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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1949
Page
2
The Taylor addition to the clubhouse nears completion with new casement windows facing Lake Dora. The piece highlights view features, upcoming season plans, and nostalgia about local bowling culture and a note on the late Eben J. Fullam.
J R Tucker with a severely fractured leg from a Christmas accident at Bay Pines hopes to return from the hospital this weekend after further treatment and removal of his cast.
Chester Whitney of Pelham New York invited Tucker to Florida and Mount Dora became his winters home. Tucker and Whitney rode 2300 miles to Massachusetts two years ago, 21 days by car with a son. Last October Tucker soloed a North Carolina mountain cabin stay near a rural electrification program exhibit. He shared films at a mountain schoolhouse and introduced outsiders to cinema. Tucker highlights his three children Dorothy, John Rober and S Jerry, with careers at Harvard library, U S Testing Co Hoboken, and New Hampshire Cattle Breeding respectively.
Thomas F. Hunt of Mount Dora, son of Mrs. E. H. Holliger, has come back to San Francisco after a three week refresher course in sales methods by Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. He was one of 14 nationwide honorees studying the latest developments in the insurance field. A 1948 University of San Francisco graduate, Hunt served four years in Europe during World War II.
A nostalgic piece recalls baseball lore from Shibe Park to Baker Bowl highlighting fan rituals and quirky incidents. It recounts Hack Wilson's right field antics and a bush league umpire who staged a mound of six balls. The essay celebrates the democratic theater of baseball and fan participation.
A satirical letter urges adoption of the Royal palm as Florida state tree and mocks using palms for building cement houses. It alternates praise and ridicule of palm advocates and suggests moving Miami and Palm Beach to Tallahassee to plant Royal palms coast to coast. The note closes with golf ads from Mount Dora.
In East Town St John Primitive Baptist and Bethel F M Church held Sunday services. The Heavenly Gospel Singers and Loving Home Band performed. Pallbearers prepare for the quarterly union with Apopka Society No 7 on the fifth Sunday in May. Residents urged to stop loud talking and pay rally dues.
Parents may return to IceHouse theatre Friday from 1 to 8 pm to choose the next images for the Topic feature Citizens of Tomorrow. Woltz-Allen studio representative will photograph proofs by Phil Champion taken April 8.
Patty Claflin, a Mount Dora student from the Class of 1949, won first place in her town and third place in the area in the Fraternal Order of Elks essay contest on Why Democracy Works. Prizes totaled 10 dollars, with 5 dollars for first, 3 dollars for second, and 2 dollars for third. Robert Schneider earned Mount Dora’s second place and Eula Lee Caudel captured the Mount Dora third prize for her school.
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