Lake County COC plans 34th Mount Dora dinner November 11
Lake County Chamber of Commerce marks Lake County Day with a memorial service in the Tavare s courthouse at 3 30 p m and a Mount Dora dinner at the Community Building at 7 p m The portraits of five early founders will be unveiled and honored during the afternoon ceremony. Notables from Lake County and beyond will attend the dinner with J Hardin Peterson as principal speaker and J Keener Mizell presiding Tickets are available from the Lake County Chamber office Decendants of pioneers will unveil portraits in a historic county ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Board of Directors
Peter Walton Butler
Andrew Jackson Cassady
John Coleman Compton
Thomas Jefferson Hooks
Murdock H. Slone
Cee Ee
Mount Dora
John L. Fahs
Jacksonville
Internal Revenue
Boyce A. Williams
Tampa
Syd Herlong, Jr
Vernon L. Conner
Lake Jem
Florida Citrus Mutual
Herbert Butler
Leesburg
State Welfare Board
Truman G. Futch
J. Hardin Peterson
U.S
Florida
J. Keener Mizell
Chamber
Dorans
United States
Hurricanes Face Lyman In Fourth Till Friday
Mount Dora Golden Hurricanes beat Umatilla 20 12 in Central Florida Conference to stay undefeated with three wins. Spotlight shifts to Friday night home game against Lyman at 8 o'clock featuring Richter Newmans and Walker for Lyman and Bill Odom for Mount Dora as the defense shuts down Umatilla's Lucas.
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Mount Dora
Lyman
Newmans
Walker
Hurricanes
Lucas
Umatilla
Bill” Odom
Clark VanDeroer
Bobby Correll
Spesithame
Witches Elves Gather For Mount Dora Halloween Carnival
Mount Dora will host its annual PTA Halloween carnival next Tuesday at the school recreation field. A 7 p.m. costume parade leads into hours of games rides and dancing with prizes for children in three grade groups and a grand prize for best costume. The teen dance starts at 9 p.m. in the school gym with Quix Quintet providing music.
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Mount Dora’s
Harold Larsen
S. S
Buck” Sadler
PTA
Paul Johnson
Robert Vincent
Merchants Plan Four Week Buying Days in Mount Vdora
Mount Vdora merchants announce a four week buying days campaign with a kickoff on November 4. Sales will occur in 34 or more stores gas stations and service establishments. The effort will culminate in a downtown street dance. Subsequent Saturdays are November 18 December 2 and December 16.
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Mount Vdora
I.peewee
Otce
Silent gathering honors UN and Freedom Bell in Mount Dora
About 400 people gathered on Mount Dora City Hall lawn at noon on Tuesday to honor the United Nations as the world’s hope for peace and to hear the Freedom Bell ringing from Berlin. The local high school band played the National Anthem as the city bells faded.
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Mount Dora
United Nations
Berlin
East Town
Bethel F.M
James Owens
City Hall
America
Free World
Student Recites UN Roll Call At Mount Dora High
Ann Bowers, a Mount Dora High student, gave the roll call of the United Nations and described its purposes and five year achievements. Rosemary Huff, 4-H club president, held the UN flag with its emblem, while David Blanchard, Senior class president, displayed the U S flag.
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Ann Bowers
Mount Dora High School
United Nations
Rosemary Huff
David Blanchard
United States
Great Freeze Shatters Roy Hamlin Family Citrus Dream
The article recalls the 1895 Great Freeze seen by attorney Roy P Hamlin and his 10 year old son in Tavares Florida It describes how citrus groves including the Hamlin orange were burned to stumps and how the family faced ruin after Hamlin left law to grow citrus The scene frames a personal origins story amid devastation and a man’s emotional collapse from loss of his agricultural empire.
