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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1942
Page
1
The Mount Dora High School community gathers for baccalaureate services at the church buildings with readings by Rev. Floyd Montgomery and hymns including Abide with me and Onward Christian Soldiers. An all church scene features the Glee Club and school band in a solemn, traditional program.
State officials say the bass fishing season opened May 20 after a 66 day closed period. Some counties retain later openings: Franklin June 1 Nassau June 1 Wakulla June 6 and Gulf County including Dead Lakes and Chipola River Calhoun County June 1. Licenses required for first time buyers and residents fishing statewide with one pole and line are exempt for county residents. Armed services personnel in Florida are treated as residents. Bag limits are eight bass per day with 12 inch minimum, 20 total for bream and speckled perch with 25 mixed string limit, 5 inch minimum for bream and 7 inch minimum for speckled perch.
The line hints at a weary observer hoping to witness how ongoing troubles unfold, suggesting a general sentiment of patience amid conflict and delay. It frames a anticipation of outcomes rather than concrete events or figures.
Postmaster C. C. Dooley announces a new mail schedule effective Sunday May 3 1942 with multiple star routes and regular and air mail runs. Incoming mail times include 9 45 A M Leesburg Sanford Orlando area routes and 8 30 A M to Eustis Ta Var es and Leesburg. Outgoing and star routes list 4 00 P M Sanford Leesburg 9 15 A M Sanford north south and 5 30 P M Orlando star route with 3 30 P M Leesburg air mail and 6 00 P M Leesburg outgoing star route. Sunday inbound 8 30 A M star route only outgoing 4 30 P M star route only.
Mount Dora and Lake County high school seniors confront unprecedented challenges, as educators warn this graduating class faces a tougher path ahead. Willard E. Givens of the National Education Association discusses real prospects and prepares graduates and parents with practical insight.
Miss Mary Louise Rehbaum of Stetson University will graduate with a BA as war conditions limit festivities. The schedule includes a President's reception, a Shrew performance, a Baccalaureate Sermon, music concerts, tea for families, and Graduating Exercises with the commencement address by Doak Sheridan Campbell.
The annual teachers special certificates and War Emergency Certificates exams begin July in art commercial subjects elementary school course English industrial arts language other than English mathematics music science and social studies. Applications to take exams must be filed with the State Department of Education by June 1. Examinations will occur in county seats of Alachua Dade Leon Polk and Walton on July 2 and 3, 1842.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCarty raised a 48 foot flag pole by their house trailer. A large flag flies prominently, visible from all directions, signaling patriotic support as residents encourage purchasing War Savings Bonds and Stamps.
The Lions held a routine Monday session with 75 percent attendance. Leesburg Lions led fund raising at War Bond sales totaling 46 000 including 16 000 this cycle plus 30 000 earlier. Mount Dora Lions pledged 52 donations totaling 1 475 for bonds and stamps. A committee will nominate officers for the next year and Bowies Tailtwister duty starts at 7 30.
An urgent meeting of the Band Boosters' Club is set for tonight at eight in the Community Auditorium to approve a new coat style and take uniform measurements. Members anticipate plans for a June weekend boat trip to Silver Springs aboard the City of Dora, with outing details to be discussed.
The local Rationing Board expresses deep appreciation for forty volunteers who assisted in sugar and gasoline rationing. All stayed for their shifts or sent a substitute with no complaints, led by Ida Conklin who monitored details daily. Mount Dora helps winter visitors plan trips home and asks those with cars to consult the board for best options.
The fourth quarterly conference will be held in the Parish House at eight o clock Friday evening. Rev R C Holmes Orlando District superintendent will preside. All church officers and interested members are urged to attend.
President Roosevelt urges Americans to display the American flag from homes in honor of mothers and sons in service. The notice advises cleaning flags and offers Legion and Topic assistance to obtain flags, staffs, or holders, with contact points Harold Overhiser and Richard Eddy.
