City to Confer on Water Line Extension Debated
City council discussed extending water service to lure industry, citing Citrus Culture project and a large new plant partly outside Mount Dora. Utilities Supt Overhiser urged eight inch mains now, with 12 thousand dollars for pipe and labor and possible concessions to attract the plant while balancing city finances and fire insurance costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Walker
Lou L. Heaton
Guy C. Bliss
Jon
Harold Overhiser
Heaton
Bowen
Overhiser
Mount Dora
Roy Christopher
W. D. Patton
Mr. Grantham
Kiwanis
John Cain
Robie St
Christopher
Bliss
Reunited Cuban First Lady Faces Press at Daytona Beach
Marta Batista held her 17 month old daughter Marta Marie in a tense Daytona Beach scene as photographers waited. She spoke little through an interpreter while a nurse cared for the child and police guarded the gathering in the Batista mansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marta Batista
Marta Marie
Batista
Daytona Beach
Cuba
Daytona Station
Florida
Marta
Edmund Chesters
Mount Dora
Chester
Dis
Mrs. Motets
Daytona
Romano Lopez de Mendoza
Batistas
Luis Sherer
First National Doubles its Capitalization
George J. White, president of the First National Bank, announces a capital increase from 100000 to 200000 via a 100000 stock dividend paid from undivided profits to stockholders of record January 27. The bank has operated since 1925 as Mount Dora Bank and Trust Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J. White
First National Bank
Washington
White
Mount Dora Bank and Trust Co
Mount Dora
Federal Reserve Bank
Jacksonville
Florida
Alfred W. Rehbaum
Former Sheriff Clarence Cooper Dies at 71
Clarence William Cooper, 71, of Mount Dora, died Sunday in an Eustis hospital. A Lake County native and longtime deputy sheriff for 26 years, he was a member of the Florida Sheriffs Association and Faith Lutheran Church. Survived by his wife Bessie, a daughter, three sons, two sisters, three brothers, and seven grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence William Cooper
Mount Dora
Eustis
Lake County
Faith Lutheran Church
Florida Sheriffs Assn
Bessie Mount Dora
Hugh Sullivan
Daytona Beach
Orvill Cooper
Miami
Carl Harris
San Antonio
Tex
Russell Harris
Panama Canal Zone
Alma Mills
Fannie Sebastian
DeLand
Frank Cooper
Henry Cooper
Bronson
LeRoy Cooper
Garden Club Course Draws 125 Enthusiasts in Mount Dora
More than 125 gardeners enrolled for the Golden Triangle Garden clubs course led by Stanley Woodcock of the Mount Dora Men’s Garden club. The program at the Eustis Women’s club building covers selection planting cultivation fertilization pruning and cold protection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Woodcock
Mount Dora
Golden Triangle
Eustis
Golden, Triangle
Mount Dora hears stark World Church images
A Florida Chain of Missionary Assemblies event in Mount Dora featured Fr. C Kilmer Myers detailing slum conditions and race tensions in America and New York City. He critiqued Christian indifference and urged a return to early Christian fellowship amid fear of anti brown prejudice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorans
Lake County
Peace
Florida Chain of Missionary Assemblies
Mount Dora
America
Fr. C. Kilmer Myers
New York City
Fr. Myers
East Side
Churches of
New York
Myers
City Council Faces Cash Crunch Amid Growth Demands
Mount Dora weighs expensive utilities projects as Sylvan Shores shopping center and Highway 441 growth push for new transformers water storage and tank upgrades. Utilities Supt Overhiser warns ground storage is inadequate causing poor aeration and pipe corrosion, while a half‑million gallon overhead tank replacement is urged for disaster readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvan Shores
Mount Dora
Lou L. Heaton
Utilities
Harold Overhiser
Over
Mr. Overhiser
Fractures Hip of Mrs. T. L. Edwards in Eustis
Mrs. T. L. Edwards of Sixth Avenue is hospitalized at Waterman Memorial in Eustis with a fractured hip after a Wednesday fall. Her condition was not described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. L. Edwards
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Eustis
A Decade's Report Shows Lower Cost For All Citizens
Mount Dora's 1958 Financial Report to the Taxpayers notes a $580,754 total operating outlay across general, water, and light departments, up from 1948 but with the tax rate cut from 16 to 8.3 mills. Property valuations rose yet per-household taxes declined, aided by increased home and business valuations, and unchanged water rates with electricity down. The report details departmental transfers to the general fund and changes in fees such as garbage collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
William C. Stewart
Water Department
Light Department
Dinner and basketball night at Bible School gym
The Christian Home and Bible School will serve its regular chicken supper Friday from 4 to 7 p.m. under the Parent-Teacher Association. A big gymnasium basketball game follows with the leading Class C team facing Oneida. The team holds 14 wins and 2 losses, both to Groveland, which Bible School previously defeated in a third meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Home and
Bible School
Parent-Teacher Association
Oneida
Groveland
City Council Considers Third Monthly Meeting
Council may add a special discussion session beyond the regular first and third Tuesday meetings. President Lake Coleman proposes a third monthly gathering for discussion, aiming to free regular nights for housekeeping and planning, with a provisional third meeting to be called if needed per the charter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Coleman
Coleman
Florida Printer Took Half of Honorary Membership Funds
A Tallahassee Times report alleges Rose Printing Co. earned 50 percent of after expense funds from Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch honorary memberships over a two year period. The audit shows about 21 904 dollars in receipts and costs were claimed as underwriter expenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosenburg
Times
Tallahassee
Frank Trippett
Rose Printing Co
Lake Countians
Sheriffs Association
Trippett
Florida Sheriffs Boys Ranch
Teasurer i Ip
Sheriffs ‘Association
Association
John A. Mad
Also Mentioned on This Page
John Elder
Presbyterian Mission In
Iran
Community Church
Community Forum
Robert R. Reed
Left
E. E. Lewis
Forum
First National
Garden Club
Lake Gertrude
Council
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!