Lions Club Monthly Meeting At Hotel Mont Dora
The Lions held a full attendance meeting at Hotel Mont Dora. Lion Downs was appointed treasurer by President Bowis as Lion Cecil Parker serves in the military. The Eyesight Conservation committee bought glasses and aided a school girl’s eye exam. Lion Devorsak is welcomed back to the club. Next meeting at the same venue on the last Monday in March.
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Lions
Mont Dora
Lion Downs
Bowis
Lion Cecil Parker
Eyesight Conservation Committee
Lion Devorsak
Community Club highlights arts leaders and upcoming Morrison recital
Mount Dora figures share forty years of arts leadership including F A Whiting’s tenure at major museums. Donald Scott Morrison, famed pianist, performs March 2 at Community Auditorium 8 PM with free admission, hosted by the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce.
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F. A. Whiting
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Park
Whiting
Cleveland Museum of Art
Richards
Purdy
Richard Edgerton
Community Auditorium
Aircraft Warning Film Shown For Observers And Public
An AWS film titled Air Defense and Interception will be shown Wednesday night March 3 at 8 in the Community Building. The film demonstrates the filter board receiving calls from observation posts and the main Army Operations office and depicts air raid response from call receipt to interceptor takeoff. Army officers say an observation post with two observers per shift equals 16 planes on patrol.
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AWS
Aircraft Warning System
Army
Local official joins WAAC amid Tampa induction ceremony
The Ra tioning Board chief clerk was sworn into the Women’s Auxiliary Corps last Thursday in Tampa along with ten other enlistees. Lieut. Dorothy L. Wood conducted the ceremony as Miss Beeland receives a brief furlough before reporting to a training center. The Topic plans a future photo in uniform.
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Women’s Auxiliary Corps
Tampa
Dorothy L. Wood
WAAC
Beeland
Seniors of Mount Dora High present Suspense mystery drama
The Mount Dora High School seniors stage Suspense a three act mystery drama by Glenn Hughes at the Community Building. The cast features Sara Roseborough Dan Layne Nancy Hollingsworth Edward Klatte Norman Tuckett and Gloria Watts among others with Mary Estey Lena Harding and William Barker in supporting roles. Curtain rises next Friday night with strong ticket sales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora High School
Glenn Hughes
Gcene
Sherlock Holmes
Pauline
Sara Roseborough
Mr. Brownlee
David French
Mr. Putnam
Dan Layne
Madeline Revelle
Nancy Hollingsworth
George Spencer
Crook
Edward Klatte
Whitey Wilson
Paul Mosteller
Norman Tuckett
Mary Estey
Lena Harding
William
Jon Barker
War Necessity Certificates Not Transferable
Notice from the local ODT office warns that holders of Certificates of War Necessity must not transfer them with sold trucks. Sellers should return the Certificate of War Necessity to the ODT and unused T Tickets to the Ration Board. buyers must be aware of the transfer ban. District manager Geo. H. Seana cautions both parties.
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ODT
Geo. H. Seana
Notes About Our Men In Service
Glenn Chapman received a letter inviting induction at Camp Blanding next Tuesday. Major Thomas H. Cooley moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and finds it cold there. Clyde E. Wallace, now at Camp Blanding, is classed as chief petty officer in the Naval Reserves. Dedrick Green studies Air Corps Administration at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge after transfer from Keesler Field. Charles Norris’s relatives are informed he is a prisoner of war in the Philippines, with reports of his being missing but alive. Corp. John Hicks Snell returns home on a 15 day furlough from Yuma Air Base and plans to resume duty. Roy Beasley writes from Guadalcanal that conditions are hard but not as bad as stories suggest, with guard duty and wet, muddy days. a nearby stream offers a cool bath. The letter was written February seventh. Lieut. Leon B. Cheek Jr. is stationed at Camp Van Dorn, Miss., and asks for his Topix to be mailed. he enjoyed Mount Dora visits and regrets missing a Chamber of Commerce dinner.
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Dedrick Green
Baton Rouge
Air Corps Administration
Louisiana State University
Keesler Field
Miss
Roy Beasley
Guadalcanal
Leon B. Cheek, Jr
Camp van Dorn
Chamber of Commerce
Mount Dora
Central Florida Conference Basketball Tournament Opens Next Week
The Central Florida Conference Tournament runs March 4 5 at Mount Dora with seven boys teams and a Lake County girls event. Umatilla and Mount Dora are top seeds. Ira Foster and A H Stevens to officiate. Schedule includes Lyman High vs Mount Dora 2 p.m. and Tavares vs Eustis 3 10 p.m. Final set for 9 10 p.m.
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Central Florida
Mount Dora
Lake County
Eustis
Umatilla
Ira G. Foster
Daytona Beach
A. H. Stevens
Center Hill
Lyman High
Longwood
Tavares
Apopka
Seabreeze
Groveland
Vinelte
Eustis Mount Dora
Kiwanis News on Professor France Talk for Washington’s Birthday
Kiwanis report highlights Prof. Royal W. France of Rollins College in a Washington’s Birthday observance. He urged a tolerant peace, opposed punitive German servitude, and urged self reflection before framing postwar terms. Former Congressman Wm. D. Upshaw delivered a light, humorous closing remark.
