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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1942
Page
8
New mail schedule announces adjusted closing times starting Saturday December 13 1941. Outgoing mail closes 7:00 A.M. for most routes with additional 8:30 A.M. and 12:45 P.M. and 5:00 P.M. and 5:30 P.M. slots plus 7:10 A.M. 9:00 A.M. Air Mail times and 1:15 P.M. Florida mail.
The notice lists outgoing mail times 4 30 P M air and 5 00 P M train mail and incoming 9 15 A M air and regular mail. C C Dooley is identified as the pastmaster.
The schedule lists games from December 30 to March 14 including alumni matches and key road trips. Teams include Ocoee Clermont Winter Garden Tavares Leesburg Eustis Umatilla with home and away markers HERE or there. Conference and district tournaments run February 27-28 and March 6-7, followed by the state tournament March 13-14.
The Florida Railroad Commission postponed the hearing on Florida Motor Lines request to extend its operating rights on State Roads 67 25 26 and 26 A from Childs Crossing to Miami via Moore Haven Clewiston South Bay Twenty Mile Bend Hialeah and Fort Lauderdale. The session was to start January 6 at 10 a m at the Glades County Court House Moore Haven.
Lake County defense officials explain there is no need for distinctive sounds to signal air raids. A standard code of blasts with a 2 minute duration using fluctuating or warbling signals, 10 percent above and below the mean pitch, and cycles of 3 to 8 seconds will warn. An all clear is a continuous 2 minute signal at a steady pitch.
Army experience from Fort Benning informs rules to reduce midnight hazards during blackouts. Asher Frank of the Florida Safety Council urges drivers to pause before starting, limit speed to about 10 mph, avoid passing, keep distance, minimize braking, avert fixed gazing, and use visible hand signals when stopping.
A drunken wanderer in New York seeks one more drink and ends in a church during midnight mass. He protests as the bells ring and a sermon pivots to a sober national warning urging Americans to face 1942 with sacrifice and unity after Pearl Harbor and Manila.
Calendar lists regular meeting times for many organizations. Baptist Church circles meet monthly while Community Church Ladies Aid and Missionary groups hold meetings on Fridays. Other groups include American Legion posts, Woman's Club Kiwanis Lions Pythian orders and various social clubs with specific day and place details.
Lieut and Mrs Lemuel C Downs welcome son Joseph born Dec 27 at Fort Bragg hospital weighing six pounds. grandparents W M Kennedy and a E L ee of Mount ra. Downs stationed at Fort Bragg. Also notes on school book removals German language texts and Marine Studios tiger shark photo. Seaboard Airline Railway cites 20 percent rise in winter reservations.
Canada built a 1940s Alaska air base chain costing 6 million dollars, linking Fort Nelson Watson Lake and Watson Lake. Workers felled forests and hauled equipment by tractor train from Dawson Creek, then sailed barges up rivers via Wrangel Alaska to reach Watson Lake for a new strategic air route.
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