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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1968
Page
4
A late issue blames a Orlando publishing plant and a new $60,000 press for delaying THE TOPIC. The piece contrasts modern machinery with the reliability of an 1890 letterpress that never failed, lamenting progress and questioning where art and efficiency have gone.
Town leaders plan a Monday meeting to spark ideas for expanding Mount Dora’s winter resident and tourist activity. Proposals include a new Castle apartment complex, a heated winter pool, walking trails, and a Seaboard rail aligned bicycle path to Tavares and to Sorrento-Mt. Plymouth.
The article notes Confederate jasmine trained on a wire fence between Apartments and the local store makes a good hedge. It droops, requiring each tendril to be threaded through the wire mesh by hand, demanding patience but yielding a fine dense screen.
A Special Writer notes the Prom theme Bali Hai from South Pacific delighted attendees. The piece highlights student pride, assemblies last week, guest speakers from Raiford, a Heart Association film on smoking, Babe Ruth Award winners Shleen Hobdy and Jim Kauff, and upcoming cheerleading tryouts. The article also congratulates Linda Proctor chosen as Key Club Sweetheart and thanks Anchor Club volunteers.
The campus notes the 1968 Mr and Mrs C H B winners Leonard Allen and Glenn Moody both juniors. Senior superlatives Cheryl Hall Harry Lyles Sybil Hubbs Marlene Gillette Jillene Rose Glen Hedegard are named. Intramural basketball runs weeks for grades 7 through 12. Junior Senior Banquet is May 17 at Venetian Gardens Leesburg. Eddie Kelly spotlighted. Nashville born, moved to Tampa then Mount Dora. student council vice president. plans to attend Alabama Christian College.
The Castle rejuvenation evokes the South Florida Chautauqua once on Lake Dora grounds. From 1887 to 1906, ten day spring assemblies drew travelers by train or stage, featuring lectures and a 1500 seat octagonal hall, until fires and economic decline ended the era.
The future revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh travels widely as a young anti colonialist. He reportedly worked as a pastry cook in London, a photo retoucher in Paris, and even as a houseboy in Brooklyn before aligning with leftist circles in Paris and later Moscow.
A May 16 22 summary lists Ambushers at Princess Mount Dora with Dean Martin, Happpiest Millionaire at Garden Drive-In Eustis with Fred MacMurray and Greer Garson, The Patsy with Jerry Lewis, Hawaii at Tropic Leesburg with Julie Andrews, The Hills Run Red at Princess Mount Dora, No Way To Treat A Lady at Princess Mount Dora, The Party at Tropic Leesburg, Pp J at Princess Mount Dora, Sergeant Ryker at Garden Drive-In Eustis with Lee Marvin, and Texas Across the River pairing.
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