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Arkansas State press., 1958-04-25

Hattie B. Brown, Helen Cu-
Jordan Funeral services for
r. D Parker, jr were held A
pril 13 at the New Light Bap-
fist church. Rev. McFowler Of
fieiating He is survived by his
parents, and grandparents.
Arkansas State press., 1958-04-25

duced on the Knoxville choral
program scheduled for May L..
Arkansas State press., 1958-04-25

GETS CAA APPROVED FLYING OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Air Force ROTC Vice Commandant Brgader General William
Bell stamped his Tennessee State universys Few
CAA approved primary flying (apane) training for AFRO
TC cadets.
After the Generals OK State president Dr. W.
Davis IS scholarships eaarked for arnded
scholars who plan to tie their careers to flying with the
u Shows approved flight program instrue-
tors George Cecil Ryan; Dr. Davis, Air Force
Vice Commandment Brgadier General William J. Bell and Ten
nessee States AFROTC Commandant Major Claude M DIXON
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

Tri Hi Y member, Secreta-
ry of the Senior Glass, and
i Maid Of Honor in the May
Queen Court.
Her brother, James, gradu-
ated from Duquesne. Uniyer-
sity in June Of 1854 and en-
tered the service Of his coun-
try in 1855.
Likewise a member Of the
/ Croatian Fraternal Union, he
is employed as q Pharmacist
with the Sherwood Drug Go.
in Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Ingram's father halls
from Citolia, Macedonia, Yu-
goslavia, while Mrs. Ingram is
a native Of Conway.
We wish you, Miss Ingram,
q nursing career second to
none on record.
A. J.. Kronstain, Sec'y.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
She'll Further Education At U Of Pittsburgh
Janice Ingram On Staff Of Beaver Valley Gen. Hospital

CONWAY, Pa. - A very
pretty, popular member of
Unity" Lodge $40 of the
Croatian Frate1lal Union Of
America has her heart set on
a nursing career.
She is Miss Janice M. Ing
ram, the daughter Of Mr., and
Mrs. George Ingram, 3rd Ave-
nue., Conway, who entered
Beaver Valley General Hos
pital in New Brighton late
last summer. Following three
years Of training in this insti-
tuition, she will enroll in the
University of Pittsburgh to
further her education.
Miss Ingram was born in
Conway, Nov. rs. 1889, and
attended the local public
sc ols. She graduated
from Freedom High School
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
II u niOr
- Ottings
- Michael Grasha -
Junior Order Director

. We have oft stated, and
with justifiable reason, that
our CFU is fortunate in hav-
ing legions of members who
jealously look after it's inter-
ests.
That concern is reflected in
many different ways. The
animated debates, oral and
via the pages Of the Official
Organ, on almost every issue
and topic concerning the So
ciety attest to that interest.
Another indication of this
commendable attitude is the
frequent receipt of descriptive
literature of new insurance
ideas or gimmicks as ped
died" by some company.
Such literature is usually
accompanied by the members
own comments and sugges-
tions This is making in
roads into our new business"
Or. why couldn't the CFLT
adopt something like this? ?"
etc., etc,
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
Alaskans Demand Statehood
BY John G. Sciranka

PASSAIC, IN. ]. La S t
June, when President Eisen-
hover appointed Michael A.
Stepovich Governor of Alas
ka, Stephen F. Brkich, Eng
lish Editor of the Zajednicar,
commented that Mr.. Stepo-
vich was an American of Yu-
goslav extraction.
His father "Big Mike"
was a Serbian, who came TO
the Yukon during the gold
rush in 1898, and his moth
er was a Croatian from the
famous Island of Brac.
The new Governor is an at
torney, who at the age of 81
became a member of the Alas
ka House of Representatives
and later of the Senate. At the
age of 38 he is the youngest
chief executive to govern
Alaska.
A former graduate of the
Notre Dame University, he is
also the first Roman Catholic
to govern there. This news,
that an American of Slav de-
scent was so honored, sur
prised many.
Background Of Alaska
Now the Alaskans are
pressing hard for their state
hood in the new year.
In this connection it is
timely to recall that while the
American colonists, before the
Revolution Of 1776, struggled
with the Indians in their new
environment on this side Of
the Appalachian Mountains,
they were ignorant Of the fact
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

