Sentiment Grows on County Wide Reappraisal in Lake County
Leesburg pushes for county wide property reappraisal to equalize taxes and boost school funding. The push follows PTA and Lions Club talks, a school board discussion, and a city resolution urging county commissioners to consider tax reappraisal at the earliest practicable time.
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Lake County
Parent-Teacher Association
Lions Club
Lake County School Board
Lake County Board of County Commissioners
Leesburg
J. L. Sheffer
James L. Graham
State Department of Education
Carlysle Rogers
Rogers
Ted Cassady
Mount Dora
Daughters Aid Needy With Thanksgiving Baskets and Help
King's Daughters organized 24 food baskets for needy families of varying color including fowl canned fruit vegetables bread and other staples plus a last minute visit to aid a sick 4 year old with shoes and blankets for Henrietta and her ill father Jack Woods. They found no heat or flue preventing stove use and the family kept warm by an outdoor fire.
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Dorans
Jack Woods
Henrietta
Kings Daughters
Church to Hold Annual Dinner
Members of the Community church will gather at the Community building next Wednesday, Nov. 30, at 6 p.m. for their annual congregational dinner. An interesting program has been arranged with fellowship in the city’s oldest church. Music will be directed by Arthur Jewell, formerly Lakewood Ohio public schools director, now Mount Dora resident, leading group singing. The program will feature pictures from Mr and Mrs Frederick Sleight of their European trip last summer.
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Arthur Jewell
Public Schools
Lakewood
Ohio
Mount Dora
Frederick Sleight
Swiss Genius and Life Praised in Mount Dora Talk
Frederick Sleight spoke to the Kiwanis Club about Switzerland presenting colored slides of its mountains homes cities and countryside. He lauded Swiss industry democracy religious devotion and the genius to convert scarce resources into world class products citing the zipper and fine printing as examples and praising their moral balance.
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Frederick Sleight
Mount Dora
Kiwanis Club
Mr. Sleight
Switzerland
Sleight
Susan
Platts of Mount Dora Endure Apologies Over Race Suspicion
The Platt family sued Lake County School Board after five children were barred from white schools a year ago on suspicion of Negro blood. A judge ruled the board offered no proof, and the board dropped appeals. The piece condemns the persecution and urges Sheriff McCall and the board to apologize publicly.
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Allen Platt
Mount Dora
Platt
Lake County School Board
South Carolina
Platts
Truman G. Futch
School Board
Futch
Lake County
Willis McCall
Sheriff McCall
Tampa Tribune
Dora's Orphans Enjoy Thanksgiving Outing Planned Relief
About 60 children from Dora's Christian Home and Bible School will go to a Thanksgiving dinner in Ocala and then visit Falcon bird firm, with TV coverage by a Tampa station. The trip, arranged by William H. Clark of Leesburg and Carl Rose of Ocala, replaces a canceled visit to Umatilla Crippled Children's Home.
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Christian Home
Bible School
Ocala
Falcon
Tampa
Umatilla
Mount Dora
William H. Clark
Leesburg
Carl Rose
Fishing trip yields bright-eyed boy and shellcrackers
Garry Soliday, 10, returns from a fishing outing at the Yacht club docks with a string of shellcrackers. His father C. A. Soliday helped. The Broadhead, Wisconsin youth is living with his parents in an apartment on Fifth Avenue during the winter and attends Mount To Fifth Av. school in the fifth grade.
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Garry Soliday
C. A. Soliday
Yacht Club
Garry
Broadhead
Wis
Eense
Fifth Av
Mount
Mount Dora Mayor Race Draws Patton Opposition
W D Patton Kiwanis treasurer and ex Princess theatre manager declares independent bid for Mount Dora mayor. He faces Wayne Moon in the December 13 election. Also running are F A Albertus Clayton Jr and Lester R Van Woert with other council hopefuls named.
