Youthful Initiative at Mount Dora Youth Center Makeover
Youth volunteers work to prepare Mount Dora's Youth Center for after school use. Joyce Moon Cathie Land and Wendy Fairington scrape and paint furniture while Helen Davidson Ann McCullough sew slip covers on the inherited davenport. Anne Tremain and Shirley Hopkins repaint and decorate walls.
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Mount Dora
Joyce Moon
Cathie Land
Wendy Fairington
Helen Davidson
Ann McCullough
Davenport
If you have great talents industry will improve them
A brief aphorism noting that strong talents grow with effort while modest abilities gain from industry. It emphasizes living with honest appearance and pursuing authenticity as a path to honor. The quotes credit Sir Joshua Reynolds on talent and virtue.
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
I Know My Son Billy Lofroos Photo Mix Up
A Navy midshipman Billy Lofroos was misidentified in a photo sent to his hometown paper. The editor withheld the image after his mother Margaret Lafroos insisted the portrait did not resemble her son. Billy, soon home from Quantico, reassured his family the likeness was correct after verification. In a separate note, a city tree mystery ends as a broken water main fed a stream from the tree, traced to capillary groundwater travel through the root.
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Billy Lofroos
Quantico
Navy
William Lofroos
Billy
Mount Dora High School
Doc Lee
Vanderbilt
NROTC
Billy Lafroos
Margaret Lafroos
Harold Overhiser
Revival across East Town unites seven churches at St Mary M B church
A city wide revival gathers seven federated churches led by St Mary M B with services at Bethel F M Mt Olive AME St John P B and Triumph Brotherhood Church. Rev Webb of Tallahassee preaches as federation plans preacher support while unity prayers urge community betterment and fight sin.
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East Town
St. Mary M.B
Bethel F. M
Mt. Olive Ame
St. John P.B
Triumph Brotherhood
Bible School
W. L. Webb
Tallahassee
Fla
Peter
MYF Meeting Set for Sub district Trip
Members of the Methodist Youth Fellowship will meet at the church at 7 p.m. Monday to travel to the sub district meeting at Eustis. The citation includes a quoted critique from Herbert Agar in Saturday Review of Literature.
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MYF
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Eustis
McCarran
Herbert Agar
Saturday Review of Literature
Lake County Board Raises Substitute Pay and Seeks Teachers
The Lake County Board of Public Instruction urged qualified persons to substitute teach. Pay for substitutes with degrees or 90 hours rises to 10 dollars daily, while those with less hours receive eight dollars and noncertified substitutes seven dollars in emergencies. Last year substitutes earned 9,970 dollars, with 4,776 from county funds for uncertified teachers.
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Lake County Board of Public Instruction
C. A. Vaughn, Jr
Vaughn
Lake County
Florida Vacations Sell Winn and Lovett Envelopes
A Winn and Lovett grocery chain slogan proclaims you have never lived until you have spent a vacation in Florida. The envelopes promote the chain’s public relations reach as they travel across the United States.
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Florida
Winn and Lovett
United States
Montverde School To Open Its 41st Year Sept 1
Montverde private school in Lake County announces its 41st year opening September 1 with registration that day and classes starting September 2. Remodeling upgrades include the Donnelly building recreation facilities and a new chapel. Contributions from local residents funded the project.
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Montverde
Lake County
L. Neal Smith
Lake
John P. Donnelly
Mount Dora
J. D. Manley Co
Leesburg
J. S. Kirtori
Though I Bestow All My Goods to Feed the Poor
A biblical quotation from I Corinthians 13 3 about charity and sacrifice. It speaks of giving all possessions and even the body to be burned, yet lacking profit without love. The verse emphasizes love as the essential virtue beyond deeds.
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Sylvan Shores
Henry Stein
Orlando
Paul W. Turrentine
Lith Ave
Don Conway
Mount Dora Florida
Wise Boat Works
J. G. Ray, JR
A&m
Highland Avenue
Jersey
Sunset Valley Dairy
Parker Bros
Mundell & Hill
C. F. Moore
Dist
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Florida Power Corporation
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