Career Day at Mount Dora High Shapes 1950 Graduates
About 170 Mount Dora High School graduates may look back to May 4 1950 as a turning point Career Day the first student planned event gave 177 participants occupational insights inspiration to work harder and 91 students reconsidered their career goals The event featured speakers from professions including farming education nursing journalism real estate law and medicine and was praised for broadening school plans with student led planning and execution
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Mount Dora High School
Ralph Townsend
Volusia County
Agriculture
Frank J. Banning
Tavares
Julia Cline
Eustis
Joe Jenkins
Robert Vincent
Mount Dora
Earl Myers
Ormund Powers
Leesburg
Margaret Hughes
Orange Memorial Hospital
Orlando
W. P. Wingler
A. Slater Cox
J. G. Ray
J. M. Smith
Lake County Cattle Industry Tips From Local Specialist
County Agent R. E. Norris profiles Lake County agronomist Clyde Helms who outlines pasture management for cattle in Florida. He recommends Pangola grass, Pensacola Bahia, and love grass, plus sugar cane for winter roughage, with citrus by products as feed. He urges careful planning, fertilization, and land use to turn 10 head into a larger operation across 30 acres of pasture. Lake County has about 10 000 acres of improved pasture as of 1950.
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Florida
R. E. Norris
Lake County
Clyde Helms
Watermelon and Grape Investigation Laboratories
Leesburg
Norris
Helms
Pensacola
Bahia
Hethcox Defends Budget Vote and State Aid
A local editorial praises Hethcox for opposing a straight ten percent appropriation cut. It notes his stance saved school funds and prevented harsher cuts to pensions and state facilities. The piece urges voters to support Hethcox for state representative, citing his near perfect voting record and experience.
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Hetheox
Stace
Gay
Probe Mother's Pay Commercialized on Town Hall of the Air
A WLBF Town Hall of the Air program tonight at 7 15 discusses whether Mother's Day has been commercialized. Listeners will hear Rev Robert M Blackburn pastor Mount Dora Methodist Church and Rev E O McKay pastor Leesburg Pres.
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WLBF
Robert M. Blackburn
Mount Dora Methodist Church
E. 0. McKay
Leesburg Pres
Lake County farmer Norris leads citrus and diversified crops
Norris regards Lake county as a highly specialized farming area with 59 000 acres of citrus yielding 10 055 000 boxes of fruit. He guides watermelons peppers cucumbers and vegetables, and oversees cotton under his courthouse office in Tavares. He serves as director of the Citrus Institute and secretary of multiple farm and conservation associations. Bob Norris is married to Adeline Wright with five children.
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Norris
Lake County
Tavares
Camp McQuarrie
Ocala National Forest
Central Florida Cattlemen's Association
County Agricultural Conservation Association
County Cattleman’s Association
Lake County Express Fruit Shippers
Lake Soil Conservation District
Walter Shaffer
Bob
Gainesville
Adeline Wright
Charles
Paula June
Roberta
Dan
Timothy
Local Leaders Named in Leesburg Area Notes
Presbyterian church, Bill Wells secretary of the Leesburg Chamber of Commerce, Paul Brown president of the Eustis Chamber, and Mrs C F Treadway of Tavares are mentioned in a regional business and church notes update.
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Byterian Church
Bill Wells
Leesburg
C H B S to Observe Fifth Anniversary
Mount Dora Christian Home and Bible School will finish its fifth year with events next week ending in graduation services. David Hearn Jr of Ft Myers will be guest speaker at the finale. An 8 p m oratorical contest opens the week with the public invited to hear students. The school chorus will perform at the Community building Tuesday at 8 p m after traveling Florida churches and civic events. Friday includes an undergraduate children program and a faculty luncheon on campus. Hearn, a Lipscomb College and Abilene Christian College graduate, has served as a Church of Christ minister.
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Mount Dora
Hearn
David Lipscomb College
Nashville
Abilene Christian College
Abilene
Texas
Church of Christ
Fort Myers school marks historic closing term and campus completion
The institution reflects on its most successful closing term in its history, noting the completion of multiple campus buildings on 12th av west. The school aims to provide both religious and academic education for students.
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Ft. Myers
12Th Av
West
Lake County Chamber Plans May Officers Meeting
Lake County Chamber of Commerce officers and directors will meet at the courthouse offices at 2 30 Thursday, announced President J Keener Mizell.
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County Board
Lake County Chamber of Commerce
J. Keener Mizell
Blessed is the man who remains silent
A concise maxim about prudence in speech. The verse praises restraint and avoiding unnecessary talk, suggesting wisdom lies in saying little when there is nothing meaningful to contribute.
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Dora
T. O. Moorhead
Land Surveyor
P.O. Box
Fla
Coats
Peggy
H. H. Hethcox
Hethcox
Beauty Board
Mr. Duncan
Duncan
Mr. Hethcox
Corporation
House of Representatives
I Pols
WOTF
H. Hethcox
C.H.B.S
FHA
Hirst Federal Savines and Tan Association OF
West Main Street
Leesburg, Florida
Buick
Buick Headquarters
Lemon St
Eustis, Florida
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