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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1957
Page
4
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Proponents urge Mount Dora to present a model city to national garden club leaders visiting for the National Council meeting. They highlight the Keep America Beautiful legacy, local hibiscus plantings, and the need to curb roadside litter and burn scars along the Orange Blossom Trail. The piece calls for daily civic pride, cleanup along highways, and responsible citizen action.
A civic merchant sponsored series presents non-denominational messages on the church as vital to community life. It asserts the church sustains belief, morality, and national citizenship, urging readers to read weekly messages that emphasize faith, creation, and Old Testament law with New Testament love.
The editor argues for raising auto tag fees from 15 to 22.50 to aid school construction but warns against overburdening retirees and low earners. It cites Florida tax structure comparisons with California and stresses broader tax reforms, fair land valuation, and avoiding sharp hikes affecting fixed incomes.
Penologists and psychiatrists lament idleness and uselessness hindering prisoner rehabilitation. The piece highlights New Yorks Rikers Island inmates who risked their lives in a plane crash rescue, repeatedly entering flames to save others, expressing a renewed sense of purpose and humanity behind bars.
The True family story follows Russell True and Frances Lily Morris as they settle in Mount Dora after leaving Kansas. Russell True, a Civil War veteran, becomes postmaster and shopkeeper while weathering the 1895 freeze. He expresses hope for growth and a railroad, promising Mount Dora will become a good town.
An open letter urges parents to act as classrooms grow crowded in Florida. It notes 25 27 students per room, rising enrollments of 60 000 annually, and 1860 education graduates this year with fewer than half entering teaching. The writer calls for higher wages to attract and hold qualified teachers.
The Emma O'Hare Circle of the First Baptist Church met at Nadine Hayes home with co hostess Louise Lassater. Talks covered Annie Armstrong Offering Work among the Japanese in California and Hungarian Refugee Work. The next gathering is set for April 15 at Mrs. William Stookley's home.
The text argues that the American people must grasp Asia’s crowded millions and the tensions from subjugation to independence amid rapid electronic and atomic energy. It highlights pride, resentment, self-reliance, inferiority, and the blend of ambition and fatalism shaping the Asian world.
Local churches list weekly hours and contact details for Mount Dora. Denominations include Baptist at Sixth and Tremain, Community Church, Methodist on Fifth Ave, Church of Christ on Fifth Ave, Presbyterian on Sixth Ave, Latter Day Saints at 1117 Fi Ave, and St. Edwards Episcopal on Grandview and Fifth. Services cover Bible school, morning worship, evening worship, youth groups, and midweek prayer, with pastors named.
Local church notices list services for Eustis area groups. Includes EUstis Christian Church worshiping at Eustis Seventh Day Adventist Church Sundays 11:00 am with Minister Lester Doerr, Mount Dora. Also First Church of Christ Scientist corner Lemon and Grove with 11:00 am services and Wednesday 8 pm. Faith Lutheran MO Synod library basement offers 8:30 am service and 9:45 am Sunday School led by Rev. Phillip Schlessmann.
The Tangerine Community Church invites worshippers to Sunday service at 11:00 a.m. led by Rev. Louis Johnston.
Garden notes from Practical Gardener advise that chrysanthemum plants, if given moisture and sun in spring, will likely flower in fall. To ensure quality, divide or restart from cuttings each spring, and use pinching every 3 to 4 weeks until July end. Start with young rooted cuttings or divide last year’s bloomers in spring, then prune after frost to keep plants compact and flowering longer.
A reader urges council to clear the jungle along the railroad track on the south side so residents can view the lake from the shore and appreciate its beauty during Council week.
TV 10 a.m. Fridays on WDBO TV Channel 6 features Prayer Can Heal Serious Cases. Radio 9 45 a.m. Sundays on WDBO 580 kc presents Before They Call I Will Answer.
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