Amendment Draws Mixed Reactions At Mount Dora PTA Meeting
Mount Dora parents and teachers debated Amendment No. 1 as the general election nears. Supt. Banning and Supt. Walker urged passage financing school buildings via earmarked motor vehicle tax money, while critics warned of centralization and limited expansion under a 30 year plan. The issue will be revisited at a PTA meeting October 16 with both sides represented.
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Mount Dora
Parent
Florida
Frank J.banning
Lake County
Judson Walker
Orange County
County Council of
PTA
Tavares
Dorans
Banning
Walker
University of Florida
Superintendent of Public Instruction
Woman's Club Aids Voters With Rides Babysitting and Checks
The Mount Dora Woman's Club plans to boost turnout in the upcoming national election by providing cars to polling places at the new building, offering babysitters at homes for mothers to vote, and staffing polls to watch for reluctant voters. Mrs. William Prinz and Mrs. A. M. Garrison will act as checkers to list likely nonvoters, with several members volunteering for duties.
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Mount Dora
William Prinz
A. M. Garrison
Frederick W. Sleight
W. D. Patton
City to Install New Utility Checking Plan
City Council approves separate accounting for the light and water department to track assets stock and spending daily. An additional clerk will join City Hall to maintain the new records and aid budget control.
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First National Bank
Light and Water Department
Utilities
Ernie Mosteller
City Hall
Moste
Herald Overhiser
Registration Surges as Lake County Voters Near Twenty Thousand
Registrar Sophia Story reports Lake County registration may top 20 000, with 650 registering in the final week and about 150 sworn in to vote. She ordered 500 more blanks as counties preregistration showed strong turnout, especially in Eustis and South Lake precincts.
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Lake County
Sophia Story
Tavares
Columbus Day Sail Race Set at Tavares on Lake Dora
The Columbus Day Sail Race moves to the Pavillion in Tavares on Sunday under the Tiller and Propeller club sponsorship. The event starts at 1 30 p m with a 15 race at 3 30 p m and invites Dorans topes or spectators to watch.
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Lake Dora
Tavares
Mount Dora
Pavillion
Tiller and Propeller Club
Dorans Topes
Youths and Adults Commit to Family Life Program
A continuing committee of adults and elected youths will carry on the Family Life Institute begun in Mount Dora last week. Led by Mrs. Glenn Brown, they plan class elections to select teenagers to join adults in steering future efforts to improve family relations through church sponsorship and cooperative community action. Dr. Howard C. Busching praised the community for its engagement, noting a record number of more than two dozen individual conferences. He urged church emphasis on home life and religious training, while Rev. Robert M. Blackburn warned against parental neutrality in guiding children.
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Mount Dora
Howard C. Busching
David Baldwin
M. O. “Buster” Williams
Robert Blackburn
Byron Smith
Dr. Busching
Aline Paul
Sara Jo Land
Henry W. Land
Ronald Aldrich
Edward Cross
Aldrich
Williams
Sara Jo
Aline
Byron
Busching
Youth Adult Family Life Institute
Glenn Brown
School of Social Welfare
Florida State
Simisse Anoiter
Buschie
Community Institute
Robert M. Blackburn
Lake County Paraplegic Veteran Builds Leather Shop Lifts Spirit
Wilbur Croxton of Sylvan Shores describes his life after Saipan returning as a paraplegic. He overcame isolation in the San Diego veterans hospital to start Croxton Leather Shop. He learned bookkeeping, seeks steady work during Hire the Handicapped Week, and recalls turning wheelchairs into motivation. He began with wallets then branched into purses and baby shoes, selling items to a nurse and others.
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Wilbur Croxton
Veteran's Hospital
San Diego
Saipan
Croxton
Sylvan Shores
Lake County
Seenlin
Hines
Chicago
Croxton and Nash Seek New Life Across Florida California
Wilbur Croxton, after discharge from a 1946 hospital stay, marries Rosetta Nash. The couple writes to friends in California and Florida seeking opportunities, visits Tavares in 1947, stays on the Orange Blossom Trail, then travels to California during a winter storm before returning to Florida. They move into a home in April 1950.
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Rosetta Nash
Rosetta
California
Florida
Tavares
Orange Blossom Trail
Election Booths Move to Community Hall in Mount Dora
Mount Dora will host a special Supreme Court election on October 14 in the Community building rear auditorium to ease crowding at City Hall. Voters will choose between Vincent C. Giblin and Justice E Harris Drew for the Florida Supreme Court seat vacated by Roy H. Chapman.
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Mount Dora
Supreme Court
Vincent C. Giblin
Dade County
E. Harris Drew
Warren
Florida Supreme Court
Roy H. Chapman
Lake County
Drew
Florida Bar Association
Giblin
The
Bar Association
West Palm Beach
Dorans
City Hall Council Chamber
City Council
Lou L. Heaton
Groveland Story May Turn If Republicans Win Power
The Groveland case unfolds anew as Walter Lee Irvin faces Florida Supreme Court review. A potential Eisenhower win could shift Florida U S Attorney and spark a full case reexamination led by Alex Akerman. The long battle hinges on jury fairness and the 1949 night near Groveland and Leesburg.
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Groveland
Florida
Walter Lee Irvin
Supreme Court of Florida
Marion County Court House
Ocala
Bay Lake
Circuit Court
Florida Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Irvin
Sam Shepherd
Lake County
Shepherd
Willis McCall
Raiford
McCall
Umatilla
W. Troy Hall
Dwight Eisenhower
White House
Republican Party
Herbert Phillips
United States
Alex Akerman
Orlandoan
Akerman
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Eisenhower
NAACP
Fifth Judicial District
Jesse W. Hunter
Leesburg
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Woman’s Club
Charles H. Spurgeon
Mabel Norris Reese
Grey Lady
United Nations Assembly
Paris
Raiford State Prison
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