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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1957
Page
1
Mount Dora faces a growing dispute over who may use Lake Gertrude’s Sylvan Shores Beach. Police Captain Herman Cox and his children swim there as attorneys debate riparian rights and a private sign allegedly used to exclude bathers.
Mrs Betty Siess secretary of Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce was installed as secretary of the Orange Blossom chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association at Lake Wales. President is C D Davenport advertising director for Silver Springs with Lake County officers Mrs Alice Smart Leesburg and Mrs Rosemary Young Clermont as directors.
In Mount Dora area, a makeshift roadside zoo by Sammy Sadler, Byron Kennedy, and David Johnson features horned toads from Texas, snakes, scorpions, frogs, skulls, and other curiosities loaned by locals and visitors. The display drew paying visitors Friday and concluded Saturday with returns to owners. one frog stays to breed.
Registration at the Fifth av school continues as first day turnout already exceeds 803 from last year. New pupils flood in with the high school drawing several newcomers. Christian Home and Bible School expects over 150 in classes starting next Tuesday. Milner Rosenwald academy anticipates 225 in starting classes. Regular classes begin Tuesday morning.
The Community Blood Bank wardens a mobile unit from Central Florida to Mount Dora next Tuesday from 3 to 7 pm at the Community building. Citizens may obtain instructions from the Chamber of Commerce. Lions Club members pledged 17 pints but more donations are needed to meet Mount Dora's quota.
Bonds of 25 each were forfeited by two visitors at the American Legion home dance last Friday night on charges of fighting. Arrested were Wiley Wood 22 Winter Garden and LeRoy Land 21 Apopka. Two auxiliary police halted their fight in the yard of the home.
Ex Californian W A Rucker roots his Town House eight unit complex in Mount Dora Florida after selling career. He completed landscaping of the last five of eight units and has tenants awaiting in some. Rucker, a Kentucky native, built the project and now resides on lth avenue with Laura Cobb Rucker. He joined Mount Dora Kiwanis Club.
Colonel O H Cornwell and Mrs Margo Hosford lead Ground Observer Post efforts to establish a 24 hour Weather Bureau at the GOC tower in Mount Dora awaiting Washington approval for official instruments. If denied, war surplus gear could be used. Lake Dora level read 62.6 feet, readings will be taken regularly. City Council approved post enlargement for the service.
Mrs Florence Moore Dorsey wife of Dr William Dorsey died last Saturday at her Donnelly Street home after a long illness. Born in Monson Massachusetts she studied at Monson Academy Miss Porters School and Hartford Conservatory of Music. She taught in New Orleans where she married Dr Dorsey and later lived in Ware Massachusetts before moving to Mount Dora seven years ago. Active in church work she leaves her husband and two sisters Mrs Hazel Ristebee of Springfield and Mrs Louise Rees of Miami a niece and four nephews. Brief services were held at Robert S Goodman Funeral Home with Rev John F Mangrum officiating. Final rites and interment were in Ware.
In hospital notices Mount Dora area patients include Lois Boxell Maude Chapman Herbert Beiser and Raymond Moore at Waterman Memorial Marie Hanker Mount Dora and Bonnie Underwood Zellwood at Durham Young hospital.
City officials clash over a 164000 plan for a sewage system to serve Mount Dora and Sylvan Shores. They consider Imhoff tanks as a cheaper start, revenue notes, and possible water rate hikes, while delaying federal aid and arguing over school connections and long term extensions.
Mr. Denbroeder, 86, formerly of Whitman and Mount Dora, died at his Fifth Avenue home. He retired as vice president and general manager of a shoe firm in 1941 after a long career with National Shoe Machinery and D. B. Guerney. Survived by wife Elizabeth and two brothers. daughters Gladys and Beatrice predeceased him. interment planned at Whitemat.
Miami newspapers gave prominent advance publicity to a Ku Klux Klan parade along the Orange Blossom Trail last Saturday. About 200 robed paraders attended. Tampa investigator W. J. Griffin labeled the event Central Florida hoodlums and recalled expelled members. The parade began in Wildwood and moved toward Mount Dora around dinner hour amid rain.
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