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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1953
Page
6
A quirky column blends political dreams about population control with snippets from the Topic office and local life. Charles Wages studies linotype while Mrs. Edna Rose operates the press, and a nostalgic note visits North Webster Lions fairs and Mount Dora social tales.
The column recalls Godfrey Quigley's severed tendons from a staged knife accident during Florida Aflame and Jack Belt's diving injury while in Polk County. It also reports UF College of Pharmacy on Spanish moss waxes and Duxbury Massachusetts Garden Club's nonprofit ad campaign Dont Be a Litterbug with a limerick contest.
A hospital records week lists Mrs. Elmer Haskins Kian Eaton Clarence Tincher Russell Odom in Waterman Memorial Eustis and Mrs. Richard Shipes E. H. Van Voorhis Durham Young Leesburg.
Betty Siess executive secretary of the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce says Lake County waterways maps are now available for distribution. The maps provide detailed shoreline routes and key boating points for residents and visitors.
Mount Dora Lions Club hosted a Community Blood Bank donor day with Central Florida Blood Bank. By 8 p.m. 53 units were donated, three above the goal, after slow early turnout.
Mount Dora prepares 11 swimmers for the county meet at Eustis pool this Sunday with participants including Mary Lou Davidson Barbara Swartz Sue Scott Cathie Land Patsy Spear Billy Simpson Clarence Sims Charles Correll Jeff Ray and Robert Wilson. Skiing lessons follow the swimming program at Lake Dora cove with Aquatic club instructors offering free sessions led by James Stout.
East Town reports a Sunday service with Deacon Joseph Bowls leading Bible School at 9 40 and Rev J A Gibson explaining the lesson. Ralph B Jackson preached Forget Me Not with a growing early-career presence. Mrs Darell Terrell led the night service in Henry Smith 8 oclock devotion and a short choir rehearsal.
Col. Paul Bronson left this week for a second return to the Army this summer. He is now at Camp Rucker for a two week training period in the adjutant general school.
J Handley Wright, a public regions consultant, discusses attracting public organizations and the forfeiture of public relations in a concise statement about civic engagement and organizational outreach.
Walter Shaffer and I visited Edwin Mead’s Far Reach ranch on Deer Island near Mount Dora. The 240 acres of improved pastures feature Pangola and Love grass with St Augustine planned, shallow muck soils, and a 60 acre Love grass tract grazed by cows. The ranch benefits from warm lake winds, heavy fertilization, mineral boxes, and ample shade, making year round grazing possible and the scenery notably striking.
Two Mount Dora area girls, Loraine Schieber and Barbara Jo Moore, are among Lake County 4-H club members attending a weeklong camp at Camp McQuarrie in the Ocala Forest this week.
Mount Dora Public Library unveils 21 new selections for July led by Agnes Sligh Turnbull The Rolling Years. Other titles include Tan Jameson by May Davies Martenet The Singing Sands by Josephine Tey and Death Has a Small Voice by Frances Lockridge.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce notes Route 441 through Lake County is the second most traveled Florida road, behind U.S. 92 from Plant City to Tampa.
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