City Grants Decrease in Christmas Electricity Bills
Dorans will receive an advance Christmas gift as electricity bills drop 3 percent under a new contract with Florida Power Corp. The city passes the wholesale rate cut to consumers while keeping retail billing complex. Officials cite a temporary system and a 10 percent wholesale rate drop as a step to address a local power shortage and a 55 minute outage during last week's election night.
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Florida Power Corp
Ie Eee
J. E. Fortner
Mount Dora
Harold Overhiser
Death Takes F J Buxton In Baltimore
Frederick J. Buxton 77 died at Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore after heart treatment following a cross country trip for a 1947 reunion with siblings. He left a wife and son Dawson and four brothers Harrison Utica New York Charles Santa Ana California Bronson Los Angeles and sister Clara B Buxton Tyson Los Angeles. Funeral services were in Baltimore.
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Mount Dora
Buxton
Frederick J. Buxton
Johns, Hopkins Hospital
California
Baltimore
Dawson Buxton
Sylvan Shores
Harrison
Utica
Charles
Santa Ana
Calif
Bronson
Los Angeles
Clara B. Buxton Tyson
Mrs. Allen Dies At Hendersonville
Mrs. Mabelle Allen, 63, died last Friday at Hendersonville North Carolina after winters in Mount Dora with her husband A B Allen. He is the lone survivor. The couple had spent the last three winters at the Mount Dora hotel after visiting Sedano House previously.
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Mount Dora
Mabelle Allen
Hendersonville
N. C
Jeppy Visits Cele Claflin Amid Florida Sand Spurs
Helen Jepson, Metropolitan Opera star, relaxed at Cele Claflin’s Sylvan Shores home near Mount Dora Florida. She recalled a long friendship dating to Akron Ohio and discussed touring and a possible new venture with the Ice House Players.
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Helen Jepson
Florida
Hallowe'en
Cele Claflin
Mount Dora
Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan
Helen
Jepson
Josephine
Cele
Miss Jepson
Walter Dellera
Sally
Rickie
Closter
N. J
Birmingham
Ala
South
San Antonio Symphony
Kingsport
Texas
Winter Haven
Ice House Players
Downs Family Faces Possible Evacuation Amid China Tensions
Letter from Major Lem Downs in Nanking describes a humorous home life while American dependents near evacuation. He cites limited electricity and cramped conditions as he coaches the Nanking American School and cheers for Shanghai International with Carolyn as patron of the girls’ squad. The note follows Major General Barr’s order to evacuate.
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Michael
John
Lem
Pearl‘Downs
Nanking
Carolyn
Shanghai
Evans Named CofC Head
Charles F. Evans of Montverde will be elected president of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce at the annual Leesburg meeting. Dorans named officers include W. Donald Conkling and George J. White, with Karl Lehmann set to be secretary for a 14th year as Montverde leads the county in sustaining memberships.
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Lake County
Mount Dora urged to back cultural theater group
A speaker urged Mount Dora to support a local theatrical group and set an example for cultural development in towns across America. She highlighted the need for constructive ideas and wholehearted backing to bolster the arts scene.
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States
America
Mount Dora
Groveland Routs Mount Dora after injured Groveland player
Groveland rallied from a 6-0 halftime deficit to beat Mount Dora Hurricanes 13-6 in a scrimmage. Groveland tackle Ervin Barwick, 158 pounds, suffered a broken hip and was taken to Leesburg hospital by ambulance. Lions club presented the school fence and bleachers discuss followed by praise from local officials.
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Dora
Groveland
Mount Dora
D. D. Roseborough
Sam Swiger
Lions Club
W. A. Vincent
J. E. Fortner
Tim Poulton
George J. White
Chamber of Commerce
Jimmy Simpson
Frank J. Banning
A. M. Davis
County Board of Education
K. R. Jones
J. G. Ray, Jr
County Board of Trustees
Mount Dora Hurricanes
Ervin Barwick
Green Jackets
Leesburg Hospital
Dorans
Hurricanes
Groveland Boys
New
A. Vincent
White
City Council Adopts Solicitors Permit Ordinance
Mount Dora moves to require a mayoral permit for all fund solicitors after Chamber of Commerce secretary Bill Wells urged curbing beggars soliciting funds. The measure passed initial approval and will have final reading on December 7.
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Mount Dora
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Wells
Chamber
Syd Herlong Wins Lincoln Vote Triumph Dinner
The Leesburg testimonial dinner honors Syd Herlong, a tall Lake County judge, who won election to Congress last week. Supporters planned the event as a long awaited tribute regardless of outcome, with speeches reflecting on his years of service.
