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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1976
Page
4
Fifty years ago Mount Dora Block and Tile Company grows rapidly producing brick and tile. Ten workers employed, machinery installed, local investors Jack Simpson Sam Sadler manage Albert Hutchinson. Meet us in Mount Dora July 1st Lake County invited for a festive program.
Letter writers defend police officers while criticizing local governance and recreation funding. They urge more respect for law enforcement, question federal grants for a narcotics officer, and call for prudent city finance and oversight at Mount Dora. The piece criticizes a recreation director and urges disciplined parenting and accountability in city services.
A columnist recalls multiple birds harmed by human litter near Lake Dora. An anhinga’s beak glued by fiberglass debris is freed by local girls, a redwinged blackbird entangled in a dock net is narrowly saved, and a gar fish wears discarded beer-pack frames while a duck dies from a plastic ring.
The Mount Dora Municipal Court docket lists numerous defendants with varied outcomes. Sentences include guilty verdicts for several DUI and speeding offenses, with fines ranging from 15 to 150 dollars and several forfeit penalties.
The 1975 crime report credits last year's mandatory three year sentence for gun felons with cutting armed robberies 21.4 percent in Florida. The Protect Your Family Law expands justifiable homicide rights and self defense. A new capital felonies bill adds kidnapping and sexual battery after unlawful entry to the list, aiming to deter crime and restore home sanctity.
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