Mount Dora discusses paving access roads to Mc Dora Middle School
Mount Dora officials consider state paving of access routes to Mc Dora Middle School including Grant Avenue Rhodes Street Wardell Street and Jackson Avenue with curbs gutters and drainage. Al Davis of the DOT hopes for bidding openings in November while Lions Club offers to pave Highland Street to the Girl Scout House. Howard Dick seeks a on the premises beer and wine license for a Donnelly Street arcade gourmet shop. Council approves the Mount Dora Invitational Golf Tournament funding of 2600 to be held in early October.
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John Cain
McDora Middle School
State Department of Transportation
Grant Avenue
Rhodes Street
Wardell Street
Jackson Avenue
US 441
al Davis
Department of Transportation
Tavares
Mount Dora
Notable local and college updates from Mount Dora area
Thomas H Hood, son of Gen R C Hood Jr, earned a Georgia Tech Bachelor of Industrial Engineering and now works at Martin Marietta in Orlando. Mount Dora residents Karl Klein and family hosted Lt Col Paul Bullard and wife recently. Bullard served in Vietnam and is now at MacDill Air Force Base. Additional notes include ROTC cadet Paul Jr at UGA home from Fort Bragg, a Mr Word Contest win by Winifred Williams, and local events such as Golden Triangle Grange meetings, a chicken barbecue for the Mount Dora AAU Swim Club, and a Mount Dora AAU Swim Team meet with Leesburg. Veteran groups also plan sessions Aug 11 led by Commander Meyer and Reva Thornberg.
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Thomas H. Hood
Gen
R. C. Hood Jr
Palmetto Rd
Mount Dora
Georgia Tech
Hood
Martin Marietta
Orlando
Karl Klein
Washington Rd
Paul Bullard
Okinawa
Col. Bullard
Vietnam
Paul Jr
University of Georgia
Fort Bragg
Bank of Mount Dora
William A. Meyer
Reva Thornberg
Cora Oatis
New England
Mrs. Edith Sage Purdham Returns to Mount Dora
Edith Sage Purdham known as Mrs Edith, longtime Mount Dora crossing guard at Roseborough Elementary, returns with husband Clyde from Hyattsville Maryland after retirement. Police chief Bud Huett offered her old uniform. she declined but would help in an emergency if needed.
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Edith Sage Purdham
Mount Dora
5Th and
Clayton
Roseborough
Clyde
Edith
Bud Huett
Game fish increase in Lake County study and stocking efforts
Ed Zagar of the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission reports twenty five fish hauls in June and July in the Lake County control program with five in Lakes Dora Beauclair and Carlton. Game fish rose from 2.5 to 12.1 percent, though stocking continues. In June 95000 striped bass were stocked at ten per acre in Lake Griffin. A mechanical hyacinth harvester set up at Astor on the St Johns River aims to aid lakes such as Dora and may be followed by harvesters in the Apopka and Haines Creek Canals.
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Ed Zagar
Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Lake County Fish Control Program
Dora
Beauclair
Carlton
Lake Griffin
Lake Dora
Astor
St. Johns River
Apopka
Haines Creek
Florida and Tobacco A history of Florida's tobacco economy
The Tobacco Institute publishes a booklet detailing tobacco’s 450 year role in Florida. It notes early American tobacco linked to Florida, 1971 flue cured harvests of 24. million pounds on 12 200 acres, shade grown cigar leaf 4.3 million pounds on 2 800 acres valued over 12 million dollars, and 63 cigar factories producing 1.35 billion cigars in 1970 for domestic and international markets. Free copies available by writing The Tobacco Institute in Washington DC.
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Washington
Florida
The
Tobacco Institute
America
British Isles
Ponce de Leon
Land of Flowers
Florida and
Tobacco
E St
N.W
Washington, D.C
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Howard Dick
Eustis
Council
Met Foods and Sandwich Shop
Donnelly Street
State Beverage Commission
Gertrude
Sylvan Shores
MacDill Air Force Base
Tampa
Winifred Williams
Tangerine
WKIS
Julian McCall
Becky
Fred
Dayton
Tenn
High Point
Golden Triangle
E. A. Daniels
Hilltop Dr
Mount Dora High School
Barry Eldridge
Mount Dora Aau
Leesburg
Mrs. Sage
Florida and Tobacco
Harvey's Hofbrau
Featuring
Maine
Jobster Oysters
Neor Donnell Aw
Leor Donnelly
Mt. Dora
Princess
Sun
Oc Karl
Lin“ Patton
Donald Sutherland
FloriDa Central AcaDemy
Southern Association OF Colleges and Schools
CAK
Sorrento
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