Observation Post: Air Spotters Earn Notice and Time
The piece praises air spotters and observers for their alertness during lean and busy hours. It cites Mrs. Zell as the top record holder since mid June, notes C A McQuillen’s push to surpass her, and includes a reader letter from a Solomon Islands officer urging thirty minutes notice to coordinate air defenses. It references December 1 observations and Royal Observer Corps insights explained via Popular Science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. A. McQuillen
United States
Solomon Islands
The
Observation Post
British
Royal Observation Corps
Courtesy of
Popular Science
Red Cross Defense Room Notes in Eustis and Orlando
Donation process details show Blood Bank donors typed at Dr Williams in Eustis and blood drawn at Orange General Hospital in Orlando with Lake County credited. December production totals 37334 hours from 53 workers and Staff Assistant Corps with 15 workers logged 265 hours.
Ration Dates For Coupons And Book Renewals
Ration details list Jan 4 validity for Coffee Coupon No 28, 1 lb limit, Jan 31 sugar coupon No 10, Jan 21 last day for Gasoline coupon No 3, Jan 22 new coupon No 4, Jan 31 renewal forms for expiring books, Feb 1 T rations via ODT Certificates, farmers urged to see county agents for extra gasoline, tires required by Jan 31, Fuel Oil Period 2 and 3 values, Period 2 valid through Jan 26, Book 1 last day Jan 15 to obtain, Book 1 required to obtain Book 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pera
Mount Dora Eastern Star Chapter 103 Meets Jan 14 1943
The first regular meeting of Mount Dora Chapter 103, Order of the Eastern Star, for 1943 will be held at the Masonic Hall Thursday January 14 at 8 p m. All members and visiting members are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Order of the Eastern Star
Masonic Hall
Lake County Schools At War Program
A Lake County Schools At War program includes a noon flight of bombers from Sebring Airport, exhibits of U S Army equipment, and an evening program with the nation report. Speakers include John Fahs Karl Lehmann Colin English Mary Keown Frank J Banning and others at the high school events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Sebring
Chamber of C Ty Commerce
U. S. Army
John Fahs
U. S. Collector of Internal Revenue
Florida
Karl Lehmann
Florida Savings Staff
Colin English
Florida Superintendent of Public Instruction
Mary Keown
Florida State Home
Frank J. Banning
Mount Dora Band Boosters Begin Community Drive
The Mount Dora School Band launches a ten day membership drive for the Band Boosters' Club. Membership costs twenty five cents annually with prizes for top recruiters and funds used for instrument repairs new music and stand safety. Winners and members named in 1943 Topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Chamber of Commerce
Band Boosters
Mount Dora Post Office Adopts All Day Thursday Schedule
In line with a December Congressional resolution and executive order, the Mount Dora Post Office will be open all day on Thursday with full services, remaining the same on other days until further notice. Postmaster C. C. Dooley signs the notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Mount Dora
The Major and The Minor at Princess Theatre
Ray Milland and Ginger Rogers star in a comedy about an officer returning to an academy and a woman who pretends to be twelve to catch a train fare shortfall. They meet on a train and the ensuing situations create a sophisticated, entertaining film.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Milland
Ginger Rogers
Princess Theatre
Idwa
New York
Junio Class Play Tomorrow Night At Community Building
The Junio class presents a play tomorrow at the Community Building. Curtain rises in the evening with the school troupe performing for families and neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junio
Aircraft Warning Director Is Given Wider Territory
David A. Denslow of Tavares is named to cover Lake, Orange, Volusia counties in the Aircraft Warning Service. F. K. Conn of Tampa remains South Florida civil director and serves without pay. Lake County Chamber officials view the assignment as aiding national war effort and regional defense work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David A. Denslow
Tavares
Asny Oe En Chambe
Lake
Orange
Vola
F. K. Conn
Tampa
South Florida
Aircraft Warning Service
Chamber of Commerce
Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Lake County Defense Council
Karl Lehmann
Chamber
U. S. Treasury Department
Florida
War Savings
Ralph Arey
Montverde
Lake County
Citizens Service Corps
Lawn Bowling Rules Question Sparks Penalty Debate
The club debates penalty for moving bowls during measurement as per Laws of the Game. Major Marsh returns. new members join from Wyncote, Norwalk, Huntingdon, Boston and West Medford. Triples results listed plus elimination outcomes. groundkeeper repainting marks. annual meeting held with reports expected next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Bowling Board
Secroia
Charles L. Marsh
Edward G. Steinmetz
Wyncote
Pennsylvania
Towers Hamilton
Norwalk
Connecticut
Edmund W. Wasmuth
Huntington
Indiana
George W. Logan
Boston
West Medford
Massachusetts
Crockett
Blackburne
Bridgman
Ferguson
Urquhart
