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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
1
Mount Dora will gain a city funded resuscitator to aid drowning rescues and other emergencies. The Kiwanis club and City Council will share the $380 cost and train staff to operate the device with physicians from Mount Dora and Eustis assisting.
Mount Dora votes to hire Burke Chisholm Rollins graduate and Central Florida baseball standout as summer coach aide to Floyd Jaggears and as assistant recreation director starting June 15. He will also serve as assistant coach replacing Casey Jones until fall term starts August 15. The Dorans, struggling this season, will benefit from his dual role and guidance at a Chamber of Commerce meeting Friday for roster and fan input.
A Los Angeles police call revealed two starving children aged 5 and 3 left alone by their parents. Relatives could not take them, so W. O. Norton at the Christian Home and Bible School in Mount Dora provided care. The school, started three years ago, educates 90 students with nine teachers and plans expansion to house 30 children.
Dorans will return to the polls Friday for the third time this month to choose between Supreme Court Justice Hobson and retiring attorney general Watson. Watson, who had trailed in the first primaries, polled well on May 25 and advances to the runoff with Hobson, backed by Lake County and Sixth District circuit attorneys.
Boys under 18 in Mount Dora begin the Junior Baseball league run by the American Legion with eight scheduled games leading to the Fifth District tournament. Atty. Tom Cooley and Roy Christopher guide the team, Floyd Jaggears coaches, with tryouts open to any eager youngster, even five-year-olds. Practice starts June 11 after school.
Swiger was elected president of the Mount Dora Lions club succeeding Al Rehbaum Jr. The club also planned a joint June 15 meeting with the Kiwanis to honor Royal Frisbee of the Florida Press association and Rus sell Kay. New officers include Bill Prinz first vice president Mel Wagner secretary Dale Jones treasurer Rusty Jones tail twister Bill Williamson lion tamer C H Bowie and Henry Beims two year directors.
Mount Dora prepares to award diplomas to seven teen boys and eleven girls at the Community Building ceremony next Thursday evening. Carol Swort leads with top honors and a four year scholarship, Mary Jo Burr is second honor, with Karl Lehmann delivering the address. Grace Lee Vincent and Eudell Sutley will join from Stetson University the same year.
The May issue features Al Rehbaum and a Casters club photo spread from Mount Dora with images of Jay Malone Patsy Wells and Clarence Sims inside. The magazine also includes Lake Dora fishing pictures of Harry Allen John Ashley and Col. E P Jolls and notes the club’s new elected officers and committee members.
City Council weighs a plan from the limb and branch committee to remove Spanish moss from 547 oaks along Fifth Avenue Donnelly Highland and other streets. The program aims to demoss prune and remove mistletoe with Vega Mohair Moss Co. of Gainesville to collect moss for sale.
Mount Dora high school seniors will hold baccalaureate services at the Community Building Sunday at 8 pm with Rev. A L Burggren of St Thomas Episcopal Church in Eustis as speaker. Twenty eight seniors will perform musical numbers under the direction of Mrs Bennett Land. Elgars As Torrents In Summer is featured. Graduation exercises follow Thursday June 10 at the Community Building with Karl Lehman of Montverde School delivering the address.
Shirley Ford took third place in the 40 & 8 Voiture 400 Lake county high school essay contest. Betty Stokes of Leesburg won first place and $10. Carol Swart of Mount Dora earned honorable mention. Clyde W. Kenyon of Eustis and Pat Sherry of Clermont placed second and fourth respectively.
Mrs. David E. Burress asks finders of a lost wallet to return it with the $150 plus contents, offering the humorous prize of being named the meanest man or woman in town. The wallet disappeared after Burress widowhood followed her husband’s sudden death in Pendleton, South Carolina.
Leesburg prepares for the Watermelon festival with a 2 p.m. style show led by Mount Dora’s Celia Claflin presenting exclusive summer fashions. The event highlights the festival program and draws Eyes of Lake County.
Professor D D Roseborough hands out diplomas to Mount Dora High School class of 1948 next Thursday evening, closing 25 years of sending forth 392 graduates. He keeps two notebooks recording names and later life paths from 1924 onward, noting college attendance, career achievements, and notable alumni like Stuart Sadler Pete Burkart Annapolis graduates and J G Ray Jr Al Rehbaum Jr postwar success.
Record of Daniel D Roseborough recalling students he taught in tennis and his matches with Bill Stewart city clerk. He remained active at the Donnelly courts as a spring student-teacher era summary notes 25 years of Mount Dora school teaching and supervision.
Tim Poulton a Mount Dora High School junior and Hi-Points editor, selected as delegate to Boys State at Florida State University Tallahassee for June 20 to 26 due to exceptional scholastic record. Alternate Clyde Mosteller, a junior and key club member, will attend if needed. Both are Lions Club sponsored and members of the high school band and football programs.
Mount Dora undertakes summer spruce up of public buildings after termite work at the Public Library. Building Inspector A J Waltz reports no cost estimate yet to City Council. City Hall and Community building to follow with contracts awarded to Frank Cornish for beautification and C Minkley for waterproofing and painting social rooms and kitchen.
PFC Charles Davenport returns from Cheyenne Wyoming after completing Air Force technical training. He plans to depart June 12 for New Jersey and onward to an overseas post in the Caribbean zone. He visits his mother Edith Fairfax Davenport in Zellwood and former classmates in Dora.
As if contending with the antics of Corny in the O'Kays, two passes to the Princess theater are awarded to be used at will. Take a look perhaps your chance awaits.
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