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Postmaster: Please Send Form 3579 to: SUPREME LODGE, MIST, P.O. Box 100, Temple, Texas 76501 JANUARY 18, 1978 VOLUME 66, NUMBER 3

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK Sunday, January 8th was a nice, cold busy day for your editor, with a request from the officers of Lodges No. 54, West, and No. 126, Ross, to be present at the official transaction of the two lodges' merging and transferring of the records from Lodge No. 126 officers to the proper officers of Lodge No. 54. The picture and details appear in the Letter Section, this issue. * * Next was a hurried trip to local Lodge No. 6, Cottonwood, to be present at the installation of their officers for 1978. This ceremony was done by Brother Johnnie Krizan with a nice speech to the newly-elected officers and members present. While there we took pictures of the various happenings and the plaques and pictures on the walls of the lodge hall and it is surprising how many awards this so-called "little" lodge has won! Of course, it should be remembered that it is one of the original lodges of our SPJST, formed in 1897!

It has been active continually to this day. These pictures appear in the Letter Section, including the one of the installation.

We enjoyed the visit very much, zut we had to hurry on.

It is commendable that this lodge about four miles from West in the middle of farm lands continually has so much activity going on all of the time.

Another lodge out in the farming

THOUGHTS WE CAN ALL USE: A SONG Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder, To the faults of those about me, Let me praise a little more; Let me be when I am weary Just a little bit more cheery — Let me serve a little better Those that I am striving for.

Let me be a little braver When temptation bids me waver, Let me strive a little harder To be all that I should be; Let me be a little meeker With the brother who is weaker Let me think more of my neighbor, And a little less of me. section near here, and also very active, is Lodge No. 35, Elk. Of course, there are many other very active lodges out in the farming sections where our SPJST had its beginning. Lodges Nos. 4, Hallettsville; 30, Taiton; 47, Seaton, etc., and a person could go on and on!

We add, enthusiastically, keep up the good work to all of our lodges! * * In this issue is a notice from the P.I.O. of the Cultural Activities Center about the Czech Night to be held Tuesday, Jan. 24th at 7:30 p.m. on the stage of the Frank W. Mayborn Auditorium as a part of a two-week' grand opening celebration of the new cultural arts

center. The official name is the Azalee Marshall Cultural Activities Center and it is located at 3011 N. Third St. in the north part of Temple. The public is invited and the event is free. *

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Brother Eugene Gerik, secretary and treasurer of the now merged Lodge No. 126, Ross, for the last 17 years stopped by our office and stated that he wishes to thank all the members of that lodge for having worked so hard and faithfully with him in cooperation while he was in office all those years. He is another good fraternalist and stated that he loves lodge work and will continue working in Lodge No. 54. * * In the letter section is an article calling attention to the 20th Anniversary Celebration of S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home No. I in Taylor, Sunday, April 16th. In this instance we wish to encourage all of our members, especially district and lodge officers, to carefully read the Bulletin Board published last week and again this week, and the Newsbriefs and Calendar for the various dates already taken up, especially the district meetings and lodge building dedications; it seems that we have two district meetings set for Sunday, April 23rd. It is hoped the planners of events can arrange activities with as little conflict in dates as possible.

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In last week's issue we started the series of Czech lessons again, please save them. This week we received a letter and a subscription for the Vestnik from Kansas. They write: "One of ray many Czech friends met you at Westfest and I wish to have the Czech lessons you publish. I wish I lived in Texas; I would join the SPJST. I do not want my heritage to die out with my generation. My mother is Czech." * * Life Insurance Is America's Millions of Americans find their dollars work harder for them in life insurance — enabling them to protect their families now, and build added security for themselves.

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Wednesday, January 18, 1978

NEWS RIEFS The date for the official chartering of Lodge 187 "Spirit of Round Rock" in Round Rock has been set for Sunday, Feb. 12th, 1978. The ceremonies and other events are scheduled to take place at Lodge No. 18 in Elgin, whose membership recently voted to let Lodge 187 use their facilities for this event. This was a very fraternal gesture on their part. Further details will be forthcoming after a planning meeting between officers of Lodge 187 and the president of the Supreme Lodge.

—NAM * * The date for the dedication of the new lodge home of Lodge No. 188, Centerville, has been set for Sunday, March 19th, 1978 at the new hall on Hwy. 75, just north of Centerville. After the date is finalized and other details worked out, that information will be published in the Vestnik.

—NAM * * 20th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of S.P.J.S.T. REST HOME NO. I in Taylor SUNDAY, APRIL 16th, 1978 Program, Open House and Refreshments 2 to 4 p.m.

(Come and help us celebrate our outstanding S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home) THE PUBLIC IS ALSO INVITED (1-512-352,6337) SPJST -

LODGE NO. 48, BEYERSVILLE Dear Members: The Beyersville SPJST Lodge NO. 48 held their regular monthly meeting Sunday, Jan. 8th, at 3 p.m.

President Bobby Wuensche called the meeting to order.

Dennise Wuensche led us in the pledge of allegiance.

We had one departed member.

3 We stood in a moment of silence for Mrs. Rosalie Shiller Krueger.

The minutes and financial reports on the general and mortuary funds were read by Secretary Treasurer Sharon Beran.

Financial Secretary Ruth Wuensche gave her insurance report on premium collected.

We discussed several items of business among the members present.

Our next meeting is scheduled for Feb. 5th at 3 p.m. The members decided to have a chili supper again. They are asked to bring chili meat or ground meat, crackers, bread, sweets and whatever else they would like.

Fraternally, Sharon Beran Reporter - SPJST — LODGE NO. 81, NEEDVILLE Dear Members and Friends: Our January meeting was called to order at 2 p.m. by President Charlie Matcek. The pledge of allegiance was recited by all members present and all remained standing for a moment of silence as a tribute to Lada Pultr, Adela Fojtek and Herman Psencik who recently passed away.

Minutes of the previous meeting were read by Mary Werner and approved as read.

Financial Secretary Allene Zwahr, gave her report which was accepted as read.

Due to the absence of Corliss Vallet, Gilbert Walzel read the report which also was accepted. Special Fund Treasurer Gilbert Walzel gave a thorough financial report.

All reports were accepted as read.

We welcome Brother and Sister Jerry Kubala as transfer members to our lodge and we hope you will join us in fellowship at our meeting.

Sister Mary Matlock is now at the Fort Bend Nursing Home so let us remember our sister with a card or visit.

Our sympathy goes to Sister Evelyn Mikeska, our District V sales representative who recently lost her husband, Otto, in death.

Our annual chili supper is scheduled to be held Feb. 14th, so mark this date on your calendar and you sisters don't forget that we will need pastries of any kind for that night.

Refund checks were handed out.

Attendance prize was won by Vlasta Hurta, who in turn, gave it back to the lodge.

The meeting adjourned and everyone enjoyed some delicious food and good fellowship.

Fraternally, Teykl Reporter SPJST — LODGE NO. 39, BRYAN Dear Members: Please be advised that due to the severe weather and sickness within the ranks of our officers, we did not hold a meeting in January.

We called as many members as possible to he sure the members did not drive to the lodge building in vain. If you came, please forgive us for- it was not intentional.

If your annual dues were due and you are a member in good standing, we will report you as paying in January.

Since there was no urgent business pending we will not hold a January meeting. If you wish to pay your annual dues before our regular meeting in February, please mail them to Carolyn Kubin, Route 2, Box 143-B, Bryan, Texas 77801.

If you need any assistance of any kind please call me at 822-5566 and I will do my level best to help you.

Fraternally, Lillie Majetka President SPJST —

LODGE NO. 188, CENTERVILLE Dear Members: Here are the names of our committees to work at the following lodge dance dates: January 21 — Mr. and Mrs. Door Co David Free Concession Stand — Mr. and Mrs. Fred Magourik Registration Book — Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Allbritton January 28 — Mr. and Mrs. Door Comm.

Charles Lumnius Concession Stand — Kelly Bullin and Tracy Helmcamp Registration Book—Mr. and Mrs. Clint McRee If you are unable to participate ask another member to fill in your place because you are responsible -or these duties.

Fraternally, A. M. Easterling President

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VEST/4M LODGE NO. 6, COITONWOOD'S MONTHLY MEETING HELD J. IN 8t - , 1978

Lodge No. 6, Cottonwood Officers Inst. .c L to 1Vlz-1 Alvin Schuetz, Flag Bearer and Reporter Pat Wachsmann, Youth Leacgc:e Willie Mae Schuetz, Financial Secretary George Straten, Treasurer Georgia Wachsmann, Secretary Barbara Jean Hykel, Vice President Rose Uptmor and President Robert Dobecka, Sr., Installing Officer (center) is Outgoing President Johnnie 7. ?izaz-.., who performed a nice and impressive installation.

Ammiegms More plaques, pictures and charter.

Plaques on the walls of Lodge No. 6, 0 'ten 1, 7 cv-utgoing President Johnnie Krizan standing beneath the picture of his father, John Krizan, Sr., and plaques, etc., to his right and left.

LODGE NO. 6, COTTONWOOD Dear Readers: Lodge No. 6, Cottonwood, held its January meeting Sunday, Jan. 8th, at 3:30 p.m. Youth members sbby

Hykel and Darrell Uptmor led the membership in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the American flag.

Bobby then recited the SPJST pledge.

President Krizan then installed the officers of Lodge No. 0 for 1978.

They are: President, Robert Dobecka, Sr. Vice President, Rose Uptmor Secretary, Barbara Jean Hykel Treasurer, Georgia Wachsmann Financial Secy., George Straten Youth Leader, Willie Mae Schuetz Asst. Youth Leader, Rose Uptmor Flag Bearer and Reporter, Pat Wachsmann Hall Manager, Al Schuetz President Dobecka then proceeded with the meeting. There were 21 members present for the January meeting and Rudy Sefcik from Lodge No. 54 was our guest.

All reports were approved as read.

In her youth report, Sister Schuqz said the youth presented their Christmas program to the residents of the rest home on Dec. 14th. They took goodies and gifts for the residents. They were to go to the rest home on Jan. 11th. Sister Schuetz thanked everyone for helping to decorate the hall for Christmas, for helping with the

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Pictures of youth accomplishments, etz. youth and their program for the January include Frankie Joe My annual Christmas party, and for nar, Lillie Marie Mynas, Frank all those who worked at the annual Schroeder, Anne Schroeder, Nancy Christmas party and supper. She Schroeder, Martha Monthei, Doug also thanked everyone for the nice Uptmor, Ben Mynar, David Dogifts she received. Youth members becka, Lydia Dobecka, Barbara having birthdays during January Jean Hykel, and Ray Perez; anniare David Dobecka, and Doug Upt- versaries, Mr. and Mrs. Cyrill S yrmor; Damon Perez brought the cek, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Cyril' Svrcek, Sr., and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Svacek. birthday cake.

President Dobecka then gave the Sister Lydia Dobecka reported sending the following, cards during board of trustees' report. Lodge No. the month. of December: birthday 6 voted on and accepted one new —Frankie Lee uptinor, John Par- adult and two new juvenile memma, Raymond ilromadka, Jr., Al bers into Lodge No 6.

Door prize winners: $2, Stella Schuetz and Pat Wachsmann; anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Fred Perez . $10, Janice Allison; $10, Monthei and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Rosemary Krizan; $8, Dorothy Hromadka, Sr.; sympathy, Aiphons Hykel.

Hralbal, Mrs. Walter Mikeska and The meeting was adjourned until Willie Helona; get-well — Mary Sunday, Feb. 12th, at 3:30 p.m.

Sumbera. Adult members having Pat Wachsmann birthdays during the month Of Reporter

LODGE NO. 92, FORT WORTH Dear Members and Friends: Here's hoping that the whole year of meetings in 1978 proceed as smoothly and with as much satisfaction as did the first one on Jan. 8th. All reports by officers or committees were reassuring. Our Financial Secretary Joe Krivanek, disclosed the fact that our members now number 1,017. Secretary Christine Zich read a thank-you card from S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home No. I for our monetary Christmas, gift.

A moment of silence was observed iti memory of Sister Mary Tomascik who had been our lodge's oldest member ® 102 years of age ® until her burial in Seaton Dec. 28th. She joined our ranks in 1919 and had outlived the- actuarial table on her insurance policy by quite a few For several m,eetings we have missed seeing Lydia and Steve Matusevitch. They were in constant attendance for so long but Lydia is not feeling very well lately; hopefully they will be back soon. It was nice that Clara Cohn was present; we had not seen her for a while.

Our sick list included Reedy Lee Tucker, Sharon Youngman and Joseph Becan. Millie Bartek had a heart attack causing a fall and a head injury. Sophie Newton is now in a rest home following her illness.

In conclusion, a couple of dates to remember: The, regular monthly meeting Feb. 12th and a lodgesponsored dance Saturday, Feb. 25 with Adamcik's orchestra from Dallas playing.

Sincerely and fraternally, Helen Paprskar SPJST —

LODGE NO. 72, CAMERON Dear Members: The annual meeting of the lodge was held Sunday, Jan. 8th at 2 p.m.

The following were elected lodge officers for 1978: President — Marie Moore Vice President — Kathy Bedrich Recording Secretary -- Emilie Hearell Financial Secretary and Treasurer ® Lillian Mikulec.

Members are reminded that we will deviate a bit from our regular meeting schedule for the next quarterly meeting. We will meet on the second Friday of April at night instead of the second Sunday of April, at 2 p.m. The meet-

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ing and social after the meeting will be Friday night, April 14th at 7:30 p.m.

You will be reminded of this meeting and social again in the Vestnik.

Fraternally, Lillian B. Mikulec SPAIT —

BELATED NEWS FROM LODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON Our sympathy goes to Sister Georgie Barcak. Her mother, Mrs. Anna Branecky, passed away Dec. 23, 1977, and was laid to rest Dec. 25, 1977, in the Flatonia Catholic Cemetery. Georgie lost her father, John Branecky, Sept. 19, 1974; he preceded his wife in death three years. We express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family.

Brother Otto Mikeska died Jan. 6th, 1978, with a heart attack.

Services were held Monday at 10 a.m. in the Brethren Church with many friends attending. Brother Otto Mikeska was the husband of our District V sales representative, Sister Evelyn Mikeska. Our deepest sympathy to the family.

Brother Arnold and Sister Naomi Spencer were entertaining guests from 4 to 9 p.m. the night of the Glenn Miller Christmas dance in their beautiful home on T. C. Jester Blvd. Present were 10 couples to enjoy the hospitality of Arnold and Naomi. Some who were fortunate to obtain tickets to this dance went to Lodge No. 88 after the party and the rest of the jolly crowd found other places to finish the pleasant evening.

Oh, Yes! Las Vegas, what a spot!

There are no words to describe the leisure, the pleasure, and glamor of this city. Five days and four nights in a regular whirlpool. One thing is for sure; I never sleep while I am there — I catch up when I get back home. I take advantage of every minute available while I am in this enchanted city of lights and life. Money Is everywhere, and it runs through everyone's fingers like water. But, whatever, it's great and I love it. Tim must have had a contract with the one-armed bandits, because he did pretty well. I wonder where he took lessons. Rosalee had her share of luck, also. We had a surprise and pleasure by King and Helen Hegwood and his brother and wife. Bill and Marcell Malak and her brother sad his wife. They drove down in

their new van to meet us and stayed all afternoon during which we just messed around roaming from one fabulous place to another with wisecracks from the male department about how easy it is to get rich; it really was fun. We flew back home Thursday and they drove into Houston Sunday, New Year's Day. Our New Year's Eve dance, with music by the Blumes Orchestra was a lovely affair and a complete sellout way in advance. This dance required quite a few of the committee members to be on hand during the rush hour. Hosting this dance were Brother Norval Crossman, in charge, and his wife Frances, at his side, with the help of Charles and Mary Doeroen, Bill and Dorothy Hobson, Ben and Ruth Daugherty with Tillie Helmcamp and Viola Cox in charge of the cloakroom.

It would help the hosting committee tremendously at a dance where tickets are sold in advance, if the purchasers of the tickets would see to it that everyone in their party has their ticket to present at the ballroom door when entering.

Please take a note of this for the future. Thanks.

Harry and Mickey Rice spent the Christmas holidays with their daughter, Joan, and son-in-law Major Allen Dodson, and grandchildren Michael and Kristen, in Denver, Colo., and spent Christmas Eve at the Loveland Ski Resort.

Major Dodson will be stationed in Oslo, Norway, for three years while he serves with NATO. His wife, Joan and children will be leaving with him in June. This will be very convenient for Harry and Mickey to plan a trip and enjoy a nice vacation with the family. Good luck.

Frank and Mary Tilich had company over the Christmas holidays.

