Lake Jem Development Rumor Grows in Central Florida
Mount Dora residents chase facts behind a Miami Daily News report claiming 14 000 homes west of Lake Jem. Island property values surge as ranch owners discuss possible sales while investors in New York and Cuba linked to a project claim prices and plans are not yet funded or confirmed.
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Florida
Big Lake Dora
Mount Dora
Miami Daily News
Lake Jem
Miami
Gerace
Jonesie
New York
Financial Combine
Richard Aland
Orlandoan
Orlando
T. M. Cox Co
Adventurous Mount Dora officer survived in war and sea
George Ober, a former highway patrolman and Navy communications chief, recounts surviving 42 hours adrift in the Pacific near Leyte aboard a PT boat and later serving aboard USS Sibone. His career includes Mount Dora police duty since 1946, earlier wartime service in the South Pacific, and a life of hazardous assignments and near-death experiences.
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George Ober
Pacific
Mount Dora
Ober
Capone
Ocala
Belleview
Brown Builders Supply
Eustis
Karen Lee
Llthav
Navy
Bridgeport
Newport
R. I
Florida
Connecticut
Dorothy
South Pacific
Philippines
Leyte
George
States
Sibone
Admiral Fechteler
Japan
City Observes National Fire Prevention Week
Mount Dora's volunteer fire department marks National Fire Prevention Week with speaker James Fleming of Florida State Fire College at the Rotary and Lions clubs and Chief Harold Larsen at Kiwanis. Schools will show films and give home safety questionnaires. An open house is set for Saturday Oct 9 at the fire station.
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Mount Dora
James Fleming
Florida State Fire College
Ocala
Magnolia
Rotary Club
Grand View Hotel
Lions Club
Harold Larsen
Kiwanis Club
Mount Dora Bus Drivers Deny Fifth Avenue Unloading
Mount Dora's all female school bus drivers deny unloading children on Fifth avenue as Council President William Prinz claimed. They say unloading follows Lake County Board of Public Instruction orders, with routes on Clayton street and Seventh avenue behind the school.
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Mount Dora
Fifth Av
William Prinz
Arnis Sanders
Verlie Combs
Nina Haskins
Lake County
Clayton St
Seventh
Lou L. Heaton
Seventh Av
Planners Deplore Mount Dora Lakefront Boathouses
Mount Dora planners condemn lakefront boathouses as eye sores. J G Ray Jr calls for firm city action while City Attorney suggests buying lakefront lots to create a boat basin. Board favors centralized docking. ordinances lack strict boathouse rules and require study.
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Mount Dora
Lake
J. G. Ray, Jr
Roy Christopher
Ray
Test of Right Wrong Needed For Nation's Ills Says Layman
A visiting layman Dr A C Christie from Crescent City spoke at Mount Dora’s Presbyterian dedication on the theme that right is right and wrong is wrong. He urged returning to old fashioned ideals as the nation’s moral basis, challenging wealth and pomp as true values. The ceremony marked the Presbytery’s ownership of the church housed in the former Whitings home with Dr C A Carriel officiating and Rev Robert Hannum receiving keys.
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Mount Dora
New Presbyterian Church
North Florida
C. A. Carriel
Robert Hannum
Weirsdale
Seipe
Carriel
Frederic A. Whitings
Mount Dora Church
Christie
Planners Urged To Consider Looming School Strain
At a Planning Commission meeting in Mount Dora, teacher Mrs. Helen Kurras warned that in three years high school facilities will be overwhelmed as the sophomore class grows. She noted Lake County’s seven separate school centers complicating a new high school site decision. Commission members discussed studying options and appealing to the Lake County Board of Instruction for the best future high school site purchase.
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Planning Commission
Helen Kurras
Mount Dora
William Wingler
Gordon Dake
J. G. Ray, Jr
Lake County
Mee
Lake County Board of Instruction
Rain totals show year to date drop from last year
Weather figures compare weekly rainfall 1.7 inches this week to 1.8 inches last year. September 1953 totals reach 11.5 inches versus 4.5 for this September, while year to date rainfall stands at 38.3 inches compared with 73.5 inches a year ago.
Planning Board Tackles Mount Dora Traffic Bottleneck
The Planning Commission to seek state help and local truck routing to relieve Mount Dora's by-passed traffic along Highway 441. A by-pass route, viaduct option, and potential Route 19 issues are discussed as the panel weighs a concrete plan for the October meeting with state legislators.
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Jacksonville
Tampa
Mount Jan
Lou L Heaton
Atlantic Coastline
Mount Dora
Heaton
J. Ray, Jr
State Road Department
Gordon Dake
Retirement educator Dr John Tennant dies in car crash
Dr John Leslie Tennant 73 a former Rhode Island University economics professor died after his car ran up an embankment and overturned on Clayton street. He had recently retired to Mount Dora Florida after teaching two decades and lecturing internationally. He leaves brothers Kenneth Tennant Paris Ontario and Clarence Tennant Woodstock Ontario and was a 32 Mason. Last rites were held in Woodstock.
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John Leslie Tennent
Sixth Av
Clayton St
University of Rhode Island
Europe
Sigma Pi
Alpha Zeta
Phi Delta Kappa
Alpha Sigma Pi
Rhode Island University
Tennant
Florida
Mount Dora
Sixthay
University of Florida
University of Texas
Canada
University of Toronto
Cornell University
Kenneth Tennant
Paris
Ont
Clarence Tennant
Woodstock
Congregational Church
Dora Award to Mount Dora for 1953 Safety Record
Mount Dora will receive a safety award for 1953 at a Florida conference in St. Petersburg. City Clerk William Stewart will accept it from H N Kirkman as recognition for not having a fatal accident that year. Mayor Lou L Heaton notes a 1953 crash involving Dr John Leslie Tennant weighs on the record.
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John Leslie Tennant
Mount Dora
St. Petersburg
Ity
William Stewart
H. N. Kirkman
Stores Off Holiday In Mount Dora Close Early Wednesday
Mount Dora merchants plan shortened hours on a Wednesday starting in October. Merchants Division Chairman Mark Peters states that businesses will close at noon during the summer period.
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Mount Dora
Merchants Division
Mark Peters
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Tavares
Lake Dora
Tangerine
Orange County
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Dora
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