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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1939
Page
8
A verbose civic note argues for early tax filing amid discussions of Congress spending on relief and a new armament drive. The speaker warns taxpayers to submit returns promptly and hints at looming fiscal pressures shaping national policy.
Large crowds attend the new Sanford Orlando Kennel Club as 2700 plus see 10 greyhound races each evening starting 8:15. Sponsored by the Junior Welfare Association of Orlando, the club on the Sanford Highway nine miles from Orlando showcases over 400 dogs in top condition ready for heats.
Luise Rainer and Paulette Goddard headline a dramatic school tale opening at the Princess Theatre Friday and Saturday. The film follows Louise Mauban, a factory worker determined to become an actress, with romance and a large supporting cast including Alan Marshal, Gale Sondergaard, Melville Cooper, and Lana Turner in a Parisian setting. The producer Mervyn LeRoy and director Robert Sinclair highlight a class of thirty six promising young actors.
Wallace Beery Robert Taylor and Florence Rice star in Stand Up and Fight an outdoor action drama set in the 1850s railroad versus stagecoach era. Taylor is a bankrupt Maryland aristocrat turned worker for Beery led stage line owned by Rice with a strong supporting cast. W S Van Dyke directs Mervyn LeRoy produces. Key scenes include fist fights wagon wreck jail dynamiting avalanche and a race between an early B O train and a stagecoach.
Florida census figures show about 39 percent of residents aged 65 and over are on Old Age Assistance. With 87,000 eligible, monthly additions average 1,000. December payments totaled 34,130 recipients receiving 472,417 dollars.
Eustis Thursday January 5 there Tavares Thursday January 10 there Winter Park boys January 13 there Umatilla Friday January 24 there Clermont Friday January 27 here Ocoee Tuesday January 31 there Enterprise Friday February 3 here Apopka Monday February 6 here UMatilla Friday February 10 here Senior Play Friday February 17 Winter 20 here all games at 7 30 p m
Florida reports rapid strides in Old Age Assistance and Aid to the Blind in the Sev enth Region’s November Social Security Board bulletin. Florida disbursed 487,219 monthly to the blind and aged, with 455,978 for Old Age, and 31,241 for Aid to the Blind, leading Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina and Tennessee.
The new March of Time release depicts victims of Nazi terror and the refugee flow from Germany. It examines political, racial, and religious persecution and explores solutions in Palestine while showing global responses and aid efforts to help displaced people rebuild their lives.
The undersigned intend to apply to Judge J C B Koonce of the Fifth Judicial Circuit Florida in Tavares Lake County for an order to adopt infant Barbara Ann Bass born about eight weeks ago and rename her Jacqueline Claire urns. The hearing is set for 10 oclock A M February 6 1939 or as soon thereafter as heard.
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