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Panama City Pilot

Location

Panama City, Florida, United States of America

Date

Apr 19, 1940

Page

3

Bay High Vocal Department to Broadcast 30 Minute Program

WDLP will air a 30 minute program by Bay High School Vocal Music Department under Louise Kimbrell Blackshear. Following recent success at the Northwest Florida Music Festival in DeFuniak Springs, the concert marks the first in a planned series. Numbers include A Song of Joy Sleepers Awake Lullaby On Wings of Song Water Boy and Love's Old Sweet Song with mixed chorus girls glee club solos and a trio.

Wdlp Tonight Bay High School Louise Kimbrell Blackshear Florida DeFuniak Springs Barnachen Bach Cain Elijah Mendelssohn Girls Glee Club Woodman Tulita Miller Nan Pope Vera Lee Warren Mary Lou Toole Robinson Fred Turner Gates High Boys Glee Club

Scout Review Courts to Be Held Monthly

District committee approves a monthly Board of Review on the first Monday and a Court of Honor at least quarterly. Plans discussed for organizing a Sea Scout Ship. Attending: Kuhe, Hartford, Jinks, Rosenal, Lane, Gregory. Bay county district to require all troop leaders to be trained Scouters as soon as sufficient personnel exist.

District Committee Board of Review Court of Honor Dave Kuhe C. E. Hartford C. L. Jinks Weil Rosenal Thorne Lane Owen Gregory Gulf Coast Council Lane Bay County

Plans Revival Begins at Southport Baptist Church

Reverend Thomas P. Dean begins a weeklong revival at the Southport Baptist Church Sunday at 2 30 p m with evening services at 7 30 p m daily. The public is invited to attend.

Thomas P. Dean the Baptist Church Southport

Lynn Haven Sanitarium Meets With Officers Elected

The annual Lynn Haven Sanitarium association meeting sat in the McMullen Library with Mrs. Sherman Sponenburg presiding. Officers elected for the coming year include Mrs. Sponenburg president and Fred Drake vice president, with a substantial year end balance and numerous donations noted. The report praised improvements and urged continued support from friends.

Lynn Haven Sanitarium Association McMullen Sherman Sponenburg Board of Directors Fred & Drake William A. Young W. S. Dunscombe William M. Blain A. H. van Cleve Charles Appleby Walter Dunscombe Cosetta Rupner Ways and Means Jessie Lefler P. A. Pomeroy H. D. Jackson Sponenbureg Lynn Haven Jeanne H. Young

Christian Endeavor Society Meeting at the Church Apr 14

The regular C E Society meeting met Sunday at the church with Miss Nicki Niquet as leader. The service opened with songs and the evening prayer by Rev. B R Weld. Jimmie Mowat led the business session.

Ray Niquet Bill Collins Rose Collins Nicki Niquet Ralph Roberts Christian Endeavor Society C. E. Society B. R. Weld Jimmie Mowat

Local girl honored in Gainesville election

Miss Martha Vickery of Panama City has been elected senior representative on Brenau College athletic council for 1940-41. Daughter of Mrs. L. E. Vickery of 522 Jenks Avenue, she is a Brenau junior.

Gainesville Martha Vickery L. E. Vickery Jenks Avenue Panama City Brenau College

Plans Set For 1940 West Florida Music Festival

DeFuniak Springs officials and the West Florida Music Festival Commission approved a three year plan to continue the festival and WPA activity supervision. The program includes building barracks and facilities to handle 8000 high school band and glee club members and expanding festival operations. About 3000 high school musicians attended this year with 50 percent more organizations than 1939, though public attendance fell due to bad weather.

Defuniae Springs West Andrews DeFuniak Springs State Band Masters Association John J. Heney DeLand Roy Schroder WPA Rolla A. Southworth WPA P & S James R. Black Bay Calhoun Dixie Escambia Franklin Gulf Holmes Jackson Madison Okaloosa Taylor Walton Washington Gadsden and Leon

Florida Republicans Split Over Orlando Meeting

Tampa report notes a widening split within Florida Republicans as W M Gober criticizes C H McNulty over a April 29 Orlando meeting. Gober calls McNulty's claim the gathering was invalid very misleading stating the state executive committee reconvened after adjournment to issue a call in line with the national committee. McNulty argues the Orlando session was not an official committee meeting.

Tampa Florida W. M. Gober State Executive Committee C. H. McNulty Melbourne Gober McNulty Orlando State Committee

Classified Help Wanted or For Rent Ad Pitch

Have you a furnished apartment or house for rent Advertise them in the Classified columns today and turn those Idle rooms into cash.

Rose Named Leader of Florida G.A.R.

In St Cloud the Florida Grand Army of the Republic elected Capt C J Rose 97 of Miami as department commander at the four day camp. the Women’s Relief Corps chose Maud Duffy of Jacksonville as president and Leroy S Laskey of St Cloud was named president of the Sons of Union Veterans with a 1941 encampment tentatively planned in Jacksonville depending on surviving veterans.

ST. Cloud Florida Department of the Grand Army of the Republic Jacksonville C. J. Rose Miami Women's Relief Corps Maud Duffy Leroy S. Laskey Sons of Union Veterans

Allies nibble at German lines on Western Front

25 Years Ago Today reports from April 19 1915 that Allied forces make limited advances against German positions along the Western Front as world war pushes on. The brief dispatch notes skirmishes and ongoing trench warfare with no decisive breakthrough.

Associated Press Western Front

German Ship Crew May Make Trip Home

Officers and crew of the German freighter Arauca, interned at Port Everglades after five months, may return home in a month. The ship, caught in the Gulf of Mexico at the war’s start, attempted to slip through Allied lines and cross the Atlantic.

Fort Lauderdale Port Everglades Gulf of Mexico

Oxygen mask aids relief for severe heart pain

Chicago report describes a newly developed oxygen mask delivering 80 to 100 percent oxygen. It produced dramatic relief from intense heart pain where large narcotic and sedative doses failed. If consistently successful, this high concentration oxygen treatment could become a powerful tool against coronary thrombosis and severe angina pectoris.

Chicago

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