Fear and violence fears fuel Easter "Vacation" picket walkout
Mount Dora fruit pickers joined Easter Holiday strikers in the citrus belt fearing violence as a directive from the CSO union spread. Trucks reported empty packing houses while wages fell from 15 to 12 cents per box. Sheriff McCall urged workers to return with protection promises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Pickers
Mount Dora
C.S.O. Fruit and Agriculture Union
East Town
C. B. Hurlburt
Willis McCall
Students Write On Universal Training Essay Contest
Lake county students will write essays on Universal Military training for Army Day next Tuesday. The winning student in the Mount Dora area, sponsored by the Lions Club, will receive a $10 prize and be a club guest next Tuesday evening. Major Leon B. Cheek Jr. of the Ocala Military Sub-District inspired the contest after speaking to local schools about Plan for Peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Biersa
Mount Dora
Lions Club
Leon B. Cheek, Jr
Ocala Military Sub-District
Red Cross Still Lags in Mount Dora Drive
Mount Dora remains short of its 2700 goal for the American Red Cross as a few more donors joined in while the Lake county total nears 20000 with 15000 earmarked for veterans and disaster relief. Chairman George White reports about 100 in person gifts but many remain uncontacted by volunteer solicitors. Contributions can be given to White or co chairwoman Mrs Claflin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
American Red Cross
Red Cross
George White
Lake County
Army of Women Solicitors
White
Claflin
Mount Ra
Two Students Hurt In Crash At Blackwater Creek Bridge
A crash with a large logging truck on Sanford road Tuesday evening overturned a car carrying Mount Dora students from Stetson University at Blackwater Creek bridge. Joyce Duggan suffered facial cuts and bruises while her driver companion Bob Petruschell received cuts and an injured shoulder. This marks Duggan’s second accident after a broken jaw in 1946.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sanford Rd
Mount Dora
Stetson University
Blackwater Creek Bridge
Joyce Duggan
W. F. Duggan
Sylvan Shores
Bob Petruschell
Lucius Petruschell
Miss Duggan
Difference Between Wit and Humor Highlighted by Dr Green
Dr Francis Harvey Green 87, former Pennington School headmaster, spoke in Mount Dora on wit versus humor, noting wit amuses and humor pleases. He recalled dining with 78 celebrities, met presidents Taft Roosevelt Coolidge Hoover, and has toured English literary sites. He praised togetherness in life and policy during Kiwanis and Lions Club talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Harvey Green
Pennington School For Boys
America
Dr. Green
Green
James Russell Lowell
Pennington
Lowellden
Lowell
Oliver Wendell Holmes
John Greenleaf Whittier
William Howard Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
Coolidge
Hoover
United States
Harry Truman
England
Haddon
Camridge
House of Lords
Milton
Old ‘College
Cornell
Interroga
Lions
Kiwanis
Mount Dora High Glee Club Wins Class C Honors
Mount Dora High School Glee Club won first division in Class C for the district in Sanford last month. The group will perform at Leesburg’s school music festival later this month. Members listed include Adrianne Norton first as soloist, Betty High, Nelle Marie Conner, Dorothy Peterson, Helen Miles, and many others along with director Clyde Mosteller.
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Mount Dora High School
Sanford
Leesburg
Adrianne Norton
Betty High
Nelle Marie Conner
Dorothy Peterson
Helen Miles
Raoul Barker
Floyd Risley
Bennett Land
Clyde Mosteller
Robert Hall
Barbara Shipes
Phyllis Turner
Evelyn Brock
Helen Whitaker
Rhoda Williams
Pat Denmark
Dolly VanDsroef
Christine Sills
Robert Snyder
Skip Bradford
Donald Hogsett
Dale Tucker
Marian Rosebrough
Betty Anne Ray
Lottie Strong
Mary Foucart
Frances Teasley
Frances Wages
Helen Weges
Juanita Combs
Sam Ford
Howard Nutter
Jimmy Vincent
Mary Martha
Nice Day For Cats Wins Five Blue Ribbons
Mrs. Adaline Gawthrop entered five Persian cats in the New Orleans show and won five blue ribbons. Returning to Mount Dora she displayed the prizes from the Hilltop Cattery in Sorrento, including four white Persians with blue eyes and one blue Persian kitten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adaline Gawthrop
New Orleans
Mount Dora
Gay to Speak in Mount Dora and Lake County
Comptroller C. M. Gay, seeking reelection, will speak in Mount Dora at Donnelly Park Saturday at 12 30 p m. He will tour Lake County visiting Eustis at 3 30 p m Tavares at 4 30 p m Leesburg at 5 30 p m and Clermont at 7 30 p m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M. Gay
Mount Dora
Donnelly Park
Lake County
Eustis
Tavares
Leesburg
Clermont
Glee Club to Entertain PTA in Mount Dora
The Mount Dora high school glee club that won first division at Sanford in March will sing numbers that earned top honors on the PTA program next Tuesday afternoon. Soloist Miss Adrianne Norton, first among Class C school soloists, will be featured with the group. Mrs. Ernest Mosteller, PTA president, says the club will also hear a report from regional and county council meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Morrell 90th Birthday Illness Reaches Waterman
