Fun-Packed Regatta Planned For Lake Dora May 23
Lake county residents are invited to Mount Dora on May 23 at 2 30 p m for the Homefolks Regatta sponsored by the acit club and the Chamber of Commerce The event features fun style races a free for all runabout race and a comedy fishing finale with fish on shore and a potential sailboat heat if entries exist This lighthearted regatta aims to attract visitors with lively competition and humor.
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Lake Dora
Lake County
Mount Dora
Acit Club
Chamber of Commerce
Dora
Ean
Harry Backus
Joe Swift
Dora Pastor May Lead Mount Dora Church
Rev. George Gibson faces a potential May 31 departure from Mount Dora to take a newly created post at a Southern college in Lake area. If Bishop Arthur J. Moore approves, he will become director of religious activity and professor of sacred ministry, guiding chapel services, preaching, and sacred music for about 2,500 students starting October 1.
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Mount Dora
George Gibson
Southern College
Lake
Arthur J. Moore
Atlanta
Gibson
Major Downs Heads to Nanking as Barr Advisor
Major Lem Downs of Mount Dora will leave the United States August 2 to join Gen. David G. Barr as an advisor in China. He travels with his wife Carolyn and two sons Michael and John. He is now at Fort Sill attending artillery school, finishing in late June, then July in Mount Dora before sailing from California in August. Downes, a four year WWII veteran, received the Bronze Star last summer for meritorious service.
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Lem Downs
Mount Dora
United States
Nanking
David G. Barr
Carolyn
Michael
John
Fort Sill
Okla
California
Major Downs
Gene Downs
Atty
W. M. Kennedy
Mount Dora Girl Places Fifth In State Spelling Contest
Patsy Dean, an eighth grader at Mount Dora School, finished fifth in the North Florida Spelling Bee in Jacksonville, mispronouncing yet correct spelling of aspirant. She won a $50 Security bond as Lake County winner and traveled with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dean, uncle and aunt Mr. and Mrs. Robert Clark, and friend Martha Simpson.
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Patsy Dean
Jacksonville
Patsy
Mount Dora
Lake County
Florida
Washington
Leesburg
Charles Dean
Robert Clark
Martha Simpson
Tale Of Prinz And The Gar At Mount Dora Club
At the Mount Dora Fishing club meeting in the Community building last Thursday Bill Prinz recounted gar spearing trips aboard the City of Dora with Mrs Prinz and six couples. He described catching an ancient gar near Apopka canal and a mangled left eye and horn like growth on another gar while plans to revive gar spearing as a sport were discussed.
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Mount Dora
Bill Prinz
Gar
Bill
Apopka Canal
Willa
Dora
Aged Trees to Undergo Trimming and Repair in Mount Dora
Mount Dora officials announce a conservation study of aging trees planted by the late R. C. Tremain decades ago. Councilmen Al Rehbaum Jr and R. C. Bardwell, with Dale and Kendall Jones, will assess cavities and Spanish moss issues and report at the June meeting on a plan to preserve the tree-lined streets.
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Mount Dora
R. C. Tremain
al Rehbaum, Jr
R. C. Bardwell
Dale
Tremain’s memory trip links 1878 voyage to 1948 Florida Airways return
Louis R Tremain prepares a Florida Airways memory flight retracing his 1878 journey from Jacksonville to Pendryville with a layover in Lake County. The event marks his 70th year as a resident and will include a Jacksonville airport tour, radio appearances, and a dinner with his wife after a day in Jax.
Neighborly Call Ends With Hospital Visit Gone Sour
Mrs. A Schonenberger of Mount Dora visited her friend Mrs. Adam Hazelwood at Eustis Waterman Memorial hospital. She slipped in the hallway and broke her left arm. Hazelwood then visited Schonenberger, who remains bed fast for a few days.
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A. Schonenberger
Mount Dora
Adam Hazelwood
Eustis Waterman Memorial Hospital
Hazelwood
Mrs. Hazelwood
Mrs. Schonenberger
Pioneer Louis Tremain Returns on Memory Trip
Louis Tremain, 78, the pioneer who first rode the old river boat into Lake County in 1878, will travel to Jacksonville tomorrow on a memory trip with Florida Airways during Lake County Airlines Week. He is joined by the Topic editor.
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Louis Tremain
Lake County
Jacksonville
Florida Airways
Lake County Airlines
City approves home mosquito spraying funding plan
City Council last week approved a spraying program targeting homes without proper screens. County Health Officer Burke Chester proposed the plan and the council voted to contribute 150 dollars toward spraying costs.
