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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramFlorida Governor Farris Bryant being presented with film.
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Ted Williams (left) former Boston Red Sox slugging great who is now a sports consultant for Sears, Roebuck and Company, and Sears Sporting Goods Supervisor Hugh L. Ray (right) of Chicago present Governor Farris Bryant with 25 prints of a Florida tarpon fishing film the company has just completed. The movie, in which Williams stars, will become part of the Florida Development Commision's cooperative program under which the agency's film library circulates movies throughout the world. Williams and Ray were honored at a luncheon attended by numerous officials and sports personalities.
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In 1955 the Florida State Improvement Commission, established in 1945, and the Florida State Advertising Commission, established in 1945, merged to form the Florida State Development Commission. In 1969 the latter merged with the Florida Industrial Commission, established in 1935, to form the Department of Commerce.
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