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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1968
Page
4
The Mount Dora Florida paper lists Sandy Waldron and Vernon Cannaday as editors or contacts. It shows a P O Box 197 Mount Dora address and a downtown subscription office at 498 West Fifth Avenue. Subscription rates include 97.40 for two years and 16 cents for a single copy. The paper was entered on April 7, 1916 at the Mount Dora Post Office.
In the early hours of June 6 1968 Robert Kennedy died after being shot at age 42. The Kennedy brothers shaped politics with John leading to the presidency and Ted seen as a potential future candidate. Ted delivered a eulogy quoting his brother asking why not and spoke with tremulous eloquence.
Mount Dora Public Library adds fiction and non fiction volumes with support from the Mount Dora Woman's Club. The list features authors such as Taylor Caldwell Phyllis Whitney Van Wyck Mason Marion Palmer Hugh Atkinson Agatha Christie J B Giraudoux Nabokov and Michener among others. The update includes biographies travel guides reference works and historical studies alongside contemporary novels and classic literature.
A commentary questions U S leaders focus on Paris peace talks with a Communist foe while American servicemen remain jailed in Korea. It argues that coalitions in Vietnam and Southeast Asia risk ceding ground to the Reds and cautions against trusting past peace negotiations led by Averill Harriman.
A visitor complains of crude promotional names along Florida tourist sites while praising a water ski show as skilled yet the performers appear bored. The reviewer laments proliferation of signs from developers and supermarkets that crowd highways and dim the local charm.
Nostalgic column recalls sidewalks safe riding to towns, club rides, and fairground bicycle races before motor cycles. It laments modern ease, wonders about historic paths Mount Dora to Tavares and Tangerine, and notes a shift as tin lizzy era began.
Readable items list attendees and backers from Mt Dora Palm Beach Gardens and Tangerine. A staged program features The Road Hustlers exposing bootleg booze with Andy De Vine Scott Brady Jim Davis.
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