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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1946
Page
4
Jacqueline Ober recalls her Italian grandfather who arrived at fifteen, mastered English, loved opera, and served as a police detective and court interpreter. She notes his dignity, tempered temper, and pride in his achievements, hoping to live up to his example.
The seniors held a baccalaureate service Sunday evening 26 at the Community Building. Dr James A As pastor of Community Church delivered the sermon on Three Lessons from a Strange Teacher. The High School Glee Club led by H Clif Dresser performed themes including Send Out Thy Light and Aspiration. Ruth and Faye Shipes sang Pilgrim's Journey. music by Mrs Mary E White and floral arrangement by the freshman class.
The guide emphasizes life-saving basics, correct canoe strokes, how to carry a passenger, and self-rescue. Mastery of these skills precedes any trip far from land, with every student and adult urged to know fundamental life-saving, canoeing, and rowboating principles.
Friday evening May 31 at the Community Building the graduating class occupied the stage while the band received the Manuel J Sedano Music Award to Faye Shipes. Jacqueline Ober received the DAR Medal and Ashton Brown the Science Award. Reverend A A Stanley gave the invocation and Judge A S Herlong Jr addressed the graduates.
Friday May 24 an assembly presented educational water safety films compiled by the American Red Cross. W J Barker water safety instructor led the program. The first film Heads Up demonstrated rescue methods and precautions for drowning, while Oars and Paddles explained rowing position turns and boat equipment.
The piece reflects on completing a year of study and exams with mixed feelings of fatigue and relief. It praises both athletics and academics for victories and setbacks, then looks forward to new ambitions. It ends with humorous parting words for teachers students and graduates.
The May 31 assembly closed a long school year. Senior Ruth Shipes led readings with her sister Faye, and Opal Hutcheson and Joyce Duggan prepared the class will. Lois Rhodes received her diploma. band awardees were named for various credit levels and students.
A retold fable features Hot Hood Hattie as a sharp office helper who loses a private letter to Mr Shoo Shoo Bigger after stopping for a Pine Frost. Her nerves collapse among wolves, leading to a reckless mistake and social downfall with a moral about wolves and blown chances.
Lavonnie Williams born May 8, 1928 in Mount Dora, known as a witty senior who jokes she is best at wolfin. She attended Tangerine and Tavares schools before M D H S, acted as Mary in the senior play, a junior colored maid in the play, and sang in the Glee Club. Her favorite books include Faith Baldwin and her preferred subjects are typing and bookkeeping.
The note suggests Bonnie aims to use her knowledge to secure a bookkeeper position later. It ends with a cheerful wish for her success and a favorable boss.
The Hi Points gossip column teases fraternities and romances at M. D. H. S. Names couples and rumors from two timing to new cars and sailoring friends. The column jokes about Laura turning down dates and teases editors for next year. Extra! Extra! Cotton and Opalahem.
Mrs. W. C. Williams and her sister Miss Trene Haislip will spend the summer in Penn Laird Virginia. Miss Haislip left yesterday and Mrs. Williams with a nurse will depart tomorrow to join her sister in Virginia.
Florida's Public Welfare program is run by the State and District Welfare Boards to aid needy persons and plan rehabilitation. District 11 Welfare Board in Leesburg serves this area. Questions cover Old Age Assistance, Old Age Insurance, and grant determinations based on income, essentials, rent, and household needs.
This warning from Asher Frank of the Florida Safety Council urges parents to supervise children during the vacation season. It notes high drownings among ages 5 to 14 and traffic fatalities, urging swimming lessons, Red Cross classes, road safety, regular vehicle inspections, and adult supervision to prevent tragedy.
J S Banks reports arrangements for waste paper collection now at a new site on Highland street near Fifth. E D Tex Goldman coordinates salvage efforts, gathering material from the old salvage center and other spots. Tin cans have no fixed plan yet. save and wash cans and await further word. Take waste fats to your meat market.
The U S Army Engineers will hold a hearing in the Court House at Tavares at 2 00 p m Tuesday June 11 to review hyacinth elimination in Lake County and Central Florida. Col A B Jones and staff will run the hearing with Central Florida Hyacinth Control Association presenting data.
Dr. R J Dalton announces a vacancy for a junior clerk at the Lake County Health Department. Starting pay is 100 dollars monthly, with step increases to 120, 38.14 hour week, two weeks vacation, sick leave, 5% retirement deduction, typing and filing required, stenography preferred. He urges local Lake County residents and recent high school graduates to apply promptly at the Court House complex or by phone.
Mr and Mrs Harold W Wilson announce the birth of a daughter Rebecca Margaret on May 31 at Waterman Memorial Hospital. Both mother and baby are doing well.
A. R. Raymond expresses gratitude to her board of associations and friends for kindnesses shown after her fall and hospital stay. She cannot thank everyone in person and communicates her thanks through the Topic.
The article advises against keeping roosters for production unless purebred for hatching. It says roosters beyond breeding value waste feed, especially during egg production shortages, and feeding roosters not needed for breeding should be avoided.
Heifers bearing their first calves sometimes suffer udder swelling. Home measures such as steamed bone meal salt and mineral mix, small daily epsom salt doses, and hot water applications may clear the condition in a few days, but a veterinarian should be called for proper care.
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