Mary's second cousin, Toni Pecha, and his daughter Louise, flew in from Miami, Fla., to spend three days reminiscing about old times as they had not seen each other for ten years, Also, Mary's sisterin-law, Liddie Pecha, of Edna, joined them and to top it off, Frank and Mary's grandson, Frankie Whitsitt, returned from Germany where he was for four years in the service of Uncle Sam. Now he will be stationed at Fort Hood because he re-enlisted to serve again.

They had joyous family reunion.

To start the new year off right,

V2STNfK Sister Annie Green invited the regular gang around Table 8 to her cozy home to enjoy a friendly evening Annie Green is a generous hostess and everyone enjoyed her hospitality. Present were: Amos and Della Kadlecek, Seth and Ruth Duncan, Arnold and Naomi Spencer, Rita and Homer Alexander, Joe and Carrie Cutaia, Dorothy Mures, Jerry Pokorny and Emil Slanina.

Naomi tickled the piano keys and made everyone sing whatever was suggested and they had a great time. Very nice, Annie!

Brother Helmuth and Sister Ernestine Roeder experienced a lovely trip abroad. They left Houston Oct. 19th and returned, after eight days, on Oct. 27th. Their destination was Vienna, Austria, where they wanted to see the places where Helmuth's father, J. W. Roeder, was torn and from where he came to this country as a young boy. Both enjoyed the famous city of Vienna.

They strolled through the Wienerwald, visited Salzburg, where the filming of the famous movie, "The Sound of Music," took place. They contemplate a visit to Czechoslovakia sometime in the future.

Helmuth operates an auto supply business, where he is the senior vice president.

The western dance Friday, Jan. 6th, with music by Bobby Heiman and his band, was well attended and in charge for the evening were Kenny Bros and his fiancee, Lindsey Lucas, and Jody Elzner.

Saturday's dance (Jan. 7th), with music by Ray Jurecka was enjoyed by a full house. It was not formal but the ladies came out in gala attire. Hosting this dance were Gary Zalesky, with A. J. and Elsie Zalesky, his parents, helping and beautiful Cindy Mrosko at the door to greet the guests. Celebrating birthdays at this dance were Cindy's father, John Mrosko, Margaret Bohac and Mary Tilich. Also, at this dance, Stacy Kocich was in an especially happy mood and no wonder, she was flashing a beautiful diamond ring on her finger (a birthday gift from her loving and thoughtful husband, Benny Kocich). Very good taste, Benny.

Happy birthday to all.

A three-week vacation was enjoyed by Doris Starkey. First, she stopped at her sister's in Los Angeles, then up to Ellinwood, Kansas, to visit with her son and fam-

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Wednesday . January 18, 1978 ily. While there, she went to see all the interesting places and then returned home on Jan. 4th, rested and ready for dancing at Lodge No. 88, and sure enough, that's where she was.

Sister Hilda Krpec was rushed to Bellaire General Hospital and stayed over a week and after consulting with her physician, she was advised to undergo surgery as soon as possible. Hilda decided to take the doctor's advice and entered Bellaire General Hospital Monday, Jan. 9th to have surgery. It Will take at least ten days after the surgery for Hilda, to recuperate and to be released frony the hospital.

We all wish you a speedy recovery.

Fraternally, Frances Olexa SPJST -

LODGE NO. 74, LOVELADY Dear Members: Please be advised that our Jan. 9th meeting has been postponed to Jan. 22nd, at 2 p.m. because one of our elected lodge officers could not be present on our regular date of our meeting.

We have temporarily discontinued the skating on Saturday mornings. For other dance dates refer to the Calendar of Events in the Vestnik.

Fraternally, Chester Siunoldas Reporter SPJST LODGE NO. 47, SEATON CHORAL CLUB For our special choral club re hearsal the following members turned out: Alfred and Martha Klusacek, Mathu and Elsie Cabla, Otto and Matilda Hanus, Annie Jakubec (our talented leader), Alfred L. and Ginger Klusacek, Viola Chervenka, Emily Stuteville, Ruby Bolton, Leon Sodek, Frank and Lillian Mikulec, Frank and Elenora Spanhel, Bill and Lillian Kosarek, Albina Mikeska, Georgia Sodek, Clarence and Wanona Sula, Wallace and Elsie Jez,Robert and Mary Vasicek, Willie and Doris Provaz,ek, Bernie Gebala, Leon and Vallie Zavodny, Calvin Chervenka and Ralph Milek (our accordionist).

This was a fine turnout and I sincerely thank all of you who came.

Those who could not be with us, please try to be present at our next rehearsal.

We had a great time working together and singing those beloved

old songs and some of them will be sung in both Czech and English, so it will take a lot of practice to strive for a perfect presentation.

It is a great opportunity for our club and the Czech people in this area and we should all try to give it our very best. Come out and be with us and let's give the people in the Temple area something they can enjoy.

Singingly yours, Otto Hanes Reporter SPJST

CZECH COURSES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON Czech courses will be taught again at the University of Houston in the spring of 1978. There will be three courses as follows: Czech 132 - 8:30 - 10:30 a.m.

Tuesday and Thursday Czech 232 - 10 - 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday and Thursday Czech 132 - 5:30 7:00 p.m.

Tuesday and Thursday Registration for these courses was Jan. 5th and 6th, with late registration on Jana 18th. Each course is for three credit hours.

Additional information may be obtained from Professor Teofil Halama, telephone: 749-4833 (office) or 868-3357 (home).

-Albert Blaha SPJST --

LODGE NO. 154, FORT WORTH Dear Members and Friends: Happy New Year!

The time already is really flying by.

We hope you all rang in the new year in a happy mood. The dance was a full house and everyone had a good time. Now we get back to our regular routine.

Our meeting Sunday was called to order by President Brother Jerry Milan. All the officers were present and the usual procedure was followed.

The members stood in a moment of silent tribute from our deceased Brother Helmut Prill.

Sisters Prill and Eva Dockery thanked us all for being there in their hour of need.

Brother Milan thanked the youth club members for their program at our Christmas party.

We were happy to have Sister Dockery back with us. She still has one leg in a cast, but is able to get around some with a walker now.

She also had a birthday, so all

joined in singing "Happy Birthday" to her.

Sister Mary Hale was the door prize recipient.

The meeting adjourned to re freshments and a social. We want to wish a speedy recovery to Mrs. Mildred McDonald who is in the Northwest Hospital. She is the mother and mother-in-law of Brother Emil and Sister Sally Milan.

We extend our congratulations to Brother Roy Steinman who received the Bachelor of Science and Education degree and made the Dean's List, at North Texas State University. Good luck in your future life.

Mark your calendar for our next dance Saturday, Feb. 18th with Lee Roy Matocha from Fayetteville.

Receipt of contributions to the Memorial Fund and paving the parking lot fund are appreciatively acknowledged from the following: In memory of Sister Anna Milanby Mr./Mrs. B. J. Phillips $10.00 (Houston) 15.00 Mr./Mrs. Henry Grate 10.00 Mr./Mrs. Jordan Brantley 15.00 Mrs. Louis Hosek 10.00 Mr./Mrs. W. D. Renfro 10.00 Mr./Mrs. Grover Watson 20.00 Mr. Norman Kneschk 20.00 Mr./Mrs. Charlie Simek Dr./Mrs. Jerry Hosek 10.00 Mr./Mrs. A. L. Mobley 25.00 Mr./Mrs. T. B. Vavrin 10.00 50.00 Judge Joe Spurlock 7.00 Mr./Mrs, Johnnie L. White 20.00 Dr./Mrs. Marvin Janca 10.00 Mr./Mrs Mike Granada 10.00 Mr./Mrs Andy Sustala 5.00 1Vir./IVirs. Keith Brown 5.00 Mr./Mrs.Rudy Wruble Mr./Mrs. Calvin Pomykal 10.00 In memory of Brother Helmut Prill by Mr./Mrs. Kenneth Krivanek $10.00 and Mary Cecile Mrs. Jeanie Mason 10.00 and family 10.00 Mr./Mrs. Bill Renfro 10.00 Mr./Mrs. Benny Pavey 5.00 Mr./Mrs. Jerry Milan 5.00 Mr./Mrs. John Hennessey 5.00 Mr./1V1rs.Ray Johnson In memory of Nancy Ba,nfi of Chicago $5.00 Mr./Mrs. Jerry Milan In memory of John W. Sanders$5.00 Mr./Mrs. Jerry Milan In memory of Mrs. Hood $5.00 Mr./Mrs. Jerry Milan In memory of Infant Shoalz,--

8 Mr./Mrs. Louis Stamm $10.00 Parking Lot Fund — Mr./Mrs. Kenneth Krivanek and Mary Cecile $100.00 Mrs. Louis Hosk $10.00 Mr./Mrs. Joe A. Slovak 10.00 Mr./Mrs. T. B. Vavrin 10.00 Mr./Mrs. Harold Gallagher 10.00 Mr./Mrs. Ray Johnson 12.00 Mr. Lad Maly 20.00 Mr./Mrs. Richard Gray $180.00 We thank you sincerely.

Our next lodge meeting will be Sunday, Feb. 12th at 3 p.m.

So until ... Keep Smiling!

Fraternally, Mary Pavey - SPJST — LODGE NO. 35, ELK Dear Members and Friends: The regular monthly meeting of Lodge 35 was called to order Jan. 8th by President Henry Breitkreutz, Sr. The pledge of allegiance was led

by Flag Bearer Eddie Ray I3anik.

President Breitkreutz welcomed our visitors, Ed Daniel, Karen Daniel, Mark Daniel, and Raymond Barron, all from Prairie Hill. We were glad to have them and hope they come again.

Secretary Albert Banik was called on to read the minutes of the December meeting; these were approved as corrected. He then read the correspondence that had been received.

In the youth club report Sister Rosemarie Banik reported that for next month all the children are to make Valentines and bring them to the next meeting. They will judge them and then take them to the Mart Rest Home where some of our members are residing. Sister Rosemarie then asked for all the members who have birthdays in January to come forward. "Happy Birthday" was sung to Brothers Albert Nivers, Adolph Beralek, Rudy Zalman, Joe Tepe, Marvin Mills, George Blahuta, Jerry Pavelka, Ronald Steinke, Donald Steinke, Donis Wilson and Darrin Banik; and Sisters Ethel Horten and Missy Steinke. We wish you many more happy birthdays.

The committee reports were given by Dorothy Banik for the kitchen; Eugene Pavelka, entertainment; Henry Breitkreuts, Sr., refreshments; they also thanked everyone who helped.

New members accepted were Jeseka Ann Tierce, Charlene J. Stead, And Tommy J. Pechacek, Jr. We

VtSTNfK welcome you.

One transfer was Ernest Dieterich from Lodge 66.

Three paid-up members are Sheryl L. Yowell, Michael Matus, and Evelyn Matus.

Under old business, Building Chairman Vernon Wood said he got all the gravel spread with Brother Rudolph Vicha's help. The county came and graded it down smooth.

Under new business, Brother Marvin Mills was voted to be a new sales representative for Lodge 35.

It was reported that Brother and Sister Richard Kubitza had a baby girl born Jan. 6th, 1978. Congratulations.

Brother Breitkreutz then had to pick a committee for the sick. He said those for 1977 did a good job, so he re-appointed them. They are: Sisters Ruby Pavelka, Helen Dulock, and Velma Clemons.

Brother Wood reported that the audit committee audited Brother Breitkreutz's books. He said they were a perfect set of books. Junior, that's a job well done!

Sister Dorothy 13anik said the membership should give special thanks to our Entertainment Committee which consisted of Sisters Peggy Dieterich, Mildred Steinke, and Brother Henry Breitkreutz, Jr. for the wonderful job done in 1977.

The door prizes were drawn and the winners were Robin Breitkreutz for the youth and Inez Zalman for the adults.

We hope that more members attend in 1978 and take interest in the lodge and its activities.

Fraternally yours, Dorothy Banik Reporter SPJST -

LODGE NO. 47, SEATON Dear Brothers and Sisters: Our last lodge meeting was held Sunday, Jan. 8th, 1978 at 2 p.m., with President Alfred Klusacek presiding. Flag Bearers Vincent Schiller and Josef Morris led the pledge to the flag.

Then the elected officers for 1978 were installed by a former Lodge 47 president, Brother Frank V. Spanhel. He charged each officer to the respective office and the capacity expected of each. He also charged the membership to the continued progress that we have experienced in the past years. Then the elected officers took their positions and we proceeded with the

regular routine.

Roll call of officers and sales representatives was read by Secretary Dolores Skrabanek.

Visitors recognized were Brother Sid Pokladnik, District III director, and Brothers Joe Zvolanek, Joe Krahulik and Alvin Wilde. I also noticed that Sister Ann Balusek of Lodge 15, Buckholts, was present again and also present were Jimmie and Shirley Franklin and Marylou Skrabanek. Do come again because we enjoyed having you visit our lodge meeting.

Brother Pokladnik spoke of the pleasure of being present and said that the first occasion he recalls being in the Seaton area was in 1928 and that he always enjoys visiting in this area.

Sister Skrabanek read the minutes of the last meeting and approved with a minor correction.

Correspondence included the mortuary dues notice from the SL; the receipt of the rebate check from the Supreme Lodge; a letter regarding the Bell County Junior Fair/Livestock Show to be held soon and the request for a contribution to their project expenses; a letter fram SL regarding the 50year SPJST pins for our eligible lodge members: Brothers Jerry R. Hejl, Tom Hurta, Bill Schwenke, and Sister Rosa Schneider, a thankyou note from the family of Sister Anna Tompkins for the flowers sent to their beloved's funeral and a thank you from Rev. Edward Jordan of the St. Luke Catholic Church regarding a receipt of the contribution to the Memorial Fund in memory of Brother Alfred Herbeline, our deceased member.

We voted to contribute to the Bell County Junior Fair/Livestock Show the usual $100 donation. We also approved the honoring of the 50-year-pin recipients at a forthcoming lodge meeting with trustees to work out the program for this date.

New members accepted were Eldon J. Skrabanek, Johnnie Joe Malcik, Michelle Ann Zehr, Melissa Marie Simcik, Alan David Simcik and Christina Marie Trampota.

Transfers from Lodge No. 26 to Lodge No. 47 included Jerry Koliha, Linda Koliha, Michael Koliha and Dennis Koliha. We welcome all of you as our members and hope that you become active in lodge roles.

Wednesday, January 18, 1978 The following were included on the sick list: Sisters Stacie Martinek, Mary Kohutek, Lucy Mihatsch, and Patsy Koslovsky, and Brothers Johnie L. Vanicek and Frank Moti, Jr. Best wishes to all for a speedy recovery from your ailments and May you regain good health again.

Officers' reports followed. Brother Klusacek said that thanks are to be expressed to everyone who helped in anyway to make the annual lodge Christmas party enjoyable, whether they baked turkeys, brought the salads and sweets, worked in the kitchen or bar, made the eggnog, or performed on the program; this was all appreciated.

Our financial secretary gave his monthly and annual reports. Then the chairmen's reports followed.

The audit report was presented by Brother Frank Klinkovsky.

Board minutes were read by Bob Vasicek reporting the change in the admission price to $2.50 per person beginning Jan 7, 1978, and the hiring of the Frank Kucera Orchestra of Nebraska to play on Friday, April 7th, 1978, were on their agenda.

Evyon Kureoka., youth leader, reported 40 members, 6 visitors, and 3 adults attended the youth club meeting, A sock hop will be held this month and plans are to have a fund-raising project Feb. 17th, from 6:30 to 10 p.m.

Unfinished business was the appointment of the resolution committee: Dorothy Pechal, Adeline Kohutek and Lillian Kosarek.

Planning committee members are: Brothers Henry Mores and Eugene Kurecka.

Refund checks were distributed to those present in the meeting.

Door prize winners were Frank Spanhel and Louise Pausewang.

Before adjournment we approved to host the District 11 spring meeting, if April 9th is a suitable date.

Brother Sid Pokladak stated that the 20th anniversary of the S.P.J.S.T. Rest Home in Taylor will be observed in April, 1978, and to watch for more details as they are formalized.

Brother F. E. Hejl, Jr. questioned that the bonds for lodge officers were not acted upon. They were not prepared before the meeting, so this was postponed to the February meeting.

Sister Emily Stuteville reminded

9 everyone to attend the Cultural Activities Center's Czech night program Tuesday, Jan. 24th, 1978, at 7:30 p.m. in the Frank Mayborn Auditarium. The Seaton Brass Band Seaton Beseda Dancers, Seaton Choral Club and The Vrazel Polka Band of Cameron, are all scheduled to perform. The public is invited.

After adjournment we had the "happy hour", stew, sandwiches, and cakes for the refreshments.

The next meeting is Feb. 5th, at 2 p.m.

