Mount Dora teen activities and sports update
Students focus on exams as basketball continues with a home game against Clermont and next week at Umatilla. The Seniors magazine drive runs mid February for class trip funds. Mount Dora 4 H hosted county youths with devotionals and refreshments. Spelling Bee winners were Sandy Spear and Bobby Gore. A birthday hayride honored Mike Stokley with attendees listed.
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Mount Dora
Lake Weir
Sandy Spear
Bobby Gore
Marcie Codding
Record Korner
Johnnie Ray
Angel
Mike Stokley
Mike
Sharon Roach
Lennie Vincenti
Grant Rusell
Roger Roach
Barry Graves
Robert Sadler
Joyce Coffield
June Guest
Bobby Cleary
Merrill Schulster
Mary Helen Huett
John Tremain
Donnie Dake
Marion Poole 84 Dies After Sudden Illness
Marion K Poole 84 a resident of the Grand View hotel died after a sudden illness January 16 at Waterman Memorial hospital Mount Dora Florida. She and her husband Dr Francis A Poole had moved from South Weymouth Mass twenty years ago and leave two sons Gordon C and Francis A Jr and one grandson. Funeral services were held at Rehbaum Funeral home with Dr Robert R Reed officiating and interment in Salem Mass.
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Francis A. Poole
Mount Dora Eastern Star Plans 8 PM Meeting
The Mount Dora chapter of the Order of Eastern Star will hold its regular meeting at 8 p.m. today at the Masonic Temple. Mildred Hardester, the worthy matron, makes the announcement.
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Mount Dora
Order of Eastern Star
Masonic Temple
Mildred Hardester
Plates Available For Sale At Chamber Office
The Chamber of Commerce office will sell license plates on Wednesday February 6. Tax Collector Pearl Cullen announces sales will run throughout the day at the chamber office.
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Chamber of Commerce
Pearl Cullen
Self-Love Necessary In Loving Neighbor
Dr. Robert R. Reed urges kindness and neighbor love in a sermon on The Christian Law of Love. He says love of God inspires love of man and emphasizes self love as spiritual integrity to avoid projecting hate onto others.
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Robert R. Reed
Community
God
Dr. Reed
Christian Science Lecture by Arthur Worth at Eustis
Ar thur P. Worth of Denver Colorado will deliver a free lecture titled Christian Science the answer to the Human Need at the First Church of Christ Scientist Eustis on Monday at 8 p.m.
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Arthur P. Worth
Denver
Col
King's Daughters Report a Productive Year Helping Needy
The Kings Daughters annual report for 1956 shows $997 spent on food for the needy including Thanksgiving and Christmas orders for clothing and shoes. Donations funded medical care, pool building support, and gifts to Care and the Children's Home Society of Florida. They furnished East Town clinic with goods, distributed 30 boxes of toys and 28 boxes of candy, aided a fire victim family, and plan more clothing drives with drop-off at Mrs Constance Fenske's home.
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King’s Daughters
Contance Fenske
Harold Overhiser
John Crosswhite
C. G. Wise
Ie East Town
Children’s Home Society of Florida
Kings Daughters
Fred Andrews
East Town
Constance Fensker
New York State Picnic Planned at Rock Springs
The annual New York State picnic will be held at Rock Springs Saturday afternoon. All New Yorkers are invited, and are to bring a covered dish and their own table service. The item quotes Benjamin Franklin on reforming habits.
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New York State
Rock Springs
Un-American but Adventurous Careers Abroad
Bob Dickson, University of Florida graduate and former Melville sailor, letters from Paris reveal difficulties in France during 1956 1957 including no maids six month waits for electricians oil shortages and a furnace explosion. He later works in Pittsburg and receives a European assignment rising to colonel in the Air Force.
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Anne
Creeias
Bob Dickson
University of Florida
Dan
Paris
Bob
Italy
Norway
Renault
Chevrolet
Dickson
Pittsburg
College of Engineering
Uoff
Bobby
Tommy
R. W. Dickson
Penny Dickson
Mount Dora
Wrong Time Even For Slight Speed
Charles Jameson of Umatilla encountered police on Highland Street as a chase developed with a driver reaching 115 mph from Zellwood to Mount Dora. Officers questioned the claim that speed was due to a baby birth, and Jameson was fined 25 dollars in police court.
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Umatilla
Highland St
Zellwood
Mount Dora
Winter Haven
Jameson
Clinton Hyde
Mr. Jameson
Young James Malone in Eisenhower Inaugural Parade
James Malone son of Mr and Mrs F P Malone of Tangerine joined Culver Military Academy’s Black Horse troop in the grand inaugural parade for President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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Eisenhower
James Malone
F. P. Malone
Culver Military Academy
Rainfall Report For Mount Dora Growers Cooperative
The cooperative notes two days of rain last week yielded 8 inches, bringing the monthly total to 1 inch. Year to date rainfall compares unfavorably to last year, with .7 inch recorded by this time then.
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Mount Dora
Flaming object sighted near Mount Dora sparks Air Force inquiry
Reports circulated Friday night of a flaming, hurtling object seen in the northeast sky above Mount Dora. Citizens reported a whirring noise and a fire streak heading earthward around 8 p.m. but no crash was heard and officials found no evidence of a crash site.
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Air Force
Frida
Mount Dora
Sheriff's Office
UN Hosford
City
Ground Observer Corps
Troy Shaw
Lake Dora
Classified Ad for Rental and Sale in The Opie
A local classified ad in The Opie offers apartment rentals and sale of unwanted articles. Readers can place notices to rent spaces or liquidate personal belongings. No specific agents or locations are mentioned.
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Opie
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