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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1953
Page
6
Mount Dora responds to the 1953 TB seal drive in early weeks with $1,026 raised in the town and $5,790 countywide. Atty. Roy Christopher, seal sale chairman, notes the city still trails the 1952 total by over $400 while hoping for broader support to fund tuberculosis work. He thanks buyers using seals on packages and mail.
Mount Dora junior and senior high schools report honor roll attainment fell from 57 to 53 in the second six weeks of the term. The list names students across grades nine through 12 including David Baldwin Rita Edge Verline Hughes John Keller Roy Landis Janet Snowberger Linda Wood ham Fred Roseborough Glenn Brown and more.
Lake County Chamber of Commerce directors hold December meeting as a picnic at Alexander Springs to dedicate the new administration building and bath house. Public invited with reservations via the Chamber office in Tavares. Picnic luncheon at 1 p.m. Guests include Congressman Syd Herlong Jr Emmet L Hill Florida Board of Parks and Historic Memorials L S Newcomb forest supervisor W H Croke and county commissioners.
Mrs Henry Brown is ill at home on Lake It. Winter visitors return to Tangerine including Mr and Mrs Harry E Davis Brookville Ohio Mr and Mrs George Teevan Brookly N Y and Mr and Mrs Burch Chaney Springfield Ohio The Tangerine Improvement Society held a monthly meeting at the Community House with 62 members and planned a Christmas tree Santa Claus exchange and Advent center piece A delightful at home hosted by Frank J Petura for 30 friends including Mount Dora and Tangerine residents Newcomers Robert Douglas and family and William Hallenstein with son move into Jepson apartments and work at Mount Dora Sunoco station
The Mount Dora Florida elementary on Fifth Avenue shows crowded fourth grade rooms used for a spelling bee due to lack of an assembly space. Two pupils share seats while teachers Mrs Jimmie Batton and Miss Rhoda Todd Horton supervise matches. Gloria Fecteau 9 demonstrates geography in social studies with pupils David Ingram Mary Lou Haskins Wanda Stewart Sonja Holt visible in the layout.
Florida students learn about Spain and the Congo and the Amazon valley while studying history and geography. A frieze of South America helps visualize life and people, and Seminole life prompts drawings from storybooks to connect worlds and cultures.
In Lake county hospitals this week are Mrs. Fred Rubidge Col Lambert Turner Sylvan Shores boss ey oe ding and Thomas Codding rd Waterman Memorial aoe and J. H. Jubb Sanford rd Durham Young Leesburg listed among patients and staff names.
The Sorrento Home Demonstration club hosts a rum mage sale Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. in town. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. James Riccard of Ocala and Mr. and Mrs. Axel Anderson of Leesburg. The Sorrento Mount Plymouth Civic club meets with Talbot Simpson of Mount Dora as guest speaker. The Christmas party committee led by Mrs. Pim plans a community sing and gifts for children on December 21 at 8 p.m.
Bill Brown of Lake Shore Jr. won the beagle hound awarded by Mount Dora High School’s Senior class. The puppy was a gift to the class from Dick Reynolds, manager of Economy Super Market.
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