Servicemen And Boat Club Cruise Highlights Of 1968
The Triangle Boat Club from Tarpon Springs to Sanibel and Fort Myers Beach showcases a multi port cruise led by Gene Berato as Cruise Master and Lola Berato as Navigator. The group visits Maximo Morings St. Petersburg La Costa Island Boca Grande and Naples before sheltering during storms and finishing at Fort Myers Beach. Also noted are Military notices: Midshipman Steven D. Bolt completes aviation indoctrination in Corpus Christi and Sgt Edward Harrison receives orders for duty in Vietnam with wife remaining in Orlando.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lola Erato
Clumnist
Triangle Boat Club
Tarpon Springs
Sanibel Island
Fort Myers Beach
Gene Berato
Lola Berato
Bill
Rachel Mowery
Lee
Minnie Fritschle
Chuck
Debbie Myers
Maximo Morings
St. Petersburg
Venice
LaCosta Island
Boca Grande Pass
Gulf
Sanibel
South Seas Plantation Marina
Moss Marina
Estero Island
Fort Myers
Edward Harrison
Virginia Keen
Sorrento
Vietnam
Sgt. Harrison
Germany
Orlando
A Bridge Word To Wise By Grace Clifton
A bridge bidding discussion explores suit distributions and responses. The writer explains preferred fits and how bidding decisions affect outcomes, including example hands and how to choose between four four and five six distributions. The piece emphasizes practical play over memorized sequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Clifton
Shuffleboard Tales From Mount Dora Circle
Shuffleboard notes from Mount Dora and Umatilla events. August play at Umatilla featured four Mount Dora teams posting four wins eight losses while Red and Black faced rain delays. Late Friday Red and Black results included Patch Sachs and Carroll Patch Nolet victors, with officials listed. History of high score pairs, judges, and scorekeepers rounds out the report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howard Rupright
Mount Dora
Rochester
N.Y
Lake County
Umatilla
Roy Jones
High Red
Frank Thompson
William Nolet
Arch Gant
Ralph Peterman
Thompson-Nolet
Walter Brauneis
Gertrude Meyers
Dottie Nolet
Albert Oatis
Brauneis-Meyers
Herman Bischoff
Harland Wheeler
George Black
Clyde
McCauley
Marie Brauneis
Edith Wheeler
Clyde McCauley
Nina Patch
John Sachs
John Campbell
Patch-Sachs
Jennie Sutliff
Carroll Patch
Carroll Patch- Nolet
Fred Brehaut
Pete’ Rohm
Florence Rohm
Welcome home Doris and Jim Geddes after Scotland trip
Sorrento Mt Plymouth residents Doris and Jim Geddes returned from a month visiting Jim’s relatives in Scotland. They flew Orlando to New York to London then traveled by bus and train through Edinburgh Aberdean Buckie and back via Perry New York. They enjoyed clean streets roses and heather fields. A Perry visit included a family reunion with 36 attendees. Also welcomed back Herman Zuhone after a Colorado summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doris
Jim Geddes
Jim
Ae Ee
Ocotland
Orlando
New York
London
Edinburgh
Aberdeen
Buckie
Scotland
Masonic Lodge
James Geddes
States
Perry
N. Y
Kathy Johannes
Stanley
Margaret Steiner
Herman Zuhone
Plymouth
Colorado
Elsa
Herman
Silver dollar myth and market value shift outlined
The piece explains the silver dollar once used in the west has become a commodity traded on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It notes 3 million coins stored at the Treasury, coins minted in Carson City in the late 1880s, and a 1966 plan to sell coins to charities, with the metal value exceeding one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lou Heaton
Far West
Nevada
New York Mercantile Exchange
Treasury Department
Carson City
Congress
Treasury
Heart and Cancer Societies
Also Mentioned on This Page
Kissimmee
Lake Okeechobee
Naples
Sarge
Steven D. Bolt
W. H. Bolt
Davenport Lane
Mt. Dora
Naval Air Station
Corpus Christi
Texas
Fred Steel
Mt. Plymouth
Bill Paul
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