Lake County Guard Organizing Battalion Band and Rifle Drive
The Lake County Guard announces formation of a battalion band with musicians reporting to Mount Dora Community Building at 8 p m on Friday December 6 for organization and first practice. Lt Col Thomas H Cooley asks citizens to loan Army rifles for preliminary training at the officers training school and to deliver weapons to Mount Dora or Tavares for return when rifles arrive. Athletic officers will organize a diamond ball team as part of guard athletics.
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Lake County
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Officers Training School
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Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Tavares
Social Security Speaker to Visit Lake County Week
Birmingham official Frank K Dunn will tour Lake County in December delivering talks on the new social security laws. The Lake County Chamber of Commerce arranged the series to inform residents and build an informed citizenry. Appointments include Uma tilla Kiwanis Monday noon December 9 Leesburg Kiwanis Tuesday noon December 10 and Leesburg Rotary Wednesday noon December 11.
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Frank K. Dunn
Birmingham
Ala
Lake County
Dunn
Umatilla Kiwanis Club
Leesburg Kiwanis Club
Leesburg Rotary Club
Christmas Cards At Topic Office 50 For $1
With names printed, Topic office offers Christmas cards priced from one dollar for a set of 50. The service highlights personalized greeting cards available during the holiday season.
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Topic Office
Topic
Africa to Florida: Golf Pros Kinnell Joins Howey Club
Harry Kinnell, Africa based pro at Mut in British East Africa since 1927, joins Floridian Country Club Howey staff after nine years at Edgewood near Chicago. He recalls lion encounters and snakes on African courses, sighting film crew from Trader Horn era, and a honeymoon in Uganda near Lake Victoria. The Howey course opens December 14 with plans for the facility.
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Lake Coun
Mut
Nicobi
British East Africa
Kinnell
America
Howey
Rainsloe
God
Ill
Chicago
Edgewood
M. D. Red
Mr. Kinnell
Africa
Hollywood Motion Picture Company
Edwina Booth
Harry Carey
Theodore Roosevelt
Carl Ackley
Martin Johnson
Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Kinnells
Lake Victoria
Nile River
Uganda
Jinja
Mombasa
Nirobi
Lake County Represented at Florida State Chamber Meeting
Delegates from Lake County attended the Florida State Chamber of Commerce meeting in Jacksonville. G G Ware of Leesburg joined as director and past president, with Mrs Ware, J Edwin Baker of Umatilla a vice president and district Kiwanis official, and board member S H Bowman of Clermont. Also shown were George L Briles and Karl Lehmann of Leesburg, Wilma March of Leesburg, Eleanore Minkley of Mount Dora, and H H Hethcox of Umatilla who couldn't attend due to county duties.
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Lake County
Florida State Chamber of Commerce
Jacksonville
G. G. Ware
Leesburg
Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Florida State Chamber
Ware
J. Edwin Baker
Umatilla
Florida Kiwanis
State Chamber
Baker
S. H. Bowman
Clermont
H. H. Hethcox
Umatilla, Immediate
Florida Association of County Commissioners
CapitaI Census Highlights Florida Tax Crisis in Everglades District
The Capital News Service report notes Everglades drainage districts across 11 South Florida counties facing their most serious tax problem due to court decisions by bondholders. High taxes on land, with a 1939 drainage levy of 63 dollars against a land value of about 150 dollars, threaten thousands of landowners and require resolution by the Holland administration. Bond speculators are blamed for hindering debt refinancing.
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Everglades
South Florida
Ces
Holland
Youngest Justice Adams Joins Supreme Court at 42
The article notes Alto Adams is the new Supreme Court justice at 42, not the youngest ever. It cites Justice Westcott, appointed in 1868 at 29, and mentions former judges like Louie W. Strum at 35. Adams’ appointment triggers three vacancies in 1942 to fill posts held by Adams Whitfield and Terrell, while Whitfield, age 81, could retire on a $7,500 pension after more than 35 years on the bench.
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New Supreme Court
Alto Adams
Justice Westcott
Justice Adams
Louie W. Strum
State Supreme Court
Adams
Justice Whitfield
Justice Terrell
New Tax Change Poses Worries for County Newspapers
State abolishes ad valorem taxes as a revenue source for delinquent tax list publications. Newspapers face potential new bills to cover publication costs, with payments directed from counties under state comptroller supervision.
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General Revenue Fund
Fiscal Crisis Foretells Higher Taxes and Pension Gap
A looming general revenue fund deficit near 1.5 million grows as 1940 receipts lag 2 million behind 1939. With a 1937 39 appropriations burden, legislators face tax increases, while 3 state workers face pension eligibility issues due to age and service requirements.
Question Box T. W. L and State Officials News
Attorney General-elect J Tom Watson asked for resignations of all employees in his department including clerks and stenographers. Incoming Treasurer Ed Larson may discharge every employee but is unlikely. Rail road assessments and valuations have declined since 1933 but gross earnings for Florida railroads have risen. Readers may request impersonal state government information by mail with a stamped self addressed envelope to Capital Services Tallahassee Florida.
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J. Tom Watson
St. W. R
Ed Larson
Florida
Capital Services
P. O
Tallahassee
Supreme Court
Change of Plan For CCC Allotments
Florida CCC enrollees will have a bank account as part of a new allotment plan effective January 1. Enrollees will keep eight dollars of a thirty dollar monthly wage for personal spending and remit fifteen dollars home. seven dollars will be deposited and paid to them on enrollment expiry.
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Florida CCC
State Welfare Board
Florida
Jack Horne
Horne
Leesburg Journalist to Interview Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Miss Marguerite L. Browne of Leesburg, commissioned to travel to Nassau for an interview with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor for the International News Service. She is noted as a rising young journalist and Lake County correspondent for the Tampa Morning Tribune with a monthly local paper.
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Marguerite L. Browne
Leesburg
Nassau
Defense Highway: Florida routes designated for national defense priority
Senator Pepper announced that U S Highway 1 in Florida to its end at Naples and U S 94 along the Tamiami Trail to Miami are designated as part of the national defense priority road network. The Public Roads Administration has studied highways flagged by military authorities for defense importance, with an additional one thousand anticipated.
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Pepper
Public Roads Administration
Florida
Naples
Miami
County Chamber Passes 1300 Mark in Memberships
Lake County chamber notes 1300 plus memberships for 1940 41 making it the second largest in the state behind Orange with 1508. Leesburg leads with 282, Eustis 230, Tavares and Clermont 146 each. American Oil Company reports 100 percent county coverage. The Smith family and Norris family join 100 percent families, while Lake County Guard Day at the Fair honors 600 volunteers.
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Lake County
Lake County Guard Day at Lake County Fair
Lake County will designate a Lake County Guard Day at the fair in March. Lt Col Thomas H Cooley Mount Dora announced a battalion parade led by a band in Eustis with uniform guardsmen admitted free. Lake County Fair Association President L L Polk praised the guard’s inaugural success.
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Lake County
Lake County Guard
Thomas H. Cooley
Mount Dora
Eustis
Fair
L. L. Polk
Lake County Fair Association
United States
Polk
Col. Cooley
It Often Happens That the Talk of the Town
A brief note from the Times Union about how what passes for town chatter often amounts to everyday small talk rather than news, reflecting local moods and trivial topics in a light, humorous tone.
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Times-Union
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