Mount Dora Gathers for Biggest Weekend of Fun
Mount Dora prepares for two-day Lions gala Days of ’49 and a Sunday Regatta. The carnival at Donnelly and Third street and Lake Dora speedboat races draw hundreds. event aims to raise funds for sight conservation. Local leaders Kendall Jones and Bill Prinz oversee planning with new games and comedy shows to entertain all ages.
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Mount Dora
Miami
New Orleans
Lions Club
Chamber of Commerce
Great Lake Dora
Lake Alfred
West Palm Beach
Kendall Jones
Carnival
Bill Prinz
Youth Speaks Tonight On Atomic Peace
Youth from six Lake County high schools compete in the World Peace Essay and Speech contest at Tavares High School auditorium. Local winner Barbara Brown spoke at a Clermont assembly. other contestants include June Heath and Ninian Bloch with judges from the Lake County area.
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Eee
Tavares High School
George ‘Sims
Mount Dora High
Lake
American Legion
Kiwanis and
Rotary Clubs
United World Federalists
Lake County
Clermont
Barbara Brown
William Bess
Louis P. Ford
Tom Cork
Groveland
June Heath
March of Dimes Opens Monday in Lake County
Lake county communities join the nation in America's annual march against infantile paralysis. Coin boxes appear in business places nationwide as people donate coins daily to support the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Oakley Seaver of Clermont chairs the local coin chapter. A. Redidi, Sylvar, Shores are listed among organizers.
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Lake County
America
Oakley Seaver
Clermont
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
I A
iSylvar
Shores
Blonde Forger Mirrors Florida Outsider Influx Issue
A Jacksonville piece profiles a blonde forger among blue uniformed inmates, noting her refined appearance and violated dreams of a luxurious life. The story links her crime to Florida’s open appeal, detailing her shift from attempted theft to sewing uniforms at Raiford and other state institutions as part of a broader criminal-influx concern.
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Florida
Jacksonville
Raiford
Chattahoochee
Gainesville
Marianna
Reiford
Mount Dora Seeks Fiscal Prudence In 1949 Report
Mount Dora releases its annual tax payer report detailing a sound financial year with assets of 246 247.64 dollars and liabilities of 186 941.46. The city reduced bonded indebtedness by 62 000 over three years and posted a 7 714.28 rise in cash balances across funds. It funded tree conservation, rebuilt a fire truck, added a police car and two trucks, renovated the library, and plans a future sewer system with 100 000 dollars set aside from current revenue and bonds to avoid financing charges.
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Mount Dora
Orange Blossom Trail
Florida
United States
Vigem
J. E. Fortner
U.S
Collins
Lake County Personalities Annie Burleigh a Tavares Pioneer
Third in a series on Annie Austin Burleigh 89 a fortitude rooted in a wealthy upbringing then Florida hardship. She recalls the Great Freeze event with Edward as they faced ruin yet chose endurance rebuilding grafts and family life.
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Annie Austin Burleigh
Tavares
Annie Burleigh
U. S
Florida
Burleigh House
Fire ignites in Sumter County records blaze and town damage
Mrs. E S Burleigh helps salvage fireproof files as a blaze consumes store fronts near the tracks. The heat bursts the cabinets holding Sumter county books, spreading to the Peninsula hotel built by Alexander St. Clair Abrams. Annie hides the books at the Burleigh home as Edward and she later attend to graves.
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Sumter County
Tavares
Edward
Penninsula
Alexander St. Clair Abrams
Annie
Burleigh
Pes
Planning Board Elects Collins Selects Objectives
Mount Dora's new Planning Commission plans a fourfold civic program starting Jan. 23 with Community Building. They consider Heim Field lighting, use of city property, beautification of old oak trees, industrial development, city limits extension, centralized purchasing, and swimming facilities. Collins, elected chair, says the board will study each item and report before council action.
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Mount Dora
New Planning Commission
Heim Field
Old Oak
Sylvan Shores
Franklin Park
Marshall Collins
Gladys Crane
D. Fletcher Crane
Collins
George J. White
J. G. Ray, Jr
Carl Graves
Tom Cooley
A. J. Waltz
City Council
White
Chamber of Commerce
Triangle
Eustisrd
Orange Blosson Trail
Franklin
Mount Dora and Lake County Featured in Nationwide Mailings
Mount Dora and Lake County receive broad exposure as over 1,200 Topics are mailed nationwide. The Chamber of Commerce sends copies to states showing interest in visiting or settling in the area, while a second list fills requests for the edition reprinting a Christian Science lecture from the First Church of Christ Scientist in Eustis.
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Mount Dora
Lake County
United States
Chamber of Commerce
Church of Christ, Scientist
Eustis
Mount Dora Community Building debate weighs additions versus repairs
The Planning Commission weighs expanding the 20 year old Community Building versus repairing the roof and east wall to meet present needs. A temporary east wall and defective roofing prompt a permanent wall and roof replacement, with a Jan. 23 meeting to set city plans for Council action.
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Mount Dora
United Nations
Planning Commission
Marshall Collins
J. A. Parsons
J. G. Ray, Jr
Gladys Crane
A. J. Waltz
Waltz
Ray Blanchard
Bass winners in Mount Dora tournament notch heavy haul
A string of large bass entered in Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce Bass Tournament topped this week’s event. Clarence Norris and Seth Minor weighed the prize fish totaling 44 pounds 2 ounces, with individual fish at 11-14 11-8 11-4 and 11-? The winners fished the Wekiva River on the boundary of Lake and Seminole counties using live ban ners. The winter visitor is Sylvan Shores resident from Akron Ohio. Diner, long familiar in the area, built his home last fall and hails from De Ohio suburb of Akron.
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Mount Dora
Clarence Norris
Seth Minor
Wekiva River
Lake
Seminole
Sylvan Shores
Akron
Ohio
Diner
Beari
de Ohio
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March of Dimes
Lake Dora
North America
Mabel Norris Reese
Maine
Dolly
M.su
Dora
E. S. Burleigh
Gramp
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