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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1949
Page
1
The lengthy Groveland trial ends with a guilty verdict for Sam Shepherd Walter Irvin and Charles Greenlee. State's Attorney Jesse W. Hunter delivers a compelling summation recounting the victim's memory and the defendants' lies as the courtroom becomes a Broadway style theater.
Lacy G Thomas of Groveland steps into the secretary role as Florida Citrus Mutual plans to manage shipments for fair grower returns. He is a citrus grower with 75 acres, a cattle producer, longtime Farm Bureau director, and former Groveland mayor. He has run for state senate, backed civic service, and led local organizations without pay.
Lacy G. Thomas, a Floridian born in 1896 on his grandfather's Baker County farm, serves as superintendent of a Methodist church Sunday school and participates in the Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. He grew up on a north Florida farm, drove a gum wagon as a boy, and helped transform the wilderness into productive territory.
Sometime Thursday afternoon, Sam Shepherd, Walter Irvin and Charles Greenlee will stand before Circuit Judge Truman G. Futch to learn their sentences for raping a 17 year old Bay Lake bride last July. Irvin and Shepherd face the electric chair. Greenlee, 16, will serve life imprisonment. Judge Futch denied motions for a new trial for the first two, and defense claims of beaten testimony were discussed. The jury, which found them guilty in two hours, spared Greenlee the full penalty due to age.
In a courtroom confrontation, attorney Franklin Williams accuses northern critics of trying to out-southernize the South. He denounces editorial remarks as lacking objectivity while insisting the northern Negro fares worse, challenging the paper’s views as the hallways echo with tension.
Scotland Yard and deputy James L. Yates tracked down four suspects in the Groveland kidnapping. He secured shoes from Walter Irvin’s house and plaster casts of tire tracks and footprints to build the case. Defendants argued lack of warrant but courts allowed entry by invitation.
Mount Dora City Council relaxed zoning to allow motels along Highland Street between Fifth Ave and the overpass and, if approved on October 4, permit a trailer camp at the old crate mill site. Rules require at least five unit motels with 400 sq ft each and concrete showers and toilets for each trailer. Councilman Marshall Collins says a Chicago firm has been approached to plan the camp, and sites span Camp Street to the overpass and east on Camp.
Coach Dan Spears drills the Golden Hurricane for a Sept. 24 opener versus St James in Orlando. He plans 11 starters from seven lettermen and details candidates across the line ends backs and substitutes eyeing slots. Dufour Pugh and Darkow are dark horse contenders with Sel lers Huff Ford Townsend Correll listed as reserves.
In Tuesday session the Mount Dora City Council reviewed two major projects. The swimming pool construction from Pressure Concrete Co. of Florence was priced at 9,400 for a 35 by 75 foot pool, with only 5,000 approved. For Helm Field lights, Mount Dora Base Ball Club would cover half of an estimated 6,679 project, while the city would pay the other half.
Mayor J. E. Fortner resists paying nearly 85 dollars per acre for 21 acres near the existing dump. Councilman William Prinz leads a committee to decide whether to buy the land for about 1,700 dollars, with officials Waltz and Javens assigned. Fortner says similar parcels could be had for around 10 dollars an acre. The owner refused 1,500 dollars. The plan aims to use the land for a trench type garbage disposal site.
In a Sunday game at Heim Field the Youngens edged the Old Folks 3 to 2. Cookie Ricks pitched the full distance for the Youngens, allowing eight hits while Mount Dora tallied all three runs in the second inning. Dud Adkins started for the Old Folks and lasted four innings.
Arthur Post 72 died Sunday at Orange Memorial hospital Orlando and was buried Tuesday in Forest Cemetery after a party for his 50th wedding anniversary at 928 North Clayton Street He is survived by his wife Mabel daughter Mrs Henry Truelson Mount Dora and a grandson Robert
The Christian Home and Bible School begins its fifth term Monday on the campus at 13th Ave and McDonald St. The program emphasizes both academic and character training.
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