Annual Boy Scout Drive A Success
The Central Florida Council drive in Mount Dora exceeded prior totals with a projected final of 325 dollars. Team Captains Harry Mathews and Ed Fortner lead a local committee including Carl S. Graves W. J. Barber A. Lee French A. J. Waltz and Carl Broom as coordinators. Scout executives Harold V. Pace Poe Herdnen and W. J. Barker support continued community involvement and merit based growth.
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Central Florida
Harry Mathews
Ed Fortner
Mount Dora
Florida
Knowedge
W.S. Allen
Stetson University
Sayer
Lacey Thomas
Band Boosters Club Meets Tonight at High School
The Band Boosters Club holds its regular meeting this Thursday at eight o'clock in the High School Auditorium. New members are invited to attend.
Observers Told To Stop Reporting P 40 Es
A Tampa Region bulletin directs observers to suspend reporting P 40 aircraft due to high numbers at nearby bases. It includes a sketch to study and instructions to contact headquarters if P 40 sightings are difficult. A public meeting on Air Defense and Interception is planned for March 3 at the Community Building.
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Tampa
First Fighter Command
Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce 1943 Membership Drive Update
Mount Dora business community shows strong support as 112 members already enrolled for 1943 and citizens pledge over $1,000 to back the chamber’s civic work. Teams report progress and plan a deeper push next week to reach remaining potential members. donors may choose which team receives credit.
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Mount Dora
New Blackout Air Raid Signals Begin February 17 1943
Beginning February 17 1943 a city blackout plan goes into force with Blue Flash for a two minute dim-out siren. Pedestrians and traffic may move at slow speeds while lights are out. Civilian Defense workers post and flash alarms signal dispatch and return to normal with White All Clear after Blue or Dim-Out signals.
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Ivilian Defense
Emergency Need for Surgical Dressings at Mount Dora
Mount Dora Branch receives extra surgical dressings from Lake County Chapter. The dressings room operates all day Tuesday to Friday and Tuesday evenings 7 to 9 for daytime workers. October and November quotas to be met by March 15 and much of December by March 31. Volunteers urged to contribute time and work, with gauze sponges already in hand.
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Mount Dora
Lake County
Avoid hasty shrub pruning after cold weather
Mr. E B Ferson warns readers to delay trimming damaged shrubs until the full moon in March. Do not rush cutting back most shrubs as premature pruning could kill them, though Turk’s cap may be trimmed sooner.
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E. B. Ferson
Turk
Death of Dr. Brodie In Hinsdale Paragraph
Community Congregational Church pastor Dr Andrew Melrose Brodie dies at Hinsdale Sanitarium after a long illness. Born in Canada and educated at Chicago Theological Seminary he served in numerous churches and led Far East relief efforts.
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Andrew Melrose Brodie
Community Congregational) Church
Hinsdale Sanitarium
Hinsdale
Ill
Brodie
Mount Dora
Washington, D. C
New York Avenue
Near East Relief
Philippine Islands
Calvin Coolidge
Islands
United States
Holy Land
Aoe
Tourist Gasoline Rule Outlined
Winter visitors who drove to Florida are ineligible for gasoline ration applications to return home. Only two classes qualify: residents of the 17 Eastern States away since Aug 22, 1942, and non Eastern State residents away since Dec 1, 1942. All should appear before the board when returning home to clarify status.
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Florida
OPA
Jacksonville
Red Cross Seeks Garment Sewings At Community Church
County Red Cross Chapter has supplied material for garments. Ladies will sew it at the weekly Red Cross sewings held every Tuesday in the parlors of the Community Church.
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County Red Cross Chapter
Red Cross
Mount Dora O E S Chapter 103 Meeting Night
The Mount Dora Chapter No. 103 O E S will hold a regular meeting at the Masonic Hall on Thursday February 25. It will be Past Matron's and Past Patron's Night and all members and visiting O E S members are cordially invited.
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Mount Dora
Masonic Hall
IRS official to aid 1942 tax returns in Mount Dora
Jennings L. Hurt of the Internal Revenue Service will be in Mount Dora on March 1 1943 to help taxpayers prepare their 1942 income tax returns. He asks callers to bring all figures in order and at hand at the Chamber of Commerce on that date.
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Jennings L. Hurt
Internal Revenue Service
Treasury Department
Mount Dora
Hurt
Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanis Members to Attend Mount Dora Church Service
Mount Dora Kiwanis Club members are invited to the 11 o'clock Sunday service at the First Methodist Church where Rev. Caxton Doggett will preach on the sermon topic The Nature and Destiny of the Church.
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Mount Dora
Four Freedoms Cachet Sends First Mount Dora Letters
Mrs Hubbard and Mrs Zell received letters bearing the four freedoms cachet likely the first prints in Mount Dora. The letters carried three new one cent stamps and reiterate the design name of the four freedoms freedom of speech and religion and freedom from want and fear with a motto about extending peace after the war.
Red Cross Concert by Mount Dora School Band
The Mount Dora branch of the American Red Cross sponsors a concert by the School Band on Sunday afternoon March 7 at 3 o'clock in the Community Auditorium. The program will include brief talks on Red Cross work and the 1943 44 War Relief and Membership Drive.
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Mount Dora
American Red Cross
Red Cross
M D H S 1943 Basketball Schedule Released
The 1943 M D H S basketball schedule lists events from February 28 to March 2 featuring the Sr class play, Winter Garden showings, and all games starting at 7:30. Admission prices are 4 to 55 cents for elementary, 15 cents for high school, and 25 cents for adults including federal tax.
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Winter Garden
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