic sucheho chleba a laene pojidal. :4;1roke ieho eelisti chrustely hlasite a yyvstavaly.

V torn objevil se na pastviAti c,rninkat Sestak s prehozenYm kabatem na reane kosili, v §irokena klobouku, bes, Mate se v chilzi a napadaje na levou nohu, kterou podpiral holi. Tvat jeho byla ostra, zjizvena, ale viasy na spthicich eernaty se mu dosud jako kaveeka.

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str,ch byl ochrong a ae se vlekl o ho"Eh, nevim synku, cosi mi vlezlo do lave nohy, he se nemohu ani pobnout bez eaganu myslim nadcha. Hlidam v noci, elovek ptechladne a nevyspi se. Ano, to podzinmi rosa je zractna l Ale porudeno Panu Bohu, musime nest sve k% se," tekl strYc a naptimil chorou nohu, ukazuje na podkoleni, kde mu vezela bolest.

-Avgak do dneSka tYdne, Panbfin, to ptejde. A kdyby to nen° pesky, mohli bychom jit do mesta a svezti se po manamitl Michal, jemua se zdalo nemoan() putovati bez strYce Bestaka, protoae byl na nej zvykly a pa deset let chodil s nim na pouti.

"Oh, synku, na to nesednu. Jeete jsem se nevezl po marine a da-1i Paabilh, ani toho nebudu pottebovati. Ruzvaa si, jaka je to pout', dovezti se a nevytrpeti nideho. Panbula vi, co je'Ste dnekti mudrlanti nevymudruji. Ale proto je zle na svete, lido ptedbiliaji Palm Boha. A jak ty, pusti to letos zase?" mluvil strYc 8estak stvrdlYm, nepruan,m hlasem.

"Nebude-li prate, pusti me," tekl Michal zaryl se do rrnyglenky, ae ho bratr naposled ani nepusti a vSeeek sesmutnen zahledel se za dobytkem.

"To mar takove dneAni lidi, jenom penize a v,delky, a na Boha nedbaji. Talcy kolikrat karu sync, he se o daSi nestara a do kostela jde, aa zbude-li east]. No, abych se septa!, jak to stoji s panera Milinem?"

"Poi-ad jednak Poka'Slava poled, je bled, jako ,s7r a jak dal, to Beh netesk, vi."

"Tnu, to lamani hlavy sebere iloveka.

Taky jsem dnes sedel v kniakach rele dopoledne a ua citim na oeich, ae to Mcodi. Tak se mi vgecko miha, jak' mlze. Roky jsou roky."

"StrYee. na'S Jan oboe koupit KvetolAiv grunt," oznamo yal Michal novinu.

"Cob nepravib! Tak vzmaha se, vzmaha. On je ptieinliv,, ale ranoha na sebe bere. Bude mit tMi hlavu."

"Ale, str,ee, napadlo mi, ae by vam mravenei vYtaaek pomohl. Mtij tatieek taky choroval s noharni a. pomohl si tim. Tu v btezi je krasn, kopenec, na loket z y,'§i, mohl byste si nabrat mra vencii do yule", upozornil Michal strYce Sestaka a v§ecek se zamyslil nad jeho nohow.

"SI,chaval jsem, ze jP to dobre Ale "Rae Panhah aelinat! Vidis, ze jsem ne ua je to se rn.nou s:nuku. Yklijake. Ua selhal," tekl zaduMv,m ani ten dech neslotal, lined se zaci,cham.

Sedel na bi'ezovem patezu liked malou, sem k Michalovi, optel se o hui a :Jed"! Col ua jde ' edesat, sedra, a kosti jsou vlidnou luMnou, porostlou zakrsl,m bte- na dlouh, pates, shodil kabat, zapalil nadelane. unto myslim ani jinae nejde, aim, obracen zady k teplemu slur_ci. Ncja dYmku a silne odfukoval Leda az si elo yek odpoeine tarn pod zelesn, jeho bias selhaval y e v,Sce a lite "Od zittka za, tYden, budeme na ces- nou loukou. Ale rad bych piece jeae, chazel ye falset, ale lifts to byl jeho hlas te," odpoveciel IVIichal, zapormiev, ae na svat, EnstYn U2 tam Chodim dobr,eli

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tricet let. MoZna, ze voda od Matieky bo 21 me pozdravi. Ja It% se tak na vZdycky po ni okrejern",miuvil strYc ohmataval si nohu, vzprimoval ji a kre'il, ale noha nentestavala boleti.

"Vykoupate si ji ye svate vode, erniedne yam," povidal Michal, divaie se na strYcovu nohu, a jakasi tezka mySlenka tlaeila ho na mysli jako kamen.

"Da Panbilh, ze to prejde. Ale, Michalku, slunce je skoro nad hlavou — dochazi dvanacta. Ja, jsem jenom tak edskoeil, abych neselhal. A ty, myslim, taky paZene'S VCak v nedeli po poCehnani si posedime chvilku", rekl strY Sestak, oprel se o hal a vstal.

Michal mleky na strYce, ale krome jeho pochionde nohy, ktera mu stale vezela na my§lence, nebyl s to na nice jineho "To2 tak, synku, s Panembohem, dime, jak bude," dodal strYe, prehodil na sebe kabat a vldenYm krokem se ociklatil.

Michal hledel za nim, jak se prichyluje k zemi. Napadlo mu, ze starne a ze dlouho nebude choditi na pouti. Prebral ✓ mysli vSecky sve znanie v decline, ale ZadnY z nich nevyrovnal se strYc .i ,,Sestakovi Rozlehlo mu na mysli, s kYin potom bude sedavat, aZ strYce netude, a vSecko to, co tvorilo obsab. a neel jeho dzkeho, zbeclovaneho Civota, rozplYvalo se pied tim v teZkYch, zhuAtenYch mlhach.

Po devate hodine pribehla z mesta staRajnochova. S1a zrovna do Jaucvy svetnice a ptala se pro Milinovi, ale snacha ji rekla, ze odeAel na louku Rajnechova se odstrojila, zatopila ye spoleene kuchyni a chystala °bed.

Bellala je gte give. aekoli Cilnate nice, hluboke rYhy ye tvati a Cede pramenky • spadajici ji zpod bilCho eepce vraseite eelo, jevily znamky neoclbytneho staff. KaMott chvili vybihala na prah ze sine, vyhliZejic Milina; ale neniohla se ho doekati. Chtela ho pfekvapiti novVin letokiim ovocem, a proto byla • znepokojena.

stara Rajnochova, odskoeila do komory a rychle s .koSikem ,opatrne ho vysouvajic zpod zastery, aby snacha nezpozorovala, Ze dela zbytky s "Donesla jsem ti trochu truck z mesta. Jsou jakoby je prave utrhl. Pochutnej si", pevidala vysybava.:;ic na stul krasne zajinene ovoce.

"Nemusela jste jich k vuli rune kupovat, mamenko, jsou jeSte draha," told Milin, ale sahl po S'vestce a jedl.

"V'Sak ja„ to ne pro sebe, jenom jez podle chuti," odpovedela speArie a ocibe hla do kuchyne, aby nevzbudila Krist(tiny zveclavosti.

Milin pustil se s chuti do Ave•tek, jich nekolik a ustal. Rozhledl , se po vYmince, utkvel zraktm na velikYch kam nech a svatYch obrazech.

"To je koutek! Ale staei pro lidi, kteri uz nemaji cile pted sebou," pornyslil si a opet sahl po Svestce.

PredeAla my'Slenka opet se mu vratila.

Uveclomil si, ze y takovych tenanYoh, stisnenYch bytech tra y' lid& :byte& Zivota, a toto vedomi ho rozeilovalo, JiZ ch01 vstati a odejiti do sve s,vetnieky, ale znavene jeho tele kleslo zpet na pevnou lavici pGdel stony a ruce jeho dopadly malatne na stul Nyni chapal, ze se unavil seeenim a Ze toho nemel Matka opet ptibehla do vYminku a no ustavala ho pobizeti, aby jedl. Ale on se jiZ nedotkl ovoce. Dival se na starenu, jak give se jeSte otaei, jak pohyby a pohledy jell jsou dosud piny Zivota, a mrzel se sam na sebe. Co jeho telo schradlo a pozbYvalo ji2 sily, ha ze mu jiZ bylo obtiZno vlaeeti vlastni chradnouci hmotu. jiz se rouhaly vSlecky Inaka y e narazy zdraveho okoli v kterem Cll. Rozevrel opet knihu, jiz mel s sebou a Ceti. A bylo mu ponekud lope, protole zapoininal na sve Ia. Po chvili ptgel °tee s Janem. Fined na naspi zaslechl Milln jejicb pevne, krapave kroky, nahYbl cc k oknu a vyblecll yen. Videl, jak otec csecek utic.en novesil kosu na tram a klatil se do sine.

Milin ze v'Sech deti nejvice ji ptirostl k srdci. a jakkoli se jeji sen o nem nevypinil, protole chtela m.iti z neho kneze, piece laska to k nemu neochabla.

Po eas studii neustale na nej vzpominala a kity, priAel domil na svatky nebo na prazdniny, schysta,vala mu nejlepM jidla a vS'emoZne mu prilep'Sovala, Milin prikl az za, hodinu a v§ecek schvacen ykroell do sine . vi jak dlouho. — "UZ to eek_ain Pojd' do vYminky, donesla jsem ti nee° na ochutnani," rekla '.. eptem a chvatne odbehla.

Milin ve.;e1 do.vYnoinku a zrovna usedl k lipovemu, vydithnutemu stolu. Matka,

"Myslim, ze ses presiliI Jsi jako zmlacen," pravil vchazeje do vYminky. Odhcdiv kabat na vysoce vystlanou postal, usedl na nizkou lavioi u komen zrovna. naproti Milinovi stiral si s Bela i s ri hojnY pot rukavem reZne "Ech, dej mi pokoj s temi kninami.

Porad v torn vezi g a to to susi. K eemu to vede, beztoho to tekl nevrlc a pl'esedl nepokojne na Milirr mleel, pfenV§leje c slovech etcov'ch, ale v6dorrfe jeho yze.prelo se otcove tea "KaZdY z nas rozumi svemu," Feki nohy a mleky dival v duchu, se 'na pramenky potu, ktere neustavaly

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slevati se po otcovYch vy. •,edlSrcb. skranich.

Matka opet ve§la do vYminky.

"Pfepotili jste se s Janem," zvolala na ntZe, zaloZivSi ruce k :SirokYm bokUm. "Prepotili, Milin take seki, ale jenom tak do atvrti pokosu," tekl Rajnoch, nemerle vaZneho vYrazu.

"Ca nepraviC!" podivila se matka a zkaumave pohledla na Milina, jemuZ se protivila otcova poznamka, jeliRoZ eehal, ze matka zase bude miuviti o ktfeni se a opatrnosti.

Ale zklamal se. Matka nejen ze mu nic podobneho nepriponinela, nbr2 sama Zijic v podobnem preludu .jako Lye dodala: "V§ak on se sebere. Za rok o prazdninach ZadnY se mu nevyrovnate."

"DC Panbah." odpovedel Rajnoch hlasem, jenZ vyznel tak neur(dte, ze zmatl Milina, nebot' byl jednak vzdalen hork_e, preludne nadeje, jednak napr3ste pochybnosti a pronesen byl skoro do yetru.

Milin se tazave zahled6I 119, otce, ale krome klidu nevyeeti nieeho z jeho tva.re. Vodnate ociRajnochovy upfeny byly kamsi do dalky, a nikdo krome neho nev6del, ze stale pled oeima hen-121 se mu ony rude, krvave skvrny -.

Odpeledne ode gel Milin do sve svetnidky, rozlail se na loZi, zalozil ruce za chlavu a myslil. Eyl unaven a slab, ale tento pocit nebyl mu jiZ nepfijemn,V, protole ji2 mu zvykl. A po kaZda. kclyi zokouM podobnY pocit, probouzelo se jeho vedomi a tim silneji pracovalo. Le2e1 chvili, ale nespal a rozplYval se v minulem Zivote a hned zase vym3,Mlel nova plany. LeZel jako vojak po bitve, zemdlenY a unaven', pliporninajici si nektere podrobnosti uplynuleho dne majicia pled sebou opet novr den. o norm neved.el, co prinese a jejZ si mohl utvat:eti dle vlastni fantasie. I na Milina takava sladka„ chvilkova snivost.

Zdalo se mu, ze v gecko zmizelo, Aratilo se mu s oe.i a propadlo se do nekoneona, v neznamo. A zatim rodil v nem jakYsi clavnY, vzdalerVr sen.

Vidal sebe ,na velikem pastviSti, na pfihonu v blizkosti lesa. Sly§i jakousi znamou chlapeckou pisexi, vedle neho sodi stark. ptihlouplY pasa.k Jurka, obrovska lipa 'Sumi jim nad hlavami, a ona podivna, mama chlapecka, pisen poidd mu cloleha k uchu. Vi, ze je mu nevslovre slaPtno, a jakkoli nema Mdneho vedomi Zivota, nr.ece ho proZiva svobodne v chlapecke zvall. Beha, poseda a §kadli stareho Juirku, ale ten se nohneva a jenom se usmiva, sirokou, lhostejnou tvari (Pokradovani

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skily a1inky muikek, papa& pekaiskeho a M. Mikkeek jak jej bil tak bl.ZllouSidnSt koviii. kl, jej dokonale a. ztratil 3. se zas do skaly. i-tano se clu lesem a dig to koukai pekai velmi kyjakesi bouchani. "Poch- sole, a le nic. Nevejme se, kdo to tam pocl .toil se, co si oci. mu DEVATE CVItEr0.

bouchie Mai a videli iieka AtY ail.

