Hobby Show Field Day Among PTA Plans For School Year
Opening PTA meeting at the Community building next Tuesday at 8 p m outlines the year long program theme The Family A Pocket Edition of the World Poster designs by Ann Bowers Martha Simpson Lee Hubinger and Lottie Strawn depict plans Teachers civic leaders panel discussions cover PTA purposes policies participation and safety with programs led by Mrs Henry W Land and Mrs N E Strite Speakers include D D Rose borough Mrs Vernon Huff Alto Gary Walter D Patton W A Vincent and Mrs Betty Siess Publicity projects patriotism and parent education are planned along with events such as Halloween masquerade dance Founders Day field day hobby show May festival and a parade labeled as part of the year’s activities.
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Parent-Teacher Association
Voice
Harold Larsen
Mount Dora
PTA
Slater Cox
Ann Bowers
Martha Simpson
Lee Hubinger
Lottie Strawn
Henry W. Land
D. D. Roseborough
Vernon Huff
M Alto Gary
Ralph Paul
Ronald Aldrich
J. G. Ray, Jr
John Heist
Grady Simpson
R. N. White
Hurricanes Face Strong Ocoee II
The Golden Hurricanes head home Friday night to face a strong Ocoee eleven after a 6 0 opener loss. Coach Dan Spears monitors two injured players Herbert Trenham and Elwood McHaffie as final practice begins. Last week they trailed 6 0 due to a slow start but improved after halftime against St James. The same lineup will face Ocoee.
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Golden Hurricanes
Ocoee
Dan Spears
Herbert Trenham
St. James
Elwood McHaffie
Spears
Sign Of The Time Stores Stay Open Downtown Wednesday
The Merchants Division voted that, starting next Wednesday afternoon, all stores except groceries will stay open the whole Wednesday day through next summer. The sign of the new season will appear in the open doors of downtown business houses that closed on Wednesday afternoons during summer.
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Merchants Division
Mount Dora High School Forms Student Council
Students and faculty at Mount Dora High School secured a formal charter request to establish a student council. The campus awaits the charter from supervising principal D. D. Roseborough, and an on campus election campaign will follow once approved. Some rooms have elected delegates.
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Mount Dora
High School
D. D. Roseborough
Cora Taylors House Rebuilt as Negroes Return to Stuckeys Still
In July Lake County, Groveland area, racial tensions rose after a neighborly assault rumor. Now, in Stuckey’s Still, a house is rebuilt with occupants at peace, as the community resumes ordinary life and a surviving note of resilience amid earlier violence.
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Lake County
Groveland
Stuckey’s
Life Magazine
Mascotte
Bay Lake
Julian Rowe
Julian
Lake Countians Face New Sales Tax On Clothing
The Florida legislature debated a clothing exemption flaw as the new sales tax took effect. Exemption limits of 10 dollars on single clothing items caused delays, with Attorney General Richard Irvin noting the final court view. Groceries mostly exempt. alcohol and cigarettes taxed. cigars rise by a cent to five cents per pack.
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Florida
State Board of Health
Ambulance Sentence Tells of Willie Hill Case
Willie Hill of East Town received a five year sentence from Circuit Judge Truman G. Futch in an ambulance after admitting to hitting his wife and child with an ax in a murder attempt. Hill had earlier taken poison in a suicide bid and is now at Raiford State Prison hospital. The family is reported to recover.
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Willie Hill
Raiford State Prison Hospital
Hill
Truman G. Futch
Eustis Waterman Memorial Hospital
Reneging Real Estate Ad Triggers Regret in Mount Dora
LaVonne Lashar, a Mount Dora real estate agent, cancelled a second run of a two part classified ad after its first appearance. She then placed a different house advertisement, claiming the prior sale made the second run unnecessary. The note on salmon scales mentions growth rings like tree rings.
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LaVonne Lashar
Mount Dora
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Christ Takes English Lessons in France for Divine Tragedy
Bill Barker of Mount Dora teaches English to the actor playing Christ in the French movie The Divine Tragedy. The studio sends Barker and his student to a secluded spot near Tourette sur Loup on the Riviera to create the proper atmosphere, with Barker reporting to his parents.
