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Pase 4 ~r7. AS —-i. i /2 i «».»«»«4 f|K *P* And That's That The While V S441 Forbea Street, Pitt»borih IS. Pa. Telephones: Mllseum !!-4470 '1-4471 t'moliritrd arlirlr* nisniiorripti. Irttera, picture*. tit., Weeping IFraternal Sunday, $11,435 Melon A Ill Passing Life here (in Yugo ••ZAJEDNIČAR" ten- A Single to this upon (officers with the fu„ nsj. bm of to fa||i jn thc hallds of thejr i i 1 are 1 Lodge 66 Ohio, Lodge 66 Mary Ognanovich, Sec'y. George Celizic \n\n National Homo Offices CROATIAN FRATERNAL UNION Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania English Editor of The Zajedničar had the pleasure last week of receiving the following telegram: Throwing in the towel. Discarding obso lete home dictionary. Ordering one more up to date. Have one last question: If renowned The sender The English Editor jumped into the ar gument with both feet in the same issue with an editorial and footnote to bro. Gra chan's treatise taking issue with the Lodge 32 member's "ion" stand in the face of every spelling to the contrary in America's foremost dictionaries. There was nothing to find on the subject in the Feb. 20, 1957. issue. But the silence was twice broken in the Feb. 27,1957. issue when bro. Grachan was taken over the spelling hurdles by two members from widely separated parts of these United States. He got it, first, from Chicago, 111., Lodge 118 member and architect bro. Stanley R. Juracich and, next, from Las Cruces, N. M., Lodge 886 member and school teacher sister Olga Vaskov, a formidable one-two diction ary punch. This was one too many for bro. Grachan to handle, i.e., battling Webster's New In ternational Dictionary, Unabridged, Mer riam-Wcbster's New International Diction ary, Unabridged, Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, Abridged, bro. Juracich and sister .Vaskov at the same time. Someone had to give up the ship. So, bro. Grachan conceded. Now. all is again peace and quiet along the embattled spelling fronts. In relegating this friendly battle to history, we do so with a bow in the direction of the affable bro. Grachan. He proved that he could dish it out and take his comeuppance in the end. Only a gentleman given to the precepts of true sportsmanship could be so gracious. Matter Of the average American and Cana dian is prone to ignore statistics and figures in a newspaper, we feel he, or she, won't do so with some figures appearing in today's issue of The Zajedničar, not if they are interested in $$$. Today, the Croatian Fraternal Union takes pride in publishing the Adult and Junior Order Tables which will govern the issuance of Certificates on the Society's revolutionary new Single Premium Pay ment Plan, the most modern system in the world of doing insurance business. With bros. Supreme Secretary Joseph Bella and Junior Order Director Michael Grasha doing the honors for their respec tive departments, these Tables are formally introduced and explained on page 3 of this issue of the English Section. While the "asking price" for an in vestment in a Single Premium Payment Plan Certificate may, at first glance, appear high, the savings in the long run more than offset the "initial $$$ bite." Nothing good comes cheap. Least of all adequate life insurance which can be paid for at one fell swoop by an applicant. Another thing: While there is no such a commodity as "cheap" Single Pre mium Payment Plan insurance, the Cro atian Fraternal Union's version of it is by far less costly to purchase than any other "brand" on the open market. Which is but one of the many wonderful things abput this Society of ours. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13,1957 Chicago "Tribune" can use such spellings as "tonite," "thru," "frate," fotograf," "telefone," etc., why can not members of the Croa tian Fraternal Union, if so inclined, spell "Croatian" with an "o"? bro. Joseph Grachan, a member of Chicago, 111., Lodge 32. Peace, it's wonderful! To bring the English Section's late "tuners in" up to date on what came to transpire on these pages in recent weeks to result in the telegram detailed above. Bro. Grachan precipitated the donny brook Feb. 13. 