The Al Grebnick Band from Schuyler, Nebr., will include Seaton Star Hall on their Texas tour, apnearing here on Jan. 19th, 1978.

Dance time is 8 p.m. to 12 p.m. and the doors will open at 7 p.m. See you there.

Sister Vallie Zavodny, my husband, Jerry Pechal, and I attended the funeral services of our beloved friend, Brother Otto A. Mikeska, of Houston, on Monday, Jan. 9th, in the Nelsonville Brethren Church, and to his final resting place in National Cemetery. The SPJST truly lost a fraternal worker; Sister Evelyn lost a beloved husband and helper; the sons lost a wonderful father; and the grandchildren, a good grandfather, plus so many of us who lost a true friend. Sincere sympathy to his survivors and may he rest in eternal peace.

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LODGE NO. 107, FLORESVILLE Dear Members: The regular meeting of Lodge 10'7 was held Jan. 8th, 1978, at 3:30 p.m.

President Bayer called the meeting to order and led the members in the pledge to the flag.

The minutes were read and approved and the treasurer's report was given.

Financial Secretary Alvin lima stated there were a few delinquent members. Every effort will be made to get these accounts up to date.

Four new members were voted into our lodge: Julie Gaye Pfeil, Leona Rose Pfeil and Jeamell Fitz sirnon were conversions, and Stacy Bielefeld is a new member.

Alvin Zidek reported for the auditing committee.

Polly Bayer gave a resume of the activities of the youth club's activities: cookies and carol sing-

ing at the Floresville Nursing Home, a $25 donation to the Department of Human Resources for the underprivileged of Wilson County was given so they could have a Christmas party; toys were brought by the youth club members to be given at this party. The youth club also enjoyed a very cold hayride; some of the older people ,forgot to bring coats and it got quite chilly.

Joseph Bayer read a report on progress of the Lodge No. 107, history. He considered inserting a section to those who had lost iheir lives in any of the nation's wars. A list of members who lost their lives in Vietnam or Korea is also needed.

DYC Maxine Pavliska reported on Longhorn Lab and urged the local lodge to sponsor the assistant youth leader to this training session.

Rex Purchis was elected to serve on the Peanut Festival Board; Laura Lea Pavliska was appointed alternate.

Correspondence from Brother Rueben Lesikar and Jerry Mikulas was read.

President Bayer gave a detailed financial report from the entertainment committee and also renorted the Memorial Fund now has 6 235.21 in it. The latest memorials were $25 — Labatt 4-H Club in memory of all members $10 — Robert Bayer Family in memory of Jerry Pavliska $10 -- Robert Bayer Family in memory of John Pavliska, Jr. The eight percent refund check was divided to be applied to the building note and the Mortuary Fund.

Expense checks were given to the officers.

Joe Pavliska won the door prize.

Refreshments were enjoyed by all after adjournment and payment of dues.

The next meeting will be held Feb. 5th, 3:30 p.m.

Fraternally, Pauline S. Pavliska SPJST -

20th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION of S.P.J.S.T. REST HOME NO. I hi Taylor SUNDAY, APRIL 16th, 1978

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tion that we merge with Lodge No. 54, West. This motion was seconded by Brothers Joe Soukup and Bohus Chupik. President Dujka asked for discussion or other motion from the floor. There was no other discussion or motion, so the motion to merge with Lodge 54 was put to a vote by a show of right hands. All members voted to merge with Lodge 54.

The final book transaction is to take place the first part of January, 1978.

President Dujka also brought to the attention of our mernbers that our member, Brother Charles Dolezal was in serious condition in West Community Hospital. Our lodge will send him a card wishing him a speedy recovery.

After paying of the dues and taking care of other business, the meeting came to a close.

After the meeting the lodge furnished a lunch with refreshments.

Joe Mika, president Eugene J. Gerik, secy.

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Officers of merged Lodges 126 and 54 met at Lodge 54 in West Sunday, Jam 8th, 1978 to officially transact business and transfer the official records and books. Lodge No. 54 Financial Secretary Robert A. (Bob) Wright (standing second from right) is shown receiving the treasurer's books from Brother Eugene Gerik (seated second from left) and the certificates from Brother Jerome Soukup, both formerly of Lodge 126.

Seated, L to R: Brother Joe Dujka (president), Brother Eugene Gerik (secretary-treasurer ), Brother Johnnie A. Soukup (financial secretary).

Standing, L to R: Sister Leona Gerik, Brother Bohus J. Chupik, Sr. (auditor), Brother Robert A. (Bob) Wright (Lodge 54 financial secretary-treasurer), and Brother Ernest Zahirniak (Lodge 54 president).

Some weeks ago we published the first minutes of Lodge No. 126, Ross in Czech (also translated in English) and now we are publishing their last minutes of their last official meeting held at Lodge No. 54, West, Sunday, Dec. 4, 1977. They requested us to do so and we are obliging. The officers of Lodge No. 126, Ross met with the respective officers of Lodge No. 54, West, on Jan. 8th, 1078 and officially turned over all the records to the officers of Lodge No. 54. It was a very fraternal transaction. The minutes of the Dec. 4th, 1977 meeting are as follows: Our SPJST Lodge No. 126 held its annual meeting Dec. 4th, 1977, at West Lodge No. 54 Hall. The meeting was called to order at 2 p.m.

by President Joe Dujka. All officers were present. There were 21 members of Lodge No. 126 present.

The minutes of the last meeting were accepted as read.

SPJST Vestnik editor, Brother Rudy Sefcik was also present.

President Dujka called upon Brother Sefcik to read the minutes of the first Lodge 126 meeting when it was organized. Brother Sefcik read them in Czech and then translated them into English.

Brother Sefcik also made a brief fraternal speech about our lodge and the members enjoyed it and gave him a big hand. He then excused himself from our meeting.

President Dujka made a speech about the future of our lodge and

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LODGE NO. 117, ROBSTOWN Dear Members: The annual meeting of Lodge No. 117, Robstown, was held Dec. 14th with a little better attendance than in the past.

We had two visitors, Frank and Carrie Veselka, members of Lodge No. 79, Corpus Christi; we hope they enjoyed visiting with us and they are always welcome to come back.

President Eugene Hrncir called the meeting to order at 7:45 p.m. and everyone recited the pledge of allegiance.

A moment of silence was held for our departed Sister Emma A. Raska.

Secretary Helen Pavelka read the minutes of the previous meeting and they were approved as read.

The adult committee reported that the books were audited and were in order.

Other committee reports were made and correspondence was read.

Youth Leader Thelma Hrncir made a very good report on the past and future activities of the youth club.

A motion was made that the officers be re-elected by acclamation, and all approved. Serving again in 1978 are: President — Eugene Hrncir Vice President --

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Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Secretary — Helen Pavelka (also bookkeeper and treasurer) Youth Leader — Thelma Hrncir Assistant Youth Leaders — Eugene Hrncir and Betty Jurica.

The meeting was adjourned with the next one to be held in the home of Betty Jurica in March; the officers are to set the date.

After the meeting came the best part, the social hour with all the delicious food, which everyone thoroughly enjoyed.

I will write again to remind everyone of the March meeting.

Fraternally, Helen Pavelka Secretary - SPJST — TERM END REPORT FROM SPRING BRANCH COLLEGE Our 4th term of Czech at Spring Branch is scheduled to start Jan. 19th, 1978. Many are anticipating the term and using our newly purchased textbook "Czech for English Speaking Students." Our plans include tapes of reading material based on subject matter located in the text.

Should anyone in the vicinity of Memorial High in Spring Branch (Houston, Texas), be interested in studying with us, please register and be among friends. You will be most welcome.

Na shledanou, W. E. Souchek Czech Instructor SPJST —

CENTRAL TEXAS CZECHS IN MUSICAL REVUE The hundred-year story of the Czechs of Central Texas will be the theme of "Central Texas Czechs in Musical Revue" which will be presented in Temple on Tuesday, Jan. 24th.

The program is the Czech Night feature of the Jan. 13-31 grand opening of the new 1 1/2 million dollar Azalee Marshall Cultural Activities Center on the northern outskirts of Temple.

The program starts at 7:30 p.m. and will be presented on the stage of the Frank W. Mayborn Civic Auditorium. The event is open to the public and admission is free.

The revue will tell something of the history and lives of Central Texas Czechs against a backdrop of Czech music, dancing, and song.

Featured will be the Vraael Polka Band, SPJST Lodge No. 47 Ohoral

Group and the Seaton Beseda Dancers. The Seaton Brass Band also will perform if arrangements can be completed.

Also on the program will be Czech folk dances such as Annie in the Cabbage Patch, the Garden Dance, Seven Step Polka, and Schottische, and the program finale will be "Muziky-Muziky" by the entire cast.

Bernie Gebala will be master of ceremonies for the event. Calvin C. Chervenka is coodinator and director.

Cultural Activities Center Public Information Office SPJST — MINUTES OF THE DECEMBER MONTHLY MEETING OF SPJST LODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON The monthly meeting was called to order Sunday, Dec. 11, 1977, at 10:15 a.m. by President Jerry Ermis.

Brother Bob Allbritton posted the colors and led us in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

President Ermis happily announced that there were no deaths since the last meeting.

'The November minutes were read with one correction being made.

Correspondence was acknowled g -edfromthefailsofEdan Lucyle Lehde, Sr., Marie Hurley and Mr. Phillip R. Dunn. Also a letter of appreciation was received from District V Director Louis Hanus.

Members reported on the sick list were Brother Otto Mikeska and Brother Steve Kadera.

The list of applicants for membership was read and approved.

There was also a. motion from the floor to close the registration book at 11 a.m. to discourage any late-comers.

There were no reports from the 1st or 2nd vice presidents, the secretary, or the treasurer.

Financial Secretary Ellen Gill gave us the figures on the number of certificates on hand: 9,358.

Youth Leader Ruth Duncan thanked the teens and Mary Frances Wahlberg for their help with the Christmas program. The youth held a successful cake sale on Nov. 18th. Next, Mary F. Wahlberg thanked the youth for participating in the Christmas program, and her helpers: Clara Broz, Margaret Allbritto:), Frances and Norval Crossman and Pat Neskorik. The program was held Dec. 19th, at 7:30

p.m. and the lodge orchestra played. Money was turned in on behalf of the youth through Sister Helen Hegwood for the popcorn balls the youth sold at the Heights Blvd. Christmas Festival.

Brother Harley Cox reported for the Entertainment Committee that the Glenn Miller dance brought in a good crowd and that the New Year's Eve dance was sold out. He also announced that Ed Gerlach and his orchestra will be playing Saturday, Feb. 18th, and that advance tickets will be on sale Jan. 20th. He thanked Norval and Frances Crossman for making the two huge wreaths at the end of the ballroom thus saving the committee some money.

Financial reports were read by all the committee chairpersons and they were favorable, except one.

A question was asked about buses being chartered for the orchestra and the youths' use and this was clarified in that it is charged through the Board of Trustees.

Sister Della Kadlecek reported for the Birthday Club Sisters and thanked Sisters Della Miksch, Clara Jecmenek, and Mary Kosut for helping with the kolache booth at the Heights Blvd. Christmas Festival. The motion was made to accept all financial reports as read.

Motion passed.

Sister Naomi Spencer announced for the Dramatic Club that they will begin rehearsals for the upcoming Czech play and to watch for news of it in the Vestnik.

Brother Tim Kostom next announced for the Choral Group that they would be singing at the Needvine Rest Home over the Christmas holidays and that they still have some of the convention records on hand. They are $4.50 cash and carry, and $5 if mailed. Orders are to be addressed to the lodge office in care of the Choral Group.

There were no reports from District V Director Louis Hanus or District Youth Counselor Richard Wahlberg.

District V Sales Representative Evelyn Mikeska announced that Sidon Tumis of Lodge 142 was the No. 1 SR, Della Kadlecek of Lodge 88 was No. 2, and Helen Hegwood, of Lodge 88, was No. 3 in sales in the district. She had no report for November, but October saw $4,559,000 in sales. She also attended the Texas Fraternal Congress in

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Each lodge should have a copy from the Home Office.

Brother John Zemko next gave a beautiful speech honoring and thanking all the committees and especially Youth Leader Ruth Duncan, the youth club, the assistants and Brother Rudy Dybala and the Czech Concert Orchestra.

Next, Richard Wahlberg handed out copies of the proposed rules and regulations changes and the present rules and regulations for the members to study in between meetings so that they could vote easily in the annual meeting following the monthly meeting.

"Happy Birthday" was sung to the December celebrants and they were Gary Wehring, Laura Warnasch, Willie Mae Ermis, Gary Ermis, Diana Sokol, Hilda Petter, Mary Frances Wahlberg, Bill Neskorik, Galain Lesak, Thomas Jecmenek, Leander Pflughaupt, Bernice Wahlberg, Shawn Hernandez, Traci Green, Lillian Finn, Estelle Kelly, Don Bartulla, Gladys Elolf, Georgia Barcak, Rochelle Kennedy, Charles Evetts, Robert and Jeannette Eubank, H. A. Knapick, Kevin Kadlecek, Arnold Spencer, Mary Faltesek, Vicki Hegwood, and Billy Burford. Anniversary celebrants were Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Russell, 32 years, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Nona, 10 years, and the Russells donated the refreshments in honor of their and their daughter and son-in-law, the Nones anniversary.

The door prize winners were W. J. Gaeke, Steve Kelly and Emil F. Kuropata. The meeting adjourned at 11:30 a.m.

I would like to thank everyone for this past year. It has truly been another experience with the SPJST that I will not forget. I will really enjoy this year off, and devote it to my nursing studies, since they take almost half of my waking hours now. I thank everyone for their support this past year, especially my parents, my miorn, in particular, who was my "secretary" and I wish all the new officers the best of luck in the year ah Fraternally, Susan Schenburn 1977 Recording Secy.

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MR. AND BritS. WILL CAF t L EYNC-JIDS Miss Frances Elizabeth Vala, daughter of Mrs. Emil Vala and the late Mr. Vala, and Mr. Will Carr Reynolds, Jr., son of Mrs. Annette P. Reynolds and the late Mr. Reynolds, were married Saturday, August 27, 1977, at 6 p.m. in the St. Luke United Methodist Church.

The Reverend I. Frank Dent and the Reverend John T. King officiated the double-ring wedding ceremony. An elaborate reception and dance immediately followed at Brae-Burn Country Club.

Given in marriage by her brother-in-law, Mr. Julius A. Pavlas, the bride wore a Priscilla of Boston gown of white silk satin and delicately embroidered Alecon lace with seed pearls designed with

high neckline and fitted sleeves of lace which were fastened at the wrists with tiny bridal buttons, which also accented the back of the gown. The skirt, bordered in the same lace, swept to back fullness and into a cathedral length train. Her mantilla of imported silk illusion and Alecon lace flowed beyond the length of the train, and was attached to a wedding coif covered in satin and lace.

The bride carried a bouquet of white roses, stephanotis and baby's breath with streamers of white velvet ribbon caught with the roses.

The matrons of honor were Mrs. Frank E. Kucera of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Mrs. Julius A. Pay-

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las, Houston, sisters of the bride.

Her attendants were Mrs. Leroy L. Migl, sister of the bride, and Mrs. Michael Bowlin. Misses Marlene Ann and Darlene Kay Migl, twin nieces of the bride, were junior attendants and Miss Rebecca Kucera, niece of the bride of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was flower girl.

The attendants were gowned alike in original gowns of emerald green peau de soie fashioned in princess lines with long flowing skirts. They carried bouquets of yellow roses, baby's breath and colored foliage.

The roses and baby's breath were repeated in coifs that were worn in the hair. Assisting at the reception were nieces of the bride, Miss Ramona Helen Pavlas and Miss Monica Ann Pavlas.

Mr. David Inkster served as best man and the attending groomsmen were Mr. John L. Sutherland, Mr. Stephen C. Smith and Mr. Derek A. Hankins. Ushers were Mr. James R. Bolick and Mr. Louis S. Joseph.

After a honeymoon the couple resides in San Antonio.

The bride and her family are members of Lodge No. 88, Houston.

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LO JE NO, 88 C'TRIST. [AS, 197'l — Santa's Helpers, L to R.: Vivian Hegwood, Mrs. Santa (Terry Neskorik), Santa and Margie Barcak.

(Photos by YL Mary F. Wal3lberg)

From The Lodge Youth Leader LODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON Dear Members: Our January youth club meeting was very well attended and I am looking forward to working with you again as your youth leader. I will be working with both the Junior and teen groups assisted by Betty Dobesh (junior leader) and Dorothy Pflughaupt (assistant junior leader); Betty Griffin (teen leader) and Pat Neskorik (assistant teen leader). Margaret Allbritton will be in charge of the Beseda groups.

