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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1946
Page
4
The text delivers the Pledge of Allegiance and a democratic creed affirming government by the people, consent of the governed, and the purpose of defending liberty and justice. It emphasizes loyalty to the Constitution, respecting the flag, and defending the nation against enemies.
Blanche Peverence, a novelist, ends writing for good after a romance where her heroine’s suicide echoes a noble girl’s death. To escape scandal she becomes reader companion to M Desmarets’s motherless daughter Oriana in a French castle. A wild romance unfolds with a duke and Daalgard.
Governor William H. Hastie is appointed USO campaign chairman for the Virgin Islands by Carl Whitmore. He will lead the island campaign for a national drive of 19 million dollars this fall. USO will operate through December 1947 at the Army Navy and Federal request serving 1.5 million uniformed personnel with about 400 centers in the U.S. and overseas plus camp shows for occupation forces and veterans.
Americans drank 16 billion pounds more milk and cream in 1945 than in the prewar years, enough to supply six pounds of butter per person. Milk product manufacture for troops and lend-lease rose sharply, boosting demand and complicating dairy production.
Federal and state advisers warn veterans considering farming to gain real farm experience, avoid abandoned properties described as booby traps by New York State College of Agriculture. Advice stresses consulting county agents, sufficient funds, prior farm work, and matching land to its use.
Mount Dora native Lieutenant (j.g.) George B. Backus was released to inactive duty in the Naval Reserve on Monday July 1 at the Jacksonville Naval Personnel Separation Center. He served in Normandy and Southern France, then in the Pacific near Ulithi and the Philippines, aboard USS Nitro and General John Pope. He plans to resume studies at Georgia Tech under the G I Bill and is married to Marie Boomershire of Atlanta.
Short items note Lt Rock, RCMP vessel, as the only ship to sail the Northwest Passage in both directions. Also mentions Hammurabi wage controls, Monongah disaster death toll, Napalm reform as soap, Malay natives inventing Diesel compression, and tinder ignition via fire piston.
In the recent 500 mile race at Indianapolis Emil Andres finished fourth with his car equipped for two way pit communication. The radio gear weighed under 50 pounds and used Mini Max B batteries similar to those in camera sets that aided Navy sonar buoy operations during wartime.
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