Tree as Nation Weapon Inspires Mount Dora Arbor Day
Mount Dora students heard Arbor Day remarks likening trees to national weapons in a talk by W. H. Croke and others. Earl B. Ferson led the planting ceremony honoring the 92-year-old school supporter as about 150 trees were planted citywide. The event launched a five year state program with garden club sponsorship and a Bottle Brush tree ceremony at the school.
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Mount Dora
America
Earl B. Ferson
Ned Va Ilergrae
Mount Ra
W. H. Croke
Umatilla
U. S. Forest Service
Russia
Men’s Garden Club
Lester Roberts
Conserva
Florida
Slater Cox
Lakes and Hills
East Town
FSU Trio Delights Community Forum with Music Masters
Florida State University instructors Herman Gunter Mary Esther Winslow and Owen Sellers performed at the Community Forum in Mount Dora. Gunter sang Verdi and Other works with acclaim, Winslow impressed on piano with Dohnanyi and Chopin selections, while Sellers offered cello pieces despite a prior arm injury.
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Florida State University
Herman Gunter
Mary Esther Winslow
Owen Sellers
Robert R. Reed
Gunter
Planting Ceremony At Milner Rosenwald Academy Honors Mrs Russell
A ceremonial tree planting at Milner Rosenwald Academy honors Mrs E B Russell who taught there for 18 years before her sudden death last year. Principal C Q O Lott praised community cooperation as essential to national welfare. Attendees included Rita Conley John Smith John Haddock Larry Stewart Nina Joyce Timmons among others with Rev Robert M Blackburn delivering the invocation.
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Milner- Rosenwald Academy
E. B. Russell
C. QO. Lott
Milner- Rosenwald
America
East Town
Rita Conley
John Smith
John Haddock
Larry Stewart
Nina Joyce Timmons
Corda Burns
Patricia Tucker
Walter Herod
Hugh Conley
Joyce Combs
Josephine Brown
Mary Kay Rehbaum
Floyd Bagwell
Dell Hill
Joan Burley
Pick Talley
Larry Smith
Janie Huett
Robert
Sheriff Willis McCall Backed by National Sheriff Editorial
A January issue of National Sheriff defended Willis McCall of Lake County amid criticism over the Groveland case. The piece recalls an incident near Umatilla when McCall fought off an attack by two prisoners while changing a tire, arguing officers face danger without time for bureaucratic permissions.
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Willis McCall
Lake County
McCall
Walter Irvin
Sam Shepherd
Raiford State Prison
Groveland
Weirsdale
Umatilla
Sheriffs’ Magazine
United States Supreme Court
Peniten
Groveland Trial Delayed as Witness Bears Son
The Groveland Story moves ahead Feb 11 in Ocala. A Leesburg hospital welcomed a 7% pound baby boy born last Saturday. The victim of the 1949 attack has returned to her Bay Lake home. retrial awaits Walter Lee Irvin as the sole defendant.
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Groveland
Ocala
Leesburg
Bay Lake
Walter Lee Irvin
Prisoner Attack During Trail Sparks Sheriff Killing One Wounding Another
A tire puncture halted a planned execution in Mount Dora as two handcuffed prisoners attacked the sheriff during tire repair. The sheriff killed one and wounded the other, an act contrasted by a distant New Yorker’s remark. A golf offer at Mount Dora Golf Course lists $1.50 all day.
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Associated Press
Stalin
Mount Dora Golf Course
Sanford minister seeks church members in Mount Dora
Rev. W. H. Grantham of the Christian church in Sanford asks if any church members in Mount Dora would like to attend services. He hopes to learn of interested individuals to join a possible visit or event.
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W. H. Grantham
Christian Church of
Sanford
Mount Dora
Church Appeal Invites Sanford Help from Members
A call at the Sanford church invites interested individuals to contact the speaker there, suggesting a communal effort. The quote Circumstances do not shape men, but reveal them by Lamennais is referenced beside the appeal.
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