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Wealth Of Experience In*mItr/All City DepartmentsThe City’s managing body for I Volunteer Fire Department1956 will be long in experience Harold Larsen (Chief)in the handling of city business. Clayton TremainFour of the seven-member (Assistant Chief)ty*»sytiiyhi-eisil*.us,tsdteneilcity council, J. H. Barnhart, Gordon Conboy, William Prinz and Dr. G Robert Walker, are holdovers from the previous council. One of the three new members, Lou L. Heaton, has been in effect an ex-officio member of the council for the past four years. As Mayor of the city, Mr. Heaton has sat in on all council meetings to lend it the benefit of ^ws sage counselling at the same time becoming personally intimate with the problems of that body. The only tyros in city management are Mrs. William Lofroos and Howard Simpson and both of them have a working knowledge of city matters gained through long and active issociation with leading civic organizations. This is also true of Mayor Walter D. Patton Mr. Patton became active with civic organizationsimmediately upon his arrival in..Mount Dora. Since receiving of- ] ficial notification of his election L he has familiarized himself with1 all phases of his new duties through attendance at council meetings and weekly police court, and frequent consultations withoutgoing Mayor Heaton.In actions taken at its organization meeting January 10, the mayor and the council reappointed all city department heads within their scopes of appointive responsibilities to insure the continuance of experienced men to head the city's various administrative and technical departments.City Clerk Bill Stewart, who holds an elective office, has served in that capacity for 10years.James Cooper (Asistant Chi George E. Hall (Fire Capta Sam Bagwell Charles Brown Herman Cox Arthur Dufour Frank Edenfield Frank Hall■ - » . ! i •,Charles Keuchler Ted Lane J. C. Ledford Roy Ledford A. O. McAllister James Orr Bobby Partridge Mark Peters Jack Setzer Richard Shipes Paul Snowberger Albert Uhl Bill WardW. F Williamson (Retired) George Wilson Arthur Womble►nAv11In addition to this wealth ofvc n tlCbavHti flt; ,1iexperience, nine of the city's appointive committees will be'E composed either wholly, or in E part of members with previous’C experience on the same com-:fc mitteesThis is the personnel setup Ifor 1956: 1Mayor IWalter D. Patton ICity CouncilGordon Conboy (President)J. H. Barnhart (Vice President) Lou L. Heaton Mrs. William Lofroos William Prinz Howard Simpson Dr. G. Robert WalkeruF hICity ClerkWilliam C, (Bill) StewartCity AttorneyRoy ChristopherFire ChiefHarold LarsenPolice ChiefJames C. OrrLight and Water SuperintendentHarold OverhiserLabor SuperintendentC. R. JavensBuilding OfficerJ. J. HodgesTax AssessorJohn Cain^ . ■ • ' .• •COMMITTEESStreet DepartmentWilliam PrinzLight and WaterJ. H Barnhart Public BuildingsHoward Simpson (Chairman) Mrs. William LofroosBuildingLou L. HeatonCemeteryMrs. William Lofroos Sanitation Dr. G. Robert Walker (Chairman)Mrs. William Lafroos Subdivisions Lou L. Heaton (Chairman)Ic*JtI*1(11c\tr. VcIFclt;ittft.I1lt;..t.(William Prinz: ••John Cain* ; * ' t ••• t. . * - m.\FinanceLou L. Heaton (Chairman) Gordon Conboy Dr. G. Robert Walker Mayor W. D. PattonWages and PersonnelJ. H Barnhart (Chairman)Lou L. Heaton .Gordon Conboy Mayor W. D, Patton Fire Department Dr. G. Robert Walker PropertyWilliam Prinz (Chairman) Howard SimpsonSwimming PoolWilliam Prinz Heim Field (Baseball)J. H. Barnhart PlanningD. Fletcher CraneJ (Chairman)John CainO. W. Sadler Dr. G Robert Walker Police DepartmentJames C. Orr (Chief)Herman Cox (Captain)George E. Hall (Sergeant)J. C. LedfordGeorge Ober Troy Shaw Park Commission Ray Dooley (Chairman)Win C. Sleight (Vice Chairman and Secretary Mrs. Gretchen Elliott Tom Spencer Lester B. Van-Woertlt;1c•-.lt;111
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Wed, Jan 18, 1956
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