Nov. 1, 1857, at 1882, 900. In one year,
Census tells us, we gained 3,035,0 per-
sons That's almost as many as we had
when we began to count noses in 1890.
It's gain of 1870 since the 1850 CEN
sus, and about 40ao since the 1880 tabu-
lation. But in 1880 the Government required
only Gil, 600 employees to govern us. Now
the Government has a payroll, according
to recent total, of 2,422OOO That's gain
Of 1869 - Pittsburgh Press"
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
Business Houses Looking For An Answer
Trading Stamps Yes or No?

.\X/hen a car runs out Of gas
F" these days, you can bet
even money it's because the
drivers wife was holding out
for "a service station offering
the right kind of trading
stamps. ra.d0..
And many a. woman who
used to shop in a neighbor.
hood super market now drives
miles to a different one -
which has, again, the right
kind of stamps.
Stamps have shown up
in some odd places too. Be-
sides the gas stations and
super markets, you can also
get them from a corset
shop in Oklahoma, from a
Midwestern tom b S t one
dealer, or in a California
burlesque theater.
They're no respecter OF
persons either. All shoppers
can be bitten by the bug, re.
gardless of size, shape OF
bank account - Cadillacs
nearly match the Fords in
front of some redemption
centers.
A National Rage
Meanwhile, though, legis.
latures across the land are
hassling frantically over pro-
posed laws to protect" the
housewife from her folly
- of collecting stamps. Head.
lines pro and con, which used
to fill the trade press, now
filter into the daily papers.
The controversy over
whether stamps are good
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
Coming - Family Plan
Q Our Society owes nour

. Our Society owes mucl,
of its progress and position
of leadership to just such ini-
tiative and pressure from the
rank and file.
The most recent example of
this is the adoption of that
newest insurance fire ball''
the Family Group Plan
which will go on the CF'U
market at the beginning of
1858 in all states where ap-
proved.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

When the shopper has
filled one or more books,
she can efx change the
stamps for premiums listed
in an elaborate catalog,
ranging from dish towels to
parakeets to sets of silver
ware.
The retailer who gives you
the stamps, however, does not
have to buy or stock the
premiums. Instead, he uses
the services of a trading
stamp company whose sole
business is selling stamps to
storekeepers and redeeming
them for merchandise.
For this the retailer pays
from 2 to 21s percent of the
total sales on which he gives
the stamps.
Curse Of Bigness
Jokers say it actually costs
much less than that = be-
cause so many women count
the stamps first - and leave
their change lying on the
counter!
More serious stamp critics
maintain no retailer can af-
ford the 2-percent tab with
out raising prices, making the
customer pay for the stamps.
But the merchants who
give stamps argue that sales
increases cover the cost. The
higher volume is done at
lower overhead cost; rent,
payroll and other fixed costs
go up little if any, and profit
is thus greater on the extra
(Bus. Houses p. 1O)
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

that the Russians crossed ov-
er from Siberian Russia into
what is now called Alaska.
These Russian explorers
conquered Alaska in 1741
and called the land "Rus-
sian America. ~.
Historians inform us that
in 1899 the whole country of
Russian America (Alaska)
came under control of the
Russian American Company.
Later under the treaty of
March 30, 1867, the United
States purchased it from Rus
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

sia for the small sum of
81, 100000.
The money was later used
by the Car for the establish
ment of Russian Orthodox
Churches and the support of
priests in America.
Baranoff, The Trader
A great number Of Rus
slams and other Slavs still live
there, 49,
Even the Eskimos speak
the Russian language and
ALASKA Gov. p. 10Y
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

