Wells Graduates From Naval Hospital Corps School
Robert G. Wells at 350 Sixth Avenue Mount Dora aged 20 graduates July 8 from the Hospital Corps School at Great Lakes Illinois as part of a class of 504 Blue Jackets from 43 states. He is promoted to hospital apprentice second class after completing studies in anatomy physiology first aid hygiene sanitation weights and measures and material medica and will receive further Navy hospital training. He is promised general duty with the Hospital Corps at sea or shore stations. Oscar Stephens Jr writes from Newport Rhode Island where he is in the
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert G. Wells
Miller Wells
Sixth Avenue
Mount Dora
Hospital Corps
U. S. Naval Training Station
Great Lakes
Ill
Wells
Navy
Vice President Smith Reports on County Developments and War Effort
A July meeting of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce highlights county building permits totaling 1400 dollars and clearing of 3560 acres for citrus. Reports cover Montverde and Ferndale camp demand, airport housing near Leesburg, and growing USO support with town-by-town drive tallies.
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Lake County Chamber of Commerce
C. W. Smith
Mount Dora Legion Drives USO Fund To Above Quota
Mount Dora Post No 35 American Legion reports $380.50 raised for the USO drive against a $360 quota. Commander Richard R Eddy notes the town surpassed the goal and contributed to the war effort with pride.
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Mount Dora
American Legion
USO
Richard R. Eddy
Fragmentary OCR yields unclear local item
Readable fragments mention names and origins but lack clear event, date, or place details. The text remains incoherent with missing key facts needed for a complete summary.
Lions Club Meeting Plans Civic Outreach
The Lions met Monday at 7:30 in the Community Building with Vice President JG Ray Jr presiding. They discussed recruiting new members, summer activities, and civic issues while plans were laid to issue a war bond for the Girl Scouts with George J. White as trustee.
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Lions
Lion
J.G. Ray, Jr
Texmenet P
Lioness
Rehbaum
Cecil Parker
Girl Scouts
George J. White
First National Bank
Lion Reid
Lion Rehbaum
Welfare Board Meets at Eustis District Eleven
The District Eleven Welfare Board for Marion Sumter Lake and Polk counties met in Eustis on July 8. Officers present were Mrs. J M Douglas president Mrs J M Fuller vice president and several members plus Harris Powers editor of Ocala Banner new board member. Outlays for June totaled 8467 07 with pending public assistance cases across counties and a large load of dependent children aid the board heard no funds are available for that category and cases have accumulated. After adjournment members lunched with the Eustis Kiwanis Club where Annie Oliver district director spoke on board duties and responsibilities.
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Marion
Sumter
Lake
Polk
Eustis
J. M. Douglas
Weirsdale
J. M. Fuller
Mulberry
J. H. Popham
Bushnell
Nye Jordan
Bartow
S. H
Clermont
A. B. Dean
Harris Powers
Ocala
Holland
Lake County
Eustis Kiwanis Club
Annie Oliver
Leesburg
Welfare Board
Lake County Leads Florida USO Drive with Eleven Towns
Florida has raised quotas in 30 cities for the USO drive and Lake County accounts for eleven of them. Mount Dora Montverde Fruitland Park Eustis Mascotte Groveland Howey Tavares Astatula Leesburg and Clermont represent over one third of the state’s participating cities, highlighting Lake County’s ongoing leadership in Florida projects as stated by County Judge A S Herlong Jr County Chairman of Lake USO.
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Montverde
Ferndale
Sugar Loaf
Tavares
Kiwanis Club
Howey-in-the-Hills
Astatula
Leesburg
Mount Dora
Palm Garden
Carl
Leesburg Road
Miami
North Carolina
Fort Lauderdale
Daytona
Florida
USO
Lake County
Fruitland Park
Eustis
Mascotte
Groveland
Howey
Clermont
A. S. Herlong, Jr
Lake
Bicycle rationing rules move to local board
The Mount Dora rationing board now stocks all required forms and regulations for bicycle rationing. Inquiries should be directed to the Office of Price Administration in Washington, with local assistance available at City Hall as of July 14, 1942.