(Pokraeovani pifite) pekaiskeho tovaryie, jeni pesti na sekeru du- Pieeti s tatinkem nebo maminkou a

"Tys tae a diivi ke iadnfi' &lap", iekl "pojd' s Sebral, se pekaiskST to- varyi aAli veichni Schylovalo se k veeeru a lesa nebylo konce.

"Dnes ziistanerne jiz lase", rekl kovai. Zabil holi nekolik roz-

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pekli je a v Aby jim drava zveir neuikodilaY bylo pekaiovi hlidati.

potom spra.vne °pi§ do se§itu! Pokus se opet pkeetene 'eesky vypravovati v Strfreek je opravdu rad, ie se ten "Sank kovat' libi.

S pozdravem Strfcek Mieek z Austinu.

Adresa strfeka je: Dr. Ed. Meek, Univer gity Station tavav a. TeTalk ) • 4, Vdovy ye Spojemich Statech Poeet vdov ye Spojenkch statech neustale roste. Podle odhadu iLtadu pro seitani lidu ailo zde vloni v bteznu asi 8,047.

000 vdov dill o milion vice ne21i roku 1950 a, skoro t •ikrate tolik, kolik roku 1900.

Meal tenami ve veku nad 14 let je dnes asi jedna z osmi vdovou. Na sklonku stoleti byl tento pourer jedna a deviti.

Ptibkvani vdov je z velke cacti yksiedkem rnenAi iniutno qti meal ienami neali mezi muii. Jeliko2 Umrtnost je avlaSte mezi mlaairni Udall mnohem merisi, li bkvala dtive, a jellko2 vice lidi se do2iva yyMiho veku, dochazi do s k vdov stvi ye vySSim veku neali kdysi.

Vice mall polovina vdo ye Spojen'ch statech je dnes 'mot() ye veku nad 65 let, kcleato•koncem minuleho stoleti byla r podobne vekove skupine toliko jedna tiptina vdov. Toliko .°sin procent vdov je

Ve stedu, fine 4. brezi* 1859 dues ye veku pod 45 let. Roku 1900 byla tato proporce trojnasobna.

Se varttstajic.ai yekem vzrasta i procento vdov. Jedna etv-rtina Irech acn ye veku od 55 do 64 let je vdov. Ve veku od 65 do 74 je tato proporce dvojnasobna, a ye veku nad 75 let trojnasobno.. 1 kdyi vdovstyi je nejeastej g ye vyASich yekovkch skupinach, je i meal aenami od 45 do 54 let kaada desata aena vdovou.

VetSina ovdovelkch aen ma pted sebou jeSte heakkch par let aivota. Tti dtvrtiny beloSek ve veku 50 let ma dobrou e"aku cloaiti se sedindesatky. Deka desetin aen ktere ovdovely ye veku do 40 let, ma take dobre vyhlidky na dal gich dvacet let aivota. Z 2en, ktere ztratily manaela ye veku 65 let, made jich polovina poditati s dalSirni patnacti lety aivota, a jedna ttetina s dva.citi.

Prodluaujici se vek znamena, 2e dne:sni aena musi se smiriti s mySlenkou de-6-lb° vdovstvi neali jeji piefIchildkyne pied no jakkmi Aedesati lety. Roku 1900 mohlo dvaadevadesat procent pen ye veku 30 let poeitati toliko s desiti lety aivota.

Stejne procento 'Zen v ternZe veku maze poeitati s 25 lety. Ze 'Zen 45 starich kiln roku 1900 etyryadevadesat procent danich pet let; dues Zije totet procento 11 let.

Pritonma situace je do jiste miry para. doxem, lidskk aivot se stale prodluZuje, ale mo2nost ae manaelka pteaije manaela, je stale '17RM, doba jejiho vdovskeho aivota stale delSi e k • Detska Besicika:-J. Mil . OrebskS7:— Zajic a mesieek PlachSr macek vyclegene povida sve stare gene: "Koukej, koukej tuhle s meze kdo to zase na nas lead!.

Tvare to ma, velke rude — co to bude, co to bude?

Oei zrovna na nas kouli — con abychom uprchnull?"

Stara vy gla s meze kouka, pro sebe si tie brouka "Je to jasne, kulate, ale pranic chlupate Neni to as zvire dive, to by melo drapy kilve — ty jsi, rnacku, kmotrieek, v2clyt' to piece mesieekl" TypickSr nosatSr lid vstoupil do kupe a sedl si proti hrbaekovi Dail se do l'eei a hie! Veimi dc' . ;. se bavili. :Konano aid se w),',IcIni "-rbaterrm a povida mu 'Septem: "Meal nami niznam se yam, ja. jsem Md." Na to hrbatej povida velmi tajemne: "D4vera za clUveru: Ja jsem hrbatej."

Wednesday, March 4, 1950

VESTNIK WEST, TEXAS

The Vestnik is proud to present to its readers the above picture of Andrea Camille Vodehnal, lovely daughter of our Sister Carrie Vodehnal or Houston, Texas, and, the late Brother Jerry Vodehnal.

Lovely Andrea is well on her way to havin diligently studicid since the age of six years She studied with the Alexander Kotchetovsky School Dancing of Houston, Texas f 3in 1'45 through 1955

and then two years with the Ballet Russe School of Dancing in New York, being accepted as a dancer into the •allet Russe Company in 1957.

The Company is on tour since October appcaring in the larger cities of the United States and Canada. After the Company completes its tour in March they will returr Lc York where at the Metrothey h o ve an enff riVf

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politan Opera House.

Some of Andrea dancing roles are as: The Lady in Red in Gaite Parisianne, The Princess in Giselle, the Goodi Fairy in Harlequin, she also has a very nice part in the second act in the famous Nutcracker Suite, and in the Waltz of the Flowers for which she received her first review in the Chicago American while dancing in Chicago, Illinois at Christmastime.

The Ballet Russe Company plan to be in Corpus Christi on February 25th, in Austin, Texas on the 25th, in Galveston on the 27th, in Houston on the 28th. and March first and in Dallas on March 2nd.

The brotherhood extends to Andrea' wishes for a brilliant success in her el osen career and to our good Sister C trrie, congratulations on a dream realized. The Voclehnals are members of Loge 88, in Houston, Texas. Best wish!es from the Editor. (

SPET CALENDAR Our m ay.or Lodge Praha No. 29. announces, that they will hold their annual "May Festival" on the first Sunk iy in May, which will be May the 3rd. riney are also planning the 60th Annirsary of their Lodge to be celebrated on the 4th Sunday in June — This will be the 26 of that month. So. please, all of you, our friends watch for our special cletaled announcements that will be in our Vestnik real soon. Thanks, and you all be prepared to be with us as you are cordially invited. ( LODGE SAN ANTONIO CELEBRATES Lodge San Antonio will celebrate its 42nd Anniversary on March 22nd at the Comanche Park in San Antonio. This celebration will include dinner and entertainment. Everyone is cordially . invited. ) • 4 • ( The Teen-agers of Lodge 84, Dallas announce that they will present a 3-act comedy entitled "In the Money" on Sunday, March 22. -- We are sure that this will be a pleasant evening of entertainment. The play will begin at :6;30 after the District III Meeting.

• •( Hlahol Dramatic Club of Houston, announces another presentation of a play in preparation for the first Sunday in April at Lodge 88. ) Lodge No. 39 will hold a very important meeting on March the 8th at 2 pm. — You ailcome. — Steve Regrnund

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ANDREA

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Reports Troia oar Lodges, or reiy other Reading Matter to be published should reach the Editor, Saturday before the date of issue. Address all matters to the Editor: P. 0. Box 85, West, Texas.

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send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Copies to SUPREJ E LODGE SPJST, P. 0. BOX 400, TEMPLE, TEX.

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Waco Lodge 66 Meeting

:rfW ee'7.niv.37.RS dseuary 28th, Ve59 Insurance 35 $ 34,500.00 WO 35 39,000.00 'me 134,000.00 7,000.00 36 94,500.00 39 43,000.00 42,000.00 290 1959

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and Flrothers: d you our second report of lor this year, which gives . 4,500.00: for the two months. hoe(:?., tidet every one of you will help out in the writing of new insurance.

You they do that by giving your organizer the names of those who need pro., those you would want to be'bees of our Order. can hold the average we have .renort, we will reach our goal of -0.03 for the year. in g you for the help you will our organizers, I arre with best -,Traternally yours, Edward L. Marek 0 0 Organizers: on will notice that our report for the two months of this year shows a of only 4",:500.00 if insurance over rat year, but however small the still shows that we are backwards. organizers making ye. neho were inactive last we are 1 y to have you on the se.. wage).si. Fellow workers, we

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PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE "I pledge Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands. One Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."

The Lodge Meeting at Waco Lodge No. 66, (Elm Mott) Sun:day March 1, was very well attended. We counted 87 members present besides the Teen-agers and young folks.

It was a really inspired meeting, and the reports of the officers and youth leaders were well prepared and received.

It is not our intention to go into detail as this lodge has two good reporters that are always "on the job" so please look for their report on this meeting.

The Lodge No. 66 is in progress of enlarging their Hall and from all indications it will be a wonderful plan.

Thanks for all the kindness shown your Editor, we assure you that it was a pleasure to be among you. ° 40 •

need you and your help if we are to reach our goal this year.

We are having organizers schools in the various communities again and I am pleased with the nice attendance we are having. We can all benefit by these schools, I know that I pick up a good deal of information in them myself, so fellow organizers, whenever a school day is called for your locality, please do attend, you will enjoy it and also benefit by attending these classes.

Thanking you, I remain Fraternally yours, Joe B. Hejny ) all • (

The Sunday meeting of the Cottonwood Lodge No. 6, was fairly well attended. The regular lodge business was dispensed with.

It was decided to hold an Easter Egg Hunt for the youth and detailed report will be made by Sister Krizan, the Lodge reporter.

It was the Editor's pleasure to be with you at this meeting last Sunday.

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Do Not Overlook

Brothers and Sisters

the announcement of District Two,that they will hold their Spring District Meeting at the Seaton Hall of Lodge 47.

Sunday the 22 of March. You all are invited and it will be a successful -meeting I am sure. District Two has 18 associated Lodges they are: Falls Co., 89 — Houston Co., 74 — MiFalls Co. 89 — Mouston Co. 74 — Mi.lam Co. 15 and 72 — Robertson Co. 94 --Travis Co. 155 -- Williamson Co. 20, 29, 48, 75, 102 and 109.

Let's hope that all these Lodges listed will be well represented.

The Editor

Cottonw od Lodge Meeting

We can make the year 1959 a turning point to greater success in our SPJST and it is in our power to do so, if we stay united, in harmony, ever striving to be friends and win our youth. ) • 4

D art It was a real problem for us to select articles according to their urgency. So Because of the extra heavy dendand for space in this issue, it was necessary to hold over a number of reports. They will appear in our next issue.

Thanks for your patience.

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Wednesday, March 4, 19513

Language Epxansion In Sche-as Studied A study is underway on a major expansion of foreign language offerings with a. view to possibly adding three new languages to public school curriculum, school officials said recently.

Also under consideration is the extension of the four language course now being offered in the high schools. Possible addition of further study of foreign languages may be introduced into ele mentary schools.

E. E. Mireles, coordinator of foreign languages, says there is indication that there may be sufficient demand within the next five years to start courses in German, Czechoslovakian and Russian.

He said the addition of a forth year of Spanish, third year of Latin, and third year of French' within the next five years is being considered.

The Spanish program already is being taught in elementary schools from the third grade level . up, Mireles said. The possibility of extending the teaching of other languages into the elementary grades is also being studied, he said.

George Board, director of curriculum, said that there is a good chance that a third-year Latin class might be set up by next fall.

Board said that the addition of other languages to the curriculum would depend on the number of students interested in the course and the availibility of personnel to teach the subjects.

Broad said la .e cannot see an immediate demand for fourth-year Spanish, but that if such a demand is found, he feels the course would be worthwhile.

Mireles said that about 1,500 students were presently in the foreign language program, about 85 per cent of these are taking Spanish. He saild the students completing the three-year course could learn to speak, read and write the language well enough to get along in one of the Spanish speaking countries.

SPJST LODGE NO. 84 SOFTBALL TEAM Dallas, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters: The Softball Team held its first business meeting this year, Wednesday night, February 16th, at our Lodge Hall.

Fourteen prospective ballpla yers were present and one future player (say about 1975) meaning the young son of Allen Dunn who was also present. This was, indeed, a good turnout as we knew of three or possibly four who could not be present for good reasons. Also, none of our prospective Teen-age ball players did not attend, however, some of them expressed their intentions of trying out with the team. I wish o state here that we certainly want to encourage you all to come out for the team. We will have lots of fun and enjoyment together.

Another meeting of the Softball Team players will be held at our Lodge Hall, 2625 Floyd St., in Dallas, Monday night, March 2nd., at 7:30 p.m. We hope to have even a much larger attendance at this meeting.

Our first practice is scheduled for Sunday, March 8th, at Samuel's Diamond No. 2, at 1:45 p.m. All players interested in playing are urged to be there by 1:45 p.m. weather permitting.

The first Dallas City Softball Team Managers' Meeting is to be held on Wed+nesday, March 11, at 7:30 p.m. and this is where and when the organizing of Leagues and teams begins. As many of the players that are interested and have the time are invited to attend these meetings. If you wish to attend, please phone me at Dixon 8-1514 and I will give you all the details.

