Budgeting Teen Barbara Siess Plans Fall Wardrobe
Barbara Siess, daughter of Betty Siess, prepares for high school with a tight budget. She cuts nonessential movies, takes babysitting jobs, and enlists sister Carol to sew a dress for $1.50 plus housework. A teen magazine memo guides her Fall clothes spending. Concurrently a U.S. Printing Office release on atomic weapons highlights postwar public awareness.
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Barbara Siess
Chamber of Commerce
Betty Siess
Barbara
Treasury
Carol
Smythe
Japan
Cronwalt Kin Bombs Reds From Korea Mission
Four hour rest windows between bombing missions in Korea allow American Air Force crews to press back North Korean Red Army advances. Shookie Cronwalt Harkings, daughter of Mount Dora hosts, relays letters from her husband Staff Sgt. P. M. Harkings, a bomber crew chief, describing long duty hours and fatigue between missions.
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Korea
Red Army
Two Adams Kin Head For War
Mr and Mrs A A Adams Gorham Jr report both son and son in law may enter war. Seaman Horace Adams is in Japan after a cargo ship bound for Korea docked. Donald Green er, bound for training in Washington state, joins the 747th Amphibious Division from Mount Dora.
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A. A. Adams
Gorham Jr
Seaman Horace Adams
Japan
Korea
Horace
Donald Greener
Mount Dora
Lake County Regiment
Washington State
Slater Cox
New Howey Bridge
Lake Harris
Mount Dora Serviceman Reveals Time in Korea Battle
Mount Dora High School graduate Corporal Don Schubert, Class of ’48, told his parents after returning from Korea that he spent three weeks in the bloodstained front. He had earlier believed he was in Japan. Schubert served in the intelligence division, flying over the peninsula and witnessing much of the fighting. Major Leon Cheek, son-in-law of Dr and Mrs H T Fenn, remains in Korea as his wife in Seattle awaits further word.
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Mount Dora
Korea
Japan
Corp
Don Schubert
Schubert
Leon Cheek
H. T. Fenn
Seattle
Far East
Harvard Law Graduate Grant Recalled to Duty
Attorney Alan Grant of Mount Dora has been called from the Reserves to duty. A Harvard Law School graduate who began practice in Orlando, he now serves as a parachute instructor at Fort Bragg North Carolina.
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Grant
Alan Grant
Mount Dora
Harvard University Law School
Orlando
Fort Bragg
N. C
Concentrate Arm In Citrus Not To Last
Norris, Lake County agriculture agent, told Kiwanis that the citrus concentrate will become obsolete as the industry shifts to new experiments. He noted improved cattle breeding, pasture fertilization, and alfalfa in Central Florida, urging loan aids for 4 H calves and stock investments.
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Kiwanis Club
Mccea Norty Agriculture
Lake County
Florida
Norris
George J. White
First National Bank
Students urged to heed school registration schedule
The notice details registration times for all grades next week. Elementary 1st to 6th 9 to 12, seniors 9 to 9 45, sophomores 10 30 to 11 18, freshmen 11 15 to noon, 7th and 8th 1 to 2 30. Buses run regular morning hour returning around 10 a.m. Tuesday or Wednesday registrations allowed for special cases. Labor Day holiday on Monday Sept 4.
Mount Dora Boy Golfer Tops Veterans on Local Course
Peter Trenham, Mount Dora's youth star, won a pitching contest with 24 points as Arnold Haynes posted the low 75 in the weekly tilt. Visitors from Pine Hills Golf Club joined the round at Mount Dora's oo Top course, with a return match planned for Saturday afternoon.
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Peter Trenham
Mount Dora
Wee Pete
Arnold Haynes
Dora
Pine Hills
Orlando
Lake County Chamber Directors Meet at Courthouse
The Board of Directors of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce will meet at the courthouse in Tavares at 2:30 today. President J. Keener Mizell of Leesburg delivers the announcement.
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Lake County
East Town Revival Sees 41 Joiners In One Water Walk
Citywide revival at St. Marys MB kicks off with Inter-Denominational Union backing. About 41 joiners expected, 30 candidates in white gowns march to water at Tangerine baptism. New pastor Rev Woods, formerly of Georgia, now in Ocala Florida.
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Bethel F.M
Mt. Olive
A.M.E
St. John P.B
Suni
East Town
St. Mary’s M.B
Mt. Carmel MB
Rev
Woods
Georgia
Ocala
Fla
St. Mary’s MB
Inter-Denominational Union
Echo Gospel Singers
Pallbearers Society
Loving
Janie Gainses
Bertha Watefield
Baptist Camp Wheeler Brings Joy to First Baptist Youth
Young campers from the First Baptist church enjoyed a week at Camp Wheeler in Polk County. Participants include Mary Ann Brotherson Barbara Cheatam Patsy Wells Sidnia Ruth Whitehead Jane Atkins and Jean Atkins.
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First Baptist Church
Wheeler
Polk County
Mary Ann Brotherson
Barbara Cheatam
Patsy Wells
Sidnia
Ruth Whitehead
Jane Atkins
Jean Atkins
Bertha Watefield Dies. Tulsa Reporter Notes Style
The obituary notes Bertha Watefield passed away last Friday evening at a hospital in Eustis. She was the daughter of Mrs. Georgia Watefield, who died about ten years ago, and sister of Mr. Alasee Watefield. Sympathy is extended to the family in their bereavement. Tulsa, Oklahoma is said to have the best dressed women in America.
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Eustis
Bertha
Georgia Watefield
Alasee Watefield
T. M. Thomas
Tulsa
Oklahoma
America
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