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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1959
Page
3
A Good Samaritan sheltering a family in East Towns lost a seven room house to a Christmas night fire. Ailing woman and five children were displaced as flames spread with wind and rain aiding firefighters. Tenant Annabelle Jahn and her five children escaped as a hospital patient mother recovers from surgery.
A child attempting to light an oil stove started a blaze that left a seven room house an ash heap owned by citrus worker LaMarr Price. Tenants flee with the stream of water from a firehose saving a neighboring car. homeless family includes Annabelle Jackson and her children James Willie Joe Charles and Freddie.
Ward S Estey Jr son of Ward and Mrs Estey of Tangerine suffered a broken left leg and crushed left ankle in a December 14 motorcycle car crash in St. Petersburg on his way back to work. He awaits correction of the ankle and may return home in about three weeks. A hearing is planned in Clearwater late January. His stepmother Mrs Clarence Estey was hospitalized with shoulder injuries from a rug accident in Tangerine.
Rev. James Jones preaches at the Methodist church on why adversity is a teaching tool. He asserts struggle yields courage and sympathy and that Christianity grew from failure. He argues God does not intervene in evil to prove His power and that adversity serves a divine purpose.
Mount Dora youths enjoy Christmas season dances at the community hall with Miss Mary Kay R honored at a yacht club gathering. The Mount Dora Golden Basketball tournament featured Eustis action with Hurricanes beating Eustis and Umatilla. Several locals plan to travel to Miami for the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day to visit relatives and watch the game.
Florida Citrus Mutual analyst Bob White estimates the 1960 U S population growth adds about 3 000 000 people and potential demand for 1 600 000 additional boxes of Florida oranges. Mutual general manager Bob Rutledge adds that citrus has become a dietary staple for American families.
The 25th annual Citrus Costs and Returns in Florida covering 1931 to 1956 by Zach Sav age UF Agriculture Economist is released. County Agent R E Bob Norris calls it the most comprehensive grove production cost and fruit return study for growers investors and students. The study analyzes groves under and over 10 years old across major Florida counties with cooperative grove participation. Copies are available at the county agricultural agent's office in Tavares.
Free tennis instructions start Saturday at Donnelly Park courts with age based time slots. Instructor Russell Harned from Du Pont Country Club Wilmington Del recently moved to Mount Dora and urges early registration for the season lessons.
Dr Jasper N Joiner outlines three main aims of landscape planning: beauty, utility, and value. He stresses drawing to scale, dividing the lot into front, service, and back areas, and emphasizes simplicity unity proportion and repetition. The Golden Triangle Home Gardener's Shortcourse runs Jan 16 to March 6 at the Eustis Women’s Club.
The 1958 changes remove the need for legal adoption for survivor and mother’s benefits. Children living as part of the worker’s household now qualify if adoptable and adopted within two years of death. Benefits also extend to adopted children of retired workers without the three year rule. The marriage duration rule for widow’s benefits is loosened.
The 1957 auto suspension law frees three time offenders from driving for six to twelve months based on violations in set periods. The Florida department revokes about 1,200 licenses mainly for drunken driving and re tests about 500 drivers monthly. Kirkman notes drivers complain they overlook the automatic suspension law but warns that suspension stands and license information is printed on licenses.
In Durham hospital in Waterman Memorial Eustis confined are John Alden Murray James Howitt Benjamin Birchar Martha Gail Williams Anna Weidman Lois Hatch Leila Killian Mary Ross Violet De Rhee Nettie Ruth Jackson Mary Maurel all of Mount Dora and Frank Christian Sorrento Leesburg Leesburg residents Mrs Clarence Estey Tangerine Charles Stewart Vernon Lee among others.
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