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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1962
Page
5
Spanish folk art from the Museum of International Folk Art Santa Fe is shown at the Center land Research Center 301 W Packwood Ave. The exhibit highlights frontier mission church religious carvings and paintings from the 16th to 18th centuries focusing on Christ Child and Holy Family themes. A separate ongoing display features Thailand's arts and crafts with new pieces including a bronze Buddhist statue circa 1300. Exhibits are free to the public.
Two films titled To Smoke or Not to Smoke and Is Smoking Worth It are offered to Lake County schools through the Lake County Unit of the American Cancer Society. The office of the superintendent of public instruction in Tavares handles access, with a doctor or unit representative available for school showings. The society urges all schools especially high schools to screen them and notes they are also suitable for clubs churches and other organizations. A card or letter to the Lake County Unit will receive prompt attention.
The notice states access times from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and 1 to 5 p.m. on Tuesdays through Friday, with 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
The Sorrento community reports a quiet Christmas preparation with carol singing postponed for a Civil Defense plan reading by V. Lent. Fire damage at Woods home minor. bazaar, lights, and street-light project glow as residents register for the outside decorations contest. George and Janice Richardson return. Janice made Carson-Newman Homecoming Queen. Mr. Albert Lee, church minister, celebrates anniversary. etc.
The Tangerine Improvement Society met at the Hall last Wednesday with Harold Plum presiding. Plans for a December 19 pot luck supper, a special Christmas program, a needy food box, carol singing, and the Dickens Christmas Carol film were announced.
Eugenia Hodges will address the Golden Triangle Republican Women's Club at the American Legion Hall in Eustis on Monday Dec 17 at 10 a.m. She taught introductory foreign languages and recently ran for the Volusia County School Board. A 1957 Outstanding Citizens Award recipient, she now lives in Ormond Beach. Coffee at 9:30 and the social hour precede the 10 a.m. meeting. Members should bring handmade Christmas gifts to sell.
Lake County gasoline tax receipts for November 1962 totaled 144,262 dollars, up 11,000 from the previous year, per Ray E. Green State Comptroller. Seven cent gasoline tax applied to 2,060,886 gallons sold in the county.
Four Lake County PEO chapters host a reciprocity luncheon December 19 at 12 30 PM in the Florida Room Tradewinds Cafe. Unaffiliated PEO members traveling in Lake County are invited with no reservations required. Chapter presidents names and officers are listed, with Mount Dora and Leesburg leaders arranging table decorations and a post luncheon program on Christmas bows titled Seals and Ws.
At Mrs E B Wood home on Monday a large gathering heard President Mrs R D Larue lead and Dr Irma Miller note over 50 bed socks made for Sunland Training Center. Needy food was collected as a Christmas project and Devotions, carols led by Mrs Wood, short stories read by Mrs H E Davis, with refreshments served by Mrs N Dan Brady and Mrs Frank Petura. Hostesses included Mrs Wood and Mrs Hull Hershey Standke.
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