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OD REDAKNi110 STOLKU Nekolik tYdnii zpatky, jeden z nagich klubu mladde opravdu dobrST, bratrsky skutek.. Klub venoval pekny penalty dar fistavu pro du gevne chore deti. Druhy rad a klub nav gtivili nag Domov odpoeinku v Taylor a rozdali darky vanoeni. Zane druhyr rad radostne potegil pacienty ye vojenske nemocnici se syYm zpevem. Vgechny tyto Skutky projevuji opravdovY bratrskY cit a dobroeinnost krest'anskou.

• • Ovgem, mame zodpovednost zaopatriti potrebne veci na gim spolubratrtim a sestram v dobe nouze neb nemoci. KaZdY rad neb klub mladeZe (neb spoleemaji si vzit za Akal zadatkem toho noveho roku poskytnout nejakou dobroeinnost tam a kde je ji treba. Zde existuje vegkere manosti v kaZde obci, meste, neb okoli. Jsou to siroteince, domovy odpoeinku, fistavy pro slepe a nerve (nastroje die zpfisobu Braille), Ustavy pro ochromele, a mnoho jinYch podobnych zaslouZilych itstavu, kterY se aspon easteene spolehaji na verejnou pomoc.

• Kati' klub mladeZe hledi samozrejme, aby mel ve svojem radu to nejlepgi pohodli; kaZda vedouci iblad&Ze hledi, aby ka2Zde dite se stitaastnilo kaZ- deho podniku u radlu, aby cele ovzdusai bylo nejbrijemnej gi. Abysme ale byli lepgimj fraternalisti musime vykonat

Z. likeslieli: CESKi NAROD NEZAHYNE! OeskY narod nezahyne, znova slavne bude Zit, pokud k Tobe Hospodine, jako k Otci bude zrit! eskk narod nezahyne! . v nebesich ma hrdiny, jejichZ slava nepomine, — jsou to straZei oteiny, eeskY narod nezahyne! . nam v2dy moudry vestil ded: "Narod, jenZ se k Bohu vine, preeka vie — i hrfizy bed!"

OeskY narod nezahyne! . .

Preekal mnoho bournYch dob, preeka je g te boure jine, Necht' i vrah mu chysta, hrob! eskS7 narod nezahyne! .

Koho chrani viry tomu viterstvi slast kyne, o ten bude vane zit!.. . vice a vic skutkii dobroeinnosti, protoZe brave takova brace takove skutky — jest. co nas li gi od jinych pojiat'ujicich jednot. Nebudeme-ii" tak einit tak nemUerne se nadvat "bratrska jednota". Musime poukazat na nem vie neZ radovych schfizich a dobre pojiateni —

dobre poji gteni tvsdl, Z- e maji i druzi.

Behern roku neb na konci roku budeme pak mac si Mei: "to jsme udelali my — nag rad — nag klub mladeZe, a natio je nasledkem toho veselej gi neb si materialne lepsi stoji".. .

• Odmena z takove prace se neda. popsat. Clovek, ktery je gte nikdy neprovedl dobroeinny skutek svemu bliknmu si nemfiZe predstavit to radost, kterou ueini. Zde plati angl. prislovi: "nezaene g Zit dokud nezaene g davat" ... (dosti doslovne preloleno). Racine se mluvi o peel, kterou vlada poskytuje americ'bYm obeantim a, Ze co druhy alovek bere od vlady nejlakY ten "pridavek".

Vtom je trebas hodne pravdy, presto je ale jegte dost moZnosti vykonati dobrYch skutkfi !kde jich je treba.

• Pri pristi schfizi ktubu mlade2e, kdyz nevedi ostatni Co a jak podniknout navrhni, aby byl vYbor neb elen jmenovan za ueelem z j istiti jak mute vas dad pomoc neb "adoptovat", kterYkoliv stay Chi skupinu ye vagem okoli. Zeptejte se u: Armady Spasy, eerveneho kriZe, kostelni dobroeinne organizace, vegkere fondy pro vedejnou pedi, vevedoucich veznic, pracovnikil socialni peel, siroteincu, domft odpoeinku, a mnoho jinYch. VYber jest hojny a tim se nage SPJST uka2e, ze je opravdu bratr gka jednota. Tim se udela neco do-

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Ve sti'edu due 8. ledna 1964 breho pro komunitou jichZ jste vAichni • Na prvnim miste jsou saniozfejme naS'i spolobratri a sestry. Mame se dobre obhlednout zda-li nekdo z ria§eho sousedstvi neb radu potrebuje pomoc -- a potom pokraeov'at dal mezi verejnost. Ptilelitost v takove pra.ci jest neomezena, a velika vYhoda je tim, Ze rad neb klub mute si saw vyvolit, kde, kdy a !komu by chtel. pomoc. Mnozi obeane si stauji, Ze z tech velikkeh yerejnYch sbirek east° nevedi kam to vgeeko jcie. Tot' dobra prilelitost einit primo. (Nechci, ale nijak podeenovat tyto verejne sbirky). es

Jest to pozoruhocine, kdy rad neb !klub mladeZe si chteji zaridit pohodli, zaba y a veselost. Nesmime ale zapomenout na ty mene S't'astne kolem nas.

Musime projevit nak bratrske city, nejen slovy ale i sk'utky. Nenechte nastavajiei rok skoneit bez provedeni horeuvedenYch navrhil. Uvidite jak to eele Jednote prospeje! Nyni, zaeatikein novelio roku je dobrY eas nem podobneho podniknout. o Mnoho z nagich radu nemaji resoluenich vYborfx na sepsani resoluci soustrasti pro zemrele 'deny. KdYZ se srovnaji jmena v mesieni zprave od HI. firadovny (timrtni podpory vyp1acene. .") tak je videt, Ze se neuverejriuje ani polovic resoluci soustrasti jako bylo zemrelych. Tato zodpovedno,st path resoluenimu vYboru u kaZdeho radu, kde ale neni takoveho vYboru predseda ma na to hledet, aby NEKDO KDOKOLIV z elenfi napsal struenY (neb deni) resoluei pro jeho rad. Je to Cest a pocta, kterou si zajiste zaslouZi kaZdY zeinfelY clen. Patrieny format na sepsani resoluce soustrasti je, ale ye vetS'inu pripadil vyhovuje jednoduchSr format, i ktery naleznete v hnedle ka.Zdem eisle Vestniku pod zahlavim "NaS" Zalov" nebo v angl. easti pod "Necrology."

I kdy to trebas stanovy Jednoty presne nevyZaduji j est to projeveni bratrskeho situ. Takova resolute Ze se potom stat eastkou radovYch dejin, mimo poznamky v knize fieetniho neb tajemnika. Proto, hled'te poslat pro uverejneni ve Vestniku resoluce soustrasti pro taZdeho zeinfeleho spolubratra neb spolusestru.

Z celkoveho poetu 25.823 lekariz v .6SSR je 8.123 Zen. OSetrovatelek a socialnich pracovnic je tarn celkem.

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Oddil dopisovatelii PODEKOVAN1 Corpus Christi, Texas Cteni bratti a sestry: Chci dnes s varni zdelit, Ze jsem se rozmySlel zda-li mom neco napsati pro tisk do naAich novin o to vanoeni nadilce, ktera se zde potadala 15. prosince 1963 v sokolovni. Milerad vklconam svoji spolkovou povinnost, letera je ode mne oeekavana, aby naS: e elenstvo bylo informovano o naSi spolkove einnosti.

Kdy2 main eas a jsem sideastnen i na privatnich podnicich, pak i tehdy to oznamim a zaSlu do tisku. Prof jsem se rozmS7Slei popsati tou vanoeni nadilku nielo j akesi pozadi. Znam jednotlivce, kteti vtom vicli sebechvalu, kdyZ nekdo osobe poda v novinach zpravu, mu byla udelena pocta nebo radost.

Jsem hodne vzdalen od sebechvaly a Inecham mluvit jen skutky, ktere jsem proZival v kruhu syYch milSrch ptibuznS7ch spolkovSlch bratrii, sester a piatel.

Nemohl bych si nikdy odpustit, Ze jsem vetejne a soukrome nepodekoval vSem tem, co brali podil a snaZili se o to, aby jejich planovani se zdatilo. UdrIZet plany v tajnosti, to uZ samosebou neco znamena, 1 cly2 se nekomu ma delat ten tak zvany Birthday Party Surprise (Narozeninova, pfekvaperrka), bylo vSechno v proudu, tak kratce pled programem mi neco nadhodil na g bratr starosta, Jim Kueera, ze pry se chysta mne vzpomenout v jeho proslovu, pii torn vanoenim programu. Do to doby jsem nevedel co spolkove sestry, a bratti od sokolske Telocviene Jednoty Corpus Christi a ad radu Anton aermak f kadu 56, SPJST a za spolupfisobeni moji starostlive manZelky i s nasimi detmi neco pro mne pripravuji za mojimi zady.

Privitani: Za doprovod:u moji lepM polovieky, pH vstupu do sine ye 3 hodiny odpoledne jsem byl ptivitan hu:dbou a zpevem "Happy Birthday to you". KdyZ jsem se rozhledl kolem, videl jsem naAeho syna jak vyhrava na, harmonice, jsa obklopen naSimi detmi a v povzdali v sini cele zastupy freastniku, kteri byli pozvani, aby se podileli na vanoeni nadilce a zaroveri i na, mojich narozeninach. Pri tomto okamZiku byl jsem podarovdn krasnou kytici, jenZ byla porizena spolkari a mi odevzddna nag nejmIdai vnuekou, atyrletou: Nancy Huber z Austin, Texas.

V tomto okamZika jsem se citil velmi dojat, a muselo to na mne bSrti znat,

Manicle Jan StaAovi pii narozeninove prekvapenee v sokolovni v Cor pus Christi tine 15. prosince 1963 videt, neb na druhy den manZelka mi pravila, Ze mne videli blecieho ye tvati.

Mivam vZcly radost, kdya' se neco poradd v to naSi sokolovni pro pobaveni nebo i pro poueeni a neb zaslouZilS7m elenfun a olenkyn nejake to p • kvapeni a je eetna navSteva. Proto mei jsem tentokrate velkC fispokojeni a dvojitou radost z toho velkeho poetu elenii, kteri mezi nos priSli a brali zdjem na ceprograma, kterSi pozastaval z teloevienYth cisel, jena bratr Jim Kueera s nimi predvedl. Nato nasledovaly eisla basnieek, zpevu a hudby.

Pri tomto postupu programu bratr ceremonial- Kueera oznamil, Ze tento program je venovan ku pocte mojich narozenin a Ceti doSle blahoprani od bratra a sestry Ed. L. Marek, Predsecly Hlavni fitadovny SPJST, Temple, Texas; bratra, a sestry Joe B. Hejny., mistopredsedy Hlavni fitadovny, Temple, Texas; bratra a sestry R. A. Urbanovskeho, Tajemnik Hlavni Uradovny, Temple, Texas; bratra a sestry August Kacir, Pravni radice Hlavni firadovny SPJST Temple, Texas.

Od Bratra a sestry Jaroslav Kleprlik, okrsko-6 organizator sedmeho distrIktu a Tajemnik Hlavni fitadoyny SVPS San Antonio, Texas.

Od moji sestry Anny Hatla z Littlefield. od V. Minebergra„ redaktora VC-

ku Rozumu, Chicago, Illinois. Od pi. Ste. fanie a sleeny Esther 8tach, Rosenberg, Texas; pi. FrantiSky Kostelnik, Needville, Texas; pana Albert Novak, Bryan, Texas; pana Frank Oslislo, Fords New Jersey. JelikoZ dopis blahoptejnSr od ptitele Oslislo je delSiho obsahu, tak bylo upuSteno od: celeho jeho Cteni. Posilam jej bratru redaktorovi v nadeji, ze najde pro nej kousek mista ye Vestniku.

Po preeteni techto blahoprani nasledovalo oznameni naSeho syna Janika, 'Ze ma pro mne ptipravenou Ceskbu pisnieku s jeho detmi, kterou ty deti zazpivaly za jeho doprovodu na harmonice. Ty cleti.rady se nei Cesk3'71n pisniekam a my vSichni je radi posloachame a jaka by to byla uZiteend chvile, kdy by mohli trochu toho Casa ti rodide yenovat svirn detem. Vzporninal jsem na sestru Boenu Valeikovou v Dallas, jak ji to teSi, kdy uei ty •eti eeskemu zpevu, pak s nimi vystoupi pH vetejn3ich podnicich.

Deti pritomne 7u2 se ohl gely, kdy ten mikuld g prijde, aby je podaroval pHpraxenkmi balieky, jen byly umistene pii krasnem vannenim stromku. Vtom Case u2 se stmivalo a byl eas ku spoleene veeeri. Venku bylo studeno a zaCabo prSet. Bylo vSak dosti teplo, neb to nova zavedene zahrivani

4 umoSnilo, Se se mohou poradat mule podniky za kahleho poeasi. V kuchyni pilne kucharky a kuchari se ciniii, aby vSeciany pritomne flea,stniky vlidne obslou Sill.

Po y eeeri bratr Kucera pristoupil ku stolu na kterena byly umistnene snesene dary pro mne, Prvni na fade byla kolena kabela (Briefcase) Pro spolkoye listiny, kde mohu dati i protokolni knihy, kclyZ jeclu do schuze sokolske a radove SPJST. Doposud pouSivam ty same papirove becinieky (Boxe), ktqre jsem zdedil po pr( delYch tajenmicich . echno se monekolik rokfi spa tky. V S del nisuje a tak muse pokrokove Hensl vo nechce zUstati die toho pozadu.

Dar druhy portistava se souboru pera a tuZky.. Jiste se musim domyslet, Se se nadale ode mne 0cekava presne zapise protokolu ze schuzi, ryclale vyrizeni vSech listin spolkovS7 ch a obcas neco napsat do novin o nas a pro nas.

Na tyto d ye veci peneSite pr speli, jak zaznam na zlahoprejnem listku je nesen a byl bratrem Kiteerou pri odevzdavani. ManSele: George Bren, Charles Majek, Charles Holasek, Frank Sacky. Bill Spencer, Eddie Kueera, Jim Kueera, st. Jim Kueera, ml. Ed. Regmund, Bill Regmund Adolph Sassin Frank SijanskY, Frank Majek, Leo Majek st. Leo Majek, ml., Jul. Majek, Raymond Peters, G. L. Boxley, H. C. Burge, Frank VeselV, Victor Huff, st., J. A. Kosar, John Majek, Joe Majek, Jim Roschetzky, Fr. Veselka, Gene Bartosh. Sestry Annie Regmund, Mary Hermis, Mary Rendl, Rose Ticha ysk, A. M. Castro, Anita Regmund a bratr Joseph J. PoTreti darek pozustaval s automatickeho radia (clock radio) a priloSena karta nese imena: Maori, Hubers, Mokrys, Peals, Stasas, Janetka.

1VIa.me v dome T. V. a radio stargiho druhu, ktere mivam usazeno na stanici Rosenberg, a kdy jsem v dome a etu ranni denni noviny aneb p151 dopisy, tak pH tom v geni /lady zapomenu pritlaeit knoflik, aby to radio spustilo.

Abych byl uSetren to starosti, tak tou moji firadovnu mi take dopinuji COM nov3imi vynmSenostnai a hledi sprijemnit ten pobyt v ni. Je to v3"thodny vynalez, kter3i zapomenliv3im lidem ubira Cast tech dennich starosti a povinnosti.

Sestra Anna Hatla, ktera bVva. v Littlefield, Texas, ph priloSenem darku, omlouva svoji nepritomnost, ona uS prekroeila osmdesatku a to zdravi torn veku neslouSi k cestovani takovou vzdalenost. S mojich brat''i a sester jest pouze ona na Sivu. Mel jsem jed-

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Smo ek zachycen pii zpevu Ceske triโ ขtie na vanocl m programu a iatlu e. 56 v Corpus Christi.tine 15. prosince 1963. Ocl leva je bratr Jim Kueera, Kathy StaSa, Nancy Huber a Paula Huber. noho bratra Josefa a d ye sestry Marii a Annu. manZele 8tepan Strmiskovi, nine asi rad' vidi pane Ustrojeneho, tak me podarovali vazankou a kapesniky. ManSele Cablovi mne easto vidi v tech schnzich naAich spolkil a na tech rfiznYch podnicich tak asi videli jakou main spotrebu pro moje nohy, tak na mne pamatovali s pekriSimi ponoSkami.

ManSele Adolf Pilatovi mne podarovali souborem Lotion a Cologne.

Mankle V. Halovi, kteri se odstehovali z Corpus Christi do Bulger, Montana na svoji velkou Ranch v roku 1957, v jejich blahoprani gkoda, Sc tam nebudem, ale budeme vzpominat a aS tam prijedem prijdeme se na vas podivat. PriloSeny stribrnak jsem uloSil do mincove sbirky, ktera poz0stava s vetS1 easti j enS nam zaslala mnoholeta pritelkyne Stefanie Stachova z Rosenberg, Texas. Nevim zda-li jsem nekoho vynechal pak-li ano, tedy se Drihlaste. Tyto zde uvedene imeha mi byly odevzdane a rad je dopinim.

Krajenim a rozdavanim narozeninoveho dortu byl program zakoneen s dodateenVm podekovanim blahopranim a rukou potrasenim a zpevem, kter3'7 vedl na.S spolkovV pracovnik a nefinaviiV narodni vlastenec Chas. Holasek. Jednou asi tak peed dvouma mesici pH beSne reel se mne naSe dcera nejniladk Ann Peal zeptala kolik je mi roku. lkekl jsem Se 72 ale aby se nestala podezfe-

lou toS zavedla ree jin3-7m smerem. Toto se jen domnivam a trechu nine to Utvrzuje, Sc tomu tak bylo, kdyS se delaly ty plany. Ono to ylastne byly moje 73 narozeniny. Byl jsem narozen v noel na Sylvestra, kdy koneil rok 1890 a nastupoval novV rok 1891. Moji .rodiee se jmenovali, otee Josef a Matlea Anna StaSa a z jejich vypraveni si pamatuji toto: "NeS mne nesli ku krtu do Branek, kde byla naSe obec Police Phfarena, Se pry se radili s mojimi kmotry do ktereho roku mne nechazji matrice zapsat. Usnesli se pro rok 1890, men k tomu dfivody. 0 jeden rok spfSe zaeit SIolu obecnou, pak. pozcleji vojenskST nucenST odvod a sluZba 3leta Rakousketnu cisari FrantiS- kovi Josefu I. K tomu Skolnimu nastupu doยงlo isem v 5 letech saeal chodit do gkoly, ale tomu odvodu vojenskemu uS nedo Mo, neb otec s celou naAi rodinou se odstehoval sem do Texas v prosinci 1906. Do dnes jest pro mne zahadou, jak moji rodiee, porodni baba a kmetri ph tom racleni se, mohli vedet, Se budu miti delSi Sivot, kdyS v kaSde doinacnosti tak velkr poeet novorozencii pomrelo na ruzne neduhy.

Neoeekaval j sem, Se budu na "Leto planete take jednim z tech starSlch obyvatehl. VetSina tech moiich vrstev je uS davno na torn veenem oflpoeinku. Byli mezi nimi na ktere mam mile, vzpaminky, lituji jejich predeas-

Ve iffedu drte 8. letinft-1964 nen° odehodu, neb oni byli zde ualtedni v kaadem smeru.

Nekdy mi na mysl padne otazka, prod je dobry elovek odvoldn z kruhu svych milych kteti ho pottebuji a merle dobry ponechan.

V mojem aivote jsem mel tuhy boj udrkt se :nad vodou. Bylo mnoho tech nastrah, kterym mod lidu podlehne.

Oddoldvat ziu a ptidraovat se dobra, to vezme nejen dobrou vlastni vidi, ale zaroven i hodnou rozumnou druaku spoleeneho aivota, sourozence a prately.

Ja dekuji prozretelnosti a osudu, jsem mnohokrate na gel porozumeni u dobrYch a rortunnYch lidi s kterYmi jsem se schazival.