or bad (nobody is indiffer-
ent) is assuming the pro-
portions of a national crisis.
What is behind all the
fury? Why has a seemingly
innocent merchandising idea
become first a national fad
and then a national tissue"
Stamp fever has infected
fully 60 percent of American
families, the Department of
Agriculture believes, and in
some areas the figures are
much higher.
In Indianapolis, for in
stances 8212 percent save
trading stamps; in Lansing,
Mich, SO out of every 100
families shop where the little
gummed bits of paper are
given.
In all, nearly $35-billion in
retail sales include stamps.
Around Many Years
The striking fact about
trading stamps is that they
are definitely,not a new thing.
One company = the largest
- has been around since 1896
helping merchants promote
trade. Today there are over
300 companies in the business.
Here's how stamps work -
in case you've escaped the
fever: When a customer
makes a purchase in the store
that gives stamps, she gets
one stamp for every 10 cents
worth she buys. She pastes
them in a book which can
hold from 1900 to 1900
| stamps.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
A Miracle

DY THE GRACE OF God, none of our
- people came to suffer as the result of
the tragic, million-dollar fire which hit the
nearby industrial community of Rankin,
Pa, on Dec. %, 1857, virtually on the eve
of Christmastide itself.
The fire, which hit three block area
bounded by Rankin's 1st End and 3rd Sts.,
was to level some Is homes and a school
and claim the lives of two people, both VIC
TINS of heart attacks.
X X 4
According to bro. Matthew L. j.
Furjanic, the Burgess of Rankin and for
years CFU Home Office Print Shop Limo
type Operator, only miracle prevented the
spread of the Dec. % fire to property owned
by our people in his borough.
Only Croatian families came close to
losing their properties, but they settled -
and gladly = in the end for singed roofs
and missed heart beat or two
In the path Of the roaring inferno for a
while was the "Showplace of Rankin it's
recently remodelled Croatian Home at 4th
and Antisbury Sts., the scene in the past Of
many post-Greater Pittsburgh Croatian
Day Reunion and other major functions Of
our members in the area.
A miracle indeed!
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

There have been countless
other suggestions for new
marketing ideas and even for
|streamlining our methods OF
Operation and administration
This is a great assist in the
management Of the Union, for
it gives us a vast potential
|of man and brain power
which costs the Society not
a cent.
Furthermore it keeps the
administration on it's toes,
alert. responsive and response
BILE. These are benefits of in
calculable value-all deriva-
tives of a truly democratic
and representative form of
government.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
Yes Or No?

THE MEMBERS OF the Croatian Frater-
nal Union will know by this time next
week how the Society's standing Delegates
voted on the Supreme Board proposal to
sell it's present Home Office and build
new one in the near future.
The Delegates had up to midnight of
yesterday, Dec. 81, 1857, to check in with
valid ballot and the count was to be made
following the New Years Day vacation
shutdown of the Home Office.
X X
No matter what the outcome of the
voting on this question, two things came
out Of the balloting which we feel should be
recorded here for posterity's sake.
u The mere fact that the Supreme
Board came out with proposal to sell the
present Home Office and erect new con-
tinental base of operations is proof positive
that the Society is as sound as the proven
bal dollar.
p Even better, the Delegates proved
once again that the 1855 Convention made
no mistake when it ruled that they = the
Delegates - should stay on the job between
Conventions and lend the Society a hand
whenever possible.
They've done right well by it since that
historic mandate of 1855!
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
Bewitched, Bothered


. In the recent past we've
personally received, from
some of these conscientious
men and women in the field,
circulars describing a number
of hospital insurance plans.
The senders were seemingly
"bewitched" with them and
wanted to know whether it
couldn't be possible to adapt
something similar for the
CFU.
As we've said above, we
welcome and appreciate this
alertness and this devotion to
the betterment of the Society,
but lest it be assumed that
whatever someone else pos
sesses is better let's read the
small print" in these other
plans.
Let us thoroughly examine
our own portfolio Of sick and
disability coverage. and be
convinced that most of it is
still the best and the most
reasonable. Most assuredly no
one can even come near our
disability plans.
X
Income Defender Tops
. As we write this article
we're perusing a descriptive
of a fancy hospital plan being
marketed by some firm.
It blatantly announces the
stripping. away of all fancy
and misleading phraseology,
ambiguous fine print and the
like. And yet it attempts to
present the most dangerous
and all powerful instrumental
ity of cancellation as actually
a benefit Of the insured.
Most certainly the, follow
ing = while the policy is
renewable at the option Of the
company only, you can cancel
any time you wish!'' - can,
by no stretch of the inlagina-
ton, be construed as benefi-
cial to the insured.
For those who are in the
market for adequate sickness
protection cur CFUH Income
Defender coverage Is, we be-
lieve, the most reasonable and
it cannot be terminated until
1.-THE maximum benefits Of
$2500 have been received
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
&E:E::2MH
N3SNN,%R
HorsiGWH5e G5e T
Around
) With The Editor

