Mount Dora approves baseball park lights project
Mount Dora City Council accepted the baseball club’s $3,300 bond match to install lights at Helmfield park and began plans for pole installation. A cost determination, lease terms for 10 years, and electricity rates were discussed with the club and high school granted partial light access.
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Mount Dora
Helmfield
Lake Orange
Ernie Mosteller
Tom Cooley
Mosteller
John Bethel
Who Will Shine Parent Or The Youngster
Mount Dora school and the Community PTA stage a Friday night event in the Community building titled Skit Night It marks the first joint school and community program with the Manuel J Sedano Memorial band led by C A Rex The program opens at 8 p m and aims to become an annual gathering with both parents and students performing and audience members judging talent
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Manuel J. Sedano
C. A. Rex
Mount Dora’ School
New Astaire for Mount Dora Skit Night
Glenn Woodworth son of Mr and Mrs Ralph Woodworth renowned dancer sets his Mt Dora debut on the Skit Night program by the IceHouse Players presented by the PTA He dreams of someday touring the major city stages and his charm and talent may take him there
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Orlando
Mount Dora
Parent- Teacher Association
Glenn Woodworth
Ralph Woodworth
The
IceHouse
Players
Glenn
Tilman Thanks Supporters For Baptism Pool Fund Drive
In East Town The St Marys Baptist church rally raised 1084.42 through donations to fund a baptism pool. Mount Dora residents attended the Sunday service featuring East Town Community chorus with Tilman promising full report on Page 4.
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T. M. Thomas
East Town
St. Mary’s Baptist Church
Mount Dora
Tilman
Death Takes Winter Visitor In Hamilton New York
Arthur A. Harts horn died in Hamilton New York at 85 after winter visits to Mount Dora. He had planned to stay this season but illness stopped the trip. He leaves a widow and three daughters.
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Arthur A. Hartshorn
Hamilton
N. Y
Mount Dora
Board to Convene at Parish House Monday Evening
The official board of the First Methodist Church will meet Monday at 7:30 p.m. at the Parish House, announced Rev. Robert M. Blackburn, the church pastor.
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First Methodist Church
Robert M. Blackburn
Hostess plan stirs Kiwanis Lions club row
City council proposes hiring a hostess for Kiwanis and Lions luncheon meetings at 90 dollars monthly with seven dollars per meal charged to each club. Kiwanis President Roy Christopher notes the board demands a say in hiring.
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Kiwanis and
Lions Club
Kiwanis Club
Dora’s Band To Open Lake County Fair 29th Annual Event
Mount Dora’s band will play the opening note Monday at the 29th Lake County Fair and Fourth Annual Florida Sportsmen’s Exposition in Eustis. Free admission for Mount Dora schoolchildren, exhibits range from citrus to cattle, with Curtis Pony Hitch rides and daily aerial acts. Agricultural Commissioner Nathan Mayo attends Friday with Rotary guest status.
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Lake County
Orlando
Eustis
Florida Sportmen
Mount Dora
Nathan Mayo
Eustis Rotary Club
Grand View Hotel
Lads Earn $100 Off Citrus By-Product Heifers
Mount Dora area youths Jack Norris Jr. and Tommy Graves showed prize heifers fed on citrus by products at a 4H project. After 150 days of feeding the calves, local buyers purchased them, with one animal going to Green Valley Farms and another to Piggly-Wiggly for slaughter.
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Mount Dora
Jack Norris, Jr
Lake Jem
Tommy Graves
Mount Dora-Tavares Jd
Ocala
Green Valley
Hungry burglar tests hearts of Mount Dora
Mount Dora’s “hungry burglar” invaded M and R Super Market on 11th and Grandview on Feb 3 eating sandwiches and ice cream. He returned Feb 26 to Dabolt home on 11th Ave stealing diamonds and watches, causing $700 in losses. The Densons faced hardship reopening their new store with staff cutbacks as a result.