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Office of Price Administration
Washington, D. C
Mount Dora
Gas ration cards gain war bond seal authorization
The war bond seal on gasoline ration cards A and B remains in use until permanent rationing starts July 22. Seals show gallonage values: A cards three gallons for motorcycles, B-1 four, B-2 five, B-3 six. A cards 1.2 gallons, B-1 sixteen, B-2 two, B-3 2.4 gallons.
Notice to register at War Price Rationing Board
The War Price Rationing Board in Mount Dora announces that owners of various vehicle types including trucks highway tractors buses jitneys government owned or based vehicles ambulances hearses and other non passenger vehicles must register at the City Hell office Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Rationing Board
Hell
War Price Rationing Board
Mount Dora
Enlistments Grow For Florida Defense Force Company B
New enlistments for Company B of the Florida Defense Force were announced after a Thursday concerted drive to fill ranks. Names include Butler, Boyer, Thompson, Treen, Floyd, Tabor, Varnum, Kimball, Wade, and others as the unit urges more men aged 18 to 55 to join to support home defense.
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4Th bin
Florida Defense Force
Chas. E. Butler
Melvin C. Boyer
Bunyan E. Thompson
Frank L. Treen
Eustis
Merle E. Floyd
Charles J. Tabor
Doses J. Varnum
Cassia
Harvey Kimball
Mount Dora
Alfred H. Wade
Tavares
Cook
K. P.s
Lake County Fair Association
David L. Wiley
Harold Hippler
Membe
Scott and
Eddy
Wiley
Rollin C. Javens
Extra sugar ration allows two more pounds this summer
The OPA announced coupon 7 in the sugar rationing book will be good for two extra pounds due to higher imports. If you have not claimed the extra two pounds, you are entitled to it through August 22.
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OPA
Band Concert Saturday At Corner Donnelly and Fifth
The School Band plays Saturday night at the corner of Donnelly and Fifth Avenues inviting everyone to attend. A good crowd gathered last week for a fine program and an old time Saturday night gathering.
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Donnelly and
Fifth Avenues
Lake County Chamber Endorses Florida Teachers For Pre flight Training
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce board on July 10 1942 unanimously passed a resolution praising Florida public school teachers for sacrificing summer vacations to provide pre flight training in high schools. The group also extended appreciation to Honorable Colin English for his service to public schools.
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Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Florida
Lake County
Kiwanis Meeting Speaker From Harry Anna Home
Kiwanis will hear J Edwin Baker secretary and superintendent of the Harry Anna Home for Crippled Children at Umatilla discuss the home s work and Florida Kiwanis welfare efforts. Rev Floyd Montgomery last week spoke on The Hand of God in History. Mount Dora selectees Detten Benwell and Cole attended as guests.
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J. Edwin Baker
Harry Anna
Umatilla
Kiwanis
Harry Aenoth
Central District
Florida Kiwanis
Lake County
Floyd Montgomery
First Baptist Church of
Mount Dora
Kiwanis Club
Bernard John Detten
Edward Frank Benwell
Andrew Bradley Cole
George White
Frances Smith
J. M. Smith
Lee French
Montgomery
Bancroft
Seventeen 4 H Club Girls Attend Lake County Short Course
Seventeen 4 H Club girls attended the Lake County Short Course and Camp July 6 11 at the Lutheran Bible Camp near Groveland under supervision of Mrs Lucie K Miller home demonstration agent. The campers included Joyce Collier Patsy Blanton Eleanor Peacock Catherine Prevedel Marion Ann Rhea Catherine Rhea Elizabeth King Weary Pait Mary Virginia Hierholzer Ann Pike Joyce Merritt Elaine Jones Jewel Lee Sloan Mary Ella Tripp and Minnie Bell Huff with visitors Miss Isabelle Thursby Miss Edna Shuler and others assisting.
