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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1965
Page
4
Mount Dora Topic is issued in Mount Dora Florida each Thursday by the Mount Dora Publishing Company. It was entered as second class matter on April 7 1916 at the Mount Dora Florida post office under the 1879 act.
A Corner Cupboard column notes Orlando Winter Park Maitland residents may face higher costs from city services and water rates as suburbanites organize against non annexation. Fred Fenwick leads a neighborhood group amid speculation of a legal ruling affecting county residents’ access to municipal utilities and facilities.
The second part of the new social security medical care plan requires enrollment for those 65 and older. The Supplemental Plan costs 3 dollars monthly with a government match, and enrollment runs Sept 1, 1965 to March 31, 1966. It covers doctors services, surgical supplies, X rays, ambulance, home health visits, and diagnostic tests with an 80 percent after a $50 deductible. Payments begin July 1, 1966.
After breakfast chores a fast nutritious lunch idea uses Post puffed corn flakes with toasted corn waste preserved for extra crispness. Top with fruit halves or apple slices and let kids design cartoon faces using raisins peanuts chocolate chips and other mix ins for appealing lunch fare.
Florida hunters will have a two phase migratory waterfowl season for 1965 66 with phase one from Nov 24 to Dec 6 and phase two from Dec 18 to Jan 9 The daily bag limits vary by species and region including four ducks two wood ducks two mallards two canvasbacks ten coots and two geese and a twenty possession limit A split season allows special areas and Wednesday Saturday Sunday hunting in Leon County plus a trip to maximize late dates as explained by W B Copeland chairman of the Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
The Social Security Administration district office cautions that con artists pose as SSA reps to dupe elderly residents. Victims are lured with false Medicare discount offers, then money is paid and the fraudster vanishes. Confirm identity with official ID before any disclosure or purchase.
The article explains the historical use of placebos from Latin origins and describes how doctors once used treatments like bloodletting to please patients. It argues that modern medicine relies on scientific knowledge across physiology and microbiology, with physicians now speaking frankly and prioritizing truth over placebo effects.
Florida Central Academy of Sorrento announces three staff promotions. Robert Soukup becomes Assistant to the President while continuing as director of the Estes Park Colorado Summer School. Joseph Allen is named Dean of Students after two years at the academy. Remignus Walter becomes Director of Admissions after six years on the faculty.
Lake County School Board approved preliminary plans for an administration building at Lake Sumter Junior College. Architect K Whitney Dalzell of Clearwater prepared the plans, costing 120000 to 130000 dollars, to be built at the Silver Lake campus near U S 441. The 8500 square foot buff brick structure will house admin offices, secretarial staff, counselors, an evening division director, a public information officer and space for 16 faculty offices with future expansion. It will include room for IBM record keeping equipment and is one of three major biennium projects alongside a student center and a physical education plant.
The Lake County Duplicate Bridge Club held a five-table Howell movement at the Umatilla Community Building. Winners were: Mrs J S Allen and Mrs H D Hufford first, Mr and Mrs E A Nimnicht second, Mrs Barnard McCabe and Memory Martin third, Mrs Wesley Elston and Mrs C J Sparks fourth.
Leonard Riker age 75 of Mount Dora former Saranac Lake New York died Tuesday. He was a World War I veteran, member of the Mount Dora Shuffleboard Club and the American Legion. Survived by wife Margaret. Funeral arrangements handled by Rehbaum Funeral Home Mount Dora.
Adults who have not completed high school may enroll in evening classes offered at 14 county schools this week and next. Bethea, director of adult education, says courses let students finish at their own pace with a $2 per semester registration. Schools include Mount Dora High Tavares High Eustis High and Milner Rosenwald Academy. Contact Bethea at the Board of Public Instruction in Tavares for details.
Dr. Arwid O. Kumin-Kumins joins the Lake Sumter Junior College mathematics department. He previously served as an assistant professor at Rollins College since 1963 and taught at Pensacola Junior College.
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