City Tackles Parking and Traffic Problems with New Lot
City Council approves a new parking lot at Alexander and Fifth Avenues in a joint project with the Presbyterian church funded by meter money. The lot will be leased to the church for 1 a year for 10 years, with future options. A radar light was rejected at the Mount Dora Growers Cooperative intersection, but a caution light will be installed and state plans for road markings will be limited to curves.
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Alexander and
Fifth Av
Presbyterian Church
Mount Dora
Alexander St
Heaton
McDonald St
Frederic Whiting
G. B
Crip” Hurlburt
Road Department
New School Club Formed At Mount Dora High
Education Week spotlights the new Future Teachers of America club at Mount Dora High School. Officers are Mary Ann Brotherson president Bess Davidson vice president and Nancy Ellis secretary. The group aids teachers as monitors and graders while promoting teaching as a profession.
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Lou L. Heaton
Mount Dora
Future Teachers of America
Mary Ann Brotherson
Bess Davidson
Nancy Ellis
Miss Brotherson
National Educe Association
American Légion
U. S. Office of Education
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Lions Launch Mount Dora Girl Scout Drive Monday
Mount Dora Lions begin a fundraising drive to raise 1100 for the Land of Lakes Girl Scout Council. Al Rehbaum Jr serves as finance chair for the council spanning Lake Marion Citrus and Hernando counties. Local teams led by Norman Baldwin and John Cain will call on five community members each to secure support and conclude the drive in a week. The council operates with a strained budget while a leadership course in Eustis trains eight local women for service to troops. National Girl Scouting counts about 2 million members with 450000 adults across the U S territories and states.
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Mount Dora
Lions
Land of Lake
Lions Club Girl Scout Fund
Eustis
Girl Scouts of the
Guam
Hawaii
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Public Speaking Course Close to Start at High School
The Adult Education program at the high school issues a last call for enrollment in its public speaking course. Floyd Jaggears set an organizational meeting for Monday at 7 30 p m as the course needs 20 enrollees to reach the required 12 on average for the 16 week, two hour sessions. Local residents are urged to join to reach the minimum.
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Floyd Jaggears
City to Furnish East Town Heating System
The East Town Council agreed the city will supply a central heating unit for the East Town Community building while residents buy their own fuel. C. O. Lott proposed the city maintain the furnace if a proper heater is provided. Bids for a 115000 BTU furnace with ducts will be opened November 16.
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East Town
C. O. Lott
IceHouse Players Seeks Box Office Cancellations
Mrs. David Bowen, chair of the box office, asks all members and patrons not planning to use their Petticoat Fever reservations to notify the box office so seats can be reassigned to next buyers.
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David Bowen
IceHouse Players
Fishing Survey To Be Taken In Lake County
Lake county residents are invited to participate in a state study on how freshwater sport fishing affects the economy. The program includes five surveys to estimate spending by licensed fishermen, investments in facilities, manufacturing and retail activity tied to fishing, and the number of people dependent on the industry. A final phase seeks constructive criticism and improvement ideas. Personal interviews will be used where possible, with questionnaires for screening a representative group.
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Lake County
Florida
Harris Kimball Opens His Law Office Here
Harris L. Kimball former tax attorney for Minute Maid Corp opened his private law practice in Mount Dora on Monday. He resigned to devote full time to private practice and works from 130 W Fourth Ave in the renovated former home of Miss Gertrude Thorne. Kimball, a 1951 Illinois Law School graduate, previously spent a year with Ernst and Ernst in Chicago before relocating to Florida. He lives at the Fourth Ave offices.
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Harris L. Kimball
Minute Maid Corp
Mount Dora
Kimball
Fourth Av
Gertrude Thorne
Michigan City
Ind
University of Illinois
Florida
Ernst and Ernst
Chicago
Scout Master Hunt In Progress In Mount Dora
M O Williams and Glenn Brown seek a Scout Master for Troop No 19 to replace A Slater Cox. They want an executive type leader and two assistants and ask for volunteers or names of potential leaders from local men in Mount Dora.
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M. O. “Buster” Williams
Boy Scouts
Glenn Brown
Kiwanis Club
A. Slater Cox
Eustis
Williams
Mount Dora
No. 19
Brown
Alex Morse
Robert Montgomery
Jim DeGarmo
John Mills
Walter Te- Strake
Bobby Goodman
Jack Groves
Committee heads meeting of dentistry society opens in Miami
Dr. Robert Wason of Mount Dora chairs the opening session of the American Society of Dentistry for Children in Miami, held parallel to the convention of the American Dental Association.
