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ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1956-03-14
Reason Enough

A/E can think of many good reasons why
w those participating in the Croatian
Fraternal Unions 1856 Membership Cam
paign are anxious to win Grand Prize
Award of an eXpense-paid trip to Yugosla-
via in August of this year.
Some of these Field Workers were
born in that country and came to the
United States or Canada years ago. Their
desire to visit their former homeland
once again is understandable.
No less understandable is the desire of
native born Americans and Canadians of
our descent to visit the historic land of
their fathers and forefathers.
But there is an even better argument
for wanting to visit Yugoslavia.
As author Ernest Hemingway so very
aptly put it: Each generation of Amer
leans needs to rediscover Europe. Why?
Because you'll see your own cOuntry's
destiny more clearly if you spend your
next vacation abroad"
Being American born, we would want
to visit overseas on the strength of Mr..
Hemingway's astute observation = to ap-
preciate America all the more when we re-
turn to these shores next Fall.
There must be many of our stripe
participating in this great 1856 Member
ship Campaign, many who have never been
across the Atlantic to see for themselves
peoples and things European.
This, then, is their chance to do SO in
return for mere 600 Campaign Points, or
their equivalent in dollars, 100000.
Surely that is small asking price for a
trip which will be educational from start to
finish and one long to be remembered by
all who are fortunate enough to visit Yu-
goslavia next August.
Surely no other organization can offer
its members anything better.
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Cleveland Lodge ~ Backs Campaign

Cleveland, Ohio - "A Trip
Through Yugoslavia' will be
presented at the Slovenian
Home Auditorium, GAIT st.
Clair Ave, on March IS,
1856, at 800 PM,
This motion picture in col
or and sound will be present
ed and narrated by Peter Ma
linich, who made the movie on
his trip through Yugoslavia
last summer.
For two hours and twenty
minutes, you will view people
at work and at play, in cities
and villages. Scenic, massive
mountain tops, rocky land
and fertile fields, all IN VIVID
color will also be shown.
The villages and homes,
friends and relatives of many
people now living in Cleve-
land and nearby cities are
portrayed by the camera.
The customs, natural re-
sources, products of the fields
and of the home, and the life
of the people takes on such
realism that the time will H.
terally fly by.
Not only that, but this
movie should help arouse tre-
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mendous local interest in the
Croatian Fraternal Unions
1856 Lets Visit Yugosla-
VIA" Membership Campaign,
the greatest such drive in the
history of the Society.
After the movie, suppers
will be served and you will
have the opportunity to sing,
dance and listen to the music
of the Blue Danube Tambur-
itza Orchestra.
The film is being sponsored
by CFU Lodge SO and admis-
sion charged will be $1,00.
Steve Shimits, Comm.
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Much of the Departments great sue
cess in 1855 can be attributed to the Mem
bership Campaign honoring its 4Oth Ami
versarv and it's 4th National Junior Con-
vention, both undertaken for the singular
purpose Of bringing hundreds Of new Juve-
nile and adult members into the folds OF
the Croatian Fraternal Union.
Suffice it to say that the 1855 Campaign
and Junior Convention were tremendous as
sets to the Society monumental mile
stones in its 62-year-old history.
The Croatian Fraternal Unions Annual
Lodge and Nest Membership Conservation
and Bonus Awards merely prove that
money talks in more ways than one.
Certainly no one can long ignore the
lure of enriching himself if it can be done
leisurely and without undue sacrifices -
which is precisely what these Annual
Awards happen to represent.
True mot every Lodge Secretary and
Nest Manager can cash in on these rewards,
for the opportunity to do so does not exist
in each and every locale.
But the great majority of those con-
cerned can claim either a Lodge or Nest
Membership Conservation and Bonus
Award by dedicating themselves to an earn
est desire to reach their goal.
Where there is a will there is a way to
succeed - and profit as well.
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Etna Members To Meet
On Sunday, March 18th

Etna, Pa. - The members
of CF'U Lodge 4 are requested
to attend a special meeting on
Sunday, March 18, in the Gro
atian Home, 36 Grant Ave.
The session will get under
way promptly at 200 PM.
The main purpose of the
meeting will be the approving
or rejecting of the commit
tee recommendations on the
bids submitted by the various
contractors for our new lodge
home.
Other important matters
will also be discussed and
decided.
Joseph Rukavina, Sec'y.
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Yugoslav Group
To Hold Concert
Room Committee
Backing Festival