K mnoha tem krasnYm a ptijernnYm vzpominkam °pet pribyla dal gi, a myslim, ae to byla jedna z tech nejvetgich poet, jakYoh se mi kdy dostalo v torn mojem spolkovern a spoledenskem pnsobeni. Velice si toho vaairn a jsem vgem zavazan srdeonymi diky za jejich ridast, kterou planovali a sdileli pH teto zdatile okazalosti. Mnoho zdravi a vas vdeeny zdaru vgem pteje John Staga Dne 11. prosince, 1963 Bratru Janu Stagovi Corpus Christi, Texas Milt' bratte sokole a pfiteli!

Dovedel jsem se, ae ptichazeji Tvoje 72 rani narozeniny, ktere oslavi g nejen v kruhu svoji rodiny, a takta i bratti a sester Sokolek n v gech pratehi, Ti ptipravuji vetejne uznani Tvojich zasluh jak v Sokole tak i v kaacie narocini prani a v geho podujeti.

Pri teto ptileaitosti, beru si i ja, za svoji milou povinnost pripojit se ku vgechnem tvojim priznivctm a prateifim s mojirn skromnym ptanim, abych Ti projevil moji flan a blahoptal za vge co jsi za, celou dobu Tvojeho aiti skuteene pro celou na gi vetev deskoslovenskeho lidu zde vykonal o dema je zname eels na g i verejnosti a tak jiste i mne.

Tea vzpominam, ae jsi mne projevil nagi krajanskou ptislu gnost k to nagi spoleene stare vlasti mile Moravence a ae nas yak i k celemu narodu nag spoledny pnvod, zajmy a hlavne sit spolupattidnosti, kterou jsi vady i v Tvojem dopise mite tak vrele vyjacifil.

Proto vge mej I mfij uptimny dik, prani vgeho dobra hlavne zdravi a jag -tezadlouhetjakvruhToji,ebe milujici rodiny tak, i stejne nas vgech znanISTch i neznanaYch ptateltit a spolueiniteln na naroda poli dediene.

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Dej Ti pan Brih zdravi v tom Texaskern kraji. krajan — soTvilj uptimny pritel kol Frank Oslislo -SPJSTZa gici krouiek ien v Ennis

Mile sestry: Schtize nakho krouaku bude jako vady, etvrtY etvrtek v mesici a to 23. ledna. Jest to schnzi vYroeni, tak mile sestry se dostavte v hojnern poetu, abyste si zvolily ntednice dle va geho prani. V padu mod gpatneho poeasi, snehu nebo omrzliny, o tYden. pozdeji — 30. ledna. Nage "Christmas party" se nam pane yydatila. Mely jsme velice ,dobry obed. Strombeek pekne okra glenY a pod nim mnoho darkt, ktere jsme si rozdaly mezi sebou, die vytaaenYch eisel. iBylo to takoye mile pobaveni. 2e1, ae jsme postradaly sestry, dallaske i sestry zdej gi, ktere se nedostavily. Asi to zavinilo to Spatne podasi, neb bylo hodne zima.

Jak vice, pro givame deky a zhotovujem peroutka. Obeas si pragijem deku kronaku na kterou si mezi sebou rozprodame listky a St'astna„ dienka ji vyhraje.

Penize co straime, ukladame do nagi pokladny, jea pozdeji venujem na dobre rieely.

Tak mile sestry nezapomerite na 23. ledna a dostavte se v pinem podtti, abychom zadaly v torn /tavern rote zas svorne pracovat.

8t'astnST navy rok vge dobre Vam pfeje Ritaena Zazvorkova, taj, krouaku

v ptigti dobe — nejaky piknik anebo zabavu, abychom jsme to misteeko V torn lesi nejak rozveselili.

Prigti schtize bude druhou nedeli v lednu, totia 12. ledna, tak vas laskave vgechny zvu, bud'te tak dobti a prijd'te do schuze. V sobotu 14. prosince jsme potadali tzv. "bake sale", totia prodavani peeiva pro na g tad. Prodali jsme v gecko, co jsme men kdyby jen toho bylo vice. Nevim, prod ty Zenu gky nemohou aspori ty domaci nudle ptinest — ani nevite jak jdou na odbyt. Kdyby jsme men jests dve takove obetave kuchatky jako jsou sestry Ludmila Darilkova a Bessie Steinochrova, tak bysme zasobili kaademu. Zatim, icliky vgem co pomohly. Pro dne gek kondim a podruhe bude toho vice. Ztistavam vase dopisovatelka, Bessie Fojt

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Svaz eechoslovanft C. 92, Ft. Worth Mili bratti a sestry: Pripominam timto na gi kadovou schnzi dne 12. ledna v nedeli, zaeatek ye 2 hodiny odpoledne. Bylo by zahodno, aby kaady elen si ptipomenul, ae je to povinnost nav gtevovat easteji schtze a mel zajem o tizent radu a o budoucnost Jednoty vubec. Ptipominam znovu, pattime do bratrske Jednoty a ne do poji gt'ujiciho spolku. Prijd'te, kdo jen mfiaete, v teto schuzi budou nastoleni nove ritedniky, na rok 1964, ktere jsem Vam jia oznamil v pted minulern Vestniku. Nage sestry jak obydejne jsou aadanY, aby die moanosti donesly hodne kolaen a ritzna, jina peeiva a salaty, atid, pro chutnou sva,einu po schuzi.

Na shledanou Josef Bedan, dopis.

Rad C. 165, Moulton Mile etenatky a dtenari Vestniku, posilam dopis do anglicke dash Vestniku tak chci take nem napsat do deske stati, co je u nas novella abyste nemysleli, ae jsem zapomnela psat. Ty vanoeni svatky jsou odbyte a kaady je rad, ae ten spech a short ua skoneil. Budeme se zas tegit na prigti vanoce. Nevime dne ani hodiny ktly nas Brih povola do toho raje nebeskeho a myslim, ae je to lep g'i kdya to nevime.

Nage posledni schuze byla obstojne navgtivena a volby ritednikri na. rok 1964 byla konana. Zas ti sami byli zvoleni jako minule: predseda Emil Krejdi; mistoptedseci'd Roman " idek; nahradni ptedseda Zat Johnson; taiemnik Jerome Vagek; rieetni a pokladnik Adolf Wagner; dopisovatelka Bessie Fojt; delegati do sjezdu Jerome Vaek a nahradnik Roman ' idek. Take jsme planovali, co bysme tak mohli podniknout

Upozorneni vgern Clenum radit C. 88 Houstonu Timto oznamuji, ae mrij Mad co fleetnice radu Pokrok Houstonu C. 88 konei rokem 1963. Po dlouholete sluahe, k zdravi j sem se Vzdala ritaclu, ktery me zajimal a zastavala jsem j ej die me nejlepgi schopnosti. Na me misto zvolena byla sestra Georgie 2aludek, jest elenkou, radu od svYch detskYch let, je minda, schopna, pin g energie a prijemne povahy. Doufam, ae dleni radu uznavaji, ae jest to zodpovednY Mad a budou se sestrou 2aludkovou pine spolupracovati jak spolupracovali se mnou v minulosti. Poplatky a koresp ondence tYkajici se dienti laskave zasilejte na: Mrs. Georgie 2. " aludek, 605 Rouse, Houston, Texas 77020.

Chci podekovati vg em elenrim radu Pokrok Houston 6. 88 za spolupraci shovivavost, kterou me prokazalt za

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Oznameni iidu, alive 'ARM SCHUZE NASICH OKRSKU Okrsek H Jarni schilze II. okrsku se bude konat 22. bfezna 1964 u faclu d. 15 ; v Buckholts.

• • Okrsek HI. Jarni schilize se bude konat 26. dubna 1964 u fadu Pokrok d. 84 v Dallas.

• • Okrsek V Jarni schtize Pateho okrsku bude pofaclana 17. kv dna 1964. Nabidky od fabyti hostem teto schlize budu pfijaty do 31. bfezna. Nabidky zaRete na idednika okrsku • • Okrsek VI. Jarni schtize Sesteho okrsku bude potadana dne 19. dubna 1964 u faclu Karel Jonag, eislo 28 v Riverside Hall v East Bernard; zadatek schtizre bude oznameno pozdeji.

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6. 114, Fairchilds Mile sestry a bratil, timto t'adame, abyste se dostavili do schtize 12. ledna v 1:30 odpoledne. Pfipadaji volby ideclnikii a delegata do sj ezdu.

Milady Walenta, taj.

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Mezinarodni veletrh v Brne navalvilo letos 31.000 zahranidnich navUevnikil a 800.000 domacich. teastnilo se ho 600 vystavovatelii ze 44 state. Cs. podniky uzavfely nejvetAi kontrakty s SSSR, Polskem, VYchodnim Nemeckem, Mad'arskem a ze zapadnich static s Francii, Anglii a Rakouskem.

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Na *Ostave ye Statni bance v Praze byl vystaven navrh na novou padesatikorunu. Bude dervene barvy s vyobrazenym sovetskYm vojakem a slovenskSim partyzanem na lici s pozadim Tater a na rubu bude obraz chemickeho zavodu Slovnaft u Bratislavy.

SF ST Vfber rtizqch pojistek vyberte si dle potieby TRIDA W: Splatkova do 85ti let, dotivotni TRIDA PR: Ptednostni dotivotni TRIDA C: 20ti splatkova, dotivotni. Poplatky se plati pouze 20 let TRIDA E: lOti splatkova, dotivotni. Poplatky se plati pouze 10 let TRIDA D: 15ti splatkova, dotivotni Poplatky se plati pouze 15 let TRIDA F: 15 leta nadadni. Obnos certifikatil jest vyplacen za 15 let.

TRIDA G: 20ti leta nadadni. Obnos certifikatu jest vyplacen za 20 let TRIDA H: Nadadni v 65ti letech. Olen plati poplatky at do 65ti let.

TRIDA I: 20ti splatkova, ,nadadni v 60t1 letech TRIDA K: Splatkove, do 85t1 let, dalvotnt TRIDA L: Dvojnasobne trazove pojialeni (Double Indemnity) TRIDA M: Pensijni pojistka. Po dosateni 65 rokti stall. den dostava mesidni pfijem dokud ziv. Zemfe-11 pled 75 lety staff, dedict dostanou mesieni pfijem do 75 vSirodi narozenin Clena TRIDA MC: 20t1 leta, tipisova, ochrana ktera se rodne zmenAuje TRIDA MX: lOti leta upisova ochrana ktera se rodne zmenguje TRIDA ML: 25ti leto, upisova ochrana kterd se rodne zmenAuje.

TRIDA MD: 30t1 leta tipisova ochrana kterd se rodne zmenAuje TRIDA 5T: 5ti leta lhutni. Obnovitel, na a zmenitelna, TRIDA 10%.. lOti Iota Ihutnf. Obnovltelna, a zmenitelnd TRIDA 20T: 20t1 leto. lhutni. Zmenitelna TRIDA T-65: lhiltni do 65 let.

V DETSKEIVI ODDRLENI rAIDA JT: Doka,sne poi gte'ni do 16 let

ktere se mate zmeniti na kterekoliv line pojig teni kdykoliv net do saline 16 let sveho veku TRIDA W: Splatkova. do 85t1 let, datlvotni. PlnSr obnos pojigtenf se vyplati v pi-ipadu iimrti od veku jednoho roku

Ve sttedn dne 8, ledna 1964 TRIDA PR: Pfednostn1 dotivota (ZaCinani v 5 roka stafi) TRIDA C: 20t1 splatkova, dotivotni.

Piny obnos pojiAteni se vyplati v pfipadu dmrti od veku jednoho roku stall TRIDA D: 15ti splatkova dotivotnl.

PlnY obnos pojiiteni se vyplati v ptipadu timrti od veku jednoho roku TRIDA E: 10t1 splatkove, dotivotni.

PlnY obnos pojifteni se vyplati v pfipaciti timrti od veku jednoho roku TAIDA F: 15ti leta nadadni play obnos pojieteni se vyplati v ptipadu umrti od veku jednoho roku TRIDA G: 20ti leta nadadni, piny obnos se vyplati v pfipadu timrti od veku jednoho roku TRIDA H: Nadadni ye 65t1 let. PlnSr obuos Pojigteni se vYplati v ptipadu umrti od veku jednoho rolm TRIDA I: 20ti splatkova, nadadni v 60 letech. Piny obnos pojieterd se vyplati v ptipadu iimrti od veku jednoho roku TRIDA J. E. Nadadni v dosateni 18 let piny obnos pojiAteni se vyplati v ptipade umrti od veku jednoho ro-

ku itinA K: Splatkova, do 65 let, dotivotni, — Piny obnos poji§teni se vy -plativfdumrtiovekujdnoho roku TRIDA L: Dvoinasobne arazove PeilAteni (Double (Indemnity) TRIDA M: Pensijni pojistku. Po dosateni 65 rokti stall, den dostavd, mesieni pfijem do 75 vYrodi narozenin dlena. Plny obnos pojigteni se vyplati v pfipadu tunrti od veku jednoho roku PAYOR INSURANCE: Jednota poskytuje dlen0m platicim poplatky na detske certifikaty to vSthodu ochrany ze v padu iipine nembinosti ndsledkem nemoci aneb poraneni aneb v padu umrti nlaticiho. poplatky na ten detskfr certifikat budou sambeinne zaplaceny.

S bratrskSrm pozdravem Joe B. Heinv -SPJST--

mostu dokoneuji archeologove vYzkum nalezu, ktere napovidaji, ze Oblast pod KruS'nymi horami byla osidlena M" 4.000 let pfed Kristem. Ukazuji to zbytky piidorysti chat, ndlezy keramickych nadob a hrobil z pozdni doby karnenne. ......._spssr-Koncem zaii mela OSSR 13,981.00 obyvatelii, 9,685.000 v Cesk'ch krajich a 4,296.000 na Slovensku.

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soudruZkou ueitelkou o slave pf:eclkil, kdyt lide rano pospichaji do prace nebo se odpoledne zastavi v hloueku pod historickYm podloubim, ptechazi tech test a pill stoleti do dneSka plynule, jako se v prirode ze zimy stavd jaro s z jara leto. Minulost se meni v budoucnost, kterd prijde zitra. z prace a Zivota dnetnich lidi, pro ty, uteri se z hloubi koSatin svYch koeark'u rozhliZeji zvidavYma oekama po svete, kterY bude jejich,

Ku'turn' prinos KDY2 JE MESTU BEST SET PADESAT Mezi nami Novemu Jleinu uZ je vie, ne'Z tech Sestsetpadeset, i kdy je letos teprve slavi. Ale kdyt ma mesto =Ulu -- a Novy Jiein proste ma takoyou smtilu ze neporadni praotcove mesta zakladaci.dekret zaSantroeili, potom dokazat, jak je stare? A tak ktestni list Noveho Jleina, mesta skuteene starobyleho, nahrazuje listina z roku 1313, na ni2 syYm podpisem a pceeti Jan Lucembursky si dopisuje s Meytem Novogitzinskym. Z eehot plyne, Ze roku 1313 uZ Novy Jiein mestem byl, a tak universitni badatele v oboru historicke vlastivedy doporueili oslavit 650. vyroei od zaloleni mesta prave letos.

Historie Noveho Jieina je bohata a od sveho zaloleni pony z Pnovic nesporne slovanska. Ve etrnactem stoleti se tu vystridaly razne vrchnosti: pani z Cymburka, z 13oskovic, ze Sv. Juru a Kunovic. A protole to byli vetSinou kaliSnici, znamenala jejich vlada posileni eeskeho Zivlu v tomto kraji. Take 1mspoddrsky se mesto povzneslo. Zaealo se s rozSirovanim zamku i stavbou mestskYch hradeb, mesto jit melo clva vyrani trhy roene a valchu.

V roce 1503 postihl Nov Y Jiein velk3"7 polar, pri nernt shovel radnieni archly, .brany a veZe: To vtechno 2erotinove, novi pani N. Jieina obnovili, vyhlasili eeRinu firedni i soudni keel a vydavali j en 'desk& listiny. Zatim meSt'ane novojiding ti bohatli diky rozvinutym remeslilm i obchodu, zakladali sve cechy a kdyt se Jan ze 2erotina v roce 1558 rozhodl prodat panstvi, sami slain 19,500 kop a tak se mesto vykoupilo z podclanstvi a stab se mestem svobodnYin. Ale jeho svoboda netrvala prilis dlouho.

Po Bile hore kdy se Nov Y Jiein stal "jiskrou kacirstvi" — dostal se po nezdarenem po ystani za trest do ru•ou si olomouckYch Panovnikem, na nehot si Novy nein narikat nemohl, byl Josef III. UZ Marie Terezie dale mestu svobodu, ale za dy Josefa II. doSlo k povYS'eni N. Jieina na mesto soudni. A za jeho ylkly take byla zrutena Spanelska, kaple a k utitku obeand z ni vytvoren skla,d soli. Jednou se panovnik raeil vyspat v Novem Jieine a mesto tim ziskalo peknou "cisarkou silnici", kterou postavili pro cisarskott cestu z Brna pies Jiein at do Teti na, Ani np vojenske postavy neni historic chuda. Roku 1790 tu zemrel znamy general Laudon. Za napoleonskYch valek

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Ka41a a lavioky okolo ni, dominanta uprostred namesti, vabici pies den pensisty a yeeer milence. A vidy vdeenY objekt pro snirnek. tudy tahl Kutuzov, Suvorov •i car, Alexandr. A i za druhe svetove valky kratce pied osvobozeniin nnsi zeme tudy proSla fronta, Architektura mesta a stavebni painatky stoji za zhlednuti. Stara poRa, jedna z nejkrasnejSich staveb, ma dokonce svetovou z ylaStnost. Je to vYstavn,y romansky obytny dtim, jehot, krehke oblouky lodZie jsou obraceny smerem do namesti. U vtech obytnYch to doby se totit stavely dodvora. Tak z vrtochu pilvodniho majitele se dnes stala jednou z architektonickYch zvld'Stnosti starobyleho namesti. Starou poStu postavil prove pied 400 lety — v roce 1563 Ondrej ftepa z Greifensdorfu, posiedni eesky purkmistr. A romanske namesti samo je jednim z rnala, ktera maji tvar presneho etverce, rohy smeruji do etyr svetovYch strap a cele namesti je podloubene. A je tu samozrejme zdmek s muzeem, je tu stare, radnice s typickou hranatou veliekou. Mesto pripomind svou 650 let starou minulost na kaZdem kroku.

Ale v historicke kulise Ziji dnetni Tis ivot napinenV dnenimi starostmi, de Z kaklodennim usilim, praci i poteknim.

Rozvinuty pramysl klobouenickY, kterY rovneZ" vytel ze stalete tradice, se soustreciil v Tonaku, dues jedinem podniku na vYrobu klobauka. Anebo Autopal, vYrobce elektricke automobilove vYstroje, tabacka, textilni tovarna Karnola, Strojtex, Sest a pill stoleti je Nov Y Jieim mestem. A kdy2 v jasnem ranu vyjdou maminky se s yYmi kocarky na historickou dlazbu, kdy2 se okolo starabyle kaany shrornatdi deti a vypra-veji si se

Jednim z nejvitanejtIch vynalezil pro obyeejne lidi byl radiov' pfijimao. JiZ pied tim meli v oetnYch rodinach gramofony a jine mechanicke reproduktory hudby, zaclaycene bud'to na plotnach, nebo na papirovych pasech, dokonce na ozubenYch vdleekach z rfiznYch. kowd. Rozhlas znamenal pievrat v mnoha smerech a v odbornych kruzich bylo tvrzeno, Ze znamena konec gramoforni znaene sniZeni zajmu o praktickou znalost hudby ovladdni nektereho z hudebnich nastroja. Popak, kdyt se do obeli dostaly prvni televisni aparaty a kdyt se jejich cena stavala vAebocene pristupnou, predpovidano bylo, Ze tento vYvoj znamend definitivni konec divadelnich predstaveni, omezeni poetu biografti itpiny zabijak pro hudebni Bylo to kratkozrake picedpovidani.

