Ocala School Program Highlighted At BPW Meeting
The Ocala School for Girls rehabilitation program was presented by Miss Freda Eckstein at the BPW Christmas gathering in Mount Dora. Pictures of the facility and its work with delinquent girls were shown. Gifts for inmates and Mount Dora needy were collected, and tickets for the January Fashion Revue went on sale.
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Ocala School For
Rls
Freda Eckistein
Industrial School
Eustis
Mount Dora’s
Mount Dora
Florence LaBarte
Chamber of Commerce
Riley
Heller Urges Change in U.S. Foreign Aid Spending
Hobbs club hears speaker denouncing the U.S. debt of 272 billion and foreign aid. He blasts the Truman Atchinson regime growth at the State Department and 42 000 employees plus 9 000 mutual security staff. He warns future generations will shoulder the debt and calls for a think conference on the issue. He notes differing views on Russia.
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U. S
England
France
Italy
U. S. State Department
Truman - Atchinson
Europe
State Department
Congress
America
Heller
Russia
Hobby Show Is Friday at Mount Dora Art League
Mount Dora Art League announces Hobby Night this Friday at 8 p.m. in the Community building with paintings on display. Members also show works on Tuesdays and Thursdays 2 to 5 p.m. at the Public Library and participate in ceramics photography basket weaving and allied crafts. The Writers Group meets next Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the press to discuss manuscripts on Us runner and Glaciers.
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Mount Dora Art League
Art League
League
Dora Gardeners Show Ability
The Lakes and Hills Garden club celebrates member achievements. Mrs Paul Johnson will be highlighted next month for her tri color arrangement winning at the 1953 Lake County Flower Show and pictured in Florida Gardener. Camellia society members gathered for a December lecture by Mrs Carl S Graves of Mount Dora with Mrs Slater Cox and Mrs Vernon L Conner serving as judges at the Orlando Christmas Flower show.
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Pilots Fete
Edith McBride Cameron
Extension Division
Florida
Lake County
Pilot, International
Women’s Service Organization
Pilot Club
Grand View Hotel
Eustis
Mount Dora
Mari Clark
Cameron
Sara McCain
Ruth Wells
Sophia Story
Fannie Spilky
Lakes and Hills
Carl S. Graves
Slater Cox
Vernon L. Conner
Graves
Orlando
Quote by Bryan on cities and farms
Bryan argues cities rebuilt after destruction while farms govern the nation, urging preservation of agrarian land over urban ruin and invoking prairie abundance as a national foundation.
Council Delays Cemetery Survey Over Budget and Land Talks
City Council delays hiring an expert to advise cemetery planning at a $400 cost. Cemetery chair Esther Wyatt Bishop urges land purchases for future expansion and a higher superintendent wage, while budget constraints push a slow approach to street repairs and wage studies. The planned land sale traces back to 1945 foundations, with rising cemetery income shown in prior years.
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Esther Wyatt Bishop
Bishop
Lou L. Heaton
Religion and cemetery fund deficit raise questions 1953 note
A 1953 account cites that the jump was not due to higher lot costs last summer and that no funds were moved to the cemetery fund, which now shows a deficit of 1371 dollars. The speaker calls for renewed strength to fulfill existing duties rather than new light or paths. Tyron Edwards.
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Tyron Edwards
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BPW
Ocala
PINK
Eustis, Fla
Make Brown's
Dora Gardeners
William Jennings Bryan
Cortland’s
McGregor
Manhattan
Tulane
Wembley
Fifth Avenue
Council
Bel Air
Chevrolet
Fisher
USW Women OF Excellence
Clark Chevrolet, Inc
Eustis, Florida
Orange Ave
Post Office
Radians
Bown Pelt
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