If the course is revised to include a fourth year the course of study probably would be revised to include conversation being taught in the first year; grammar and composition, in the second, litJudging from the players who are inerature, in the third, and literature and terested in playing ball, it looks like we conversation in the fourth. should have a pretty fair team. More Mireles said he feels the study of one stress will be put on fellowship and fraforeign lan gua'ge is good for every stu- ternalism rathe- Than. on winning — dent and because of the location of what we really want is to enjoy ourCorpus Christi, Spanish was the most selves and win if we can, of course, and to have good morale, team spirit and important. good sportsivanship. I feel confident -- Contributed by J. Stasa

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that we will have an enjoyable season.

I wish to remark here that I was one of the group from District III who made the trip to Houston, Lodge No. 88, on the bus last. Sunday. We really had a wonderful time. That District V really did feast us all, and we had a real swell time. I wish to extend my sincere thanks to the officers of District Five, District Five Organizer, Brother Joe Skrabanek, all organizers and their wives, and all members of District Five for their kind and generous hospitality and for such a wonderful weekend. Hope we can lure or trick you into another contest in the near future. I also wish to extend my thanks to the officers of District III, to District III Organizer, Brother Arnold Vrlat, and to all of the organizers, their wives and members and friends of District III, who all worked together as a team and enabled our District III to finally beat District Five in a contest.

The fourth time was the charm in this case. In closing let me remind all Ball players that our first practice will be Sunday, March 8th atSamuels Diamond No. 2 at 1:45 p.m. Hope to see you there.

We sincerely hope that our good Bro. Hosek, editor of the Vestnik, will again give us his cooperation and assistance this season as he did last year. The team will appreciate your help.

Fraternally yours as always, Ben Jarma, Mgr. Softboll Team, Lodge No. 84, Dallas Editor's Note: Our Vestnik is too late for your March 2nd Meeting, sorry, but let's make this 1959 season a good year for all of us, Brother Jarma, Good Luck boys at No. 84.

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Disciplining children is a thing of the past but anfortunatPly while they gained ' at one end — they arc losing at the other.

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District Five Pays Of f It took a third try for plucky District 3 to win over District 5 in the annual insurance selling contest, and District 5, true to its promise, feasted the District 3 organizers at a Winners' Banquet, held in Lodge Pokrok 88 in Houston Texas, Sunday, Feb. 22nd.

Spearheaded by the top organizers of District 3 and their aggressive young leaders, a big Greyhound Bus was chartered to transport these champions, their wives or husbands as the case may be, the Teen Age Club officers and members and special guests to the Banquet.

The District 5 Organizers were waiting for them, and as the bus rolled to a stop the Pokrok. Hall emptied itself of members coming out to greet and welcome everyone that came. A lively rapport followed as they all headed for the Hall.

Aroma of roasting barbecue caused some one to wonder out loud if that was the "Possum" roasting on the embers that Uncle Joe had promised them.

Pokrok Hall still had their Valentine decorations up. From the lighting fixtures were red streamers of ribbon dangling red paper, lace hearts. It looked very festive and gay.

Brother and Sister Ermis had a big coffeemaker waiting and welcomed us with hot "kaficko" and a warm handshake. There was the usual hand clasp of friend and friend, brother and brother lots of laughter, backslapping, that made the visiting wonderful. As new folks entered the door, they were immediately swooped up in glad greetings.

The Ladies of the Champions received a corsage of a pink camella tied up with ribbon, while the losing side wore bows of black ribbon.

At noon, we were all invited for the long-aWaited Feast. It was perfect! The barbecue was tender and delicious, the fried chicken golden and perfect, the ham fit for a king and there was a choice of a half dozen salads to choose from, plus pastries of all description and coffee.

Brother Rudy Shefeik (who has quite a repertory of Czech songs and loves to sing), sang to us from the stage into a microphone all during the meal. Later he was kidded about singing for his supper like Little Tommy Tucker.

Brother Al. Hilscher, President of Lodge Pokrok 88, rapped for order, then welcomed the Winners and their guests saying that there was plenty eats left for anyone who had not had enough, and then proceeded to turn the "mike" over to Brother Joe Skrabanek, District organizer and Director.

V E STNIK VI.7ST, TEXAS Uncle Joe, as he is known in his District, gave his welcoming talk; stating that "you of District 3 demonstrated 5/cur friendship, sportsmanship and determination in these contests that we have had together," and scratching his head laughingly remarked, "But we have really given you a good run." I admire the determination of District 3," he continued, "to take us on again until you really won this contest. With this determination I want to say that you people can win in everything that you undertake. With these contests, you and I nave made , lots of friends where we Would not have known that you were living." When I made the promise in the Vestnik that I am going to feed you some "possum" the ladies on the Banquet Co rnittee put their foot down and threatened to make me eat it. I want to again congratulate you on being the winners and am proud of your friendship!" concluded Uncle Joe to a happy applause.

Live-wire Arnold Vrla, District 3 Organizer, followed Brother Skrabanek to the mike. "First of all, I would like to thank Brother Skrabanek and District 5 for this wonderful feast and the wonderful things he said about District 3.

Brother Vrla then proceeded to acknowledge congratulatory letters from District 3 organizers and District Officers and lodges in the District who were unable to attend due to earlier commitments.

Brother Vrla said "Quoting our Sister Bessie Petr (Youth Leader of Lodge 84 Dallas). It was my way of helping my husband sell insurance." Brother Vrla introduced the Teen Age Royalty of District 3 and Lodge Pokrok 84, Dallas, Queen Juanita Janousek. This lively group of young people created quite an interest in the fact that Teen-age clubs DO work. (Congratulations!)

Brother Edward Marek, President of the Supreme Lodge, also extended congratulations to the wonderful culmina7 tion of the contest between these Districts, and brought greetings and well wishes from the Secretary Brother Chupick and Treasurer, Brother Koliha, who were not present.

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Brother Charlie Cerny, from the newly organized Lodge 166 in Beaumont spoke next, lauding the event taking place, followed by Brother Raymond Urbanovsky of the Supreme Lodge, followed by Supreme Lodge Attorney August Kacir, who complimented the two ladies writing so much insurance for our Order.

Brother Bob Cervenka, Director of the Supreme Lodge from District 3, recognized District Organizer Vrla for his untiring efforts with the organizers in his district, followed by Editor Hosek, who thanked District 5 for their invitation to share in this happy occasion.

The editor pointed out that we have now learned to cooperate with each other, better than ever before and have now achieved things we have never dreamed of before, because we have stopped bickering and fault-finding, forgetting the little mistakes that were made, saying that there is not a man on God's earth that doesn't make mistakes, and he said "I feel that if we cannot say something good about our sister or brother , we should keep our mouth shut."

Speaking about the Youth, Brother Hosek said, "Any lodge that neglects its young folks are making a grave mistake.

If a lodge just gives up, it is gradually dying." he said, using the Waco Lodge as an examp le of a revived lodge. "We have learned to be better friends, we have learned to be real good friends and therefore we have done so many good things for our brotherhood since the last Convention.

"I hope we win the next contest so that you in District 5 will again have to feed us," kidded the editor.

Director Ed. Sralla fro District 6 and his wife were also guests at the banquet.

He thanked Brother Skrabanek for the invitation to be here at this banquet to enjoy such a wonderful and enthusiastic occasion, saying he would be glad to "pinch hit" every time.

Brother Hilscher thanked the sisters for preparing the food (hostesses, they are called) in behalf of District 5, and to anyone else having anything to do with the preparation for this banquet Vice-President Joe B. Hejny, with his and for the flowers. admiring youth section who rooted for Brother Skrabanek introduced the dishim, spoke, thanking Lodge 84 for Dis- trict 3 and District 5 organizers with trict 5, for their nice hospitality. He in- the admiring Teen-age section rooting trodueed District 3's highest organizer, for their fovorites.

Sister Anna Milan (and firer chauffer).

First, Brother Emil Petr, who kidded She also tops the State level. He then "I sure did eat hearty because I think introduced the top organizer of District I deserved it. I am especially proud that 5, Sister Frances Olexa. Number One our two Districts are working together Place in the Youth activities, pointwise as they are. was Carole Nemec from Lodge 84, who Brother Sid Pokladnik, a popular

Wedne,day, March 4, 1959 speaker and president of Lodge 84, Dallas, said "It is a pleasure to me to be called to say a few words.

Brother Pokladnik pointedF out the fact that "if it hadn't been for these contests that started four years ago, we would not be together here today. We heard of Houston, Taylor, Waco Ennis, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, but actually to know each other — we only had faint ideas about them. Today it is different, we know these people regardless of what lodge they belong, they are our close friends.

Brother Pokladnik introduced) Editor Hosek, his first Secretary of District:III who at that time helped map out the District's hopes and aims. "What we have produced," Brother Pokladnik stated," is not as individuals, for individuals can do nothing by themselves.

It takes everyone to make this work of ours a success. It takes everybody's time and honesty and love for each other.

We have a good Vestnik, let's keep it that way. This has been in my heart for 'four years and I have really not had a chance to let it out." he said. "Regardless," emphasized Brother Pokladnik, "who is president of the Supreme Lodge, of your local Lodge, your District and other office holders„ after they have been elected, let's stand behind them and support them. Even though District 3 lost three times, we certainly enjoyed it, it has been worth the time and effort that we have put in it. We have triade friends galore. For that we are thankful. ` Every District and District Organizer joins in support of the Supreme Lodge Vice-President Brother Hejny, who is State organizer. When all the membership stands together, how can we lose?

This SPJST of ours will continue to grow and grow — how can we lose? Sisters and brothers, we have done something in awakening our organizers, they are on the top shelf where everybody is talking about the SPJST and telling everybadly of it — we feel proud of our SPJST (Loud Applause.)

VPSTNIK — WEST, TEXAS Dance which was presented at the Stotler Hilton Hotel clUring the Texas Fraternal Congress in Dallas, Dallas County Country Club, Oak Cliff Country Club, Civic Service Center, in plays, on various committees in their club as well as working in the Mother Lodge Committee office.

The popular and beloved Youth Leader, Sister Bessie Petr and her husband Emil, took a bow, Brother Pokladnik, as the Teen-Age Club advisor stood up to receive his acclaim as did Brother Ben Jarma, manager of the Pokrok 84 Softball Team who has an enviable past history. Of Brother Arnold Vrla, Richard Sykora srqd: "We are proud to he in his District. Our Teen-Age group is in full preciate your hospitality. Ao go back to Houston and eat on you again. We appreciate your hospitality. To go back to Brother Hosek's remarks, I would like to say that we certainly do have a clean Vestnik and good clean criticism, by that token we can keep fraternal love all over our state. All of the rest of the Districts are doing a good job, too. Our thanks to District 5 for such a wonderful, wonderful day," concluded the president of the Dallas Teen-Age Club to the gather. ing.

Our good Brother Frank Olexa welcomed everyone to Houston, and bid them feel just like at home, and complimented the entertainment Committee for their work in Pokrok's behalf and then introduced them to the brotherhood, and pledged the lodge's standing behind them.

Brother Charles Cerny, stated he was ,glad to be present; elaborated on the long way the contests have come in the four years they have been held, stating that the creation of the District Organizers as well as he State Organizer Position in the last Convention have been instrumental in making especially outstanding records, practically doubling our new insurance, .and to back up the recognized standpoint that we are certainly going forward. He complimented Brother Pokladnik then introduced Pokrok 84 for their successful work in the King and Queen of tne year 1958. the Youth Movement.

Queen Juanita Janousek, (her escort Brother Ben Jarmo gave thanks for was not present). "In my heart, all of the "wonderful and courteous hospitalthis started from the Districts. May each ity" which was enjoyed and tells about District in Texas follow suit. I would like their Softball Club, challenging District the president of Lodge 84 Teen-Agers to 5 to a good Ball game. say a few words, concluded Brother Pokladnik in introducing Brother Richard Brother Skrabanek then awarded Cash Sykora of Teen-Agers of No. 84, who in Bonuses to District 5's top organizers, turn introduced the young people pres- Sister Olexa, Ilrothers Cerny and Lostak. ent and what activities they participatBrother Arnold Vrla distributed Bus ed in the club. They all had enviable Fare Bonuses to top winners in "District records in the various fields of endeavor, 3, stating the awarding of the District such as participating in the Beseda 3 trophy will take place at the District

Mani%17 3, Meeting in Dallas next month, March 22.

Shaking his head, Brother Skrabanek took the mike to say "I would rather have my tooth pulled than to have to do what I am about to do now. Pt that point, he presented District 3, from District 5 as a souvenir and stated, "1 hope you Twill enjoy it!' with that he unveiled a framed charcoal picture, depicting District 3, Organizer Vrla riding over the hill on a 'tortoise,' while Uncle Joe, as the 'hare' lies snoring.

It was a wonderful celebration, full of genuine comaradie, clean fun and fellowship, and it was hard to pull away to leave these nice folks, but the roaa back to West was long, and bac, 'n spots, so the Editor and wife bid them all goodbye and looked for his highway markers to steer him home.

The Sunday joy rider is not the most welcome person to meet on the road when one its trying to make mileage on such a long trip, but when you lose an hour in a traffic jam, that takes thu cake. We had come upon the Salt Gra.s..

Trail Ride, some 1,500 mounted riders, 90 covered wagons drawn by horses, cars and trailers full of hay and feed and other paraphenilia jarring up the highway waiting for the famous TV Star Jim acres, better known as "Marshall Dillion in Gunsmoke" leading the riders.

