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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1948
Page
3
An account of a fishing outing on East Crooked Lake describes using a 2000-foot line and a lure with repeated casts toward the weeds, yielding only a weak strike in three hours. The piece notes alligators seen nearby and recounts Lester Buddeman’s unhappy trolling trip.
Claude Fralick and Carl Thompson fished Lake Harris last Thursday and landed ten fish weighing 25 pounds using a new shiner type lure. C E Abbott showed a six pounder and another smaller one near Breezy Point. Col John Bethel and Ellie Bethel joined a Mount Dora Fishing Club trip with three bass, while Frank Finzel notes shell crackers moving to deeper water near Dora.
Rev. George Gibson will preach at 11 a.m. on Not Somehow But Triumphant. Lectors Robert Turner and Ross Dutton lead, Chancel choir sings, Fred Mauk at the organ. Cub Pack meets Parish House Monday at 7 p.m. Choir rehears Wednesday at 7 30.
Dizzy, a wartime flyer, crawled from shelter after a 500 pound bomb failed to explode near his unit. He returned to New York in 1945, spent time in a naval hospital, then joined Mount Dora Growers Cooperative as a bookkeeper and resumed playing baseball. He now champions Mount Dora’s Lake Orange league team and seeks to revitalize Helmfield Park for visitors. He lives with war widow sister Zera Adams in Pinecrest with another sister Sarah Stockton nearby.
A reflective line on self loss as a paradoxical gain across life. It frames growth through surrender and internal change, suggesting that yielding parts of the self can yield broader gains in understanding and resilience.
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