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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1953
Page
1
A 1953 Mount Dora commentary condemns visible poverty in East Town, noting unsanitary backyards, outdoor toilets, and blocked homes. It contrasts poverty with surprising car ownership and neat houses. The piece recalls Mayor Heaton and school officials stressing community duty and cleanliness to break generational hardship.
City officials suspend health fines for three violators after a police court hearing as the sanitation drive continues. Mayor Lou L. Heaton reports two residents began building cesspools to install flush toilets, a third pledges to follow. In East Town six more homes or restaurants commit action or promise to start cess pools amid cleanup efforts and rat and fly control. The issue will be discussed at Tuesday’s City Council meeting.
A resolution adopted by the Lake County Board of Commissioners this month limits motor boats on the Dora canal to five miles per hour to reduce waterway damage. Violations will be punishable under Florida law.
Coach Dan Spear leads the Mount Dora Hurricanes into a 1938 gridiron season with 10 returning lettermen and a mix of new players. The opener is Sept 18 on the local field, with a schedule featuring trips to St. Cloud, Clermont, Umatilla, Titusville, and Eustis among others. Spear notes two lettermen missing at start and flags Umatilla and Titusville as toughest foes.
Editor notes Carolyn McMurray of Mount Dora, a Florida School for the Deaf and Blind supervisor at St. Augustine, heads a dormitory and classroom routine for 16 to 18 hearing impaired children. She describes their adjustment, fears, and daily regimen starting at 5:30 AM.
Mrs McMurray enforces a strict day for girls with meals at set times. Breakfast at 7, class at 8, milk and cookies at 10, lunch at 1, bath at 4, dinner at 5 30, and bed by 7. Many girls arrive from distant areas and adjust to the regimen.
A son James Claude Pritchett III was born to Mr and Mrs James C Pritchett Jr at Waterman Memorial Hospital on August 21 weighing 7 pounds 13 ounces The mother is listed as an IceHouse player.
Lake County PTA leaders after an Leesburg session outline five goals to improve understanding of the Minimum Foundation Program and county tax structure, raise teacher integrity, and foster better public relations between teachers and lay citizens. County Supt. C. A. Vaughn Jr explains the 1953-54 budget and a $2 million building program, including a $200 cost of living deduction previously taken from building funds.
A group of eight motor boats left Gilbert Park to head for Silver Springs in a two week holiday finale. They belong to the Miami Outboard association and are touring Lake county waterways via the Ocklawaha river and Silver River. The party travels from Winter Haven to Mount Dora and Moss Bluff where about ten more boats joined to compare routes.
The Youth Center urges subscriptions and renewals for its building fund with a Sept 1 deadline. Top sellers win cash prizes of $10, $5, and $3. Subscriptions yield 50 percent to the center, renewals 25 percent, or $1.50 per sale.
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