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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1957
Page
1
Architect H. Vernon Lee sketches the proposed theatre for the IceHouse Players. The design focuses on a production by leading Golden Triangle members this month. The site sits on land donated by Henry A. Stein, Sylvan Shores developer.
Civic Dream Eastland and Westland roads outline a new theatre with a spacious auditorium and a broad set of community facilities. The drawing shows a community room entrance lobby kitchen lounge dressing rooms workshop wardrobe and an office far from the crowded ice house on Charles Street. Parking gracious driveways walks and a marquee are designed to make Mount Dora’s theatre the region’s standout venue in Florida.
The Ice House Players drive a $60,000 theatre project in Sylvan Shores with a community room. They seek at least 200 life members at 100 dollars each to fund building, aiming to start next summer and open with the 1957 58 season. Mrs J W Shaw leads as building chairman and Al Crone as fund chairman with Dorothy Crone as secretary.
Few seats remain for the Florida Symphony Orchestra concert at the Community building in Mount Dora. The event, the Kiwanis club’s sixth annual appearance, aims to entertain and raise funds for underprivileged children’s care previously supported by Kiwanis with about 1500 dollars for dental medical care tonsillectomies clothing and food. Frederick W. Sleight acts as master of ceremonies with ushers from the Business and Professional Women’s club.
Kiwanis members heard a two instrument preview by Alphonse Carlo and his wife Katherine as they promote Florida Symphony's sixth annual Evening of Music. David Cotton, orchestra business manager, discussed concert planning while Carlo traced the violin’s history from early Chinese forms to Stradivari.
The Lake County school system, Lake County Medical Association, and Health Department launched a drive to immunize all under 19. Parent permit slips were distributed, and health clinics are being set up to administer the polio vaccine.
The Mount Dora taxpayer report highlights a 1956 rise in street and payroll spending while income grows mainly from the water and electric departments. Net worth reaches 1,176,647, up 100,000. pay rolls total 103,850, up 5,477. The water department adds 21,000 to expenditures, and the electric department contributes 5,000 less than the prior year. A 25 cent garbage fee increase caps rising costs. bonded indebtedness remains 100,000 with 266,000 unpaid on the water extension.
The annual taxpayer report notes steady growth in Mount Dora water and light departments. It cites 1,829 water customers in October 1956, forecasts 1,425 by 1970, and credit expansion efforts since 1953 for the rise, with no water rate hikes and a 10 percent city tax imposed in 1938. The electric department added 960 customers from 1948 to 1956 across new subdivisions and expansion projects.
The Rev James Jones of First Methodist announces a 50 000 building fund campaign February 25 to March 17 to enlarge the sanctuary of a 76 year old landmark church with 714 members. A 120 member task force is being formed and a supper meeting opens the effort with campaign director Rev Laurie G Ray, pastor of Hyde Park Methodist Tampa.
The Mount Dora Boat club plans a Sunday cruise through the Apopka Canal inviting non member boating enthusiasts to join. The cavalcade will depart Gilbert Park at 10 am and travel to the Winter Garden on big Apopka.
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