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ardens,2: Boys ioubles; ppenedall-staris comer the■ces forA. DrUUltfrUH, uidiMiiau yji meMerchants Division, announces that a special meeting will be held of the merchants Monday, Aug. 8, at 7:30 p.m. at the Chamber headquarters to discuss final plans for the two-day sale.. j uugt* n umaii o. r uicnsaid Wednesday that the trial will begin when Sheriff Will McCall returns from Madison so that he can line up witnesses. Also, he said, he will have to appoint attorneys to defend the three.lour iNegroes at uroveiana s colored section. They poured shot gun pellets and rifle balls into the windows of the empty building.But—just 75 feet from it was a Negro home, where 90-year-old Warren Moore cowered in his bed,swim-?d will irough. its and ng and in #the m the school Council ng re-•* P 'W *Is only, jsting.) Mountds. For 1 be in 1—with it; and lis and n, the la Wil-s, Max , base-Jackiemciltingof City t Tues-Villiamhe ert-3ouncfl; untilLake CountyBy MABEL NORRIS REESEA week ago, two sisters over in Umatilla, put their heads together and concocted a wonderful surprise.The sisters-two — Mrs. P. C. Turner and Mrs. Ben Krupski — agreed on this:“Why — with his name going out all over the country, therecouldn’t be a better reason to surprise him,” said one.“Oh—!” said the other. “It will be such fun . . . I’ll furnish the eggs and the milk . . . have you got enough pans for it?”“Sure,” answered her sister. “And I’ll furnish the flour and the sugar—and we might as well bake it here.” Then she frowned and said: “But look . . . we have to figure out a way to get it to the courthouse and on his desk without letting him know . ,So it was that the two sisters whispered and planned . . . and at last produced the results of their efforts. Last Thursday afternoon, they slipped into the courthouse at Tavares with the fruit of their planning , . .. a three-tiered cake, on which rode a toy replica of a sheriff. And they placed it carefully on his desk . . . and left.When Sheriff Willis McCall returned from one of his wearying tours of South Lake county, and dispiritedly entered the office of sheriff ... he caught a glimpse of that cake.He stopped dead in his tracks as he looked at it V . and the inscription that said: “Life Begins At 40,” and the ring of 40 candles around it. And the tiredness left his face as hp grinned his boyish appreciation of “kinfolks” who, despite the turmoil in Lake county, had remembered.It was while he was indulging in personal business — of which there had been so little in the last riotous week—that Life Magazine Photographer Wallace Kirkland walked in . . . and so even that personal incident became public property as Kirkland gleefully photographed America’s most noted sheriff last week with his birthday cake.These last few days have been highly memorable ones for Lake county’s sheriff. Lady Luck rode on his shoulder as he guided hishigh-powered Oldsmobile back to Florida from aft Elk’s convention, so that he picked up the wavelength of the sheriff’s office to hear of the most notorious case he has ever attended.So it was that he chucked vaca-: X 1 ,t . « * 1 . • . . .tion out of his\mind and went towork ... to finally place his namein the ranks of {he immortals ofsheriffdom.So it was that he coolly met acontingent of a lynch-mindedmob at the courthouse . . . threwaside his gun, and used, instead,his cracker-inflected talkV to make them turn aside from intent of a lyi|;hing. INortttrn newspapers said this: “Mob Drops Lynch Plaqs On Pleas Of Fast-Talking Sheriff.” Thus the early stories of th*3 biggest event in Sheriff McCall’s life was pictured the length and breadth of the United States.Thus ... farm-boy Willis, McCall became national news. He had put to use, objectively, his understanding of the problems of the backwoods people of Lake county . . . friendship stemming from his kinship to them through his own association with the soil.Probably, none of the nationally-circulated news about shim will tell that he, too, is a “Florida Cracker/’ Busy newsmep will lose point of the advantage he had in the turbulant affairs of Lake county this month—the point} that says Willis McCall, only, could deal with the mob bent on de-or Duval county licenses, and paused in Groveland to ask directions to the Negro shack. Just before he was wiped out by the fire,1 he had bought himself a Cadillac(Continued on Page 6)struct ion because, he too, is a Lake county farm boy.McCall war, born in Lake county —just two miles east of Umatilla 40 years ago July 21. He was a product of Florida pioneers . . . his grandparents on his mother’sside had come in before the freeze of ’95 and they weathered it to stay and help develop what became Lake county.It was in 1905 that Walter McCall came to Lake county and settled to meet Pearl Ship and join with her in the business of building through becoming Central Florida farmers.So it was that Willis was reared. He went to school in Umatilla . . . but, he says, “I got my education mostly in the University of Hard Knocks.”Graduating from hmh school in1927, he first entered U. of H. K. by taking a tour of these United States. For a solid year he traversed the country to learn, first hand, what makes it what• j • • ; «it IS.It was in 1930 that he was solidly at home, utilizing the cows of his uncle to sell milk to customers who came to the McCalls —unsolicited. That same year, the state board of health said to him: “Look—if you’re going to run ahad just made connections wiui *1law firm in Bay Town, and was taking a summer holiday before he started on his career.Tucky and Sarah are the son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Calhoun.Sheriff W. V. McCalldairy, then you'd better abide by rules.”The wandering farm boy, Willis, didn’t have any idea then of starting a dairy. After all . . . he'd started only with two heifers that belonged to an uncle . . and they just happened to produce more than the McCall kin coulduse ; . . so ... .Willis viewed the situation back there in the uncertain year of 1930, and finally decided on his course.Then and there he built up a dairy business from the meager start of two heifers ... he put inthe board of health requirementsof cement floors .. . . pasteurizing plant and pre-cooling plant. And he had the first modern dairy in Lake county.Then came the chance to turn his efforts into crisp cash . . . and he took it. He sold his interest in50 cows he then owned . . . the.• * » • ■ * 1plant and the thriving business that had been born in the midst of a national depression.It was then that he became an inspector of fruit . . , and thus, made himself known county-wide. Unknowingly—then—he was setting up the machinery that finally!cooiing nip. iv]—and several the waters froj day. .In addition,the opportunitlessons at Laklt; donated by Hlt;his lovely honIn his early 1 Director Dan young students the rudiments plans of instr technique.Spears is sai ming classes ir of softball and ties for young*?Plav IExhih(Continued on Page 7)As a step tc lights for Heii ball game betthe Lake-OrsApopka, will I Sunday afternThis game w other exhibitic 28, between th and those of t Sunday’s ga good one. Jus last Sunday vKissimmee heTied in the n went on to ] Kissimmee lac score—4-3.Highlight of Carey Thomp^ run to put thlt; the score in tlthe game in 1
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Mount Dora, Florida, US
Thu, Jul 28, 1949
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