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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1964
Page
4
A local civic consensus from the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Association urges City Hall to hire a professional planner to revive the downtown. Estimated costs range from 4000 to 85000, with council posture uncertain as merchants push for action and store improvements.
Florida Agriculture column discusses future US economy with a trillion dollar forecast and per capita dairy declines. It lists military food preferences and dislikes from a 1960 study, cites The New Yorker on Army feeding, then covers Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission quail rules and license duplicates.
A Letter to the Editor extols Mount Dora and surrounding areas as a vibrant retirement community with abundant clubs and groups. It highlights service, religious, civic, and business networks, plus social clubs like yacht, lawn bowling, shuffleboard, croquet, tennis, and golf. The IceHouse Players, with about 1000 members, own a theater and offer affordable shows for 15 years, illustrating a community rich in activities and volunteer leadership sustaining local vitality.
Central Florida offers two dove hunting fields G. W. Bickerstaff says. T. G. Lee Field in Orange County and Leffler Field in Seminole County provide 1500 and 200 acres respectively planted with corn and hegari. Hunters 65 and older need no extra permit. all others pay a $2 hunt permit for a single hunt. Hunts run Wednesdays and Saturdays from noon to sunset starting October 3, 1964.
The Veterans Administration extends the War Orphans Education Assistance program to living veterans children aged 18 to 23. Signed into law July 7 by President Johnson, Public Law 88-361, the act broadens eligibility to include children of veterans who died from illness or injury in service or peacetime. Contact County Service Officer Charles E. Gore in the Pioneer Building, Tavares, Florida, for details.
Florida’s oldest conservation statute from 1828 prohibited fire hunting in the Territory and still makes use or possession of a gun and light at night a violation of the wildlife law.
Winners in a six table Howell movement at the Golden Triangle Bridge Club were Anne Walker with Winnie Busch first. Irene Lee with Al Smith second. M Smith with Ray Breeden third. Val Johnson with Wm Clifton and Griffie with Laverly tied for fourth. Club meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. in Mount Dora Community Room of First Federal Savings & Loan.
Florida bans importing or stocking nonnative fish in fresh waters without a Game and Fresh Water Commission permit. Enforcement targets anyone distributing unfamiliar species in state waterways to protect native ecosystems and prevent ecological damage.
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