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Robert Wason
Mount Dora
American Society of Dentistry For Children
Miami
American Dental Association
Shakespeare Quote on Life and Thankfulness
A brief reflective line attributed to William Shakespeare praising gratitude as life’s sustaining force. The excerpt frames thanks as a vital, moral lens on living.
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William Shakespeare
Petticoat Fever brings new male star to IceHouse cast
IceHouse Theatre in Mount Dora previews Petticoat Fever with Col P S Lauben as Sir James and Jack O'Brien as the Labrador telegraph operator. Barbara Fromberger debuts as a British style romantic interlude while Barbara Fromberger and others enhance the zany comedy through three acts.
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IceHouse Theatre
Lake County
Little Theatre
P. S. Lauben
U. S. Army Ret
Lauben
England
Sir James
Jack O’brien
Labrador
Parkas
O’brien
Barbara Fromberger
Ice- House
Mount Dora
Frozen North
Lauren
Mrs. Fromberger
Kimo
Charles Wareing
Peggy
Graves
Nancy Ellis
IceHouse
Jean Patterson
Col. E. F
Merchant
Miss Patterson
Ed Vogeler
Mount Dora Baptists report record year and revival kickoff
Mount Dora Baptist Church closes its fiscal year with 53 new members and Sunday School enrollment up 102. Revival opens Sunday with Rev. Clovis Brantley as minister through Nov. 14. Last year’s membership reached 381 and Sunday School 473, aided by 41 shut-ins served by the extension department.
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Mount Dora
Coffield
Mrs Brinkerhoff Dies at Rest Home After 25 Years
Mrs Mary Pommer Brinkerhoff, 91, helped inspire the Christian Scientists Rest Home at Ninth and Grandview and was its first patient. A former Kansas City resident, she lived in Mt. Plymouth and Mount Dora, died at the rest home last week after services in Eustis. Her body was taken to Kansas City for interment at Memorial Park Cemetery.
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Mary Pommer Brinkerhoff
Agnes Truesdell
Christian Scientists
Ninth and
Grandview St
Kansas City
Brinkerhoff
Mt. Plymouth
Mount Dora
Truesdell
Deering Hospitalized After Minor Ailment In Orlando
Morris Deering, noted scribe for the Shuffleboard club, lies in Orange Memorial hospital Orlando under observation for a seemingly minor illness.
Governor-Elect LeRoy Collins to Speak at Mount Dora Banquet
Governor-elect LeRoy Collins will visit Mount Dora on Wednesday November 10 for the Lake County Chamber of Commerce 39th annual meeting. Atty P B Howell Jr Leesburg will introduce him, with George J White Mount Dora Chamber president as toastmaster. Policemen will escort the governor from the city limits to the Community building setting for the 6:30 banquet.
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LeRoy Collins
Mount Dora
Lake County
Tallahassee
Orlando
Lou L. Heaton
Baker Sr
Lehmann
Collins
Atty. P. B. Howell, Jr
Leesburg
George J. White
Chamber of Commerce
Lake County Chamber
G. G. Ware
C. Harold Hippler
Eustis
Kiwanis
East
Pilot Club
Tavares
Two-Party Hope Still Lingers In Florida Vote
Mount Dora voters backed Governor candidate Nomi nee LeRoy Collins with 398 votes while late Republican Tom Watson drew 110 ballots. Charley Johns received two write-ins as Amendment 4 passed for governor bill review. Local support split evenly between A S Herlong Jr and M Jack Simpson for County Commission.
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Tom Watson
Florida
Mount Dora
LeRoy Collins
Mr. Watson
Charley Johns
Johns
Collins
Dorans
Plant Sale Planned by Lakes and Hills Garden Club
The Founders Circle of the Lakes and Hills Garden club will hold a sale of plants and annuals including unusual house plants across from the Post Office on November 12 and 13.
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Founders Circle of the Lakes and Hills Garden Club
Writers Meet to Unveil Old Manuscripts
The Creative Writers Group will gather Tuesday at 10 am in the League rooms of the Public Library to present manuscripts they have written. Members invite local writers and readers to attend.
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Creative Writers Group
Es Na
Public Libros, Fy
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