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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1968
Page
4
The TOPIC will print a widely circulated edition next week using offset printing. About 12 000 copies will be mailed to homes in Mount Dora Tavares Eustis and Umatilla and surrounding areas. A political supplement will reach over 26 000 Lake County voters with candidate info and voting guidance.
Assessor John Cain announced Mount Dora has acquired another acre adjacent to Lions Park on Lake Franklin, continuing a record of expanding the city park system. Private citizens are urged to contribute plants and trees while the Lions Club plans a botanical garden portion.
A Virginia native recalls family political loyalties in 1960, contrasting Nixon and Kennedy views during campaigns in Oregon and Florida. Personal vignettes focus on conversations with a Kennedy supporter grandmother, neighborly encounters, and the social theater of campaign events. The narrator reflects on generational faith, hope, and the American electorate.
Dear Editor vents frustration over lack of parent and community support for the high school swimming team as it competes against Sanford and Oak Ridge High School of Orlando. The writer notes few spectators, laments morale, and urges greater involvement from families and locals.
Rev George Ashworth Buroferm a longtime pastor at St Georges Presbyterian Delaware writes during National Library Week about surrendering a large book collection. He notes many volumes cling to him like knots that are hard to untie and some speak to him without being opened.
Ginger Wells, a 20 year old from Lake Sumter Junior College, earned a Sargent Shriver Scholarship regionally for the Southeast. The eight week all expense paid trip to Uruguay follows a year with Eskomos in Alaska and VISTA service. She is a former Lake Sumter State College features editor, guitarist, and painter now working with the Office of Economic Opportunity in Eustis.
A reflective meditation on how people shape our lives through blame praise blessing and hurt. The passage invokes Shakespearean farewell to capture the bittersweet ache of parting with those who influence us.
A roundup of films showing in April 25 to May 1 with reads on Blackbeard's Ghost at Tropic Leesburg and Bonnie and Clyde. Includes Counterpoint at Garden Drive-in Eustis with Hour of the Gun, Hombre at Garden Drive-in, One Million B.C. for kids, Spirit Is Willing to Sir with Love with Sydney Poitier, Professionals with Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin, Valley of the Dolls at Princess Mount Dora.
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