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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1949
Page
8
A quirky Mount Dora tale explains a soaring electricity bill via a walk in cooler and a maid ironing in the open doorway. Also news of the Wilmot family's bullterrier Petey recovering after a vet hospital stay during a Mexico vacation.
The council approved a $300 city aid toward the summer recreation program budget, with the group seeking $200 for equipment and $200 for an assistant director. The program would also provide $400 in operating funds from its own initiative, aided by sales and donations of about $100 last year. Coach Dan Spears urged $200 for equipment and $200 for a paid assistant.
A week long Sal Training school of the Press Women of Florida runs at Lakeside Inn with 200 delegates. Dr Marshall C Dendy of Orlando speaks on My Flight to Amsterdam this afternoon, following morning talks by Mrs Patsy Bratton Turner and Mrs W W Draper. The session ends Friday with Youth Conservation by Mrs Walter S Jones. Youth conferences of Northern Presbyterian churches begin next week. a Lake Dora boat ride is planned this afternoon.
Summer recreation opens with Mount Dora joining Lake County in the education department program. Coach Dan Spears leads activities as six team city league softball starts with two five inning games each Monday Wednesday and Friday through August 5. A Chamber of Commerce meeting tonight wraps final season plans. The county program adds playgrounds swimming life saving excursions music drama camping library service and remedial arts crafts shop and pupil project visitation.
Mount Dora 4-H club members visited Duda Farms at Zellwood to learn corn and celery cultivation in muck lands. W A TeStrake directed the farm tour. Lake County youths also attended the 4H Short Course at the University of Florida in Gainesville. Participants included Jack Norris Chester Weinnan Sorrento Freddie Conner Charles Norris Tavares George Jerry Brown Umatilla Jack Parker Paisley Truman Cook Altoona Tommy Oswalt Clermont Johnnie Watkins Mascotte.
The Council hears a proposal from the Business and Professional Women's club to study acoustics in the Community building. Past President Mary Lindman presents to Councilwoman Lillian Christie. The club suggests installing loudspeakers to aid events and civic betterment, with President D Fletcher Crane noting thanks.
The Kiwanis sponsored Key Club boys at Mount Dora completed a toy and book drive for the Harry Anna Crippled Children’s Home in Uma tilla. Four big cartoons of playthings and supplies were delivered last week. President Tim Poulton lists Billy Lafroos Herbert Trenham and Robert Schneider as top workers.
The Berkshire resident Earl Ferson, aged 90, posed beside his vintage touring car outside his Baker Street home. Lockett Burnham of Pittsfield, a retired GE engineer, photographed the scene during his winter visit to Mount Dora. Burnham praised the visit and Ferson’s evident good health and pride in his car.
At 90 today, B Ferson lives alone on Baker Street Mount Dora and drives his 1922 Essex touring car to town for groceries. He designs schools, mentors pupils, tends his yard, paints a mural idea for a future auditorium, and does most chores himself in a self remodeled bungalow at 722 Baker Street.
East Town church activities featured a busy Sunday with Sunday school classes, a 15 minute pastor review, sermons by Rev Russell and Rev G Barten, and a 8 pm devotion. Fundraising for the Prayer Band and announcements of upcoming BTU Congress and Loving Home Band meeting followed.
A mechanic tends his Essex and hopes to sell it to a vintage car collector. This week he cherishes letters from former pupils of a Chicago school now tied to the University of Chicago. The flood of notes arrives chain letter style, as alumni honor their teacher from over fifty years ago.
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