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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1970
Page
4
City council in focus with J P Turner described as the central figure of meetings. He chairs finance and presides when the mayor is absent, guiding procedure, voting in ties, and striving to keep committees and departments within their budgets.
Lake Sumter Junior College students Carolyn Boyin and Carla Tucker lead a campus campaign urging humane prisoner treatment in North Viet Nam. The project follows talks by Mrs. Walter McLjnes of Legsburg whose brother is a prisoner of war. Students write senators congressmen ambassadors and foreign newspaper elders who may influence government action.
The notice lists weekly church events across several denominations. Sunday Cross services 5 to 5 30 pm, Thursday 6 pm. New Holy Eucharist revision to be used Wednesdays. After regular Eucharist and Healing service a sewing group will make layettes for infants and clothing for children for missions. First United Methodist announces Lenten services starting February 1 Ash Wednesday. Central Christian features Rev. Vanus Edward Smith speaking on Salesmen Wanted at 10 45 am next Sunday. Community Church Pastor Lester O Schriver preaches The Secret of Christs Greatness on February 8 with a Women’s Fellowship meeting February 6 at 2 30 pm. Miss Florence Kennedy presents a musicale by Rollins College String Quartet. Tangerine Community Lent Begins sermon topic upcoming.
A Mount Dora discussion with the school board revealed broad agreement on a proposed integration plan but raised many concerns. Q and A touched on bus service, safety, teacher racial ratios, principal appointments, costs, street paving, and safety for walking students, with officials stressing emotions and funding considerations.
Nine Mount Dora youths were named winners in the recent Smile and Poster contests. Milner Rosenwald Academy crowned Jessie Tolbert and Dorothy Parker as Smile winners with Oilie Mae John taking poster honors. Christian Home and Bible School winners were Sandy Lust and Chuck Chandler for Smile while Jimmy Stutzman won poster. Roseborough Elementary chose Kay Scarborough and Brian Chambliss as Smile winners, with Mark Scott earning the poster. Judges included Dr. Robert Bell and several retired dentists from Iowa and Massachusetts, plus Dr. J. K. Brandt's office associate Cleva Hoeckendorff.
The Topic editors list are JIM WALDRON, SANDY WALDRON with the Mount Dora mailing address P O Box 197 Florida 32757. Editorial and advertising offices sit at 132 West Fifth Avenue Mount Dora. Subscription rates are four dollars per year seven dollars for two years and ten cents per single copy. Paper entered as second class matter on April 7 1916 at Mount Dora Post Office under March 3 1879 act.
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