Progress and Projects Stir Costs and Complaints
The city budgets 2500 to install conduits for utilities at intersections with Donnelly Street Sanford Road and Robie Street to be faster than later. An underpass for the Atlantic Coastline Railroad is discussed with a detour to keep service. Residents near Franklin Park face disrupted electric water lines cut telephone cables and tree clearing as crews widen Donnelly Street for the highway.
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Donnelly St
Sanford Rd
Robie St
Cit
Atlantic Coastline
Franklin Park
Walker
A. A. Stanley
Holler Essay Contest Culminates At Kiwanis Luncheon
Twenty five June graduates invited seniors will be honored as 10 students share 530 in cash awards for essays on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Prizes range from 100 to 15 with separate awards for girls and boys.
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Kiwanis Club
Holler
William E. Holler
Donald Dake
June Guest
Owen McAlister, Jr
Roger Roach
Barbara Brown
Cathy Driggers
Mary Woodham
Bruce Mile
Michael Stckley
Mary Welty
Norine Weinmann
Robin Haddock
David Jackson
Richard Moots
Grant Russell
Glen Cole
Linda Carter
Tom Harvey
Roberta Aldrich
Joyce Coffield
Jessie Pike
Gail Sadler
Kirby Talley
Elizabeth Sikes
Patsy Spear
Neighbor Quarrel Leads to Warrant
Mayor Guy Bliss faced a request for a warrant from Mrs. E. L. Marsh seeking action after she said a neighbor’s visitor from another city attacked her during a quarrel over a child. Marsh spoke at the council meeting claiming she had been given the run around in obtaining the warrant.
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Guy Bliss
E. L. Marsh
Crestviewer
Dora’s Wild Day Ends With Boy Safe After Runaway Boat
Mount Dora police faced a tense day as a father and 4 year old were ejected from a runaway boat on Lake Ola. Fire alarms and a suspected cooperative blaze kept responders busy, but a sprinkler failure proved routine. The boy survived a perilous ride and was identified later as authorities sorted through tangled events.
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Mount Dora
Ober
Lake Ola
Bud Selvick
Old Beach
Marge Dutton
Teen Club Bids Sought for City Youth Center
City council sets May 31 special meeting to finalize a long delayed Youth Center on city land south of the municipal swimming pool. The panel will also receive a final report on a 62000 street improvement program and begin steps to implement it.
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Counce Nm
Robert O
Dude” Grantham
Bonds Validated For Local School Issue In Tavares
Circuit Judge Smith signed the final instruments in Tavares confirming the school bond approved by voters last year. The action completes the long process and clears the way for funding.
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Smith
Tavares
Doyle Carlton for Florida Governor The Positive Choice
Editorial endorses Doyle Carlton Jr. as Florida governor in a two-man battle with Farris Bryant. It contrasts Carlton’s pledge to keep schools open and pursue fair reapportionment with Bryant’s defiant stance toward the Supreme Court. Carlton is praised for fairness, good government, and moving Florida toward progress.
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Florida
Doyle E. Carlton Jr
Senator Carlton
House
Ted David
David
Carlton
Hardee
Highlands
DeSoto
Glades
Pork Chop Gang
Pork Chop
Farris Bryant
Ocala
Supreme Court
LeRoy Collins
Bryant
Mr. Bryant
Florida Faubus
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
Doyle Carlson
Eight Local Ballot Contests Highlight Tuesday Elections
Lake County voters face eight races with key contests for governor between Doyle E. Carlson Jr. and Farris Bryant and a Secretary of State runoff between Tom Adams and Jesse Yarborough. Other statewide alignments include Agriculture and National Committee posts, plus county judge and commission runoffs. Republicans select national delegates and a GOP committee slate ahead of November results.
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Lake County
Doyle E. Carlson, Jr
Wauchula
Farris Bryant
Ocala
Tom Adams
Orange Park
Jesse Yarborough
Miami
W. R. “Buster” Hancock
Groveland
Doyle Conner
Starke
Democratic National Committee
Board of County Commissioners
Jake Bishop
Minneola
Herman Dykes
Tavares
District 5
Fred Cross
Pittman
Herbert A. Babb
Umatilla
G.O.P. National Committee
Arthur A. Atkins
Anthony Battaglia
James L. Guilmartin
Robert C. Johnson
George C. Peterson
Fr. Lauderdale
Col
Percy W. Theempon
Gainesville
Charles B. Fischer
Largo
Gilbert P. Richardson
Lakeland
Community Building Booking Changes Announced
City Hall will handle bookings for the community building after Tuesday night comments by chairman Mrs Margaret Lofroos at the City Council meeting. The switch moves bookings from the Chamber of Commerce to City Hall, reversing the earlier near arrangement that favored the old system.
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Ing
Margaret Lofroos
City Hall
Chamber of Commerce
City will mull annexation and water policy for new subdivision
The city council may consider annexing a 117 to 126 home subdivision west of Golden Heights to Mount Dora, with water service and possible electricity sales. Officials debate contiguity, street deeds, and financing as a ways and means committee meets to discuss policy, costs, and annexation feasibility.
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Mount Dora
Camailla
Armw Wen
Ab wouInes
Utilities
Ro Walker
John Cain
Mel Wagner
Golden Heights
Winter Garden
Sylvan Shores
Roy Christopher
Orlando
Lake Coleman
Lake Shore Dr
Triangle
Eustis
Coleman
From Flood to Draught in a Day Is Dora's Ironic Experience
Mount Dora faced a day of extreme water shortage followed by an ironic turn when a sprinkler system at the Mount Dora Growers Cooperative flooded a cold room, prompting emergency pumping and alarms as officials urged conservation amid dwindling reservoir levels.
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Dora
Mount Dora
City Waterworks
Water Department
Harold D. Overhiser
Mount Dora Hikes Water Rates Amid Shortage Crisis
Mount Dora officials defend a rate hike after a water shortage emergency. City President Coleman says higher funds are needed to expand water works including a half million gallon overhead tank. Residents inside city limits face about 25 percent increases, outside city about 40 percent, with monthly billing starting July 1.
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Mount Dora
Council
Coleman
Albert O’neall
Florida
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