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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1969
Page
4
Anne Byrne, a VISTA volunteer, left Mount Dora after nine months saying the most asked question from white residents was how to help. Early efforts created tutoring and a parks group, but she says real progress comes from respecting human dignity.
In letters by William J. Godtel and a concerned citizen, residents debate urban progress in Mount Dora. They praise the town’s retiree appeal, water quality, and quiet lake life while condemning highway–driven development and blighted eyesores near Grandview and 11th Avenue, calling for stricter local laws.
Al Crone accepts nomination for IceHouse Players president as annual meeting on June 2 at Icehouse Theatre Mount Dora nears. The vote covers officers and governors while reports on finances and operations unfold amid talks of staffing cuts from county inspectors and looming changes to auto inspection laws.
The Topic lists its mailing address P O Box 197 Mount Dora Florida 32757 editorial and advertising offices at 132 West Fifth Avenue Mount Dora telephone 904 383 4303 and subscription rates 4.00 per year 7.00 for two years 10 cents per single copy. The paper was entered as second class matter on April 7 1916 at Mount Dora Post Office under the 1879 act.
Town talk claimed a secret session vote for a council pay raise, but records show the raise occurred last fall increasing per meeting pay from twenty to thirty dollars. The mayor’s salary stayed at three thousand dollars annually.
A compiled notice lists individuals renewing subscriptions and others maintaining their memberships. Names span Mount Dora, Mount, Tangerine, Lakeland, New York, Canada, and West Virginia with several households and single renewals noted.
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