Our first Beseda practice will be Thursday, Jan. 26th at 7 p.m. in the Youth Room at Lodge 88. If you know the Beseda or would like to learn, please come and join one of our groups. We have been invited to dance at the Czech Fest in Rosenberg in April and would like to have 3 or 4 circles ready to dance; these outings are a lot of

Christmas, 1977 — Lodge 88 Youth Club Fathers hand out fruit bags, L to Bill Neskorik, Gene Barcak, ._;ichard Wahlberg and Bob Allbritton. Also pictured are: Margie Barcak helping w:th goodie bags and Vernon Hegwood (the littlest angel) looking on. fun, so plan now to join in the be Sunday, Feb. 5th, at '3 p.m. The fun. junior group will have a social folOur next monthly meeting will lowing their meeting in the Youth

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14 Room and the teens will go roller skating after their meeting.

Thursday, Feb. 9th we will have a cake sale in the lobby of Lodge 88; please bring a cake, pie or cupcakes. We will also need your help working that night so, if you will be available to work, please let me know.

Happy New Year 1978 to everyone!

Fraternally, Mary F. Wahlberg Youth Leader Home Ph. 468-2497 - SPJST LODGE NO. 177, ACADEMY We had a fair turnout at our last meeting, but I don't blame you if you didn't get out in that terrible weather, ice was everywhere. Be sure to attend the next meeting which is Feb. 8th, at 6:30 p.m.

Thanks to all the youths who helped with the party for the retarded children in Temple. We had a great time and I am so happy we made so many new friends and just think how happy those people are. Thanks to Dottie Roach for getting the refreshments, those kids really enjoyed them. We had a great time and we are looking forward to going back.

Band practice is Jan. 21st at 11:30 a.m. at the lodge and everyone please attend and bring your instrument. Karen is ready to get down to business and really work hard, so please be there. Then that same day we will have our social at Action World, where you may skate or bowl. Be sure to wear socks and t bring. your money for refreshments. Those of you who were unable to attend the last meeting due to the ice storm, you may attend this social; meet at the Action World for the social.

The following have, volunteered to work the popcorn concession: Jan. 21st — Terry Tyrock; Jan. 24th — Brady Hutka and Kevin Beck, Jan. 28 — Mike Tuerck and Clifford Tomastik; Jan. 31 -- Andy Tuerek and Roni Cantu. I am depending on you so please be at the lodge and be ready to work; remember, without this money-making project we wouldn't be able to do as many things as we do together. I will be there to help you if you need any help.

Remember, the next meeting is

Wednesday, Feb. 8th, at 6:30 p.m.

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Letters From The YoL/h LODGE NO. 4, HALLETTSVILLE Dear Members, The Hallettsville Youth Club held their monthly meeting Jan. 8th.

The meeting was called to order by Annie Z•bransky.

The youth club is going to give flowers for Papa Bucek's grave because he loved the SPJST, and his birthday is in February.

Our next meeting will be Sunday, Feb. 12th, at the Grant Building.

Fraternally, Melissa Holy (1-11-78) Secretary - SPJST LODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON Dear Members, We had our Youth Club Christmas party Dec. 9th. Before our party we went to the Four Seasons Rest Home and sang Christmas carols for the residents.

At our party we exchanged gifts, then we ate a variety of goodies which were furnished by our moms.

The Lodge 88 Christmas party was held Dec. 19th. The youth first presented a play entitled, "The Littlest Angel." Off to the side we had a manger scene with Mary, Joseph, Angels, and three Kings.

After the play Santa's helpers passed out gifts and the children visited Jolly Ole' Santa,. Goodie bags were passed out and refreshments were served and it was a joyful evening had by all.

Fraternally, (1-11-78) Debra Dobesh (10) SPJST

LODGE' NO. 47, SEATON Dear Members and Friends, Our regular monthly meeting held Jan. 8th, at 2 p.m. President Kim Mikulas called the meeting to order. Joyce Pechal led in the pledge of allegiance and club motto.

Secretary Alen Lucko called the roll and read the minutes of the previous meeting. They were approved as read.

Correspondence was from Martha and Alfred Klusacek and Mrs. Jerry Stefka, our assistant youth leader, a thank you from them for

the Christmas presents they received at our Christmas party.

Treasury report was then given.

Visitors were John Allen, Joe Allen, Tedd Dodd, Julie Maddux, John Abbott, Misty Prewitt, Mrs. Dean Mikeska and Mrs. Sarah Wilson.

Social for the month of January is a sock hop at the lodge on Jan. 27th, from '7:30 to 11 p.m. If there are one or two in a family, bring one pizza; if three or more, bring two pizzas for this social as re freshments.

Our fund-raising will be held Feb. 17th, at 6:30 to 10 p.m. Each family should bring one cake and a prize for our social games. More retails in the next report.

Birthdays in the month are: Kim Mikulas, Michael Sodek, Steven Sodek, Chip Nettles and Deana Bryant.

Thank you Mrs. Wilson for bringing the cake, and Kim Mikulas for the cupcakes.

Door prize winners were Gail Wilson and Marcia Skrabanek.

The meeting was then adjourned and the members ate cake and cupcakes.

Our next meeting will be Feb. 5th, at 2 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 30, TAITON Dear Vestnik Readers, The Taiton SPJST Youth Club held their regular monthly meeting Sunday, Jan. 8th, at 2:30 p.m., at the Taiton Community Center.

The meeting was called to order by President Clare Dorotik.

The pledge was led by Marcy Dorotik and the prayer was led by Roxanne Yockey. There were 39 mem bers present and 12 guests.

Under new business we discussed our next meeting. It will be held Sunday, Feb. 5th, at 2:30 p.m. We will also have a Valentine program.

All members be sure and bring a poem and a homemade Valentine or a picture. We will also exchange Valentines. We were also reminded that if you want to go to camp, you will have to attend seven meetings before you can go.

We then had a program. Poems were read by Karen Kahanek, Marjorie Treumer, Brend Kresta, and Kelly Korenek.

Door prize winners were Garland

Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Blaha, Sherry Krpec, Jerome Dorotik, Kelly Korenek, Craig Dornak, Yvonne Krpec.

We then played a game. It was called SPJST football.

Refreshments, consisting of rice krispie treats, cookies and punch, were served.

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LODGE NO. 88, HOUSTON Dear Readers, We welcome this year with open arms and warm hearts, as we get off to a fresh start. We wish all a bountiful new year, and may 1978 bring us all the joy and happiness we can hold.

I can say that we have enjoyed all the things we have done in our youth club this past year. It could not have been done without the help and work of our leaders. We hope this continues and improves in the future.

Fraternally, Karen Kaase (1-12-78)

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We played SPJST football and had refreshments of rice krispie squares, cookies and punch.

Fraternally, Clare Dorotik (17) (1-12-78) President - SPJST -LODGE NO. 30, TAITON Dear Vestnik Readers, Happy New Year to all!

The Talton Youth Club held its monthly meeting Jan. 8th; many of the members came, even if the weather was cold.

The pledge of allegiance was led

by Marcy Dorotik and the prayer was said by Roxanne Yockey.

After the meeting SPJST football was played by all the members.

The good mothers served refreshments of cookies and rice krispies and punch which is always so good.

Fraternally, Michelle Srubar (9) (1-12-78) SPJST

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LODGE NO. 30, TAITON Dear Readers, The Talton SPJST Youth Club met Sunday, Jan. 8th at 2:30 p.m. at the Taiton Community Center.

President Clare Dorotik called the meeting to order. Marcy Dorotik led the pledge and Roxanne Yockey said the prayer.

Our next meeting, will be Feb. 5th, at 2:30 p.m. Our program will be a Valentine's Day program. We will have a contest for the best Valentines and Valentine pictures.

We will also exchange homemade Valentines.

Everyone was reminded to pay their dues. Everyone was also reminded that they have to make seven meetings if they want to go to camp this summer.

It was asked if anyone had any articles to be taken to Goodwill and everyone was reminded to bring articles monthly.

We then had a program entitled, Winter. We drew for the door prizes and the winners were: Garland Blaha, Sherry Krpec, Jerome Dorotik, Jr., Kelly Korenek, Craig

EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY We, the Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 92, Fort Worth, in behalf of our entire membership, wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to the family of our departed lodge sister, MARIE TOMASCIK, age 101, who died in Fort Worth on Monday, Dec. 26th, 1977.

Sister Tomascik joined Lodge 92 on Dec. 14, 1919. She reached the age of 96 on Nov. 30th, 1973 and became the 24th person in the history of the SPJST to outlive the actuarial table on her life insurance policy with the SPJST. She was a native of Czechoslovakia and came to the United States.when she was two years old.

At that time, her family settled in the Seaton Community in Bell County, then moved to Buckholts, and then to Fort Worth, where Brother Tomascik was employed.

Funeral services were held from the Hewett Funeral Home in Temple, with burial in the Seaton Community.

May our departed sister rest in eternal peace.

Resolution Committee: Joy Paprskar Anna Langer Brenda Lackey - SPJST EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY We, the Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 29, Taylor, in behalf of our entire memtership, wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to the family of our departed brother, BEN J. MUCHA, who passed away Jan. 5th in a Taylor hospital.

Services were held Jan. 7th at the Condra Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Dan Marek officiating.

He was a member of the Taylor Brethren Church and of the SPJST. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Isedall Mucha of Taylor; one daughter, Mrs. Bonnie Sladek of Taylor; two sons, Dennis Mucha of Houston and Jimmy Mucha of Sugar Land; one sister, Mrs. Reuben Bryan of Taylor, one brother, Edwin Mucha of Taylor, and five grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Billy Mucha, David Mucha, Clifford Mucha, Raymond Mucha, Darwin Mucha, and Ray Kropp.

May our departed brother rest in peace.

Resolution Committee: Michael Kaiser Jerry Tallas Herbert Riethrneyer - SPJST — EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY We, the Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 29, Taylor, in behalf of our entire membership, wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to the family of our departed lodge brother, JOHN HURTA, who passed away Jan. 2nd in a Taylor nursing home.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Rosie Hurta of Taylor; Mrs. Elphia Svadlenak a daughter of Houston; one sister, Mrs. John Roznovait of

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Funeral services were held Jan. 4th at the Taylor Brethren Church with the Rev. Dan Marek officiating.

Pallbearers were Marvin Roznovak, Emil Hyvl, Kenneth Schwenke, Dan Hurta, Ben Kaspar, and William Stacha.

May our departed brother rest in peace.

Resolution Committee: Michael Kaiser Jerry Tallas Herbert Riethmeyer — SPJST — EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY In behalf of the entire membership of Lodge No. 88, Houston, we wish to express our deepest sympathy to the bereaved family of BROTHER EDDIE E. scnrumR„ of Houston, who entered eternal rest Monday, Jan. 2, 1978.

Brother Schiller was a member of the Houston Brethren Church, SPJST Lodge No. 88, National Association of Letter Carriers.

He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ella L. Schiller; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Schiller Hinson; a son, Marvin J. Schiller, all of Houston.

Also one sister, two brothers, six grandchildren, one great-grandson, and numerous other relatives.

Services were held Thursday, Jan. 5th at the Brethren Church, with Rev. Lawrence Junek and Rev. Henry E. Beseda officiating. Interment was at Forest Park West Cemetery.

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EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY We, the Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 154, Fort Worth, in behalf of our entire membership, express our heartfelt sympathy to the family of our departed lodge brother, HELMUT ERNEST PRILL, who passed away in St. Joseph Hospital, Wednesday, Dec. 21st, 1977, at the age of 69 years.

Brother Prill along with his wife, Sister Maria, and daughter, Sister Eva Dockery came to the United States from his birthplace, Belgium, Germany, in 1952.

He had been a member of our Fraternal Society since 1960.

Survivors include his wife, Maria Frill; daughter, Mrs. Eva Dockery; grandson, Charlie Prill; greatgrandsons, Chuck and Keith Prill, all of Ft. Worth,Jayson and Danny Hopkins of Butler, Missouri; granddaughters, Debra Hopkins, Butler, Missouri; Patty Dockery, Irving, and great-granddaughters, Heather and Betty Hopkins, Butler, Missouri.

Services were held at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 23rd, in Robertson-Mueller-Harper Funeral Chapel, with Deacon Mike Bush and Rev. James Garvin officiating. Cremation followed at Laurel Land.

May our departed brother rest in eternal peace and his memory live among us forever.

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EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY We, the Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 117, Robstown, in behalf of our entire membership, wish to express our heartfelt sympathy to the family of our departed sister, EMMA ANNIE RASKA, age 66, who died Oct. 26th, 1977, after a long illness at her home in Sinton.

Funeral services were held Saturday, Oct. 29th, at 11 a.m., in Godwin Funeral Home Chapel in Sinton, with Rev. Joseph Barton officiating. Interment followed in Sinton Cemetery.

Sister Raska was born Dec. 15th, 1910, in Williamson County, near Granger, then she moved, with her family, to Aqua Dulce and for the last 41 years, she and her husband lived on a farm near Sinton.

Sister Raska joined the SPJST as a member in December, 1933, in Lodge No. 152, Aqua Dulce, and in 1970 she transferred her membership to Lodge No. 117, Robstown.

Survivors include her husband, Louis J. Raska; daughter, Mrs. J. T. (Evelyn) Hulme of St. Charles, Missouri; sons, Raymond Raska, of Odem, Henry Joe Raska of Aqua Dulce and James D. Raska of Corpus Christi; brothers, Rudolph and Henry Kaspar of Victoria, Ben Kaspar of Seguin and Willie Kaspar of Ingleside; sisters, Mrs. W. J. Maxwell of Brownsville and Mrs. Mary Morgan of San Antonio, nine grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

May our departed sister rest in eternal peace.

Resolution Committee: Helen Pavelka Eugene Hrncir Gusta Sijansky SPJST

EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY We, the undersigned Resolution Committee, on behalf of the entire membership of Lodge Jar° No. 130, wish to express our sincere sympathy to the family of our deceased lodge sister, MARIE BOUSKA, who passed away Dec. 12th, 1977, at the age of 68.

Services were held Dec. 15th, at 2 p.m. at Weiland Merrit Chapel, with the Rev. Walter Evans officiating. Interment was in Grove Hill Memorial Park.

Survivors are her husband, Jerry P. Bouska; sons, Raymond Bouska and Richard Bouska; sister, Annabelle Bubak; brothers, Emil Parma of San Angelo, Edwin Parma of Irving, Henry Parma of Denver, Colorado and Albert Parma of Castro Valley, California; two grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

May our departed sister rest in peace.

Resolution Committee: Martha Vrla Norbert Mikulec Rose Ann Parma SPJSTEXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY We, the members of Lodge No. 42, Waller County, wish to express our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family of MARTIN HABACEK, who died Dec. 26th, 1977, at his home on FM 359, north of Brookshire.

Funeral services were held at Schmidt Funeral Home at 3 p.m. on Dec. 28th, with Rev. Galvin Beckendorf officiating. Burial was in Pattison Methodist Cemetery.

Survivors include his wife, Lydia; one daughter, Mrs. Marie Sturm of Brookshire; one son, Martin Habacek, Jr., of Lufkin; one brother, Joe Habacek of Brookshire; eight grandchildren, Lynn Sturm, Leon Sturm, Jr., Rue Ann Sturm, Glenda De La Rosa, Donna Sturm, Marcella Sturm, Richard Andrew Hoopes and Karen Sue Hoopes; four great-grandchildren, and a

number of nieces and nephews.

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Wednesday. January 18, 1978 Brother Habacek was born June 28th, 1898, at San Felipe. He was a retired farmer and a member of the SPJST for 51 years.

May our departed brother rest in peace.

Respectfully submitted by Melba Gaydosik Financial Secretary - SPJST EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY

We, the undersigned Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 48, Beyersvile, in behalf of our entire membership, wish to express our sincere sympathy to the bereaved family of our departed lodge sister, ROSALIE SHILLER KRUEGER,

age 62, who died Tuesday, Dec. 6th, 1977 in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mrs. Krueger, a resident of San Antonio, grew up in Thrall. Mrs. Krueger was preceded in death by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vince Shiller of Thrall and two brothers, Russell Shiller of Thrall and Hugo Shiller of Taylor.

Mrs. Krueger died in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jerry Most, Tuesday. Other survivors include two sons, Caxl B. Krueger of Corpus Christi and Rudy Krueger of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas; two brothers, Lummie Shiner of Thrall and Joe Shiner of Townsley, Ala., and seven sisters, Mrs. Alice Falteselt, Mrs. Dora Duffek, Mrs. Andrea Stapleton, Mrs. Cecilia Davis and Mrs. Bessie Wolff, all of San Antonio, and Mrs. Annie Svoboda of Burnet.

May our departed sister rest in eternal peace.

