Lions Open Fund Campaign To Aid Girl Scout Council
Mount Dora Lions Club launches a drive to raise 1001 for Mount Dora's share of the Land O Lakes Girl Scouts Council budget. The 9100 council target covers Lake Sumter Marion Citrus counts with Leesburg raising 2000 and Ocala 3094 among others. a paid Scout executive will coordinate activities and expand programs, camping, and leadership training in the Central Florida area.
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Lions Open Fund
Girl Scout Council
Mount Dora
Land O’ Lakes
Lions Club
Sam Swiger
Unity Blood Bank
Walter Manley
Leesburg
Eustis
Tavares
Umatilla
Clermont
Ocala National Forest
Gladys Crane
Swiger
Inadequate Diet Basis of Tooth Health Debate
Dr. Fred DeCamp of the Florida Board of Health spoke at a Lions meeting on fluoridation, listing three dental research findings and noting widespread professional endorsement. The Mount Dora fluoridation issue prompts a citizens committee review, with two supporters and two opponents, plus one undecided member, and no ready conclusion to City Council.
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Fred DeCamp
Florida Board of Health
a_ Lions
DeCamp
State Board of Health
Mount Dora
Citizens Committee
Fred Rubidge
New Jersey
Arnold Haynes
Lions Club
Glendy Sadler
Parent-Teacher Association
Ronald Aldrich
High Ae
Harry Hope
B. O. Bowers
Woman's Club
Robert M. Blackburn
Methodist Church
John Willmott
Rubidge
Br Wey
Kiwanis Club
Robert Wason
American Legion
Lions Present Tool To Blind Assistive Equipment Unveiled
The Lions club presented its fourth aid for the blind, a $400 beach planer, at a Daytona Beach school for the blind meeting. Captain E D Hall praised Mount Dora Lions for support and noted the club’s long rehabilitation effort for the blind, following previous gifts of a table saw, wood turning lathe, and vibra-tool.
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the Lions Club
E. D. Hall
Daytona Beach
Ince
IceHouse Players Members to Perform at Berkshire Theatre
Ted Shawn and Col. Paul Bronson will join the Berkshire production in Stockbridge Mass with Shawn re portraying Death Takes a Holiday and Bronson cast as the foreign legion major from Mount Dora. Bronson’s casting came at Shawn’s request following his February vocal role debut.
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IceHouse Players
Berkshire
Stockbridge
Mass
Ted Shawn
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Boys Attend UF 4-H Short Course
Owen Sonny Conner III and Arthur Lewis join 10 Lake county peers at the University of Florida for a week long 4 H club Short Course beginning June 6. The group will study agriculture under college professors and participate in campus activities.
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Owen
Sonny” Conner, III
Arthur Lewis
Mount Dora
Lake County
University of Florida
Sllege
Meter Holiday Declared in Mount Dora
Mayor Lou L. Heaton announces a summer meter holiday from June 10 to September. Parking meters will be de headed with posts remaining as reminders while one hour limits and other rules stay in force to aid police monitoring.
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Lou L. Heaton
Mount Dora
Moser Heaton
Eisenhower Office Opens in Mount Dora Florida
Mount Dora opens its first full political office for 1952 in the Donnelly building at Donnelly and Fifthay. The Florida for Eisenhower office is led by Col. Lambert Turner, Lake county Eisenhower Club chairman, to promote the general’s popularity ahead of the Republican National convention. Clerk receptionist this week is Mrs. Rosetta Croxton.
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Mount Dora
Donnelly
Donnelly and
Fifthay
Florida
Lambert Turner
Lake County
Eisenhower Club
Rosetta Croxton
Mount Dora Instructor Wins Summer Scholarship
Edgard E. Sutley, a Mount Dora high school instructor, is among 20 high school teachers from nine states awarded scholarships for advanced study in the 1952 university Summer session. Candia for the award were selected from outstanding teachers in 15 states east of the Mississippi.
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Edgard E. Sutley
Mount Dora High School
Candia
Mississippi
Pat Patton of Princess theater and peril in Mexico
Editor notes the second of two profiles on W D Patton manager of the Princess theatre and his wife Edny. It recalls Pattons 1909 risky venture to La Solidad Mexico guiding a silver mine amid bandit attacks and a bold escape by mine crew before Pattons later Milwaukee and Hammond Indiana years.
