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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1941
Page
4
A Leesburg Commerce editorial argues lawmakers must require adequate public notice for laws affecting property owners, noting newspapers provide affordable, effective dissemination. It criticizes insinuations that press demand for notice is self serving and cites legal advertising rates as proof.
Eight years show bicycles in use up threefold and bicycle motor vehicle deaths doubling. In 1939, 700 deaths and 34 000 injuries from such crashes, with most over 15. Three of every four injured or killed were violating traffic laws, and a quarter of bicycles were defective. Officials urge cooperation to improve safety.
The notice explains delays in recruit inductions at Camp Blanding due to medical examinations. When a circum stance arises, officials provide toiletries and a place for basic needs to support the recruit until his position is clarified.
The Miami Post advises draftees to bring simple comforts to avoid uncomfortable days in camp. It notes Blanding’s chilly mornings and suggests packing basic clothing, toiletries, and a clean beard to maintain self respect, anticipating smooth acceptance into the ranks.
A fiery poem portrays a mighty eagle as defender of nestlings and liberty. The orator vows to crush subversive forces and rally the just against predatory foes. The speaker calls for national strength and a better world reborn through steadfast courage.
A local draft office tale shows a draftee passed as fit but later found unfit due to a glass eye. A second draftee with a wooden leg passed, revealing missed details. A London stunt using a German uniform tests observer bias and the lesson of a second look. The piece muses on perception, chance, and the upcoming draft in town.
The piece praises rapid readiness as Home Guard units start training at an old ice plant shooting range. It notes their improved marching and field skills and asserts America is waking up to the mobilization.
In Dade County a group of civic leaders formed Florida's independent Blood Bank to provide blood for emergencies without profit. Elks funded start up. unions and businesses donated labor and materials. hundreds volunteer blood, predicting hundreds of lives saved. The effort aims to spread nationwide, with future donor support to cover operating costs.
Florida conservation officers report only one fatal hunting accident in 1940 41, the fewest in years. Donald Hume Bailey, 12, of Blountstown, died from a shotgun discharge while duck hunting at Lake Iamonia in Leon County on November 23 1940. Five serious accidents occurred across Gadsden Jackson Orange Seminole and Sumter counties, with 18 minor incidents. prior seasons saw seven and five fatalities.
New mail schedule lists multiple departures and routes starting December 14 1940. It includes morning and afternoon times from Tavares Eustis Lees to points north and south, with Air mail services and Florida mail. Sunday schedule shows specific arrival times and routes for the north south and air mail services.
The notice lists the Sunday schedule: outgoing 4 30 P M air mail star route, 5 00 P M train, 9 15 A M air mail route, 3 45 P M north and south. C Dooley Postmaster.
Train schedule from Sanford to Mount Dora shows arrival times: No 431 arrives 3 45 PM daily except Sundays, No 434 from Leesburg 1 15 PM daily, No 430 from Umatilla to Sanford arrives 8 15 PM daily, and No 432? to Mount Dora 7 10 AM daily except Sunday. P W Turrentine, Agent.
In Mount Dora evening illumination transforms Annie Donnelly Park into a scene of sapphire sky and silver moonlight. The writer praises the World War memorials and memorial markers, benches offering rest, and the park's tranquil charm revealing the town’s public square at floodlight moonlight and daylight.
A Leesburg luncheon at the Lake View Hotel will feature Colin English state superintendent of education discussing school health education. The 12:30 to 2:00 pm event invites seven Lake County high school principals county education officials and school boards with reservations due by Thursday morning.
Brookings Institute in Washington recommends three major steps to improve Florida government. Independent strict budget control of all funds, equalization of property assessments with delinquent tax penalties, and state control of funded debt refunding across cities districts and taxing agencies. Bills will be prepared by tax inquiry subcommittees for the 1941 legislative session convening in April.
Local notice lists travel plans heading to Ohio around late April. The sender, Wm. Vernon, from rural Mount Dora, notes rural route address and room preference for the trip.
University of Miami to publish a comparative study of semi tropical climates by Dr. W Gorczynski a former Polish meteorological director and solar radiation expert. The work in cooperation with Blue Hill Observatory Harvard University and Scripps Institution of Oceanography aims to settle debates on regional climate. Florida National Exhibits plans travelcade to fairs and World Travel Center participation announced by manager Earl Brown.
A church bulletin lists 1st Sunday speaker Brother Grady Fulmer from Winter Garden and 3rd Sunday speaker L B Chastain from Ocoee. Evening services at 7 30 p m with a Wednesday prayer meeting also at 7 30 p m. All are invited to attend.
The notice lists Mass times at Grove Street and Badger Avenue in Eustis with Rev. William O Farrell as pastor. Sunday worship varies 8:00 a.m. first Sunday and 10:30 a.m. on other Sundays. Weekday Mass is 7:30 a.m. Confessions Saturdays and on holy days at 7:30 p.m. Midweek service Wednesday 7:30 p.m. Baptisms Sundays at 3:00 p.m.
The notice lists service times for First Presbyterian Church in Eustis Florida with Pastor Paul Floyd Jones and Pastor Emeritus S H Moore. Sunday School at 9 45, Morning Worship at 11, Junior High and Senior High groups at 6 30, Evening Worship at 7 30, and Wednesday Prayer at 7 30. Woman's Auxiliary circles meet second Tuesdays at 3 and program meets fourth Tuesdays at 3.
A 100 plus delegation of California editors and publishers will accompany President Roy Brown of the National Editorial Association to a Jacksonville convention April 21 to May 1. The group will tour Florida after the three day meeting, with ex governors and other dignitaries aboard, signaling one of the best attended events in the history of the organization.
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