Pittsburgh, Pa. - The Yu-
goslav Room Committee of
the University of Pittsburgh
will sponsor a Spring Music
Festival on Wednesday eve
ming, March 21st, at 8:15 PM
at Stephen Foster Memorial
Auditorium on the Pitt Cam
pus.
The program features the
singing of the newly reorgan-
lied Javor Croatian Singing
Society of North Side Pitts
burgh and the Preserin Slo-
vene Chorus of Pittsburgh,
both under the instruction
and direction of Prof. Boris
Dobrovolsky, plus colorful
kolo dancing by the st. Geo.
Serbian Kolo Dancers of So.
Side Pittsburgh, directed by
Victor Klebansky.
The Pittsburgh All-Univer-
sity Tamburitzans, who in
clude fourteen Pitt Universe
ty students on their roster,
are also scheduled to per-
form. They are directed by
Matt L. Gouze.
A we'll balanced program of
choir music, kolo dancing and
tamburitZa music should be
the highlight of the spring
concert activity.
The proceeds of the eve
ming will go towards the Yu.
goslav Room Committees
share in cooperating with the
Nationality Rooms Council
Hostess Awards program and
other scholarship activity.
Tickets are now in the
hands of committee members.
They may also be obtained at
the Croatian Fraternal Union
headquarters.
Publicity Committee
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Lodge 304 Membership
Briefed By Secretary

Ambridge, Pa. - Due to
the fact that the Secretary
is working different shifts in
the mill, he wishes to notify
the members Of CFU Lodge
3O4 that he will be able to
collect dues only on the meet
ing night, which is the third
Friday of every month, and
every Sunday from 100 PM
to 500 PM.
Fred Perich, Sec'y.
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Cultural and Civic Center of
Pittsburgh.
Choice tickets for this
"shOw of shows" are still
available and may be OBJ
tanned at the II. E. Baltz
Agency. 632 Liberty Ave-,
phone AT 1876, or the
Tamburitzans' Office, 824
Locust Street, phone AT
l-349S.
Those unable to purchase
tickets in advance may OBJ
tain them at the Syria Mos
que box-office the evening of
the musical extravaganza.
CFU Members Run Show
Under the able direction of
Walter w. Kolar, for years a
member of the Croatian Fra
ternal Union of America, the
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Verona b02 Will
Honor CFU Weep"
Milan Vranes Is
Noted For Action

Verona, Pa. - CF'U Lodge
6O2 will sponsor a Dance in
honor of it's President and
the Supreme Vice President
of the Croatian Fraternal
Union, brother Milan Vranes.
This affair will take place,
Saturday, April Z, 1856, in
the Verona Police Club.
Music for the occasion will
be provided by Danny Ku-
kich and his popular tambur-
itza orchestra.
The committee will also see
to it that there is a variety
of refreshments on hand for
your convenience. Admission
charged will be $1.00.
Brother Vranes has been
a very active member of
Lodge 602 for many years
and is presently serving as
Lodge President.
This is his second term as
Vice President of the C.F.U.
and his second year as Pres
ident of the United Lodges of
Western Pennsylvania.
All these positions he fills
faithfully and conscientiously
as a true fraternalist.
We invite all the members
Of Lodge 602 and the other
lodges of Western Pennsylva-
MIA to attend this affair in
honor of brother Vranes and
thus show their appreciation
for his contributions towards
our great Society.
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH ii, 1856
Where TOGO?

