Mister North Offers $140 In Highway Safety Essay Contest
A mystery donor from the North offers 140 to Lake County students in a highway safety essay contest conducted through County Judge W. Troy Hall Jr. The program will award 10 prizes in each of seven white high schools and seven colored high schools, with county totals of 25 for the best white and 25 for the best Negro student overall. The effort aims to promote sane driving through youth voices.
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Lake Couning
Lake Countians
Babes
Laks County
Florida Highway Patrol
Hall
Mount Dora Man Repeats Drunk and Disorderly Offense
Johnnie Will King of East Town faces another $25 bond in police court on a drunk and disorderly charge. Mount Dora police say King has paid $150 in fines or forfeitures since 1947, suggesting the officer's view that Kingston has little chance of reform.
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Johnnie Will King
Mount Dora
King
East Town
Richard Shipes
Henry's Springtime Opens Festival in Winter Park
Central Florida Drama Festival opens at Winter Park high school auditorium with Edward Horton in Springtime for Henry. First show runs four nights ending Saturday matinee at 2 30. John Huntington introduces famed Broadway stars. next week features O Mistress Mine with Ruth Chatteron.
Mount Dora Men’s Garden Club Enters Second Year With Aim
The Mount Dora Men’s Garden club, now 43 on its rolls, met at the Community building and elected Lester Roberts again as president. He noted a new Boston club with 60 members and outlined 1952 as a year focused on beautification through education and idea exchange, planning a Lake County Flower Show exhibit on grafting and air layering with member-guided demonstrations.
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Men’s Garden Club of
Mount Dora
Lester Roberts
E. F. Merchant
F. M. Hyndman
Bernhard Schroeder
E. A. Nimnicht
W. M. Kennedy
Marion F. Brinker
Mount Dora Men’s Garden Club
Lake Shore Sr
Boston
Mount Dora Club
Lake County
Warning Issued On Fatal Cow Disease Blackleg
County Agent R E Norris reports Blackleg diagnosed in Eustis area a highly contagious cattle disease affecting calves 6 to 18 months old with no cure once infected. Vaccination can prevent. death often occurs within 12 to 36 hours. If an animal dies the carcass should be burned or buried in a deep hole with quicklime. The disease can persist in soil.
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Eustis
R. E. Norris
Norris
Vitamin Store Fallacy As A Cold Preventive
Dr J B Hall argues against vitamins as cold preventives noting no real evidence for diets or stored vitamins, vaccines offer limited benefit, and antihistamine trials showed no clear advantage since many cured without medication. He stresses day to day vitamin use and natural recovery in most colds.
Farm chemicals in good supply for 1952 outlook
County Agent R E Bob Norris cites Clyde Murphree stating that most fertilizer supplies will be adequate in 1952 though nitrogen and potash rise about 5 percent while phosphorus drops 8 percent. Metal and paper containers and materials like sulphur and lead arsenate are scarce. Fertilizer prices may rise about 10 percent from 1950-51. Farm machinery demand is expected to stay strong due to high farm incomes and expanding farm labor.
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R. E
Bob” Norris
Clyde Murphree
Extension Service
Norris
Murphree
Silent Tongues and Power in Human Affairs
The quote contemplates how silence in men rivals speech in power, noting that history shows governance falters more from unruly speech than from quiet restraint. It attributes this to the difficulty of controlling words versus wielding influence.
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Benedict Spinoza
New Farm Year Needs Caution and Growth
Florida farm sectors led by citrus truck crops cattle and dairy show rising cash receipts since 1940. Dr Hamilton warns overvalued agricultural assets and high cattle prices. suggests mechanization improved varieties and science to raise output while noting cautious profit conditions ahead.
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R. E. “Bob” Norris
Florida
H. G Hamilton
Florida Experiment Station
Lake County
Hamilton
Winter Pasture Tour Invites Cattlemen
Lake cattlemen invited to tour several winter pastures Wednesday January 30 starting from the Ta vares courthouse at 1 30. Pastures include upland and muck soils. Tour sponsored by Soil Conservation Service local P M A office and the county agent's office.
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Tavares
Soil Conservation Service
Vegetables to Plant in the Home Garden Now
Vegetables that may be planted at this time include beets broccoli cabbage carrots Chinese cabbage collards lettuce onions mustard potatoes swiss chard and turnips.
New Meat Chief at Economy Super Market
Donald Vance becomes head of the meat department at Economy Super Market after ten years residence in Mount Dora and taking the post last week. The experienced meat dealer is handling top grades of Western beef in the department.
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Economy Super Market
Donald Vance
Mount Dora
Vance
Johnson on home life and true virtue in public view
Samuel Johnson argues that a man is judged by those close to him at home not by appearances or social show. He notes that outward praise and embroidered honor mask genuine character and happiness.
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Samuel Johnson
President's Lady and More Books for Mount Dora Library
Mount Dora Public Library adds new titles including The President's Lady by Irving Stone, The Fortune Tellers by Berry Fleming, Moonfleet by J Meade Falkner, The Conquerors by Thomas B Costain, Salt Rivers of the Massachusetts Shore by Henry F Home, Closing the Ring by Winston Churchill, Picture Book of Radio and Television by Jerome Meyer, and others. The list features fiction and non fiction from a range of authors such as Madeleine L Engle, Ruth Livingston Hill, Willard Price, and Vina Delmar.
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Mount Dora
Berry Fleming
J. Meade Falkner
Bugs Bunny
Bedford
Picture Book of Radio and Television
Jerome Meyer
Democracy rooted in Christianity, says Rev Ketchum
Reverend Marshall Ketchum argues that democracy grows from Christian principles and depends on spiritual roots to survive. He warns that democracy with no spiritual source will wither like a branch severed from a tree trunk.
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Marshall Ketchum
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