1957. with the publication on these pages of an article wherein he de fended those including himself who insist on spelling the simple word "Cro atian" with an "ion" ending. ENGLISH SECTION Established November 6, 1929. Published weekly By The Croatian Fraternal Union Of America STEPHEN F. BRKICH, Editor-in-Chief Editorial Office*, submitted to THK 7AJKDNICAR sr« forwarded it the n nrr'i ri»k and Tllh ZAJKDNK'AB rxprci^lv denies any responsibility for their «»fr Once A Year or return. Til K ŽAJKDN K'A renerveti the riRht to edit -evi»e or reject •IT article or other matter •obmitted tor poblieation. n keeping with the By-Laws, the Croatian Union is making public today the names of its Lodge and Nest officials in the United States and Canada. Consuming a tremendous amount of space in this issue, this 1957 Directory is priceless in that it is an organizational "must" in many ways and at the same time a tribute to those of its members who are saddled with leadership on the Lodge and Nest levels. Lest we forget, without the Lodge and Nest System the Croatian Fraternal Union would not be long for this competitive world and its business pitfalls. A once-a-year project, the 1957 ver sion of the Society's Lodge and Nest Di rectory is the largest such official release in the annals of the Croatian Fraternal Union. The reason? The names and addresses of Junior Or der Nest Managers in America and Canada are being published for the first time in connection with the Lodge or Lodges under whose administrative aegis these juvenile branches flourish and serve as a lifeline for the Adult Department of the Society. We will not belabor the reader with the amount of work which went into the com pilation, setting, etc.. of this Directory. It was horrendous, to say the least. But it was well worth it. Well worth every inch of space which it demanded of The Zajednicar's Editors. Tides Of March March 3, 1957, went down in American cultural history as "a great day for Western Pennsylvania's thousands of citizens of Croat descent, or extraction." Mayor David L. Lawrence had pro claimed the occasion in advance as "Tam buritza Day" and the Duquesne University Tamburitzans climaxed the eventful twen ty-four hours by performing in the city's Syria Mosque before the largest crowd ever to turn out for their local annual show. Nor was the Croatian Fraternal Union forgotten in the rush of things that day. No. Its members were thanked publicly from the stage of Syria Mosque for all they had done, and are doing, to make the Tam buritzans tops in their field. For which our thanks to Director Wal ter W. Kolar and his great group. With their Pittsburgh extravaganza now a pleasant memory, the celebrated Tamburitzans face 19 more stops before they curtain their 1956-57 series of con certs. Ten of these last 19 shows will be pre sented in Pennsylvania centers two each in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan and 1 each in Indiana, Illinois and Ohio. May 19 will find them in Youngstown, Ohio, for their grand 1957 finale. Yes, nothing succeeds like success. record breaking $11,435 was paid out recently to the Society's USA and Cana dian Junior Nest Managers by way of 1956 Conservation, Bonus and new Recognition Awards. Now, that may not be much money in these days of "box-car" figures. Perhaps not. But it is from here to there a great deal more than any similar rewards paid by competitors of the Croatian Fra ternal Union to their youth leaders. That's good enough for us. slavia) centers on hope in the future and as long as Marshal Tito's eyes seemed to be flirting with the East there was uneasiness. Hope and the West seem to be synonymous to a great number of Yugoslavs while hope and West ern markets are linked in the minds of many Government planners. The carpet that has been unfolded for a United States Senate consultant is high-pile and four-ply. The Government has outdone itself in the reception of Dr. Allan Blair Kline, farm expert and representative of the United States Foreign Relations Committee. Max Frankel, New York "Times" Cleveland Preparing For Big Turnout Of Juniors During Naiional Tournament Host City Junior Booster Teams Should Make Teen-Age End Of Meet Colorful One Cleveland, Ohio