Mount Dora Bowling Club Highlights Spring Start and Tourney
Florida spring lags into March with mockingbirds and orange blossoms as Mount Dora teams post wins in league play led by Art Fleming John Mueller and Walter Towe. The 20th Mount Dora invitational saw Orlando Twins crowned again while Art Jewell Kathy Lee and Fred Kompass claimed mixed triples. Roy Williams remains hospitalized as spectators recount a colorful day of bowls and quirky disputes.
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Florida
Mount Dora
Peabody
Art Fleming
Ray Ward
Ted Foley
Bill Jealous
Walter Tawa
John Mueller
Oscar Heimberger
Monroe Dickinson
George Caldwell
Ruth Sherrard
Jean Shaffer
Vern Sherrard
Art Jewell
Arton
Hal Peterson
Orlando Twins
Orlando
Walter Towe
Jack
Roy Williams
Orange Memorial Hospital
Sarah
Kathy Lee
Fred Kompass
Marion Ward
Winnie Berry
Ed Dean
Marjorie Jewell
Garden Club approves budget and gifts books to library
The Men's Garden Club held a March meeting opening with the Gardener's Prayer and Pledge. The budget for the year was approved. Major General Keirn and four others were named new members. The club donated Volume II of Wild Flowers of the United States to the library. O M Freeman presented slides and photos from Mount Dora, the Carolinas, and other locales. Freeman, resident of Sylvan Shores, spends summers at Sherwood Forest in North Carolina.
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Men’s Garden Club
Ted Gardner
Bell
Keirn
Mem
O. M. Freeman
Mount Dora
Carolinas
Mr. Freeman
Sylvan Shores
Sherwood Forest
North Carolina Mountains
Garden Club Meeting Covers Mount Dora Trees and Shrubs
The Oleander Circle of Lakes and Hills Garden Club met March 5 at 1025 Southland Road with Mr. Harry Fogg presenting on trees and shrubs suitable for the Mount Dora area. He noted Wild Plum blooms in March and April and that peaches can be grafted onto Wild Plum. slides illustrated the talk. The next meeting is April 2 at 1443 Westland Road with Mrs. Ted Odom presenting Flower Arrangements.
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Oleander Circle of the
A. E. Cook
Westland Road
Ted Odom
Shuffs Club Elects Officers and Reports Shuffleboard Meets
The Shuffs Club held its annual meeting on March 5 at the city Building. New officers were elected for the fiscal year including President Harry Gifford and Treasurer Frederick Garbe. A shuffleboard event produced high scores and playoffs with Garbe Worrell and Wallingford Vaughan among top pairs. An upcoming Northern District Gould Tournament in Mount Dora showcased mixed doubles with Edgewater and DeLand teams winning prizes. A Busch Gardens trip was enjoyed by members, with several ill members returning home, and a regular card party at the Clubhouse saw prize winners in Bridge and Pinochle.
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Shuffs Club
Ity
Harry R. Gifford
Harland A. Wheeler
Frederick A. Garbe
Howard J. Rupright
Jary
Kathleen Therrien
Frederick C. Steele
G. O. French
Leonard M. Chaffee
Jermie Sutliff
Clarence Owen
Fred Garbe
Dr. Worrell
Frank Thompson
Lorretta Fairbanks
Garbe-Worrell
Thomas Wallingford
George Vaughan
Clive Doust
McConnell
Wallingford-Vaughan
Howard Rupright
Clyde McCauley
Fred Greenstreet
Ted Beckhold
Frances Nemake
Lena Pier
Mount Dora
DeLand
Edgewater
Eustis
Leesburg
New Smyrna
Ocala
Orlando
Tavares
Umatilla
Winter Park
William E. Schmidt
Velda Turner
Darrell Ozier
Thomas
Marge Anderson
Earl
Marge Taylor
Leon
Lita Humphreys
Clarence Baldwin
Isabel French
Roy
Bess Woleford
Busch Gardens
Tampa
Gardens
Letha Andrews
Knoebel Garriott
Harold Brown
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Herman Foster
Exeter
Ont
Canada
Irvin O. Noll
Landsdowne
Howard Mills
Chicago
Harland Wheeler
Edwin Krautwurst
Mildred Geer
Agnes Lewis
Hazel Cripe
Florida tourism boom predicts 20 million visitors by 1970
The Florida Development Commission forecasts a 20 million tourist influx by 1970 as the 1966 67 season logs over 17 million visitors. Disney World and other new attractions are expected to push totals toward 30 million by 1975, signaling a rapid growth in the state’s travel industry.
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Florida
Florida Development Commission
Mrs Ivy R Douglas Succumbs In Early March
Mrs Ivy Royal Douglas 30 of Eustis died Thursday morning March 7 born Cassia Florida lifelong resident and retired teacher. Survivors include son Richard of Eustis brothers Cecil of Waycross Ernest of Mt Plymouth sister Lucille Snyder of Miami. Funeral services were held March 9 at Zeller Kennedy Hamlin Funeral Home Eustis and burial at Seminole Springs Cemetery Cassia Florida.
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Ivy Royal Douglas
Eustis
Cassia
Fla
Lake County
Douglas
Richard Douglas
Cecil Royal
Waycross
Ernest Royal
Mt. Plymouth
Lucille Snyder
Miami
Zeller, Kennedy & Hamlin
Kenneth Bain
Seminole Springs
Zeller, Kennedy & Hamlin Funeral Home
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Occidental Life of California
A Transamerica Company
Wm. C. Kennedy
Park’ Place
N. Hwy
Arthur Kimberly
Giant
Sunshine
Perry
Delta Radio
Donnelly Street
Sixth Ave
Lake County Fair
Game, Fish and Forestry
U. S. Navy
Ivy R. Douglas
Tarzan and the Jungle Boy
Mike Henry
SUN
Marvin
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