Two of Mrs. L. J. Drawdy s triplets serve in the Navy. Jer ald serves on a plane carrier while Julian recovers from injuries at the Navy Hospital in Brooklyn and assists in hospital work.
Richard G. Shipes Jr returns from months in Iceland to Florida heat after a short furlough. He notes Iceland as desolate with volcanic features and hot springs. He mentions Reykjavik as the capital and a long standing parliamentary system.
Edward Brooks returns after ten months in Greenland arriving in New York and traveling to De Land and Jacksonville to join his mother and sister. Frederick W. Sleight earns a Navy ensign commission and heads to Toledo Naval Training Station for accounting duties on a destroyer. Curtis Minkley, flying cadet candidate, awaits decision after ten weeks at Jacksonville Naval Air Station. Lieut. John R. Conner of Fort Benning visits family after two weeks leave and serves as an instructor. Robert Widmer visits his mother during a ten day furlough from military duties.
A sailor in the Navy undertakes instruction at the Cooks and Bakers School after taking the oath of allegiance a few weeks ago and earning selection for training in a renowned trade program.
Thomas F. Davis Jr of Bell Telephone Orlando spoke on birds at the Kiwanis gathering. Tavares Kiwanis shared an inter-club visit with Mount Dora with deputy War Bonds official Karlmann. Lehmann described the Every American Canvass and urged pledges and regular purchases to support the war effort.
Lake County manufacturers and all interested citizens are invited to a meeting Friday May 22 at 7:30 p m in the Court House Tavares to form a Lake County Manufacturers Pool Ray Higgins of the Industrial Division of the State Defense will assist in organizing The pool aims to win war contracts by pooling resources enabling small plants to contribute to war production and preserve local employment
Miss Bettie Blanchard daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Blanchard of Mount Dora will represent Silver Springs publicity department in a statewide Tampa contest to select Florida s most photogenic film. The event occurs during the Florida Photographers Association annual convention with contestants photographed in bathing suits and evening gowns.
The coast guard prohibits night fishing from Tavernier to Cape Canaveral along about 275 miles from Cocoa to halfway down the Florida Keys via the Overseas Highway. The order aims to stop charter or commercial boats from leaving harbors at night in a region famed for its fishing, an area frequented by President Roosevelt in the past.
Dr James Austin Richards, who left this year to fulfill prior engagements, joins Mount Vernon Church Boston for a centenary program. He will speak Monday afternoon May 25 on The Church and Missions Today and is among four principal speakers at Tuesday Centenary Dinner. Frank Bridgman forwards Boston program.
Eastern Defense Command proclaims area from Maine to Florida east of the Apalachicola River as a Military Area under war orders. The notice emphasizes lighting restrictions to prevent submarine silhouettes and outlines rules for coastal and inland lighting, with no evacuations ordered. Local councils urge public cooperation during blackout drills and possible real events.
In a public notice Ernest Mosteller, chief of the Mount Dora Fire Department, urges residents to remove gas from homes and garages. He cites fire insurance risks, urges using approved 5 gallon limits only, and recommends burying excess gas 100 feet from buildings or transferring it to cars. He says the Rationing Board may reevaluate needs.
The first station wagon unit in Florida was organized in Tavares for emergency service. The vehicles will serve as ambulances and for other EMS roles. J. B. Kirkpatrick of Eustis organized the unit under K. W. Loucks of the Transportation Division. Max Wettstein of Leesburg is division chairman. Seventeen owners attended and local leaders were named for Mount Dora Mount Plymouth Sorrento Eustis Leesburg Umatilla communities.
Lake County Ration Board members met at the Court House in Tavares on Monday morning. Administrator H C Brown reported to the Chamber of Commerce that all thirty members attended, joined by four secretaries and Brown himself, totaling thirty five attendees.
Mount Dora became the first town to pay its 1942 membership dues in the Lake County League of Municipalities, marking an early financial commitment among member communities.
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