Dedukce, Ze misto znalosti brat na nekterem z hudebnich nastrojn salmou po hutib'e reprodukovane a misto Zlveho divadla budou radeji volit nejmend namahave vysedavani pied televisnhni prijimaM, ukazala se naprosto nespravnou.

Radio nezabilo gramofony prave fal‹, jak televise neubila ani divadla ani biografy, spoleene pak radio s televisi nezahubily osobni zdjem lidi 0 hru na hudebni nastroje, na opak' jej znaene povzbudily.

American Music Conference uvadi, ye S"kolnim obdobi 1963-64 je na hudebnich S'kolach a ueitelfi hudby prihlaSeno o 11 miliond studentd vice net v roce minulem. Pied patnacti lety byl poeet studenta pouze dva a pal milionu. Potrva-li tento vzrfist — a jsou vkchny noznaky toho, Ze zajem neklesne bude j en y e SpojenYch std., tech v roce 1970 14 milione. takt a studentil v hudebnich Skoldch a u soukromYch uoitelu hudby.

DaMini, zaiimavYm poznatkem jest toto sdeleni American Music Conference, ktere tato institute nechala v dennim tisku uverejnit:

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Prodej hudebnich nastrojii, not a potkeb pro hudebniky dosahl jiZ nyni pro rok 1963 dastky 675 miliond dolart a prekrodil za prvnich devet mesictit tohoto roku lorisky rekord, ktery dinil 630 milionn. dolarri.

Dnes Zije ye SpojenYch statech vice neZ jeden milion hudebnikri — amaterii. Celkovy podet hudebnikri odhaduje se ve Spoj. statech na 35 milionii. V rote 1950 bylo jich pouze 20 miliontii.

Tento vzriist osobniho za j mu o hudbit a o ovladani nektereho z hudebnich nastrojtit je slibnou uka,zkou pro budotitcnost. Zaplagil obavy o neZatiouci zhrubnuti lidstva. Je vSeobecne znamo, hudba zjemriuje, eini dui eloveka pkistupnejAi a po v gech strankach Moderni doba pkinesla mnohe zmeny a ne vSechny jsou ku prospeehu lidstva.

VAim pravem se tedy myslici lide hrozili pomySleni, Ze rtzne hraci stroje, radiove pkijimade a televisni aparaty jsou podatkern jakesi vS'eobecne stagnace v hudebnim svete, pkedefSim pak poeatkem nezajmu o hru na hudebni nastroje.

-SPJST--Fondy literarneho archivu Matice slovenskej sa za rok. rozsirili o 5512 literarnYeh rukopisov, o 878 hudobnYch ,dokiumentov a o 3490 obrazovYch pamiatok.

• Na patem televiznim Festivalu vedeckYch, dokumentarnich a urneleckYch filmu, ktery se konal v Rime, ziskala eskoslovenska televize v silne mezinarodni k o n k u r e n c i pohar Gran Premio za film relisera Fr. Fillpa "Koear nejsvetejS4 svatosti" a v kategorii umeleckYch filmu stkibrnou plaketu za film relisera Martina Fride "Slzy, ktere svet nevidi".

• • Na Filmovom Festivale v San Francisku bol vyznamenany zvla gtnou cenou Peter Solan, reliser deskoslovenskeho filmu "Boxer a smrt", pretole "najviac pkispel k posilneniu dobrej vole medzi narodmi". Snimka ziskala aj prvu cenu za najlepM hudobny doprovod.

• Repertoar deskoslovenskYch divadiel bol obohateny o dalsiu povolnii slovenskit operu, "Lampienove slavnosti" skladatel'a Jfiliu Kovalskeho. Opera mala premieru v septembri v Ostrave.

• • Ptiivabnou knaku milostnYch ver§ii z dila Frantgla Hrubina "Hodina zamilovanYch" vydalo nakladatelstvi 6eskoslovenskY spisovatel v Praze. Sbirka vySla v Male edici poezie a zahrnuje

nektere Hrubinovy verse z let 1931 — 1947.

• c Mapa frYdlantskeho panstvi z roku 1660, k!terou pied 300 lety nakreslil Samuel Globitz z Budina, se naSla ye frYdlantskYch hradnich sbirkach. Na zachrane mapy pracuje liberecky restaurator B. Knyttl.

Smetanovu "Hubidku" uvede v pkiai sezone Montevideo spolednost Sodre, ktera uZ pied peti lety hrala i "Prodanou nevestu."

• • FrancouzskY spisovatel J. P. Sartre s mantelkou, spisovatelkou Simone de Beauvior, navgtivil Oeskoslovensko.

Sartre besedoval s eeskYrni a slovenskYmi spisovateli a prohlasil, Ze intelektual je povinnY postavit se proti tern prostkedktim, o nich2 je pkesvedden, Ze neodpovidaji vyteenemu cili.

• • WEAK KO§LER OPAT V NEW YORKU

Do New Yorku pricestoval apat vitohorodnej meclzinarodnej dYch dirigentov o cenu Dmitri Mitropoulosa, Zdenek Koller z Ostravy. Bude dirigovat' jesennri seriu koncertov newyorskej filharmonie a podnikne s riou od 23. septembra do 25. novembra umelecke turne. S tYmto filharmonickYm orchestrom bude spolupracovat' aj v jarnej sezone od' 2. februara do 17. maja budriceho roku.

Zdenek Koller hovoril nedavno o svojich zkiisenostiach z medzinarodnej Vale o cenu Dniitri Mitropoulosa v New Yorku s redaktorom pralskeho easopisu "Koncertni 'tivot". PredovS'etky'm sa zmienil o podmienkach, za ktorYch sa srit'ai konala a co vyZadovala od kandidatov rozhoddia porota, na dele so Aefdirigentem newyorskej filharmonie Leonardom Bernsteinom. Potom vYslovne uviedol: "Siit'a.2 bola organizovand filantropickou spoleenostou zrejme disponujricou dostatanYmi hmotnYmi prostriedkami, a bola vel'kou spoloeensknu udalost'ou s mnohymi schodzkami za rieasti verejnych einitel'ov a vYznamnYch osobnosti •kulturneho Nvota. Newyorska filharmonia je vynikajrice symfonicke teleso, ktoreho t'aZisko spoeiva, vedl'a vynikajtileich sOlistov, u dychovYch nastrojov, hlavne na vYborne a vyrovnane hrajimich slaeikovYch nastrojoch." Zdenek Kog er potom dod'al v rozhovore, on a d'al gi dvaja kandidati, ktori zvit'azili v dirigovali na zaveree-

Ve stkedu dne 8. ledna 1964 nom slavnostnom koncerte v New Yorku filharmonickY orchester: "Cela druha polovica patrila Dvokakovej Symfanii d moll," spomina Koller, "ktoru som dirigoval ja. Obecenstvo bolo pritomne na siit'aZi az od semifinale a od tej doby mi podl'a nazoru kritiky "nadrZiavalo". Kritika o mojich vystripeniach pisala kaIda az pH li'g lichotivo. Vobec dela sritaZ bola pa dobu trvania a al do konca preniknuta duchom tak presvereiveho a opravdoveho kamaratstva, ze sa napriklad nenaliel ani jeden protestny hlas proti niektoremu vYroku poroty. To najeennejAie, co si zo srit'aZe odnaSam, je priatel'stvo a sympatie v'SetkYch cich. V buducej sezOne, lkedy main pracovat' ako asistent dirigenta filharmonie", skoneil dirigent Koller svoj Mad, "budem mat iste viac moZnost', aby som sa s roznymi problemami dokladnej ge soznamil."

--SPJSTStepan Zavkel je mladY es. malik, ktery priael na svobodny zapad r. 1959 a ;usadil se v Italii. Ji g v 6eskoslovensku pracoval ye studiu kresleneho a loutkoveil° filmu. Tomuto konieku se venuje i v Rime, kde studoval na tamni akademii. Nyni pracuje uz na tketim filmu a to se slovanskYm nametem.

• • DR. JAROSLAV POLO, profesor a knihovnik na Laterariskem seminaki v Rime, autor kady pojednani o sv. Janu Nepomuckem a Janu v JertiStejna, navativil srpnu USA, zejmena kolej sv.

Prokopa v Lisle, Ill. Dp. Pole pokraduje ye svem historickem badani.

• • Nick A. Morris, redaktor easopisu Slovanske podporujici jednoty statu Texas, "Vestnik", si vzal za ttkol zaloZit ye West v Texasu eeskou knihovnu, do které by se soustkedil kniZni a archivni material z cele oblasti Texasu. Knihovna uz ma •dokonce vlastni budovu.

—SVU • • Rene Wellek z Yaleovy university vydal zjara objemny soubor eseji. Kniha se spravne jmenuje 'Concepts of Criticism'. Tim opravujeme chybu, ktera se vloudila do kvetnoveho eisla. Prvni vydani knihy stalo $7.50. V srpnu wygla Welikova kniha juko paperback za $2.45. ♦ • Dugan Marek, es. malik a filmak v Adelaide dostal Velkou cenu australskeho filmoveho institutu za svtiij film "Adam a Eva". Tato cena byla udelena Po prve od zkizeni filmovych cen, udelovanYch timto ustavem. Mark& film je

Ve stredu due 8. ledna 1964 originalni potud', ze k jeho zhotoveni bylo pouZito vYstriZkii, se kterymi naS umelec dovede skvele manipulovat. • Miroslav V. Fic, ktery az dosud prednaSel na rangunske universite v Bunme, je od zaeatku Skolniho roku inimoradnYm profesorem na universite Nanyang v Singaporu. PrednaSi o statnim zfizeni v jihovkchodni Asii, a politickych strandch a moderni historii. Fic byl aZ do r. 1948 v popredi es. studentskeho tivota. Studoval v Kanade a dokotratu dosahl na Columbijske universite v New Yorku. Jeho doktorskd, teze se tYkala historie es. legii na Sibiri. Po-Le byl nekolik let profesorem v Indii, odkud odjel do Bunny Frantgek Munk, profesor, politickYch ved, na Reed College v Portlandu v Oregonu dokoneil knihu 'Atlantic Dilema: Partnership or Community?" ktera vyjde v nakladatelstvi Oceana.

Munk byl pied nekolika lety reditelem kulturniho oddeleni RFE v Mnichove pote pracoval ye VYzkumnem astave NATO v Parili a prednaSel na univerite Evropa v Bruggach. Sve zkuknosti a poznatky shrnul prave do sve nove knihv.

-SPJSTInfornigniellamky Automatisace v pramyslu

Termin "Automation" objevil se v anglickem jazyku 'asi pied tuctem let, kdyZ jeden z vedoucich firednikil velke automobilky vyslovil prani, aby vice veci se konalo automaticky, eili Ze chce zavedeni "automation". MySlenka, aby stroje konaly praci lidi, datuje se z 18. stoleti z doby vynalezeni parniho stroje a spradaciho stroje jenny.

NetuSenY pokrok poslednich let spoeiva v tom, Ze ,dnes jit stroje nenapodobuji jenom produkty lidskYch rukou, 'ale i lidskYch nrozkil, a Ze konaji tyto fikoly lepe, rychleji, levneji a spolehliveji. Stroje jsou stale vetSi a konaji vice fikolil; spouSteji a zastavuji jine stroje a ridi jejich vYkon. VAechny produkeni procesy probihaji automaticky, nekdy s malym prispenim eloveka, jindy i bez neho.

Automatisace prizpusobuje se 'Airokemu poll liciskeho podnikani. Setkavame se s ni pri rafinovani petroleje, v chemickem prilmyslu, pri valcova.ni 0cele, priprave vyplatnich listku zamestnanctim, pri prekladech z jedne reel do jine, navigaci letadel, lekarske diagnose a neseetnYch jinych vYkonech eloveka.

VESTNfIC TypickYm prikladem automatisace je "computer", poeita,ci stroj, elektronicka to krabice, ktera dovede poeitat, zapamatuje si veci a odpovidd na otazky.

Prvnich strojd tohoto druhu bylo uZito roku 1954. Od to doby byly znaene zdokonaleny a osvedeily se v obchode, komunikaci i vede. V mnoha, pripadech znamenaly sniZeni iirednicke prace na minimum.

Automobilovy prtionysl zavedl automatisaci pomerne nedavno, ale na priklad pri vYrobe cigaret uZiva se ji jiZ dlpuhou dobu. Drive jeden stroj cigarety vyrabel, druhy je balil, ale dries jsou tyto dva stroje spojeny v jeden celek, kterY oba procesy vykond postupne.

Snad nikde jinde neosvedeila se automatisace lepe neZli v pek.arstvi. VSr -robachle pkarsS7chpodu.ktase vYborne prizpilsobuje ihromadne produkci, podminene automatisaci. Jista velkopekarna posila kaMeho dne na trh 120 tun chleba, a k vYrobe tohoto chleba, Z"emli a pod. spotrebuje 150 tun mouky, tri tuny dradi, jednu tumu soli a vice nail 5.000 galont mleka.

NasYpani mouky, e gteni, prosivani a michani ridi jedin'Y zamestnanec od ristredniho stolu. Po dopeeeni chleba jsou vadne bochniky vyrazeny stiskriutim knofliku. Tyto vady bylo by ino2'no rozpoznati fotoelektrick3im ĂŠlankem, ale lidske oko je v tomto pripatle povaZovano za lepliho znalce.

Je pochopitelne, ze automatisace nahrazuje stale ve vet'Sim meritku praci eloveka. Problemy z toho vznikajici jsou vane, a nasledky jsou jak dobre, tak i 1patne. Jisto je, Ze technologickST pokrok yyZaduje si lidi s lengim gkolenim a .vrevikem a ze znamena merle prileZtosti pro ty, kteri se jimi nemohou vykazati.

Je treba dakladneji zanalysovati rilzne druhy prace, aby se mohlo rozhodnouti, kde lidska, zruenost a rozhled se lepe uplatiluji neZli automaticka, ale bezducha einnost stroje. je teZ treba prevychovati a preSkoliti delniky a zajistiti jim schopnost pine produktivity za podminek automatisaci jim polo2enYch. A. rada Suche leto v CSR (1963) Leto.4,11 rok je v Ceskoslovensku za poslednich etyricet let nejsuaSi. Leto se vyznaeuje velkyrn teplem a jen nialYm mnoZstvim sraZek. To se velmi nepriznive projevilo na, es. rekach. Pokles stavu vody je hla'Sen a celeho republiky. V hydroelektrarnach aby vodou co ,nejvice setrili udrZuji pro-

9 voz jen na nejniMim stupni. Loni byl primierny prtitok vody na Vltave zhruba dvakrat tak velky jako letos. Je zajimave, Ze ani v lete neprestali na vSrchodnina Slovensku vlci napadat vysokou zver. V polesi Adidovce v Humennskarn okrese rortrhl vlk jednu jelenici. Ze souboje lo yal s temito dravei vychazeji zatim vitezne vlci, protoae neustale meni mista pobytti. Podarilo se zastrelit jen jedineho vlka v polesi Jablon. V lesnim zavode v osade Udavsko postavili na dravou Zver pasti, do kterYch davaji loj s jedem a eekaji, Ze se jim do nich chyti dravec.

-SPJSTZimni prate v zahradkach

Zda-li ve vaIl krajine mraz dokoneil svoj e zhoubne dilo, pak je doba dati zahradku do poradku, aby jarni prace nebyla uklizenim vakerYch zbylYch oderika a listi zpomalena. Okopejte easteene palu kolem raZi, aby trochu vzduchu do zpodiny vniklo a aZ prijde mraz, tuto easteene pronikl.

Potom ovAem choulostive druhy obloMt zemi, nebo jinYm materialem tak, aby aline mrazy dostavujici se prostred zimy nepo g kodily koreny. Ralelina, listi, slarrra nebo podobnST material postatuje.

Zajiste, ze vale hlizy jinn, meeiku a podobrVch rostlin odpoeivaji uz ye studenem a suchern sklepe. Kvetiny, jet jsou dosti otWile oproti men2limu mrazu maji se take prikryti ochrannou latkou, nebo uloZ"iti do studeneho parenilte, ye kterem prezimuji nejlepe. I mlade rule lze takto vykopanim a ulo'Zenim do studena pled znieenim mrazem uchovati. Chrysanthemy je take lepe uchranit zimin zkazy ulaenim jich do studeneho pareni gte, nebo dobrou propustnou listovou prikdykou, nebo slamou.

Tra,vniky potrebuji prihnojeni; bud' drobnY kompost, nebo dobrou zemi rozhodit po povrchu, i popraAkovat kontentrovanym umelS7m hnojivern za tiveho poeasi. Take se nerna, otaleti s vysazovanim hliz tulipanovYch a jinych pod.obnYch pro jarny kvetinu. Zahony nejlepe zrYti a pripravit pro jarni setbu letnieek a ranych zelenin.

Mraz zrYpanou zemi pronikne, mnoho Akodneho hmyzu i vajieek zniei a vlaha lepe do spodiny vnikne. Nebyla-li zahradka v poslednich trech neb etyrech letech vapnena, mute se nyni kroeit ku vapneni pady. Vapneni nevi vlak radno provadet soueasne s hnojenim krayskou mrvou; tyto d ye fed jsou protikladne a poufflim jich obou soueasne bychom si ulkodili. Nejdrive

10 povapnit a teprve za, pill mesice se muze rozhodit hnojivo.

Nejvice prospiva vapneni ovocnYch stronnim a zelenine.

Okrasne kere a stromky se okopaji a pkikladne pohnoji a take dobke jim prospiva a uchrani zaniknuti nym zalitim, zda-li dostatek deet'd okoll nepostihlo. To hlavne prospiva, jehlienonfim; tyto yyZaduji dosti znaenou vlahu.

Veechno listovi a stonky se mail odklidit bud' do kompostu, nebo jests lepe spaiit, tak zahyne na nich hrnyz s pokolenim na prieti rok.

Domaci kvetiny lze pkesazovat do nove zeme a odrezanim odenkii zakladot nove kvetiny pro jami vYsad do zahonii. Odlolene zahradni path oeistit a uklidit, aby vek jeho dele yydrZel a bylo v pohotovosti, jakmile ja.rni slunko vytahne zahradkare yen.

Zima tedy take udrZuje zahradkale v einnosti a co v zime udela, na jare ma o tolik prate merle.

---SPJSTSvetovfr fannakologickSr sjezd v Praze

V 'ate* 20. srpna byl ye Smetanove sini Obecniho 'domu v Praze zahajen II. svetovY farmakologicky kongres, na kterY se sjelo z 51 zemi 1800 vedeckYch pracovnikii. Zdetita nad timto svetovYm setkanim vedcti, ktere nema v CSR obdoby, preyzal president re publiky A. Novotny, President republiky zaslal kum sjezdu poselstvi, ye kterem mimo jine pravi: "Poslani farmakologie, kterd hleda fieinne prostredk,y a formy boje proti nemocem, je vysoce humanni. Peee a zdravi eloveka a rozvoj jeho dueevni a fyzicke zdatnosti je jednou ze zasadnich povinnostj naeispolecnosti. Tyto humani sticke ideje mohou veak bYt rozvijeny jenom v dobe miru. Proto je vec miru drand, veem eestnYm lidem na celem svete.

Na zahajeni kongresu po sla y/lostnich fanfarach piivitala presidentka kongresu prof. MUDr. H. Raekova eleny eeskoslovenske vlady, zahranieni hosty a zastupce vedeckeho a verejneho 'Zivota. Potom prof. MUDr. H. Raekova prednesla v pet! jazycich zahajovaci projev, ye kterem mj. hovokila o obrovskem rozvoji pkirodnich ved, i samotne farmakologie, ktery zaznamenava teprve naee 20. stoleti.

IL mezinarodni farrnakologicky kongres pokraeoval ye stredu ye etyrech symposiich. Ve 14, hodin byli ye staro slavnem Karolinu promovani eestnYmi doktoraty lekarskych ved tri vynikaji

Vt8TNIK ci predstavitele svetove farmakologie.

Oestne doktoraty byli udeleny nositeli Leninova radii akademiku S. V. Aniekovovi, nositeli Nobelovy ceny D. Bovetovi a emeritnimu profesoru Pennsylvanske university ve Filadelfii C. F. Sclamidtovi. Promotorem byla prof.