The three-man •highway patrol farce was inadequate, trying to detour that mob over some country roads for some 50 miles, but we reached home Okay, and we were gled we went.

Thanks to District 5 for the invitation their lire hospitality, and friendship, the many fine comments on your Vestnik. While they made us feel good, we are also aware of the fact that our fine contrilmtors made it so, and sornie of them have been contributing to the Vestnik news matter and clippings with the editor just helping it along and keeping it sought realding by members, as well as our non-member reading public.

Thanks again!

Your Editor v f

After warning her husband repeatedly that he would fall if he stood on the second floor window sill to repair the roof, the fellow actually did fall, and broke his shoulder. An ambulance was sent for and as he was being carried to it. the doctor in charge said: "Don't worry Madam, we'll give him an anesthetic. He won't know anything."

"Never mind," said the woman looking down at her husband coldly "he doesn't need it!"

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District Calendar DISTRICT oNg. OUR DISTRICT ONE announces that they will hold their Spring Meeting at the Shilow Hall near College Station, Texas on the third Sunday of May the 17th, and all the 34 Lodges of this District are urged to have some representation at this important meeting. A detailed program will be published as soon as, possible. We are asking to reserve this Sunday for our 1st District.

DISTRICT TWO R OGEES, TEXAS Dear Brother Editor, District II will hold its annual meeting on the fourth Sunday, March 22, 1959 at the Seaton SPJST Lodge 47 Star Hall near Temple. The meeting will start at 1:30 p.m. Watch the Vestnik for further announcements concerning this meeting."

Fraternally, Calvin C. Cervenka President Dist. II DISTRICT THREE Announcements have been received that District III will hold its Spring Meeting at Lodge 84, 2625 Floyd Street, Dallas, Texas, March 22. — Later Youth Activity Day, will be held at the same location June 28. Please mark your calendar. -- Detailed programs will be announced later. — A three act comedy by the Teen-age Club will also be presented after the District III Meeting March 22.

DISTRICT FOUR DISTRICT FIVE OUR SIXTH DISTRICT Planning to hol d its Sp ring Meeting — a reunion of all the associated Lodges of this District to be held at the, KJT Hall of Moravia on the 19th of April. They hope that the other Districts will not interfere with this date, for which they will be thankful. The associated Lodges of the Sixth District are in Calhoun County— No. 41 Colorado County -- Nos. 8, 83, 144 DeWitt County — Nos. 31, 125 Jackson County — Nos. 138, 153 Lavaca County — Nos. 3, 4, 10, 16, 19 23 27, 45, 63, 140, and 165.

Matagorda County — Nos. 148, 163 Wharton County — No. 28, 30, 40, 50, 58. and 51.

Victoria County — Nos. 32, 97, 98, 143.

A total of 31 Lodges

The time of this meeting and the Program will be published in detail as soon as possible. Please leave this Sun day to us in our Seventh District. Thanks District 7 is composed of 18 lodges. rhey are as follows: Atascosa County: No. 78 No. 147, and No, 161.

Bee County: No. 26 Bexar County: No. 133.

Cameron County: No. 164.

Karnes County: No. 93 and No. 127.

Kleber County: No. 118.

Live Oak: No. 113.

Nueces County: No. 56, No. 79, No. 117, and No. 152.

Refugio County: No. KO. San Patricio County: No. 137.

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Special Ne tire TAYLC,,l, TEXAS SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL ORGANIZERS OF DISTRICTS NO. 1 and NC. 2 As you know by now, Distriet No. 1, won our contest and therefore District No. 2 has to give the organizers of Dist, 1 a Dinner! This Dinner will be at the Kovar Hall, March 12, at 7:30 p.m.

Now, so that all of you understand it correctly; the agreement was, that only those organizers that scil $5,000 or more during the contest, f July 1 through.

Jan 31, are eligible jar this Dinner.

Therefore you organizers of District No. 1 that did sell the required amount, in your own district of course, are eligible and you already have, or will, receive a personal invitation from me to be my guests. If you did not receive this invitation by March 3, please contact Brother Barina, your District Organizer and h: will take care of it for you.

Those that have received the invitation, be sure that you return the card to me.

Now as to the organizers of District No. 2, you have also received, or will receive .9„, letter explaining your part in the Dinner. Please do your share to 'rake this Dinner a big success.

The ladies that are going to serve the 'dinner are really planning a delicious meal. So make your plans to be there.

You will be sorry if you miss it.

Fraternally yours, Ben V. Mikolaj, Dist. No. 2 Organizer ) ( By the time a oen can pay a fancy figure for his wife's clothes, she usually doesn't have one.

SEVENTH DISTRICT This is to in seem you that our next District 'Meeting, will be held on April T re's never enough time to do the 26th, 1959 under the sponsorship of Lod- job right but there's always enough time ge La Parita No. 161 at Jourdanton, Tex. to do it over. e

Wednesday, March 4, 1959

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You District V

Words cannot express our sincere thanks and appreciation for a day that will go down in the history of our SPJST, especially in District III and V. Yes, Hats Off to District V — for their most generous hospitality in food,entertainment and a day of True Fraternal Fellowship. This all happened at Lodge No. 88, Houston where District V was host to District II as a result of a contest which was held during the last seven months of 1958.

L.13 Lodge Hall was beautifuly decor:: ed, tables all white with flowers ge'ore. But here comes the Best — you not only had choice of barbecue, but also all the fried chicken you could eat and nice jucy ham with all the trimmings that go along with it, not to mention all the pastries and the refreshnnnts that were served all during the day as much as you wanted. The supper was just as good' and to top it all off, we had enough Fried Chicken and potato salad on the bus coming that everybody ate to their heart's content before our coffee break coming back. Food, food and food and a good time was had by all.

This is not all — after everyone had partaken in their food at lunch time, we had another surprise. District 5 presented a Picture to District III which will be displayed at our next District III Meeting at Lodge No. 84, Dallas, on Sunday, March 22, 1959. This picture was created and designed by Brother Frank Dvorak, a member of District 5. You just will have to see this creation. It is an original.

Both District 5 and 3 had a nice representation at this gathering. A bus load from District III and several members went down in their own autos for the occasion.

THANK YOU all again in District 5 from all of us in District 3.

Fraternally, A. M. Vrla, Emil Petr, Dist. 3 Organizer President Dist. 3 ee While making a campaign speech, a candidate for political office sought to discover the denominational sympathies of hs audience. "My great-grandfather was an Episcopalian (stony slience), but my great-grandmother belonged to the Congregational Church (continued silence). My grandfather was a Baptist (more silence), 't y grandmother was a Presbyterian no silence). But I had an aunt who was a Methodist (loud applause). And I have always followed her example (continued cheering.". He was elected.

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The minutes of District No. 2 meeting held October 19, 1958 at the SPJST Lodge Praha No. 29 Taylor, Texas.

Brother Calvin Chervenka, president of District Two, called the meeting to order at 11:15 a. in.

Brother Reuben. Lesikar, president of Lodge Praha welcomed all present and also thanked them for attending this ineeting.

The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was given and all were asked to remain standing as a tribote to deceased members in district two since our last meeting.

Roll call of officei. s of District two.

President -- Calvin Chervenka; VicePresident Payrroncl Holubec; Secretary A. L. Doudny; Treasurer Henry Vitek.

All present. Other districts represented: one, three, six and seven; those not represented were four and five Officers of Supreme Lodge who were present; President Edward L. Marek, Vice President Joe Hejny, Treasurer Joseph Koliha, Financial Secretary Raymond Urbanovsky, Attorney August Kacir, Doctor Marvin. Lesikar, Editor Hosek and Sister Hosek, Other guests present were SPJST Director of District Two and R. V. 0. S. Lodge Vice President Charles Navratil, District Three organizer Arnold Vrla, District One organizer Vaela y Barina, District Seven organizer J. Kleprlik.

The Minutes of the April meeting were read and were accepted.

Brother Marek, member of the nominating committee, reported of nominating Brother Hugo Schefcak, Sister Schefcak, Sister Hosek, Brother Barina, Sister Barina, and Sister Ceska for judges of youth achievement contest. Sister Hosek declined the nomination. The nominations of the remaining were approved and accepted by the assembly.

Brother Navratil gave his report as Director of District Two and also gave a report as SPJST Rest Home director on the financial standing and progress.

He expressed his thanks to all who gave their support of any kind toward the Rest Home and impressed the need of further contributions. He has announced that Brother Paul Sablatura resigned as a director of the Rest Home. Brother Sralla is in his place.

Brother Ben lVfikolay, District Two organizer, gave his report on writing new insurance by the organizers of District Two. of ∎ Sister Clara Hejl, youth director District Two, voiced her recommendation to have our next Youth Achieve-

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Irwent meeting in Camp Tahoya near Belton. Brother Marek gave motion to have officers of District Two to obtain and secure Camp Tahoya for orir next Youth Achievement meeting. The motion was seconded and was accepted by the assembly.

Brother Vitek gave gave the treasurer's report. He reported a balance of $295.95. Expected paid out $267.00. Adjusted gross balance is $28.95.

Motion was made and seconded that the District Treasurer Vitek pay all expenses of Youth Achievement prizes.

This motion was seconded and accepted.

The meeting adjourned for lunch.

The afternoon session started at 2 p. m. with the roll call of lodges in District Two, Lodges Represented were: 20, 24, 29, 41, 48, 69, 72, 80, 87, and 109.

Those not represented were: 15, 74, 75, 86, 89, 94, 192 ;and 155. President Chervenka expressed his thanks to all present and announced that our next Youth Achievement Meeting will be held in Camp Tahoya near Belton, Texas', if at all possible.

Brother Edward L. Marek, present of Su.nreme Lodge, introduced The Supreme Lodge officers as follows: Vice President J. B. Hejny, Secretary, J. F. Chupick, Treasurer J. Koliha, Fin. Secretary Ray Urbanovsky. He also gave his thanks to all that participated in anyway in this meeting. In conclusion he spoke shortly in Czech.

The Editor L. 0. Hosek, after a short introduction to the assembly, spoke in Czech. He expressed his thanks to all in being helpful to him in his task of eg'itor of the Vestnik.

President Cervenka, introduced Sister Ema-qa Ceska. She spoke with enthusiasm on Youth Momevent in our SPJST and stressed the need of our work with young people in our lodges to assure future progress. Without our youth we will be set back more and more each year.

Youth contest.

The following spoke shortly. Vice President • Joe B. Hejny, District organzier of District Two Brother Barina and District organizer of District Seven, Brother Kleprlik.

The meeting was adjourned.

• The above are the minutes of our October meeting. Our next meeting will be held, at Seaton, Texas, in the hall of lodge Hvezda Texasu No. 47, on the 4th Sunday in March 1959, That's on 22nd day of Mairch at 1:30 p. in. Youth program will start at 2 p. m.

I am hoping that some one will write more before the meeting, I, hope to see all of you there.

Fraternally yours, A. L. Boudny, Sec'y.

District 2

Brother president commented with approval and urged all lodge to organize Youth Clubs. He then turned the meeting over to Sister Clara Hejl, youth director. She conducted the contestants in the various achievements.

Brother Chervenka asked for the place of our next meeting. Brother Kaispar president of Lodge 47, invited the meeting to the Hall in Seaton. The motion for accepting the invitation was seconded and accepted by the assembly.

Organizers of District 1, 2, 3, 6. .7 were present and recognized. The manager of the SPJST' Rest Home, Brother Troubil were recognized.

Sister Hejl presented 'the winners of

The money spent for this purpose is the best investment any organization or any individual can make. From the point of view of responsibility and ability to instruct others properly, it should be made compulsory to c11 district organizers to complete at least one of the take advantage of this splendid oppor tunity of selfeducation. All we have to do is just to make proper arrangements and secure the necessary time. And I think, sisters and brothers, nobody will call this a big problem. Ever if it will mean a little sacrifice to some of you, then you can be sure that it will be worth all the benefits you will get for it.

All organizers attending the seminar

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San AntonioTexas 9 Sisters and Brothers, A four-day Fraternal seninar on insurance sales atthe Institute of Insurance Marketing at Southern Methodist University in Dallas was completed Feb. 5, 1959, covering the following subjects: Definitions, Choosing the right policy, the real value, Social security, Sales talk tiemonstration, Market development, sales ideas, What's in the policy, LiveDie-Quit, The problem of income, Finding the fixing p:'oblem, Why people buy, The prospect says "No", Getting action Risk selection, Applying knowledge.

Those who attended the seminar enjoyed a rich experience in the dignity of interesting and instructive lectures of high value, and excellent preparation of simple and complicated problems con cerning insurance by true experts, the glamour of the classroom in a new building and the fellowe'aip both with SPJST organizers and members of other fraternal organizations.

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were awarded certificates. There were 24 students consisting of 10 SPJST, 3 of Knights of Columbus, 2 of the IVIambees, 5 of Sons of Herman and 4 of Supreme Forest Woodmen.

Our hearts and our thanks go to our Supreme Lodge for offering and sponsoring this kind of schooling to our organizers. The spirit of Fraternal seminar has been all that could be expected and the fine cooperation assures the success we will enjoy in the future.

In January District Seven had seven active organizers. They have sold insurance as follows: Frank C. Sacky — — — $10,000.00 F. L. Pu,stejoysky — — $ 5,000.00 Henry Sralla, $ 1,000.00 Louis Dressler — $ 1,000.00 John Hranicky $ 1,000.00 Tim. Novak — — — $ 1,000.00 Chas. Novosad — $ 1,000.00 They stand as an example and an inspiration to all others, for they have met the requirement in doing their best to add at least one member a month in order to qualify. I fully appreciate your cooperation and efforts, brothers, thank you and keep it that way.