. Two New Year greeting
cards crossed our desk last
week to bring back fond men,
ories of our 1856 visit to Yu-
goslavia at the head of an
ocean liner delegation of 81
American and Canadian men,
bers of the Croatian Fraternal
Union.
One came from Matica Isel-
jenika Hrvatske, Zagreb, Cro-
alta; the other from Matica
Iseljenika Bosne i Hercegovi-
ne, Sarajevo.
It's nice to be remembered
- and to remember.
X
This Is A Joke:
. The average bowler Is
like the poor henpecked hus-
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
Weather Or Not

. Planning a picnic, say,
for independence Day Of
1858? Well, sir, 60 right
ahead, for the CF'U's new wall
calendar says you have moth
ing to worry about.
From the LIST to the 4th Of
July we're in for a hot spell.
It'll be fair and hot in States
of the Atlantic Coast; very
hot and dry over the south
west; and windy and threat
ening over the upper Rocky
Mountain regions.
Anyone want to bet?
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
. IN GOD WE TRUST

IN GOD WE TRUST
COURAGE, brother! Do not stumble,
Though thy path be dark as night;
There's star to guide the humble,
Trust in God and do the Right.
- Norman Macleod
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
In Passing

Nur favorite fact
- finding agency in
Washington, the Gen.
sus Bureau, computes
the population of the
I1nifnd Cfafas aa of
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

band - it's the Missus that
gets him down.
Chuck Pezzano
Bowling Magazine"
Man Of The Year
. alter Rutherford of
Bronxville, N. Y, says his
nominee for the 1857 Man of
the Year is the U. S. tax
payer.
Second the motion!
X
Pat On The Back
. just in case anyone
gives a hoot, "Horsing
Around" has been around now
for nearly 6 months, or since
July II, 1857, to pin down
it's editorial birth date.
One thing is for sure: It'll
never come into a Pulitzer
Prize Award.
Nash At His Best
. There are two kinds of
people
who blow through life like a
breeze;
And one kind is gossipers, and
the other kind is gossipees.
- Ogden Nash
X
A Little Closer
. President Dwight D.
Eisenhower, just before tax
ing off from Orly Field, Paris,
for the States following the
recent, historic NATO Con-
ference:
Over the past few days
my associates and I have
worked very hard for the
ideal Of peace :. I think we
are just a little bit closer to
that ideal, and l think this
group .fNATO) has done a
lot to make the chances of
war q little more remote"
Let us pray.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

Cleveland, circa 1857.
Tempus fugit.
flipped to 1858, to bright brand new year
which bids fair to go down as a very good
one in the annals of the Society.
And again - as was the case five years
ago at this time of the Winter Solstice -
our fellow members in st. Louis are plan
ming and preparing for the coming next
May of another legion of tourney-bound
CFU adult and Juvenile bowlers.
The occasion: The Society's great 24th
Annual Natl. Tenpn Tournament. The
dates: May IS through May 18, 1858.
X X
This editorial was not written without
rhyme or reason so far in advance of the
May classic in. St. Louis.
On the contrary, we penned these lines
to call the attention of our tenpin frater-
nifty to the fact that from the mileage
standpoint some real cooperation will
have to be Forthcoming if the Mound City
meet is to go down in the books as an Al,
unconditional success.
If all concerned are desirous of seeing
the next such classic wind up on a trium-
phant note, then here are the 1858 st. Louis
Tournament entry marks which must be
equalled or, preferably, bettered during the
1858 championships:
A grand total five years ago of 144
mems, women's and juvenile teams; 318
mems and women's doubles; 636 singles in
both elder divisions Of play and SIS on the
all-events side.
Which was an excellent turnout in the
minds of those who had at first feared that
St. Louis was too far removed from the So
cietys so-called beaten path" to attract
bowlers from the more distant centers.
Can it be bettered in 1858?
Of course.
But - as we said - it will take some
real cooperation. Sacrifices, too.
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

