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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1938
Page
8
The junior class held a meeting on October 3 to plan selling cold drinks candy and peanuts at the Friday night foot game. Frankie Lou Morris chaired the peanuts Pomona Davidson led candy DeVault Roseborough and Richard Widmer managed drinks. The sale cleared a bit over nine dollars for the junior treasury.
The class mourns Elizabeth White of Lake Ola who recently married Drury Hood. A Winter Garden game on Friday the 30th drew sophomores Betsy Kramer, Joanne French, Rita Daniels, Jean Shipes, Bettye White, Felton Dean, and Wilbur Vanzant. Initiation committee plans suggest surprises for freshmen. Joanne French and Cary Colley attended the Florida Suwanee game in Gainesville on October 8.
Freshman notes that the class looks forward to initiation in the final part of October with hope for lenient treatment from sophomores. Betsy Kramer, Evelyn Turrentine, Libby Drawdy, Maxine Clery, and Jané Fenn attended a slumber party Saturday night at the club house behind June Fenn's house on Donnelly Street.
The eighth grade captured the dollar at the PTA gathering held Tuesday October 4 with many parents and friends present. Many eighth graders have bought season football tickets and plan to attend all home games. Mrs. Vincent cannot be grade mother due to other duties.
The class has elected Mrs Malone and is welcoming her. We warmly invite parents and friends to visit the class at any time.
The seventh grade forms a news club and elected Gladys Irene Crane president A C Minkley vice president and Dorothy Geiger secretary. The class treasurer handles dues. No meeting yet but one is planned. Myrtle Shallenberg has been absent for some time and is hoped to return soon.
A one day only showing of Boys Town appears at the Princess Theatre this Saturday. Community film event features the classic drama with local turnout expected.
Florida Motor Lines crews with the Lake County Chamber of Commerce filmed black bass fishing and citrus groves in Lake County. Photographer Al Burgert and Mr. Abbott towed the camera team to capture images to promote Florida travel through travel agencies nationwide.
The Forest Service and the North Carolina Department of Conservation announce a public big game hunt in western North Carolina from November 7 for three days. The event allows 1,200 main hunt participants and 400 in a wilderness section with camp sites, using a check in check out system to manage deer and other large game. Non residents need a special permit plus state license. The aim is sport and to curb game overpopulation to protect timber and forage.
Rev J S Wilson former pastor of the First Baptist Church Mount Dora died in a St Petersburg hospital October 12 after a lingering illness. He aided in erecting the Mount Sterling church house during 1915 16 and later lived on a Shelby county farm before moving to Florida for health. His son Joe Wilson and Joe’s wife Leila Owings were at his bedside when he died. Funeral and burial were held at Bagdad Shelby county Kentucky on October 14.
Florida figures including Burton H. Schoepf push selling large glasses of orange and grapefruit juice for five cents to reduce fruit surplus and boost tourism. Stores and hotels join, with 50+ replies promising backing. A permanent group will organize next week while chambers of commerce back a Pinellas site for a new state hospital for the insane.
John P Coffin former head of the state prohibition party and longtime reform worker died at his Johnstown home last week at age 84.
The Children's Home Society of Florida reports a 30 percent rise in children needing aid up to October 1, the largest in its 36 years serving over 41 000 homeless kids. It warns it must raise funds immediately to continue care and asks for clothing food and homes for children ages six to sixteen, with donations directed to local committees or the Society's Jacksonville headquarters.
Lake County health calendar notes mild scarlet fever in Leesburg with two cases and Mount Dora with one. It warns of potential severe outcomes from contact and urges isolation and doctor consultation. includes basic symptom guidance and a caution about unsolicited advice.
Governor Cone issues a proclamation designating November 6 through 12 as American Education Week in Florida. State Superintendent Colin English will forward observance plans to principals and county officials in the department bulletin. The proclamation urges closer cooperation between citizens and teachers to support an efficient public school system.
Governor Fred P. Cone proclaims November 6 through 12, 1938 as American Education Week in Florida. He urges citizens and teachers to cooperate for a better school system essential to the state’s prosperity and welfare. The proclamation, dated October 3, 1938, bears the Great Seal and Secretary of State attestation.
Lake County Health reports weekly disease counts from October 8 to 15 1938. Malaria 7 Scabies 1 Scarlet Fever 2 Syphilis 4 total for year 7. Health officials cooperate with doctors to control communicable diseases and inform newspapers.
The Tresdale Shipping Company of Savannah says citrus shipments from south Atlantic ports to Oslo Gothenburg Copenhagen and Gdynia are reduced to 70 cents per box for ordinary stowage through December 1938. Monthly sailings from Savannah to these European ports may include Lake County fruit with advance bookings requested. Col C E Lester calls it a fine Christmas present, noting total cost remains 70c per box.
Crabs are being shipped from the Crab Canning plant in Titusville with 175 pounds of stone crab and 1,300 blue crabs sent to Miami in the past week. Seaboard Canning Company reports daily catches near 1,000 pounds using 950 traps along the Indian River.
Lionel Barrymore stars as head of a lively clan with Jean Arthur and James Stewart in Frank Capra’s film version of the stage hit. Also featuring Edward Arnold Ann Miller Mischa Auer and Donald Meek. The picture is cited as a top entertaining release among the $250000 quiz pictures.
The Bureau of Plant Industry will establish a tung oil research field headquarters in Gainesville Florida. Dr Wilmon Newell says the University of Florida President John J Tigert has arranged offices in the Seagle Building and the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce will provide laboratory space. Field tests will use Experiment Station lands and private grower fields under a cooperation agreement.
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