Edwards
Poole
Clark
Bradner
Wilmot
Church
Thomas
Denbroeder
Maben
Breckenridge
Hutchinson
Steinmetz
The
Florida Sunshine
Lake County Residents Awarded Florida Teaching Certificates
State Superintendent Colin English announced seven Lake County residents earned Florida teaching certificates after four years of college work. Recipients include Mrs. Jane McCarty Branham and Gwendolyn Stafford of Tavares, Mrs. Dorothy Davenport and Lillian Irene Wynns of Groveland, Natalie Spilky and LaNelle Benson Vandiver of Mount Dora, and others such as ose Anderson Swayerly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colin English
Lake County
Florida
Jane McCarty Branham
Gwendolyn Stafford
Tavares
Dorothy Davenport
Lillian Irene Wynns
Groveland
Natalie Spilky
LaNelle Benson Vandiver
Notes About Our Men In Service William A Vincent at Pre-Flight School
Lieutenant junior grade William A Vincent of the U S Navy teaches mathematics at the Pre Flight School in Georgia. He previously spent ten years in Mount Dora as athletic coach and teacher of mathematics manual training and drafting at Mount Dora High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William A. Vincent
U. S. Navy
Vincent
Mount Dora
Navy
Mount Dora High School
Service personnel notes from home front update
Orville R Brown has graduated from Amarillo Texas Air Forces Technical Training School and will serve as gunner on a Flying Fortress. Howell Odell Redd 17 from Quincy Florida joined the Navy and is stationed in Jacksonville. Howard Wetz flew home from Gulfport Mississippi for a few days with plans to return. Alvin E Hutchinson completed Naval Training Station schooling in Norfolk and becomes Electrician's Mate third class. Major Thomas H Cooley at Charlottesville Virginia expects active duty soon. Sgt. T M Green in Australia reported May days ago as fine. he longed to return home after a year overseas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville R. Brown
Air Forces Technical Training School
Amarillo
Texas
Howell Odell Redd
S. L. Kittrell
Quincy
Fla
Navy
U.S. N. Air Station
Jacksonville
Florida
Alvin E. Hutchinson
Naval Training Station
Norfolk
Thomas H. Cooley
Charlottesville
School of Military Government
University of Virginia
Mrs. Cooley
Betty
Sylvan Shores
M. D. H. S. 1943 Basketball Schedule Row
The 1943 M D H S basketball schedule lists games from January 15 through March 2 with opponents Leesburg There Eustis Apopka Umatilla Tavares Ocoee Winter Garden and St Class Play Suspense. All games are at 7 30 P M and ticket prices are 15 and 25 cents including tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leesburg
Eustis
Apopka
Umatilla
Tavares
Ocoee
Winter Garden
Schools at War program set for Leesburg events
Leesburg hosts a two part Schools at War program this Friday with an afternoon meeting at 1 30 in the high school and an evening program at 7 30. Attendees include regional officials Miss Mary Keown and John Fahs along with local leaders. A notable feature is equipping a soldier from county War Savings sales and Patsy Blanton will receive a $100 bond after the afternoon event. A brick from Independence Hall will be displayed and army plane salutes are planned from Hendricks Field and Orlando Air Base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leesburg
Lake
War Savings Staff
Colin English
Florida
Mary Keown
Tallahassee
John Fahs
U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue
Karl Lehmann
Florida War Savings Staff
George Rast
Patsy Blanton
Lady Lake
Independence Hall
Philadelphia
Lake County
Hendricks Field
Sebring
Orlando Air Base
Lake County Defense Council
Leesburg High School
Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Good Night Ladies junior play committee listed
The junior play Good Night Ladies features stage managers Eugene Everett R J Goodwin Ellis Williams stage properties Allene Moon Gladys Irene Crane ticket sale Grace Lee posters Marilyn Johnson newspaper publicity Dorothy Geiger director Miss Evelyn Cassady ushers Marjorie Daniels Florence Fenton Lorene Yates Myrtle Shallenberg program advertising Marjorie Daniels Florence Fenton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Everett
R. J. Goodwin
Ellis Williams
Allene Moon
Gladys Irene Crane
Grace Lee
Marilyn Johnson
Dorothy Geiger
Evelyn Cassady
Marjorie Daniels
Florence Fenton
Lorene Yates
Myrtle Shallenberg
Mount Dora Public School Bond and Stamp Sales Report
The Mount Dora Public School reports bond and stamp sales during a special campaign January 4 11 1943. Totals show assembly sales of stamps and bonds with figures including 40.25 1100 and 1140.25 dollars and a later assembly on January 11 at 2:30 3:30 yielding 69.70 900 969.70 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount, Dora Public
Campaign finance totals from school drive in 1943
The record shows totals of 109.95, 2000, and 2109.95 and a separate 1045.80, 7700, 8745.80 for a campaign bought by pupils and teachers. The bank and post office cooperated in this campaign. D. D. Roseborough, Jan. 12, 1943. Principal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank and Post Office
D. D. Roseborough
Surgical Dressings Room Opens Friday
