Tables Request To Extend Water Lines Despite Vista
City Council in Mount Dora voted caution on extending water mains to Sylvan Shores for Tim Croak's development along Lake Gertrude. The plan would require city fund sharing and power-line ownership issues, with Croak potentially drilling wells if city help is denied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utilities
Jerry Barnhart
Mount Dora
Tim Croak
Sylvan Shores
Weeeetek Et
Eustis Rd
Barnhart Gide Tie
Sost
Eustiard
Deve
Croak
Lake Gertrude
Remley Heights
E. M. Remley
Remley
Council
Barnhart
Wayne Moon
William Stewart
Lauben in Line For IceHouse Presidency
Col Philip Lauben, former U S military intelligence officer in England, is candidate to become IceHouse Players president, succeeding Jack O'Brien. Slate for June 6 annual meeting includes Celia Claflin Shaw vice president, Frank Stebbins secretary, Midge Patton treasurer, Milch Leatherbury operations manager, Berrien McCain public relations, Peggy Bowen business manager, Neal Huebsch Sam Buck governors at large. Byron Dennington oversees the play reading committee selecting balance of comedy music and drama for 1955 56 season.
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Philip Lauben
U. S. Military Intelligence Division
England
IceHouse Players
Jack O’brien
Eslate
Celia Claflin Shaw
Frank Stebbins
Midge” Patton
Milch Leatherbury
Berrien McCain
Peggy Bowen
Neal Huebsch
Sam Buck
Byron Ennington
Council Forms Advisory Planning Committee
The City Council created a five member advisory Planning Committee to replace the abolished Planning Commission. Members are Oren Sadler, D. Fletcher Crane, Dale Jones, John Cain, and Robert Walker, with terms from one to two years. The panel will study street numbering, sewage disposal, and property sales to advise the Council on possible action.
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Planning Commission
Oren Sadler
D. Fletcher Crane
Dale Jones
Lions Club
John Cain
Robert Walker
Wayne Moon
Lou L. Heaton
Clothing Dispute At City Pool Faces Review
City Council heard a charge that clothing left by youngsters at the new pool shows lax oversight. Mr and Mrs Ben Muecke accused Coach Dan Spear of tossing their son s tennis shoes from the bathhouse after the student failed to reclaim them promptly. Coach Spear defended the action noting items linger ignored by many. Mayor Lou L Heaton urged tagging and a fair disposal system to reduce soaking delays and keep the bathhouse compliant with health rules.
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Chamber of Commerce Recreation Committee
Ben Muecke
Dan Spear
Lews
Council
Wayne Moon
Coach Spear
Moon
State Board of Health
Lou L. Heaton
Mount Dora High seniors to receive three honors at 1955 commencement
Three senior girls from Mount Dora High School will receive honors at the June 3 commencement at the Community building. Shirley Hopkins earns the D A R citizenship medal, Anita Stedrowsky is the valedictorian, and Patty Johnson is the salutatorian. all will give addresses. Shirley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D P Hopkins, plans to study commercial art at the Richmond Professional Institute.
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Mount Dora High School
Shirley Hopkins
Daughters of the American Revolution
Anita Stedrowsky
Patty Johnson
Shirley
Ocklawaha
D.A.R
Glee Club
Future Homemakers of America
Harlequin Club
Methodist Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship
D. P. Hopkins
Donnelly Jr
Richmond Professional Institute
Richmond
Mount Dora Band Earns Excellent Rating in State Contest
Mount Dora high school band won an excellent rating in both concert and marching events at the Florida band contests in Jacksonville. Nancy Eich received a superior rating in marching. The clarinet quartet also rated excellent. Band Director Arthur Colaianni praised their strong first state showing. The group had earlier earned a superior rating in the DeLand district contest.
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Mount Dora High School
Jacksonville
Ce Ser Colaianni
Nancy Eichhorn
Mount Dora
Nancy
Patty Johnson
Anita Stedrowsky
Charles Reid
Ann Tremain
Arthur Colaianni
DeLand
Spring Concert by Glee Club Promises Patriotic Fare
The Glee club at the Community building under Mrs. Rosemary Bennett will perform Friday evening. The program features Give Me Your Tired Your Poor from the Statue of Liberty lyrics, Hallelujah Chorus, May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You, This is My Country, Melody of Love Body and Soul and While Hearts are Singing. Girls in spring formals will attend a Glee club dance with escorts after the concert.