MUDr. H. Raekova. Ve svete dosud Zeno, v teto funkci nevystoupila. II. mezinarodni farmakologickY sjezd pokradoval ve etvrtek ve vedeckych jednanich na Sesti symposiich. Velkou pozornost na sebe soustkedilo hlavne symposion "Hodnoceni novYch leku v klinickych pokusech". V dopolednich hodinach pkijal president republiky Ant. NovotnY na Pragskem hrade zastupce tohoto kongresu.

I posledni den druheho svetoveho farmakologickeho kongresu probihal v eiste pracovnim ovzduSi. Na programu bylo 5 symposil a zavereene zasedani kongresu. Za sidlo III. mezinarodniho kongresu bylo zvoleno Sao Paulo v Brazilii. Predsedou farmakologicke sekce Mezinarodni unie fyziologickYch ved pro prieti obdobi 1965 — 1968 by! zvolen Belgiean C. Heymans a mistopredsedkyni prof. MUDr. H. Raekova. Ministr zdravotnictvi dr. J. Plojhar usporadal v poledne pro eleny Svetove zdravot nicke organizase, kteri pijeli na kongres, obed a pro veechny aeastniky kongresu veeer recepci v Oerninskem naiad. v Praze.

BOHUMIL BRODSKt:

Osudna noc ROMAN Pokraeovani "Budee-li na sve eaty potkebovati, zmill se matce, nejak to uz udelame," prohodil jako mimo chodem . "Ale mu'Zovi o torn nerikej, ten nepotrebuje yedeti, ze ti prilepeime. Chtel by take pro sebe a on si jiste neni nepritelem."

"Snad tolik neutraci," hajila ho, ale dosti nejiste.

"Na sve prijmy dost; chodi denne na pivo, aekoliv je ma, doma. Myslie, ze to nevim? Fred lidmi se to neda utajiti, on dost to skrYva a omlouva, ale Tide si panii liZdycky veimaji a na poli se to potojn veechno semele. Snad to take vie, h?"

"Trochu,' pripouetela zahanbene torn se tvaric, jako by to nevedela.

"Nikdy dosud neprieel 'domfi opily."

"Hodne snese, je hubeny, vybeha se a neni to na nem jako na jinem znati.

Nu, jen kdy2 jineho nic to netlaei a

Ve stkedu dne 8, ledna kdYg v karty nehraje, to by bylo drag vyraZeni."

Klarku hnetlo, ze se povida, o mutbvYch navetevach hostince a take se ba,la toho z to ptiainy, ze kdy2 to vi otec, jiste to vi take lesmistr•a teditel. Mohi° by to mute ve sluthe . koditi a mimo to byla jeji jeeitnost doteena. Prala si, aby jeji muZ paival ficty a elovek, ktery se po hostincich potlouka, neni nikdy nejak zvlaRne vaIen. Byla blizka tomu, na muZe ostke zaftoditi, ale mela stale strach, ze by mohlo dojiti k nejake zle sra2ce, pri ktere by take jeji poko i vaZnost vzaly za sjve.

Zmenila taktiku a kdykoliv mUZ nebyl na honech a konal obvykle pochilzky po lese, zaeala s nim choditi, vysvetlujic to, ze se ji doma styska a ze chce uZiti pohybu. Nekdy sla s nim hned z domova, jindy se ho ptala, kde bude, aby ho ureite naela, az za nim pkijde.

S poeatku bylo mu to mile. Taekaril se s ni, vodil ji pa lese, uka,zoval jedm0tlive oddily lesa a hell, kde je hodne zveke, kde budou kaceti, co on u't vysazel a zvelebil. Dni bYvaly nerdy sychrave, mlhave nebo deetive, hodne uminene si vea.k rekla, ze nepovoli. Po nekolika dnech bYti Kulad netrpelivY. Sice si poeinal laskave, ale jeho veselost byla vynucena a zaeal z povzdaleei ji vybizeti, aby ela napked domil, jelika on musi jests v lese setrvati. Odolavala jeho pokusiim, ujiet'ujic ho, ze je ji v lese zcela dobfe a nikterak necltj imavy nebo chladu.

Zaeal tedy jinak. Napked to zkoueel poukazovanim, Ze za jeji nepkitomnosti slaka doma nic nedela, a nedba a ona sama veaer musi zanedbane dohaneti.

KdyZ se to minulo cilem, dela narak"ky, jak se dela Zeno smeenou, kdy2 se stale drZi za easy muzovy. Smala, se tomu, tusila, proe to povicla., ale delala se nevedomou a pokradovala vesele ve s-vSrch vychazkach.

Vybuchl, pkimo ji kekl, ze nepotrebuje dozorce, ze je dast star, aby mohl choditi bez hlidaee.

"PovaZujee mne pouze za hlidaee?" ptala se udivene. "Domnivala jsem se, ze mne mare rad vedle sebe, jako ja mem rada tebe. Nemam doma nic nutneho, samotne je mi doma smutno a mam snad choditi s ha.jnSrm?" "To ne, ale kadodenni tve vychazky jsou napadne, lids si toho vAironoU a sluna by mohla nas vakrasti."

"BaruSka je skrz naskrz poctiva, pied tou je mono nechati vAechno otevi-ene. Dobfe jsem se o ni pi'esved6ila, nic se neboj."

"Nekrade-li ona, maze krasti nekdo

y to u. eto :team 19841 jiny, Bide vyeihaji, te je sama doma ,a vloupaji se k nam."

"Kdybych byla doma, naohlo by se to take stati vit, te se dost bojim a neubranila bych se jim. To spit Barutka je srdnata. Ostatne jsou na dvoie psi a do hajovny je, co by kamenem dohodil."

"Ale ja si nepieji, abys denne tak se mnou chodila, budou se mi smati,ze jsem pod pantoflem."

"Neck je smati, neeemu se lido vtdycky, smeji a brzy piestanou."

Mela v dui poteteni, te mute mu klidne odpovidati, vidouc, jak otrasa neviditelnymi okovy a jak by se ji rad zbavil. Ne, nepovoli, at' se treba zlobi, vtak on piestane.

"Prosim te, co ti to vlezlo do hlavy?" durdil se doopravdy. "Je-li ti to lhostejno co lido povidaji, mne to lhostejno neni. Nerikam nic, kdybys jednou, clvakrate za tYden se mnou Oa, ale ty chodit Jenne; je to Umyslne a ja dobre vim, prod to Mat. Je to hanba, jsi takova lstiva."

"Ja, lstiva?" zarazila se. "kekl jsi otldive slovo, ani jsi to neuvatil, co povidat. Ne, nejsem lstiva, main te jen pouze rada a toutim po torn, abys mel mezi lidmi rictu a abys sve zdravi chranil. Preston chodit do okolnich hostincich a ja s tebou ptitjdu jednou ci dvakrat za tYden."

"A budu-li pies tvtlj zakaz choditi, co se stane?" tazal se pohnevane.

"Prijdu za tebou a sednu si v hostinci vedle tebe," kekla pokjne.

"Nic by ses nestydela?"

"Byla by to snad hanba sedeti vedle vlastniho mute? Netkodi-li to na tve cti, nemrite to ani me cti tkoditi."

"Zatracene rozmary," zaklel zlostne a vytel radeji ven..

Zahoikle se pousmala, ale zilstala klidnou. Za chvili se Kulae vratil a teprve kdyt na neho bet hnevu trochu se spamatoval a byl dost ylidny.

Ale pfittiho dne zmizel fined po obecle z myslivny, nefeknuv ji, to odchazi a 'kana jde. Videla ho, nevolala vtak za nim, ale klidne se obleknuvti, tla do lesa. Veclela, ve kterem miste delnici pracuji a ptala se, kde je revirnik. te ho videli jiti pies cip lesa a to te asi je ye vesnici za lesem. Nic neiikala vesele s nimi promluvila a potom oklikou se pustila do vsi. Vedela, kam tam chodiVal a jdouc kolem okna hostince, nakoukla do vniti a spatfila sveho mute, sediciho u piva. NerozmYtlela se a vetla. Spattil ji, oci tiroko otevfel a videla, jak se zle zamraeil.

"To jsem rada, te jsem te natla," zaeala vesele, nedavajic mu easu, aby

V ESTNfK sam meal. "Jakmile jsi odetel. paella na mne tesknota a musela jsem za tebou. Zde je velmi picijenane teploneko, zahreji se a potom se nam lope pujde."

Neinkal nic, pouze oeinia po ni vztekle loupi, lokty se o still podepiel a zanaraeene se pied sebe zadival.

"Trochu se napiji," povidala drutne, "hodne jsem se cestou unavila, je to beaky kousek cesty sem. Neboj se, ney ypiju ti mnoho a daft si potom jette naliti."

Pinstreil ji sklenici a cite sam, te by dlouhe mraeeni situaci zhortilo, narovnal so a kdyt tena sklenice postavila, dopil zbytek a volal na hostinskeho, aby mu jette nalil.

"Aspon vidit, co elovek ye slutbe zkusi," povidal rozvatn.e, "cesta utrmaci vic, net kdyt drevari kaceji stromy. Bydelnikil?" las v lose "Ano, sla jsem kolem nich."

"Nezahaleli?"

"Nemyslim, pozorovala jsem je zdaleka a cinili se hodne."

"To jest dost. Vtak oni vedi, 'te jsem jim stale v pat'ach a te bych jim neodpustil. Kona-li elovek svedomite slutbu, vychova, si lidi, to potom staei you-he povidani a oni uz vedi, co se od nich chce. Pivo je zde &bre, mnoho lidi na ne sem chodi a proto se tuelovek .dobrYm na,pojem posilni. Nemat hladu? Oni mivaji vtdy neco na tub, kousek sYra di salamu, nebo by ti kavu "Dekuji ti, nic nebudu. jisti. Mela jsem pouze tizeri a stati v lese, at by ses vratil, jsem nechtela, abych od nohou nenachladla. Proto jsem se za tebou pustila a bude mi to odpoeinuti piajemne. Zda se mi, te bude brzy padat snih, na, zapadnim nebi byly krvave eervanky a vetrik fouka jako jed•vatY." "Nu, mottle to je, ale nebude miti to dlouhe trvani; na snih je jette brzy, tak za mesic, to tit bude jell° eas. Musim si v lose pospititi, abychom polotill paseky na stranich, tam by potom byla zla price. Pane hostinskY, zaplatim."

Vyrial penize, vyrovnal rieet a oblekal svaj kra..tky kotitek.

"Navlekni si rukavice, aby ti ruce neozably," napominala ho starostlive.

"Jsem tome zvyklY, spite ty dej potor, aby se ti nic nestalo. Pojd'me, at' piijdeme za svetla domtii, costa po lesnich cestach je otkliva a lesem za tmy jiti nelze, protote jsou koieny stromii na povrchu a katcle chvile se o ne zakopne."

Vytli yen v nejleptim souladu a teprve za vsi Kulae zaeal se mraeiti.

"Pros1m te, co zase ma tohle znamenati," povidal vyhriatne. "Chcet nine dohnati k nejakemu terednenau vYstuPu? Prejet si, abychom pied lidmi zaCali latent a abychom svetu ukazal, te pani revirnikova nepieje svemu muti ani sklenici piva?"

"Tomu by lido neverili, protote vedi, teeee ee to ti z pivovaru pivo do myslivny vozi," povidala klidne. "Nemohu rozinneti, co by tpatneho mohli lido hledati v torn, to za tebou do hostince prijdu. Je mnoho ten, ktere se s yYmi muti do hostince chodi a ja to budu delati take, nejen dnes, ale vtdy."

"Opovat se!" kiikl zlostne.

"Opovatim se," odpovidala mirne, ale hlasem, v nemt byla skryta take pohriatka. "Kdykoliv zvim, to j si nekarn do hostince sel, prijdu za tebou."

"Vytenu ter kfieel.

"Vyteri, nebude to ma hanba. Poekam venku, dokud nevyjciet a prijdu s tebou domal. Bojim se o tve zdravi, takovou vec mi nebudou lido miti za ale. Nekdo by td mohl cestou piepadnouti, mohi bys zlomiti ruku ci noha a zahynouti v noci a tme."

Dusil se zlosti, byl by bYval rad, aby mu zlostne odpovidala, ale klidnY jeji ton vyratel mu zbran a ruky. Mleel a chvatal, to musila napiati sily, aby mu staeila. Teprve u lesa zvolnil krok svilj a na kraji se zastavil.

"Klarko, prosim te, mej rozum," meal moudie. "Jsi chytra tena a citig zajiste sama, to by lido brzy poznali, to mne Midas. Nech toho, co delat; nepronasleduj mne, poprej mi trochu svobody, aby se mi tivot nezprotivil."

"Velmi rada ti vyhovim, aeknliv mi bude lito, te mou, spoleenosti polardat ale na oplatku music take ty mi v necem Nechod' do hostincia, vypij si pivo doma a nezahazuj se vysedavanim po vesnickYch hostincich, kde nerl a idet spoleenost hodici se pro tebe.

Jsi pansky niednik a dobie vii, jak se u vrchni sproxy nevlidne posuzuje, nedba-li nekterY Arednik na svou test.

Mat klidny a disty domov, teplo, svetlo, pohodli, posad' se, neco povidej nebo al a budet oily a zdravy."

"Itekni jette, abych pletl s tebou jako puneochy," odsekl jizlive.

"Od toho jsem ja, a abych byla mna, rnyslim si, to by i to Pleteni puneoch bylo merle pokofujici net sezen1 v hostincich."

"Kdopak te te moudrosti naueil?"

"Nikdo, ja sama se ji ueim a nemysli si, te je to pro mne talk, lehke. Dobie vii, to rodiee nesouhlasili, abych si te vzala, to by bylo maim ke hnevu

12 s nimi doglo, protoge jsem kladla vfa ssvou lasku k tobe nee svou poslugnost k Ty jsi mi tenkrate sliboval, ze nikdy nebudu, miti piieinu ke stegovani a mohu rici, ze sis veteinom dobte podinar ale zaeinaa zapominati na sve sliby bojim se, ze nebudu moci iici, ze' jsem se v tobe nemYlila. Poslechni mne, ddelej mi malt' ustupek a bude vae vyrovnano."

"A ja, budu jako pejsek na tetezu," iekl jedovate.

"Prod pejsek na ketezu? Ja take musum den jak den se starati, abys nemel v nidem nedostatku, einim se, aby byl domov v potadku a jsem-li nekdy unavena, teknu si, ze i ty jsi unaven a zase dale pracuji. V man gelstvi to jinak neni, jeden druhernu must delati Ustupky a potom teprve je man gelstvi at'astne."

"Tuze hezky to povida,a, jako by ses to z nejake knihy naudila, ale prod trvag na torn, ze nesmim nikam bez tebe jiti?"

"Jdi, ale ne ka gdodenne. Vyjdi si jednou tydne mezi dtedniky, by ses pobavil, ale nechod' tam, kam chodi dilnici, kteti u tebe pracuji."

"Jsou to take lido a mo gna, ze eestnejai neg mnohy Utednik."

"Snad jsou, ale svet neptedela g a myslim, ze bys jinak soudil, kdybych chodila mezi geny eeledinti a sedala s nimi na besedach."

"Wain to peklo," posteskl si a holi tloukl do mechu.

"Ja nekdy take," iekla vagne.

"Jsi tedy velmi neat'astna,. Hezky mluvig , dovidam se krasnYch vecu. Naposledy by ses mne rada zbavila."

"Kdybych po nedern takovem tou gila, ug bych to udelala," fekla a jeji hlas se malieko zvedl a jeji pohled stal se pkisnym. "Ano, nekdy mne ptepadaji myglenky, ze nebylo spra yne, ze jsem rodieu neposlechla, ale v gdy Si kekini, ze jsem si to vybrala svobodne a ze to mam rada. Dobie si to pa,matuj, ze to main uptimne rada a ge bych byla neat'astna, kdybych to ztratila. Nehteg na tuto mou lasku, va g si ji a starej se, abych se i ja pkesvecleila, ze i ty me nada rad, jak jsi me ujiat'oval."

"Nejsem ug g adn3i mlady bla gen, abych vedle geny stale obskakoval, musi ti dostaditi, ze jsem ti verny a ze to mam rad."

"Jsem rada t yYm slovilm, ale rada bych tve skutky videla. Ptestati choditi do hostincii a gadej cokoliv za nahradu, vg ecko ti spinim."

"Kdo to k tend° slovtim navedl ?" ptal se, koumave se na ni clivaje." ma vlastni duae. Styclela

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bych se rodielim si stegovati, tvridim, ze nil arn nechodia, adkoliv si lido pted otcem o torn povidaji. Otec vekil vice mne neg lidera, je spolkojen, ze si nestYskam, a ja si opravdu nestYskam, ja pouze• ze vaech sil se sna gim, aby Int:1j mu g mi rozumel a abys nalegel nine a nikomu jinemu. Mc se ti ye tvem srcici neogYva„? Nemaa gadneho dobreho slova pro mne?"

"Ale ano, mam to take rad," povidal trochu zmaten, "vim, ze jsi moudra a hodna, gena, ale vaechno chvaliti nemohou. Pkiei se mi, ze me prondsledujeg Mg do hostincii, a kdybys toho zanechala, nic me tlaeiti nebude."

"Prave o to jsem to prosila," iekla smutne.

"Z' adej neco jineho ia, poclivig se, jak rychle ti vyhovim."

"Nemam, co jineho bych od tebe chtela, na tomhle zavisi nacre dornaci blaho."

"Stale jedn.o a tote g ," hudel netrpeliye. "Nechced tedy povoliti?"

"Nemohu a nesmirn. Najdu VC, at, ptijdeg kamkoliv, snesu vaechno, co mi udelaa, jen biti se nedam," dodavala zblednuvgi.

"Kdo by to bil, nejsem clkevat, abych se se genou pral. Dobra, u g me v gadnem hostinci nenajdek" povidal nahle se rozhlednuv. "Ale hliclat se nedam, jsem svobodny a hanba, by mne bylo mezi lidi vejiti, lkdyby vedeli, ze pouze s tvYm svolenim smim, nelam jiti." "aim se mi zarueig, ae nebudea choditi do hostincii.?" ptala se nedilvekive.

"Mdgeg me jiti hledati, vaak vaechny okolni vesnice znaa a jiste vi g, kam jsem chodival."

"A chytim-li to piece, ze jsi mne pfelhal?"

"Potom se mnou delej, co uznaa za dobre, opust' me, zab mne, zleratka delej, cokoliv ti bude libo."

"Opustirn to potorn," iekla neskonale va g ne a zachvela se. "Pkijimarn tvdj slib a pkesvedelm se. Piijde g jeate dem nebo domil?"

"Mel bych se u lidi zastaviti, ale bude lope, kdy g prijcleme domd, aby se mi nesmali, ge me vede g jako delikventa."

"Hodna g ena nikdy mute nevodi, ona rouze o nei peduje a kdo se tak na jejich vzajemny pomer diva„ nemdge vtorn nikdy nic octorneho spatiiti. Poslechni mu gi," tekla nahle jako by slay -nostea,z vise,donutilah, aby take on se zastavil na ni se podival, "vyhovia-li mi, budu nevYslovne at'astna a nikdy ti nezapomenu, ze ;1st k vuli men se odkekl svelio navyku. Nebe na semi ti udelam, vaechno pro te-

Ve stfedu dne 8. ledna 1964 be rada snesu a blahoteeiti budu hotline, kdy jsme se po prve setkali. Zklamea-li nine vgak, potom budu proklinati dkarniik, kdy , j si se ke mne pfibligil a gtititi se to budu jako neptitele.

Tak, ted' via vaechno ia, pojd'me. Rog gi me zima, mdlo mi je a nas 'deka-ra nag krasnY a poklidnY domov."

Popogla, rychle kupiedu a on ji nasledoval. Jeji slova zvlaatnim zpilsobem na nap deinkovala, citil temet kagdYm nervem, ze, co povida, take celou svou bytosti procit'uje.