Now, when we have a good start, let's all do our part. With all of our shoulders together, 1959 may well be a banner Year for District Seven. Good Luck!

Jaroslay Kieperlik District Organizer • 414) •

Attention District One Organizers Kovar, Texas All you winning organizers of District One that have sold five thousand or more insurance during our contest with District Two, and are according to the agreement with Brother Mikolaj and my self eligible to attend the feast given us by the defeated district, please bean M mind the date of March 2, 1959 and make it 01 must to be with us at our Kovar Hall that evening.

That is the date and place where the defeated district must pay off. Brother Mikolaj is going to do that by feeding us.,baked turkey and all the trimmings while he himself must eat cold crow. It should certainly be worthwhile to come to this great celebration and the fun we are going to have. Be sure to bring your wife too, so she can enjoy the fun with us. We will be looking for everyone of you.

Looking forward to seeing all of you on that evening, I remain fraternally yours V. H. Barina District No. I Organizer,

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Relsorts From Local Lod 'es GRANGER, TEXAS TO MEMBERS OF LODGE KOMENSKY NUMGER 20.

Dear Sisters and Brothers: Our March meeting, which will be held on Sunday afternoon of the 8th, will mark our First quarterly meeting of our current year. Your officers are hopeful that it will be an inspiring session and that the attendance will be large.

Your presence will add much to the enthusiasm and spirit of the meeting.

Instructions were issued in our February meting thsi our custom of refreshments and snacks be prepared for this quarterly session. Your officers believe that you will enjoy the "eats" and the "drinks." You are urged to be present anD join th fun. Most assuredly, visiting members shall be highly welcome!

Don't forget the date. It is Sunday afternoon, at 2 o'clock, March 8th.

Fraternally yours, R. F. Holubee, Secretary.

• As LODGE 133, ANTONIO 42ND ANNIVERSARY -- Lodge San Antonio No. 133, will celebrate its 42nd anniversary on March 22nd. It will be an all-day celebeatioi This will include dinner and supper and dancing to the music of the San Antonio Czech Orchestra. Every one is invited to attend. The celebration will take place at the Comanche Park in San Antonio.

THE CZECH RADIO -- The Czech Radio, with its primary coverage of San Antonio, is beginning to be quite popular. Letters from many of the listeners in the arc: have been received. The program is broadcast each sunday at 5:00 p.m. and can be heard op to 100 miles from San Antonio. You can listen by tuning in KGNB radio station, 1420 on your dial, New Braunfels.

Chas. Sazaysky

Wednesdgy, March 4, 1959 LODGE NO. 39, BRYAN, TEXAS Dear Members: This is to inform you that our next Meeting will be held Sunday, March 8th at 2 p.m., so please be present for this important meeting and since special appointed Committee will report to us on a nice place they selected at Smetana to build our future SPJST Home, this will be brought to a vote: either accepted or rejected. Each member will also be notified by card. Hope to see a good crowd in attendance, I am Fraternally yours, Steve R,egmund, Treas.

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LODGE VESMERNOST 68, NELSONVILLE, TEXAS

Dear Members and Readers, Our last meeting was held Feb. 8 at 2 p.m. an d was a very nice meeting.

Minutes of the previous meeting were approved after little correction.

At this time all the officers presented the reports of the last year's progress.

The auditing committee reported that the books and all the records of the lodge are in perfect order (congratulations).

We received one new member with certificate for $1,000.00 Sister Olga J. Mikeska.

After some friendly social jokes our president called the meeting to a close until the second Sunday -- March 8 th at 2 p.m. Hope to have good attendance.

Chapter Two Here I write some more so it will fill the four cent postage. Wonder how Brother Editor will like this?

As you all know that about 90 per cent of our cities and towns are named after some outstanding person or first settler, but here are some that are not in that category.

When we were at our District Meet ing at Dime Box I wondered how that name originated? I wish some of you Dime Boxers would let us have the solution, how about it?

I live here at Wesley, this communiNEEDVILLE LODGE NO. 81 ty which was settled by Czech-MoraviDear Brothers and Sisters, an people, about one hundred years ago, Once again I am writing a few lines and these people were happy that they in the Vestnik. This is just to let you were in this free country, so they namali know that we're going to have our ed this settlement Veseli, this translated monthly meeting on March 8, 1959 at means happy. Our lodge Veseli No. 14 has 2 o'clock and would like to urge each the original name of one century then member to attend. when these people wanted a post office This meeting is going to be an -the Anglo-Ame sicans wo"e not able to portant meeting. So don't forget to pronounce Veseli so they made Wesley come on March 8. Would like to see each of it. member there.

There is a German settlement three Fraternally yours, miles south of Wesley where they wantSidney Blinka ed a post office so they had a meeting,

We4Psclay/ IklaTe4 4. 195? someone wrote onthe door "everybody is welcome" so as everyone was welcome they decided to call it Welcome.

Four miles south-west of Welcome is the town, of Industry. The name originated because the people were industrious and they even had a cigar factory — their smokstakes were made of tobacco that was grown the town, and that was some smoke, they did not smoke them long — they smoked them short.

Let me know how you like this and pass some cigars this way. Will see you when you come.

Jos. W. Jezek, Reporter ° * • 1.

FORT WORTH LODGE NO. 92 Dear Readers, Lodge Svaz Cechoslovanu No. 92, will have its regular monthly meeting Sunday, March 8th., starting at 2 p.m. The Ladies are asked to bring a covered dish or pastry such as pie, cake or kolaches, for the lunch after the meeting. Many thanks.

We want to wish a speedy recovery to Eben Pat Bergman, 9, who has been in the hospital but is now back at his home, he is the grandson of Sister Louise Fort, We also want to wish a speedy recovery to Brother Joe Knopik, who is seriouly ill at. Saint Joseph's Hospital.

Everyone remember the District Three meeting which is planned for Sunday, March 22 at Dallas 81, everyone remember the date and watch the Vestnik for further details The last District Meeting was not attended too well from our Lodge so please let's make it better this time.

Also remember the Lodge's Czech dance and make plans to go, Sunday, March 29, Easter Sunday, music will be

by Faraizl's Orchestra from here in Ft. Worth.

Congratulations to Brother Rudolph Koci Jr., and Miss Claudia. Spaulding, who were married Saturday, Feb. 14, in the Benbrook Methodist Church, and the reception was at the bride's parents tome, Mr. and Mrs Carl Spaulding, 7401 Davenport. The groom is the son of Brother and Sister Rudolph Koci Sr., 2115 Ross Ave. After a short wedding tip the couple will return to live here in Fort Worth.

Greetings to all our brotherhood.

Fraternally, Jay Dee Waggoner A politician asked a wise judge, "Who do you think will win th e race, me or my opponent?"

Judge: "Well, it depends on which one of you sees the most people. If you see the most, he'll win. If he sees the most, YQu'll Win."

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Strana 21 7.7 However, it was entirely the opposite this year as the month of January found me involved in numerous obligations and activities, to say nothing of a pleasure trip in addition to two road schluow b. trips with the Hlaho l Dramatic

Briefly, my trip west, with mother, into Arizona to visit a brother and his wife was quite enjoyable and reetful.

The weather was delightful and I found drivins exceptionally enjoyable through the mountains and desert. We spent a few days in the copper mining town of To Bisbee which is located close to the Mexican border in south Arizona. Besides taming with developments of the Lavender Copper Pit, Bisbee is the cen, ter of the BREWERY GULCH GAZETTE which still continues to publish items of interest so typical of the west of the outlaw days; the town iself is no more than thirty miles from the city of Tombstone, the sight of which thrills the nalOfficers and Youth Leaders of the tion's T V audience in THE TOMBThird District met in Dallas Feb. 15th at STONE TERRITORY. Pokrok Lodge Nr. 84 to approve a forThough it has the earmarks of a mulated plan for SPJST District III Youth Activity Day and Queen's Con- growing city, it is nay understanding test as presented by Youth Directors that the entire city is being reconstrucEmma Ceska and Bessie Petr. Rules and ted in the pattern of the old days of Regulations for the event will be re- Wyatt •Earp and "Doc" Holliday when leased to the 21 lodges and the Vestnik the six-shooter determined who was the better man. (Though Wyatt Earp has by the directors. become the idol of Dodge City, it should The Youth Activity Day as well as the be remembered that he was the MarSpring meeting of the Third District shall of Tombstone, Ariozna, at one will be •held at Lodge 84, 2625 Floyd St. e.) This reconstruction program has in Dallas. The meetings were originally been largely encouraged due to the planned to be held in Waco, Lodge 66, steady flow of tourists that make their Elm Mott. This lodge is in the process way into the territory, if only o stop of elaborate remodeling and will be at BOOT HILL o study wih interest the unable to act as host. markers over the graves of the outlaws.

Dates set for the meetings are Spring Just recently, there was an article in Meeting, District III March 22, and the BREWERY GULCH GAZETTE reYouth Activity Day, June 28. scribing the fire that totally destroyed an old hotel in Tombstone. Even beefore • ,ge • I finished reading all about it, not only DLAHOL DRAMATIC CLUB NOTES did my heart begin to bleed but I had Houston, Texas a misty vision of bowed heads viewing Who was it that wrote, "Time and the remains of the old landmark that Tide wait for re man?" At any rate I stood as a symbol of that era.

From Arizona I felt the urge to prohave a feeling that unless the club notes are brought up to date — and ceed into California to visit more relathat right soon — there will be more to tives but for the fact that it was neeunravel than my . meager brain is cap- sary to conform with a schedule set up able of taking care of. So, if you find for rehearsals of "013tINKY NA VES;t qlthis matter blended with more nonsen- CI." se than facts, I'am sure you will set it However, on returning via the southasi(de for something more worthy of ern route the idea to drive tleru the BIG your time.

BEND NATIONAL PARK just south of It has been my e. erience to drag Alpine occurred to ne. We had never through tiee, month January at the considered this trip too seriously as it rate of a s nail's pace, and it is under- is 9,2 miles off the main highway. This. standable in that we find ourselves al- I thought, was an ideal time to go since most idle compared to the rush of the I had a day to spare. Iherefore, after previous months. getting the car checked and gassed I

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"Well," I was told, it would be a good , idea to stop at the Chamber of Commerce for further details, but," he con; tinued, "if you go on and should lose your way and get lost for one reason or another, just stay with your car; do not leave your car because it is easier for the air patrol to spot the car." This was enough as far as I was concerned for he uncertainty and risks were too obvious. We continued on to Houston.

"OB .ZINKY NA VESNICPi was presen! tend in East Bernarld on January 25th on the invitation of Brother Gajevsky.

The play came off on time and was well received by a sizable audience; and I ; feel sure the members of the club and cast enjoyer the entire day.

Our thanks goes to Brother Gajevsky and to all who attended for their warm and sincere welcome.

Our very special thanks goes to Brother Alfred Hilsher, Brother Joe Skrabanek, Sister Ruby Cernosek, Sister Maxi hie Sefcik, Sister Wilhelmina Simecek and Sister Mary Jane Sula for furnishing a most tasty barbecue treat and (drinks on our arrival in East Bernard.

They saw that no one went hungry.

Our next venture took us to Fayetteville one week later. ThiS time the weather was not las favorable but we were , happy to see such a good attendance. As cold and wet as it was on our arrival, the boys were met by Johnny Sula whom they found busy setting up the stage. In a matter of time, they took time out o enjoy he hot coffee and pastries that were being prepared in the kitchen after Mary Jane Sula took it upon herself to bring and brew some coffee. In the meantinme, her mother, Sister Sula, sent some cakes and pastry down only to be followed by Sisters Dybol'a's land Knipple's arrangements of refreshments. A gentleman came in with a platter of popy seed kolace which his wife had prepared arCl everything was placed before us to enjoy. These are thoughts we like to remember.

Before the curtain went up, the Rev. Thos. J. Mati of St. John's Catholic Church and Brother Jno. Hanacek gave welcoming addresses, and the play was off, as' the saying goes.

We want our friends in East Bernard and Fayetteville to know that we enjoyed visiting with them and having the opportunity to present the play.

I cannot forget to mention our friends, Brother Joe Skrabanek and his wife. `Tliough. very busy they usually find time to accompany the club on these excursions. Their moral support kindness have done more for us

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than I am able to acknowledge, and on behalf of the club-I would like to say that we appreciate them.

We also want to thank Brother S. Valcik for his assistance during the performance in East Bernard. Brother Valcik is now the director of our organization, and with the assistance of BrotherJohnny Sula I think it is mutually agreed that our club has lost nothing so far as !accomplishments is concerned.

This brings us up to date when the last play was presented Sunday, February 8th, at ,Stiidewood, Lodge Pokrok, Houston. This three act comedy filled the afternoon's program completely and entertained full house. The characters in Brother Valcik's first play of the year were cast well. In such experienced capacities as Mary Johnson, Frances 0lexa, Lillie Follett, John Starcala and Tim Kostom, the play progressed to the general interest of all present, however, a pleasant surprise came in the characters portrayed by our newest members, Brother and Mrs. M. Karel who are making their home in Houston after living behind the Iron Curtain up to four year sago. We would like to congratulate them on their first performance and we shall look forward to their appearances on the stage again.

In furthei: connection wih this play, the club would like to acknowledge the kindness of Sister and Brother Alfre'd Hilsher for the use of furnishings and decorations used on the stage. It seems that Brother Hilsher opens the doors of his five business establishments in the city and 'gives us the keys and the privilege of helping ourselves. Their generosity in decorating our stage from time to tie +e has meant a great deal to us. They have participated in many auxiliaries of the lodge out of the goodness of their hearts and their fraternal spirit has gone far beyond the call of !duty. It is generosity such as they extend that iattracts success and prosperiy.

