Mount Dora Public School Renovation Underway
Mount Dora Public School undergoes extensive improvements to handle growing enrollment. The plan includes reorganizing classes, adding a 16 by 48 foot music barracks, moving Ing into building No. 7, and using No. 1 as an art school. Classrooms are being painted, cement walks laid to the gym, magnolias trimmed, and an assembly building is planned to host dramatics and graduation with home rooms and student councils to follow. Funding comes from conserved tax allotments, with $10,000 allocated for summer work ahead of the fall term.
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Ing
No. 7
No. 1
Louis Coleman
Florida Council For the Blind
Clayton St
No. 3
Lake County
Mount Dora
Crane
Fifth Ave
Dorans Meet With Orange Board On Hyacinths
Mount Dora delegation and county officials plan talks with Orange County commissioners to seek budgeted hyacinth control funds for Lake Apopka and nearby lakes. Members include Paul Milner, W E Holler, Tom Cooley, William Kennedy, and Harold Goforth seeking joint weed clearance.
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Mount Dora
Ers
Orange County
Orange Commission
Lake Apopka
Dora
Paul Milner
Chamber of Commerce
W. E. Holler
Breezy Point
Heller Urges Prosperity Plan At Mount Dora Lions
W E Holler of Breezy Point told Mount Dora Lions that lowering the budget and cutting taxes by four billion dollars could prevent a recession. He predicted a decade of prosperity with a high national income, and stressed full employment and salesmanship as keys to rebuilding the economy.
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United States
W. E. Holler
Heller
Chevrolet Motors
Holler
Mount Dora reform plans and Fletcher Crane profile
Mount Dora plans for school renovations surface alongside a Personalities feature on Fletcher Crane, Mount Dora Furniture Co. founder and school board member. The piece sketches Crane’s reticence and long term vision including a modern Crane Furniture Co. store at either his current site or the Fourth and McDonald location, tracing the Crane family’s Florida arrival around 1875 and Crane family ties to the town.
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Mount Dora
Fletcher Crane
Crane Furniture Co
Crane
Wessl
Mr. Crane
Denths Sear
Ae Pamela
Fourth and
McDonald
Dora
Florida
D. F. Gorham
Gorham
J. H. Crane
Fletcher Crane Life in Local Business and Public Service
Fletcher Crane, town councilman and later mayor, built a career from Rehbaum Hardware to his own business after acquiring the furniture line in 1928. His political service spanned years with romance to Gladys Wise, daughter of boat-builder Harry Wise, and a long marriage noted as twenty four years.
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Fletcher
Rehbaum Hardware Co
al Rehbaum
Rehbaum Furniture
Gladys Wise
Harry Wise
Meep A Rabet
Roosters Quiet Down City Noise Ordinance
Residents report roosters crowing inside city limits disturb sleep. Dogs bark in response and the mayor cannot personally lecture every chicken owner. The note implies fried chicken as a humorous solution to enforcement.
Nelle Marie Flies At Fifteen a Fearless Local Star
Nelle Marie Conner of Mount Dora excels in sports and flying at 15, with a sailor’s nerve and a future in aviation. She enjoys basketball, drum majorettes, and any school sport, while her Navy veteran boyfriend Jim Tew supports her flying ambitions. The profile recalls her fearless energy from babyhood and a first flight in 1946.
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Nelle Marie Conner
Majorette Nelle Marie
Jim Tew
University of Florida
Sweeth
Tecate
Nelle Marie
Florida
Sanford
Dora
Owen Conners
Lake Jem
Jim
Mount Dora Welcomes $75,000 Concrete Industry
Mount Dora and Lake County embrace a new industry, Concrete Materials Co., valued at 75000 dollars, to create jobs amid citrus slack. Kenneth A Depew will operate the plant south of Lake Deen near the railroad, with six buildings planned on 24 acres, first foundation laid this week, and initial output for a home.
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Mount Dora
Lake County
Golden Triangle
Eustis and
Tavares
Concrete Materials Co
Lake Deen
Lake Saunders
Kenneth A A. Deew
L. R. Tremain
B. T. Tiller
J. E. Fortner
Florida
Fortner
Depew
Lakeside pool faces health inquiry over infections
The State Board of Health may investigate Lakeside pool after a rise in lymphatic and throat infections among children. A local physician says the pool operates without proper authorization and should be chlorinated, as water changes may not fix the health risk.
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State Board of Health
Lakeside
Board of Health
Lake County
Leesburg
Dora
Red Cross
Jimmie Wetz
Wetz
Handicraft Initiative Offered at Mount Dora Youth Center
Youth Center invites boys and girls to join a new handicraft activity this Friday at 7 p.m. Walter Patton Jr. will guide ideas and welcome teen input. The center will be open each Friday and Saturday evening for handicraft work and other amusements for young people.
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Mount Dora
Walter Patton, Jr
Mount Dora Business Directory Mixed Up and Outdated
Mount Dora readers are warned that the Topic Page 7 directory mislists current businesses and officials. It still shows Goodman as a barber and places like Crane’s beauty parlor near the bank, while several names and offices differ from active records.
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Mount Dora
Fifth Ave
Donnelly
Goodman
Donnelly St
M. V. Simpson
J. B. Griswold
C.m.gudgeon
D. F. Crane
Mabel Cleary
George Keller
Dave Simpson, Jr
J. E. Fortner
Bill Stewart
al Rehbaum, Jr
Dick Eddy
J. M. Turner
Rollin Javens
Lillian Christie
Rolly Morse
Somm ‘Mering
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Mount Dora’s
Fifth
Clayton
Dorans
Lions
America
Mabel Norris Reese
Kenneth A. Depew
Mrs. Depew
East
David O. Depew
Depews
New York
Riley's Park
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