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W. D. Patton
Kiwanis Club
Princess Theatre
Wayne Moon
Mount Dora
F. A. Albertus
Clayton Jr
Tool and Dye Firm
Lester R. van Woert
Park Commission
Patton
Friends
Orlando Sentinel
Drexel Institute
Philadelphia
University of Wisconsin
Florida
West
Mexico
Reid Murdoch & Co
North Continent Utilities Co
Chicago
Philippines
Cavalry
Charles Short
Clermont
Ramie
Patton Sheet and Metal Works
Moon’s Hardware
Council
Fev
Margaret Lafroos
Howard Simpson
Gordon Conboy
Keith Davis
Henry Link
Ed Vincent
Lou L. Heaton
Baptist Pastor Reports Strong Gains at First Baptist Church
Rev. David Coffield marks his fourth year at the First Baptist church with gains across all activities. Membership up 32 percent, Sunday School attendance up 66 percent, Women's Missionary Union and other activities growing, contributions up 74 percent, and mission gifts rising 171 percent. The church leads the Lake County Baptist association in per capita missions giving and income dedicated to missions. Coffield elected Florida Baptist Convention president at Lakeland meeting.
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First Baptist Church
David Coffield
Women’s Missionary Union
Lake County Baptist Association
Florida Baptist Convention
Lakeland
Coffield
Florida Baptist Con
Es Coffield
Berry Grid System May Get TV Plug
Mount Dora innovator Alfred Parker Berry may see his copyrighted football marking system tested during the Army Navy game on television. The system places yard markers on inbound lines to help TV viewers track ball position on each play.
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Mount Dora
Alfred Parker Berry
Premiere sales data crowd Lake County health drive
Mrs Slater Cox executive secretary of the Lake County Health and TB association reported Christmas Seal sales exceeded 60 percent per capita in the premier contest week ending last night. Mount Dora contributed 659 donations totaling 1301 dollars representing 863 people and the premiere of The Court Martial of Billy Mitchell may come to Lake County if it posts the highest per capita sales among competing counties.
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Slater Cox
Lake County
Mount Dora votes on four lane options for Orange Blossom Trail
Mayor Heaton proposes a straw ballot at the December 13 election to gauge citizens’ views on four route options for Mount Dora’s segment of the Orange Blossom Trail. The plan considers bypasses around Lake Dora, downtown routing changes, a split highway, and preserving the present downtown course with wider rights of way.
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State Road Department
Mount Dora
Lou L. Heaton
Heaton
Cnasial Especinan
Big Lake Dora
Tavares
Highland St
East Town
Lake Gertrude
Road Department
Highland
Leesburg
Ira Kellogg
Fifth Av
Kellogg Prinz
J. H. Barnhart
Roy Christopher
Contemporary Bits of Wisdom by Henry Gi Riter
NAM President Henry Gi Riter, 3rd, warns that the great future lies in test tubes and cyclotrons of industrial researchers and will not be funded by trust funds hidden in bedsprings. The remark underscores a call for active investment in science and industry.
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Nam
Henry Gi Riter
Council Approves Paving Plans and Seeks Aid
City to receive bids December 20 for Crestview drive paving and Highland street or Purple Heart lane work. Letter sent to Lake County School Board to join Highland street paving for school access. Engineer ONeil backs wide Highland pave for possible truck bypass. council settles 20 foot width to avoid future state tearing. City street fund holds 18,000. 1955-56 funding to come from garbage fee.
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Crestview Dr
Highland St
Seventh
Eighth Av
Normandy
Overlook Drs
Lake County School Board
Burt O'Neil
Crestview
O’neil
Highland
J. H. Barnhart
Mrs Woodbridge Dies at Home in Mount Dora
Ursula M. Woodbridge 83 died at her home 339 Ninth Ave Tuesday afternoon. Wife of Charles G. Woodbridge she belonged to the Mount Dora Woman's club. Funeral Friday 10 30 a.m. at Presbyterian church Dr C A Carrier officiating. Interment Pine Forest cemetery. Survived by three daughters Mrs Malcolm B Jones Mrs George Hoffman Smith and Mrs Arrtini Artinian with grandchildren Cornelia Jones Susan Smith Margaret Robert and Ellen Artinian.
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Ursula M. Woodbridge
Charles G. Woodbridge
Mount, Dora
Inn
Malcom B. Jones
New London
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