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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1943
Page
8
County sanitary officer Burke Chester urges citizens to clean chicken pens and yards to prevent fly and mosquito breeding that spread diseases like dysentery typhoid fever and poliomyelitis. He stresses sanitation is essential and vaccination every two years helps protect against typhoid amid postwar aims and municipal airport plans.
The Smaller War Plants Corporation earmarks over 1.5 million dollars in loans and leased machinery for Dixie's front line industries. Nearly 90 thousand war workers are expected to migrate southward next year as production ramps up. Sawmills idle due to log and labor shortages while potato shipments surge from North Carolina. Meat prices drop about 3 cents per pound on average, excluding cured pork. Emergency tires with an O marking will be supplied with recapped tires for limited use. Farming items and lumber access are tightened to support food production and farm repair. False teeth shortages prompt price ceiling adjustments. Copper from military insignia is redirected to weapons. Over 20 million Army family checks are mailed in the year.
Mrs Claud Chapman mourns the death of her mother Mrs D W Atcheson who died Monday afternoon June 28 at her Crawfordsville Ga home. She was 85, born and raised in Crawfordsville and lived there her entire life. She was the last of a large family and had been in poor health for years. She leaves two sons and three daughters. Mrs Chapman could not attend the funeral due to illness.
Ira A Mitchell of Lincoln Park New Jersey and Mount Dora died June 19 at his daughter home in Sebree Kentucky after heart attacks. A longtime winter resident of Mount Dora he was a former New Jersey farmer and active in the Community Church. He is survived by his wife Alice and a daughter in Sebree Kentucky.
Resourceful housewives use clothes wringers on washing machines to shell peas during canning season. After cooling peas in cold water to crack hulls, they loosen the wringer adjustment and feed peas blossom end first, one at a time, through the wringer. The hulls exit while the neat peas roll out.
In a weekly column Miss Arne explores Florida cattle expansion, pasture development, and breeding advances. She notes 1.5 million head roaming the interior, $50 million worth of beef, and U. S. Sugar Corp experiments fattening cattle with molasses and lemongrass. Government job ads follow.
Adam Thompson of Cincinnati was the first to install a bathtub at home. It was labeled unsanitary and immoral, seen as the sort of invention that could hasten the United States’ downfall like ancient Rome.
Inductees and service updates include Shelton Druie Hood of Sorrento entering the Army, Buster Battle transferred to Naval Air School in Jacksonville, Karem attending aviation cadet training, Pvt Bob Bur at Aberdeen Proving Ground for basic ordnance training, and Marshall and Stoyie Ross both colonels in the Army with commands in the Pacific and Texas. Edward Sadler reported as a prisoner of war in the Philippines.
Nylon now wholly at war is expected to find a wide variety of new uses after the war and is used in making such products as women's evening dresses, men's featherweight shirts, scuffy shoes, stainless window and sash cards which should outlast the house.
A stark exhortation urges readers to allocate funds to purchase S Bonds, advocating disciplined saving with a ten percent per pay period deduction. The text frames the bonds as a remedy to prevent further loss of life and emphasizes financial duty.
Edward remains missing in action after Corregidor fell. W A Vincent junior who graduated from Naval Air School in Hollywood is back in Georgia as navigation instructor at the Navy Pre flight School UGA. He flew over Mount Dora last week but signals were inaudible. Vincent and Jimmy are in Athens for training. Bobby Vincent will be inducted in July at Camp Blanding.
St John Primitive Baptist Church and Mt Olive A M E Church in East Town closed a successful revival. Rev S B Butler preached and $63.10 was raised at the Spemer. A pastor and members of John P B Church thank Mount Dora for kindness during the meeting.
The Gangala elephant farm in the Belgian Congo trains African elephants for farm and heavy labor. The operation runs with three officers and 120 uniformed natives from a Belgian cavalry regiment. Each year about 20 young elephants are brought to the farm.
The article describes elephants trained to pull heavy disks and assist in capturing wild young phant and how they are tamed over two years becoming meek. It notes visitors including Denise Roosevelts and Martin Johnson and his wife visiting the Gangala farm to observe the process.
A collage of 20th century quotes emphasizes liberty, obedience to law, civic discipline, and the belief that only free people can pursue common good. Notables include Everett, Washington, Robert Hall, Harry Woodburn Chase, Woodrow Wilson, Mary Baker Eddy.
Yearlie Moore holder of Tax Certificate No. 776 filed for tax deed on 7.5 acres in Lake County Florida described as SE of NW etc. The property, assessed in Lula Martin’s name, may be sold at Ta Vares courthouse door at 11:00 AM on the first Monday in August if the certificate is not redeemed. Dated June 30, 1943. Official Seal Geo 2 Dykes Clerk.
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