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Official Organ Of The Slavonic Benevolent Order
.1.'he State Of Texas, Founded 1897
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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, SPJST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 VOLUME 64, NUMBER 11 MARCH 17, 1976
illOM THE EDITOR'S Sunday, March 7, District III Sales Representative Alvin Nesuda and Sister Wilma Nesuda of Ennis hosted a District III Sales RePresentatives' Ban q ue t District III had reached its quota for 1975. All of our sales representatives are to be complimented for their efforts in 1975 Yours truly attended the banquet while Sister Maxine Sefcik, who felt she should be present at Lodge 54's meeting, remained in West. She is the youth leader at Lodge 54. After a delicious meal served at the beginning of the afternoon, DSR Alvin Nesuda opened the evening with appropriate remarks and requested. District III Director Sid Pokladnik and SL President Nick A. Morris to address the group of sales representatives and spouses. They both obliged and of course, all present were requested by Brother Nesuda to introduce themselves. Next SFM Silas Smith was called upon to award the appropriate awards and plaques to the various deserving sales' representatives. Brother Smith did so and also conveyed greetings to the group from SL Vice President Joe B. Hejny and. Sister Stasie Hejny. The evening was thoroughly enjoyable and some pictures appear in this issue. We regret that some of them •will be delayed because
TIMELY THOUGHTS A pioneer nowadays is a person whose property tax now exceeds what he paid for the property to begin with. • * Here among twilight's smolder -ing embers, Are some of my sincere egrets. That when / remembers, But when I'm wrong, no one forgets. * * A harried income tax taxpayer irked by the large tax he had to pay, addressed his tax return to the Bureau of Eternal Revenue. * * A man who bowls a perfect game has no time to 'spare.' (SIC) they have to be reprocessed. We will publish them later. • • This coming Sunday, March 21st, marks the beginning of our district meetings for the spring of 1976, this year especially, they are important to all members and certainly our delegates to the 1976 convention. There will be matters, discussed which are of difinite importance to the well-being of our SPJST Society. The first meeting of this spring, 1976, is the District V meeting on the above date at Lodge Stefanik No. 142 in Houston. All members are urged to attend their dis-
trict and lodge meetings at all times; this is your Society — take interest in its affairs and the way its business is conducted at all times and in all phases. In this issue we publish an editorial we have set aside for some weeks. Not too long ago, Mr. Leon Jaworski of Houston, a graduate of Baylor University, came to Waco to present an address. Of course, we all know him for his dedicated conducting of the Watergate investigation. A radio announcer stated (and this is not verbatim) that Mr. Jaworski made the comment, in essence, that had it not been for two dedicated reporters of a free press, the encouragement of their editor who urged them to continue to get the facts, and the resolute devotion of a judge, Watergate would never have been exposed. Mr. Jaworski certainly gained the respect of all American citizens of good intent. In addition to his good, sound, and legal judgment he is a man of sincere heartfelt fraternal feelings. By now, probably, all of you are wondering what the intent of these lines really is. In just so many words, it is an attempt to show that a sound level-headed type of judgment, with good common sense is what is essential regardless of the amount of education one