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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1959
Page
3
A schoolboy paints a patriotic scene with “fruited plane” among symbols. A farmer pays a doctor $5 for a country call to avoid a taxi fare at night. Three men ride late through the countryside when the driver asks the back passenger to identify the tailing car.
Florida extension entomologist James E. Brogdon explains chinch bug damage to St Augustine grass, describes nymph and adult appearances, and outlines insecticide options including DDT, Diazinon, VC13, and combinations. He stresses thorough lawn wetting before spraying and even cross-pattern application for even coverage.
A dialogue snippet shows a driver frustrated at another who blocks passing. The other driver exclaims with excitement that the front car is on tracks, highlighting a mishap and humorous misperception in a street encounter.
Mr and Mrs O S Kinsman depart for Lake Dunmore Vermont to spend summer. Their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Robert Weeks will care for their Upland Indiana home and build a new Lake Ola property for occupancy in fall. Virgil drives them home. Aquilla Cormie and May Morehouse trek north to New England and Canada and Ridgewood friends will stay at Harry Hershey home. Reuthers seek Florida home.
Letters to the editor express wishes for air conditioned comfort at Mount Dora and Crystal Lake amid hot weather. A reader praises four actors delivering Shaw's Man and Superman and urges a future reading of the Book of Job at the IceHouse Theatre.
More than 160 people praised IceHouse Players for a staged reading of George Bernard Shaw s Don Juan in Hell. Sara McCain Col Paul Bronson Rev John Mangrum and Sam Buck read the dialogue in formal attire against a black backdrop as they debated heaven and hell. The audience stayed spellbound and urged a winter repeat with similar provocative dramas.
Barbara L. Clark notes a stock company once toured nationwide reviving an ancient stage piece. The writer urges audiences to become better acquainted with this long standing drama, described as a map from the most universal folk tale.
Richard Poling son of Mrs Cur tis Poling and the late Curtis Poling has accepted a position with Estate Planners Corp of Florida in Orlando. He holds a 1946 Ohio State University business degree and a 1949 University of Cincinnati law degree. He has specialized in advanced underwriting in Ohio for six years and will relocate his family to the Orlando area.
In hospital at Waterman Memorial in Eustis this week are Frances Russell Edith Keller Antoinette Kuhlman Ann Congdon Mary Morse Linn Seiler Mark Woodhull Gordon Gower Frank Prescott Charles Hener of Mount Dora Juanita Brock Tangerine Loretta Montgomery Lake Jem and Bessie Pettit Plymouth.
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