Rotary Continues Survey on Home Funds in Lake County
County Commissioners will discuss whether to keep the one mill levy funding a home for the aged in Lake County at the 1955-56 budget hearing. About 87,000 in the fund exists, enough to buy land and possibly finish construction, though Rotary clubs and the Health and Welfare Council want the survey completed before diverting funds. The fund cannot be diverted for two years without a new legislative act, though the commission may abandon the tax anytime.
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Lake County
Frank Owens
Mount Dora
Rotary Club
Health and Welfare Council
Harold Overhiser
Rotary Gavel Changes Hands In Mount Dora
Mount Dora Rotary club installed new officers at the Grand View hotel marking the group’s first full year. Retiring president Dr. C E Brown turned over the gavel to Phillip E Lindsay as Bill Rumley of Leesburg looked on. Officers and directors include Harry Mielke vice president and F F Henderson secretary with several other directors named.
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Mount Dora's
A. A. Stanley
Mr. Rumley
Talbot Simpson
E. E. Lewis
Dr. Brown
Mr. Lindsay
Harry Mielke
Lewis E. Shipley
Grady Simpson
F. F. Henderson
Harold G. Morse
Night Blooming Cereas Grace Local Trees
In the Silence of the Night last week featured season for the night blooming cereas. The display included blooms on trees at the former home of Dr. and Mrs. Glendy Sadler on McDonald Avenue and Seventh Avenue, now occupied by Dr. and Mrs. Fred Vincenti with their 13 year old Lennie, and the tree at Mrs. Florence B Hanscom on Grandview Street. The blossoms climbed high among vines entwining the trunks.
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Glendy Sadler
McDonald
Fred Vincenti
Lennie. Vincenti
Florence B
Hanscom
Grandview St
Child Burned As 15 Fire Flaming House
Fifteen people were left homeless after a fast town fire destroyed a cement block home and shed next door. Nine year old Jessie May Cooper was badly burned while her family escaped through a front window and a door.
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Jessie May Cooper
Lucky” Holloway
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Eustis
Holloway
Harold Larsen
Orlandoan
Kiwanis Haynes
Wesley Haynes, Jr
LeRoy
Lillian Holloway
Jessie May
Larsen
Early Jones
Mount Dora
Orlando
Council Rejects County Plan On Registration
Mount Dora City Council tables county plans for a county wide voter registration system. Officials fear loss of the personal touch of city registration and doubt voters will travel to Tavares for re registration. Current rules require city registration for city elections and county registration for broader elections. The county plan would remove dual registrations and allow ongoing checks by the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Frank Owens
Tavares
City Hall
William Stewart
Rain totals set records at Mount Dora Growers Cooperative
The weekend rainfall reached 2.2 inches, beating the prior year for the same period but leaving June at 4.6 inches behind last year’s June total. The year to date rainfall stands 16 inches short of the record. Temperatures midweek climbed to 100 degrees.
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Mount Dora
Goldsmith Quotation on Spouse Qualities in Marriage
A refined quip by Oliver Goldsmith noting the choice of a wife for lasting wear, comparing her to a wedding gown and praising enduring qualities.
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Oliver Goldsmith
Boy and Girl Want Ad Month Opens in Mount Dora
The Topic announces July as Boy and Girl Want Ad month offering free classified ads for readers 16 and under. Ads up to 15 words must relate to items to sell buy barter or services offered with written parent consent. Submit by Saturdays for following weeks.
Free Classified Ads for Mt Dora Youth in July
Any boy or girl reader 16 or under attending a Mount Dora school may advertise free in the Topic Classified Ad Section during July. Ads must be submitted Saturday before publication, either in person at 418 420 Donnelly St or by mail, include age in a 15 word limit and parental consent, and cover items for sale trade collection or services they can perform. Ads should be canceled once answered to free space for others. all ads set solid and subject to Topic editing or rejection.
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Mount Dora
Donnelly St
Mount Dora Girls' State Delegates Go to Tallahassee
Pam Brown and Joyce Moon, Mount Dora High School students and Girls' State delegates, prepare for a week in Tallahassee to watch reapportionment progress. Sponsored by the American Legion auxiliary and local groups, they aim to participate as the program opens Monday.
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Mount Dora High School
Tallahassee
Pam Brown
Joyce Moon
American Legion Auxiliary
Merrell Pee Ables
Robert Ilson
Mount Dora Legion Post
Council Abolishes Dump Favors Tri City Disposal
Mount Dora Eustis and Tavares will join a county run sanitary landfill west of Eustis replacing the city dump. A 14 ton tractor will bury all refuse daily, with lawn waste excluded. The plan, proposed by Fred Tanner, aims to localize fly and rodent control and reduce open dumps.
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Council
Tri-City
Mount Dora
Eustis
Tavares
Fred Tanner
Sanitarian
Sylvan Shores
Memrs
Rollin Javens
Tanner
County Sanitation Department
Mr. Tanner
Mount Dora Passengers Tour Europe Amid Queen Elizabeth Ills
Three Mount Dora women accompanied by 47 guards aboard the Queen Elizabeth view the Statue of Liberty from the ship. They recount travels through Rome, the Rhine, and Paris, while one companion Jessie Conner suffers a broken hip in Holland. The group faces travel delays plus a diplomatic scare with Molotov aboard and the ship’s docking crowd.
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Mount Dora
Russia
V. M. Molotov
F. P. Albery
Bernhard Schroeder
Helen Smith
Kremlin
Rome
Rhine
Malmaison
Josephine
Napoleon
Europe
the Hague
Vernon Conner
Albery
Schroeder
Wisconsin
Smith
East Liverpool
Ohio
Hazel Albery
Jessie Conner
Conners
Vernon
Mrs. Albery
Holland
England
London
Belgium
Germany
Switzerland
Italy
France
Boversne
T Ten
Council Delays Seconday Street Closure Amid Growth Warning
President Wayne Moon warned against abandoning streets as the city grows. The council delayed action on a request by Mrs Marian Hadlock and her son in law to close a right of way east of Clayton Street. Undeveloped tall brush now occupies the 50 foot city owned strip, and a street would require a huge culvert as stated by Street Chairman Bill Prinz.
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Wayne Moon
Marian Hadlock
Clayton St
Bill Prinz
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Rotary
Bill Rumley
Leesburg
Lewis
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg Times
Mount Dora, Florida
Dorans
Lady Liberty
Mr. Molotov
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