Interest Not too far distant are De in the Junior Division will be troit and Buffalo with the the prime target come next large quota of junior bowlers, May 2, 3, 4 and 5, when the along with the Chicago dele 23rd Annual CFU Tcnpin, gation who seldom fail to Bowling Tournament comes pcome up with their share of to pass in Cleveland, Ohio. junior entries. With the entry field in the An innovation Senior Division on the down grade during recent years, at- tention will be focused our juniors in the coming ten- Badovinac, is to elect a junior pin meet. The future of pin tournaments to come is in A fine junior tenpin league! is in full swing every Satur- day afternoon here ini Cleve- lands Grdina Recreation on.youthfu] lower St. Clair Ave., under the capable leadership of Mrs Ann Rescic, manager of local! .. Nest 55. With thi Junior Order Reveals Premium Plan's Advantages To Parents (Continued from Page 3) amount of the figure in the first column plus one half of that in the second. It is understood, natural ly, that the Home Office must be in possession of the full amount of the Single Premium rate be fore the certificate will be issued. For that reason it is best that a check for the amount accompany the ap plication form. And, while speaking of forms, there will be no change in the application blanks ex cept that the newest ones will year's junior tourney, thanks to some fine ideas from our tournament chairman, John chairman along with other the hands of our junior mem- progress of this year's junior bers and much will be in tournament. store for them during the Cleveland shindig. Local Juniors On Ball to help guide the Of course, the junior offi cers will have the senior mem bers of the Cleveland tenpin committee as their advisory committee We very shortly, to announce the members Qf the Jmior Ten_ Pin fowling To urna mcnt Committee. abundance of Nests here in Cleveland, local March 22 O E s e i entries should alone exceed Now, in getting back to the that of the nine teams entered Senior end of the coming Na-! in the Buffalo meet of last' tional Tenpin show in Cleve-1 year. Then, too, we expect to land, we are glad to read in hear from the Akron, Canton and Youngstown areas, other hotbeds of Northern Ohio bowling activities. the "Z" about the many re sponses from the CFU bowl ers and leagues throughout the land. That entry deadline is ap proaching very fast and the date, Friday, March 22, will be here before you know it. Now is the time to organize your teams as waiting will add later grief to your lodge and your bowlers. As for the Cleveland com mittee in charge of the tour nament affair, the stage is all set for the 23rd Annual meet. |ifoe ask that you attend this annual pilgrimage here in Cleveland, not only to be at tending one of CFU's best i get-togethers, but also to help I celebrate the anniversary of one of the largest and finest lodges, the American Pioneers now in its 30th year of ex istence. Hosts Should Be "Mosts" All Pioneer bowlers who have an additional line at the plan to bowl in the forthcom very bottom. That line reads: ling CFU Tenpin Tournament "I desire the Single Premium in Cleveland should get in plan and enclose my check,touch with Frank Bilicic, for $ The older formsj Steve Kasunic, John Badovi without this line may still be used as long as full payment accompanys them. Pay Nest Dues Direct nac or the undersigned. This matter is of great importance as the Pioneer Lodge hopes .to have as many teams rep- Oh yes, another important resented as possible. item, the first column in the Most of our lodge bowlers rate schedule includes the ad- actively engaged in the ministration charges in which St. Paul's Church League, ev is also computed a ten cent ery Tuesday evening at the per month local lodge or nest Grdina Lanes but we do want dues contribution. to hear from the rest of our This means that head- many lodge bowlers. This no quarters will refund the tice also pertains to our lodge or nest $1.20 at the lodge's women bowlers, end of each year until the George Celizic, Pub. maturity of the certificate. ah this should have doi- New Treasurer Slated lars and cents »appeal for thc prospect, for the proposer, as Of COnWfly L0QQ6 