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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1953
Page
8
A Mount Dora widow plans a school contest for junior and senior high students to be run by the P T A with Merchants Association sponsorship. Mrs J G Ray Jr heads the P TA committee and prizes range from 5 to 1 dollars.
Mount Dora public school senior 4-H club names Barbara Jean Larsen as leader with Loraine Schieber as vice president Betty Lou Sills as secretary treasurer and Barbara Jo Moore as county council representative The Christian Home and Bible School 4-H group chose Sylvia Prentice as president Eileen Starling as vice president Welda Fay Creel as secretary and Gloria Slaughter as county council representative.
Ray and Davidson announce C D Davenport will become director of advertising and promotion at Silver Springs on November 1 replacing Peter Schaal. Davenport, a Savannah Chamber veteran, led Mobile Azalea trail and held Florida chamber posts. William B Ray will remain director of publicity.
The article describes a Pittsburgh longtime mechanic with Eastern Gas & Fuel Co who creates tiny tool sets and a grandfather clock display. He moves to Norfolk with wife Margie Wright Snoddy and their family, cherishing grandchildren in Alabama and Jasper, and noting their son-in-law Dr William Snoddy and daughter Betty's marriages along with Lester Luhring Automobile ties. Their 2-year-old son Lester Jr. is a notable swimmer in Norfolk.
In Westernville New York a parade and testimonial dinner welcomed Sgt First Class Byron C Butters home after 33 months as a prisoner of war in Korea. His family plus 300 friends joined the celebration while his sister and a brother unable to attend were noted. he recalled rough treatment but hopeful propaganda attempts failed. His release followed an AP photo from Freedom Village noting his return.
Sorrento residents under the Sorrento Mount Plymouth Civic association will meet Monday at 7 30 p m at the school to form the Sorrento Fire department nucleus and prepare to receive Mount Dora's donated fire truck replaced by a new vehicle announced by civic secretary Mrs Elenor Sammons.
William J Barker of the Kiwanis club presents to Mount Dora City Council a shield shaped signal indicator to distinguish red from green at traffic lights for color blind drivers. The proposal aims to standardize shield designs on intersections nationwide if adopted.
Patrick R. Wright, a William and Mary graduate, now studies at Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and plans to become a Methodist minister, breaking from a family history of gunsmiths and mechanics.
Seventeen emergency command posts have been set up countywide by the Lake County Defense Council, announced by the county Chamber of Commerce. Directors include O M Jack Simpson, Lake County commissioner, for Mount Dora, and John Tyndall for Tangerine.
Last rites were held in Nutley New Jersey for Leon Cutler a Mount Dora Winter resident of several seasons. He died last Thursday while staying at the Grand View hotel with Mrs. Cutler. He was a member of the Mount Dora Lawn Bowling club.
The board of directors will meet at the courthouse office at 2 30 p m today to finalize plans for the annual meeting.
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