Dividend Days Ends With Santa at Mount Dora Center
Mount Dora invites shoppers to the Golden Triangle Center for a Friday night Christmas finale. Santa arrives by fire truck at 8 p.m. to light the lakefront tree as the street merchants award more than two dozen prizes, including a grand London trip.
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Golden Triangle
Bank of Mount Dora
Santa Claus
Mount Dora
Santa
London
Queen’s
RCA
Golden Triangle Center
Central Florida
Brechner joins national forum on racial crisis in news
Joseph L. Brechner president and GM of WFTV Orlando spoke at the eighth annual Freedom of Information Conference at the University of Missouri. The session on The Racial Crisis and The News Media featured Brechner discussing media roles in race issues.
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Joseph L. Brechner
WFTV
Orlando
Freedom of Information
University of Missouri
TV Presentation On City Slated Monday Morning
Mount Dora will be featured in a TV program starting at 7 a.m. with the Mount Dora segment set for about 7:45 a.m. Mrs. Siess provided the schedule for the city presentation.
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Mount Dora
Siess
Take Ample Time Kirkman Urges
Col. H. N. Kirkman director of the Department of Public Safety urges motorists to allow extra time for travel. He predicts 19 deaths from traffic crashes on Florida roads over the four day Thanksgiving holidays due to drivers not keeping safety in mind. Universities and schools statewide will have full football schedules, increasing road use.
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Col. H. N. Kirkman
Department of Public Safety
Florida
Col. Kirkman
Communication Workshop to Boost Club Publicity
WVGT and The Mount Dora Topic sponsor a December 2 workshop on media publicity for clubs and organizations. Leaders were invited. call 383-4216 for details. act soon.
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WVGT
Mount Dora
Arch Laney
Valerie Johnson
Mount Dora Worker Killed When Tractor Rolls Over
Isaac Lassitter 32, a Mount Dora Growers Cooperative worker, died when his tractor overturned while turning left from Silver Star Road onto Hiwawassee Road in Orange County near Orlando. Officials say it is the firm’s first fatal accident in many years.
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Mount Dora
Isaac Lassitter
Five Returnees Lead Mount Dora Cage Team
Mount Dora High School coach Ralph Albritton announces five lettermen as the nucleus for the 1965-66 Hurricanes with Ken Atkins Charles Alderman Bill Taylor Butch Townsend and Allen Whittington slated as potential starters. The team opens December 11 against Florida Central Academy at Mount Dora High School gym.
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Mount Dora High School
Ralph Albritton
Ken Atkins
Charles Alderman
Bill Taylor
Butch Townsend
Allen Whittington
John Radosti
Martin Morgan
Bill Kauff
Allen Jackson
Richard Scogin
Albritton
Hurricanes
Florida Central Academy
Atkins
Alderman
Ed (Shanks) Hansel
Leesburg High School
Chamber nominating bids spark lively council race
Five candidates seek four City Council seats with three incumbents among them and Gordon Conboy challenging Mayor Jesse Willmott before the December 14 election. Three park seats are up for five years with French Harris and Moss filing, while Warren Morgan not seeking re election.
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Gordon Conboy
Jesse Willmott
Park Commission
Tom Champion
Tommy Houser
Margaret Lafroos
Oscar Schubert
Robert F. Wason
Champion
Schubert
Wason
G. QO. French
James C. Harris
Eugene A. Moss
French
Harris
Warren Morgan
Morgan
Thriftway
East Town
Cowboy
Vason
Hospital Patients at Waterman Memorial in Mount Dora
Mount Dora patients at Waterman Memorial Hospital this week include James Carlton Broder Peters Amelia Githens Bess Gallagher Helen Holmes Thomas Carver Blanche Edwards Lenore Holliger Ruth Green Louise Morris Elizabeth Hadlock Harold Stewart Susie Empie Emily Headlee Doris McRee Dorothy Thompson James Kress Norma Wise Susan Odom and Alice Toy.
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Mount Dora
Waterman Memorial Hospital
James Carlton
Broder Petersen
Amelia Githens
Bess Gallagher
Helen Holmes
Thomas Carver
Blanche Edwards
Lenore Holliger
Ruth Green
Louise Morris
Elizabeth Hadlock
Harold Stewart
Susie Empie
Emily Headlee
Doris McRee
Dorothy Thompson
James Kress
Norma Wise
Susan Odom
Alice Toy
First Baptist Church Mount Dora Charters In 1922
In 1922 a group of 21 Baptist residents formed the charter membership of Mount Dora’s first Baptist church. The early years saw multiple pastors and sites, with 1938–45 building of a sanctuary, a 1952 era expansion, and notable missionary work locally and beyond.
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First Baptist Church
Mount Dora
Ralph Acree
6Th and Tremain Streets
James Sutley
Sutley
Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern. Baptist Convention
Clovis Brantley
Brantley
Home Mission Board of the
Atlanta
A. B. Cole
David Mosteller
American Baptist Seminary
Chicago
Lake Gertrude
Gertrude
James D. Johnston
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Willmott
Edwin B. Mead
Friends of the Bank
of Bank
Mead
Wendy Husebo
Robert Warfield Jr
Brechner
Kirkman
MDGC
Andeason
By Pete Osborne
Citrus Culture
J. G. Ray Sr
W. A. Carter
H. A. Harrold
C. L. Stokley
John C. Brantley
C. L. Stokley Jr
J. J. Chapman
Irene Carter
H. A. Eckholdt
F. M. Williamson
Lilly
Hawley
Tremain
Seminole Deities Association
F. W. Overhiser
Princess Theatre
J. O. Deam
Donnelly Estate
David Coffield
Coffields
Coffield
Bill Norris
Tremain, St
Lake Ola
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