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W. D
Pat” Patton
The
Princess Theatre
Edny
Pat
United States
Rough Riders
Philippines
Mexico
Edna
New Mexico
la Solidad
Milwaukee
Walter J. Patton
Niyo
Arthur MacArthur
Patton’s Florida move sparks juice freezing venture
W D and Edna Patton after wartime oil work join Reid Murdock Co. then move to Florida seeking to preserve oranges. Patton’s work includes a 1928 Waukegan plant assignment and six years as chief research chemist for North Continent Utility Co. He travels to Mexico and Canada for property studies before resigning to pursue Florida potential and frozen orange juice concentrate.
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Reid Murdock Co
Pat
Waukegan
North Continent Utility Co
Mexico
Canada
Florida
Pattons
North Woods
Walter
Robert
Mount Plymouth
Mount Dora High School Class of 1952 Graduation
The Mount Dora high school Class of 1952 will graduate nine girls and 17 boys on Thursday June 5 at 8 p.m. in the Community building with Circuit Judge Truman G. Futch delivering the address. Valedictorian is Patricia Dean and salutatorian is William Beims. Baccalaureate services precede on Sunday June 1 with James H. Sutley of First Baptist Church as pastor.
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Mount Dora High School
Patricia Dean
Charles Dean
William Beims
Henry Beims
Truman G. Futch
James H. Sutley
First Baptist Church
Scout Mother Banquet Planned for Troop 6
Forty mothers and daughters of Troop 6 Girl Scouts will meet at the Community building next Wednesday at 6 30 p m for a Mother-Daughter banquet. Mrs Charles Brown chairs the event with Mrs D Fletcher Crane presiding Assisted by Mrs B D Ferrone a Court of Awards will follow in the auditorium. The choir notes the event as a finale for free started by hostesses badges and the group will prepare most of the dinner.
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Girl Scouts
Charles Brown
D. Fletcher Crane
Brown
B. D. Ferrone
Mount Dora
Bradford to Japan with the Chaplain Service
Charles Bradford Jr. left for Japan last week with the 10th Air Force as a member of the Chaplain Service. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradford of Third Avenue.
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Bradford
Japan
Charles Bradford, Jr
10Th Air Force
Chaplain Service
Charles. Bradford
Russell Delegates Present Second Primary Puzzle
Florida Democrats face a complex primary with 24 convention delegates and mixed pledges. In Lake County voters choose clerk and governor nominees while presidential ballots include Russell Kefauver Eisenhower and MacArthur options. Kefauver and Russell delegates parade through Central Florida with local candidates J Earl Myers and Tar Boyd noted.
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Florida
United States
Lake County
Frank E. Owens
Mount Dora
Herman Dykes
Tavares Realtor
Dan McCarty
Fort Pierce
Brailey Odham
Sanford
Russell
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Unps
Kefauver
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Gen
Dwight Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Far East
Lake
Leesburg
Myers
Boyd
Frank W. Belcher
Herbert Goldman
Floyd L. Land
E. G
Gus” Musseh
Dorsey J. Prescott
Sarah Crawford Cullen
George W. Johnson
Mary R. Farrell
Paul McRae Averitte
Upchurch
Democratic Party
Herlong Defends Tax Exemption for Congressmen
Congressman A S Syd Herlong Jr defends tax exemptions for lawmakers in Washington saying critics misstate the bill. He notes existing travel, lodging and other costs are not fully deductible and argues lawmakers should not be treated worse than other taxpayers.
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Congress
A. S
Syd” Herlong, Jr
Washington
Herlong
Washam
Chambers of Commerce
Dora Secretary Wins Scholarship
Betty Siess secretary of the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce was one of two delegates to the Florida State Chamber convention in St Petersburg to win a scholarship for public relations training at the University of North Carolina. Harold Goforth former secretary of the Mount Dora Chamber was elected vice president of the state organization. Siess will attend the U N C short course at Chapel Hill in June.
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Betty Siess
Mount Dora
Spanish Moss Mulching Caution Cited by Lake Agent
Lake Agent R. E. Bob Norris warns that Spanish moss offered as is is unsuitable for mulching plants due to a black thread like material beneath the grey fuzz that decomposes slowly and creates fibrous moss in the soil. Norris references moss gin waste in his remarks.
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R. E
Bob” Norris
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Sonny” Bond
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