Daytona Fluoridation Vote Tense as Referendum Looms
Daytona Beach braces for a heated fluoridation referendum tied to its water supply. City officials face opposition led by Citizens Fluoride committee while proponents cite health and public safety concerns amid a Mount Dora comparison and claims about natural versus added fluoride.
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Mount Dora
Daytona
A. P. Black
University of Florida
Walter L. Dobbins
Citizens Fluoride
Daytona Beach
City Commission
Black
Kingston
N. Y
Chamber of Commerce
Commission
United States
Congressional Committee
Blood Bank Donor Day Scheduled for Next Tuesday
A Blood Donor Day will be held at the Community building next Tuesday August 26 from 1 to 7 PM. Donors may contribute to the community plan or specify use for the Armed Forces. The mobile unit and volunteers will assist, with Celia Claflin Shaw helping. Register at the Chamber of Commerce before Tuesday for diet guidance and preferred donation time.
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Dorans
Central
Florida
Coast Guard
Blood Bank
Celia Claflin Shaw
Chamber of Commerce
Contemporary Bits Of Wisdom
Income is less evenly distributed in the world now than before the war. Unless bold measures are taken, differences in living standards between the more developed and less developed countries are bound to grow wider. This is a very serious, a very dangerous trend. Trygve Lie General of the U N.
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Trygve Lie
The
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Ex-Newsman turns chicken rancher in Bay Ridge Florida
Former newspaperman and Forrestal aide Gridley leaves naval life to run a modern egg operation near Sorrento and Pangmouth Lake County. His 850 hens are contracted to Economy Super Markets in Mount Dora with beta eggs sold through the same chain.
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Richard L. Gridley
Rhode Island
Bay Ridge
Gridley
Economy
J. F. Costine
Dick Reynolds
Mount Dora
Florida
Costine
Lake County
Navy
James Forrestal
Sorrento
Plymouth
Economy Super Markets
County Personalities Editor's Note on McWhinnie Convalescent Home
This is the second and final Public Personalities piece on Mr and Mrs William McWhinnie new managers of the Kildare lodge who turned the Donnelly street home into a convalescent facility. McWhinnie recalls 39 years of world travel and a philosophy of respecting others beliefs and religions learned from encounters in Bombay and across the East, West and Middle East. He stresses that peace comes from judging others by their own paths and notes some Christians fall short of the ideal while heathens can be more Christian in action.
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William McWhinnie
Kildare Lodge
Donnelly St
Scotland
America
Bombay
Atention
Mariner McWhinnie
Mr. McWhinnie
East
Middle-East
Machenvel
Voices of Oppression and Revolt Across Distant Lands
The speaker recalls Egypt’s Farouk era poverty and slave-labor conditions from Syria to South America. He notes workers facing 105 to 110 degree heat, earning about 25 cents daily to support families. He warns that oppressed people may turn to communism if relief is not found.
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Arle
Egypt
Farouk
Naples
Syria
Persia
Africa
South America
Stalin
Parathion Warning Raises Fear of Outlawing Chemical
The Citrus Industry magazine citing Dr. A. F. Camp warns continued careless use of parathion could spark legislation banning the insecticide. The article reviews 1951 cholinesterase studies in Florida grove workers, noting declines with exposure and urging strict precautions and blood testing before spraying.
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A. F. Camp
Lake Alfred
Citrus Grove
Citrus Industry
Florida Citrus Mutual
R. E
Bob” Norris
Lake County
Norris
Experiment Station
Florida
Mount Dora School Welcomes Four New Teachers
Four of Mount Dora’s five new teachers gathered for the pre planning session as the new term nears. Helen Whittington Mary Ella Austin Dorothy Lowe Marie Collie join staff with veteran teachers to fill grades and departments.
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Mount Dora
Helen Whittington
R. A. Whittington
Indiana
Whittington
Mary Ella Austin
Wildwood
Bertha Spear
Marie Collie
Pala Beach
Nelsa O'Hara
Frances Nichols
Dorothy Lowe
Weilersville
Ohio
James Jackson
Alice Strite
D. D. Roseborough
Mount’ Dora
Nana T. Laney
Mount Dora’s
Registration Times Set for Mount Dora Students
Registration opens Thursday Aug 28 at Mount Dora schools for city residents with buses to follow. Elementary pupils register 8:30, juniors 10:00 to 11:30, sophomores and freshmen 2:00 to 3:30, with 11th grade rooms for high schoolers and nine grade room for junior high. Bus pupils collected Friday Aug 29 during routes.
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Mount Dora’s
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LaNelle Vandiver
University of Tennessee
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