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Burke Chester
Personalities Around Mount Dora in a Florida Dream
In Mount Dora under pines a couple recalls past campouts and envisions a real estate future. He recalls 1918 trips with dogs and a Cadillacs entry as they discuss turning woods by Lake Chaviau into Sylvan Shores with lakefront homes and paved streets.
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Mount Dora
Cadillas
George
Florida
Dream of Sylvan Shores Sparks Miami Subdivision Boom
Gladys Malone and George Malone with L R Heim and Ed Stokes form Sylvan Shores Inc to transform a cow pasture into Coral Gables like development. They visit a Miami real estate office and watch buyers snap up lots at unprecedented prices as their jungle clearing yields a planned resort community.
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Longfellow
Gladys Malone
Heims
Sylvan Shores
Louis Heim
Gladys
George Malone
Helms
Miami
Coral Gables
Ed Stokes
Palmetto
Donnelly stirs as Warren McCarty governors race heats Dora
In Mount Dora the Warren McCarty contest splits Donnelly Street with rival camps. Atty. Roy Christopher led a McCarty for Governor club while Atty. Kennedy mobilized Jacksonville backers including George J. White and George LaDue. Kennedy charged state workers faced calls urging support for McCarty. He and supporters claimed Caldwell regime influences. Donnelly Park hosted a large Dora rally where McCarty touted his legislative record and promised to run on a builder’s record not opposition.
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Mount Dora
Donnelly St
Fuller Warren
Dan McCarty
Tom Cooley
Atty
Roy Christopher
Ft. Pierce
Donnelly Building
W. M. Kennedy
Jacksonville
Warren
Christopher
McCarty
Dora
Mas
Waaay
Kennedy
George J. White
First National Bank
George LaDue
Donnelly
Citrus Commission
Citrus
State Department
Tallahassee
Caldwell
Dora McCarty Club
Donnelly Park
W. D. Patton
Marcus Williams
Jack Simpson
al Rehbaum, Jr
Howard Simpson
Bob Quixley
Mary Dixon
Tommy Hurlburt
Ed Mitchell
Edna Conelly
Doras Plan Wins Approval Across Lions Clubs
Mount Dora Lions organize a community blood donation plan endorsed at state Lions convention. The plan aims to supply blood to every citizen at low cost and will be pitched at the National Blood Banks convention in Buffalo in August. John Scudder, president elect of State Blood Bank, learned of the plan from Mary Gwynn in Miami and will present it nationally.
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Mount Dora
Lions
John Scudder
State Blood Bank
Mary Gwynn
Central
Airline Week Honors Florida Airways Progress in Lake County
Airline Week observes Florida Airways progress with a Florida event spanning Mount Dora and Lake County. Florida Airways network expands Leesburg to Jacksonville and Orlando, posting April records: 99.86 percent completion, 1 737 revenue passengers, 215 322 passenger miles, 1 514 882 express miles, and 14 936 mail pounds.
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Lake County
Florida Airways
Mount Dora
Jacksonville
Louis Tremain
Orlando
Mon Express
North
Florida
Personalities Birthday Marked By Mount Dora Column
The Mount Dora Publishing Co. celebrates one year of the Personalities Around Mount Dora column begun May 22 1947 with Dr James A Richards as the first subject. A planned Volume I will collect 52 profiles including Dr Richards Dr Spencer Munroe Van Simpson Frederick Allen Whiting Louis Tremain Miss Gertrude Thorne and Gladys Malone among others.
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Gladys Malone
Mount Dora
James A. Richards
Dr. Richards
D. B. Spencer
Munroe van Simpson
Frederick Allen Whiting
Louis R. Tremain
Gertrude Thorne
James Braden
Atty
Tom Cooley
LaVonne Lasher
Marsh Marshall Collins
George Coler
Edith Edeburn Keller
Gen Downs
Anna G. R
Frank Bridgman
Earl B
Fersthchard Edgerton
Oscar Schiube
Frank Davidson
Charles ‘ Nortis
Lewis Carroll
Win C. Sleight
J. G. Ray, Jr
Anne Pike
Fowler
Joe William Jaker
William Hardwick
Atty. Christopher
Celia
Mount Dora Club Wins Cheer From City Fence Plan
City Council approved supplying lumber for west fence at Helmfield and ordered creosote coating and painting of the east fence. The action is seen as a morale boost for the Mount Dora baseball club ahead of the 48 season.
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Mount Dora
Helmfield
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Sky
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Tremain
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Roy
Ella
Sey. Com
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Lake Chaviau Pads
Gladys W. Malone
Warren-McCarty
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