Give Truth A Sporting Chance Dear Joe Ultimatum On Communism
A U S A citizen writes to Joseph Stalin urging a battle of ideas over communism. He argues that America’s system, faith in God, and constitutional rights warrant a sporting chance to win hearts and minds, proposent FBI action against Communist influence, and propose outlawing communism in the United States and United Nations if needed. He contrasts American freedom with Soviet censorship and calls for a peaceful, truth driven victory.
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Joe
Adolph Hitler
Benito Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Isc Ee
Oyet
Hitler
Mussolini
God
Apo
Alga
Meade
Eden
Russia
Ameri
United States
Stalin
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Thesevere
Coal Teans
Universal Brotherhood
F.B.I
United Nations
Dora Methodists Consider Adopting Displaced European Family
Mount Dora's Dora Methodist Church may adopt a European refugee family. Pastor Rev. Robert M. Blackburn reports the church official board supports the plan and will seek congregational approval within two weeks. Carlton Knorr offers housing for a family of three. Overseas Relief covers boat passage.
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Europe
Mount Dora
Methodist
Robert M. Blackburn
Spirit of Brotherhood
Methodist Committee On Overseas Relief
Carlton Knorr
Blackburn
Overseas Relief Committee
Merchants Plan Fish and Hush Puppies Banquet to Revive Group
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce District Merchants Association meets to boost turnout with a fish and hush puppies banquet at Gilbert Park on Wednesday August 9. Walter Menges of Orlando Merchants Association will speak on goals. Officers to be elected. Price Tucker and local volunteers coordinate cooking and hospitality for members and families.
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Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Gilbert Park
Mount Dora
Merchants Association
Walter Menges
Orlando Merchants Association
Tucker
Claude Fralick
Mount Dora Hotel
Speedy deaths of two Apopka youths in highway crash
Two 20 and 22 year old Apopka men Huey Bryan and Julian T. Thomas died in a high speed crash near Mount Dora. Eyewitness Lige of Rehbaum Co reported a speed of at least 90 mph as the 1949 convertible plummeted off Orange Blossom Trail. Victims, returning from Eustis, were dead at the scene despite ambulance efforts.
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Apopka
Huey Bryan
Julian T. Thomas
Elijah Nix
Mount Dora
Lige
Rehbaum Co
Eustis Hospital
Bryan
Thomas
Eustis
Speed Killed Two In Night Crashing on Orange Blossom Trail
A car traveling at 90 miles per hour skidded off the road near an overpass and rolled repeatedly. The wreckage left two young men dead at the scene before help could arrive and before hospital transport. A wrecker recovered the vehicle in pieces from Grantham's garage.
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Grantham
Sex Offender Transferred To Georgia Institution
A youthful sex offender who attacked a Mount Dora girl was sent to a Georgia institution for the feeble minded after a recent release from that facility. State's Attorney Jesse W. Hunter and Probation Officer Fred Borg reviewed his past record.
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Mount Dora
Georgia
Heim Field
Jesse W. Hunter
Fred Borg
Guild Meets at Wesleyan Service Guild Evening
Wesleyan Service Guild of the Methodist meets Thursday evening at 7:30 at the home of Mrs. M. Green with co hostess assisting.
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Wesleyan ‘Service Guild
the Methodist
M. Green
Kirchers Find Restful Home in Mount Dora After War Years
Joseph and Ruth Kircher, retiring after long government service, settle in Mount Dora Florida in the house of the late Ethelyn Zell at 1045 McDonald St. Lavonne Lashar found them a rental with option, easing memories of Berlin and war. The Kirchers chose Florida for its tranquility and lake views.
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Joseph
Ruth Kircher
Florida
Mount Dora
Joseph Kircher
Lavonne Lashar
Kirchers
Berlin
Ethelyn Zell
McDonald St
Kircher
United States Forestry Service
Department
Germany
Arizona
United States
Uncle Sam
Forestry Department
Atlanta
Kirchers Backers Florida Forest Expansion Across State Lands
The Kirchers promoted expansive forestry in Florida, listing Ocala Osceola Apalachicola and Chocotawhatchie tracts totaling about a million acres. They claimed these forests now pay for themselves through timber and pressed for a cooperative Forestry Department to aid state conservation fire protection and inter state research via federally run stations.
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Florida
Ocala
Osceola
Apalachacola
Pensacola
Eglinfield
Forestry Department
Germany
United States
Readings Slated For First Play
Merle Cleary will direct the IceHouse Players opening in October readings for The Family Upstairs will begin at the theatre next Monday evening parts are sought for five men three women and a boy attendees invited to join the readings at the venue.
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Merle Cleary
IceHouse Players
Cleary
State Road Engineer to Study Mount Dora Truck Route
A State Road Department representative will visit Mount Dora to consult with the Planning Commission on rerouting trucks away from Fifth avenue. The study follows June discussions and may be reviewed at the July Commission meeting, with no City Council members present.
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State Road Department
Mount Dora
Planning Commission
Church School Street
Alfred J. McKethan
George J. White
Chamber of Commerce
Road Department
Fifth Av
Florida
11Th Av
Ray
Chief Doubts 25 mph Claim in Mount Dora Crash
Mount Dora police chief questions Ivy Hornsby’s statement that he drove 25 miles per hour before a wreck that tore up the whiteway post by the library and hit an oak tree. Hornsby and a companion cited 20 mph as the speed. Hornsby suffered a crushed finger but escaped serious injury.
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Richard Shipes
Ivy Hornsby
Eustis
Mount Dora
Whiteway
Shipes
Hornsby
Library
Chief
Major Leon Cheek Confirmed In Korea Battle
The document reports Major Leon Cheek serving with field artillery in Korea, confirmed to his parents in law by his wife Martha. Martha, in Seattle with sons Blake and Dwight, notes he requested she stay there. his earlier trip to Japan was canceled due to military delays.
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Leon Cheek
Korea
H. T. Fenn
Cheek
Martha
Seattle
Cheeks
Blake
Dwight
Japan
Pearl Downs
Lem
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Badems
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