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Bill Barker
William Jay Barkers
Tancerine
Christ
Barker
Mount Dora
France
Tourettes Sur Loup
Riviera
Kiwanis Club Votes Today on New President
The Kiwanis club will elect its president for the coming year today. Roy Christopher, currently vice president, is slated to move up to the post vacated by Harold Overhiser.
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Kiwanis Club
Roy Christopher
Harold Overhiser
Lake County Judge Hall Keeps Balance Between Firm Justice and Youth Guidance
County Judge W. Troy Hall Jr. is seen as a youthful, friendly figure who guides troubled youths with sympathy yet imposes sentences when needed. He believes society bears responsibility for delinquency rooted in broken homes and praises Lake County’s new probation office led by Fred Borg. Hall, son of a prominent attorney, shifted from planned practice to judging after graduating from Stetson in 1941 and returning to Leesburg to work with his father.
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Marianna School
Troy Hall
Lake County
Mount Dora
E Hall
Fred Borg
Hall
Troy
Law School
Stetson University
Leesburg
Florida
Borg
Orange Blossom Trail
Marion County
Deee Beeing
Shady Defense by Hall Firm in Drunken Driving Case
W. Troy Hall Jr. faced a manslaughter charge after a Miami contractor died in a crash following a hot day beer. Hall Sr. gathered key witnesses and evidence, revealing alleged improprieties only in court to secure a favorable outcome for his client.
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Miami
Troy Hall, Sr
Hall
Local grocer Richard Denson opens new M and R Market
Richard Dick Denson shares a long road to ownership after starting as a grocery boy at 11. He formerly managed A and P for many years in Mount Dora. The Denson family includes three children.
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Richard
Dick” Denson
A &P
Mount Dora
Densons
Condemnation Suit Settles for Road Rights of Way
A county condemnation suit to obtain four and a half miles of right of way on the Wildwood Leesburg road resulted in a bargain to pay nearly $10,000 for the roadways. A jury awarded property owners $6,951.50 and recommended attorney fees to be paid by the county at 10 percent of collected amounts, with a $50 minimum. State's Attorney Jesse W. Hunter intervened as more than 100 parcels were involved across three suits. The six man jury heard the case before Circuit Judge F. R. Hocker. Road Engineer J. H. Hanna of Deland surveyed the abutting property and said the cost was the highest for a comparable roadway he remembers.
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Wildwood
Leesburg
Jesse W. Hunter
Deland
Vacuum Foods To Expand And Study Name Change
The article reports on Vacuum Foods Corporation considering a name change to Minute Maid Corporation with Bing Crosby as a principal stockholder. It notes rapid sales growth from 1948 to 1949, plans for a $3.5 million expansion, a stock issue of 120,000 shares, and conversions for preferred stock. Expansion affects Central Florida including Plymouth Leesburg Minneola Davenport and increased concentrate production nationwide to 36 states.
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Minute Maid
Florida
Vacuum Foods Corporation
Plymouth and
Leesburg
New York
Vacuum Foods
John M. Fox
Minute Maid Corporation
Bing Crosby
Fox
Central
Lake County
Plymouth
Minneola
Davenport
Lake Coury
Ridge Citrus Concentrates, Inc
Ohio Officers Pictured Horror for The Young Man
A Lake county youth, facing possible punishment for a Florida robbery, surrenders in Ohio and is brought back by Sheriff Willis McCall. The article frames his alleged crime, the man’s expressed remorse, and the community’s desire to see him reform as he returns to work.
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Lake County
Clermont
Ohio
Florida
Willis McCall
High School Banter Ends in Laughter
A gangling sophomore jokes about shaving to a girlfriend, saying he has shaved for five years and cut himself both times, in a light moment captured in a high school setting.
Mount Dora Weatherman Flooded Out Cliff of Rainfall
Mount Dora reported 4.99 inches of rain in September up to Wednesday night with 3.22 inches falling over the weekend Monday and Tuesday. Gor don Conboy could not be reached for confirmation due to flooding.
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Mount Dora
Gordon Conboy
Conboy
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