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EXPRESSION OF SYMPATHY

We, the undersigned members of the Resolution Committee of Lodge No. 112, Guy, in behalf of our entire membership, wish to express our most sincere sympathy to the family of our departed lodge brother, WALLACE COLEMAN TAYLOR,

age 79 years, who died in Gulf Coast Medical Center, Wharton, on Dec. 19th, 1977.

Brother Taylor was a retired raecha.nic and was a member of the Baptist Church.

He is survived by his wife, Julia; twQ daughters, Julia Shelton of

East Columbia and Mildred Deiss of Damon; two sons, Cecil Taylor of West Columbia and Wallace C. Taylor, Jr., of Brazoria; one sister, Mrs. Mary Andrews of New Caney, and many other relatives and friends.

Services were held Wednesday, Dec. 21st, in the First Baptist Church in West Columbia with the Rev. Harold Parnell officiating.

Burial was in the Guy Public Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Charlie R. Tindal, Ronald Taylor, Mark Taylor, George Shelton, Eddie Shelton, and Dennis Deiss.

Arrangements were by Baker Funeral Home of West Columbia.

May our departed brother rest in eternal peace.

Resolution Committee: Filomena Walcik Olga Mikeska Viasta Surovec SPJST

BULLETIN BOARD District Meetings DISTRICT SPRING MEETINGS

The District IV spring meeting will be held Sunday, April 23, 1978 -It the SPJST Lodge No. 49, in Rowena.

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Lodge meetings 2nd Sunday, at 2 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 6, COTTONWOOD Lodge meeting and youth club meeting Sunday, Feb. 12th at 3:30 p.m.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 7, CALDWELL Lodge meetings held the second Sunday of each month.

LODGE NO. 9, SNOOK SPJST

Lodge meetings are held the first Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m.

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Lodge meetings are held the 3rd Sunday'of each month at 2 p.m.

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Meetings held the 3rd Sunday, every second month.

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Lodge meetings held the second Wednesday of each month, 8 p.m.

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Meeting held 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 17, NEW TABOR

Meeting the 1st Sunday of each month, 2 p.m.

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Monthly meetings held at the SPJST lodge building the third Tuesday of each month, at 8 p.m.

Youth will meet at 7 p.m., same place.

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Meetings held the 2nd Sunday every third month.

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LODGE NO. 20, GRANG Lodge meetings held 2nd Friday of each month, 8 p.m. at the local SPJST Hall, and a quarterly social is held every third month.

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Meetings held the 2nd Sunday in March, June, September, December.

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LODGE NO 24, CYCLONE

Regular lodge meetings held 2nd Wednesday of each month at 8:00 p.m.; social following.

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LODGE NO. 25, ENNIS Monthly meetings held the 2nd' Wednesday of each month at 8 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 28, EAST BERNARD Meeting the first Sunday of each month at 2 p.m.

- SPJST -LODGE NO. 29, TAYLOR Lodge meetings held every 2nd Sunday of the month at 4 p.m.; youth club meets at 3 p.m.

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Lodge meetings are held on the first Sunday of each month at 1:30 p.m.

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- SPJST LODGE NO. 38, SMITHVILLE

Meetings held the 2nd Sunday of each month, 2 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 41, PORT LAVACA Meeting on the 2nd Sunday of each month.

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LODGE NO. 44, INDUSTRY Meeting quarterly: March, June, Sept., Dec.; 2nd Sunday, 1:30 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 47, SEATON Lodge and youth club meetings held 1st Sunday of month, 2 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 48, BEYERSVILLE Meetings held 1st Sunday of each month at 3 p.m.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 49, ROWENA Meetings on the 1st Sunday of March, June, Sept., and Dec. - SPJST LODGE NO. 50, EL CAMPO Quarterly lodge meetings are held the first Wednesday in March June, September and December at the American Legion Auxiliary in El Campo, 7:30 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 51, ELLINGER Quarterly lodge meetings are held the 2nd Wednesday in March, June, September and December, at the p.m.

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LODGE NO. 54, WEST Quarterly lodge meetings are held on the second Sunday in March, June, September, and December, at 3 p.m. with a social following the meetings.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 63, SWEET HOME Meetings held the 3rd Sunday of each month, 2 p.m.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 65, CROSBY Meetings the 2nd Sunday in Jan., Mar., June, Sept. and Dec., at 1:30 - SPJST LODGE NO. 66, WACO Lodge meeting and youth club meeting held the 3rd Sunday of

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LODGE NO. 72, CAMERON Lodge meetings are held the second Sunday in January, April, July and October, beginning at 2 p.m., at Mikulec Hall in Marak.

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LODGE NO. 74, LOVELADY Lodge meeting Sunday, January 22nd.

1st Sunday, each month - Youth Club meeting, 1 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 94, WHFELOCH Meetings are held on the 1st Sunday of each month at 1:30 p.m.

- SPJST -LODGE NO. 107, FLORESVILLE Lodge meetings held 1st Sunday of each month.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 117, ROBSTOWN Meetings: 1st Sunday, March, June, Sept. and Dec. - SPJST -LODGE NO. 130; DALLAS Meeting the 2nd Sunday of each month.

- SPJST --LODGE NO. 133, SAN ANTONIO Meeting on the 3rd Sunday of each month, at 2 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 79, CORPUS CHRISTI Meetings are held the second Sunday of each month at 2 p.m. at Sokol Hall on Kostoryz Road, Corpus Christi.

Lodge meetings are held on the 2nd Sunday of the month, 2 p - SPJST LODGE NO. 137, TAFT Meetings: 4th Sunday of each month.

LODGE NO. 80, HOLLAND Lodge meetings held the 1st Sunday of each month, at 2 p.m.

Board of trustees' meet after the regular meeting.

LODGE 138, GANADO Meetings held in March, June, Sept., and Dec. - SPJ ST LODGE NO. 139, DANBURY Meeting on the 2nd Wednesday night of each month.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 141, SEALY Our lodge meetings have been changed to the first Wednesday of each month at the Sealy Fire Station, 7:30 p.m.

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Monthly meetings held the 2nd Sunday of the month, 7:30 p.m.

SPJST Lodge Building. The building is available for private lease, (parties, reunions, etc.), call 79362:: or '193-6284.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 84, DALLAS Lodge meetings held 3rd Monday night of each month, 7:30 p.m.

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Ladies Circle meets 2nd Thursday of each month, 10 a.m.

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- SPJ ST LODGE NO. 147, JOURDANTON Meeting: 1st Sunday, of each month.

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Meetings: 1st Sunday, 2 p.m., monthly.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 151, WHARTON Meeting 2nd Sunday of each month.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 153, LA SALLE Meetings held quarterly, Sunday.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 154, FORT WORTH Meeting on 2nd Sunday of each month, 3 p.m.

- SPJST LODGE NO. 155, AUSTIN Meetings: 1st Sunday of each month.

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LODGE NO. 160, SAN ANGELO Meetings held on the 2nd Sunday, quarterly.

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LODGE NO. 167, PENELOPE Meetings: 1st Sunday, quarterly.

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LODGE NO. 170, BRAZOSPORT-ANGLETON Lodge meetings every 1st Tuesday of each month, 7:30 p.m., 230 W. Plantation Dr., (Clute Builders Supply), Clute.

SPJST — LODGE NO. 172, PASADENA Regular lodge meeting every second Wednesday of each month at 7:30 p.m. Executive meetings 4th Wednesday of each month, 7:30 p.m. The building is available for private lease, phone 713-472-9356.

SPJST — LODGE NO. 173, GALVESTON Meetings: 3rd Sunday of each month.

- SPJST LODGE 174, ROCKDALE Lodge meetings every third Friday of each month, 7 p.m.

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LODGE NO, 175, FORT BEND Monthly meetings held 2nd Sunday of month, 5 p.m. at the Rebekah Hall, Ave. K and 7th St. In Rosenberg.

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LODGE 178 LONGVIEW-KILGORE Regular meetings, third Sunday of the month at Elderville Community Center at 2 p.m.

Family game nights every Friday and Sunday, at 7 p.m., Knights of Columbus, Olive St., Longview.

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Lodge No. 179, Warrenton Meeting held 2nd Friday night of each month; youth club at 7:30 p.m. adults at 8 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 184, MOULTON Lodge meetings held every 2nd Wednesday, each month, 7:30 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 185, NEW BRAUNFELS Regular lodge meeting and youth club meeting held every fourth Sunday of the month at the American Legion Post 179, corner of Coll and Academy Streets, New Braunfels, beginning at 2 p.m.

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LODGE NO. 187, ROUND ROCK The official chartering of Lodge 187, Round Rock, is set for Sunday, Feb. 12th, 1978, at Lodge 18, Elgin (Stardust Ballroom). Details later.

SPJST — LODGE NO. 188, CENTERVILLE Dedication of the new home of Lodge 188 Centerville is set for Sunday, March 19th, 1978. Details later.

Meetings held 1st Monday of each month, 7:30 p.m.

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BRYAN-COLLEGE STATION Meetings are held 2nd Sunday every month.

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S.P.J.S.T. REST HOME ADDRESSES: S.P.J.S.T. REST HOME NO. I 500 East Lake Drive P. 0. Box 850 Taylor, Texas 76574 * S.P.J.S.T. REST HOME NO. II P. 0. Box 347 Needville, Texas 77461 SPJST -

20th ANNIVERSARY CEDE ATION of S.P.J.S.T. REST HOIVIE NO. I in Taylor SUNDAY, APRIL 16th, 1978 Program, Open House and Refreshments 2 to 4 p.m.

MASARYK'S CZECHO-SLOVAKIA It was the greatest assemblage of people I had ever seen in my life.

On that May 5th day of 1918, crowds of people stood outside the Northwestern Depot. Who was this great potentate about to be welcomed? Was he a king, a prince?

No, he was a coachman's son, who had through hard work and selfdenial become a professor and a leader of the movement to dismember Austria-Hungary and free the Czechs and Slovaks. He was not a stranger to Chicago.He had been an exchange professor at the University of Chicago in 1902.

The republic of Czecho-Slovakia had not as yet been proclaimed, but this enthusiastic gathering of over 200,000 people demonstrated to the world that all were for it.

There 11 stood on the sidewalk with a corsage of white and red carnations tied with white and red ribbon, Czech colors, pinned on the lapel of my coat, and I was holding my Czech flag to wave. I was younger then and it was so long ago that only snatches of memories come to my mind. I remember that it was a joyous occasion, a oncein-a-lifetime event. When Ma.saryk walked out of the depot surrounded by guards, city officials, groups of Sbkols, members of Czech and Slovak fraternities, he was given a great ovation. Some of the people rweOt shouting words of praise, some were shouting words of thanks for the great work accomplished. Some people had happy smiles on their faces, and some tears in their eyes. A group of children in Selsky costumes blocked Masaryk's way. One of the little girls offered him a bouquet of flowers, but before accepting them he picked up the child in his arms and kissed her.

The streets from the depot to the Blackstone Hotel where Masaryk was to stay were decorated with flags. He was then accompanied by marshals on horseback and bands playing. More crowds of people awaited him at the hotel and hundreds of school children. The children had been assembled by the Czech School Board. Some were to

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20 young to really know the great significance of the day, but they remember that they sang Czech songs.

Masaryk had a Slovak father and a Czech mother. His father had sent him to work as a blacksmith apprentice. He did not dislike the work, but at his mother's urging he went back to school. The university degrees he earned did not come easily. While he was doing post-graduate work at the University of Leipzig, he met an American girl, Charlotte Garrigue. They fell in love and were married. Masaryk took her family name as his middle name. Charlotte encouraged Masaryk in his career as a writer and politician. She loved Bohemia and learned to read and write the Czech language.

Masaryk was a Sokol and advocated the importance of keeping physically fit. He did his gymnastic exercises and went horse-back riding. He was a great defender of the truth. In 1899, a young Jewish man, named Hilsner was accused of bleeding two Christian girls to death. The blood was said to have been used for Jewish religious rites.

The superstitious people believed that this was true and it brought on strong anti sematic feelings.

Masaryk studied the evidence and decided that the young man was innocent. He wrote articles to prove the story was a hoax. This defense of Hilsner became very useful to Masaryk during the years of the war. The Jews, many of them good journalists, backed Masaryk's cause to break up the Austria-Hungary monarchy.

Masaryk's background enabled him to weld the Czechs and Slovaks together and he helped to solve their differences. He had so much going for him with an American wife and friends who were journalists, professors and members of Parliament in England.

And yet, he said humbly, "We would not have won without Benes.

He financed the beginning of the revolution. He had studied in Paris and was more at home there than I was. Benes and Stefanik furthered our cause in France, while I talked and lectured in Russia, England and America. The Sokols gave ,a little money and money kept coming in from Czech Americans.

There was never enough, and never was battle for freedom undertaken

with so little money. I tried to get an article or some news of our progress into the newspapers continuously. We had to keep before the public that the dismemberment of Austria-Hungary was for the good of Europe!'

From the May, 1918, visit in Chicago, Masaryk went to Washington, and there, too, received an overwhelming welcome. Mr. Charles Crane, a Chicago manufacturer had arranged a committee of important government men to meet him. He began to negotiate with these men, among them, Colonel House, who had drafted the PanAmerican Peace Pact at the beginning of the war and was sympathetic to Masaryk's cause. Later, when Secretary of State Lansing went to Paris in November, 1918, he had with him the data and authenticated claims for statehood of Ozecho-Slovakia. President Wilson invited Masaryk to the White House. Wilson helped in forming the new democracy, patterned after the Constitution of the United States with some improvements.

Two good friends in England who helped Masaryk were Wickham Steed and Seton Watson. He knew Vienna as a university student, a professor of philosophy and as a member of Parliament. He knew of the decadence of the monarchy.

He knew the Russian country and the language and was able to find his way around Petrograd even during the revolution. He had gone there at the request of the Russian Branch of the National Council to tie the Czech cause into the framework of the allied countries fighting against the Germans. It was in Russia that the revolutionary army was formed. Masaryk began to recruit his countrymen from prison-of-war camps, and volunteers from the Czech colony in Russia. It was a hard job as many obstacles had to be overcome. One of the greatest was the Russian higher-ups both in official jobs and the military.

(A reprint courtesy of The American Sokol) - SPJST — SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

An effective savings program depends on careful four-step planning, says Mrs. Linda McCormack, family resource management specialist with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, The TAMU Sys-

tem.

Planning steps include a goal, a set amount, a schedule and a program that pays the maximum rate of interest.

Mrs. McCormick offers these easy steps for developing a savings program: (1) Examine motives and write down a specific goal with a possible date for meeting it — this year, five years, or 20 years from now.

(2) Determine how much money is necessary to reach the goal.

(3) Set up an actual schedule.

In deciding on a schedule, rework your spending plan to determine a realistic amount left for savings.

Then, set aside a fixed amount each week or month in order to achieve the goal.

Do not count on a "flexible amount" of money for savings each time — such as money left over at the end of the week or month.

There never seems to be any left over.

(4) Determine which program pays the maximum legal rate of interest. This should be a major factor in selecting a savings program, and it will affect the "where and how" of savings.

In choosing a savings account, obtaining the maximum legal rate of interest affects the "where and how" of setting one up, says Mrs. McCormack.

For the most profitable program, set up a savings account based on five major factors: 1. Stated rate of interest — look for institutions paying the highest rates.

2. Formulas for computing interest — there are over 50 bookkeeping methods used to compute interest on savings accounts. Dayof-deposit to day-of-withdrawal is the most advantageous method to the depositor.

3. Day of month a savings account starts to earn interest — some accounts calculate deposits received by the 10th day to earn from the first of the month.

4. Frequency of compounding interest — a process for calculating interest on interest -- more frequently compounded interest derives greater profit.

Remember, money earned from compounded interest actually goes into the account only at certain

Wednesday, January 18, 1978 times — when the account is "credited" with its compounded interest.

5. Frequency of crediting — the process of actually putting the interest calculated into an account. Consider frequency of account crediting — such as the first of the month, or quarterly, or every six months or each year.

The more frequently interest is calculated, the better, Mrs. McCormack adds.

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CAN YOUR FAMILi ESCAPE IN CASE OF A FIRE?

21 phasis on bedrooms. Remember that hallways and stairs may be blocked off by flames or smoke.

—Teach everyone to test a door before opening it, if fire is suspected. If the door feels warm, do not open it. Plug the cracks with blankets or clothing to keep out the smoke; then use the alternate escape route.

—Decide on a meeting point out side the house so no one will make the mistake of returning for someone who is already safe.

—Practice your family escape plan frequently. Children especially need regular practice since routine fire drills lessen the chance of panic if a real fire should occur.

Nelson emphasizes that family escape plans and fire drills are a necessity for every family. Consequently, you should impress your family with the importance of preparing and rehearsing a family escape plan for use in emergencies.