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Syd Herlong
Leesburg
Harry Truman
Washington
Lake County
Congress
Syd
Bill Wells Attends Fathers Funeral in Oakland
Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce Bill Wells travels to Oakland California for his father Maurice Wells's funeral after word Monday that he died suddenly of a heart attack.
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Chamber of Commerce
Bill Wells
Oakland
Calif
Wells
Maurice Wells
Personalities Around Mount Dora Welcome to Mount Dora
A narrative profile of judge John W. Willmott and his wife Mrs. Willmott as winter visitors in Mount Dora. The piece recounts his 30 years of law practice including years in Oklahoma and Florida, with vivid recollections of Seminole history and a dramatic, old west style description of Seminole justice and punishments.
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Mount Dora
Florida
Mrs. Willmott
Donnelly St
Lexington
Willmott
Oklahoma
University of Michigan
Indian Territory
America
United States
Judge Willmott
John Willmott
Wewoka
Mutual Calls Lake County Session For New Drive
Citrus growers in Lake county plan a growers meeting at the Tavares recreation center on Monday at 3 p.m. Florida Citrus Mutual seeks to win 75 percent of state fruit to enforce its marketing rules. Merton L. Corey will speak on boosting returns above production costs.
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Lake County
Aiready
Florida Citrus Mutual
Mutual
Tavares Recreation Center
Merton L. Corey
Theavares
Fuller Warren
G. B. “Crip” Hurlburt
Mount Dora Mutual Committee
Gladys Malone
Tom Watson
Watson
Musketeers Merit Winners Honored At Scout Court
The Four Musketeers Barry Norton David Blanchard Billy Carroll and Walter Patton earned Eagle badges as 28 boys received awards at the Lake District Court of Honor held in the Mount Dora Community building. Mount Dora troop 19 dominated the event with 17 merit badges presented and Norman Peters earning first class rank. A covered dish supper followed the ceremony with the mothers of the honored scouts assisting in the program.
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Barry Norton
David Blanchard
Billy Carroll
Walter Patton
Carl Graves
Lake District
Chester
Frank Hall
R. W. Dickson
O. M. Simpson
Mount Dora
Jackie Hutchinson
Tom Cooley
W. A. Vincent
Scouts
Four Musketeers
W. J. Patton
Lewis Carroll
Ray Blanchard
Harold Morse
Chalk-Man Returns as Mount Dora Enforces Downtown Parking
A local note warns that the Chalk-Man with chalk and stick will resume downtown parades Monday in Mount Dora as the one hour parking rule goes into effect. Drivers are urged to time car visits or face a possible one dollar surcharge on shopping trips.
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Mount Dora
Judge John W Willmott and the Oklahoma to Kentucky move
John W Willmott earned the nickname Judge while serving crowded Oklahoma dockets before moving to San Diego for ten years of coastal practice. After his father’s 1932 death he returned home to Lexington Kentucky to reclaim the family homestead by buying out his brothers and reestablishing his practice there, though delays hindered his plan to hang out his shingle.
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Oklahoma
Willmott
San Diego
Calif
Willmotts
Lexington
Kentucky
Remote threat of tuberculosis in Lake County
In Lake County 1948 sees one local TB death and eight total deaths so far. Eighty eight county residents are under treatment, with fifteen of them Black. Mobile X ray units visit in December to push a goal of fifteen thousand X rays led by Dr. C O Parker and the Lake County Tuberculosis and Health association under Onie Ruth Hunter.
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Mount Dora
C. O. Parker
Lake County
Mrs Mabel Brown Dies In Vermont
Mrs Mabel Van Dell Brown widow of Jay E Brown died Monday at their Plymouth Union Vermont summer place. Educated in Malden Massachusetts and Emerson College Boston she leaves husband a daughter Mrs Howard Armstrong wife of Vermont secretary of state a son Earle in Rutland Vermont wholesale candy business and seven grandchildren.
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Mabel van. Dell Brown
Jay E. Brown
Tangerine
Plymouth Union
Vermont
Brown
Malden
Mass
Emerson College
Boston
Howard Armstrong
Earle
Rutland
Eleanor Roosevelt predicts party realignment from Paris
A radio program by Eleanor and Anna Roosevelt suggests the major U.S. parties may shed identity and become strictly conservative or liberal. Briggs echoed a similar forecast in his Briggs Digs column, prompting note of similarity between the two pieces.
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Eleanor
Briggs
Anna Roosevelt
Paris
United States
Mount Dora
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Downs
Evans
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