Nemohl se ubraniti mocnemu dojmu a zadal litovati, ze svou hodnou germ zbyteene trapil. l3y1 by rad nee° ji iekl, aim by ji trochu pote gil, ale na nic neptipadal a gel za ni s hlavou nachYlenou, zmatene ptemYaleje, elm by si ziskal jejiho rismevar a clifivery.

Bile stony myslivny se ukazaly, musill pkejiti palouk, Weller les a zahradu, a pes, cite je, radostne zaatekal.

"Doufam, ae mezi nami uz gadneho nedorozumeni nebude," iekl neobydejne vt'ele. "To by bylo krasne, abychom nedovedli jeden druheniu vyhoveti, zvla ate kdy g se mame tolik radi. Zde je ma ruka, genugko, slibuji, ti ae bude se mnou spokojena."

Zadivala se na neho zkoumave a smutne se pousmavai, vlogila svou ruku do jeho prstri.

"Rad to• slibujeg ?" ptala se fi gkostliye.

"Ze srdce rad," zahoroval, "viclyt' vige se mnou dobte smfali g . Maa pravdu, nebylo by hezke, abych vytloukal hospody; miti zizeii, doma si sklenici piva vypiji a s tebou na prochazku piljdu."

"Opakuji ti, ze ti do smrti budu vdeena. Jsi hodnY, ze jsi mi to iekl, snad bych se ska,cela, jak mi srdce bouki a jak dzkosti na mne padaji. Podivej se na nag ,clihn, jak je utulny a jak krasne jsme tarn givi. Kde mute bVti lope, flea tam u nas. Vim, ze jsi dobry elovek, pojd, pkipravim pro nas veeeti a potom si budeme povidat."

Za, rulku ho vzala, pevne ji sevtevai, vedla ho do myslivny. Sotva do pokoje yeah, objala ho, naru give se k nernu piitiskla a pokryla jeho oblieej ghavYmi polibky.

"Mani to k smrti rada, mej nine i ty rad," prosila vagnive se tetelicim hlasem. "Co mute byti krasnejaiho, nevi naa spoleeny givot a nage vzajemna, drivera."

Pokraeovani Poeet majitelu televizord v Oeskoslovensku dini 1,558.000. Na jeden televizor pkipadaji jen tii domdenosti.

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OlITICIAL ORGAN OF SLAVONIC BENEVOLENT ORDER OF THE STATE OF TEXAS

HERALD—

FOUNDED 1897

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Reports from our Lodges, or Sin other Reading Material 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.

Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 With Undeliverable Copies to SUPREME LODGE SPJST, P.O. Box 100, TEMPLE, TEX.

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Not so many weeks back, one of our youth clubs in one of the lodges performed a wonderful act of charity. The youth club pooled financial resources and gave the nice sum to an institute for mentally retarded children. Another lodge group visited our Rest Home in Taylor and gave gifts; another group sang in a Veterans' hospital.

This is charity and fraternalism at its best.

Of course, our primary objective should be to take care of our "own," but it should be the objective of every youth club in every lodge to "adopt" a certain project for the year, whereby some charity work is performed by that group. There are dozens of opportunities that deserve charitable acts: orphanages, old folks' homes, schools for the blind and mentally retarded (Braille equipment), institutes for the handicapped, plus many other non-profit groups that look to the public for help at various times of the year.

Every youth club is interested that its immediate physical surroundings are as pleasant as possible; every youth club leader is anxious that every youngster participates in all her activities in as wholesome an atmosphere as possible; these are all fine and, good.

However, to be REAL fraternalists, we must perform more and more acts of charity, of good works. This is the point: it is just this type of activity that makes fraternal societies different from their counterparts. If we don't engage in real fraternal-charity projects, we're really not too different from any other organization. We must have something more to point to than just lodge meetings, and sound insurance plans. We must be able, from time to time, to point at certain projects completed, and say, "that's what our

QUOTES ..

Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have burning desire to achieve.

—Wilfred A. Peterson • We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

—Helen Keller • • Self-trust is the first secret of success.

—Emerson • Act as if it were impossible to fail.

—Dorothy Brande youth (or lodge as a whole) accomplish ed this past year or season."

The results are more than rewarding.

One never knows the true feeling of living until he GIVES or DOES something charitable for his fellowman. The resulting feeling cannot be described.

One hears much these days about the "socialized bandwagon," whereby every third or so person feeds from the public till. That may be so, but there is still plenty room for charitable work to be done where it is REALLY NEEDED. e • The next time your youth club meets, and things seem to reach an impasse as to what to do next, suggest that a committee be appointed to examine possibilities of your club "adopting" a certain group or project in your community and then doing something for them. If you just take the trouble of investigating the possibilities in your area, city, or community, you'll find plenty of areas where good works are needed. Check with the Salvation Army, the Red Cross, church-sponsorer charity groups, relief funds, prisons, jails, social workers and agencies, juvenile authorities, orphanages, rest

homes, and many others in your community and decide which you would most like to do something for. Then DO IT! You'll be putting the SPJST foot forward, and you will do something good and constructive for your community -- a community of which you are a part.

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Perhaps, first of all, the youth clubs and lodges should look around in their own immediate midst, among their own membership, to see what help of a charitable nature is needed. We owe it to them first, but there is always need and room for work of this sort beyond our own membership. In some instances, perhaps the youth club and the lodge as a whole can cooperate in such projects. There is really no limit to what can be done in this direction.

The big advantage in this type of work is that you can choose the recipient(s) of your good works, a common complaint of organized fund drives being that you never know where the money goes. (We are not, however, belittling the efforts of such agencies).

It is good and proper for youth clubs to provide for their own entertainment, good times, and "fun." But let them also witness and participate in the great joy that comes from giving to the less fortunate. Let them see to their immediate surroundings first, and then go beyond to help others. That is really what fraternalism is all about and we must PRACTICE it, in addition to preaching it. How could fraternalism be demonstrated more vividly?

• At your next meeting, start discussing what project you can "adopt" in your locality for your good works, and then go through with it; don't let the idea wither on the vine of inaction!

After a few months, or at the end of the year, you can really point with pride to something accomplished. Now,

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early in 1964, is an excellent time to start. Let us demonstrate to our fellowman in our communities that the :SPJST is a DOING society.

On another subject: Too many lodges do not have resolution committees to pay tribute to their deceased members. This can be seen very clearly by comparing the death claims paid out, as reported in the monthly report from the Supreme Lodge, and the number of sympathy resolutions pub-lished in the Vestnik. Some are simply never reported. It is, of course, the primary duty of the resolution committee in each lodge to submit a resolution of sympathy for each deceased member. There is a formal resolution form that is to be followed, but the form and style used most frequently can be found in almost every issue of the Vestnik. At least, the entire Order is informed of the passing of a member. Certainly, the deceased member deserves that much respect and recognition on the part of the surviving membership. Such resolutions should then become a permanent part of the lodge scrapbook that we previously wrote about. It is the lodge president's duty to see to it that such a committee is appointed or elected. If there is none, he should see to it that SOMEBODY—ANYBODY in the lodge writes such a resolution and sends it to the Vestnik for publication. We should have as many Resolutions of Sympathy in the Vestnik as there are death claims paid out in the monthly mortuary report.

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WHAT

KINDS OF LIFE INSURANCE DOES U. S. OWN?

Americans overwhelmingly prefer the kind of life insurance that continues in force throughout their entire lives, instead of policies that last just a specified number of years, according to a new survey by the Institute of Life Insurance.

About two-thirds of the $389.2 billion of ordinary insurance in force at the end of last year was lifelong protection. It pays full benefits to the policyholder's family at whatever age he dies (except for a few policyholders who live to extremely advanced age, usually 85 or 100 years, and themselves collect the full face value of their policies). Or the policyholder can use the cash value to make his later years more comfortable.

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LOST:

Coats were exchanged at the New Year's Eve Dance at Lodge No. 6, Cottonwood. One was practically new, still had the pockets sewn up, had a white fur collar, was neutral twede in color. It belongs to Mrs, Joyce Gordon, Route 2, Hillsboro, phone JU 2-5842.

Mrs. Gordon got a similar coat in the ,mixup, but it is not her size. Anyone having any knowledge of this matter, please notify Mrs. Gordon.

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Besides lifelong protection, other types of ordinary life insurance include: —'Endowment plans, which build up high cash values and provide insurance protection for a limited number of years only. These declined from 13.8 per cent of the ordinary insurance in force in 1957 to 9.5 per cent last year.

Despite the relative drop, the dollar amount of endowment insurance rose.

Special endowment plans to provide retirement income were the only ordinary category that declined in dollar amount.

—Temporary or term protection.

This rose from 20.3 per ,cent of all ordinary insurance in 1957 to 24.1 per cent in 1962. The biggest factor was term insurance under family plan policies — which usually combine a base of lifelong protection on a father's life with smaller amounts of term insurance on his wife and children. Decreasing term insurance (often mortgage policies) also was up substantially.

The biggest share of whole life protection in force last year was straight life insurance, for which the policyholder continues to pay premiums throughout his lifetime. His premiums do not increase as he gets older (except for modified plans that start out at lower rates in the first few years).

Straight life plans accounted for 37.7 per cent of all ordinary insurance last year, compared with 36.7 per cent in 1957.

The next largest category, limited payment plans, represented 12,6 per cent of all ordinary insurance in 1962.

This was a relative decline from 15.1 per cent in 1957, although the dollar amount rose. Limited payment plans provide whole life protection, but premiums are payable only for a certain number of years.

A "paid-up" policy continues to provide lifelong protection: although no further premiums are due. Last year,

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 4.3 per cent of all ordinary insurance was paid up, compared with 5.3 per cent in 1957.

The biggest relative increase was in lifelong protection under family plans, which jumped from 1.8 per cent in 1957 to 5 percent last year. Other combination plans showed little relative change.

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STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, FEDERAL BUREAU OF' INVESTIGATION, WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED

To The American People: With the arrival of each new year, many Americans pause to reflect on the year past and resolve to channel their efforts to a more meaningful and useful life for their country and fellow men. In connection with any thought of self-sacrifice for the betterment of mankind, there is one area of civic responsibility which should not be overlooked. It is the battle of law and order against crime.

Unless we witness a radical change in the behavior patterns of our more than 180 million population, 1964 will bring another sharp rise in crime.

Basically, the lone defender between the public and criminal violence is the law enforcement officer. The question on law and order vs. crime which every public-spirited citizen should resolve at the outset of the New Year is, "Am I doing my part?"

Obviously, an alarming number of persons not only are not doing their part but are overtly aligning themselves with violators against law enforcement officers who are discharging their sworn duties in upholding the law. This is over and above the large segment of society which stands by with indifference and apathy.

It is most disheartening to note the increasing abuse and ridicule inflicted. on officers throughout the country. For example, during the arrest of three individuals in a Midwest city, an unruly crowd gathered. Before the arresting officers could obtain reinforcements and move the violators from the scene, persons in the mob attacked the police and attempted to free those under arrest. Four officers were injured, and a police car was damaged by thrown bricks. In an, eastern city, a gang of howling youths chased a mother- into her home, ransacked the dwelling, and demolished most of the household furnishings. When police arivecl, the gang, joined by nearly 100 other young thugs, assaulted the officers with bricks and stones. In another metropolitan area,

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 a police executive reported that during one 12-month period one of every four officers of the 5,000-man police department was attacked, injured, or "roughed up" while performing his duties.

These contemptible incidents are shocking indictments of a civilized society. They are a disgrace to a privileged people who choose to live under a government of law, but in many instances flout and attack those charged with administering and enforcing the law. A noted columnist, commenting recently on the declining respect for law and order, stated, "We can safely say that the life of an officer of the law is neither nor terribly remunerative, and one thing he shouldn't have to put up with is violence at the hands of mobs for the sin of doing his duty."

A refreshing contrast to the despicable misdeeds cited above is the recent action of two college boys who came to the assistance of a police officer being assaulted while attempting to effect an arrest. Their commendable action saved the police officer from serious bodily harm. Also there is encouraging evidence in some localities that authorities are becoming "fed up" with unprovoked assaults on officers.

One state recently enacted a law making an aggravated assault on a police officer in the line of duty a felony punishable with a maximum of 5 years' imprisonment and-or a $2,000 fine.

Two judges in one city, alarmed over the increase in number and in severity of attacks on law eforcement officers, called for quicker trials and stiffer sentences for those who assault police.

As we enter the New Year, let us resolve as lawabiding citizens to increase our fight and vigilance against the criminals who are a menace to America. Moreover, let us make certain that respect for the law enforcement badge is restored so that officers may discharge their duties without being set upon by vicious mobs of so-called "citizens."

J. Edgar Hoower Director -SPJSTBirthday of "The Eyes": It was 60 years ago this year that John Lang Sinclair scribbled the words to "The Eyes of Texas" on a piece of brown laundry paper and gave the world the most sung song ever written about the Lone Star State.

-SPJSTPay your poll tax by January 31st.

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1 , ( . early SPJST-occupied buildings in Fayetteville. Just to the right of the "Kubena Cafe," the first Supreme Secretary, J. R. Kubota, had a combination dry goods-grocery store. (Today, "Ed's Variety Store"). He had his first offices in the rear of this store. The building on the extreme right, directly in front of the Chevy, housed the former Fayetteville State Bank. Bro. Kubena moved his offices into this building in 1932 after the consolidation and move of the banks.

The office remained there until the structure on the extreme left was built in 1940-41.

A GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST As previously noted, your editor took a trip to the Fayetteville area last December 8th, 1963. The Fayetteville area abounds with a lot of Czech history, and many of the earliest pioneer Czech families settled in the area many, many years ago.

Included in this history is also the history of our SPJST, for it was here also that our fraternal society had its humblest beginnings. That first group of 25 Czech charter members gathered in the Fayette Co. Court House in La Grange in Dec. 1896, and the first lodge was that formed in Fayetteville — Lodge Pokrok Texasu No. 1. Lodge No. 2, Kopernik Roznov, was organized at La Grange. (A check of the SPJST Directory will reveal a good deal of history in itself. It is published twice a year, and will be published again soon).

While in Fayetteville on December 8th, we decided to take a few pictures of our historical landmarks, and with the cooperation of Edwin F. Kubena of Fayetteville, we are presenting information and pictures that will bring 'back memories to many, and should be of fascinating importance to us all.

Much of the earlier SPJST history centers around the person of Brother J. B. Kubena. Brother Kubena held the first policy issued by the SPJST, and was Supreme Secretary of the SPJST

until his untimely death in Galveston on May 3rd, 1938, just short of 40 years' service with the SPJST. Bro. Kubena had his office in the rear of his dry goods and grocery store in Fayetteville. (See picture). He owned three adjoining buildings. One of those buildings housed the Fayetteville State Bank. On July 26th, 1932, the Fayetteville State Bank was consolidated with the Farmers National Bank and was moved from his building.

Shortly after that, Bro. Kubena moved his offices into the former State Bank 'building.

At the East Bernard convention in 1936, Bro. Edward L. Marek was elected Financial Secretary of the Supreme Lodge, SPJST, and moved to Fayetteville the following year. At the same time, Joe R. Kubena, son of the elder Kubena, was made an assistant to his father. At the SPJST convention in Taylor in 1940, the widowed Mrs. Julia Kubena agreed to build a new building for the SPJST. The Supreme Lodge occupied this new building shortly after. Mrs. Kubena passed away in 1943, and the part owner of the building, John A. Kubena, agreed to add a fireproof vault to the building. This building, today housing the "Kubena Cafe" (see picture) housed the Supreme Lodge of the SPJST until the 1952 convention, when it was voted to establish a permanent headquarters else-

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Supreme Lodge, SPJST headquarters from early 1941 until the move to a permanent site in January 1953. Today, Edwin F. Kubena ("Chili"), son of the first Secretary of the SPJST, operates a cafe in this building. which met in La Grange on June 20, 1897. Lodge No. 22 in Cat Springs was the 22nd lodge.

When the complete, connprenensive history of our SPJST is one day compiled and committed to paper, these earliest days of its beginnings will certainly occupy a significant part of that history.

Editor —SPJST-Where the SPJST was born. The court house in La Grange, county seat of Fa.yette County, was the scene of that first gathering of 25 early Czech pioneers, who met and formed their own fraternal insurance society on 28 December 1896. The first lodge was organized in Fayetteville, some 10-11 miles away. where. The permanent site was selected in Temple, and in 1953, the Supreme Lodge offices were moved from Fayetteville to Temple. The 6-story building, with basement, is a familiar landmark to the Temple area, being situated at the corner of East Central and South 2nd Streets.

Thus, our .SPJST, over a period of soon-to-be 67 years, has grown from a humble start of a few dozen members to well over 30,000. Twenty-two lodges were represented at the first convention,

SPJST Supreme Lodge Hqs. in Temple.

Our offices and records are on the 3rd floor, with storage in the basement.

Other available space is rented.

LETTERS SOKOL CORPUS CHRISTI Dear Sisters, Brothers and Friends: wish to express a sincere "Thank You" to all who participated in our Christmas Party, and in my surprise birthday celebration, December 15, 1963 at the Sokol Hall in Corpus Christi.

The weather was in the forties with light drizzle, but the party turned out wonderfully. A large crowd attended, and I think everyone was in a good mood and had a good time. It was greatly appreciated.

Fraternally yours, John Stasa '-',ZECH CHORAL CROUP, LODGE NO. 84, DALLAS

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in -ayetteville, a. unique 1m-11-ark. This is the Fayetteville City Hall, and houses a number of municipal offices. The citizenry of Fayetteville boasts the claim that this is the only city hall in the US with a clock in excellent operating condition, ..A ;6,1,

The year of 1963 has come to an end and the Choral Group of Lodge 84 locks back u pon a very busy year.

Our last performance of the year was probably our most satisfying. On Friday, December 20, we donned our Czech krojs and sang for the veterans at Lisbon Hospital here in Dallas. The patients joined with us when we sang the Christmas Carols and it was obvious that they enjoyed singing out. I know that we sincerely enjoyed con-

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 tributing our little bit toward making their Christmas a little more realistic.

The next night, on Saturday, we put a cap on our year's activities by really celebrating a wonderful Christmas banquet and party. The party committee, under the direction of Mrs. Fay Rejcek, created a beautiful effect in decorating the hall and tables. It was a most pleasant surprise to walk in on this wonderful Christmas atmosphere of holly, candies, and twinkling lights. The committee worked diligently all that day to decorate for this special Christmas party and as one of the Choral Group, I want you to know that we appreciate your many efforts. I would like to give credit to all those responsible, but for fear of leaving soneone out, I, speaking for the Choral Group, will thank you as a committee. Despite this fact, I do want to mention one little member who came ,up to work in her mother's place while mother sat with an ill little brother. Nine-year-old Diane Baleja worked steadily all day and then that night to help make this party a success, thus putting a lot of us grown-ups to shame. Another big thanks goes to the Rejcek Orchestra for providing us with a lot of good music and therefore making our party a complete success.

In all of our merriment we did remember the less fortunate. The Choral group hopes that someone's Christmas was made happier by the baskets made up of canned goods brought in this night. Three baskets, including ham and bacon (courtesy of the Willie J. Ondruseks) were delivered Christmas Eve. As we closed out the old year we pause to give thanks for a most fruitful year. And as the year 1964 comes in, we want to wish all of our many friends, old and new, a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year. May we always sing, for singing is happiness.

Now for a little reminder to our Choral members: our next rehearsal will be Friday, January 10, 1964.

Fraternally, Lillie Jarma, Secty. Choral Group LODGE NO. 4, HALLETTSVILLE Dear Sisters, Brothers, and Readers, This is the last day of the year 1963 and we will begin all over in 1964.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year. I hope everybody had a nice Christmas; I know We sure had a nice Christmas.

VESTNIK Our December regular meeting was attended with great success. We were glad to see cur Editor of the Vestnik, Mr. Morris, with his son. Thanks very much for taking pictures, because I know they enjoyed seeing themselves in the Vestnik.

Our next meeting will be January 12, 1964, and we would like to see our members there. New members are welcome; the meeting starts at 2 o'clock.

I wish everyone a Happy New Year!