"Imagine that the time is- 2:58 am.," says Dr. Gary S. Nelson, safety engineer with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service. "You and your family are sound asleep."

A flame flickers in the living room — the beginning of s fire that will seriously damage your house. Minutes pass. The fire grows. At 3:13 a.m., you are awakened by the sound of coughing. You feel uncomfortably warm. You smell smoke, and suddenly you are wide awake with the realization that the house is on fire! You shout FIRE! and arouse your spouse. You open the bedroom door with the intention of waking the rest of the family. The hall Way is a sheet of flame and you are barely able to close the bedroom door.

What will you do next? asks Neison. What are other miembers of your family doing at this very min ute? Your sons — your daughter -and your mother — each in a separate room?

At 4:19 am. the fire is out. A costly accident -- $5,000 damage at least. A tragedy with loss of life?

That may have depended on whether your family had an emergency escape plan for use in case of fire.

"If your family doesn't have an emergency escape route—plan one now," emphasizes Nelson. "Don't put it off until tomorrow; tomorrow may be too late. Be sure that each member of your family knows the proper action to take in case fire strikes your home. Forewarned is forearmed, cautions the engineer.

In developing your family escape plan, Nelson says to consider these points: —Determine an escape route and an alternate escape route from

AC 0,,VI1' ON HEALTH' COLD SEASON 1:S HERE AGAIN! It's that time of the year again — the cold season.

During cold weather, great numbers of Texans will suffer the consequences of a cold, flu, or respiratory infeetion even though trying to avoid or prevent infection.

Since the chances are good to have a bout with the "cold bug" this year, it might behoove each of us to know more about what a cold is and what to do with it when you have it, say officials of the Texas Department of Health Resources.

What is a cold? The common cold is a name given to any of a number of short-lived infections of the nose and throat. All of them are highly contagious. They have similar symptoms. Sometimes they are called by other names, which simply tell you what part of the upper respiratory tract is particularly affected: rhinitis, affecting the nose; pharyngitis, the throat; or laryngitis, the voice box.

What causes a cold? The Department of Health Resources points out there are many different viruses which cause a cold. A virus is a disease-producing agent so small that it can go right through a very fine filter that stops bacteria.

These cold-causing viruses are present :n great numbers in your

every room in the house, with em-

nose and throat when you have a

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cold. They are carried on the droplets you expel when talking, coughing, or sneezing.

How do you catch a cold?

Though a virus causes your cold, a number of conditions seem to increase your susceptibility (science does not yet know why or how).

People appear to catch colds mainly indoors. They get more of them during the colder months. Fatigue, chilling, and poor physical condition seem to give the virus a better foothold. If possible, you should try to avoid persons who have colds in order to keep from getting one yourself.

What's the course of a cold?

From one to three days after the virus takes hold in your body, the symptoms appear. (But other peo ple can catch your cold even before your symptoms appear — one reason why colds are hard to prevent).

The first hint is usually scratchiness in the throat. Within a few hours, your nose gets stuffy and you have vague feelings of discomfort and illness. Usually you start sneezing, too.

Within 48 hours, your cold is in full bloom — eyes teary, nose running, voice husky, breathing obstructed, and your senses of taste and smell dulled. You may feel lethargic and achy. It is common to have a moderate headache, especially at the beginning (but a severe one may be a sign of some complication). You may also have some fever, although that is usual in adults.

Once the cold has fully developed, it, usually continues at its peak for several days. Then there is a gradual letting up. An uncomplicated cold commonly lasts from seven to fourteen days.

Can a cold be dangerous? In it self, no. But it can open the door to other illnesses. And it's hard to know when the door has opened, because all the viruses that cause the common cold have not yet been identified. It is very difficult to say where the simple, unperilous cold leaves off and complications, which may be dangerous, begin.

Other — non-cold — viruses may complicate matters by getting in their licks when you are already felled by a cold. Or bacteria — many of which live, in your body harmlessly during times of good

health — may grow strong when

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22 your defenses are down. Or sometimes your body is allergic to the cold viruses or the activated bacteria,.

Then the severity of the cold symptoms increases, and the inflammation and mucous discharge may spread to other parts of your respiratory system. For some people, these complications may be dangerous.

Can you cure a cold? No, you can't. There is no drug known today that can cure the common cold. Antibiotics, the "wonder drugs," are effective against bacteria, not against ordinary respiratory viruses. Doctors may prescribe these drugs for the complications -- the secondary, bacterial infections -- but not for the cold itself.

What can you do if you get a cold? Dr. M. S. Dickerson, chief of the Department of Health Resources Bureau of Communicable Diseases Control, says to go home and go to bed. For one thing, he said, the cold is highly contagious, and this may prevent others from being infected. Drinking a lot of fluids and staying warm is recommended. If yOu have fever and it persists, Dr. Dickerson advises you to contact your family physician. ^SCJST®

HOME SAFETY Check the House for "Accident Areas" Safety in the home is a goal each family member needs to know about and work toward, Claudia Mitzel, a consumer information specialist, says.

"Safety-conscious habits and practices around the house will help prevent accidents and injuries," she said.

Miss Mitzel is with the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, The Texas A&M University System.

She pointed out that stairs, ramps and landings are major hazard areas in the home.

"Be sure that stairways and entrances are well-lit and equipped with light switches at the top and bottom. Throw rugs shouldn't be used at the head or foot of stairs.

"A handrail should be available on every staircase, and be sure banisters are in good repair and will provide support," she advised.

Floors are dangerous when wet.

Teach the child to wipe up spills immediately, especially in the

bathroom, kitchen and utility room. Frequently-damp areas in these rooms should have the added protection of non-skid mats or abrasive strips to make flooring more slip-resistant, the specialist suggested. "Entrance areas can be hazardous if not properly protected. Water, mud and leaves tracked in from outside make floors slippery. Also, washing and waxing can make floors dangerous -- be sure to block off a room anytime you are washing or waxing the floor until it is completely dry."

Another safety-ha.zard — the heating and cooling system — needs to be cleaned and checked at least once a year, Miss Mitzel said.

"Also, don't use the utility room or storage closets for junk rooms.

There is a danger of spontaneous combustion where paper, old clothing and oily rags accumulate.

Clean these places regularly," she advised.

Make Stairs Accident-Proof Stairs especially slippery one — pose one of the biggest safety threats in the nation, a housing and home furnishings specialist warns.

"Home accidents — numbering more than motor vehicle or work accidents — account for thousands of disabilities and deaths each year and cost almost $2 billion in lost wages, medical costs and insurance," Mrs. Patricia Seaman reported.

In the home, stairs are the scene of the highest number of accidents, she said, citing slippery treads as a serious safety hazard.

Mrs. Seaman is with the Texas Agricultural EXtension Service, TAMU System.

She recommended several safety pointers for accident-proofing stairs.

To reduce the slippery characteristics of interior stair treads, homeowners can choose one of the following: —Use a paint with abrasive additives.

—Use safety treads, nosings and mats.

—Use carpet.

—Use screw-on, stick-on, or inserts of compressed cork, carpet, rubber, or abrasive strips or cleats.

—Use properly installed rubber or carpet runners.

To help prevent slipping on ex-

terior stairs, she suggested five alternatives: —Use of broom-finished concrete.

—Use of rough surface brick, stone, or exposed aggregate concrete.

—Use of expanded metal or checked plate grating.

—Use of paints with abrasive additives, and embedded or stick-on abrasive strips or cleats.

--Pitch tread forward one-eighth inch.

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DISEASES HITTING SHADE TREES Two Texas shade trees, the mimosa and the mulberry, are suffering from fungus diseases.

Dr. Wendell Horne, a plant pathologist for the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, says the mimosa tree is being removed from the Texas landscape by Fusarium wilt.

The fungal organism that causes the disease had its origin on the eastern seaboard and has spread westward in recent years.

The wilt, which also occurs in cotton, peas and watermelons, results from spores that become airborne after lying dormant in the soil. It affects plant vitality and the leaves. The tree later shows symptoms of color loss and droopiness and cracks along the bark soon appear, emitting a foul smelling sap.

Two resistant varieties of mimosa trees, Charlotte and Tyrone, are currently being used but not to a great extent in Texas, notes Horne. Furthermore, chemical controls for the disease are not profitable at this time. About all homeowners can do is give the trees good cultural care and avoid mechanical injury.

The mulberry tree is afflicted with a fungal leafspot disease during the autumn months. This shade tree loses its leaves as a re suit of a windborne fungus that produces the disease, explains Horne.

Fungal leafspot can be contained by applying two fungicide applications during the year. Since the disease is predominant in the fall, the first application of Benom yl or a liquid broad spectrum fungicide should be applied in early fall and the final application made three weeks later.

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PODPORA LIDSKOST ici BRATRSTV1 Ceski Cast rgin Slovanake Podporagei Jednoty Statu Texas, saloiene eent 1, 7 ItOtNIK 66 MILO 3 KYTICE Karel Jaromir Erben V tomto eisle je dopis od bratra Zemiela matka a do hrobu dana, Otto Hanute se gadosti o stare di- siroty po ni zustaly; sla Vestniku. Prosim predtete si jej i plichazely kaidiekeho rana a matieku svou hledaly. vane. * Take je tadost vateho redakto- I zielelo se matte milYch ditek; ra aby jste si vtichni vzali na ye- due jeji se vratila, domi, to 24. ledna t. r. eterST) a vtelila se v drobnolisty kvitek, veder v '7:30 hodin bude poi-Aden jimi mohylu svou pokryla. zdarma peknY program, kterY uz- Poznaly ditky matieku po dechu, nd eineni 6eche ye stiednim Texa poznaly ji a plesaly; su poslednich 100 rake v "Azalee prosty kvitek, v nem majic utechu, Marshall Cultural Actvities Cen- materi-doutkou nazvaly. ter" na 3011 N. Third St. v Temple, Texas. Bratr Calvin iervenka je Mateii-doutko vlasti nati mile, vy proste nate povesti! teditelem a bratr Bernie Gebala je natrhal jsem to na davne mohyleceremonial. Dalsi informace jsou komu mam tebe piinesti? v anglicke easti.

• 4 Ve skravnou ja to kytici zavatu, Chceme-li aby vtechny nate ozdobne stutkou ovine; vetkere bratrske jednoty mohly A- do tiryth zemi cestu ti ukatu, spetne soutetiti v soutetii, ktera kde phbuznou mat rodinu. 'nekdy nespi a vtude se kolem nas vzmaha a i do natich skupin mla- Snad te se najde dcera matelina, dete zasahuje, musime jednat tak, jit mile dech tvilj zavoni; aby nate bratrske jednoty a my snad ie i najde nektereho syna vtichni sami vidy stall v torn nej- jeni k tobe srdce nakloni! leptim svetle pled nati mladeti a take i pled nati velejnosti. chod asi to tak brzo nebude. Piejeme jim vtechen fispech v jejich obchodovani a litujeme, to je to k nim tak hrozne daleko.

TAK VgELICOS Minuly tyden jsem obdriela peltPik Anetka Houdkova ne psanieko ad piitelkyne Jitiny Nate sestra tajemnice Kroutku Kuderove ye kterem byla Kveta Perressenyi velmi onemocdela stranka n,ovin z Pensacola, nela chtipkou a je upoutane. na Florida a pfes etvrt to strany noletko. Doufame ale, ze se brzy po- vin byl obrazek pi. Kuderove a zdravi a zas bude psat nam pro- celY v barvach. Je to nee° panetokoly ye schezi, neb bychom ji ho vial ten krasnY trna yskY kroj velmi postradaly. Pfejeme mnoho ze Slovenska a ji s esmevem ye zdravi. tali. Take reporterka napsala pekObdrtela jsem peknY vanoeni ny referat o torn, jak ve Silverpozdrav od na.:si spolusestry Kraut' hill, Alabama Ceske rodiny dodrtuku Elute Vondadkove at z Jetni ji zvyky a tradtce svYch praotcti Ameriky, z Venezuely, kde jsou na Vanoce. Peril Kuderova nauCila usazeni jit mnoho let a zabYvaji male deti zpivat vanodni pisne v se vyrabenim keramiky ye vel- &skein jazyku a napekla kolaee, kern a sestra Vondradkova mela ob cukrovi a katdemu navttevniku chod derkovY. Pled Casem psala, darovala neco k ochutrani. Psala to by mela chut' se vratit zas do me, le ptljeli lids k nim az z delky nasi Ameriky ale co si zatidili ob- 60 mil uvidet jak slay; svatky

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18, ledna 1978 VanoC'ni a uvidet jeji dva kroje (ona ma kyjovsky z Moravy a trnasky ze Slovenska). Ten ze Slovenska je jit pies 100 let stars a plece jette je peknY, nebot' ona jej dobie opatruje. Rada Ctu takoye pane elanky kde se pile nem hezkeho o natich lidech a co vte dokalou. Musim jests sdelit, krajane v Silverhill, Alabama maji dosud svou osadni sin a piece aspoll nekdy maji tam Ceske zabavy a programy, ttebate ut deskYch rodin tam nyni neni jak kdysi pled lety. Gratulujeme dechtm ✓ Alabame a plejeme mnoho esp.& chu v daltim podinani. Snad se zase uvidime na Polka festivalu v Ennis v kvetnu 1978, to ano?

Nedelni ranni noviny zde Onesli peknY elanek o dobre jidelne ye Cyclone, Tx., kde pry maji "nejlepti barbecue na zapade.". Tato jidelna jest vla,staliena. krajanem Rueben Mikeskou a jeho mantelkou ale jest otevteno, jen v patek, ✓ sobotu a v nedeli veeer a ostatni Cas v tYdnu jest to jen venkosky grocerni obchod. 21je zde jen pry asi 55 lidi ale koncem tYdne osada &dyne nebot' piijiadi auta odevtad na ten zvlatte dobrY barbecue v "Cyclone Corral" a Note jest zapineno. Asi 150 lidi obyeejne bYve na jidlo ale nekdy take pry se jich obslouti at 250 a mnohdy musi Cekat v d.ade net na nej aby bylo volne misto. Zde • se vte podava v tak zvanem "family style", cot znamena, 2e cele stoly se napini jidlem a kaidY si mute vzit co chce a kolikrat chce za jednu cenu $3.95 cot je jiste dobra cena, ze ano? Je me to ale divne, to v celem elanku nebyla zminka o torn, de pan Mikeska jest krajanskeho piivodu vidyt' piece je to Ceske jmeno, ne? Azle narody vidy se pochluhi jakeho jsou pAvodu, tak pros ne v tomto plipade — Cl reporterka to jaksi vynechala? lVfinulY tYden moji bratti byll

24 ti ("ESKA knihovna v celSrch spopfekvapeni navaevou dvou /4valYch kamaradti z mladSTch let, kdyg jenSrch statech na jednom mist& pfitli bratii Parmovi Vaclay z V Chicagu mail vice knih ale jsou Ennis a Jindeich z Hutchins se na na nekolika mistech. Tak vas proabyste navAtivili Hlavnas podivat. Kdyi jsme bydleli v Ennis tak jsme je dobie znali i je- ny fieadovnu a podivali se na nejich rodide a Jindfich bYval peed jen knihovnu, archiv a museum mnoha lety zamestnan na Fair ale abyste si prohledli celou natl.

Park pottovnim Made a n-inohY fifadovnu.

Take yam davam vedet, ge knibalieek do t eskoslovenska sel pies jeho ruky. A u Vaclava leckdy hy ktere zde mame si mfi gete vynakupujem grocerie kdy g jsme v !pfijeit zdarma jen za zaplaceni pot Ennis. Hogi si ovtem zavzpominali tovneho tam i zpet a to je jegte na mlada leta kdyi hravali foot lacine. Radi van/ po glem knihy ball a schazeli se vespolek. Je tomu ten samS, den jak dostanem vast jig dayno, ale pfatelstvi jsme udr- gadost. Marie zde knihy pro ka g -doucht':rmany,historckenateli at do dnetka a v gdy je radi vi bogenske zpevniky, hry, vzdelavadime.

Veera rano me volala sesteenka ,jici, rolricke a tak je vkber velkST. Bogena Faberova-Jareshova z Dor- Na to je to mame aby byly atene a chester, Tx. a mezi feel me sdelila, radi yam poglem kratti seznam.

S bratrskYrn pozdravem Ee pan Johnny Martinek, syn pi.

