Mount Dora Expands Civil Defense Plans
Mount Dora moves to beef up its Civil Defense program expanding the disaster plan with fire police and rescue units. Council names a committee on fallout shelters urging standards and possible tax concessions while Pat Frank will speak at a Sept. 11 meeting.
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Mount Dora
R. O. “Dude” Grantham
Pat Frank
Margaret Lafroos
Dave Bowen
Grantham
John Cain
Cain
Civil Defense
Orlando
Kiwanis Names Delegates to Florida District Convention
Mount Dora Kiwanis Club selects Ed Waite Bernie Mc Cabe and Clayton Gates as delegates to the Florida District Convention at Hollywood Beach on Sept 24 25 The luncheon program features a review of The Story of Mount Dora by the Mount Dora Historical Society and a sermon on liberty and happiness by Rev Charles H Hay at the meeting. The Florida Tourism Steering Committee reports the tourist industry is worth 1 855 billion to the state and seven times larger than citrus.
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Mount Dora
St. Edward's Episcopal Church
Hay
America
Florida
Florida Businessmen Favor Hiring More Mature Workers
Florida businessmen prefer mature trained workers over younger job entrants. Florida Industrial Commission Chairman A Worley Brown cites declines in work certificates for under 18 year olds from 1959 to 1960 and into 1961, noting many minors work without certificates and urging return to school or college. He explains certificates protect both minors and employers under Florida Child Labor Law.
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Tallahassee
Florida
Tate Industrial Commission
A. Worley Brown
Brown
Flor
Accenti Oe
Ig Ple
Howey Academy Opens 1961 62 Registration Schedule
Howey Academy officially opens its 1961 62 academic year on Monday with registration for all students from 9 to 12 in the morning and 1 to 5 in the afternoon Boarding students must be in residence on that date Classes start the following morning Headmaster Dr C A Vaughn Jr notes record enrollment with students from across Florida other tech and many foreign countries
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Howey Academy
C. A. Vaughn, Jr
Florida
Tech
Navy drag parachute drifts to Lake Beauclair near Mount Dora
A Navy jet bomber parachute landed in Lake Beauclair Friday afternoon after a drifting open chute was sighted by many. Sanford Naval Air Station identified the parachute. Mount Dora firefighters Harvey Carwell Jim Davis and Ken Bliss retrieved it with a boat aided by police and sheriff personnel in a rescue style operation.
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Lake Beauclair
Sanford Naval Air Station
E. J. Elting
Harvey Carwell
Jim Davis
Ken Bliss
Mount Dora
van Marker
George M. Ober
Fire Department
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AL Palmer, JR
Kiwanis
Frigidaire
GEW
Hardware
Mount Dora, Florida
S. Bay St
Central
Georgia
General Electric
New Orleans
Forest Heights
Huskey Built Homes, Inc
Elgin
Mathias
Grove Management
Citrus Culture
Citrus Culture Corporation
FORD
Eustis Motor CO
Eustis, Fla
N. Bay St
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