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Mount Dora
11Th
Grandview
Dabolt
Cabolt
Richard Denson
Kenny Denson
Mama
Densons
Mrs. Orrs Cake Lures Hungry Burglar In Florida Tale
The Odor of a cake drew a hungry burglar to Mrs. Orrs Mount Dora home. He attempted the back door as Officer James Orr was away. Mrs. Orr fled to a neighbor. Chief Richard Shipes arrived to find the cake still baking and footprints where the intruder fled.
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James Orr
Mount Dora
Florida
Orr House
Richard Shipes
Orr
Shipes
Tempered by Time George Dykes Reflects on Anger and Service
Lake County clerk George J. Dykes recalls lessons from two sons about controlling temper after a quarrel that ended without violence. He remembers 1929 court case where anger failed to help and eminent domain decided in favor of the longer resident, guiding his belief in yielding and peace. Born 1876 on an Altoona farm, he witnessed his sister Mary Ivingston endure infantile paralysis and later live cheerfully in a wheelchair.
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George J. Dykes
Lake County
George
George Dykes
United States
Altoona
Mary Ivingston
Leerespee Ery Acar
George J. Dykes Lifelong Educator and Farm Advocate
George J. Dykes taught in Cassia for 18 years and ran a one room school that educated many eager students. He and his family traced roots to early Florida settlers from Virginia with farming in their blood and dreams of a cattle ranch on land by the St Johns River. The article notes his hard work and a life of teaching and farming.
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Cassia
Lake County
E. Duncan Dykes
Dukes
Florida
Virginia
Dade City
George
Duncan
St. Johns River
Mount Dora Chamber May Face City Grant Cut
Mount Dora's Chamber of Commerce risks a reduced city appropriation instead of a requested raise. City finance head Col. Bethel cited the chamber as the largest central Florida donor relative to operating costs and urged trimming the last year’s 3975 grant while council debated matching funds and kept the decision pending further study.
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Mount Dora
Chamber of Commerce
Col
John Bethel
Florida
Orlando
Bethel
al Rehbaum, Jr
Ernie Mosteller
Council
Eustis
DeLand
Leesburg
Winter Park
Sanford
Owens seeks reelection to Lake County Board of Commissioners
Frank E. Owens announces his bid for a fourth term as Lake County Commissioner for the fourth district including Mount Dora Eustis Sorrento and Cassia. He filed on Monday placing his name on the May 2 primary ballot with no opposition yet. Owens runs Central Florida Motor Sales in Eustis with his son Emory.
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Frank E. Owens
Lake County
Fertilizing Rye and Other Lawns with Nitrate of Soda
Guidelines recommend 5 to 7 pounds of nitrate of soda per 1 square foot of rye grass or other lawns including St. Augustine Bermuda and Centipede. If cold weather arrives, these lawns may brown despite the nitrate while rye grass remains green.
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St. Augustine
Centipede
Bermuda
Red Cross Drive Urges Lake County Support
Lake county residents slowly respond to the Red Cross campaign as donations lag behind prior years. Mrs. Celia Claflin and George J. White warn against unrecognized solicitors and name Angus McDonald and Prof. C. C. Lott as authorized collectors in Mount Dora.
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Red Cross
Celia Claflin
Mount Dora
George J. White
Lake Countian Refuses Tax to Protest War
Floyd M. Irvin of Eustis declares a 60 percent tax withholdment as protest against war and aid to war efforts. He cites UN aid for children and the Peace Makers doctrine, warns of potential penitentiary for tax refusal, and informs Senators Pepper Holland and Rep Herlong plus the IRS collector of his stance.
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Lake County
Floyd M. Irvin
Eustis
NESCO
United Nations Organization
Irvin
Peace Makers’ Organization
United States
Claude Pepper
Spessard Holland
Syd Herlong, Jr
Collector of Internal Revenue
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New Astaire
North
Dora
Hiegnon
Mabel Norris Reese
Lake
Organization of mercy—Red Cross
Lake Countian
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