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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1945
Page
4
The notice records Edith Edeburn Keller as editor and George C. Keller as associate editor and business manager with Eugene L. Downs as plant superintendent. It notes a 35 cent advertising rate and states the entry date April 7 1916 under the act of March 3 1879 at Mount Dora Florida.
An editorial presents the Pledge of Allegiance and The American Creed, stressing loyalty to the United States, government by the people, the republic, and the duties of citizens to love, support, obey laws, respect the flag, and defend the nation.
The piece calls for personal conscience and daily deeds toward peace. It compares individuals to grains of sand forming a mountain of goodness and urges replacing anger and greed with truth justice and love for future generations.
A wartime era reflection urges readers to pause after victory and count the cost of freedom. It questions emotional and material sacrifices and honors those lost, calling for renewed effort for peace and national unity.
A concise saying links progress to understanding yesterday with emphasis on learning from the immediate past. It asserts that strong groundwork comes from awareness of earlier events and experiences shaping future readiness.
The Florida State Chamber panel notes limestone use totals valued at $7,477 for 8,843 short tons mined with road building as the primary purpose. It discusses potential new fields like carbon dioxide as a freezing agent, local production expansion, and imports for plaster and cement. The report also covers postwar farm labor shifts with few workers returning from war industries, and rising Florida labor demand for seedbeds and peanut harvesting.
Mrs. Pauline W. Lingo, a U.S. Civil Service representative, is based in Ocala and will make regular trips to Mount Dora starting Friday August 17. She will assist with government job openings, review examination notices, and help veterans and interested locals seek positions in federal service. She maintains headquarters at room 219 Ocala and can be contacted there or via the local Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners in Mount Dora.
Florida agricultural labor prospects for 1945-46 are somber says the Agricultural News Service University of Florida. Supervisor E Ff DeBusk notes smaller allotments of prisoners and Bahamians and reduced post December 1945 services raise concern for the coming season. War prisoner estimates stand at about fifty percent of requested numbers and recruiting of foreign workers has ceased.
Review notes that Dragon Harvest features Lanny Budd as a secret agent amid European drama. The plot centers on Dunkirk rescue, Nazi invasion plans, and a broad canvas of fascist and dictatorial intrigue across Europe, England, and America.
A fragmented note warns of rising road danger as returning servicemen and aging vehicles strain highways. It stresses driving courtesy, care, and common sense to prevent a potential surge in traffic fatalities and calls for renewed public attention to responsible driving.
The Florida Safety Council leader Asher Frank says carelessness is a disease of the mind to be cured by education or enforcement. He calls on mayors enforcement officers the press and civic groups to risk safer homes streets and highways and notes higher accidental deaths on the home front than in Florida during the war.
Florida State Chamber of Commerce research warns that two way Latin American travel and trade via Florida could replace war traffic if efforts are intensified. Import trade through Florida ports rose 385 percent from 1938 to 1944 despite ship and manpower shortages, with gains also across the South.
The notice lists church events with Reverend George oe minister and Brown superintendent. It details church school at 10:00 A.M. with graded classes, 11:00 A.M. sermon by the pastor, a 6: Evening Worship, 7:45 P.M. choir practice, and Thursday 8:00 P.M. meeting.
A regional church notices page lists services for First Baptist Church at Sixth and Tremain with Sunday Bible School at 9 45 A M Morning Worship at 11 00 A M Baptist Training Union at 7 00 P M Evening Worship at 8 00 P M Prayer Meeting Wednesday at 8 00 P M plus address and contact details. Also shown are services for First Church of Christ Scientist at Grove and Ave with Sunday School 9 30 A M and a 11 00 A M service plus testimonies and a public reading room at 117 North East Street open daily 3 to 5 P M except Sundays. Additional listings include Church of Christ at Lake Franklin Park on Sanford Road Bible Study 10 00 A M preaching 11 00 A M communion, Evening Service 7 00 P M Wednesday 8 00 P M Prayer Meeting and Friday 8 00 P M Y P E. Church of God services at 10 00 A M Sunday School 12 00 M Worship 5 00 P M Evening Worship Wednesday 8 00 P M Prayer Meeting Friday 8 00 P M Y P E. St Thomas Episcopal Church Corner Lemon and Mary Streets Justice Florida Rev R K Kilbourne Rector Holy Communion 8 30 A M first service 11 00 A M Morning Prayer and Sermon first Sunday each month Holy Communion 11 00 A M and 10 00 A M Sunday School Holy Days 10 00 A M Holy Communion.
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