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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1955
Page
3
Pamela Brown earned third place in the Newspaper Week high school contest with an essay on The Role of the Newspaper in Community. Other winners include Jo Brown, first place, and John es, who won in earlier issues.
A statement declaring the community newspaper as a guardian of democracy, liberty of expression, and freedom of the press. The text frames the paper as history in the making and vows to uphold truth, love, and intellectual integrity while opposing conspiratorial communism. It mentions local events and personal milestones in a patriotic, period voice.
Mrs. Alice M. Stocker 72, wife of George Stocker, died Sunday after a long illness. She was taken to a hospital in Eustis where she passed away. She leaves her husband and a sister Mrs. F Guy Carrel of Mount Dora. The couple moved to the area two years ago and lived on N Donnelly Street. A Methodist, she was past worthy matron of the Order of Eastern Star at Franklin Pennsylvania and a member of the Mount Dora Lawn Bowling club. Funeral services were held at Rehbaum Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon with Rev H Maurice Felton officiating. Interment was in Pine Forest cemetery. This is woman's hour, with its sweet amenities and its moral and religious reforms. – Mary Baker Eddy.
The Lake County Council of Federated Garden Clubs and the Lake County Chamber of Commerce push Palm as the true Christmas tree. Miss Reba Harris of Eustis suggests palms in homes, parks, hotels, churches and public displays with lights and contest themes. Florida’s climate and native palms are cited as the seasonal symbol and source of sustenance and ritual meaning.
A public listing details weekly services for six churches on Fifth Avenue Sixth Avenue Tremain Donnelly Streets and Seventh Avenue. Each congregation lists times for Bible School morning worship Sunday school and midweek meetings with pastors named including Rev David Coffield H Mauriece Felton Robert R Reed Charles A Carrier and Elder H P Kelly.
The First Church of Christ Scientist at Lemon and Grove offers Sunday services and Sunday School at 11 a.m. The Faith Lutheran Church MO Synod hosts services at 8:30 a.m. and Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. Rev. Phillip Schlessmann leads.
Sunday service at Tangerine Community Church at 11 00 am led by Rev Louis Johnston.
The text notes Sabal palm as Florida’s state tree and describes its symbolic fronds counting months and years. It mentions that a new shoot appears monthly and twelve fronds signify a completed year.
Mrs Theodore Schneider chairs the Mount Dora committee making dressings for the Lake County unit of the American Cancer Society. County chairman Mrs Don Conkling of Eustis says dressings are available free to those caring for cancer patients and urges those in need to contact the local chairman. The program expands to meet a tremendous demand beyond the immediate area.
Alethae of Dijon France spoke at Mount Dora Rotary about student exchanges under the Rotary International program. The Stetson psychology student, funded by the Dijon and DeLand clubs, argued that 1000 exchanges strengthen international understanding more than diplomacy.
Mrs Cox will serve as lay consultant for a committee of school principals teachers and county office attachees promoting a 4300000 bond issue for new school buildings County Supt Vaughn said He noted she will coordinate the promotion program and present lay viewpoints No date set for voter registration or the election awaiting approval from fiscal agents and the state educational office
City Council reversed a ban on a new residence for Col. John Bethell on the Dora Crowell lot on Thirday and granted permission after planning a 20 foot wide 10 foot side clearance. The vote followed arguments that remodeling was less suitable than a new house meeting code and zoning limits.
City plans a near term demonstration of a leaf suction machine that rakes, ingests and masticates leaves and small branches along curbs. Councilman Bill Prinz says the device should arrive today or by week’s end with a $3,800 budget. The machine grinds collected leaves into mulch and may be sold for garden use.
Mrs. S. F. Rafferty advertised a new duplex at Donnelly and 10th Ave for rent in the Topic. She paid for seven issues in advance, but the first issue filled the vacancies and a second inquiry followed before the week ended. The unused six insertions were refunded, showing effective advertising.
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