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Roy P. Hamlin
Tavares
Florida
Roy Hamlin
Arthur G. Hamlin
Gion
Roy
Arthur Hamlin
Hamlin son pursues law amid citrus ruin memories
Attorney R P Hamlin recalls the winter hardship that devastated the citrus industry and sparked his son Roy Hamlin’s decision to study law. The elder Hamlin reflects on the Great Freeze and the grim consequences for growers as they discuss the past during a somber noon meal.
Mount Dora observes United Nations Day with Freedom Bell
The Freedom Bell rang across Mount Dora on United Nations Day as a crowd of more than 400 gathered at City Hall to hear a program praising the United Nations as a path to peace. The ceremony featured a flag presentation to the 4-H club and remarks linking the UN to world peace and a warning against communism.
Death Is Uninvited Anniversary Guest
The Teter family in Chicago marked a Golden Wedding when Lucius Teter collapsed during his 50th anniversary party at their Lake Forest home. He died, leaving Clara Lodor Teter, his widow, and two grandchildren, Lucia and Charles. Mrs. Teter is Elmira Loder’s sister of the Grand View hotel, and the couple had wintered in the area for over two decades. Their daughter Mrs. Richard Lunn and son Charles survive, along with a Chicago economist and banker noted among the deceased’s circle.
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Teter
Chicago
Lucius Teter
Clara Lodor Teter
Lake Forest
Richard Lunn
Charles. Lodor Teter
Lucia
Charles Teter
Woman in 35-Foot Embankment Crash Near Mount Dora
Mrs. Alma Giddens Brooks Price, 27, of Eustis, was critically injured when her auto left the Orange Blossom trail and plunged 35 feet to the Atlantic Coast Line railroad embankment. Found 2 hours after the crash, she received two units of blood at Waterman Memorial hospital with a possible skull fracture. Authorities have yet to question her.
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Alma Giddens Brooks Price
Eustis
Price
Mount Dora
Richard Shipes
H. E. Page
Tavares
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Florida faces anti child law drive over juvenile court plan
Lake county officials led by County Judge W. Troy Hall Jr campaign to defeat the November proposed constitutional amendment creating statewide juvenile courts. Critics call it dangerous and un-American claiming it grants unwarranted powers, removing youths from local control and imposing new welfare costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
W. Troy Hall, Jr
Florida
Hall
Truman G. Futch
Hunter
Father Daughter Storm Heroes
Mrs. R. E. Doc Lee narrowly avoided a deadly hazard after hurricane winds left a 25 foot high tension wire dangling on Grandview Street. Frank Davidson and his daughter Bess warned pedestrians and stopped Mrs. Lee from stepping into the wire until the electricity department arrived to repair the damage.
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R. E
Doc” Lee
Frank Davidson
Bess
Electriciy
Harold Overhiser
Mrs. Lee
Davidson
Light Department
Earl McVicker Dies After Move to Mount Dora
Earl W. McVicker 69 died at Orange Memorial hospital in Orlando after moving to Mount Dora in January to start retirement. He served 53 years with New York Central railroad, was a 32nd degree Mason, and a member of Metro church. Survived by widow, daughter Mrs. T. J. Valentine of Springfield Ohio, son Dr Carlton S. Turley of San Angelo Texas, sister Maude McVicker, brother R. R. McVicker, and four grandchildren. Funeral at Methodist church Friday at 3 p.m. with Rev. Robe officiating. burial Forest cemetery.
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Earl W. McVicker
Mount Dora
Mr. McVicker
Orange Memorial Hospital
Orlando
New York Central Railroad
Metrochurch
T. J. Valentine
Springfield
Ohio
Carlton S. Turley
San Angelo
Tex
Maude McVicker
R. R. McVicker
Indianapolis
Methodist Church
Robe
Forest Cemetery
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Reese
R. P. Hamlin
Harry S. Truman
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Methodist
V. C. Huff
Home Demonstration Club
D. Fletcher Crane
Crane
Mel Wagner
IceHouse Players
Korea
Wagner
Storm Heroes
Earl McVicker
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