burgh), Pa, back in 1894 to lay the foun-
dation for what is now the largest organiza
ton of it's kind on the face of the earth -
Union?
Where would we be as an ethnic group
had the Croatian Fraternal Union never
seen the light of day almost 81 years ago?
Gone - and forgotten
We cite these facts about the Croatian
Fraternal Union in order to accentuate still
another fact - that the American and Ca
madam people in general are known the
world over as "joiners."
The Eagles, Elks, Moose and the like,
are classic examples Of this.
Heaven only knows how many thou
sands of young people of Croat descent, or
extraction, belong to these fine orders on
the North American Continent, young peo-
pie who are not members of the Croatian
Fraternal Union because 1T is an old fash
ioned, stuffy insurance organization"
Old fashioned? Passe?
Where can they possibly get better life
insurance at lower cost?
Where can they really develop a great
er feeling of belonging" than in the ranks
Of the Croatian Fraternal Union?
Where - but why go on?
Instead, permit us to leave you with
this thought for the New Year.
Take the Croatian Fraternal Union out
Of the life Of our people and what have you
but conglomeration of "ich's" running a.
round unknown to mankind!
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

groups, to mention but a rev
Of our cultural outlets, would
be here today even if that
now almost forgotten hand
full Of immigrants had not
gotten together in Old Allie
gheny (noW N. S. Pitts
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
From Bad To Worse

. This one is older than
Methuselah, but we have a
column to fill.
LIST gossip: - II see by the
paper that a woman in Omaha
just cremated her fourth hus-
band"
End yakker: - isn't that
just the way - some women
have husbands to burnt"
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 1, 1858
lpso Facto

6 TRANCE AS 1T may sound, knowledge
y of our nationality, our heritage and cul-
ture, would have long since disappeared
from the American and Canadian scenes of
life were it not for the good offices of the
Croatian Fraternal Union
Who is there to say that tamburitza en-
sembles, choral societies, and kolo dancing
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
Bethrotal Dept

. Christmas Eve Of 1857
found two CF'U Home Office
figures deciding to announce
to the world their engage
ment, their VOW to see if two
really can live cheaper than
|one.
That would be pert Johanna
Zvonkovic, receptionist, and
|affable Edward Rupcich, 4
member of the Tuesday Press
Room Staff.
Congratulations. S-- =
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01

and west IS west, and never
the twain shall meet - this,
the greatest of the Society's
annual sports gatherings has
been around" for other stops
along the CF'U way.
Detroit, 1854; Chicago,
1855; Buffalo, 1856, to again
stifle that East is East, West
ZajednicÌŒar = Fraternalist. [volume] (Allegheny, Pa.) 1894-current, 1958-01-01
St. Louis In Nav

kAUCH WATER HAS gone over the dam
IVl of time since the May 14-17, 1855,
staging in St. Louis, Mo-, of the Croatian
Fraternal Unions 10Th Annual National
Tenpin Bowling Tournament
Since those halcyon days of nearly 5
years ago - still memorable days in the
lives of those California keglers who came
to St. Louis to disprove that East is East,
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WOODLEY HILL

COUNTRY ESTATE-IN-TOWN LOCATION
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These strikingly attractive houses have 8
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All the principal rooms including the kitchen
and service entrance are on the same level.
There is also an enclosed garage.
The name of the builder, Monroe Warren"
Is your assurance Of the utmost quality In con-
struction as well as design.
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