Life Can Begin at 60 in Florida noted by Mount Dora club
Retired New York editor Lou Heaton promoted Florida living through his brochure Life Can Begin at 60 in Florida distributed by central Florida chambers for 12 years ending in 1961. He served Mount Dora as mayor from 1952 to 1956, held council roles, and remained active in bowling, bridge, and a weekly Topic Tid Bits column.
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Lou Heaton
Judy
Florida
Lou
New York Herald Tribune
Chambers of Commerce
Mount Dora
Kiwanis
Garry Garrison
Heaton
Major Marsh
Neptune
Herb
Lillian Shore
New Glasglow
Nova Scotia
da Art
Gertrude Miller
Ted
Gladys Foley
Newark
N. J
New England
Clayton
Mabel Cook
Dexter
Rosses
Anna
Neil
Duxbury
Mass
Harold
Vivian Esch
Ed Meech
John Mueller
Underwater Lab Aims to Teach Florida Atlantic Students
The world’s first underwater classroom the hydro lab for Florida Atlantic University was launched at the Naval Reserve Training Center Riviera Beach and towed three four miles east of Palm Beach. It is 14 feet long eight feet in diameter suspended ten feet above the ocean floor and connected to a surface mother craft via cable for power and oxygen. John H. Perry funded and presented the craft to university officials while Mrs. Eleanor Stephan christened the lab with Gulf Stream water.
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Florida Atlantic University
Naval Reserve Training Center
Riviera Beach
Atlantic Ocean
Palm Beach
Florida Atlantic
Perry
John H. Perry
Perry Submarine Builders
Perry Publications, Inc
Eleanor Stephan
Charles Stephan
FBI Warns Communists May Run Nonpartisan Candidates in Elections
In a Senate report Hoover predicts the Communist Party will field nonpartisan or independent candidates in November. He warns of wide campaigns to infiltrate unions, campuses, antiwar protests, and civil rights groups, aided by 1950s security laws. The party aims to recruit industrial workers and intensify anti-democratic influence.
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Senate Internal Security
New York
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Freedom of Action
Supreme Court Sions
Soviet Union
America
Hays Named to Florida Road Department Advisory Committee
Gordon Hays Jr County Engineer for Lake County is named to the State Road Department Advisory Committee by the Legislature. The panel includes B Q Waddell Indian River County Wayne Carlisle Alachua County Paul Myers Fort Myers Hubert Gregory Quincy and John Allison Lakeland. It will survey Florida road plans safety and capacity and base recommendations on road fund distribution. Ohio displaced New York as top tourist contributor to Florida in 1965.
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Gordon Hays Jr
Lake County
State Road Department
State Assn
Florida League of Municipalities
Hays
B. Q. Waddell
Indian River County
Wayne Carlisle
Alachua County
Paul Myers
Fort Myers
Herbert Gregory
Quincy
Lakeland
John Allison
Florida
Legislative Council
Metric system and future tech loom in Congress
Bills to adopt the international metric system circulate in Congress, promising simpler measures but requiring textbooks and labels to change. The era brings new rail concepts with French Aero trains and turbotrains, and a 140 foot radio telescope at Green Bank operates with high precision.
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Simon Stevin
U. S
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Green Bank
W. Va
Navy Seabees Seek Construction Men Direct Procurement
The Navy announces a Seabee Direct Procurement Program offering draft-eligible youths a path to fulfill service obligations through construction trades. Eligible trades include builders, construction electricians, plumbers, steelworkers, heavy equipment operators, and maintenance workers. Pay grades align with prior experience. Further details follow in the notice.
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U. S. Navy
Navy
Seabees
Beautification Grant Funds San Francisco Transit Landscaping
The Federal Housing and Urban Affairs Agency awards 447,953 dollars for 12 acres of landscaping along 2.7 miles of the unfinished San Francisco Rapid Transit. Plan includes trees shrubs bicycle racks sand piles shuffleboard and tot lots beneath the elevated outer area. A Georgia Lawn-A-Mat advertises lawn services including fertilizing rolling aerating and pest control.
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Federal Housing and Urban Affairs Agency
San Francisco
Navy Recruiter Visit at Mount Dora Post Office
A Navy recruiter will be at the Mount Dora Post Office on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. to discuss enlistment options with interested residents.
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Mount Dora
First Kindergarten Founder Sparks Preschool Method
A German educator in 1837 at Blankenbourg started the first kindergarten to spare future generations from lonely childhoods. He combined creative play with pleasant surroundings, shaping modern pre-school teaching methods.
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Ial Beted
Blankenbourg
Germany
Firs
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Ohio
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J. G. Ray, Jr
The
Travelers Safety Service
Joe Pyne
Trian
Chicago
Indianapolis
Detroit
Washington
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Lake Oil
N. Baker ST
Mount Dora Publishing CO
N. Donnelly St
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