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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1947
Page
4
A Lake County travel piece praises Clermont during its first Chamber of Commerce visiting day. The narrator admires Mount Dora and Clermont’s beauty, citrus groves, lakes, and friendly, cooperative community spirit. The article commends the well-planned event and expresses hope for a return visit.
The piece cites Dr. N. Phillip Norman arguing the public resists nonwhite flour and that millers admit impotence to supply alternatives. It attributes poor nutrition to big business methods that centralize food industries and favor stable packaged whites, ending with criticism of lifeless bleached starch and bakery products.
The Clermont Chamber heard Green discuss Florida’s economic prospects including citrus as a key driver, and potential growth in ramie, forest products, minerals, sea foods, and by products. The event featured a motorcade, views of Lake Apopka, and a luncheon at the Inn with Chamber leaders and guests.
Red Cross Director William Jay Barker, stationed in Moisson France, writes of Scout World Jam boree and travels with 31 boys, including 10 from California, describing receptions with Belgian scouts and a train halt caused by Bob Stine. He mentions a fire at Mount Dora delaying family news and plans to write troop history upon return.
Executive Ralph Arey writes to The Topic praising recent changes and renewing a one year subscription. He credits Mr. Keller Mrs. Keller and Gene Downs as friends and notes Downs as a press man. He encloses a check for another year.
City council discusses a separate recreation fund, rejects Dr. Dickson’s park request, and allocates $12,000 surplus from the water department for main improvements. Hurricane risks cited, pipes and street budget rise, community building and cemetery funds increase, general fund rises to 20,112.
A New York man, seeking radio updates, wandered eastern Florida while trying to reach Mount Dora. He reportedly took a detour via Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, arriving five hours after leaving New York City, after an anxious broadcast claimed his arrival.
An insurance and real estate ad urges preemptive wind storm protection for properties in the South Atlantic. WM. P. Wingler promotes policies to secure homeowners against looming wind damage fears.
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