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Lake County
Lutheran Bible Camp
Groveland
Lucie K. Miller
Isabelle Thursby
Edna Shuler
DeFuniak Springs
Hattie Davis
Leesburg
Mary Keown
Lucy Belle Settle
Patsy Blanton
Lady Lake
Joyce Merritt
Mascotte
Joyce Collier
Patsy
Blanton
Joyce
Collier
Tallahassee
Eleanor Peacock
Leesburg Club
Catherine Prevedel
Lady Lake Club
Oldest Mount Dora Resident Celebrates 99th Birthday
Mrs. Sarah A. Huntress, Mount Dora’s oldest resident, turns ninety nine today. Though homebound on Alexander Street due to frail health, she remains mentally sharp, up to date on literature and world affairs, handles her own finances, and could pass for younger era with slight physical limits.
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Sarah A. Huntress
Mount Dora
Alexander Street
Defense Volunteers Register Now for Civilian Defense
Air raid wardens aircraft warning service workers and all defense volunteers are asked to register at the Defense Center for a complete file for county and state headquarters. Only a few have registered since the request last week. Do not neglect this work.
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Defense Center
Two Hundred Attend Christian Life Institute South Florida
The South Florida Section of the Christian Life Institute of the Methodist church draws about 200 attendees including faculty at Lakeside Inn. The event runs Monday through Friday following a North Florida Section gathering last week with leaders from Lakeland Avon Park St. Petersburg St. Augustine and Miami organizing workshops for enrichment personal religious and methods quests and youth work. Large youths delegations come from St. Petersburg Miami Tampa Bartow Plant City Sarasota Winter Haven Haines City Lakeland and other South Florida areas.
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South Florida
Christian Life Institute of the Methodist Church
Lakeside Inn
North Florida
Corning Tolle
Lakeland
Hoyt Tatum
Avon Park
Carroll Warner
West Palm Beach
Paul Hartin
St. Petersburg
Walter Rutland
Ocala
Dorothy Scholl
Fort Lauderdale
Ann C. Allison
Lake City
Robert Boggs
J. S. Stradley
Winter Haven
A. D. Hagler
Miami
L. N. Head
Haines
Rabin Calhoun
Tom Mitchell
R. E. Epling
Rev. Joyner
A. A. Roestline
DeWitt Ivey
Jacksonville
Tampa
Bartow
Plant City
Sarasota
Haines City
Mount Dora Surpasses Scrap Rubber Goal In Drive
Mrs. H. T. Fenn, salvage chair man, reports Mount Dora collected 41,853 pounds of scrap rubber, over 20 tons, as Lake County communities tally strong totals. Leesburg reported 465,217 pounds, Eustis 121,521, Tavares 47,296, Clermont 35,400, Groveland 27,000, with other towns not yet reported. The initial Lake County quota was 81,765 pounds but was increased after the extension.
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H. T. Fenn
Mount Dora
Lake County
Leesburg
Eustis
Tavares
Clermont
Groveland
Birth certificates waived for certain war plant workers
Birth certificates are no longer necessary to prove citizenship for applicants to war production plants. The applicant makes a simple declaration and signs it in the presence of an army or navy district procurement factory or plant protection representative.
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Army
County Defense Council Urges Share Your Car Clubs
Lake County Defense Council accepts organizing Share-Your-Car clubs to save tires and provide motorists with gasoline ration access for work. Frank Banning of Tavares named transportation conservation subdivision chair to set up clubs under Office of Price Administration rules. State and county offices push branch exchanges and public information to ensure enough gasoline for workers and economic stability. Henry J. Driggers and Cody Fowler named state coordinators for the program.
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Lake County Defense Council
Karl Lehmann
Defense Council
Frank Banning
Tavares
Transportation Conservation Subdivision
Office of Price Administration
Lehmann
State Defense Council
George L. Burr, Jr
Office of Civilian Defense
Office of Defense Transportation
Burr
Henry J. Driggers
Transportation and Communication Division
Florida
Cody Fowler
Tampa
Grand View Hotel Receives Summer Air Conditioning
Carl Broom proprietor of the Grand View Hotel has installed air conditioning for summer comfort. Some rooms are electrically cooled while others use breeze conditioning to fit guest needs. The hotel, with lake view and shaded veranda, expects greater seasonal popularity and offers special summer rates for residents to use it as a temporary home.
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Carl. Broom
Grand View Hotel
Grand View
Lake View
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