Fraternally, Mrs. Linda Mikush

17 "Santa," and we will be looking for• ward to your visit next Christmas.

We want to say "Thanks" to all of the sisters who brought the cookies; they were all delicious and pretty.

We extend our heartfelt sympathy to Mrs. Marie Koci and family in the ,death of her husband, Rudolph Koci.

Remember the meeting Jan 12, 1964.

Fraternally, Mrs. Mary Paprskar, Reporter -SPJST--

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Dist. III Makes Quota

LODGE NO. 92, FORT WORTH

Dear Brother and Sister Organizers: It is the close of another year, and it is a good idea to take a little time out, to pause for a while in the rush and hurry, and reflect upon the past year's accomplishments.

We, in District III, have made our 1963 Quota! We went over the top!

It is due to the efforts of each of you Organizers; by all of us working together as one team, all pulling together the same way, for one purpose: to write more insurance for our SPJST. The date of our banquet is the fourth Sunday in February, February 23, 1964.

The place will be announced later.

I would like to take this means to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the Officers of the Supreme Lodge, the Editor, the District Officers, Lodge Officers, the District Youth Leader, the Youth Leaders of all lodges, the Youth and to the entire membership of District Three for the most splendid cooperation given me this year, and to wish each of you and your families a Very Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year. I remain with kindest personal regards to all, Fraternally, A. M. Vrla, District III Organizer

Dear Members: The next regular meeting of Lodge Svaz Ce2hoslovanu No. 92, will be held on January 12, 1964, beginning at 2 p.m. After the meeting, supper will be served as usual, and the sisters are asked to please bring a covered dish or pastry.

The election of officers was held at the December meeting, and the following were elected: President — Joe Paprskar Vice-President — Joe Becan Secretary — Mrs. Mary Paprskar Treasurer — John Murphy Financial Secty. — Joe Krivanek Youth Leader — Mrs. Helen Kubala and Mrs. Oleta Kaska.

Sunshine Committee — Mrs. Vlasta Dolkos Trustee Board — Joe Krivanek, Richard Hubenak, and Frank Blazek.

Czech Reporter — Joe Becan English Reporter — Mrs. Mary Paprskar Entertainment Chrmn. — Mrs. Annie Langer By-Law Committee — Albert Kubala, John Murphy, Joe Bartek Resolution Committee — Mrs. Lillie McMillen, Mrs. Victoria Murphy, Mrs. Helen Zich Guide — Joe Danek The Christmas program was held on December 15. The Youth Club presented a one-act play, "The Night Before Christmas," plus several poems and Christmas carols. The Christmas tree was beautiful on the stage. Thanks to sisters, Helen Kubala, and Oleta, Kaska, for a wonderful Christmas program.

After the program Santa Claus, (Brother Johnnie Skrasek) appeared and shouts of joy and glee were heard from the little children. Thanks to you,

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LODGE 165, MOULTON Dear Readers and Writers: Since the weather is too disagreeable outside, it's nice to sit indoors by the heater. And it's also a good time to write to the Vestnik and let you know some of the news for our lodge.

Our last meeting was well attended; the election of officers was held; the same ones were re-elected as last year, without opposition. I am again your reporter. The door prize went to Bro. Bill Mikulencak. The delegate to the convention is Bro. Jerome Vasek; his

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alternate is Roman Zidek. We are very glad they accepted, because it is time some of our younger men got interest ed in our lodge's welfare.

Our bake sale, held Saturday, December 14th, was a great success. All the food was sold. We would greatly appreciate it if more ladies would bring baked goods for sale. Our hall needs a good deal of repairing, and whatever is done will be done for the good of all.

I want to also remind you all that our next meeting will be held on the second Sunday of January, January' 12th, at 2 p.m. Please come and help us plan and work for the future.

Once again, the holidays are over. I am wondering if the haters of our honorable President Kennedy feel any happier and satisfied that he no longer exists. I say that he followed in the footsteps of our Lord. He will be so remembered in the future.

This is all for today. I still do not feel too good; the flu has a grip on me.

I'll be writing again soon, and I hope to see a large attendance at our January meeting.

Your reporter, Bessie Fojt —SFUSTLODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON

Dear Friends, What a wonderful time we all had at Lodge 88 Hall on New Year's Eve! It was so nice to see so many of you having fun and dancing to the music of Johnny Holub's Orchestra, who really played good old-time ad modern music that was liked by all. Snacks were served and enjoyed by all.,The hall looked beautiful with about nine hundred balloons; what fun it was getting the balloons down when the New Year rolled in! Hats off to the Entertainment Committee and all who helped them, for the success of the dance was due to their hard work!

The lodge has its monthly meeting this Friday, January 10th. The officers for 1964 will'be installed and refreshments will be served after the meeting.

The Youth Club wil also have its meeting, and I hope all you girls and boys will try to be there and give quite a welcome to your new Youth.

Leader, Mrs. Clements Courtney.

This Saturday, January 11th, we will have a dance at Lodge 88 Hall, and the famous Rudy Kurtz Orchestra of Shiner will play. As I have said before, more and more people attend our dances, and it makes us members of

Lodge 88 happy to see so many of you enjoying our dances. It is due to the hard work of Sister Evelyn and Brother Bill Vornsand that we have the music of such good orchestras, for they travel far and wide scouting for the best in orchestras. So come to Lodge 88 Hall this Saturday and enjoy dancing to good music; bring your friends with you! See you at Lodge 88 this Saturday?

Fraternally yours, Tillie Helmcamp SOKOL FORT WORTH Dear Members and Friends: I hope that everyone had as happy a holiday season as my family did. All the students will have to get used to going back to school again.

The members of SPJST Lodge 154, and the Sokol enjoyed a very good Christmas program on December 21st.

Misses Anne Johnson and Carol Mason, two of our Sokol instructors, were in charge of the program. Thank you, girls, for a job well done.

We had our election of officers at our December meeting. They are: President — Bill Renfro Vice President -- Don Steinman Secretary — Mrs. Anna Hosek Financial Secretary -- Mrs. Anna Milan Treasurer — Wilbur Mason Mrs. Mary Renfro, Mrs. Lillie Dana, and myself are reporters.

Next meeting of the Sokol will be January 22nd, 7:30 p.m. at the Sokol Hall.

Nazdar!

Mrs. Stacie Koch —SPJSTATTENTION MEMBERS OF LODGE NO. 88 HOUSTON: I wish to announce that my duties as financial secretary of Lodge Pokrok Houston No. 88 concluded with the year 1963. After several years of this very interesting office I held and performed to the best of my ability. I had to decline reelection- on account of my health. Sister Georgie Zaludek was elected in my place. She has been a member since her childhood. She is young, capable, full of energy, and most of all has a very nice and pleasant personality. The members of Lodge 88 must realize this is a responsible office and will fully cooperate with Sister Zaludek as you so kindly c000perated with me in the past.

Please mail all insurance premiums

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 and correspondence concerning the membership to: Mrs. Georgie Zaludek 665 Rouse Houston, Texas 77020 To all members of Lodge Pokrok Houston No. 88 I wish to extend my sincere thanks for the cooperation given me during my time as financial secretary, and with best wishes for a Happy New Year to all members of our great SPJST. I remain, Fraternally, Frances Olexa --SPJST- --LODGE 88, HOUSTON

Dear Vestnik Readers, The gaeity of Christmas and the New Year holidays are over, and now it's time we get into the normal pace again. Hope all you readers had a ,Merry Christmas and that the New Year will hold only the best of health and success for everyone.

We had some beautiful weather through the holidays. Maybe some of us wished for snow, but I'll stick to the dry cold and sunshine. You can't beat the beautiful sunny weather this time of the year.

We here at Lodge 88 are approaching the month of January with a number of activities and meetings. Friday night, January 10, is our regular Lodge monthly meeting, at which time the installation of officers for the coming year will take place. Also, any new members of Lodge 88 that have not been initiated in previous meetings, are asked to come for the initiation.

The Dramatic Club is making plans to put on the Czech play "Vesnicka pod Lipami" in Fayetteville on Sunday afternoon, January 26, starting at 1 p.m. There will be more details on this in future issues of the Vestnik, so watch for them. This play will also be repeated here in Houston sometime in February On a Saturday night. We will keep you informed. We wish to thank the 30 or more people and members of Lodge 88 who came out to the hall on Monday night, December 30th to decorate the hall for the New Year's Eve dance. It was work and fun at the same time. The children had a ball stringing up the balloons. The New Year's Eve dance was a success; everyone enjoyed dancing to the Johnnie Holub orchestra of Schulenburg.

This orchestra will be back to play for some of our dances in 1964, so watch our entertainment section in future Vestniks.

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We also have some good orchestras lined up for the month of January. On Saturday night, January llth, the Rudy Kurtz Orchestra of S ner will entertain us. Then, on Saturday, January 18th, the Knights of Dixie of Schulenburg will play their favorite modern as well as old time numbers.

Herbert Kloesel and the Knights of Dixie can be heard on radio station KULP El Campo every Sunday after7 noon around 2 p.m. Then on Saturday, January 25th, the famous Lee use Orchestra of La Grange will play. This will be their first ,appearance , here at Lodge 88 in a long time and we are happy to have them.

So make plans to attend all these dances; get your friends to come with you. Bring your children; there is a playroom downstairs where they can play games or dance if they wish.

There are always some members of the Youth Club to keep an eye on them.

Fraternally yours, Evelyn Vornsand

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LODGE' NO. 15, BUCKHOLTS Dear Members and. Friends, Our Christmas Party was held December 15 and we world like to thank everyone who worked to make it a big success.

The members of Lodge 15 would like to thank these ladies for bringing sandwiches and kolaches to sell at our dances: Mrs. Emil Kamenicky. Mrs. Mary Krause, Mrs. Anton Svetlik, Mrs. L. J. Shiller, Mrs. Fritz Ondrej, Mrs. Adolph Jurca, Miss Milady Shiller, Mrs. Edward Svoboda, Mrs. Henry Stalmach, Mrs. Charlie Hundel, Mrs. Obie Hess, Mrs. Charlie Kohutek, Mrs. George Sanders, and Mrs. Ben Vybiral.

We wish to thank everyone who worked and made it a success. The next meeting will be Sunday, January 12, 1964 at 2 p.m.

Fraternally, Gladys Shiller, Reporter --SPJST

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LODGE 107, FLORESVILLE Dear Sisters and Brothers: Since the old year has gone by and the new year is started, let all our good members take an interest in our meetings this corning year. Let's start this year with pride in our lodge meetings and social activities.

We will have our first meeting Jan. 12, 1964.

We, the members of Lodge 107, were

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all saddened by the death of our ber Emil Prank Lamza, who Passed awaY Lee. 21, 1963. We extend our sympathy to the bereaved family.

In my last letter I noticed that our Secretary's Dame was not mentioned.

She is "Mrs. Mike Baumann.

We will be looking for a large turnout for our first meeting, which will start at 2 o'clock.

Edward lirna, Reporter

29 LODGE NO. 87, TEMPLE Dear Members and Friends: The regular meeting of Lodge NO. 87, Temple, will be on Tuesday, January 14, 1964, at 7:30 p.m. in the meeting room at Tom's Place, 1805 E. Adams Ave. Fraternally yours, Lillian Kosarek, Secty.

SPJST . 11uiletrip. Board SCHEDULE OF SPRING DISTRICT MEETINGS DISTRICT H District II's spring meeting has been set for March 22nd, 1964, at Buckholts, host lodge No. 15.

—SPJSTDISTRICT III Spring meeting will be held on Sunday, April 26th, at Lodge 84, Dallas.

—SPJSTDISTRICT V District Five will conduct the spring meeting on May 17, 1964. Reservation of this date is reauested, and bids from lodges desiring to host this meeting will be accepted until March 31st. Contact any district officer., DISTRICT SIX The District Six spring meeting will be held April 19, 1964 at Riverside Hall, East Bernard, Texas. Lodge Karel Jonas No. 28 will be hosts. Time of the meeting will be announced later.

—SPJST-DISTRICT VII District VII's spring meeting will be held on May 3, 1964, at Lodge No. 161, La Parita.

—SPJSTLODGE 146, GALVESTON Lodge meeting will be held January 12th, at the American Legion Hall, 1503 Tremont, Galveston. Time: 2:30 p.m.

Frank H. Beran Jr. Organizer and Secty.

TIOGA LODGE NO. 5 Dear Members and Friends, Our regular SPJST meeting will be held Sunday, January 12th at 2 p.m.

Fraternally, Mrs. Lorene Schroeder Pay your poll tax by January 31st.

ATTENTION YOUTH LEADERS Those of you keeping records on the Point System for the various prizes offered by the Supreme Lodge, please mail the reports in as soon in January as you possibly can. The sooner we receive them, the sooner we can have them judged and announce the winners.

Also, those of you who have children keeping records of their activities in the Merit System Record Books, please judge the books and send the first place winners to your District Youth Leaders by January 15th, so that they can select the first place winners of the Districts and send them to the Home Office for the judging of the State winner.

Thanking you, and wishing all of you a Happy and Prosperous New Year, I am, Fraternally yours, Joe B. liejny TYPES OF CERTIFICATES OFFERED

BY THE MST CLASS W: Whole Life, Paid-Up at age 85 CLASS PR: Preferred Whole Life CLASS C: Twenty Payment Life CLASS D: Fifteen Payment Life CLASS E: Ten Payment Life CLASS F: Fifteen Payment Endowment CLASS 0: Twenty Payment Endowment CLASS H: Endowment at age 65 CLASS I: Twenty Payment Endowment at age 60 CLASS K: Ordinary Life, Paid-Up at 65 CLASS L: Double Indemnity Insurance CLASS M: Retirement at age 65

20 CLASS MC: Twenty Year Decreasing Term Mortgage Plan CLASS MX: Ten Year Decreasing Term Mortgage Plan CLASS ML: Twenty-five Year Decreasing Term Mortgage Plan CLASS MD: Thirty Year Decreasing Term Mortgage Plan CLASS 5T: Five Year Term, Renewable and Convertible CLASS 10T: Ten Year Term. Renewable and Convertible CLASS 20T: Ten Year Term. Convertlble only CLASS T-65: Class Term to age 65 • • JUVENILE DEPARTMENT CLASS JT: Term Insurance to 16 years of age which may be converted in to any other class of insurance be fore attaining age 16 CLASS W: Whole Life, Paid-Up at age 85 full benefit at age 1 CLASS PR: Preferred Whole Life, (beginning at age 5) CLASS C: Twenty Payment Life, full benefit at age 1 CLASS D: Fifteen Payment Life, full benefit at age 1 CLASS E: Ten Payment Life, full benefift at age 1 CLASS F: Fifteen Payment Endowment full benefit at age 1 CLASS G: Twenty Payment Endowment full benefit at age 1 CLASS H: Endowment at age 65, full benefift at age 1 CLASS I: Twenty Payment Endowment at age 60, full benefit at age 1 CLASS JE: Endowment at age 18, full benefit at age 1 CLASS K: Ordinary Life, Paid-Up at age 65, full benefits at age 1 CLASS L: Double Indemnity Insurance CLASS M: Retirement at age 65, full benefift at age 1 PAYOR INSURANCE: This Order offers the Payor of premiums on a child' certificate the benefit of Pa yor Insurance, which provides that in case of total disability or death of the Payor, the premiums will automatically be paid.

• • NEW MORTGAGE CANCELLATION RATES The new rates for the SPJST Mortgage Cancellation Plans have arrived.

Check with your local organizer for further details.

Pay your poll tax by January 31st.

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Youth Section EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES CAN MAKE OR BREAK STUDENT

By Lalinda Lamotte (Dallas Morning News) Extramrricular activities can play a big part in shaping your living and learning experiences on the college campus. But they can also sink you academically if you, don't watch out.

Even the small colleges provide more than enough activities to keep you busy. And at the large schools the opportunities are almost endless.

There are the social sororities and fraternities, special-interest groups, athletic and religious organizations, the school newspaper and yearbook, and the music and drama departments.

Special activities pop up all the time — dances, concerts, parties, politics, sports events. The list runs on and Dn. For freshmen in particular this deluge of things to do is both tempting and frustrating. They are like children in a candy store, big-eyed and wanting to sample all the goodie;,.

Some students try to do just that and learn too late that they can't do this and their scholastic work, too.

Other freshmen go to the other extreme: They don't participate in any activities outside the classroom.

A midway approach, carefully planned and evaluated, appears to pay the best dividends because it enables you to benefit from both your school work and the broadening experiences of extr q curricular activities.

The first consideration is time — hew much von have to spare and how ye went to utilize it.

For ' ^ ng t of us, there is ample time if w' IN''- it tle away the wasted hours P , mr qse you are taking the normal 15-bi-ir academic load and actually snend the recommended two hours of study for each hour in class. This means 45 hours a week spent on school work, including both class and study time.

Add to this the 56 hours a week you sleep, plUs 21 hours for meals and personal matters and you have used 122 of the week's total 168 hours. That leaves you 46 hours of "free"time, give or take a few hours.

The dean of admission at one school, while warning that students should

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 not seek extracurricular activities at the cost of grades, does advise trying to work in one or two such activities.

The main thing at this point is to choose those activities that will be most meaningful to you — those you consider to be the most relaxing, or the best preparation for your future career, or that help you get into the swing of college life.

Once you pick an interest, don't be afraid to pursue it, even as a freshman. The original initiative is up to you; if you sit and wait for someone to seek you out with a special invitation, you may have a long wait. But if you volunteer — and with the attitude that you really want to participate — you will find you are welcome.

When you have progressed this far there is still one pitfall to avoid — getting too deeply involved. It's a good idea to stop and evaluate the situation from time to time to make sure you aren't going overboard on one thing at the expense of all else.

In some situations, the experience in an extra-curricular activity can be so valuable you decide to go ahead and give it every moment you can.

For instance, a vice-president of our student council told me he spends about six hours a day on council work.

But he has his heart set on politics after he graduates, so perhaps his choice is a wise one.

—SPJSTLODGE 84, DALLAS Dear Readers, The Teen Club at Lodge 84 held a regular monthly meeting in December.

The election of officers was the main point of business in the meeting. The following list tells who the new officers are: President — Larry Petr Vice President — Ricky Kopecky Secretary — Jeanne Hamusek Treasurer Sharon Gaiser Correspondence Committee -- Barbara Rejcek Entertainment Committee -- Linda Laza Refreshment Committee -- Frankie Petr Reporters — Caroline and Linda Zaidle.

The teen club held a Christmas party. The dress was semi-formal. The hall was decorated beautifully. There was a large tree, and the tables were decorated with centerpieces. The theme of the decoration was a winter scene. Everything was beautiful and

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the feeling of Christmas was in the hearts of everyone.

The teen members at Lodge 84 would like to wish everyone a Happy and Prosperous New Year.

Fraternally, Caroline and Linda Zaidle

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ENNIS LODGE NO. 25 Dear Members, This is just to remind everyone about our Youth meeting, Sunday, January 12th at 2:00 p.m. at the National Hall.

We will have election of officers and skating afterwards for you and your friends.

Fraternally yours, Dorothy Kudrna, Youth Leader -----SPJST-

For

The Housewife

HUNGARIAN VEAL CUBE PAPRIKASH Whether it's a meat entree, casserole, pastry or salad, Hungary has for centuries meant a land of elegant dishes. Unique flavor combinations, a blending of spices and frequent use of sour cream make their cooking acclaimed at home and abroad.

One national dish, Veal Paprikash, deserves attention at a special meal.

Veal cubes, as well as steaks and chops, require slow braising.

Veal Paprikash 1/2 pound fresh pork sausage 2 pounds boneless veal, cut in 1-inch. cubes.

3 tablespoons flour 1/3 cup chopped onion 1,4 cup chopped green pepper 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon paprika 3/4 cup water 11 cup dairy sour cream 3 cups cooked noodles 1 tablespoon butter or margarine 1 teaspoon poppy seeds Brown sausage lightly. Remove from frying pan. Dredge veal with flour.

Sprinkle any remaining flour over

VtSTNIN meat. Brown in sausage drippings.

Pour off drippings. Add sausage, onion, green pepper, salt, paprika and water.

