Fun Fair At Veterans Memorial Building In Mount Dora
Veterans Fair and Carnival in Mount Dora under Florida skies attracts locals with rides, games, a sky ride, and a fun house. Exhibits by Mount Dora businesses, garden clubs, and the Mount Dora Art League highlight the Memorial building as its completion centers the event.
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Dorans
Florida
Veterans Memorial
Lake County
Memorial Building
Mount Dora
Lester B. Vincent
Florida's Sunshine Produces Other Than Citrus For Northern Markets
Florida's Sunshine outlines Zellwin Farms at Zellwood growing lettuce carrots Chinese cabbage kohlrabi collards and corn for northern markets. The 800 acre operation employs 200 workers to harvest and ship corn May through June and exports to New York while owners Robert Stewart Frank Dutton and Ken Jorgensen run the business formerly Beechnut property. The farm sits along the Orange Blossom Trail south of Mount Dora with irrigation from local lakes.
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Florida
Cele
Dora
Zellwin Farms
Zellwood
Zellwin
New York
Mount
Femme G and Dutton
Mount Dora
California to Send Fastest Racers to Dora Regatta
California drivers join Dora Yacht Club Regatta on February 6 with top west coast entries. Loren z touted for daring outfit after last season’s Class E Inboard Runabout win. Santa Monica’s Penning ton praised for skill. Charles F. Chapman and Referee Jack Horsley to time and officiate. Bob Flagg of APBA boards will travel from Chicago as nearly 100 boats compete for a $1,600 prize purse.
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California
Chamber of Commerce Yacht Club
Dora
West Coast
Lorenz
Pennington
Santa Monica
Charles F. Chapman
Motor Boating Magazine
Jack Horsley
Orlando
Horsley
Bob Flagg
APBA
Chicago
Death Ends Dream for New Mount Dora Family
Mrs Fitch H Staffinger mourns as husband Mr Stafinger dies suddenly at 75 after moving from Nelsonville Ohio to Mount Dora three weeks earlier. He was a Spanish American War veteran. The widow plans to return the body to Nelsonville for the funeral.
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Fitch H. Staffinger
Mr. Staffinger
Staffingers
Mount Dora
Dora
Nelsonle
Ohio
Staffinger
Nelsonville
Harry Thomas 59 of Sorrento Dies Suddenly
Harry Thomas, 59, of Sorrento, died suddenly at home on Monday. A retired legacydener, he was an elder of the Presbyterian church in Sorrento. He is survived by his wife, a son Robert of Ferndale, Mich., and three grandchildren. Burial will be in Columbia, Tennessee, his former home.
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Harry ‘Thomas
Sorrento
Presbyterian Church
Surin
Robert
Ferndale
Mich
Columbia, Tenn
Dora Fourth In Lake Drive Chamber Membership Rise
Lake County Chamber of Commerce reports a 128 percent membership gain in Mount Dora. The surge places Dora fourth in the county's overall community membership ratings, with 288 new memberships added across the chamber area.
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Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Mount Dora
Dora
Chamber of Agenmerce
Louise Diebold Dies in New York City Memorial
Louise Diebold, long time Mount Dora resident and Woman's club member, died Monday in New York City where she had a summer home. Survived by four sisters and a brother, burial in Canton Ohio with Dr Daniel A Poling officiating.
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Louise Diebold
Woman's Club
Miss Diebold
New York City
Mount Dora
Daniel A. Poling
Mrs Barker Injured En Route to Dora Florida Trip
Mrs. Barker suffers a fractured left arm after a fall while traveling from Deansboro New York to Mount Dora Florida. She and Mr Barker paused in Childs Pennsylvania to visit relatives and she is recuperating at St Joseph’s Hospital in Childs.
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Florida
Deansboro
N. Y
John Barker
Childs
Dora's Queen Title Won At Miami Sports Show
Patsy Wells, nine, daughter of Mrs. Miller Wells, was crowned Miss Skish for 1949 in Miami at the Sportsman's show, with 1,500 in attendance. Dora's Caster's Club members, though not prize winners, drew acclaim for rod and reel skills and debut in Florida's first junior caster group under Margo Hosford in Mount Dora.