Material for 4500 surgical sponges has been received by the local Red Cross. Surgical dressings workers are asked to report at the surgical dressings room next to the Defense Center Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock to work on them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Defense Center
Randall Home Sold in Mount Dora by Waban Resident
Mrs. W. S. Randall of Waban Massachusetts sold her Mount Dora residence at Eleventh Avenue and Alexander Street to Mrs. Maude Severance of Cincinnati Ohio who will become a year round resident. Severance a former cashier at the Hotel Arms Cincinnati for seventeen years has retired to live here and is a cousin of Mrs. Charles E. Parker. The sale was via A. C. Quixley Realty Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Randall
Waban
Mass
Mount Dora
Eleventh Avenue
Alexander Street
Maude Severance
Cincinnati
Ohio
Kiwanis Club Names 1943 Officers and Committees
Mount Dora Kiwanis announces 1943 officers led by President J E Fortner and Immediate Past President J M Smith. It lists Standing Committees including Agriculture, Attendance, Boys and Girls Work, and Public Affairs with chairmen and members. Installed by J Edwin Baker, the ceremony featured Major David L Wiley and notes National Farm Mobilization Week events and Farm Mobilization speaker Robert E Norris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis
Carl S. Graves
Fletcher Crane
W. L. Story
G. A Richardson
A. M. Engelhard
Carl Broom
Richard Edgerton
S. S. Dihel
Harry T. Mathews
Special Service Committee
O. M. Simpson
Chm
G. B. Hurlburt
George J. White
Manuel Sedano
J. Edwin Baker
Umatilla
Florida
David L. Wiley
Florida Defense Force
Defense Force
Caxton Doggett
A. Lee French, Jr
Carey Colley
National Farm Mobilization Week
A Tu
Robert E. Norris
Lake County
C. Harold Hippler
Kiwanis Education Committee
Alfred Rehbaum
Nutrition Class Starts Next Week in Mount Dora
A Red Cross sponsored nutrition class will be held in Mount Dora at the Community Building starting Friday January 22 from 2 to 4 pm. Instructor is Mrs. Lucie K. Miller Lake County Home Demonstration Agent. Registration at the Defense Center Fifth Avenue. Described as one of the Red Cross's most important courses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
Mount Dora
Lucie K. Miller
Lake County
Defense Center
Fifth Avenue
Red Cross
First National Bank Mount Dora Reports Record Assets 1942
The annual stockholders meeting at First National Bank of Mount Dora announced a year of steady growth with total assets and deposits at a historic high. Directors for 1942 were elected: L. R. Heim, Richard Edgerton, Harold G. Morse, Alfred Rehbaum, A. J. Waltz, George J. White, Robert W. Dickson, J. E. Fortner, Carl S. Graves. Officers named for 1943 include George J. White as president and chairman, L. R. Heim as vice president, Alfred Rehbaum as vice president, J. M. McCown as cashier, and H. L. Banks as assistant cashier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. B. Hurlburt
C. M. Brown
R. W. Dickson
L. C. Smith
Robert Gould
Clark Dillenbeck
Lee French
Harry T. Mathews
Fletcher Crane
W. L. Barnett
D. D. Roseborough
Miller Wells
S. C. Colley
Alfred Rehbaum
W. J. Barker
Harry Mathews
W. M. Kennedy
S. S. Dihel
L. M. Denbroeder
Kiwanis
R. J. Morse
R. C. Thomas
John Griswold
T. A. Brothson
G. A. Richardson
George White
O. M. Simpson
A. C. Quixley
J. C. Urquhart
George Keller
Floyd Montgomery
George Coffin
W. L. Story
Chm
A. J. Waltz
First National Bank of Mount Dora
Patyceo
Dent
George J. White
L. R. Heim
Richard Edgerton
Harold G. Morse
Robert W. Dickson
J. E. Fortner
Carl S. Graves
J. M. McCown
H. L. Banks
Woman's Club Notes Luncheon at Lakeside Inn Highlights
The Women’s Club met last Wednesday January 6 at the Lakeside Inn with over 100 members attending. Fifteen new members were introduced and honored, bringing totals to 26 this season. memorial observations honored three deceased members. The meeting featured Mrs. Ralph Austin Smith Florida Federation president speaking on The Victory Yard Stick and the club’s future plans. The next gathering January 20 will feature Dr. James A Richards on Our American Colleges and the Future.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakeside Inn
Morse
Poole
Cat
Ralph Austin Smith
Florida Federation of Women’s Clubs
Alsace Lorraine
Pearl Harbor
Mount Dora
Charles Marsh
Thrashar
Mary MacDonell
Madeleine Milner
M. B. Claflin
James ‘A. Richards
Lake County Officer Promoted to Army Captain at Camp Livingston
Clifford R. Hiatt of Tavares former Agricultural Agent for Lake County is promoted to Captain in the U S Army and named commanding officer of the prison camp at Camp Livingston Louisiana. The image is courtesy of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce. A stray fragment mentions infant clothing and diaper cloth polishing sights and parts of airships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifford R. Hiatt
Tavares
Lake County
U. S
Camp Livingston
Countesy Lake County
Uncle Sa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Red Cross Defense Room
Lake County Schools At War
Tosunty
C. C. Dooley
Lawn Bowling News
J. M. Greene
Nashville Army Air Center
Nashville
South
Howard Wetz
Gulfport
Miss
T. M. Green
Australia
States
Toby
Res
Randall Home
Kiwanis News
Mount Dora Kiwanis Club
J. M. Smith
Hurlburt
First National Bank
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