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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1953
Page
6
Fred Borg of Rainbow Ranch takes a visitor from Mount Dora on a ranch tour with 20 resident boys from disrupted homes. The guest from Lake County offers a $500 gift for the boys as a surprise. Col. and Mrs. Braden recall Indiana farm anecdotes and a cheerful baby outcry scene.
Walter A. Patterson, a Lake County native born in Eustis, has returned home after 24 years in the Army. He settled in Astatula near Lake, following service in transportation and motor operations in Africa, Italy, Germany, and Austria during World War II.
The piece follows the Langthorn family touring Cape Town and Africa. They describe Dakar’s round balloon-roof homes, Africa’s diverse peoples and school segregation, and view wildlife from Johannesburg to Durban and the Hluhluwe reserve. They cite total travel cost about 5600 dollars.
A week of tropical skies and dramatic sunsets. Cloudbanks sweep in from two horizons as storms threaten then fade, leaving gold and purple skies over Mount Dora. Dry spells drift in with gentle tropical showers and cooler afternoons, punctuated by vivid sunsets over Lake Dora.
Stephen Cornett the new Central Florida Boy Scout executive will start Nov 1 and hopes to make Mount Dora his home. He was introduced to the Kiwanis by M O Williams. He departs this week for Boy Scout training school in New Jersey until Oct 29. A Kentucky native, he and Mrs Cornett moved to Central Florida from Atlanta.
From six dollars a day to fifteen, they averaged ten dollars daily and spent about eight thousand dollars for their big trip. Now they enjoy life on Lake Gertrude near Mount Dora with Langthorn turning 86 in October and both maintaining a practice putting green beside their home.
Members of Mount Dora's IceHouse theatre host the Central Florida Federation of Live Theatres at Gilbert Park for an all day outing. The IceHouse Players provide a noon picnic luncheon after a morning recreation period, then hold a business meeting in the afternoon. renovations at the theatre continue ahead of a November opening.
A quotation attributed to LordBrougham states that education makes a people easy to lead yet hard to drive, easy to govern but impossible to enslave, reflecting a belief about the power of learning to shape society.
A Lake County patient won a $50 war bond for suggesting the winning name The Sunshine News for Florida TB sanatorium patients' paper. The monthly Tallahassee publication, edited by patients from four TB hospitals, chronicles anti tuberculosis efforts and hospital care progress.
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