540 well as for your Society be- CONWAY. Pa. Matters cause this is 14 karat busi- i of prime importance will come ness—the type that sticks. before the membership of It will prove a particular "Unity" Lodge 540 during the attraction to parents and monthly meeting to be held grandparents who can now Thursday, March 14, in thc fully purchase, at matchless Croatian Home. Time: 7:30 bargains, the best combina- p.m. sharp. tion of savings and life pro- The No. 1 order of business tection plans in the insurance on the occasion will be thc industry. (election of a Lodge Treasurer What can you give that to succeed bro. Matt Havra son or grandson which in- nek, who had to vacate the creases instead of depreciat- post for pr?ssing personal ling in value each succeeding reasons. day—A CFU certificate, of The members of Lodge 540 course! thank bro. Havranek for the We are happy to anncunco many services he rendered in that we've already received a his official capacity. He did number of requests for these his job to the satisfaction of bargains and the certificates all. are on their way to the mem-, Other issues pertinent to bers. the welfare of Lodge 540 will Thus, once again your Cro- also come up for discussion atian Fraternal Union is during this March 14 meet there "First with the best!'' ing:. Edward Kutevac, Pres. Torrid Battles To Mark Hoop Tourney Carol Ann Tupac Sees CFU Scholarship Fund As Great Step Forward (Continued from Page 3) Lodge 210 boosters of the first magnitude. Carol Ann's father has been a Lodge 210 official as long as we can remember, serving in one capacity or another. Although he is one of the busiest men in this area, bro. Carol Ann Tupac Tupac still finds time to pro mote Slavic culture, both in music and dancing. He is forever endeavoring to interest our youth in the wonderful culture and tradi tions of their forebears and never fails to promote among them the Croatian Fraternal Union and, naturally, Lodge 210. Busy Around The Clock Carol Ann was born Oct. 18, 1938, in Chisholm and was admitted to Junior Order Nest 121 in her infant days. She graduated from High School in 1955 and is now a Sophomore at the Univer sity of Minnesota, Duluth Branch, where she is more than holding her own scho lastically. In High School she was an honor student, a member of the National Honor Society, Year Book Editor, a member of Erodelphian (Girls Honor Society), class president and secretary, a member of the National Fore3nic League, Quill and Scroll, School Choir, and secretary-treasurer of the Teen-Age Canteen. Future Musical Great At the University of Min nesota she is the class editor of the Year Book, and a mem ber of the Ranger and New man Club. In sports she is interested i in tennis and basketball, while her hobbies are music, tennis, cooking, sewing, and others. On top of that, she is an ac complished pianist of consid erable future promise, Carol Ann was the ac companist during her last two High School year«« for i a 5-piece orchestra and she a o a n i e e o a i Church Choir on the organ, i In short, she is a truly talented young lady destined i for success. Letter Of Appreciation I Not long ago the writer, Secretary Mary Ognanovich of Lodge 210, received the following touching lines from Carol Ann for transmission via these pages to the mem I bers of the Society's Supreme I Board and her fellow C.F.U. members at large: "I would like to express my gratitude to you for ap proving my application for a Scholarship Grant and for (Lodge 210) recom mending it to the Supreme Board in Pittsburgh. "The Scholarship will be ft great help during this school year, and I feel very fortu nate in receiving it. I "The Croatian Fraternal Union's new Scholarship Aid Program is certainly a worth while undertaking. I know that you will do your best to help others in dur Lodge 210 to receive »uch grants in fu- Time Table For March 23-24 Running In Johnstown Of Nat'l. Cage Tourney Host Lodge 5 And Nest 4 Members Prep For Coming Of Title Hopefuls and Fans MARCH 23 and 24, 1957 FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM 285 Main Street Franklin, Pennsylvania SATURDAY MARCH 23, 1957 Quarter Final Bound 11:00 A.M. Johnstown, Pa., Lodge 5 vs