Bill Morrell, who just turned ninety in October, is critically ill at Waterman Memorial hospital in Eustis. His daughters Mrs. W. A. Moore and Mrs. W. A. Barrett of Spencer Ohio traveled this week to be by his side.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill” Morrell
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Eustis
W. A. Moore
W. A. Barrett
Spencer, O
Mississippi Territory Stamp Issued for 150th Anniversary
Mount Dora stamp collectors are alerted to a new three cent square commemorating the Mississippi territory's 150th anniversary. First day cancellations can be secured by sending addressed envelopes to Natchez postmaster or through the Philatelic agency in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Hopcraft
Mount Dora
Mississippi Territory
Natchez
Miss
Philatelic Agency
Washington
Holt announces birth of Barbara Jeanne
Mr and Mrs W Leonard Holt announce the arrival of a daughter born March 31 at Eustis Waterman Memorial Hospital named Barbara Jeanne. Also on March 25 at the same hospital a daughter Violet Louise was born to Mr and Mrs Herbert Paul of Tavares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Leonard Holt
Eustis Waterman Memorial Hospital
Barbara Jeanne
Mount Dora
Violet
Louise
Herbert Paul
Tavares
Sea veteran Bill Hardwick retires inland to Mount Dora Florida
After 33 years at sea and a life of lighthouse duty in Long Island Sound, sailor Bill Hardwick settles in Mount Dora. He entertains locals with sea tales, reflects on a life of voyages from Philadelphia to England and around the world, and visits by Judge Foster, with his wife and landlubber days ahead.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Hardwick
Hardwick
Long Island Sound
Mount Dora
Mrs. Hardwick
Florida
Bridgeport
Conn
Bridgeport Sunday Post
Connecticut
Judge Foster
Winter Park
Charlie Thorpe
England
Knife scar memories of a wartime life at sea
William Hardwick recalls deep knife scars from his sea life and a 1918 stabbing in Bridgeport tied to wartime work with a precursor to the FBI. He walked to a hospital after the attack, was treated under netting, and told by a doctor he had hours to live before recovering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.B.I
Hardwick
Bridgeport
Harmen Avin Tatte
McCarty Halts Mount Dora Talk After Tragedy
Dan McCarty suspended campaign appearances following the death of his sister Mrs. Lardner Newell and niece Frances Newell in an auto crash near Sanford. Authorities reported no foul play. McCarty plans to resume campaigning once the family grieves and schedules allow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Lauderdale
Dan McCarty
Mount Dora
Sanford
Lardner Newell
Frances
Donnelly Park
Roy Christopher
John McCarty
B. A. Brown
University of Florida of Art
Christopher
McCarty
Ft. Pierce
Jones
Dan
John
Bryan
Sunrise Services Draw 1000 For Gertrude Easter Rites
Nearly 1,000 persons gathered for Mount Dora Easter sunrise services on Lake Gertrude. Organized by the Masonic Scottish Rite, the event featured Dorris Bowen of Clermont singing, glee club performances from Clermont and Mount Dora schools, and Rev. A L Burgreen of Eustis delivering the sermon broadcast on WEUS. Owen W. Conner of Lake Jem led the observance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
A. L. Burgreen
East Is
Mount Dora
Lake Gertrude
Masonic Scottish Rites Order
Owen W. Conner
Lake Jem
Donna Sits On Log While Explorers Smoke
Two explorers drift along the St Johns river during a slow haul through fallen trees. The log records misadventure with a lost fishing hat and a motor running the boat over a submerged trunk. They reach Welaka and continue toward Lake Okeechobee after 94 hours and $111.71 in gas.
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Donna
Brown
S Tringer
Morse
Rolly
St. Johns River
Welaka
St. Lucie Inlet
Lake Okeechobee
Sarasota
Tarpon Springs
Florida Airways Announces Direct Tallahassee Jacksonville Service
Florida Airways expands routes with direct Tallahassee to Jacksonville flights starting Monday. Oscar Bergstrom notes origin flights from Tallahassee at 6:50 a.m. to Jacksonville and Orlando, arriving 8:46 a.m. and 9:02 a.m. A second Tallahassee departure is 1:40 p.m. Return trips Jacksonville to Tallahassee depart 9:50 a.m. and 5:15 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida Airways
Tallahassee
Jacksonville
the Airways
Orlando
Oscar Bergstrom
Capital
Scholarship exams to be held in Tavares April 9
County Superintendent Frank Banning announced scholarship examinations for ten entrants in Tavares on April 9 at 9 am. The entries include categories for white and Negro students and cover the Lew Tip and Meare senatorial scholarships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tavares
Frank Banning
House
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Masonic Order
Morrell III
Mississippi
Mabel Norris Reese
Donnelly and Priests
William Hardwick
Gertrude Rites
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