In closing, I would like to suggest that you refer to the Vestnik in the near future for the announcement of another play. Brother Valcik informed me his next presentation will be on the first Sunday in April. Of course, it is well to consult the Vestnik for the exact date.

I hope you will pardon the lenght of this newt letter and the fact that I have strayed off the path of the important items before the club.

Reporting for the Illahol Dramatic Club, I am Sincerely, Naomi Kostom

Wednesday, March 4, 1959 KAREL HAVLICEK. NO. 4

Hallettsville, Texas Dear Sisters and Brothers: Still the weather is bad cold and rainy looks like the farmer's will not get to plant early this year as the fields are soaked it will take a month to dry out.

Well our last meeting and program in February turned out fairly well since the weather was bad. We wanted to thank our good sisters for the 'goodies they brought for our lunch. And also Mr. Vasek for that good coffee. Thanks again. The meeting started at 1 p. m. and 2 o'clock we had our program: 1. Welcome -- Catherine Boleck 2. Song — My Secret — Group 3. My Valentin — Gloria and 'Donnie Woj tek.

4. The Easter Parade — 4 girls and 2 boys.

5.Recitation — Country joy — Victor Vasek, H. Nebauer 6. Recitation NWd Pie — 3 girls and 1 boy.

7. Piano — Duet — Bernice, and Mildred Treptow.

8. Welcome Visitor — 2 'girls and 2 boys 9. Recitation Difference between kitty and can — Carol Nabauer.

10. Dance — Pepita — by Helen Galetka and Gay Nell Grones. Very good girfls.

11. Was the Happy Birthday song and 6 boys for the 6 months birtday they drew the names for each month. For January -- Helen Galetka, February — Royce 3-rones, March — Mrs. August Nabauer, ipril — Gloria Woytek, May — Mrs. Henry Zarbransky, June — Mr. Willie Woytek. Each winning a cake. The last an our program was recitation by Patricia Zarbransky. After the program we oad a nice lunch and hot coffee served Also we wanted to say thanks to those goad sisters that helped us out with those birthday cakes. Our next meeting will be held on the second Sunday in March. So folks try to come to our meetings every month and please do not neglect to attend our District meeting at Moravia. Thanks to our Editor for printing all this in our Vestnik.

Your Reporter Mrs. Alvin (Lipka) Mikush I

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East Bernard, Texas Dear Brothers and Sisters: We, got another heavy rain today, ,which we did not need, sunshine and 'plenty of it, is what we nee'd'. Hope it quits raining because it is time to start a spring garden and time to plant corn. The fields are full of water.

I have not been at our last meeting

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of February 8; as we had 'company. We were glad to see them. But. I was told, that in spite of the rainy weather the attendance was pretty fair.

This is just to remind you members, our next meeting will be March 8 the second Sunday of the month at 2 p. m. we, would like to see many of you to come.

So, don't forget the date, we will be looking for you.

With personal regards to all I am, Fraternally yours, Mrs. Annie Foytik ► * 4 • ( LADIES' CIRCLE OF LODGE 92 Fort Worth, Texas At the meeting on February 12, we had twenty three members and three visitors present. We played games everyone seemed to enjoy the fun. — Sister Mrs. Mary Juran was surprised with a birthday cake and handkerchief given by each member present. She has been a faithful reporter for our Czech Lodge for many years.

Lots of delicious cakes, kolaches and coffee was served. We want to thank the Circle of Czech Women of Dallas, for the very nice letter of congratulations, which was read at our last meetling, it Wass so nice of you to remember us.

Thanks again — The next meeting will be March 12th, fit 10:00 a. m. Thusday — at our Lodge on Roberts Cutoff. Hostess will be Millie Waters, Esta Belle Hubenak and Tillie Gillis. Looking forward to seeing a lot of new members, visitors, and regular members at the next meeting.

Sincerely . your, Mrs. Tillie Gillis P. S. Just want to drop you a short personal note to, let you know who I am. I am one of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Kala's girls, there was three of us girls I am the middle one.

We used to drill under your Supervision at the Sokol when we were very young and we still remember what good old times we ral used to have and would like very much to see you again sometime.

Editor's Note: — Was glad to hear from you and old times. — Best regards • 4 • ( A man's wife kept hiding Ins liquor from him — he kept finding it though.

— Must have been his fifth sense.

If you are not able to do anything else for your fraternity, please give your Tad Vestnik to some of your neighbors or friends to read. They may someday become members of our S.P.J.S.T.

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YOUTH CLUB LODGE CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS Dear Readers, I was given some writing paper at our last meeting to write to the Vestnik. I am going to write a little about my school class. Last Tuesday my class went to the Naval Air Station. We had a nice lunch. After which we saw some airplanes. They were a Cougar, Neptune, Passenger plane, and a Sea Plane. The Sea Plane was especially interesting.

After the plane was in the water, they took the wheels off. It had a kitchen, radar, and a lot of electronic gear for detecting subs. We also saw a Boxcar plane.

Your Friend, Sam Peal Editor's Note: -- Thanks for your letter but please the next time you write to your Vestnik gin-le us more news from your Youth Club, will you? Thanks.

FROM LODGE 84 YOUTH DIVISION Dallas, Texas Dear Members and Friends, Recently District No. 3 managed to come out victorious over District No. 5 in a contest, the purpose of which was the securing of new members for the SPJST. As a way of expressing their congratulations, District 5 invited District 3 to Houston, Texas on Sunday, January 22 for a real feast.

The ,rip was made by way of a chartered bus which left our Dallas hall at a very early hour in the morning. We teen-agers took along enough "comicbooks", playing cards, cold drinks, and food to keep us occupied for hours! Everyone, young and old, amused themselves by singing favorite Czech and English songs.

We arrived at Lodge 88, Houston just in time to make it to Mass at the very nice Christ the King Church. After church we went back to the hall were ..erve rl a !(:',.'xions After the clinncr l cs of brief speeches was be,c.nin. Eiother A. Hilsher, President of Lodge 88, greeted us very hospitably. Brother Joe Skrabanek, Orgainizer of District 5, in his speech ad-

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mired District 3 for winning f the . r arrtest. By the way, Brother Skrabanek seemed terribly "hurt" because the hostesses refused to prepare his 'opossums' for the dinner! Brother Arnold Vrla, District 3 Organizer, stated that 'teamwork is what is needed in a winning bistrict. . .'. Brother Vrla acknowle!aged all the organizers from his District; Mrs. Emil Petr, our Youth Director! Juanita Janousek, our Queen; and Richard Sy7 kora, our teen-age President. The President of the Supreme Lodge, Brother Marek, remarked on "the friendly way in which our Districts work together."

Brother Louis Hosek, Vestnik Editor, left 'us a good thought to think about and to put into use daily. Brother Hosek said: "Any person can make a mistake at some time in his lire, but this mistake should be overlooked and a second chance be given to the person.

Everyone should treat one another elually and fairly." Mr. Sid Pokladnik, President of our Lodge 84, said, "that we nave come to the point where we have frinedship galore in our brotherhood"!

Thanks to all.

In practically all the speeches refer?flees were made in some way or another to the "spirit of friendliness." If I may say so, as a teen-ager, I feel that, the growth and success of the SPJST lies primarily in the fried,dly and • equal treatment given its members. Let's• all try to keep this feeling of "brotherhood" in our hearts for many years to come, for it is truly a great thing.

Richard Sykora, Teen-Age President of our Lodge, introduced each of the teen-agers from our club who ; were fortunate to have attended. Those teenagers who went, were: Nodya Rejcek, Richard Sykora, Carole Nemec, Kenneth Brcwn, S itanita Janousek, James Tanousek, Jerry Ann Urban, and Joe'Ondrusek. We were made to feel very much at home by everyone at Lodge 88.

The time went by much too quickly an!d soon we had to leave for home.

We left behind many new friends and acquaintances. We ?lad a "gay" time back on the bus and we all, especially the teen-agers, caught very few winks of sleep on the way.

The teen-agers want to thank all at, Lodge 88 for a wonderful time and for their tremendous hospitality towards us, We enjoyed ourselves to the fullest and we hope to be able to return there „soon.

Thanks for taking the time to read my letter and I will close for now.

Best regards to all!

Jerry Ann Urban, Sec'y Reporter

Strana 24 LODGE CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS Dear Readers: I am writing just a few lines to remind all of the teenagers of the Teenage Division of Youth Club, Lodge 56, to come to the March meeting.

I think we had a grand time at our last meeting and we can have a good time at this meeting again: Last time we played records; but this time I will bring my radio, so we can listen to popular music.

There will also be a cake walk; so all of you teen-agers bring a cake. There will be a lot of entertainment for all ages.

Come to the meeting and enjoy yourself.

Your Teen-Age Reporter Frances Jurica ) • sy,,, • San Antonio, Texas Dear Readers: On February 14 the Youth Club- of I e dge 133 enjoyed a Valentine 'Party.

It was held at the Optimist Hall, which was decorated by club members.

Those who helped decorate were: Marilyn Strobel, Jo Anna Seaber.s, Charlie Ploch, Pat Wilhelm, Bonnie Cheves, Willie S?.crest and Mrs. Secrest. Pat Wilhelm 3nd Bonnie Chaves were responslb l e for the beautiful Valentine box.

The dance was very enjoyable and refreshments donated by Mrs. Kleprlik and Mrs. Rohan were enjoyed by all.

Just recently the Youth Club of local lodge 133 San Antonio, held inaguration of officers. It was held at the Optimist Club.

Officers installed for 1959 are President -- Marilyn Strobel Vice President — Douglas Cheves Secretary — Martin Sjourner Treasurer — Sherry Hill Reporter -- Jo Ann Seabes, and Guide — Joe Wilhelm After the installation our Youth Director made a short speech congratulating the new officers. Then we enjoyed refereshments and dancing.

The new officers wish to have full cooperation from all the members of the youth club. And with the help of our L outh director, Mrs. Kleprlik we hope to mal.-e 1959 an even more enjoyable year.

Joe Ann Seabers, Reporter • 4 • "Please, sir, ill you help me," asked the beggar, "will you give me a dollar?"

"A (dollar!" exclaimed the prospect.

"That is a lot of money."

'Welt" explained the beggar, "I'm putting all my small beggs into one laskit."

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Dallas, Texas Dear Readers, On Sunday, February the 15, the Mother Lodge of SPJST 84 held their monthly meeting as always. The meeting was attended by about fifteen teenagers not to mention all of the grownups that were there.

After the meeting ended all of the people who were there were served charcoal broiled hamburgers with all of the trimmings. The hamburgers were prepared by Mrs. Ben Jarma„ Mrs. Jerome Reicek, and all of the teen-agers

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who were present at the meeting, After everyone was finished eating they all sat down to play games.

I would personally like to invite eeveryone to the next teenage meeting in Dallas which will be held on March the 8. The winners of the points race will be announced and they will be awarded with checks from the Supreme Lodge.

Well its time for me to close for now, but I will try to write another letter as soon as possible.

Yours truly, Juanita Janousek Queen

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San Antonio, Texas Dear Readers: Pictured are san Antonio Lodge No. 133 Youth Club officers elected for 1959.

They are from left to right: Douglass S. Cheves, Vice president; Sherry Hill, Treasurer (in SPJST point system contest won second place honors in local lodge Youth club); Marilyn C. Strobel, President (in SPJST point system contest won first place honors in local lodge Youth club and also first place in District seven); Martin Sojourner, Secretary; Jo Anna Seabers, Reporter (in SPJST point system contest won third place honors in local lodge Youth club); Joe C. Wilhelm, Guide.

These new officers were installed by Sister Ella Mae Murie, past financial secretary of Lodge No. 133. The ceremony took place on JanuAry 30, at 0j-

timist Hall (corner of Lovett and Oregon st., So. San Antonio), temporary place for our meetings, dances, parties and all social activities.

We had a very nice turnout, we were especially very pleased to see so many teenagers visitors showing keen interest in our prograna. Among those present were also officers and adult members of local lodge. I hope they all had a good time and they will make it a habit to see our youths regularly.

After all ceremony was over, we had free refreshment and dance by reemided music. I want to thank to each and every one for splendid cooperation and help to make this evening a big suc cess.

Marcella M. Kleprlik, Youth Director

Wednesday, March 4, 1959

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Corpus Christi, Texas how it feels to be rewarded for one's Deat Readers, hard efforts.

I am writing a few lines. I am the I want, also, to congratulate my "felTreasurer of our Youth Club in Cor- low coleagues," James and Juanita Japus. At our last meeting we had a Val- nousek for tieing for second place and entine party. At our next meeting we to Richard Sykora for placing third in are going to have a cake walk. our Mother Lodge. I should also like to I would like to invite all the mothers, congratulate all the winners of the vaand daddys, and children to it. We hope rious other Lodges, too. This should be to see you at our next meeting. It will an encouragement for the members of be March 8, 1959 at the Sokol Hall, the Teenage Clubs other Lodges to get Corpus Christi, Texas. their noses to the grindstone and realRespectfully, yours, ly work hard for the success of their inMichael Majek dividual lodges. With deepest gratitude and sincerity, I remain, TEENAGE DIVISION OF THE SPJST 84 Carole Nemec, Dallas, Texas Teeange Division No. 84 ) •fr._ Dear Members and Friends, The entertainment committee wishLodge Anton J. Cermak, No. 56 es to take this opportunity to invite you YOUTH CLUB and your friends o the play which we CorPos Christi, Texas are presenting. It will be given at our Dear Readers: lodge home, 2625 Floyd Street on SunI wrote a letter once last year, hope day, March 22, 1959; at 6:30 p. in. We do this letter gets printed too. We were hope you will come and be sure to given some paper and envelopes at our bring your friends and children. Admis- last meeting to write to the Vestnik. sion price will be '75c. Before the play, I am out of school with a cold, feel there will be a tasty meal available, so much better though. There are lots of come on early for supper. We'll be look- letters in the Vestnik lately. I read most ing to seeing you there. of them. I like being in the Youth Club.