Steelton, Pa., Lodge 13 12:00 Noon Farrell, Pa., Lodge 126 vs Youngstown, Ohio, 1:00 P.M. Duquesne, Pa., Lodge 320 vs Cleveland, Ohio, Lodge 859 2:00 P.M. Monessen, Pa., Lodge 194 vs Conway, Pa., Lodge 540 I Semi-Final Round 3:00 P.M. Farrell, Pa., Nest 190 vs Johnstown, Pa., Nest 4 4:00 P.M. Monessen, Pa.,'Nest 87 va Conway, Pa., Nest 103 5:00 P.M. Johnstown, Pa., Lodge 5—Steelton, Pa., Lodge 13 vs Farrell, Pa., Lodge 126—Youngstown, 6:00 P.M. Duquesne, Pa., Lodge 320—Cleveland, Ohio, Lodge 859 vs Monessen, Pa., Lodge 194— Conway, Pa., Lodge 540 SUNDAY MARCH 24, 1957 1:80 P.M. Junior Division Championship of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America 2:45 P.M.— Adult Division Championship of the Croatian Fraternal Union of America Note: All Junior Division games will be played with seven (7) minute quarters, the final round game with eight (8) minute quarters. All Adult Division games will be played with eight (8) minute quarters, the final round game with ten (10) minute quarters. Each team must report to thc Gym Chairman at least one half (i«) hour before game time. Championship trophies to be awarded at the Victory Banquet, 6:00 p.m., same to be followed by Dance both events taking place Sunday evening, March 24,1957 at the Croatian Home, 612 Broad Street, Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Cage Delegates To Meet Mar. 24 PITTSBURGH This is notice that the annual meet ing of the C.F.U. Basketball Tournament will be held Sun day, 10:00 A.M., March 24, 1957, in the Croatian Hall, 610-612 Broad Street, Johns town, Pa. Each lodge or nest having entered a team in the tourna ment is entitled to be repre sented by one delegate at this meeting. And on thc agenda among other things will be that of selecting the 1958 tournament site from those bids received up to the time of said conclave. Bids for thef tournament are to be made over the sig natures of the gymnasium owners or operators and the i central committee or lodge president and secretary. Those interested in hosting the 1958 cage tourney should give thought even now and submit their tournament bids beforehand to the C.F.U. Spor ts-Educational Depart ment, 3441 Forbes Street, Pittsburgh 13, Pa. We suggest that delibera tion in this vein be taken even now and also toward be I ing represented at this annual meeting, which over the past i few tournaments has not re jceived the attention by dele gates that it should. Leonard Zilkc Tourney Chairman Frank Braidic, Dir. Sports-Ed. Dept. jture years. "Once again, thank you, one and all, so very much. Carol A. Tupac."' THE WELL IS DRY YOU KNOW THE WORTH OF WATCH March 13, 1957 Frank Braidic, Director C.F.U. Sports-Educational Dept. Wisconsin Group i In For Revamping WEST ALLIS, Wise. This is notice to the effect !that the Wisconsin State C. F. U. Lodges will re-organize the Wisconsin State Council. All lodges are requested to send two representatives, one of whom should be the lodge sports director, to a meeting being called for 8:00 p.m. Sunday, March 24, at Karlo vich's Hall. Said meeting will take place immediately after the Victory Banquet of the Wis consin State Tournament. The discussion will center mainly on the election of tournament officers, the se I lection of the 1958 tourney site and designating the next State Council meeting, We look forward to repre sentation from all of the state's lodges and not only sports, but anything for the good and furtherance of the Croatian Fraternal Union will get due consideration at this meeting. John Sarich Tourney Chairman Cleveland Pioneers In All-Out Meet March 15 CLEVELAND, Ohio The regular monthly meeting of the "Pioneers" CFU Lodge 663 is scheduled for Friday, March 15, in the Croatian Home, 6314 St. Clair Ave. This is probably the most important meeting of its kind in many a year, especially as far as our lodge bowlers are concerned. The progress of the coming tourney will be re ported by the various tourna ment committees. You Pioneer bowlers, who haven't been bowling regu larly during the past few sea sons, better get those bowl ing balls and shoes out of the moth-balls and get into action when the CFU tournament makes its visit in May. CHARITABLE FUNDAMENTAL U UNDERSTANDING