Cover tightly and cook slowly 11/4 hours, or until done. Add sour cream and heat through. Mix together hot noodles, butter or margarine and poppy seeds. Serve meat over noodles.

Makes six servings.

• COLONISTS PASS DOWN APPLE PUDDING RECIPE Perhaps you never have or maybe you called it apple pudding.

The early Virginia colonists who grew and gathered the ripened fruit from their apple, or:'hards made a simple and delicious dessert of apples, bread crumbs and eggs and called it "Pupton of Apples."

With the bounteous early harvest of dual purpose Stayman and Delicious apples, there is plenty of eating "as is," for snack time, packed lunches and in a variety of cooked combinations. Why don't you bake a Pupton?

For today's homemaker, we give the recipe below. It is a perfect ending to a. meal throughout the winter season.

Baked Apple Pudding 6 medium to large-size apples 1 4 cup water 1 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon powdered cinnamon 3 whole eggs 1/4 pound butter or margarine (1 stick) 1 cup toasted bread crumbs.

Pare, quarter and core the apples; put them in heavy sauce pan and add the water and sugar. Place over low heat, stir from time to time until tender. Stir in the cinnamon. Cook until apples appear thickened and set aside to cool.

Melt butter or margarine and add bread crumbs, stir in well beaten eggs, mix with the apples and pour into baking dish. Bake at 350 F. about 30 minutes. Serve hot with slices of butter or whipped cream if you wish. Makes six to eight servings.

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FREEZER IMPORTANT CONVENIENCE A good freezer can be an everyday, around-the-clock convenience to the homemaker during the busy school year ahead.

This modern appliance can be so much more than an economical means of taking advantage of quantity buy-

21 ing and storing of seasonal vegetables and fruits.

Breakfast with the family is more tun — and the hustle-and-bustle of getting the family off for the day less hectic -- when lunches can be pulled like magic from the freezer.

The homemaker practices real efficiency of time and effort when she prepares an entire week's supply of school lunches at one time.

The lunches can be sacked, each sack marked for a different day in the week, and stored perfectly in the freezer until needed.

Taken out of the freezer in the morning, the lunch will be thawed and ready for delicious eating by noon.

Sandwiches, potato chips, cake, etc will be as fresh as the moment they were wrapped.

In the afternoon the freezer can cope with the homemaker's problem of after-school snacks for her youngsters.

The freezer can include a snack center — a corner of the freezer where youngsters can help themselves to a nourishing mid-afternoon "pickup" of wholesome ice cream specialties.

Two or three flavors of ice cream, plus a selection of varius toppings, kept in the freezer mean quick and easy-to-fix snacks. And the variety of possiblities probably mean that the youngsters themselves will want to do the "fixing."

Cans of frozen fruit juice stocked in the snack center of the freezer also offer healthful after-school refreshment for the youngsters.

Cultural Notes The National Theater in Ankara, Turkey, will perform the Czech opera "Jenufa" by the noted composer Leos Janacek, sometime in January. This is the first time that the opera will be performed in Asia. Members of the Brno State Theatre (Moravia) will go to Turkey next month to help the Ankara company stage the performance.

One of the Brno Theatre's singers, Vilem Pribyl, will sing with the Turkish cast.

• • "A Composer of Present-Day Britain" is the title under which the Czechoslovak Radio broadcast a program on the life and work of Benjamin Britten on November 19. The program was arranged to celebrate the composer's forthcoming fiftieth birthday which was November 22. A number of Brit-

22 ten's works are known in Czechoslovakia. Among the most popular are "Sin,fonia de Requiem," his operas "Peter Grimes," and "Albert Herring," "The Prince of the Pagodas," a ballet, "Variations on a Theme of Purcell," and "War Requiem."

• • The Prague National Theatre will take part in the Edinburgh Music, Theatre and Film Festival for the first time next year. The festival organizers have confirmed the invitation made by Lord Harewood, President of the Festival Society ,during a recent visit to Czechoslovakia. The Prague National Theatre opera company will give 18 opera performances between August 17 and September 5. They will present ,Smetana's "Dalibor," Dvorak's "Rusalka," Cikker's "Resurrection," Janacek's "Kato, Xabanova" and "From the House of the Dead." The National Theatre will be represented by a 250-strong company.

• • Academician Jaroslav Prusek, director of Prague's Oriental Institute, spoke on the relation between modern European and Asian literature at the Congress of International Federation Ior Modern Languages and Literature in New York at the end of August.

From New York he went on to Mexico, where he will represent the international Academic Union at the International Council for Philosophy and Social Sciences. ♦ • The largest exhibition of Slovak art in Prague has opened at the Castle Riding School Gallery. Almost 400 paintings, drawings, prints and examples of sculpture represent the best work of contemporary Slovak artists.

• • Two Czechoslovak TV films again received prizes at the TV festival in Rome: "His Holiness' Carriage," directed by Frantisek Ellin, and Martin Eric's "Tears the World Never Sees."

• • The Magic Lantern Theatre is returning to Brussels, scene of its birth at the World Exposition in 1958. Beginning October 22, it will present in the Center Rofier the program • already seen in 18 cities of ten countries.

"Two for the See-Saw," by the U. S. playwright William Gibson, is scheduled to open at the F. X. Saida Theatre in Liberec at the end of this month.

Pay your poll tax by January 31st.

V ESTNfIK A joint symposium on Arteriosclerosis, at which Swedish and Czechoslovak specialists compared results of recent recent research. work, was held in Prague at the beginning of September.

The ten-member Swedish delegation was headed by Prof. Bertil Hood of Goteborg; Czechoslovakia's experts by Prof. Jan Brod. The week-long exchange was the third of its kind arranged by the two countries. The first was on dentistry, the second on occupational diseases.

• Seventeen European wine-growing countries took part in the second largest international wine-tasting event held since the war in. Bratislava, the Slovak capital, last moth. Altogether 849 brands were entered, 149 gold medals were awarded. Among the top winners were Hungary, Rumania, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Czechoslovakia carried away 64 of the first prizes.

• • POSTAL MUSEUM MOVES TO CASTLE History of Communications Only a few of the world's capitals possess a postal museum, and Prague is one. Its origins go back to 1918 and the birth of the Czechoslovak Republic; it was one of a number of institutions then founded, but its formal opening took place later, after a period devoted to assembling material.

At that time it was not very large or particularly well supported, and it not unnaturally focused attraction on the history of postal services in the Czech lands, previously under Austrian rule.

On the stamp side it showed home issues and, as international connections were established, foreign issues too.

There were some examples of post office equipment, prints of mail-carrying vehicles, maps of routes, and so on.

With the growth of philately the museum, gradually became better known. It was moved from its first small home near Charles University to larger premises in the Smichov district of Prague, where it remained until recently.

There five rooms contained displays which had been expanded to touch on all aspects of the history of postal communications: old letters as well as early stamps and cancellation marks; a mail coach and sledge; delivery time tables; and, besides the ever-increasing number of stamps themselves, an interesting collection of original drawings, engravings, plates and proofs for Czechoslovak issues.

Wednesday, janna Rare Over-Print The momentum of expansion and interest has increased since the war, and the museum has been able to build up its collection still farther. The need for another move became pressing, and this was arranged last year. While the specialised stamp displays and reference books will remain where they are, other exhibits are being transferred to Hradec Castle, where they will be set out in better lit and less crowded surroundings.

The castle is 60 miles from Prague, but it already attracts many visitors and it is likely that next year, when the collection is installed, the stream will increase.

Not only will the exhibits be better arranged, but the opportunity is being taken to present national postal history in the context of the world history of communications. Thus the beginnings and development of writing will be shown; ways in which messages were recorded and carried in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome; the "postal system" of the Inca empire and of African peoples, and many other aspects of the story. In all, there will be several thousand items, including stamps.

Does the museum house any rarities?

Yes: for instance, an 18th century map — among the oldest of its kind — showing coach routes and staging points in Central Europe. Also an Austrian 'stamp with "Czechoslovak Post" over-printed upside down. Only six of these are known to exist, and this one is valued at 60,000 crowns.

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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".

Wednesday, January 8, 19'64

For Your Information: POLIO CONQUERED Big numbers usually make news, but in 1963 a zero made the headlines.

The "zero" is in the column of vital statistics telling how many people died from poliomyelitis during 1963. In about a ten-year period, the death column dropped from a 253 total to a zero.

Behind these columns lies a story that statistics alone cannot tell. The story — in short order — reflects the development of polio vaccine during the last ten years. But let's start at the beginning of the story. Poliomyelitis, also known as infantile paralysis, is caused by a poliovirus.

Single cases or epidemics occur throughout the world. The disease may strike at any time, but the largest number of cases occur in the summer and early winter months. Children and young adults are the most frequent 'victims.

The disease is spread from man to man. Poliomyelitis virus has been found in secretions of the nose and throat and in the feces of patients.

For this reason, polio patients are isolated and intense precautions are ex ercised, especially during the early days of illness.

Anyone can have poliomyelitis -crippling and killing disease — but no one can be cured.

The key to avoiding the dread disabling disease is prevention. Two vaccines — discovered, developed and tested in the last ten years — can prevent the disease.

The first hope of a vaccine came in 1953. A scientist at the University of Pittsburgh had developed a vaccine, composed of killed polio viruses, But the vaccine had to be tried and tested before mass immunization could take place.

Then, in 1955, the public was able to receive protection with Salk vaccine injections.

Now an oral vaccine developed by Dr. Albert Sabin of Cincinnati is also available. It is made of weakened live viruses and can •be administered as a liquid, mixed with, sweet tasting substances such as simple syrup or lump sugar.

The advent of poliomyelitis vaccines brought polio incidence down to eight cases and •deaths to zero.

This is the story about the zero that

VtSTINTfIC made big news. And zero will continue to be headlined so long as each person takes advantage of the protection available. ,—Texas Dept. of Health --SPJST-"LANTERN" MAY HELP IN CANCER TREATMENT Cleveland, Ohio — A potentially revolutionary "magic lantern" that might make possible the diagnosis and even treatment of cancer and other ills in areas of the human body inaccessible to direct observation was described December 28, 1963.

It consists of thin, but lengthy, bundles of flexible glass fibers that can be threaded down the mouth to the lungs, the stomach and the intestines — and then illuminate these areas with light transmitted along the fibers. At the same time, radiant energy, packing power "far in excess of that of the sun," can e likewise be transmitted through the fibers to the target area.

Dr. N. S. Kapany of Optics Technology, Inc., Belmont, Calif., told about it in a report to the 130th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

He stressed that the device has so far been used only in animals, but he voiced belief it offers possibilities for application in human medical diagnosis and treatment.

The scientist said the device represents a marriage of two revolutionary developments of the past few years — "fiber optics" and "Lasers."

The field of fiber optics embraces devices in which, light can literally be made to bend around corners by passage through flexible fibers of glass, silica, quartz and certain other materials.

A "laser" — short for "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation" — is a device which produces light and then concentrates it in a narrow, powerful beam, whose heat is capable of boring holes in steel if the power used is strong enough.

The scientist said laser beams alone — without transmission through fibers had already been successfully employed in "welding" back into place detached retinas in the human eye.

—SPJST--SHOPLIFTERS PICK UP MILLIONS Sticky-fingered shoppers help themselves to $520 million worth of goods each yule season a manufacturer of anti-theft devices says.

23 The losses are carried out of supermarkets in women's purses, coats, unbrellas and pockets, said Norman M. Riven, president of Norman Industries, manufacturers of convex, wide-angle mirrors and other devices to discourage oplifting A loss of $3 may not seem like much but overhead and other operating costs demand that the food merchant ring up about $35•in additional sales before he can break even on the loss, Riven said.

Added up, these losses cost the grocery industry more than $300 million last year, enough to feed San Francisco, Calif., for a full year, according to an industry estimate.

Riven said that approximately 25 per cent of all the year's stealing occurs during the Christmas holiday season.

He said various estimates show that retailers lost more than $2 billion to ,pilferers during 1963, more than the cost of all the nation's burglaries and holdups combined.

"The most frequent shoplifting offender is the average housewife," he said. "Ninety per cent of the stealing is done by her, and quite logically, be cause she does over 90 per cent of the shopping."

And, shoplifting continues to increase. A report by the Federal Bureau of Investigation said it increased 10 per cent over last year during the first quarter of 1963.

Kiven attributed the increase to the tremendous growth of self-service type stores.

"Walk down the aisles of a typical operation and you see articles of attractive merchandise displayed to create impulse p urchases but backfiring to allow impulse stealing," he said.

"Look around and get the feeling that you've extended your budget, but have to have a certain article, and the owner won't: miss it. Or perhaps the potential pilferer thinks that because he are she has been trading with the store for some time management owes her something."

One of the solutions, he said, is to deter shoplifting by taking away privacy from the long aisles. Convex mirrors placed in positions where they reflect images from around gondolas or corners alert potential thieves to the possibility of being observed, so fewer persons will take the risk of stealing, he said.

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24 Kiven believes prevention of the theft is more practical than attempting to prosecute the theif.

"If a merchant does file charges, often the pilferer is placed on probaten or in some states, where the shoplifting apprehension law is so weak that the thief goes free on a technicality, the merchant faces a false arrest charge," said Kiven.

The average theft, Kevin said, amount to $1.11 and judges occasionally "berate the businessman for tying up the court on a 'petty item.' " He discounted the idea that the thefts were performed by professionals who sell the loot.

MEN OF THE YEAR. Top award for efficiency in the American economy has been won again by the farmer in 1963. Despite weather worries, a tightening cost-price squeeze and other problems, farmers set new records of food and fiber production. Benefactors of this bounty, of course, were residents of Dallas and other cities who bought more and better farm produce at low prices.

The 1963 crop out put was 112 per cent of the 1957-59 average and 5 percentage points above 1962. Tnis was produced by the smallest labor force since before 1900, one-third fewer farm workers than in 1950. Because of better methods, acreage required to set the record was 47 million below plantings a decade ago.

More of the same is in prospect for 1964, with each farmer feeding almost 30 non-farmers, three times as many as before World War II. But dwindling returns to the men and women who produce so abundantly threaten American agriculture. hampering the entire national econom y. For the President, Congress and the man in the street, this means that the farmer again promises to be the Man of the Year in 1964 — in productivity and in problems unsolved.

(Editorial, Dallas Morning News) POPULATION GAIN DURING 1963 NOTED Washington — The United States gained 2,633,000 persons during 1963 to start the New Year with a population of 190,695,000.

The Census Bureau said the big increases since last New Year's Day were in women — outnumbering men by 100 to 96.6 — and nonwhites. The nation

probably now has its greatest percentage of nonwhites since the turn of the century.

The over-all increase of one person every 12 seconds represented a growth rate of 1.4 per cent for the year, down from 1.6 per cent in 1960 and 1961.

PLAN TO COMBAT RURAL POVERTY BEING DRAFTED Washington — Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman said recently the administration will announce in the near future new and enlarged programs designed to combat poverty in rural areas.

Freeman said in a new year's statement that the programs would be aimed at rural renewal, better rural housing, improved water systems, and other community facilities.

"All these efforts, and many more," he said, "will be channeled toward bringing rural America into the mainstream of American prosperity."

Freeman said the new year found rural America faced with two broad and interrelated problems: "(1) Farm income that is still unfairly low, and (2) the existence of conditions of deep rural poverty affecting more than 15 million Americans, both farm and nonfarm people."

Be said he ho ped that new wheat legislation could be put into effect to forestall a decline in farm income. He also was hopeful that new cotton legislation would be enacted and that new legislation for dairy products and certain other commodities would be considered.

Freeman said special wheat programs in 1962 and 1963, feed grain pro grams, and adpustments in price sup ports for other commodities had helped increase farm income by about $2.300,000 the last three years. But he said "the farmer's return is still not what it must be if agriculture is to share fully in American prosperity."

On the question of rural poverty, Freeman said: "The existence of deep pockets of rural need is something that must not be tolerated by the greatest nation in history. Yet it exists — in terms of poor people both in agriculture and in small towns and rural communities that have been bypassed in the march of prosperity."

He said about half the nation's farm operator families — or some 1.6 million — have an income •from all sources of

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 less than $3,000 each. Nearly 2.9 million rural non-farm families suffered the same under-priviliged status. sp.„(sT-ALIENS MUST REPORT ADDRESSES IN JANUARY The Immigration and Naturalization Service has announced that noncitizens must report their addresses in January under a provision of the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act. More than 3,236,000 aliens reported their addresses last January. The figuure is expected to reach at least 3,285,000 in January 1964.

The address report requirement applies to all aliens admitted for permanent residence who have not yet been naturalized as well as to aliens in the United States temporarily. The only exceptions are: non-citizens in diplomatic status, foreign representatives of international organizations of which the United States is a member, such as the United Nations, and those admitted temporarily as agricultural laborers. All others must file their address reports.

Each alien concerned may fill out an address report card at the local United States post office or at the nearest office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and return the card to the clerk from whom received. No one should mail the card. More than 90 per cent of the aliens who reported last year filed their reports at local post offices.

Parents or guardians of alien children under 14 are required to fill out address reports for such children. Legal guardians of aliens in custodial care should fill out address reports for such persons.

Any alien who is ill may send a friend or relative to -obtain the Address Report Card (Form T-53 ■ for him and then return the card to the issuing clerk after, it is filled out by the noncitizen.

After an alien has filled out a card at a post office or an office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and has given the card to the clerk, he has fulfilled his obligation under the 1952 Act. Aliens who are not in the United States during January must report their addresses to the Service within 10 days after their return.

Serious penalties may be imposed upon an individual who willfully violates the Alien Address Report requirements.

Wednesday, January 8, 1904 1964 AGRICULTURE OUTLOOK Texas farmers and ranchmen with the necessary resources -- land, capital, labor and the managerial ability to combine them into an effeciently openrating unit — should have a good year in 1964, believes John G. McHaney, economist for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service.

Here are his reasons. Economic activity for the nation is expected to continue at a high level dring 1964. Consumer incomes after taxes are running about 5 per cent above 1962 now and further gains are expected in 1964. Too, automobile sales, home building, appliance sales are expected to register further gains as are expenditures for new plants and equipment. Expenditures for goods and services by federal, state and local governments will increase in 1964 and they now account for about a fifth of the gross national product, McHaney explains.

He points out, however, that the ;general economic activity will depend to a great extent upon the timing and extent of the proposed tax cut.

The domestic market for agricultural products looks good, says the economist. The immediate outlook for agricultural exports is about the best ever he adds. Total exports for farm products for 1963-64 is likely to be near $6 billion if the proposed grain sales to Soviet bloc countries materialize.

Farm output continues to rise and 1963 is expected to set a record high for the sixth consecutive year. With acreage growing conditions, farm output in '64 will remain high and could set a new record, says McHaney.

The cost-price squeeze will still be an important factor in farm income, but with so many farmers also doing off-farm work, per capita personal income of all people living on farms from all sources is expected to be near the 1963 record level.

The outlook calls for further increases in farm assets, chiefly due to the continued rise in farm land values.

Though farm debts also continue to increase, the equities of farmers and other farm property owners are increasing at a faster rate, says McHaney.

—A,. and M. Ext. Service -SPJSTJOHNSON URGES EFFORT TO

REDUCE DROP-OUTS Austin — Lyndon B. Johnson, who taught school before going into politics, urged the nation's school districts on

VESTNfIC January 1st to put on more intensive efforts to keep children, in school.

President Johnson, releasing a report

by U. S. Commissioner of Education Franceis Keppel, added that "we just can't leave it up to our teachers and administrators to do this job (of reducing dropouts) for us."

Before he went to Washington as secretary for the late Congressman Richard Kleberg of Corpus Christi, Mr. Johnson taught school from 1928-1930 'in Pearsall, Cotulla and Houston.

"Our churches, civic leadership, P-TA's, women's organizations — as well as business and labor — can do something for their country's future by giving top priority next summer to back-to-school campaigns in their communities," the President said.

"If we want our young people to take an interest in themselves, we need to show more interest in them ourselves."

Sixty-three cities participated in pilot programs designed to spot students who have left school before graduation, or likely will drop out. Texas districts generally spurned the project, which was financed with $250,000 of federal funds allocated by the late President Kennedy.