The play, "IN THE MONEY", is a Yours truly, farce comedy in three acts. It will be Patrick Peal 7 0 ,717, I __hoe._ about 2 1/2 hours long so all you out-oftowners can come and still get home at SPJST LODGE NO. 84 DALLAS, TEXAS not too late an hour. The play concerns Dear Vestnik Readers: a young man who has spent his last On Sunday, February 22, District No. dime jet the towns understands him to 5 treated District No. 3 at Lodge No. 88 have inherited a large sum of money. in Houston, Texas. A group of us went If he gets out and how, can it be solved on a Chartered Bus, which left Dallas by seeing the play. Several other plots at 5 a. in. Among the group were 8 revolve around this one so as to keep teenagers from Lodge No. 84. We the audience in suspense until the very brought along our song books, which end. So plan to attend for we will be contained many old favorite Czech and looking forward to seeing each and ev- English songs. The singing was lead by ery one of your smiling faces. So don't our Youth Leader, Sister Bessie Petr. let us down!

Thus the song singing made the time Fraternally yours, pass more quickly. Good weather folEntertainment Committe lowed us all the way to Houston making James 3. Janousek, Chairman the trip more enjoyable. ° •( • We arrived there about 10:30 a. in.

Dallas, Texas and were welcomed by the members of Dear Vestnik and Readers: the 5th District. As we were getting off I would like to express my deepest of the bus we all sang "Hail, Hail the and heartfelt thanks to the Supreme gangs all here." Then some of our group Lodge and everyone connected with the left to attend church services in cars Point System Contest for tie prize mon- provided by the Hosts. At noon a deliey I received for winning first place in cious meal was served, precee,ded by a my Mother's Lodge No. 84 Dallas, in my prayer which was reverently led by District No. 3, and in the State of Jimmy Kadlecek, one of the Houston Texas. N'o one could ever know how Teenagers. As for the mead the variety overjoyed I was to come home, after a was tremendous as was the tastefulparticularly grueling day at school, to ness of the food. Those Hostesses are find a letter informing me that I had certainly excellent cook.s The meal was won $105.00 altogether in the Points followed by talks by different members Contest! I was so happy, and so sur- of the districts, which were very inprized that I had to sit down some- teresting to all present. The rest of the where before I fell down! Now I know afternoon we all enjoyed dancing and

Strana 25 visiting with all the brother and sisters of the Districts. The music was provided by a •band which played all types of music, enjoyable to all ages. Soon the time was growing short which meant we would h,ave to be leaving for home.

We were again served and it was as tasty as at noon. Then it was farewell time we all hated to leave for we were having such es wonderful and enjoyable time. To show their HOSPITALITY the hostesses prepared food for us to eat on our way home, which definitely was enjoyed by all.

Speaking not only for myself but for all of the other teenagers who went, I'm sure I can easily say we all had an enjoyable time and were glad that we• had the opportunity to go.

We met several teenagers there, who made us feel right at home. A few of those whose names I can recall now were: Mary Louise Kadlecek, Billie. Jean Rezek, Margaret Anne Rezek, Lorenda Lostak and Jimmy Kadlecek. Our many, many thanks to all of you from all of us for a) wonderful day. We certainly enjoyed and appreciated your congenial Hospitality. Also we'll be looking forward to seeing all of you again real soon.

In closing I wish to say I only hope the lodges and districts could have these "get togethers" more often. Those who didn't go just don't know what all they missed. THANKS again DISTRICT 5 for the nice time.

Fraternally yours, Jams J. Janousek Teenager of Lodge No. &♦ ( WHEN CHANGING YOUR ADDRESS USE THIS COUPON Supreme Lodge, S.P.J.S.T. Box 400, Temple, Texas I am asking you to change my'addresg bf The Herald (Vestnik) as follows: Hy old address:

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"Members" In The Texas News

E S T N I — WEST, TEXAS of his mother Mrs. Frances Ruzicka who passed away Monday morning.

Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Ruzicka, 82, of Buckholts, who died in a Temple hospital were held Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. at the Czech-Moravian Church Buckholts, Rev. John Balitka of Temple and Sister A. Z. Fuller of Cameron officiated.

Mrs. Ruzicka was born January 16, 1877 in Austin County and has lived in I3ockholts 76 years. Her survivors include her husband, Joe Ruzicka; five sons, Joe Jr., Iola, Ed Ruzicka, Bakersfield, Calif., Robert Ruzicka, Fort Worth, Vinlee Ruzicka, Temple; Frank Ruzicka, Buckholts; two daughters, Mrs. M. A. Rubac, Temple and Mrs. Willie Duclik, Buckholts; one brother, Martin Rubac, I3uchholts; 14 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.

• Rogers — Election of three members to the Rogers school board has been set for April 4 at the school library Expiring are terms of Charley Bartek, Arthur E. Cross and Anton Necas. Bartek and Neeas have filed for re-election.

Deadline for filing w,n, March 5.

• Mrs. Mary Ann Vana, 72, was buried at Wied after a Requiem Mass was said in Sacred Heart Catholic Church Monday. The deceased was born in Fayette County on August 28th 1886. In 1907 she was united in marriage with Conrad. B. Vana at St. John. Her husband and one daughter, Mrs. Mike (Estelle) L. Frey survive.

San Marcos — Joan Krenek, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Krenek of Rosenberg, was among seventeen students named as outstanding Southwest Teps State College students by the college yearbook staff.

Selection of the outstanding students was ba re:, '-1 on the number of points which they had accumulated for offices and henor a ttained on campus.

Mis, Krenek is very active in club and student government work and has been selected for previous SWT honors Many times.

• David Krenek, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Krenek of Nada, was rushed to the El Campo hospital after being accidentally shot in the chest by his 15-year old brother.

• • Delores Cherverika of the East Ward 4-1-1 Club, Rogers, won first place in the girl's dress review at the Bell County Junior Livestock Show. The announcement was made by Miss Frances Hembree and Mrs. Ray Parmer who were in charge of the grils' division of the show.

Her dress was a cotton school dress.

Second place winner was Sue McElhancy of the Whitehall 4-H Club; Miss Laura Bay of Kileen. FHA chapter won third place.

• • M-Pgt. Elbert E. Foytek of Houston has been awarded the Air Force CommendaBuddy Mach recently received his distion medal for outstanding meritorious charge from the U. S. Army after two service while a member of the Houston years in service.

Air Reserve Center.

• • • Miss Peggy Malinak, a senior English The Moravia 4-H Club held its meet- major, is one of 33 Texas Tech students ing on Feb. 3, 1959, at 2:30 p.m. Margie to finish the fall cemester with all A's Okruhlik presided at the meeting, Patsy the office of the registar has announc Hrncir gave the secretary's report, Kathy ed. Miss Malinak is the daughter of Mattis gave the treasurer's report and Dr. and Mrs. L. I. Malinak.

• • Julia Hermis gave the council's report.

Mrs. C. L. Zarosky, who underwent Mrs. Myers showed us soale slides. surgery at the Methodist Hospital is * • reported to be doing well this week.

Delegates from 4-H clubs in 22 South Texas counties will gather in Belmont, Mr. and Mrs. Justin Kubala of FayGonzales County, March 7, to attend a District 10 4-H Club Council Meeting. etteville announce the engagement and Delegates from Lavaca County are Eliz- approaching marriage of their daughabeth Klekar and. Monica Hrncir. Alter- ter, Marie Ann, to Daniel L. Prihoda of nates are Dolores Pesek and Pauline Pe- Hearne. sck. The extension Agents will attend the meeting as advisors to the counMiss Helen Marie Sv-rcek of Fayettecil. ville will become . the bride of Eugene • • Ahlschlager of Ettinger on April 19 at Ed Ruzicka flew from Bakersfield, Cal- the St. John's Catholic Church in Fayifornia to Temple to be at the bedside etteville.

Wednesday, March 4, 1959 Miss Joan Bernice and Lehnert Miculka plan a June 13 wedding in East Bernard, home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Kubena.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Miculka, 504 W. Delz, are the jarents of the prospective groom.

• • Henry Paul Horelica, a former Cameron resident, was named recipient of the American Legion Certificate of Honorable Mention through his school, Austin High, where he is a member of the ROTC. Albert Sralia of El Campo is stationed in FOrt Knox, Ky., with the National Guard. He is attending Radio Schcol there.

San Angelo -- An open house was held last Sunday honoring Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lichnovsky on their 50th wedding anniversary.

The event was held in the Lichnovsky home. Hosts were the children of the couple, Mr. and Mrs. 0. C. Lisso of Miles.

Alvin Lichnovsky of Corpus Christi, Ed. Lichnovsky and E. J. Lichnovsky of San Angelo.

Special guest was Mrs. Lichnovsky's sister, Mrs. John Kohutek. A niece, Mrs. Marie Lauw, registered the guests. Serving were Mrs. Ed Lichnovsky, Mrs. E. J Lichnovsky, Mrs. W. A. Lisso, Mrs. Marie Kudlacek and Mrs. R. V. Pope.

Decorations featured a 50th anniversary cake flanked by candles.

Over 100 friends called during the afternoon.

Mr. and Mrs. Lichnovsky were married. Feb. 18, 1909 in Rowena. They have 13 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. One son Arnold Lichnovsky died in 1945. — Our best wishes for many more years of happy married life.

Frank Malina, 77, of 608 South Baylor, died at a local hospital Tuesday at S a.m. in Brenham.

He had suffered from a heart condition for some time.

He was born Sept. 22, 1881, at Horni Becva, Czechoslovakia, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Manna, he was 'educated in jublic schools in Czechoslovakia and came to America at the age of 16.

Mr. Malina served with the 27th Infantry Band from 1905 to 1908, one and one-half years being in Cuba. He studied music in Chicago and was a cornet soloist with the Houston Municipal. Band for a, number of years, was director of the Brenham Concert Band for several years, was director of the Brenham

Wednesday, March 4, 1950 High School Band for 11 years and also taught music at . his home. Mr. Manna was married to Miss Lena Marek on Sept. 20, 1911, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Brenham by Rev. Langner.

Survivors include his widow; one son, Dr. F. J. Maline of Paris, France; one daughter, Mrs. Smith A. Mercer of Houston; four grandchildren; one half brother and four heal sisters all of Czechoslovakia.

• • Rogers — Pamela Merka, the D A R winner in Rogers High School has been declared the DAR winner in the 11th Congressional District.

Official word was received today from Mrs. T. Mann Pretty aaan of Fort Worth the state president. in a letter addressed to the superintendent B. F. Harbour, with this opening paragraph: "As State Chairman of the Good Citizens Contest it is my privilege to announce for the State. Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, that your school winner, Miss Pamela Merka, has been selected to represent the 11th Congressional District. This area includes all eligible accredited senior high schools in Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, McLennan and Milam Counties."

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In mailing us clippings and reports from your local papers about happenings to our members in Texas, please send then in immediately while they are "hot", while they are News.

This column in the Vestnik has gained favor with our members and readers and in order to keep it informative and interesting we solicit your kind cooperation in sending us clippings form your local paper about our members and their families. We solicit clippings or parts of articles of activities in our settlements among your friends. Thank you for your efforts in behalf of this column. — The Editor.

• • Miss Rose Dorothy Fojtik and Albert Brookes Stavinoha were united in mar riage Feb. 7 at the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, Rosenberg, with Rev. J. J. Tydlacka solemnizing the double ring ceremony.

The marriage vows were solemnized before an altar adorned with two arrangements of white gladioli and stock.

The bride is the daughter of Mr. and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Felix Stavinoha of Wharton.

• • Funeral services were held, at the Koenig Funeral Home here Thursday monring with continued services at. the Sacred Heart Church for Frances Falty-

VESTN IC — WEST, TEXAS sek, 86, who expired Tuesday at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Sandera.

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Mrs. Woodrow Chervenka named several committee chairmen at a meeting of the Moravian Brethren Christian Sisters of the Ocker Church held recently • at Zabcikville.

Mrs. W. A. Dornhoefer will have charge of the sunrise breakfast to be held in the fellowship building following the Easter sunrise service; Mrs. Joe Wentrcek was named chairman of the home mission prograna; and Mrs. Adolf Schiller is in charge of the shrubs on the church grounds.

Mrs. W. J. Baletka gave a re port on the World Day of Prayer. Prayers were led by Mrs. Schiller and Mrs Aidolf Stepan. Hostesses for the day were Mrs. Ernest Schiller and Mrs. Stepan.

In Memoriam IN MEMORIAM We, the undersigned Resolution Corn mittee of Lodge Komensky No, 20 of Granger, Texas, for and in behalf of our members, wish to herewith express our depest sympathy to the bereaved wife and surviving family our departed brother,

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ARNOLD J. MARTINETS Brother Arnold J. Martinets was born in Granger, Texas on February 7th, 1907 and passed away on Saturday, February 14th, 1959 at the age of 52 years and seven days. He was made a member of SPJST, Lodge Komensky No. 20 of Granger, Texas, on the 10th day of September 1934.

