Penitent Autoist Promotes Essay Contest On Drunken Driving
A penitent driver in Lake County offers $275 in prizes to high school students for essays on the evils of drinking and driving. County Judge W. Troy Hall Jr arranged the prizes after the man served 10 days in jail for a crash that seriously injured Cy Willard, the former Lake County engineer, and his helper. The contest awards $25 per school winner and $50 for the county winner, to be judged in April by school and county panels. The driver remains unnamed to protect his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penitent Autoist
Lake County
Frank J. Banning
W. Troy Hall, Jr
South Lake County
Groveland
Cy Willard
Willard
City Council Considers Bids for Police Radio System
At a special session the council voted to call for bids to install a two way police radio link between patrol cars and the fire station headquarters funding set at about 2000 dollars with an extra 200 for接 receivers to connect with the sheriff at the courthouse in Tavares and the highway patrol. The system aims to improve danger warnings and coverage for Mount Dora and surrounding areas prompted by resident concerns after prowler incidents. If April registration is missed, voters lose primaries eligibility on May 2.
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Mount Dora
Sheriff's Office
Tavares
Highway Patrol
Rose Hoodelmier
W. D. Patton
Kiwanis Compromise Ends Caterer Dispute
Kiwanis club resolves a year long quarrel over caterer for the Community building by offering to contribute 10 cents per person at Thursday luncheons toward Mrs. Margaret Peterson’s salary. City and Lions involvement influences the final agreement forcing the economy bloc to back down.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanians
Margaret Peterson
Lillian Christie
Kiwanis
Board of Directors
Christie
Lions Club
Peterson
Mount Dora Band and Glee Club to Present First Full Concert
Mount Dora High School bands and Glee club introduce Charles Gordon Rex as director since January. The 8:15 pm program at the Community building features a Star Spangled Banner opener, Elgars As Torrents in Summer, and several marches and vocal items. Soloist Ann Bowers, and saxophonist Herbert Kurras highlight selections, with a final combined piece How Brightly Beams the Morning Star and Sleepers Wake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora High School
Charles Gordon Rex
Glee Club
Elgar
Allen A-Dale
Madame Jeanette
Lockton-Murray
Melody “Orchestra
Tkach
Ann Bowers
Handel
Herbert Kurras
Traveler
Forrest Butcher
Shelby
M.M. I
Bach
Dora Keeps Her Record Proud Mount Dora Red Cross Drive
Mount Dora volunteers raised more than 1800 in memberships for the Red Cross driving to finish the county campaign. Mrs Celia Claflin announces the drive is closed with final county totals to be reported this week by George White.
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Mount Dora
Red Cross
Organization of Mercy
Lake County
Celia Claflin
George J. White
First National Bank
National Red Cross
Florida
Great Army of Volunteers
Pepper Attacks Pepper in Mount Dora Speech
George Smathers addressed a Mount Dora audience under a large lawn umbrella outside the First National Bank. He labeled Pepper the youth candidate and accused him of advocating destroying secrets of the atomic bomb and warned against being destroyed from within.
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Claude Pepper
George Smathers
Mount Dora
First National Bank
Pepper
Smathers Sees Right Path in Acheson Stand
George Smathers returns from Mount Dora to push his May 2 Senate bid against Claude Pepper. He criticizes Pepper on FEPC and labor monopoly, citing a large Mount Dora crowd and an indoor Leesburg rally as momentum builders.
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Lakeside Inn
Smathers
Dick Edgerton
William B. Thompson, Jr
Jacksonville
New York City
George Smathers
Mount Dora
Calvin Coolidge
Claude Pepper
United States Senate
Lake County
Pepper
F.E.P.C
Florida
Leesburg
Talbot Simpson Returns to Florida to Sell Real Estate
Lake County profile of Talbot Simpson a World War II veteran who after years abroad in Sumatra and Java plans a quiet new chapter in Mount Dora. At 51 he earns a real estate license and joins LaDue Lashar Realty to market Florida building property while his sister Mrs. H. Berrien McCain remains nearby. The piece chronicles his wartime service in France his Oklahoma oil field years and the Osage oil boom era including a colorful later anecdote.
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Sumatra
Java
Talbot
Simpson
Mount Dora
Florida
LaDue-Lashar Realty Co
LaVonne Lashar
Standard Oil
H. Berrien McCain
Oe Bie
E ci
Bae Spacers
East Indies
Chamber Gets Increase As Economy Bloc Loses
Mount Dora City Council increased the Chamber of Commerce appropriation to 4200, narrowly surpassing the economy bloc. Col Bethel and Ernest Mosteller split on funding, with Bethel advocating 3900 or 2000 while Collins urged maintaining advertising funds per the charter, citing the Chamber’s large membership and local impact.
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Collins-Bethel
Chamber of Commerce
Col
John Bethel
Chamber
Ernest Mosteller
Mosteller
Bethel
Mount Dora
Florida
Orlando
George J. White
Richard Edgerton
Carle
Lakeside
New Hampshire
Merchants Division
Collins
Hollywood Race as a Mock Film Set in Mount Dora
A column imagines a movie scene staged on Roe Simpson’s porch in Mount Dora with George Smathers and Claude Pepper as lead characters. It riffs on a political speech amid rain, umbrellas, and camera-ready details, portraying satire of a senate race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Mount Dora
Roe Simpson
Donnelly
Donelly
Simpson
George Smathers
Florida
Claude Pepper
South
Talbot Simpsons Rise in Sumatra Oil Camp
In 1923 a superintendent and later warehouse manager for Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Maatschappij oversees drilling on Sumatra Island. Dean Simpson, then the only American woman in the oil camp, endures isolation but adapts to life abroad while Talbot advances to field supervision overseeing about 2,000 employees and 80 miles of road building.
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Dutch Co
Nederlandsche Koloniale - Petroleum Maatschappij
Sumatra
Netherlands Indies
Far East
United States
Dean Simpson
Talbot
G Milton Fisher Dies In Hospital At 81
G Milton Fisher 81 former Worcester schools principal and longtime Mason died last week at Waterman Memorial hospital Eustis Mass Last rites were held at his summer home in Worcester He was a Congregational church member and an Odd Fellow of 50 years He leaves a widow three daughters Mrs Charles Fields Burlingame Calif Mrs Eleanor Johnson and Mrs Kenneth L Green Westborough Mass and a son F Milton Fisher Westborough Funeral services were conducted with Robert R Reed officiating
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G. Milton Fisher
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Eustis
Worcester
Mass
Fisher
Worcester Schools
Congregational Church
Marie Fisher
Charles Fields
Burlingame
Cal
Eleanor Johnson
Kenneth L. Green
Westborough
F. Milton Fisher
Robert R. Reed
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Penitent
Dora
Joaquin Miller
U. S. Senate
al Rehbaum, Jr
Senate Club
Buster” Williams
Acheson
Mabel Norris Reese
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Missouri
Texas
McClelland
France
Carter Oil Company
Standard
Dean Blank
Avaaribe
Osage Indian Territory
the Talbot Simpsons
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