Otto Hanut Mary Martinkove podstoupil asi SPJST — pied teem' Vdny vagnou operaci KROU2EK CESKiCH ZEN V na srdce v nemocnici zde v DalDALLAS las ale ze pokraduje pry dobre, Nate prosincova schilze se nam kot mu piejeme. Martinkovi jsou pane yydafila nebot' poeasi bylo elenove SPJST v Tioga, Tex. 2adiname ten Novij rok 1978 a hezke a setlo se Ills hodne. Tuto ji doufam, ge letotni rok bude vanoeni schfizi jsme mely ve mnohem lep gi neg byl ten lofiskSr Wyatt's Cafeteria na Mockingbird neb pro nas a na ge peibuzne byl Lane a peed polednem jsme aly do velnn ApatnSr. Timto dekuji ka gde- rady k obedu a vybraly si katcla mu za pfani ke svatkilm. Stejne na co jsme mely chut'. Obedvaly ale kagclemu pfeji vgechno dobre jsme v uzavrene svetnici, kde byl a hlavne zdravi neb kdy g neni i Omani stromek yyzdobenY. 0zdravi, tak neni nic pro eloveka. bed byl dobrij a pochutnaly jsme si. Po obede jsme zahajily schfizi Mejte se dobre vgichni.

—sP.113T — tim, ge jsme podaly pfisahu nati HNTHOVNA, ARCHIV, MUSEUM vlajce a ph tom jsme pak uctily tog pamatku nati zesnuld sestry Vfi geni bratti a sestry: Pfedne varn pfeji eel* pytel ra- Antanie 8ebetkove, ktera zemeedosti v tonito novem roce, zylatte la v listopadu.

Pfitonino bylo 38 elenek a asi 8 dobre a trvale zdravi ten nejyzat hostfi: pi. Wilma Felty (sestra to nejti klenot na svete.

Ut nekolikrat jsem vas prosil o elenky Helen Oatesove), pi. Mar stare ' disla VESTNIKIJ ale dopo-thaDujkov,tagr seyAn sud jich mame velice malo. PRO- 8krabankove, pi. Clara Bincowski, SIM VAS jette jednou aby jste by- pi. Dottie Hegarova, pi. Betty 11 tak laskavi a prohledali vate Bowlesova (sestra elenky Tracy sklady starch novin a poslali Carperove), pi. Lillian Spainova nam VESTNfICY ktere byly vydane (rozena Konvalinkova dill Linkood zaeatku ag do roku 1932; od va) a panove Bubak a Skotak. roku 1932 do dne gka mame vtech- Piozdeji take nachvilku pfitla pi. ny. Vefim, ze 'lade jsou na hofe Valerie Luecke, dcera nas' e'env nagich domech, v gara gich a jin- ky Zuzanky Kutlikove). Vgechny de zapomenute a tak vas prosim jsme rady videly a pfijd'te zase.

Vyfizeny pozdravy od tech sesabyste si prohledali ty vase stare papfry a kdy g je najdete tak nam ter ktere nemohly peijit z rfiznSrch pflr,i1) Tikes isrne rady yidely je poAlet, vdeZny. Nevim jestli jsem y arn dal ve- bSrt s nami a sice sestra Hein galotin ge nage knihovna je to nejvet va, sestra Millie Noskova, a ses-

Ve stfedu 18. ledna 1978 tra Tlamichova. Tesnlo nas, ge jste peitly a piijd'te zas. Sestra Perressenyi nam pfeeetla protokol z posledni schfize a pak sestra Bubakova podala finaneni zpravu.

Vte bylo v potadku.

Krougek daroval obnos $7.50 na ucteni pamatky sestry 8ebetkove do Domova odpotinku v Taylor, Tx. Take jsme darovaly 25.00 na zakoupeni darkii pro rodiny veterand v nemocnici zde. Rovne g jsme daly $50.00 na vanoeni nadilku pro sokolovnu. OdhlasoValy jsme penegitjr darek na zakoupeni givou kvetinu pro nate tri sestry, ktere giji v SPJST Domove odpoeinku v Taylor, kterfgto darek slibila obstarat sestra Frankie Curryova, cog eini jig mnoho let. Diky.

Sestra Houdkova pak oznamila, ge obdrgela gadost ze San Antonio od pi. Marie iiihove (dcery to spisovatelky Vlasty Javoficke), by zaslala zbasnenou pohadku, kte rou sepsala jeji maminka a kterou oni zde by radi prodali, aby mohli penetite pomoci 'bet° mamin ce ktera je te gice nemocna na deskomorayske vysoeine. Byl velkST jern o knigeeky, ktere se prodavaji za $2.00 a tedy jsem zaprodala celkem 17 vStiskfi a slibila, ge v pfitti schfizi donesu kni gky Wide sestee, ktere: si je objednala.

Te gilo me, ge jsem mohla vypemoci krajance a kdyby jegte nekdo chtel onu knigeeku tak mu budu moci poslougit, obrat'te se na me.

Take jsem povedela o torn, ge brzy po Novern roce snad se bude brat pekne divadlo 'Ceske u fadu 88 v Houstonu a ge bych myslela, ge je to nate povinnost se zfieastnit onoho divadla. Debatovalo se o torn a vSrsledek byl, ze tedy se pojede jestli se pfihlasi dost zajemcit o to, a dle volby by se soudilo ge tedy jech bude dost. Rozhodnuto, aby ka gcla sestra, ktera by chtela jet, po busu, aby pfinesla do imorove schfize zavdavek $5.00 abychom mohly si zajistit Continental bus, kterST by vyjel carne rano asi v 7 hodin ponevadg cesta do Houstonu vezme asi 4 a pul hodin a navrat by byl pozde veeer ten samfr den. Oznameno, ze i ze Ennis by bylo nekolik kteIi by ehtmi jet a tak prern3iSlejte o torn a rozhodnete se zda chcete jet s nami. A kdyby neelenka a-

Ve sttedu 18. ledna 1978 nebo neelen chteli jet s nami, tak mfitou ale pfihlaste se brzy u sestry Zvolankove.

Oznameno, ze sestra Bartotova je v nemocnici a poclepsan pozdrav ny listek kterY se ji poslal po scht zi. Postradaly jsme mnohe nate sestry a mezi nimi byla take sestra Anna Kopecks, ktera pry ne(Wino byla take nemocna. Doufame, to jit je zase zdrava. Sestra Houcikova, pak ozne,mila narozeniny tech v prosinci a lednu a zazpivaly jsme vtem Happy Birthday. V tinoru budou miti narozeniny sestry: Albi Kozova, R. Waller, M. Noskova, M. Dutkova, R. Novakova, F. Strouhalova, I. Haloutkova, A. Robertsova., Evelyn Henznov6., Millie Bartkova.

Take sestra Houdkove. podelcovala vtem tern sestram, ktere ji byly 116.pontocny a spolupracovaly s ni pro dobro Kroutku a vtem itfednicim tet, a schaze se pak ukoneila.

Pak byla rozdana deka kterou da■rovala sestra M. Kopeekova a tt'astnou byla sestra Emma Pavelkova, ktera ze same radosti nam pfidala peknY penetity dar za to.

Rozdano jette pak bylo take nekolik darn ktere donesly k dece tyto sestry: M. Kopeekova, Pettikovit, Nesudova, R,obertsova, Vlko13arberova a Houdkova. Bylo veselosti dost. Pak byly rozdany darky ktere si elenky mezi sebou vymeriovaly a co jsem videla, tak byly to pane darky.

Jette musim sdelit dary ktere jsme obdriely. Sestra Herntalova darovala Stedry dar do kasy na tricteni pamatky sestry 8ebetkove a sestra Liddie. Pavelkova a Fitzova tet darovaly na ten samy del pane dary. Sestra Millie Noskova darovala pekny peniz na uczesnule sestry Pfiteni krylove, a sestra Letikarova z Taylor darovala obnos na zasilani list ky sestram. Tet sestra J. Kankrlikova dala pany vancieni clarek Kroutku ye forme peneilte a sestra HaWe Groundova dala do kasy pfispevek a pnove Bubak a Skotak nas take podarovali. Vtem ttedrYm darcilm srdeeny dik za vte co behem roku natemu Kroutku darovali, a pfejeme katclemu 'ste iobre v Novem rote 1978.

Jette bych chtela pfipomenout tem sestram, ktere si u me objedna

25 ly onu kniteau Vlasty Javoficke by laskave phnesly ty $2.00 neb bych rada to pro p1. fiThovou vyrovnala protote ona ty penize potrebuje pro svou nemocnou maminku ye stare vlasti. Take nezapomerite na tech $5.00 jestli minite jet do Houstonu na to divadlo nekdy v inoru neb bfeznu — to se jette oznami datum.

Pave co dopisuji tyto fadky me listonot dorudil balik knitedek od Pi. flihove a ona jich zaslala o kolik vYtisku vice a tedy prosim vas, kdo byste chtel udelat nekomu radost tak se hlaste u me a ja je donesu do pfitti schaze 2. anora.

Pani Javoticke bude v bfeznu 88 let a je face nemocna. V zadu kni teaky je jeji tivotopfs a obrazek.

Tedy jit jsme ukoneily praci pro nat. Kroutek v 1977 a doufejme, te 1978 bude mnohem lepti netli byl lonskY. Filth nate schaze se bude konat 2. anora v sokolovne a snad bude pane poeasi abychom se mohly zase sejit ye velkem poetu. Tedy na shledanou 2. imora.

Mejte se dobfe.

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Mile sestry a bratti, Prvni schate v tomto novem roce byla zahajena Predsedou Alfredem Klusaelem Wrestle ve 2 hodiny odpoledne 8. ledna za dosti skvele navttevy clenu. Byl vzdan slib vernosti natim vlajkam, nosici byli bratti Josef Morris a Vincent Schiller.

Pfikrodilo se s nastolenim nika. Uveden v atady provedl zasloutily pracovnik nateho fadu a bkvaly pkedseda bratr Frank span hel. Udelal k novYm atednikam kratkou pfednatku jake povinnosti a zodpovednosti mail k fadu a podle kterych se maji eidit. Pane se to poslouchalo a pfeji vs-em mnoho zdaru.

Navttevy jsme meli: Sid Pokladnik fiditel 3. okrsku, Joe Zvolanek, Joe Krahulik, Alvin Wilde, a Ann Balusek. Pfichodte zase.

Nemocne eleny jsme melt; ses try Stacie Martinek, Mary Kohutek (ktera byla uz pfitomna), Lucy Mihatsch, Patsy Kozlovsky a brath Johnnie Vanieek a Frank Motl, Jr. Pfejeme vtem nemocse brzy uzdravill. nym

Nove eleny jsme pfijali: Eldon J. Skrabanek, Johnnie Joe MalCik, Michelle Ann 'Lehr, Melisse Marie Simeik (2 pojistky), Alan David SimCik a Christina Marie Trampota. Vitame vas vtechny do te.du a pfichodle do schfizi i na zabaVY. Plestoupili od faclu eislo 26 do nateho fadu: Michel A. Koliha, Dennis Koliha, Linda Koliha, a Jerry Koliha. Take vas vitame do fadu.

Wadi fifednici byli pfitornni at na bratra Clarence Sodek, ktell nebyl pfitomen.

Tajemnice Dolores 6krabanek ptedetla zapisky z minuld schtize, ktere az s malou opravou byly pHate jak etene. Korespondence byla: dopis od Bell Co. Jr. Livestock Show na ktery dobrY Ude' bylo pozdeji odvoleno darovat $100.00. ttyii Hen' a site: brath Jerry R. Hejl, Tom Htuta a Bill Schwenke a sestra Rosie Schneider maji obdriet 50ti lete tpendlikY. Oslava bude, ale jaka a kdy, se ma rozhodnout at pozdejl. Take byl dekovnSr listek od Rev. E. Jordan.

Piedseda Alfred Klusakek altoval v8em Glentirm ktetti pomohli kragit Vanoeni stromek, sal a v0.bec vgem kteti jakkmkoliv zpilsobem pomohli pH nail vanodni slavnosti. VAem sestram za vu a dona.teni toho rozlieneho dla; nu musim dodat, sestry se ale zadriely a mockrat Vam vAem dekujeme I Zpravy vtech atedniku i rjboru byly jak obyeejne dobre. Bratr Frank Klinkovsky podal zpravu za fieetni vYbor a bratr Robert Vatieek za dozorei Vedouci mladete sestra Evyon Kureeka podala jeji zpravu. Melt 43 Mena pfitomno a 3 dospele nay alevniky.

Jarni se/laze II. okrsku se ma konat v nal sail 9. dubna 1978.

Na resoluenim vYboru jsou sestry Dorothy Pechal, Lillian Kotarek a Adeline Kohutek. Na planujicim vYboru zaberou mista za dva eleny kterYm vytla lhata a sloe, novi bratfi jsou Henry Mare§ a Eugene Kureeka.

Dvefni cent' obdrieli sestra Loui Pauseyrang a bratr Frank Spanhel.

Bratr Sid Pokladnik povstal a gratuloval jak pane se pofadala schaze, dekujeme I Nate pfitti schnze se bude konat prvn; ned0-

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26 11 v mesici 5. an.ora ye 2 hodiny odpoledne. Po schfizi jsme svadlnu a spoleenou hodinku. Bratr a sestra Lee Muck ptipravili dobre "stew" duaene maso a bylo to velice dobre. Sestra Martha Klu sadek a 3 neb 4 jine sestry, kte*ch jmena jsem si nepoznadila, zase pkinesly dobre dorty na kte pekne pochutrjrch jsme si Dekujeme yam Vaem za to "dobrotu"!

Na shledanou v WIRI scheal Se sesterskSun pozdravem Annie Jakubec, dopisovatelka — SPAT —

Ume se 6esky Let Us Study Czech Lekce druha — Lesson No. 2 Uirivani eeske abecedy -- Using the alphabet in short sentences.

The following are short sentences using the letters of the Czech alphabet, plus some others, using combinations of letters. Read them slowly and carefully with your parents, or with some other l$elp.

Read them out LOUD. a — Anna dostala malou panenku. a — Ma mama ma mil° maku. b Bratr Waal venku bez kabatu c Cihliii delaji cihly v cihelne.

U kolarku jsou etyii koleeka. d — Pod dubem lezely dva ialudy.

• Pojd' se podivat na lod'. e — Ten pekai pee chutne peCivo. é Lekal leci nemocneho. é Vera povedela tete o smetane. f Frantigek koupil na fume fasole.

Olga nagla novou gumu. g — Boma dlouho hledal /tribe.

Chlapec chytal mouky. ch i Indian si koupil inkoust.

Na piaValu se piska. i j Jeden jelen je u jezera.

Koza okousala krasnSr ker. k 1 — Lampa stala na stole. in — My mame mnoho malj,ch mis. n Nage maminka nema naugnice ri — Kari se dival na strait o On chodil okolo nageho domu. o — 6, jak jsem se polekal! ou — Soused koupil kousek louky p Petr poslal psani panu Pavlikovi.

Sestra Rifienka rortrhala zi✓ steru.

Rybal potkal rnlynaie u leky.

Sousedka nese maso, mash) a s sadlo. a — Sest hochri se se glo u gkoly. t — Teta dostala stall kabit. ✓ — ()brae se, je zde labut'!

U domu je hromada uhli. u — V finoru bylo adoli pod snehem. it — Rfilena pfijde dornit pro rile.

Viechny louky u leky se za✓ zelenaly.

— Mal, Karlik dostal zlatf prsgatek. z Zajic si pochutnal na zeli.

I — Baena spatiila tabu u be — Obe deveata belela do gkoly. ye — Dye a dye jsou etyii.

Jdi pekne po pegine. pi me Bratr mel jit do mesta. de — MI se tally na nedeli. to — Male kote spalo v bote.

Nekdo odvazal nage kone. ne di — Ja jsem byl hodinu v divadle. ti Ti vojaci tie odegli.

Oni nikoho nevideli. ni di — Dite se divalo na obrazky. ti — Frantik utika domi. ni — Na chodniku neni ladn5, snih Get your friends or parents to help you with the pronunciation.

Do them together. Clip and save each lesso n, and compile them into notebook form, if you desire.

Set aside a regular time each week for the study of these lessons.

Read the following verse together, and see if you can translate it: ftikadlo Al pfijde leden, za kamna vlerem al pfijde duben, je to tam budem; al pEijde maj, piiideme v hal!

What new words do you see above? Look up their meaning.

PRI2IL JSEM SVOU SMRT (Ze zapiska II. svetove valky v rote 1945, psano v rote 1962) Bylo to 21. biezna 1945, neco po 'dy ne hodine oupoledne. Seam nedel pied bezpoaraineen.ou kapltulad faSistickeho Nemecka. Sedell jsme v tehdejsi Strakove akademi, v Praze. Dnes je to budova preasedructva vlady, tehdy sidlo okupantskeho zvla:stniho soudu — son dergerichtu. Prvni jam den. Praha byla zalita sluncem. Bylo nas Sest a cekali jsme, aS se soud vrati z porady. Statni navladni nom vaem navrhl trest smrti. Trvalo to asi dvacet nainut, co se soudce radill. A my jsme se vznaaeli mezi livotem a smrti. rtikal jsem si: ted' tit vim, co je to smrt — a t.im vic vim, co je zivot. Divot, to byla stuncem ozatena Vltava u Manesoya mostu, budovy Rudolfina a filosoficke fakulty. Smrt. . .