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Dora
Lois Driver
Florida
Patsy Wells
Miami
Port
Patsy
Miller Wells
Margo Hosford
Mount Dora
Some Real Giving Needed In Lake County Drive
William A. Redd Jr. chairs a Lake County March of Dimes drive as funds lag. Residents are urged to drop change into local boxes to reach a $4500 goal while Mount Dora students lead with $227, the largest local total yet. The national drive ends Saturday. locally half stays for braces and hospital care, the other half funds national research and Warm Springs foundation support.
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William A. Redd, Jr
Lake County
Redd
Mount Dora
Warm Springs Foundation
Local Tangerine Co. founders and a family citrus legacy
Buck Sadler and Gin Sadler run the Tangerine Fruit Co. near Mount Dora on the Orange Blossom Trail. The piece recalls the Sadler grove on Lake Ola, the budwood program from two standout Navel trees, and the family history including Dr. Orin W. Sadler Sr. and Buck’s upbringing in Florida’s grove belt.
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Orin W. Sadler, Sr
California
Sadler
Lake Ola
Sadlers
Tangerine Fruit Co
Buck
Florida
Grove
Sam Sadler
Orin W. Sadler, Jr
Josephine Simpson
Tangerine
Mount Dora
Orange County
O. M. Simpson
Sadler-Simpson
Fifth Av
Rich mond lighter-than-air base tie to early Sadler family
S. S. Sadler Jr aided construction of the Richmond lighter-than-air base at Miami serving as assistant to the chief accountant. In 1944 he received his greetings from the president and joined the Navy for 32 months. He later started a packing house on Route 441 near Tangerine as the Florida Sadlers expanded from groves once owned by W. E. Hudson.
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Richmond
Miami
Navy
Route 441
Florida Sadlers
W. E. Hudson
Hudson Subdivision
Florida citrus group signs 1.6 million boxes at Lake meeting
District Two of Florida Citrus Mutual led by Lake and Hernando counties signed up more than 1 600 000 boxes at a Lake Howey in the Hills meeting. The gathering urged cooperation to save the industry after a million dollars lost in two weeks of disorganized shipping.
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Florida Citrus Mutual
Howey-in-the-Hills
Lake, Hernando
Citrus
Jim Morton Resting as Miss Mutual Marries Citrus
Jim Morton, organizing director of Florida Citrus Mutual, is in Orlando Sanitarium on doctors orders for complete rest. He cannot attend as Miss Mutual signs contracts to unite Florida citrus growers with the mutual association, leaving Mer ton L. Corey to lead wooing efforts until the 75 percent of citrus tonnage is secured.
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Jim Morton
Florida
Miss Citrus Mutual
Florida Citrus Mutual
Orlando
Mutual
New York
CofC Dinner To Attract Over 200 Guests
More than 200 reservations are in for the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner at the Community building Friday at 6 30 p m. Dr J Hillis Miller president of the University of Florida will speak. Six new directors will be elected after the dinner as part of the chamber’s governance and membership drive.
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Chamber of Commerce
Commerce
J. Hillis Miller
University of Florida
Miller
Chamber
George J. White
Atlanta
Federal Reserve System
Florida University
al Rehbaum, Sr
Carl Graves
Dick Edgerton
A. C. Quixley
W. M. Kennedy
O. M. Simpson
al Rehbaum, Jr
D. Feener Crane
Myron Cronwalt
Heist Observes National Citrus Week at Mount Dora School
Jack Heist of Carlton Groves distributed bags of fully ripe fruit to elementary students at Mount Dora School during National Citrus Week. Each child received all they could eat as fruit was opened in the rooms. Mrs. Charlotte Be, a second grade teacher, called the scene wonderful as fruit seemed to fall everywhere.
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Jack Heist
Carlton Groves
Mount Dora
Charlotte
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