THE weekend ahead promises to be hec-
tic one for many Tri-State Area men,
bers of the Croatian Fraternal Union.
For those who like social affairs we re-
commend the North Side Pittsburgh Lodge
1 Testimonial Banquet to be held Sunday,
March IS, in honor of all Executive and
Supreme Board members of the Society,
four Of them Lodge 1 members.
Those interested in sports will no
doubt want to take in the Saturday and
Sunday, March 1913, running in Mones-
sen, Pa, of the Society's 18th Annual
National Basketball Tournament
And those interested in "loftier things"
can't do better than to take in the Annual
Pittsburgh Concert Sunday, March 18, of
the celebrated Duquesne University Tam
buritzans the most colorful such collie
giate ensemble on earth.
All Of which adds up to a weekend of
activity of the first magnitude.
X
AS to where to go this weekend.
To begin with, everyone can take in the
first day of the Basketball Tournament on
Saturday, March II. There are no counter
attractions that particular day
Many can enjoy double-header on
Sunday, March lS, first by attending the
Lodge | Testimonial Banquet at $50 PM
and leaving in ample time to enjoy the
Tammies Annual Concert $3.50 PM at
spacious Syria Mosque.
No matter where you decide to CO. you
may rest assured that your time will be
we'll spent. 1t always is whenever and wher-
ever our people choose to congregate.
It's great to be a CFU member.
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Duquesne University will not
have the musical spotlight to
themselves Sunday evening,
March 18.
Destined to co-star with the
internationally famed Tam
mics are, three Western Penn
sylvania Junior Tamburitza
Orchestras, all instructed by
Director Walter w. Kolar.
These youthful arrays
will be the McKeesport,
Clarion, and Holy Trinity
Church, Ambridge, Junior
Orchestras.
Together with the Tambur-
itzans themselves, the three
Junior Ensembles are sched-
uled to appear on the Mosque
stage at the same time to
bring before the audience
some 100 artists playing as a
team. This should indeed be
something to see and remem-
ber.
Expected in the crowd that
evening are many Executive
and Supreme Board Officers
and other Officials of the
Croatian Fraternal Union.
Tammies More Colorful
A drive was launched re-
Gently throughout CFU GEN.
ters in Western Pennsylvania
to attract a crowd in excess
of 5000 people to Syria
Mosque on March 18th.
This would better the num-
ber of people who turned out
for the February 12, 1856,
Syria Mosque appearance of
the world famed Yugoslav
National Folk Ballet, which
has since gone on to score
smash hits throughout Ame-
rica and Canada.
While this Ballet is out
standing in every respect,
the Duquesne University
Tamburitzans are by far
more versatile and beyond
question more colorful.
There is no collegiate group
here or in Canada to COM
pare with the Tamburitzans
- rightfully called "The Mu-
sical Toast of Two Contin-
en- t S" III e Incompatible
Tammies are truly in a class
by themselves.
BY all means attend their
Annual Greater Pittsburgh
Concert on Sunday!
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Great Challenge

= DECORDS at the Home Office show that
N the Croatian Fraternal Unions 1916
Membership Campaign was one of the most
successful such drives in its annals.
What undoubtedly made it the sue
cess that it was can be traced to the fact
that the 1916 Grand Prize Award Win
ners were entitled to an eNpense-paid trip
to Yugoslavia, the first time the Society
ever offered such a reward.
And to merit the trip meant the colos-
sal task of amassing no less than 1,2OO
Points. Yet 10 men and women managed
to qualify for such a trip during that his
toric recruiting drive of 1916.
The Croatian Fraternal Union is now
in the midst of its 1856 Membership Cam
paign and those charged with promoting it
are out to beat the 1916 Campaign record.
Here is the challenge this years Cam
paign Committee is coping with.
The 1916 Campaign netted the Soci-
ETY. 1906 new adult and 1891 juvenile
members, or 6,297 members in all. New
insurance business written during that
drive amounted to S3,017 300 in the Adult
Department and S2,118, 400 in the Junior
Department., or S5,195, 700 for both.
Which means that this years Campaign
will have to produce 1000 new adult and
juvenile members and see at least Sc mil
lions in insurance written to better the i'm
posing record of decade ago.
Quite task, to be sure But we, as a
member Of the 1856 Campaign Committee,
are more than willing to meet the challenge
head on and without reservation.
Frankly, we are confident that our
Field Workers participating in this years
Lets Visit Yugoslavia" Membership
Campaign will topple the 1916 record with
ease before the end July 81 next of the
current recruiting crusade.
The incentive this year is much great
er than it was back i'm 1916 - what with
the Cash Awards far more liberal and
only 600 Points required to win All all
/. expense paid, 2O-day stay in YugoslaNia.
With that - incentive to spur them
on, how can those working afield fail to do
better than did those who helped make the
1916 Campaign a tremendous success?
The answer SHOULD be obvious
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BLISSFUL YEARS = Pictured Katherine and Mike
Palakovich who February S, 1885, quietly celebrated
their fiftyrst wedding anniversary For many years
bers of Rochester Pa CFU Lodge 49, they married
February 49, 1905 in ST. Nicholas r. G. Church. North Side
Pittsburgh Pa. They brought daughters and four
into the world two of the sons having died years ago
Included in their immediate family circle Al grandcil
dren and II great grandchildren Mr. and Mrs PalakOyich
the father and motfer-inaw of John X. Nkan,
Der of the CFU's Board OF Trustees
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Harbor Home Features
Saturday Mite Dancing

Indiana HarbOr, Ind. -
The "Udruga" of the Croa-
tian Home at 4O33 Main st.
will feature music for dane
ing every Saturday evening.
Providing the dance rhy-
thms will be the Cavalier
Tamburitzans of Ind. Harbor.
Publicity Committee
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Money Talks

