Dora High School Graduates Hear Last Leg Of Cycle Speech
Bettye Ann Ray received the Jed Lewis scholarship at Mount Dora High School’s graduation in the Community building. Attorney E Hood Wilkerson warned graduates that democracy relies on daily integrity, self-reliance, and ongoing education as America faces a critical era.
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Speaker
Dora
Bettye Ann Ray
Jed Lewis
J. G. Ray, Jr
Mount Dora High School
Bettye Ann
America
E. Hood Wilkerson
Eustis
Army
Wilkerson
Break In Citrus Price War Hopes For Florida Growers
Growers in Mount Dora via Florida Citrus Mutual face a split mood as Snow Crop and two other large citrus concentrate makers join the price-cutting move. Snow Crop set a $1.75 box price against a $2.35 floor, provoking a race that Mutual directors fear may come too late to hurt. Vernon L. Conner cites rising new-member shipments and dwindling unsold fruit as signs buyers will reemerge soon.
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Pasco Packing Co
Minute Maid
Mount Dora
Florida Citrus Mutual
Mutual
Vernon L. Conner
Lake Jem
Citrus Mutual
Conner
Mount Dora Boy to Attend World Scout Jamboree in Austria
Walter TeStrake Jr., a 14-year-old Mount Dora Boy Scout, will join 15,000 youths from around the world at the World Jamboree in Bad Ischl Austria. He sails July 13 aboard the S S Argentina with a 13 day Atlantic crossing and a 10 day stay in Austria. The trip includes stops in Algiers Naples and West Berlin before returning home via Cherbourg. Walter is the lone Lake County boy on the trip and is supported by his Kiwanis club fundraisers along with his parents who finance part of the trip.
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Mount Dora
Austria
World Cooperation
Walter TeStrake
Franklin Park
Walter
S. S
Argentina
Bad Ischl
Salzkammergut
Europe
Atlantic
Algiers
Gibraltar
Mediterranean
Naples
Italy
Switzerland
Free World
Brazil
Germany
West Berlin
Paris
Cherbourg
Lake County
Florida
Tom Burgess
Buster Williams
Kiwanis Club
TeStrake
Iowa
Te-Strakes
Belle Glade
Chase and Co
Zellwood
Personalities of Forrest Braden Belmont Heights Police Chief
Editor notes introduce Forrest Braden a legendary police figure praised for Crime cleanup in Louisville Terre Haute and Terre Haute reform programs. Braden born from 1920s ideas. credited with Bureau of Criminal Identification early groundwork. praised by Will Rogers J Edgar Hoover and the Saturday Evening Post for crime spot studies and efficiency gains.
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Bright
Forrest Braden
Bureau of Criminal Identification
Will Rogers
J. Edgar Hoover
Louisville
Belmont Heights
Mount Dora
Terre Haute
the Post
Wabash
Post
Braden
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Forret Braden
Terre Ee
Braden Reflects on Prohibition Era Police Career
Col Forrest Braden of the Wabash district speaks from his Florida style Heights home about graft and crime, noting the pressure in the city and his past as a police chief. The 73 year old veteran recalls his path from Winchester Indiana to a law enforcement career shaped by prohibition era tensions.
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Col
Forrest Braden
Belmont Heights
Tampa
Miami
Tallahassee
Colonel Braden
Louisville
Terre Haute
Ind
Braden
Culbreaths
Sullivans
Kefauver Committee
Wabash
Com
America
Winchester
Forrest
Yonooleh Mentstohens Venture
Germany Bound Dick Battles With The Blues
Dick Dufour a soil conservationist from Mount Dora is recalled to service with the army bound for Germany sailing July 1 from Fort Bragg. He faced World War II battles under General Patton and months in hospitals after freezing conditions. He fears not seeing his unborn second child due July 11 and longs to be home to bolster June his wife’s morale.
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Dick Dufour
Uncle Sam
Lieutenant Dufour
General Patton
Europe
Mount Dora
Orange County
Orange County Extension Division
Department of Agriculture
Richard, Jr
Army
Fort Riley
Kan
Intelligence
Fort Bragg
N. C
Germany
June
Rev Blackburn To Stay Here In Mount Dora
Rev. Robert M. Blackburn begins his third year in Mount Dora's Methodist church after being reassigned at the Florida Conference in Lakeland. He came here in December 1948 to fill an unexpired term and is a Emory graduate who served as WWII chaplain.
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Robert M. Blackburn
Mount Dora’s
Blackburn
Lakeland
Ira Kellogg
Orlando
George Gibson
Florida Southern College
Emory University
Atlanta
Fred Blackburn
Springs Water Promises Lifesaving Hope for Patients
Two residents, an 78-year-old Mount Dora man and a Jacksonville woman, credit Salt Springs baths and prolonged treatment with the springs for beating illness including lasting effects of a stroke.
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Frank Davidson
Mount Dora
Jacksonville
Salt Springs Miracles At Florida Health Resort
Editor notes Salt Springs in Ocala National Forest as a little known health resort near Mount Dora. People claim miraculous healing from drinking Salt Springs water, with many crediting the treatment for surviving near death. The feature begins a series on the site and its supposed life renewing waters.
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Ocala National Forest
Salt Springs
Florida
Mount Dora Welcomes New American Displaced Persons
The Protopopovs, Russian displaced persons, arrive next week in Mount Dora under church sponsorship. They will train for farming in Florida and live in Tangerine cottages on Orange Blossom Trail with initial aid from the Methodist church and Mr. and Mrs. Karl Knorr.
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Mount Dora
Vladimer Protopopov
Protopopovs
Methodist Church
Karl Knorr
New Orleans
United States
Germany
America
Mrs. Knorr
Orange Blossom Trail
Protopopov
Florida
Herlong Attacks Beef Controls Citing Cattlemen Danger
Florida Congressman Syd Herlong Jr. says live cattle controls threaten cattlemen as he notes a congressional committee recommendation to rescind roll-back orders. He cites higher beef demand, production impact, black market effects, and lack of producer input.
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Florida
Syd Herlong, Jr
Lake County
Congressional Committee On Agriculture
Herlong
Senate
Truman
OPS
Deputy Charged In Shooting in South Lake County
Deputy C. C. Drawdy of Mascotte faces attempted murder charges after shooting Jack Jones in an unprovoked attack last Saturday night. Jones was wounded in the neck and fought for life at Young's hospital in Leesburg before being reported out of danger. Drawdy has a $2,500 bond and will stand trial in the next circuit court term.
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South Lake County
Jesse W. Hunter
C. C. Drawdy
Mascotte
Jack Jones
Young’s Hospital
Leesburg
Downs and Cheek Meet After Long Korean War Contact
Letter home reveals Major Leo Downs and Major Leon Cheek finally met in Korea after over 10 months of combat. Downs reports Cheek’s artillery division will cooperate with theirs in the next operation phase. Downs received a second Bronze Star oak leaf cluster.
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Mount Dora
Korea
Leo
Downs
Pearl Downs
Leon Cheek
Cheek
8Th Army
24Th
H. T. Fenn
California
Orient
Florida
Leaven_ Downs
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Mabel Norris Reese
Sake County
Indiana
New York
Havana
Saturday Evening Post
The
Blues
Rev. Blackburn
John Locke
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