Lake County Bond Fight Traced in Perry Papers
The Leesburg Commercial and Eus tis News oppose a new school bond plan citing a need for property reevaluation and millage cuts. They argue reevaluation could spread the load while preserving funding for modern high schools in Lake County, urging residents to pressure the Board of County Commissioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Newspapers
Lake County
John H. Perry
Leesburg Commercial
Perry
Eustis News
Eustis
Golden Triangle High School
Mount Dora
Ocala
Jacksonville
West Palm Beach
Governor's Citizens Committee On
Citizens Committee
Board of County Commissioners
Law Day honors law over force with Mount Dora contest
The piece urges nationwide Law Day observance to honor the Constitution and Bill of Rights, noting lynching as a flaw. It highlights Mount Dora’s William E. Holler and wife sponsoring a high school graduation contest with cash prizes totaling 520 dollars and engraved certificates to foster respect for American government and world law concepts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Purple Hills
United States
Mt. Sinai
Mississippi
America
Mount Dora
William E. Holler
The
Hollers
Mount Dora High School
Nixon
Children at risk in atomic testing stalemate
A editorial warns that failure to ban or safely dispose of nuclear fallout endangers children as Geneva talks stall. Strontium 90 levels rise in bones, with Kennedy urging urgent public health oversight and safe waste disposal before civilian nuclear power expands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
U. S. Public Health Service
John Kennedy
Massachussetts
Kennedy
U.S
Geneva
Bolshoi Ballet in New York Sparks Clash Over Politics
Reports say Bolshoi Ballet opened in New York with rapturous applause revealing a shared human language beyond ideologies. The piece criticizes State Department bans on Soviet dancers wearing army uniforms, arguing such acts distort art and fuel propaganda rather than foster cultural exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Bolshoi Ballet
Uon
Eguenerias Paleos
New York
State Dept
Kremlin
U. S
Metropolitan Opera House
Soviet Union
Belgium
U.S. Marine Band
Moscow
Mount Dora High students stage Charley’s Aunt triumph
The Mount Dora High School junior class report a resounding success of Charley’s Aunt with about eight hundred fifty dollars gross, nearly seven hundred net profit, and full junior participation from scenery construction to a chandelier crafted by Mr. Van Wharker. After the show the aunt’s home served as cast party headquarters with food prepared by local ladies for 35 to 40 attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charley
Jimmy Simpson
Grant Russell
Van
Wharker
Kigs
Howard Simpson
Dan Spear
Johnny Russell
R. G. Sadler
Gordon Dake
S. S. Sadler
Christine Dettra
Daytona
Chris
Tommy Chesley
Bee Lavin
Mary Sadler
Beckie Bardwell
Yours
Donald Lee
Myf’ers
Episcopal Church
St. Edward’s
Ypsl
Leesburg
Mount Dora High School
Marcie Codding
Patsy Spear
MDHS
Daytona Beach
Joyce Coffield
Jessie Pike
Elizabeth Sykes
Pam Wareing
Lake Gertrude
Pam
Beverly Phillips
Sandy Spear
Janet Burchett
Martha Booth
Ann Carroll
Eleanor Kimball
Mount Dora High
Groveland
Hurricanes
Lake Weir
Common Sense as Solution in Three Postwar Crises
The piece argues postwar crises from Austria to Trieste and Cyprus were resolved only by peaceful, common sense, while major conflicts in the Middle East and Asia remain unsolved. It criticizes NATO and Baghdad Pact for freezing, not solving, the world order and urges strict law, order, and enforceable peace as the true remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austria
Trieste
Italy
Cyprus
Great Britain
Middle East
Nasser
Kremlin
Israel
Baghdad
Far East
Korea
Vietnam
Formosa Straits
Quemoy
Berlin
SEATO
NATO
East Town Church Services and Civic Club Notes
The report covers a Sunday service at Bethel F M Mt Olive AME and St Marys MB, a joint federation gathering, scripture reading by M A Sumon, and Rev G W Williams sermon on God Present in a Storm. It notes future plans for Plymouth Florida Shilo MB and upcoming associations, elections for officers, bond issues for school needs, and ongoing fundraising toward a new church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel F.M
Mt. Olive
Am.e
St. Mary's MB. Church
Bethel
Federation of Seven Churches
St. Mary
M. A. Sumon
G. W. Williams
St. Mark
Plymouth
Fla
Shilo M.B. Church
Progressive Citizenship Club
Joseph Bowls
Edward Williams
East Town
Progressive Club
BTU
St. Mary’s
Self interest blocks broad conservation progress
A critique notes that farmers civic groups and housewives all claim conservation while avoiding costs. People favor irrigation or industry over streams health and taxes, and even garden birds or squirrels justify actions by self interest. The piece argues conservation advances despite self-serving delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina Wildlife
Carling Conservation Bulletin
Vision of beauty and insight by General Jan Smuts
A fragmented quotation credits General Jan Smuts with praising beauty as the greatest thing in the world and saluting those who perceive what the ordinary eye cannot, placing them among the great people.
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Smuts
Local churches and service times listed in Mount Dora area
A community church directory provides service times for Chimes Baptist, Community Church, Methodist, Church of Christ, Presbyterian, Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, St. Edwards Episcopal, and Central Christian Church. Includes locations Sixth and Tremain Seventh and Donnelly Fifth Ave Grandview Fifth Ave Mount Dora Eustis Road and other details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reorganized Church OF Jesus Christ, ‘of Latter 7 Saints
Fifth Ave
P. Kelley
ST. Edwards Episcopal Church
Grandview St
John F. Mangrum
Central Christian Church
Disciples of Christ
Mount Dora-Eustis Road
Lester C. Doerr
Sunday Services and Sunday School at First Church of Christ Scientist
The First Church of Christ Scientist at Lemon and Grove presents Sunday services at 11:00 a.m. with a Sunday School also at 11:00 a.m. A Wednesday evening service is scheduled for 8 p.m.
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Baptist Church
Sixth and Tremain
David Coffield
Training Union
Methodist Church
Fifth Ave
James Jones
Church OF Christ
Sam Ayers
Cletus Stutzman
General Assembly
First Church OF Christ Scientist
Lemon & Grove
Sorrento Presbyterian Worship Service at 11
Worship service scheduled for 11:00 A.M. led by Dr. G. J. Schillerstrom, minister, at Sorrento Presbyterian Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sorrento Presbyterian
G. J. Schillerstrom
Tangerine Community Church Sunday Service
Rev. Louis Johnston leads a Sunday service at 11:00 a.m. at Tangerine Community Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Church
Louis Johnston
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Law Day
Mabel Norris Reese
Papa
Register Now
By George Holt
T. M. Thomas
First Federal Savings Nassoc
Congregational
Seventh and Donnelly
Robert R. Reed
D. D
Presbyterian
Sixth Ave
George L. Kress
Sorrento
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