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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1950
Page
6
A plastic company introduces a five piece set of rectangular freezer safe bowls with one quart size two pint sizes and two ten ounce sizes. The lids are rigid and transparent for stacking and visibility the tray nests three compartments and can double as a relish tray. Optional gusseted plastic bags store perishables from lemon halves to turkeys and are reusable after washings.
A speaker invokes divine guidance to end hostilities as sunlight reveals a transformative moment. He pleads that people share God's love, stop killing brothers abroad, and demand a government that voices compassion. The scene unfolds with dawn over lakes and fields as he asks for observance on his birth anniversary.
Stewart Henry Self of Umatilla was elected president and William Stewart of Mount Dora vice-president of the Lake County League of Municipalities at the annual dinner in Clermont. Karl Lehmann was secretary-treasurer and Mayor L C Vogt of Eustis was program chairman. Stewart showcased Mount Dora’s new vote counting device, counting 50 ballots in seconds, replacing the old manual counting method. The next league meeting will be in Leesburg on February 15.
Mount Dora youth Grover T. Hollon serves in the U S Navy aboard the USS Dixie in the Far East area, the Navy announces.
The amendments expand eligibility for mothers and wives, allow payments to widows with minor children, and grant wage credits for World War II service. Widows of service members may qualify for survivors benefits, even with veterans compensation. Self employed and domestic workers gain coverage, expanding protections for working women and their dependents.
A collection of Christmas reflections urging charity and brotherhood. Quotes from King George VI Dr. Daniel L Marsh Dr Edgar DeWitt Jones Rt Rev William Manning and Henry Ward Beecher emphasize love forgiveness grace and the Golden Rule as guiding principles for the holiday season.
Eleven year old Ann Whitehead is named the Lake County junior tennis champion for December after a children’s tournament at Mount Dora’s court last Saturday.
The Lake County Chapter of the American Red Cross seeks a new executive secretary after Burton Brown retires January 15 to return to the Florida Telephone Corp. as Leesburg district commercial manager. Brown served two and a half years and was a WWII U S Army field director.
George R. Daniels 79 died at his home on W Ninth Street Saturday after living in Eustis. He is survived by his widow Emma J. Daniels a brother A F Daniels of Macatee New York and a sister Nellie Adams of Castle Creek New York. Funeral services were conducted Monday by Rev Robert M Blackburn of the First Methodist Church with burial in Forest Cemetery.
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