War Production and manpower drive announced by WPB leader
War Production Board Chairman Nelson urged prime contractors to form sub contracting and labor committees as officials report April disbursements exceed 23 billion. A new war manpower commission led by McNutt will stage a voluntary labor priorities system and may assign workers if needed, with 10 million more workers required this year including more women and older workers.
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New York City
Wallace
U. S
WPB
Sion
Committee On Fair Employment Practice
War
Navy and
Air
Navy Department
Bureau of Yards and Docks
Department
Navy
Knox
Brewster Aero-Nautical Corp
Roosevelt
MacKenzie King
United Nations
Canada
Ottawa
Treasury
Lawn Bowling Notes and Civic Campaign in Mount Dora
Florida lawn bowling clubs discuss publishing a joint sheet. President Emmet L Richardson of the American Lawn Bowl Association visited Mount Dora with a 30 member group. Wilbur C. King campaigns East Coast for Railroad Commissioner Group 2 on Agriculture and Citrus, urging producer representation. Voters aged 45 to 64 in Mount Dora must register Monday April 27 at Mount Dora High School from 7am to 9pm.
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Florida
Emmet L. Richardson
American Lawn Bowl Association
Mount Dora
Alfred Ma
Frank Parker
William T. McDonald
Boston
Mass
Nelson Saye
Land Park
Chicago
Walter A. Sheldon
North N. Y
Leonard C. Crouch
Stockton Springs
Maine
Charles A. Bennett
Kansas City
Missouri
Louis M. Denbroeder
Marshfield
George M. Cornelius
Wilbur C. King
Citrus County
Hardee
King
Railroad Commission
Hardee County Commissioners
State Association of County Commissioners
Mount Dora High School
All Florida Is Turning to Wilbur C. King
Florida voters are urged to back Wilbur C. King for Railroad Commissioner. He presents as a farmer citrus grower and merchant seeking rate reductions and producer representation. The plea highlights his record of public service and pledges loyalty to the office without seeking other positions.
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King
Registration rules emphasize accurate local residence posting
The General outlines registration requirements for the Selective Service, urging registrants to specify a single residence, forward certificates, and inform registrars if unable to appear. Special registrars will aid those ill or otherwise incapacitated, and registrants holding multiple residences must indicate both locations and a valid address.
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Anyson
Collins
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Senator Hayes Cooley Observes 46th Birthday
Thomas Hayes Cooley of Mount Dora Florida State Senator and U S Army Reserve Major will celebrate his 46th birthday on Thursday April 30 He was born in Elberton Georgia in 1896 attended Elberton Grade School and Gibson Mercer Academy Bowman Georgia He earns his living as an attorney but is on active duty with the Army and has been in Florida since October 1925 His hobbies include fishing his favorite food is fried chicken his recreation is baseball and his favorite flower is the rose
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Thomas
Hayes Cooley
Mount Dora
Florida
United States Army Reserve
Elberton
Georgia
Gibson-Mercer Academy
Bowman
Cooler
United States Army
Lake County
Maurice Bunnell Birthday Acknowledged In Florida
Maurice Frank Bunnell of Eustis manager of the Florida Public Service Company office will observe his 42nd birthday on Saturday April 25. Born in 1900 in Minneapolis he moved to Florida in 1912 and to Lake County in 1930. He earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Florida and started by selling newspapers.
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Maurice Frank Bunnell
Eustis
Florida Public Service Company
Minneapolis
Mayor Prevatt to mark 47th birthday Saturday
Mayor Prevatt J. Babe Prevatt of Tavares will celebrate his 47th birthday on Saturday April 25. Born in Kissimmee in 1895, he attended local grade school and now serves as manager of the Lake-Re.
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J. B. (Babe) Prevatt
Tavares
Kissimmee
Florida
Lake -Re
Attorney Gaylord to Observe 28th Birthday
Harry E. Gaylord an Eustis attorney and former mayor will celebrate his 28th birthday on Wednesday April 29. Born in Syracuse New York in 1914 he moved to Florida and Lake County in 1930 after schooling in Boonville Lyons Falls and DeLand where he earned his law degree at Stetson University. He started as an errand boy for a grocer earned his first dollar there and has since served as past president of the Eustis Rotary Club. His hobbies include writing motor boating and ice cream with the rose as his favorite flower. He helped found the Stetson Reporter while a student at Stetson University.
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H. C. Henricksen
Eustis
Denmark
State Agricultural College
Copenhagen
State College of Iowa
State College of Pennsylvania
Columbia University
Henricksen
Florida
United States
Lake
Christian Science Church
American Chemical Society
Florida State Horticultural Society
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Harry E. Gaylord
Syracuse
N. Y
Boonville
Lyons Falls
Stetson University
DeLand
Harry Gaylord
J C Powers of Umatilla celebrates 38th birthday
J C Powers of Umatilla observes his 38th birthday on Friday April 30 born in 1904 at Waverly Florida where he attended grade school He later completed an Electrical Engineering course with International Correspondence School Powers operates a truck farm near Umatilla since 1922 His activities include fishing hunting and church and community service as a Kiwanis, Woodmen of the World, Masonic Lodge member He has served on the City Council directed the Lake County Chamber of Commerce and is a past president of the Umatilla Business Men's Association
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J.C. Powers
Umatilla
Waverly
Florida
International Correspondence School
Mr. Powers
Lake County
Methodist Church
Kiwanis Club
Woodmen of the World
Masonic Lodge
Realtor Huey to observe 49th birthday Friday May 1
Edwin Carlton Huey of Lady Lake will celebrate his forty ninth birthday on Friday May 1. Born in 1893 in Matthews North Carolina he served as superintendent of the Baptist Sunday School for seventeen years at Poedraire and is a Kiwanis Club member.
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Edwin Carlton Huey
Lady Lake
Matthews
North Carolina
Solar
Lake County Chamber Directors Set Friday Meeting
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce board will meet Friday at 3 30 p m at the Home Demonstration and 4 H Club building in Tavares. President George L Briles will chair with Secretary Karl Lehmann away on Treasury duty addressing the Lake County Federation of Women's Clubs in Leesburg at noon.
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Lake County
Leesburg
Briles
Defense Savings
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