\A/E take pleasure today in publishing
w the Junior Order Departments 1880
Membership Conservation and Bonus
Award winners in America and Canada.
Prepared and released for publication
by Junior Order Director bro. Michael Ora
sha, the statistics show that an all-timc
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reCOTu HIgH OF Su.UU7'VV
was divided among the
American and Canadian
Nest Managers who were
able to conserve or expand
their juvenile ranks last
wear - a memorable year.
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Musical Toasts OF Two Continents In
Annual Pittsburgh Concert March 18th
Far Famed Duquesne University Tammies
To Share Mosque Spotlight With Juniors
Pittsburgh, Pa. The Annual Greater Pittsburgh Con-
cert of the Duquesne University Tamburzans viii be held
Sunday, March 18, at Syria Mosque, Oakland.
The show the groups most spectacular presentation in
many years. will start at $50 PM and is expected to attract
recordbreaking crowd to the spacious Mosque in the
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by some very unfortunate slips of the
tongue. In the last campaign, we think
Adlai Stevenson alienated voters by some
Of his speeches because they appeared to
be directed over the heads Of the average
citizen and because his sophisticated use of
ironic wit, of which he is master, kicked
back. Irony, delicate instrument in debate,
can appear as flippancy and Americans
take national campaign very seriously.
---..--.. - Dorothy Thompson
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In Passing

Candidates often talk
themselves out of votes -
as do their supporters, In
the 1948 Campaign, Gov
crnor Dewey certainly did,
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But the Tamburitzans of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-07-01

straining to make it 60 faster.
Where was Watts? He couldn't
risk turning his head. Come on
Suddenly it was all over. A
hair over 80 seconds. He applied
his brakes. Then he heard the
public address system:
"The champion, Jimmie Nc
Mahan!"
81 Told You"
Grinning at his father, Jim
mie said. II told you would
win. 3. You didn't believe me-"
The 14-year-old finished Bla-
densburg Junior High School
this spring and will enter high
school in September. He was
still undecided on college until
recently, when he announced he
would like to study engineering
at nearby University Of Mary
land.
The only son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
George McMahan Of 43G7 Fifty
six avenue. Bladensburg. his
parents had always wanted him
to 60 to college.
Both plan to accompany Jim
mic to Akron for the national
championships later this sum-
mer. His father is a District
fireman and holds the rank of
sergeant in Nc. % Engine Com
pany.
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Derby Results by Heats