Many Texas school systems have programs financed locally seeking to reduce drop-outs.

President Johnson said the pilot program shows "we still have to learn our way in this type of activity" but that "the results are far better than expected" from the efforts so far.

The President said the 63 districts showed that where communities made special effort to prevent early departure from school, "one out of two actual or potential drop-outs returned to school — and nine out of ten are stay ing in school."

"With experience," he said, "we can do even better. I am asking Dr. Keppel to send every school district in the nation a full report on these pilot programs together with guidelines for conducting successful drop-out campaigns. It is my hope that in 1964, at least a majority of our school districts — and all of the metropolitan districts — will have voluntary citizen-supported campaigns under way."

----SPJSTLITTERING COSTLY HABIT

Untidy habits cost taxpayers an estimated $500,000,000 a year.

That is the dollar size of the litter

25 problem nationwide, as the Keep Americe Beautiful crusaders figure it.

The litter happens a little at a time.

Samples: paper plates left on picnic tables; pop bottles tossed out of car windows on the nation's dream highways and nightmare by-ways.

The dollar loss — cost of picking up — is only the beginning of the litterbug's toll.

KAB estimates further that fires directly attributed to delinquent habits of smokers and campers cost more than $70,000,000 in a 12-month period.

Litter, further, often provides food and shelter for disease-carrying insects and rodents. This threatens health.

Litter roughs up the natural beauty of the rural and urban scene. It offends the esthetic senses of all Americans and makes a mockery of poems and songs praising the beauty of the land.

The KAB program, director, Laura Freed, says the attack on litterbugs is 3-pronged. It consists of: Public education to stimulate individual pride and responsibility for cleaner, safer, more attractive surroundings.

Provisions for adequate trash disposal facilities.

Enactment and enforcement of upto-date state and local laws against littering to penalize willful litterbugs.

Miss Freed is proud of the fact that the best known anti-litter organization is Keep American Beautiful, sponsored by the Glass Container Manufacturers Institute. It is supported by corporations and trade associations in 27 major business and industrial categories nationwide.

KAB functions primarily as a national coordinating agency, assisting in the formation of state, community and corporate anti-litter programs. It also works toward enactment and enforcement of adequate anti-litter laws.

What success has the anti-litter program had? Samples: Detroit has achieved savings in excess of $1,000,000 a year in rubbish collection and street cleaning since the start of its anti-litter program in 1955.

An educational program in Oregon helped cut the state's litter disposal budget 50 per cent.

Maryland's anti-litter program reduced the cost of trash collection along highways from $257,000 to $51,000 annually in five years.

Washington State saved $100,000 a

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year simply by placing litter barrels along its major highways.

What can you do to help? Miss Freed answered the question this way: -Train yourself and your family to place rubbish into a littercari."

Check with your family lawyer when: 1. Your status changes: upon coming of age, marriage, the birth of your children, buying a house, divorce or death. For you may then need to draft or devise your will, change your insurance, or re-figure your taxes.

2. You buy or sell. Look out for flaws in the papers before you go into debt, part with money, or sign anything involving big expenditures or long-term obligations.

3. You enter into other contracts.

Promises, spoken or written, bind you if they call for a "consideration," something of value in return.

4. Someone threatens your rights.

The law exists to defend them but with some rights you must take action

LEGAL CHECKUP A SAFETY 1VIEASURE Legal trouble is easier and cheaper to prevent than to cure.

Most wage earning, childbearing, home-buying installment-paying families don't see much need for a family lawyer.

Often only under prodding, one may have his lawyer prepare a will.

But can you tell a big legal risk from a small one? Can you spot the signs of legal trouble?

Death Claims Paid During December, 1963 Umrtni podpory vyplacene v ►rosinci, 1963 SUPREME LODGE, S.P.J.S.T. Temple, Texas January 2,1964 Death Claim No.—Name tislo (Marti-4min°

Occupation Zamestnani

Lodge No. tad Cislo

Date of Admission Datum

Location 8022 Chas Wolchik, Jr. 8023 Marie Drevojanek, 8024 John P. Neclhalek, 8025 Frances Mozisek, 8026 Frances Koval-, 8027 Jenny Leshikar, 8028 Alben Kosarek, 8029 Chas. W. Marek, 8030 Otto Albert Banik, 8031 Frank Otto, 8032 Forest Find, 8033 Frank Kubin, 8034 Rudolph Koci, 8035 John'llrna, 8036 Leasley R. Brietzke, 8037 Ernest H. Walzel, 8038 Marie Richter, 8039•Emil W. Lamza, 8040 S. M. Kuykendell, 8041 Sophie Mikus, 8042 Frank Janota, 8043 Frances Kostohryz, 8044 John Mares, Jr., 8045 Ella Joe Shimek,

farmer -- rolnik housewife -- hospodyne retired — na odpoeinku retired — na odpoeinku housewife -- hospodyne housewife — hospodyne farmer — rolnik farmer — rolnik Connally AFB employee retired — na odpoeinku fireman—hasic retired — na odpoeinku retired — na odpoeinku retired — na odpoeinku const. supt.. Texaco retired — na odpoeinku retired — na odpoeinku farmer — rolnik retired — na odpneinku retired — na odpoeinku retired — na odpoeinku retired — no. odpoeinku blacksmith — kovai retired — na odpoeinku

22 24 26 4 25 29 57 91 6 143 28 17 92 86 28 81 134 107 4 142 18 7 120 91

Cat Springs Cyclone Skidmore 'Hallettsville Ennis Taylor Gonzales Crosby Cottonwood Inez East Bernard Caldwell Fort Worth Temple East Bernard Needville Crowell Floresville Hallettsville Houston Elgin Caldwell Deanville Crosby

7- 9-11 12-12-09 9-16-00 10-12-24 8-11-12 12-10-11 3-16-55 11- 4-23 3-25-60 1- 4-206-29-36 4-14-07 0-14-10 5- 9-09 3- 4-46 1-10-35 7- 8-17 7-23-63 2- 3-17 8- 3-24 3-11-06 4- 8-23 7-29-14 9-23-57

Date, of Death Datum funrti 11-22-63 11-25-63 11-25-63 11-20-63 11-13-63 11-23-63 11-29-63 9-12-63 11-25-63 11-17-63 12- 1-63 12- 9.-63 12- 1-63 12-14-63 12-14-63 12-16-63 12-11-63 12-20-63 12-16-63 12- 6-63 12-14-63 12-20-63 12-17-63 12- 8-63

Age Stall '73 89 87 90 70 79 55 56 40 82 53 78 80 87 5.0 68 81 45 78 71 76 73 70 51

Cert. No. Cislo Cert.

A-138 A-1411 A-15298 A-11'728 A-4405 A-7928 C-12585 A-8969 B-24116 A-15262 D-275 A-1088 A 6868 - B 209 A-6252 D-1801 C-2501 A-1352 C-29386 A-4454 A-11726 A-256 A-8709 A-5738 MC-100

To the bereaved survivors of nur deceasea brothers and sisters, the Supreme Lodge, SPJST, expresses its heartfelt sympathy.

Raymond Urbanovsky Secretary, Supreme Lodge, SPJST

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 yourself for them to work for you.

When you can bring your lawyer "live" facts (e.g. unsigned contracts, vexing tax returns you haven't filed), he can do much more for you, and at a smaller cost than when you bring him "cold" facts (mistakes you have made which threaten trouble).

But above all, get both live and cold facts to him at once. For time may run out in many such situations. Your lawyer may be able to do something for you today, which he cannot do tomorrow.

Tell your lawyer what you want. Tell him all the facts, good or bad, and then keep him informed all along. He is sworn to keep what you tell in confidence, and he cannot serve you well without full knowledge.

(This newsfeature, prepared by the State Bar of Texas, is written to inform — not to advise. No person should ever apply or interpret any law without the aid of an attorney who is fully advised concerning the facts involved, because a slight variance in facts may change the application of the law.)

--SPJSTOn January 13, 1834 — 130 years ago — Horatio Alger, the American writer who achieved wide popularity for his "success stories," was born in Revera, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard and some years later settled in New York City, where he became interested in the needs of self-supporting boys. Alger wrote about them in his series of about one hundred books for boys, including "Ragged Dick," "Tattered Tom," "Luck and Pluck," and similar titles. Alger had millions of readers in his day and for many nears his books were widely read by young people. He also wrote, for young readers, a series of biographies of Webster, Lincoln, Garfield and others. "A Horatio Alger story" is a phrase still frequently used to describe any career which begins in poverty and ends on the heights of fame and for tune.

On January 13, 1864 — 100 years ago Stephen Collins Foster, American composer and creator of more than a dozen of America's most enduring songs, died in poverty in New York City at the age of 37. Born in Pittsburgh, Foster began publishing his songs at the age of twenty, while supporting himself as a bookkeeper. Though untrained in music, he composed the music and wrote the words of some 200

VESTNIK popular songs, among which are "Oh, Susannah!" "My Old Kentucky Home," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," "Old Black Joe," "Suwannee River," "Camptown Races," "Old Folks at Home," and other perennial favorites.

Although a Northerner by birth and residence, his Negro plantation songs were derived from his knowledge of minstrel shows. In Bardstown, Kentucky — the site of "My Old Kentucky Home" — his birthday, July 4th, is the occasion for special ceremonies. Foster's birthplace has been preserved as a memorial by the city of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh has an extensive collection of first editions of his songs and material concerning his life.

-SPJST"Treeless" Texas?: Easterners who think of the Lone Star State as barren range land might be surprised to learn that Texas has 35 million acres of woodland — enough to cover all of New England except Connecticut.

Texas First?: What may be the nation's first "singing" highway is a mile and a half stretch of U. S. 60 and 87 between Canyon and Amarillo.

The median strip between the lanes of the expressway has a corrugated surface which gives ,off a high-pitched singing sound if an unwary driver leaves the road. The warning is loud enough to wake a sleepy man at the wheel.

-SPJSTCalling Treasure Hunters: Visitors to Padre Island on the Texas coast often find gold and silver coins dating back to the 16th Century.

The coins are found near Devil's elbow, a curve in the island shore line, which marks an area that was a graveyard for many a wooden sailing vessel.

These ships often carried thousands of dollars in gold and silver coins, which still wash ashore from time to time.

Murder Under the Dome: Guides rarely mention it to tourists, but the State Capitol was the scene of a murder in 1903.

State Comptroller R. M. Love was chatting with a former employee when the visitor pulled out a gun and shot him. An assistant grabbed the gunman, and the pistol discharged a second time dropping the assassin. The gun-wielder died in the first floor corridor, and Love died later the same day.

--SPJST--

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HIGH GRADING BEEF NOT ALWAYS HIGHEST SELLING High grades of beef do not necessarily sell for more than lower grades, says a new publication of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service.

Cattlemen know that in most cases the price for "Choice" cattle is higher than the price for "Standard" grade cattle, though the price ranges of each grade overlap the others. L-60'7, "Effects of Grades, Weights, Buyers on on Beef Carcass Prices,' explains that this means that some Joker grade cattle bring better prices than the next higher grade.

Reasons for this difference, according to the publication, include the fact that if one grade of beef is desired more than another, the price bidding for that grade increases. This desire tdepends on how much each type of buyer wants that particular quality carcass, it says.

The method of carcass distribution also has a tremendous effect on the final wholesale price. Beef sold through restaurants, chain stores and small butchers normally c ell for different prices and though the final destination of some beef is not known, the

type of buyer purchasing it gives a clue.

The weight of the carcass has an effect on the price as well according to L-607. Buyers will pay more for top Good carcasses than for average or low Goods, and will pay more for lightweight carcasses than for the heavier ones. Also, different buyers with different needs will demand different weights and grades of beef.

In establishing the final sale price demand for different grades, buyers, grades and weights all affect the selling price of carcasses. To the cattle producer, the packer-wholesaler and the retailer, these factors are important and their final goal is providing the consumer with fresh, wholesome, high quality beef at a price as close to the actual value as possible.

—A. and M. Ext. Service -SPJSTREVIEW INCOME TAX RULES NOW It soon will be time to start to work on your income tax report, says Mrs. Wanda B. Meyer, home management specialist with the Agricultural Extension Service at Texas A. and M. University.

You may want to review some of the rules which may help you save — if

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Wednesday, January 8; 1064 they aply in your case. Here's a checklist: A portion of a dividend payment on stock that is designated as return of investment is not subject to tax, although it reduces the cost basis on which you figure your profit when you later sell the stock.

A mutual-fund dividend, the portion that is designated as capital gain, is taxable; in effect, at only one-half of your ordinary rate.

Capital gains allotted to you on mutual-fund shares, but not paid, have to be reported as capital gains on your return. But you can claim credit of 25 per cent of the amount as taxes you have paid, as that's the sum paid by the company.

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such income spent by the dependent for his own support has to be included in estimating whether 'you furnished more than half.

Other rules to consider are: A couple married at any time during the year, as late as December 31, can get the benefit of a lower rate for 1963 on a joint return; a dependent who .died during the year, even the first week, can be claimed as an exemption if you were furnishing more than half of his support; people who reached age 65 on January 1, 1963, are entitled to an exemption and larger medical deduction.

Touring Texas: At Geronimo, halfway between Sap Marcos and Seguin on State Highway 123, is one of the largest and finest collection of antique automobiles in Texas.

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by Liston Zander and includes more than 30 cars. Many are more than 50 years of age and one — a 1901 Foster Steamer — is a youthful 62 this year.

The public is welcome to view the collection.

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SPJST Entertainment Calendar As a matter of policy, only those activities and functions promoted by or sponsored by the SPJST, or any of its lodges, will be published in the SPJST Entertainment Calendar section. Such notices for publication should be sub-. milted by a bonafide lodge officer, or,' In some cases, b y lodge hail managers.

Lodge No. 66, Waco Saturday, Jan. llth — The Hi-Toppers of New Braunfels Saturday, Jan. 18th — Vrazel Polka Band of Cameron Saturday, Jan. 25th — Slim Haisler's Playboys of Temple Saturday, Feb. 1 — Rudy Kurtz of Shiner Saturday, Feb. 8th — Slim Haisler's Playboys of Temple Tuesday, Feb. 11th — Last dance before Lent — Vrazel Polka Band of Cameron

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Lodge No. 15, Buckholts Saturday, Jan. 18 — Slim Haisler's Playboys of Temple Saturday, Jan. 25 -- Battle Dance, Vrazel's Polka Band and Bob Haisler's Melodians of Temple Saturday, February 8 — Vrazel's Polka Band.

Lodge 80, Holland Saturday, February 1st — Ray Baca of Fayetteville Sunday, February 9th — Dance; music

by Gilbert Kautz Easter Sunday, March 29th — Dance; music by Gilbert Kautz Saturday, May 23 — Gilbert Kautz Saturday, July 4th — Gilbert Kautz

Lodge No. 40, Hillje Saturday, Jan. 11 — Jokers Saturday, Jan. 25 — Jades Saturday, Feb. 8 -- Continentals Lodge No. 47, Seaton Saturday, January 11—Dance at night; music by Migl's Orchestra Saturday, Jan. 18 — Masquerade danCe at night; music by Bob Haisler and His Melodians Saturday, Jan. 25 — Dance at night; music by George Machart Saturday, Feb. 1 — Dance at night; music by the Hi-Toppers Sunday, February 2 — Regular lodge meeting at 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, February 8 — Dance at night; music by Rudy Kurtz.

Sunday, March 1 -- Regular meeting at 2:00 p.m.

No dances in March because of Lent.

Saturday, April 4 — Dance at night; music by Migl's Orchestra Sunday, April 5 — Regular lodge meeting at 2:00 p.m.

Saturday, April 11 — Dance at night; music by Rudy Kurtz Saturday, pril 18 — Dance at night; music by Bob Haisler Saturday, April 25 — Dance at night; music by Eric Honza Historians tell us about the past and economists tell us about the future. It is just the present that is confusing.

Lodge No. 88, Houston Friday, Jan. 10 — Regular Monthly Lodge Meeting and Youth Club meeting Saturday, Jan. 11 — Dance; music by Rudy Kurtz Monday, Jan. 13 — Czech Instruction Class; Lodge No. 88 Glee Club Rehearsal, 8 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 15 — Delegates' meeting 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 18 — Dance; music by Knights of Dixie, 9 to 1 Monday, Jan. 20 — Czech Instruction Class; Lodge No. 88 Glee Club Rehearsal, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 25 — Dance; music by Lee Isle of La Grange, 9 to 1 Monday, Jan. 27 — Czech Instruction Class; Lodge No. 88 Glee Club Rehearsal, and Glee Club meeting.

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Lodge No. 92. Fort Worth Friday, January 31st — Dance; music by the Six Fat Dutchmen Orch.

Sokol Zizka and Lodge 130. Dallas January 11 — Dance, sponsored by Sokol Zizka, music by Jim Allen Orchestra January 25 — Dance, sponsored by Sokol Zizka, music by Eric Honza Orchestra February 8 — Special Dance "Mardi Gras," sponsored by Sokol Zizka, music by Eric Honza Orchestra ebruary 22 — Dance, sponsored by Sokol Zizka, music by The Pepermints.

Wednesday, January 8, 1964 On January 2, 1929 * 35 years ago — the governments of the United. States and Canada signed an agreement to preserve Niagara Falls, a great natural wonder, which was first discovered in 1678 by a French missionary, Father Hennepin. A further treaty covering use of the water was signed in 1950, and a joint American-Canadian project was undertaken to control the flow of water over Horseshoe Falls, which had been eroding rapidly. In 1954, a large section of Prospect Point on the American side of the falls collapsed.

Parks have been established adjacent to the falls on both sides — Canadian and American -- of the Niagara River.

The Province of Ontario and the State of New York are responsible for their maintenance. A famed tourist attraction, it is estimated that about two million people visit Niagara Falls each year.

--SPJST Or ganuary 5, 1779— 185 'years ago —

Stephen Decatur, American naval officer and a hero of the War of 1812, was born in Maryland. He won fame during his service under Commodore Preble in the Tripolitan War, in 1804, and was commissioned a captain. In the War of 1812, he was wounded in an engagement with the British blockading force off Long Island. Later, he commanded a squadron which forced the Tripolitans and other Barbary pirates operating in the Mediterranean from bases in North Africa to compensate the United States for damages inflicted by them during the War of 1812. On his return to the U.S. he was acclaimed a hero.

Responding to a toast ate dinner given in his honor, he exclaimed in words much quoted since: "Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country right or wrong." He was killed in a duel with Captain James flarron in 1820.

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REARING HEAVY REPLACEMENT PULLETS In recent years the interest of poultrymen who raise their own:heavy leying pullets replacements has centered on the idea of restrictive feeding, says Dr. C. R. Creger, with the Poultry Science Department at Texas A. and M. University.

Research workers in the land grant colleges and universities have developed many reed romulations that are nutritionally adeqte and these feeds are now available to the producer, he says.

By limiting the daily feed intake of pullets, body weight of the birds can be reduced. sexual maturity delayed, and the percentage of hatchable eggs increased, points out Creger. Birds

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consume feed to meet both their protein and energy needs, but the controlling factor of their appetites is the energy content of the feed, he adds.

There are several ways of feeding replacements but here are three of the most practical. Before placing birds on the restricted diet they should be fed a starter ration for eight weeks, Creger explains. The •first of the three restricted diets is the free choice feeding of one of the high fiber developer rations. A ration of this kind should contain seven per cent fiber, 15-16 per cent protein, and about 850 calories of productive energy per pound.

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ration, it is necessary to limit the feed consumed by the bird, says Creger.

The third type of program is the feeding of a diet restricted in the amount of protein rather than the energy content. The protein of this ration should be about, 12-13 per cent and the energy about one thousand —A. and M. Dd. Serv. calories.

--SPJSTHigh • Flyin' Texans: When 375 private planes valued at more than $20 million flew into Dallas last October for the Texas-Oklahoma football g ame, nobody was surprised.

Texas has more airports (621) than any state and more registered private aircraft than any state except California.

Pay your poll tax by January 31st.

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