Vchazeji soudci. Pozdrav vztydenou pray.ci a p •edseda ete rozsudek. Otyti odsouzeni k smrti, ja anezi nimi. Ote se odtivodneni rozsudku, pak nam dozorci nasazuji pouta a odvadeji nas do sklepnich cel. Tam sedime asi d ye aS tii hod:ny. Zatim beE da1S1 proces. Sedam si v koute s Jirkou Preiningerem a Milou Patoutem — dvema kamarady z na:si ilegalni skupiny. Etapa bitvy byla vybojovana a zachtelo se nam udelat bilanci cele na:si ilegalni Cinnosti.

Tetko dnes hledam slova, jiehi jsme tehdy poutivali. Ale vim, Se Cervenou niti nageho rozbovoru bylo: Bost 'jsme toho udelall, a jak malo nam toho dokazal:. VetEna spolubojovnika zustala na svobode a pokraduje v boil. Tak jsme se s Jirkou domluvlli, Se on meal ilegalne pracovat od roku 1942, ja s Milou (kteti se zname od detskrch let) od roku 1941. Pted odima se nam vybavovala praiske naroti — mista nalch schfizek, nalepky na pouliCnich svitilnach, dvoukilove balidky s chlebem a adresou Arbeistlager Birkenau, fale'Sne legitimace, tvate kamaradU, kteti jednoho dne nepiTS11 na schtizku a zrn.zeli beze stopy. Nejedno spojeni jsme tak ztratili, net jsme se setkalt ye spoleCne ilegalni skupine. At do srpna 1944 naa. e skupina pracovala, pak se gestapu pomoci konrdenta podafilo naruAlt aS'i Regain! sit' a zasahnout 1 naSi skupinu. Oesta-

Ve sttedu 18. ledna 19/8 po nam vabec nedokizalo existen ci ilegalnf organizace. °dem to neznamenalo, ze jsme melt u soudu vyhrano. Vidyt' existovalo zeni protektora, podle nehot se za podporu "nepeatel rise" odsuzovali lide na smrt, nape. za to, to kekli uprchlerau zajatcl, do ktereho mesta vede snake!

Zatadili nas do jednoho procesu se eleny jinych skupin a 21. btezna jsrae stanuli peed fatistickkm sondegerichem. Navenek to vypadalo jako skutednk soud. ni soudel 1 navladni v talarech, tsvedek, kterk ptisahal "pH. vtemo houcire, ze btide mluvit pravdu.

Avtak onen svedek obtaloby nebyl nikdo jink net gestapak Zander. A tento svedek sedel proti vsem pray nfm zvyklostem po celou clobu pee lieeni v sale. Svodkii obhajohy ne bylo. Zander byl jedlnk, komu soud el vetill. Ne tvrzeni obtalovaneho bylo pro soudce smerodatne, ale jedine protokol podep.sank na gestapu a Zanderovo sverlectvi. Kdri jeden z obtalovo.nkch, Alex popiral sva tvrzeni z protokolu gestapo, tekl mu ptedseda: "Nechte to hry! Copak jste nevi/ink jako be°. rank?"

Hdyt skoncily vksleehly obtalovankch, ujal se slova statni vladnf. Predtim proces moc nesledoval, tvatil se nepritomne a distil si nehty. Ost,atne ani oba peisedfci nevenovalt jednani pea§ mnoho pozornosti a detli si klidne "Der neue Tag". Statni navladni peedet1 unudenkm hlasem obtalobu a navrhl vaem obtalovankm trest smrti. Dva z nas neumeli ne mecky a byli odliaziini na tlumoeMica. Fratkovitk charakter procesu dokresluje fakt, ze temto dvema obialovankna tlumoenik proste tekl: "Pan statni navladni yam navrhl trest strati. Mate posledn1 slovo." Kdy2 jsme pronateli posled ni slovo pied rozsudkem, kikal pobled soudcd: "Jste tak naivni, myslite, to vas to zachrani?"

A pak nastalo onech dvacet minut "mezi zemi a nebem" jak jsem to pojmenoval. Po rozsudku sedime y e sklepe Strakovy akademie a peehlitime svou minulost.

Jakkoli je nam tetko, a pti pr y -niehslovc emlchvej las, citime hrdost. Hrdost na to, to jsme sve okupadni mlarlf nepromarnili jen v honbe za aprovizaei, tancovadkami a v potzhem 0-

dekavain peichodu osvoboditela.

Nebyli jsme svati zpivoli jsme, nekdy i pel gramofonu tancovali, chodill na vylety, milovali a traps11 se pro lasky, do roku 1942 jsme stravli nejeden vecer u viva (pak uz na to nebylo). Ale to nebylo to hlavni. V kriminale jsme se setkavali se tmelina • i a zlodeji a ti nam filial': "Co jsi mel z ty politiky? Ja taky brueim, ale aspon jsem se celou valku moh poradne nagrat!"

Cpat si birch° pet rokil valky a teak si odsedet o hladu -- to se jim rentovalo. Hot% to bylo, dostali obtalobu, v nit statni navladni navrhovat obstara obialova nemu advokata ex of fo. V takovkch peipadech tmellnatieek ci zlo dejieek ztracel svoji kteftmanskou filosofil. Protote ta sekeru se mu onech pet let valeeneho blahobytu zdalo bkt nefiraernou cenou. My jsme si i po rozsudku smrti mobil ve sklepni cele Strakovky net Nelitujeme toho, co jsme dela. alli destne. A kdyby bylo mane zit svuj tivot znovu, nejedna11 bychom jinak.

Zatim skonell druhk proces a chazel dozorce, aby nas odvezl na Pankratc. Kdyi jsme mu ukazali spoutane ruce, `Schweinerelr Byl to jeden z onech bachait. ktelenSrm Antonem" — ziejme posledni jizda Prahou. Zpivame.

Jsme na Pankraci. My, odsouzeci k smrti se ut nevracime na sve cely, a jdeme no. oddeleni 2a tzv. sekyrarnu. U jejich vrat nastalo bolestne loudeni mezi nami a Milou. Mila se tail' vratil bez pout na rukou. Byl osvobozen. Stated ne gestapu vtechno za,peel, sehral pied him nepolitickeho clovicka s jedinSr m diem peetit valku se zdra vou kuzi. Jednou pelvedl Zandera do neptidetnostl, kdyt na jeho 0tazku: "Vit, ze jsi spolupracoval s K86?" nalvne vykoktal: "Prosim pane komisael, a co je to Ks0?"

A tak byl osvobozen. AvAak slovo "osvobozen" nemelo y e slovniku sonderberichtu nic spoledneho se slovem svoboda. Znamenalo proste peedani gestapu. Ovtem v done situaci to bylo lepti net sekera. Byli jsme radi, te se alespoli Mila zachranil. Zato jemu bylo nejhfie z nas vtech. Pine jsme ho chapall.

Vzpominal jsem, o dem jsem peemktlel peedchlizejlei veeer. Delal jsem si node% to man& vyvaznu s osml roky kaznice. (To byla nej-

vytti vkine:!: Avt'ak kamavadv ;'J:Trarny.. Wiy g bitaako v ak a sam j1e1u odchaze): 2a, bylo mi v to cnvi l °' neg.

Milovi. Posiedni vteriny -,1&;11L Pak jsme jeste ns ry:hwit rekl jen: "Mud. , nemohl.

Teprve na 80‘.;yi:A informovanejgho xe dovedeli, ze situace tach dava, naddi na, konec y do Aesti nedel °o byla lhfrta, ni g se obvykle vyko:ai,valy poptavy.

Nova nadeje.

Posledni dny byt ,) ovSear velmi, i; s hlavou velmi te g ke. Veer. fe l'thca, jak u prahu d y er.i a IP mamachodbar screlnie a mu v protejAk vy. Valka mat, ', ne an my ua zitra p sime Zit. " odd ?e Dne 3. kvetna, nnte ni pielozil na ‘1:"1 dum Jirkovi cerstve zpravy motilky a dokon ce i noviny. Tam jsem se dozvedel, ze Hirnmler jedni o kapitulack. Na ble se zase zvetSila nadde no zachrantr. Naciste ut dokance demontovall sekeru a hodili ji do Vltavy. V poledne 5, kvetna, zaznely rkstiely. Po dvou hodinach nam barikadnici otevieli dvete.

Pies padesat k smrti od; lzenSTch vyAlo do svobodneho 1 Milo g SPJST

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FUR RUST LC 7)GES ONLY NOTICE: Standing announcements ®f lodge meeting dates are found in the Bulletin Board section. * Lodge No. 6, Cottonwood Friday, Jan. 20 — Social Night, 7:30 p.m. Public is invited Saturday, Jan. 21 — Peterson wedding anniv. reception and dance Friday, Jan. 27 -- Social Night, 7:30 p.m. Public is invited Friday, Feb. 3 — Social Night, 7:30 p.m. Public is invited Friday, Feb. 10 — Social Night, 7:30 p.m. Public is invited Sunday, Feb. 12 — SPJST Lodge 6 meeting, 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 14 -- Cottonwood Water Supply Corporation annual meeting, 7 p.m.

Friday, Feb. 17 — Social Night, 7:30 p.m. Public is invited Friday, Feb. 24 — Social Night, 7:30 p.m. Public is invited SPJST

Lodge No. 13, Dime 81-0X Saturday, Jan. 21 The New Debonaires Saturday, Jan. 28 — Golden Country SP.IST —

Lodge No. 18, Elgin Friday, Jan. 20 — Pancake Supper Saturday, Jan. 21 — Country NuNotes C/W Sunday, Jan. 22 — Battle Dance, 4 to 10 p.m. Matocha vs. Fabulous Six Saturday, Jan. 28 — Jodie Dubec and the Silvertones Saturday, Feb. 4 — Reece Bros. C/W Saturday, Feb. 11 — Texas Brass Saturday, Feb. 18 — Country Edition C/W Sunday, Feb. 19 — Leo Majek (4-9) Saturday, Feb. 25 — Little Fishermen SPJST — Lodge No. 24, Cyclone (Flag Hall)

Saturday, Jan. 28 — Otis Beck and The Best Yets Saturday, Feb. 4 -- Roy Bobbin and The Availables Wed., Feb. 8 — Reg. lodge meeting, '7:30 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 11 — Gregar-Fenny wedding dance; music by Moods Saturday, Feb. 18 — Debonaires

Lodge No. 29, Taylor Saturday, Jan. 21 — Joe Patek 8:30 to 12:30 Sunday, Feb. 5 — Battle dance — Vrazels vs. Matocha, 4 to 10 Saturday, Feb. 18 —. Fritz Hodde and the Fabulous Six, 8:30-12:30 SPJST

Lodge No. 39, Bryan Saturday, Jan. 21 — Blue Vest Saturday, Jan. 28 — Little River Ramblers SPJST —

Ledge No, 47, Seaton

Thursday, Jan. 19 — Special Dance Al Grebnick of Schuyler, Nebr.

Doors open 7 p.m.; dancing 8 to 12 Saturday, Jan. 21 — Jerry and The Melody Five Saturday Jan. 28 — Wence Shimek Orch. of Hallettsville Saturday, Feb. 4 — Harold Strand Orch of Waco Saturday, Feb. 11 — Gilbert Kautz Saturday, Feb. 18—The Hi-Toppers Saturday, Feb. 25 — Blue Vest Boys (Dress Polley: Ladies. dresses only: men, no slue Jeans.

Lodge No. No. 48, Beyersville Sunday, Feb. 5 — Lodge meeting and chili supper at 3 p.m. Bring ingredients (see Lodge 48 letter) SPJST

Lodge No. 54, West

Saturday, Jan. 21 — Ernest Snyders' 25th anniversary Saturday, Jan. 28 — KofnovecSrubar wedding recpt. & dance Saturday, Feb. 4 — Matous-Kucera wedding reception and dance Saturday, Feb. 11 — ZahirniakScott wedding recept. and dance Saturday, Feb. 18 — Roznos-Bittge wedding reception and dance — $eJsT — Lodge No. 66, Waco (Linden Hall) Panther City Saturday, Jan. 21 Polka Boys Saturday, Jan. 28 — The Country Boys of Ennis Saturday, Feb. 4 — The Blue Vest Boys Saturday, Feb. 11 — Jimmie Nemec and The Music Masters Saturday, Feb. 18 — Jodie Mikula Orch.

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Lodge No. 74, Lovelady Saturday, Jan. 21 — Country Combinations Sunday, Jan. 22 — Lodge meeting, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 28 — Music Masters (All of our regular Saturday night dances are from 9 P.m. until 1 a.m. Lod ge phone: 544-8200: SPJSTLodge No. 80, Holland Saturday, Jan. 28 — The Moods Saturday, Feb. 4 — People's Choice Saturday, Feb. 11 — Private party Saturday, Feb. 18 -- Gentres Saturday, Feb. 25 — The Moods SPJST

Lodge No. 81, Needville

Tuesday, Feb. 14 -- Annual chili supper; pastry donations will be appreciated SPJST —

Lodge No, 88, Houston Friday, Jan. 20 — Nick Navarro Orch. (formal dance) Saturday, Jan. 21 -- Vrazels Friday, Jan. 27 — The Texas Dutchmen Saturday, Jan. 28 — The Gold Banners Social every Thursday night at 8 p.m.

Supp er served from 5 to 8 p.m. Breakfast is served at our Friday and Saturday night Santee and special dances.

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Lodge No. 92, Fort Worth

Thursday, Feb. 9 — Ladies Circle meets at 10:30 a.•.

Saturday, Feb. 11 — El Texa Grotto dance; Panther City Polka Boys Sunday, Feb. 12 — Monthly Lodge meeting, 2 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 18 — 4th Degree KC dance Saturday, Feb. 25 — Lodge dance; Adamcik's Orch. (Free dance instructions 7:30 to 8:30 p.m..)

— SPJST — Lodge No. 107, Floresville

Sunday, Feb. 5 — Regular lodge meeting, 3:30 p.m.

— SPJST — Lodge No. 130 Dallas & Sokol Zlzka Saturday, Jan. 21 — Mardi Gras Dance --- Jodie Mikula of Ennis Saturday, Feb. 11 — Harold Strand (Dress Code: Women — dresses, evening Pantsuits: men — coats, leisure suits, shirts inside trousers, no blue Jeans).

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Lodge No. 135, Ennis Entertainment every Friday SPJST

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Wednesday, January 18, 1978 Lodge No. 154, Fort Worth Sunday, Feb. 12 — Monthly lodge meeting, 3 p.m.

Saturday, Feb. 18 — Dance; music

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Lodge No. 172, Pasadena Saturday, Jan. 28 — Knights of Dixie Sec lod ge meetin gs every Ind Wednesday

if each month. Dances 9 D.O1. to 1 Lin. Socials every Thursda y at 9 p.m. and Saturday at 2 pm.. Executive meetin gs 4th Wednesda y of month. 7:30 p.m. Lodge legation 911 E. Shaw. Phone 472-5355 — SPJST —

Lodge No. 177, Academy Saturday, Jan. 21 — Jerry, Butch and the Gentres Saturday, Jan. 28 -- Bill Walt's Goodtimers vs. The Country Combination of Bryan Saturday, Feb. 4 — The Nu-Notes of San Antonio Saturday, Feb. 11 — The American Sunrise Saturday, Feb. 18 — Jerry Dee and The Western Flames Saturday, Feb. 25 — Jerry, Butch and The Gentres

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Beyond Wednesday of each month: youth club meeting at 6:30 p.m.: adult Meeting.

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Game Nhort every Tuesda y at 7:30 p.m.: kitchen oven — SPJST —

Lodge No. 178, Longview-Kilgore Family game nights every Friday sal Sunday at 7 p.m. in the Knights of Columbus Ball, Olive St., Longview.

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Lodge No. 181, Montgomery County Family game nights every Thursday, at 8 p.m. Conroe Ballroom — SPJST — Lodge No. 187, Round Rock Sunday, Feb. 12 — Official chartering ceremonies at Lodge No. 18, Elgin, in the Stardust Ballroom.

Details to be announced later.

— SPJST — Lodge No. 188, Centerville Saturday, Jan. 21 — Billy Uptmor and The Makers Saturday, Jan. 28 — Joe Frank Wright and The Rode Showmen Saturday, Feb. 4 — Mark King Saturday, Feb. 11 — Musle Masters (Dances will be held at the Old Carver School, from 8 to 12 p.m.)

Sunday, March 19 — Dedication of new lodge home. Details forthcoming.

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