Surviving are his beloved wife, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Novak of Rosenberg are happy to announce the arrival Edna (Limmer) Martinets of 1510 North of a daughter Agnes Marie born Febru- Main St. Taylor, Texas; also his n(other, Mrs. Emilie Martinets of Bartlett; ary 19, weiging 6 pounds, 9 ounces. three sisters, Mrs Velma Kropp of Bartlett, Mrs. Alice Slagle of Riverside, and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Jasek of Odessa became the proud parents of a baby boy a number of nieces and nephews. born to them on Friday, February 6th Funeral services were held in Taylor, at the Odessa Hospital. The little lad Texas, on Monday afternoon, February tipped the scales at 6 lzs and 11 ounces. 16th, at the Condra Funeral Chapel with He was named Mark Leon. the Rev. E. A. Heye officiating. Inter• • ment was in the Taylor City Cemetery.

May our departed brother rest in eterMr. and Mrs. George Shimek. of Houston are the proud parents of a baby boy nal peac e. born to them last week in St. Joseph's Dated at Granger, Texas, this the 20th Hospital in Houston. The little boy day of February, 1959 weighed 7 lbs. 14 ozs. He is welcomed by Jno. P. Trlica twins — a brother and a sister.

20. J. Mikulencak • • R. F. Holubec Resolution Committee Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Svec of San An• tonio announce the arrival of a baby daughter, boar in the Santa Rosa hosIN MEMORIAM OF pital on Feb. 7. She weighed eight pounds SISTER EMMA • MARIE VONT1J1 and seven ounces on arrival and was named Eunice Ann. She was welcomed Member of Lodge Vesmir No. 61. S.hE by a sister and brother. passed away in Mercy Hospital at Jour• • danton, Texas on Friday, Feb. 13 at thq age of 44 years.

Janice Kay, seven-pound daughter Sister Vontur was laid to rest in eter• born Feb. 14 at Polly-Ryon Hospital, Richmond, to Mr. and Mrs. Leo G. Mi- nal peace Saturday, Feb. 14 in the Flor• Keska. of Needville. Grandparents are esville Catholic C'emetery.

Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mikeska and Mr. and Our sympathy to the bereaved lam.

Mrs. Frank Bigon of Temple. Mrs. Mi- ily.

Ad. Miculka, Floresville, Tex keska is the former Helen Bigot'.

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Sports Column

OTTO L. HOSEK DALLAS, TEXAS DEAR READERS AND SPORTSMEN: Lately I have received many requests from our readers to write some articles that would be informative to our fishing public on fish, lakes, and coastal fishing and fish stories in general, truly our state is rated very good both for the coast and the lake fishermen thanks to our hard working and alert State Game and Fish Commission for stocking and controlling of undesira.ble rough fish and other branches of control and help to private and club lakes.

Nearly three-quarters of a million Texans fished the coastal waters of our state between Sept. 1957, and August 1958, according to a survey just completed by Belden Associates for the Texas Game and Fish Commission. The report was released a few weeks ago by the Executive Secretary Howard Dodgen.

This one-year harvest netted fishermen 9,199,000 pounds of redfish, 20,905, 000 pounds of spjeckled trout, 2,577,000 pounds of flounder and 4,343,000 of driesh.

It was also roughly estimated that three million pounds of shrimp were taken by the sports fishermen.

The Galveston-Freeport area produced the most redfish and flounder, the some area, plus the Corpus and Aransas area produced the most speckled trout and the catches of drum were about equal in each area.

This survey also shows the average salt water fisheman went out nine times during the twelve month period and most of these fishermen lived within 100 irol‘n. of our Texas coast. Most of the lisheimen are technical workers, with professionals following a close second.

Although the population of Texas is only 49 per cent male, 73 per cent of the salt water fishing is done by men.

The main purp6se of this survey was to supply the State Commission with reasonable accurate estimates on the harvest take of the five main species of

salt water fish.

Texas coastal fishermen this spring will have three full-size artificial reefs with contracts let in Austin for their construction. Announcement of the successful bidders was made by the Fiscal Director of the Game and Fish Commission. The two new reefs are in the vicinity of Freeport and Port Isabell, and the contract goes to Crosby Party Boats, Inc., of Freeport for $18,191.25 each..

These reefs are constructed of 600 old automobile bodies each and are laced together with steel cables and each unit of not more than six bodies will be weighted down with a fifty pound weight or "sinker."

A contract for adding 400 additional car bodies to the Port Aransas reef was awarded to Smith Bros. who built the original reef there last .Raze- Fantastic fishing results reported from the small reef near Port Aransas brought the demandi of fishermen for additional reefs in the off-shore waters.

Good catches of fish are being reported from all over Texas, both lake and the coast according to the Sec. of the Game and Fish Dept. Party boats on the coast are coating in with heavy loads of snapper and large crappie are hitting in most of the fresh water lakes.

Despite unsettled weather fishermen have been taking their limits in many places the secretary stated. "Although the heaviest catches are being made from the .rapper banks, trout, red fish and flounder have been abundant too."

The Commission warns: "Be sure you have your license. Don't get greedy and take more than your limit and be careful with your boat during high winds over rough water."

Flat Heads Used in Control of Sunfish Flathead catfish have been stocked in eight ponds in three counties where an over-abundance of sunfish and bullhead catfish are known to exist. This has been done in an effort to learn whether flathead and blue cats can be used to control these undesirable fish.

It is the opinion and observation of most aquatic biolo g ists in the state that flathead and blue cats feed on sunfish Rio Grande cichlid and bullhead catfish.

It this is so this control will be a great boon to our farm stock tanks and small lakes.

Eight ponds were located which had great numbers of these undesirable fish.

These ponds ranged in size from two to eleven surface acres and gill nets were set in each prior to stocking flathead.

The weight and length of all species taken in the nets were recorded and then the fish were placed back in the pond.

Wednesday, March 4, 1959 On Feb. 20, 1958-- 76 flathead were obtained through the cooperation of the Corps of Engineers at the Denison Dam Power Plant on Lake Texoma. These fish were then tagged and prepared for the experiment, 24 of them were stocked in six ponds in DeWitt and Gonzales Counties and others placed in ponds in Bexar County.

Following the stocking of the flathead, gill nets will be set quarterly in each pond to detrernine any ahanges in the relative number and size ‘ of all species. So far, blue catfish have not been used in this experiment cecause sufficient numbers were not available.

Certain fish have varied appetites and will eat nearly anything at one time or another according to the biologists and this conclusion is baesd , on samples taken from the stomachs of fish over a period of years in research. Such samples have included everything from rat skulls to peanuts and paper sacks with brand name and all.

A skull from the stomach of a channel cat caught in Little River in Leon County was recently sent infor identification. It turend out to be that of a bristle haired cotton rat which also indicates that the rats spend some time swimming. This skull was compared to others that were found in other fish and proved to be the same species of rat.

0 Wichita Falls biologist stated he also found such skulls in bass and catfish in that area indicating that rats must constitute a part of he diets of these two fish. Samples from fish taken at Belton Reservoir, which covered pecan flats in certain areas, revealed that some of the fish there were pecan eaters. In the case of the jecans, one fish not only contained samples of nuts but a portion of the sack with . the trade name still readable. Other items found included, grapes, red wing black birds, chicken bones, ducklings and varied other materials.

Just a few words of caution — Observe careful boating rules, license laws and safe practice for yourself and your family and leave a clean camp for the other fellow. Have fun — Sincerely, Otto L. Hosek P.S. After reading my article somehow there is something missing, — why yes, I know now After quoting a lot of facts and figures and analysis of fish stomaches, I found I almost forgot the hunters so here goes boys: Don't Feel Sorry For the Poor Coyote I have read numerous articles by "lovers" and defenders of the "Poor

Wednesday, March 4, 1959 Coyote". Why one kind sole even entitled his article "The Coyote Comes First" — you said it! He conies first and he keeps coming as long as you have any poultry or piglets, or sheep for his to kill for food -- or n4aybe , just for the fun of killing.

Mr. and Mrs. Coyote are cunning animals and are wizards at the disappearing act. — Now you see them, now you don't. He thrives in the desert, swamp, prairie, timber and thickets and his habitat is continually exuanding. In the sheep and goat country he is a menace, but is now somewhat controlled by poisoning, but he is now adapting himself to the thickly settled farming areas where strychnine and cyanide guns cannot be used. His den is often so near a farmhouse or out building that the farmer can hardly believe his eyes when he accidentally discoveres it or sometimes a nest of pups.

This sneaky thief' usually is nocturnal in his habits, but if the farmer shelters his poultry at night, Mr. Coyote waits until the protecting doors are opened in the morning then helps himself while former Jim is eating his breakfast in the house. This could be quite a nuisence so Jim wipes the cobwebs from that trusty old double — loads her up with some potent loads and is ready for Mr. Striart-alec. He looks mighty good hanging from the barbwire fence. — If you are a long-range fiend like myself, try to take him with your scope sighted deer rifle. You nail one believe you me you feel like you had a good day.

The less coyotes — more fawns and turkey for our next season.

Otto L. Hosek )• •( 121 MILLION COVERED FOR COST OF HEALTH By the end of 1958, health insurance protected an estIrriated 121 million Americans against the cost of hospital and doctor bills, the Health Insurance Institute reported today in a review of the year.

The number of persons covered by health insurance through insurance company programs, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and other plans represents '70% of the population.

A survey of the insurance companies sandling health insurance in the U.S. discloses substantial progress was made last year in providing sound programs for persons Over age 65. Gains in coverage were also noted for the individual and family policyholder, employees of small business firms and for people living in rural areas.

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Growth in the number of persons covered by insurance company policies alone continued on most levels in 1958, the Institute reported. Persons covered for major medical expenses climbed from 13.3 million to 16.5 million, a rise of nearly 25%. Another increase was shown in regular medical ex-pense insurance where the nurrIber of persons lion over the 1957 figure of 33.2 million.

The number of persons covered for surgical expenses remained constant at 6'7.5 million. Of the estimated 121 million persons protected by all insuring organizations against hospital expenses, some 70.1 million were covered under insurance company policies, which also' extended loss of income protection to some 32 million employed persons.

Progress in providing persons 65 years of age and older with health insurance, was also reported, the Institute announced, estimating that 40% of the persos in this age category now have such protection. It was found that the number of older age persons with health insurance was growing at a much faster rate than the senior citizen population itself. The number of Americans 65 and over increased by 13% froiln March 1952 to September 1956, while senior citizen coverage rose by 56%.

In the rural areas of the nation, the farmer was found to be rapidly catching up to the city dweller in the amount of money he spends to protect his health.

In 1941, farm families spent an average of $15 a person for medical care, less than half the $32 spent for members of urban families By 1955, the individual spending level for farmers was $63, or nearly 80% of the estimated $81 laid out by city folks.

It was learned that persons who have health insurance make frequent use of it. A Health Insurance Institute consumer survey conducted in 1958 revealed that two out of every five American families with health insurance have used their insurance in the past year to help defray medical ex-penses. The servey also showed that seven out of every ten families who have health insurance have used it at some time during the period where their policies were in force.

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Strana 29 test before they can enter the United States, and am worried as to what will happen to my mother.

Answer: Your mother will not have to take a literacy test. The law provides that aliens who are the parents, grandparents, spouses or children of American citizens or lawful resident aliens, who aeco,a-qpany or are coming to join them, are excepted from the literacy requirements set for other immigrants. Even if your mother would have to take the test, there would be nothing to worry about. The immigration law does not require aliens to be able to read or write English, but only that they be able to read and understand simple words in whatever language or dialect they may select.

• Question: I want to apply for citizenship, but someone tells me I can never be naturalized because I was once a public charge. It is true that about two years after I came here, I had an accident and received free care in a city hospital. My friend says that if the immigration authorities learn about this, they will not only refuse me naturalization, but will have me deported instead.

Is this true?

Answer; No. First, as to deportation, the mere fact that you received free medical care does not necessarily mean you became a public charge. Only where a city or state has a charge for such service and demands payment and there is a failure to pay, can a person be considered a public charge. And even if a person has been a public charge, he is not deportable on that ground unless he became a public charge within five years after entry from couses existing at the time of entry. Since your hospitalization was due to an accident in this country, it was obviously not the result of a cause existing at the time of your entry.

As to naturalization, there is nothing in the laW which prohibits a person who has accepted public assistance from becoming ,a citizen. The acceptance of public assistance by a person who is actually able to pay for it might, of course, be held to indicate a lack of the good moral character required for naturalizaCAN A PERSON UNABLE TO SPEAK tion. This is not, presumably, your situENGLISH BECOME A CITIZEN? ation. The acceptance of free care under Question: I am an American citizen the circumstances you outline should in no way prejudice your application for and have just filed a petition to bring my mother to the United States. My naturalization.

• mother never had any schooling but managed to teach herself to read. She We all can look back with pride on does not know how to write and she what has been accomplished by our cannot speak English. I have been told organizers. — Let's all of us be real helpthat all immigrants must pass a literacy ful to them again in 1959.

Ve sttedu, due 4. bfezna 1959

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oznamovatel Chcete-11 navS"tivit eskoslovensko, vyzvednate si co nejdkive americkY cestovni pas. Dodam potfebnY formular a te2 dani informace. Mam zamluven omezeny poeet mist na letadle pro ty, kdo odleti z Houstonu do Prahy 6. eervna. Mo hu zajistit dalSi mista do 10. brezna. — Stephen Valeik, 6402 Prague Street, Houston 7, Texas. (dm) ) •&

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