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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1950
Page
1
A letter dated 27 November 15950 from a writer to "Dear Mom" corrects an erroneous print impression in the Topic. The author states clearly they are not a member of General Barr's or any staff, and condemns the notion of staff officers leading a soft life.
Mount Dora hosts the final Dora Day with a $25 Smile contest prize awarded Saturday evening at Donnelly park. Merchants judge women ages 17 to 77 on friendliness and sincerity while Forrista Bowman headlines with East Town Chorus and Milner Rosenwald academy musicians.
A non-denominational Sunday forum on Christianity and Our World expands to the Community church auditorium next Sunday to hear Democracy's Inspired Ideology. Allan Grant Jr., an Orlando attorney, will address the forum December 31 at the Community building on anti communism and democracy aims.
IceHouse theatre in Lake County ends three seasons of effort with a Standing Room Only crowd for You Cant Take It With You. Frances Lovell directs a strong cast including Virginia Baxter Mildred Leatherbury Ted Odom Margery Brock and Frank Stebbins in a lively gay comedy of family mayhem and bright romance.
Mount Dora High School Glee clubs present a Friday program at the Community building. Alma mater by Charles Gordon Rex opens at 8 p.m. with 20 numbers from Bach to Negro spirituals. Soloist Ann Bowers sings Poor Wayfaring Stranger and My Lover is a Fisherman. The Senior club performs Jacob’s Ladder Go Down Moses Hiking Song Italian Street Song and Christmas Morn. Rex serves as musical director for the second year.
The Bowl ing club shifts its Christmas party from Tuesday December 19 at 8 o'clock to Monday night December 18 at the same time to allow attendance at the defense meeting called by Mayor D. Fletcher Crane.
Mount Dora Golden Hurricanes are declared official champions of the Central Florida Football Conference after coaches award them 24 Dickinson points to St. Cloud's 22. Star fullback Billy Odom earns All-Conference honors among six others. The two top teams will meet next season on September 28, 1951, in Mount Dora. Lion’s Club dinner honors the team.
Editor's note recounts Charles C. Walker head of Mount Lora candy factory The Pink Cottage. After 1928 retirement plans failed as health led him to Florida Groveland 40 acres grapefruit and grove revival He plowed fields by paying laborers a quarter each ride the tractor Then bank crash wiped out savings prompting return to candy work He became a technical expert in South America for 18 months Buenos Aires 1929 18 months and later established a Grove land candy business concentrating on orange centers and citrus confections for other firms Eventually focused on his own citrus candy factory plans in Florida.
Charles C. Walker opened the Orange Blossom Trail Candy Co in Tavares and built a thriving factory that shipped confections across the United States and overseas. After losing most of his sight he retired to Mount Dora then found a Jacksonville doctor whose operations restored one eye and slowed the other, letting him again behold Lake Dora’s sunset reflections.
Mount Dora Woman's Club sponsors public reverence for Christmas starting next Wednesday. The city owned Nativity Scene created by high school students and Edith Fairfax Davenport will be displayed at City Hall with lights. A community gathering on the City Hall lawns at 7 p.m. will feature church choirs leading the singing, Junior choirs from Methodist and Baptist churches, church chimes heard in the distance, with Mrs. Paul Johnson in charge and Bob Quixley accompanying on clarinet.
The 12-foot Christmas tree at the Community building is ready for public enjoyment. It was decorated by Lillian, Christie, and Ruth Lee as the Azalea Circle annual project of the Lakes and Hills Garden club.
Mayor D. Fletcher Crane calls a defense meeting at the Community building next Tuesday at 8 p.m. urging all residents over 14 to attend. William Jay Barker will lead planning for a 350-person civilian defense group with first aid training and a mobile unit for mercy action in case of attack.
Pastor James H Sutley urged careful attitudes in a Baptist church sermon urging world leaders to seek peace through shared dignity and prosperity. He warned against complacency and political misdirection while cautioning fear and confusion as dangers to a potential lasting peace.
Mount Dora officials unveil a simple wooden ballot device that counts votes fast. In 1951 the device helped tally 424 votes in about one hour, naming William Prinz Gordon Conboy and Lou L Heaton to the City Council with Tom Brotherson Charles Bradford and Stephen Gregor as runners up. The machine, devised by Ernest Mosteller, uses two boards with 50 ballots each and a movable arm to reveal results. It originated from a Gainesville clerk’s conference and aims to provide economical rapid counting for elections.
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