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Glee Club
Rosemary Bennett
Chicagoan Hosts Mount Dora Business Party for Newspaper Plans
Thomas Dwyer of Chicago hosted a Sunday cocktail party at Wayne Files’s Clayton street home to discuss starting another Mount Dora newspaper. Guests included Mrs. Rosemary Bennett’s father, Glee club director, and Sheriff Willis McCall, with Dwyer a former Chicago ad rep.
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Thomas Dwyer
Chicago
Wayne Files
Clayton St
Mount Dora
Dwyer
Files
Rosemary Bennett
Sheriff Willis McCall
Mount Dora selects Vernon Swartzel for 4-H camp
Vernon Swartzel will represent Mount Dora as official participant at the 4-H Summer Camp to be held June 6 through 11 at Camp McQuarrie in the Ocala National Forest. He previously won the county 4-H speaking contest in Aj.
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Camp
Vernon Swartzel
Mount Dora
Camp McQuarrie
Ocala National Forest
Mount Dora Club
Youthful character and growth in youth literature
A reflective excerpt stressing that youthfulness should resemble continuous flowering, yet faults of behavior impede growth. It cites Gelett Burgess and Mary Baker Eddy, urging right thinking feeling and acting honesty purity and unselfishness as keys to later success, intellect, and happiness.
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Gelett Burgess
Mary Baker Eddy
Alligator Crashes Pool He Is Banished
A baby alligator swam in Mount Dora’s new blue pool drawing screams from eighth grade girls and boys. Darryl Radde finally retrieved the intruder by the tail and the incident ended with the reptile banished from the pool.
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Mount Dora
Bill Hoover
Darryl Radde
Council Sets Commercial Garbage Fees and Pool Bill
City council restored the garbage tax with higher commercial rates and kept residential rates. The pool project costs were itemized with a total of about 21,246 from the city and Lions Club, plus contractor fees and incidental amounts. a mechanic’s lien release will be signed before final payment.
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Javens
Leesburg
Roy Christopher
Ieee Barnhart
L. T. Brennand
Eustis
J. G. Ray, Jr
Brennand
Decree Granted In Platt Case Final Date Set
Judge Truman G. Futch set final judgment for the Platt case on May 25. He granted two decree pro confesso against the Lake County school board and Supt. C. A. Vaughn Jr. The Platts seek to prove their five children may attend a white school and may seek a stay while appeals proceed.
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Platt
Truman G. Futch
Lake County School Board
C. A. Vaughn, Jr
Allen
Laura Platt
Platts
Futch
P. B. Howell
Supreme Court
Roy Hamlin
Lake County
Howell
William Lee
Jesse W. Hunter
T. C. Cork
Need for East Town Survey Cited by Council
City budget and street committees discuss pressing East Town street design needs. County Surveyor warns of future expansion for the colored community and urges a complete area survey to map property rings and rights-of-way, noting existing houses over rights-of-way and cost concerns.
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East Town
T. O. Morehead
Gordon Conboy
Planning Commission
Illiam P. Sr
City Studies CofC Request on Community Building Remodel
The Chamber of Commerce asks the city to include air conditioning in the Community building social rooms remodel but the council tables the request. A citizen asks council to proceed this summer with the remodeling while City Clerk William Stewart notes the city follows a pay as you go policy. Budget chairman Gordon Cobh ey is tasked to review the borrowing proposal.
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William Stewart
Sanitation Committee
Rollin Ravens
Chamber of Commerce
Ira Kellogg
Kellogg
Gordon Cohbey
General Summerall Taught School Here
The death in Washington on the weekend of Gen. Charles Summerall recalled a brief period he spent in Mount Dora. He taught school there for a year before heading to West Point, aided by H. H. Duncan of Tavares. General Summerall, who attended school in Astatula, is mourned by Col. and Mrs. Philippoe.
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Washington
Charles
Summerall
Mount Dota
Army
West Point
H. H. Duncan
Tavares
Astatula
Philippoe
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Lauben
IceHouse
Mary Lou Davidson
City Studies Cofc
General Summerall
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