America Should Adopt Policy Of Soviet Dismemberment
Dr. E. E. Lewis of Ohio State urged a shift from appeasement and containment to dismemberment of Russia to avert world domination. He warned that communism seeks global rule, outlined Marxist goals, and stressed thought control, party dictatorship, and education as tools, urging readiness to strike first if necessary.
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America
Mount Dora
Russia
Life Magazine
Lewis
Communist Party
Marx
Engels
Russian Teachers’ Union
Mount Dora Eyes City Power Plant Move
Mount Dora City Council revived a two year old plan to build a city owned generating plant. They informed Florida Power Corp they do not intend to renew the precall contract expiring October 1951. Councilman Ernie Mosteller urged that renewal would wrong the citizens and argued a city plant could cut rates and provide a more dependable power supply. The city currently buys power from Florida Power and resells it locally.
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Mount Dora
Florida Pe Corp
Ernie Mosteller
Mosteller
Conage
Counape
Woman Speaker to Head Federalist Forum Sunday
This Sunday at 4 p.m. in the community building the Federalist Forum will hear Mrs. David M. Wright of Bartow discuss "This Is Our Problem." A recess follows. no forum Feb 25 due to Animated Magazine at Rollins College. March 4 features Dr. George Sante on world federation proposed by United World Federalists.
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David M. Wright
Bartow
Rollins College
George Sante
Rollins
United World Federalists
E. E Lewis
America
Russia
Lewis
Forum
World Federation
Wright
Josephine Simpson
Swift & Co
Red Cross Budget Raised in Lake County for 1951
Lake county approves an increased Red Cross budget of about 30 percent to support armed forces service and dependents care, civilian defense, and disaster relief. Judge W. Troy Hall Jr. says funds fund home nursing and first aid training while Lake County shares with the national organization. Campaign starts March 1 and runs until minimum needs are met.
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Lake County
American Red Cross
W. Troy Hall, Jr
Red Cross
National
Red Cross Fund
Hall
City Considers Sidewalk Plan Near School and Clayton St
Mayor D Fletcher Crane and the city council review a PTA request for sidewalks near the school and study widening Clayton Street. The one way street past the school was created to reduce traffic congestion during school hours, raising concerns for child safety. Crane chairs the sidewalk bid study committee.
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D. Fletcher Crane
Parent-Teacher Association
Clayton St
PTA
Crane
Mount Dora 4-H Club To Beautify Lake Dora Shoreline
Mount Dora 4-H Boys Club trustees plan beautification and a nursery site along a 100 foot shoreline strip past the Mount Dora Fish Camp. At a council meeting the club requested the land be used for planting citrus and flowers until the city reuses the area, with approval granted on President Jack Norris’s request.
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Mount Dora
Lake Dora
Jack Norris
Mount Dora Fish Camp
Frances Gravelee Welfare Worker Fights War’s Aftermath
Frances Gravelee of Lake County works for the State Welfare department out of Leesburg to aid families broken by war. She handles 260 case leads, aims for 100, and notes the rise in indigent children since 1945 amid postwar strain. Her background includes a Tavares upbringing, Stetson and Florida State College, and marriage to Buddy Gravelee with wartime service and moves to mount Dora and Tavares.
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Frances Gravelee
Welfare Womman
Frances
C. C. Gravelee
Tavares
State Welfare Department
Leesburg
Lake County
Mount Dora
Mosley
Tavares High School
Stetson
Florida State C College
Tallahassee
Buddy” Gravelee
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
West Indies
Eeien
War and Welfare Work Highlight Moral Decline in Florida
Frances recalls how wartime strain erodes community morals as soldiers depart from normal life. In Lake County she observes fragile homes and couples like a returning soldier and his wife facing trouble after war. The piece notes welfare work confronting unresolvable cases and uncertain futures.
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Florida
Frances
Lake County
Warning Issued On Itinerant Lawn Saviours
Police Chief Richard Shipes warned residents to scrutinize itinerant lawn care sellers offering low cost rejuvenation. A Mount Dora resident faced a $350 bill for 75 cent baskets after a promising $35 to $40 job, while another outfit was halted awaiting a chamber permit. Orlando landscape authority M J Daetwyler said such preparations cost about $15 per truck-load and can damage lawns.
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Richard Shipes
Mount Dora
Shipes
Chamber of Comerce
M. J. Daetwyler
Orlando Landscape Authority
Men’s Garden Club
Six Mount Dora Women In Waterman Memorial Hospital
Six Dorans residents are hospitalized at Waterman Memorial hospital this week in conditions described as fairly good to poor. The patients named are Mrs. Wilhelmina Bertine, Mrs. Minie Moore, Mrs. Lee Burkhalter, Mrs. Isabell Hazelwood, Mrs. Agnes McKimmy, and Mrs. Irene Beasley.
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Mount Dora
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Wilhelmina Bertine
Minie Moore
Lee Burkhalter
Isabell Hazelwood
Agnes McKimmy
Irene Beasley
Mount Dora Chamber kicks off 400 member drive
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce opens its annual membership drive with a Lakeside Inn breakfast aiming for 400 members at ten dollars each and four thousand dollars total. George J. White is reelected president for his 22nd year, with Al Rehbaum and Carl Graves as vice presidents and Elizabeth Siess as secretary treasurer.
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Chamber of Commerce
Richard Edgerton
G. B. “Crip” Hurlburt
J. E. Fortner
George J. White
W. M. Kennedy
al Rehbaum
Roy Christopher
Carl S. Graves
R. C. Bardwell
Kendall Jones
O. M
Jack” Simpson
Mount Dora
Lakeside Inn
Elizabeth Siess
Chamber
Paul Turrentine
A. C. Quixley
Ernest Mosteiler
White
Lehmann Urges Daily Prayer At World Day Event
Hundreds filled Mount Dora First Baptist Church for World Day of Prayer with Gov. Karl Lehmann urging daily prayer to build a relationship with God. The observance, part of a city wide effort by churches and civic groups, reached over 1,600 people including schools and kinders, with $181 raised for United Council of Church Women projects.
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First Baptist Church
Karl Lehmann
God
Mount Dora
King’s Daughters
The
Lions
Kiwanis
James H. Sutley
Baptist Church
East Town
United Council of Church Women
Mount Dora City to Buy Second Police Car
Mount Dora council approved purchasing a new police car and designating the existing vehicle as an auxiliary city car. The radio system will be moved from the old car to the new unit, expanding departmental capability.
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Mount Dora
Law and Peace Through World Federation, Kay Urges
Russell Kay, secretary of the Florida Press association, writes that long discussed world federation is needed beyond the United Nations. He notes the Tampa United World Federalists gathering and argues for global law and order, peaceful cooperation, and a stronger world body to prevent wars and secure mankind’s future.
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Russell Kay
Florida Press Association
World Federation
United Nations
Kay
United World Federalists
Tampa
Gasparilla
Council
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E. E. Lewis
Ohio State University
Community Forum
Visposa
City Hall
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Jean Patterson
Marianna Clark
Marvin Lindsay
General Electric Co
Slater Cox
Civic Enterprise
Lindsay
Cox
Grand View Hotel
Mabel Norris Reese
Gravelee
Dorans
Says Lehmann
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