car 124 33 seconds: Bruce NJ. cras
car 257 33 seconds
Seventeenth Heat-Lynn O craig. car
976 33s seconds William Eaeieson
car l64 "a seconds
Eighteenth Heat-Aaron suleske car
ISL. 81 6 seconds: David NJ Cunning
nam. car 200. 500 seconds Mickey
o'Donnell, car go, 34e seconds.
Nineteenth Heat--Jmmy McMahon,
car go, ~ . seconds Kenneth I HALEY,
car ~. Us seconds; AShby Smith, car
Twentieth Heat-Gary Pierpont. car
261, 33 seconds Clarence w. Kurtz.
wen. faE car "a "a ass i'ion ,scond Ri'sF
Twenty-first Heat-Gordon Gaastra.
paa car $50 3 S:G6Sn secon aSof Duane P Pa
IT., car @25. 3i3 seconds
553, 81 seconds. LEROY NJ Faust car
263' - 4 seconds: David Green, car
2s5. "a 5 seconds
Twenty-third Heat--John D. Allen. car
Ego, 33 seconds Joseph HISS, car ~,
20 seconds, crsis Grove, car 201, 35.6
seconds
Twenty fourth Heat-Donald W DAVIS,
car $40, 32.g seconds David c Gordon,
car ~. 339 seconds, Robert W Brown,
car 204 "a seconds.
Twenty-nfth Heat--Johnnv Grain. car
a23 seconds. Charles Gates. car
80 Xxx seconds; Stephen d. Clark car
.0s. 1914 seconds
Twentv-sixth Heat-Paul Barnett.
car ?66 3?3 seconds pat Goodman,
car e9f. - seconds Donald Brubock.
car go. 1913 seconds
Twenty-seventh Heat - STANLEY F..
Moreland car .4S 33 8. seconds. Robert
n RaRland car 2l3 "a seconds. Michael
Spicer car l52. 3iG seconds
Twenty-eighth Heat--Charles T Dud-
ley ir car 264 33 ! seconds James F.
Johnson car III, 34.l seconds Billy
EdRer car .iS a. seconds.
Twenty-ninth Heat-Charles Benedict.
car 10, SO seconds: George Andersen
car us 30 seconds: Edwin l.. Wor-
sham. car 237 341 seconds
Thirtieth Heat--Karl Nicholson. car
go, 80 . seconds; Robert A AugeStern,
car 269 1873 seconds Perry C. Clark
car 9l9. 33a seconds.
Thirty-hrst Heat--Hal Aegwer car
243, 1913 seconds Bruce e. Graham
car e52 33s seconds; Jerry White. car
lba. $50 seconds
Thirty.tecond HeAt-Jamts A. Nc
Oillicuddy. car AL, 3bs seconds. Altho
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drivers posting marks as high
as 35 seconds. The first break
came in the 18th. three-car heat,
when Tim Medlin set a mark
Of 32.4. coincidentally the same
as the championship time.
However. in the next heat,
Watts duplicated that time and
in his first try, the eventual
champion blazed down the track
at 32.1 seconds.
Elimination races went smooth
ly until the lunch break at noon
The Star had a lunch on hand
for the contestants and they
wolfed tall 165 pounds of hot
dogs and countless gallons OF
soda. Some of the boys evil
IDENTIFY thought that if they
stuffed themselves, the added
weight would push them dowr
the hill faster.
Two Incidents Noted
After lunch the racers took
their places in a gala parade
that featured Donald Duval, 1856
Derby Champion, and a snappy
housekeeping group of major
cites. March units from the
Army and Marines and an All
Force band lent a military air
as did the National Honor Guard
of the American Legion.
The Derby was sponsored BY
The Star in association with the
District Department of the
American Legion and the Chew
rolet dealers of METROPOLITAN
Washington.
Two incidents caused the
spectators to gasp. The first
shock came when Robert D
Trapani. IL, of 1924 North
Washington boulevard. airing
ton, skillfully regained control
after hitting a dog on the track
and going on to win his heat.
The second came when
Charles Langley, IL, of l7lO
Thirty-third place Sc. swerved
into a barricade OF auto tires
and cut his lower lip. Three
stitches were required to close
the wound.
Charles, a very small boy
vehemently explained later-he
was knocked unconscious-that
his car was struck by another
causing him to swerve. and he
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PRELlMINARIEs
Class A


F1rstt ,Heat-Ronald ReigelmsR cal
100 W seconds. John Bepenorock. cal
81 33.5 seconds Robert HanIon, cal
20 80 seconds
Second Heat--Ropert Dinser. car 1ao
i3s seconds: Ronnie Koontz. car laI
- seconds Jimmie Mazzl, car 260, ~
Third Heat--Jay skow car 25s. 33
"a seconds
Fourth, Heat---ChsTlss Monitor. cal
2I2. 33 seconds Richard Andersen
"sr pa. "a seconds
Fifth Heat-Gsry Monitor. car .0s
80 . seconds. Monty Ahalt, car 233 3i )
seconds: Robert Shanklin, car 2ls 254
Sixth Heat Bob Clarke. car pa. 49,
sssonds RB ;Isy Asshby. csr, @4s. ~
"a , seconds
, Seventh Hea.-,-Carl Lonn.r car Ell,
29l "a seconds; Jimmy Hoke. cal
Eighth Heat Warren A Crosby "a,
iH, % seconds: Bruce Vorhaver. car
50 ~ seconds jeffrey Fewell. car
-, % seconds
Ninth HeAt--charles Phillips. car ols
33 seconds; WAYNE Nelson. car ga
~ seconds. Louis zindell. car 203
- 4 seconds
Tenth Heat Meredith zeigler, cal
~ ~ seconds; Frank J sullivan
III car ESQ 337 seconds: Vinceni
West. car 265. 80 seconds
Eleventh Heat Richard c. Macsrollo
car ,3S ~ seconds Gerry plotner
car "a5 1914 second Daryl Fasin, cal
Twelfth Heat Bill Boiseau car n55
33 seconds Jim Riley car oO2 33 .
seconds Jerry Mock car 2iB "a seconds
Thirteenth Heat-Robert c. Murphy
car 40 ~ 4 seconds. James l. White
IL car 236 335 seconds Willis Terrect
car 254 - seconds
Fourteenth Hest--Edvard NJ shen.
oereer, car o3l ass seconds Michael
vonkaenel car 122, 334 seconds. PAT
Ernest Mccarthy. car 26s. 335 seconds
Fifteenth Heat--David RYE. car 232
33 seconds Bernard Barron. car $50
"a seconds
Sixteenth Hest-Miehael Theron eal
2f2 1873 seconds. Raymond q MeAbee