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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1949
Page
1
City Council weighing a cheaper sewer plan under 100000 dollars to upgrade Lake Dora drainage. The proposal includes constructing a disposal plant, linking existing sewers, and downtown expansion with future wider-area extensions. A citizen committee may seek broader opinion before final approval.
Mrs Gladys Crane, the Scout executive, calls a meeting at 815 McDonald St to seek volunteers for Mount Dora Girl Scouts. She notes trained leadership not required, with roles in home making, child care, and civic education. An interested working woman has already pledged Mondays. The discussion includes the Atlantic blue crab carrying up to 1 750 000 eggs per cycle.
Mount Dora High students launch a push to form a school wide Student Council. Editor Herbert Trenham urges adoption through home room teachers and administration for constructive discussion of school problems and sponsored projects. The Junior class backs the plan and has elected Danny Patton as class representative to the future council.
Mount Dora's School Boy Safety Patrol starts its second year guarding school entrances to prevent a repeat of last year's Clayton street accident where Benny Muecke, a first grader, was struck by a truck. Police Chief Richard Shipes, Principal W A Vincent, and Scout Leaders Walter J Patton and Robert Goodman reorganized the patrol at the school opening. Harold Gregg was elected captain with Frank Hall and Charles Moorhead as lieutenants under Kiwanis sponsorship.
The Groveland story shifts from crime to renewal as the town eyes a bright agricultural future. Reporter notes farms expanding with cucumbers peppers tomatoes and beans, new land for watermelons citrus groves and cotton experiments, while locals like Julian Rowe highlight community resilience and progress.
Charles R. Short of Clermont, inventor of the universal V-Belt and the decordicator for ramie, pursues ramie as a future textile hope in Florida. The piece cites his Belle Glade trip, U S Sugar Corp ties, and labor shifts as Florida pivots from cane to citrus while seasonal workers move among Southern states.
Dr C R Short explored crops for summer and winter work as fruits and vegetables rush north. Ramie emerged as viable in Florida with harvest from April to September, enabling a shift from sugar cane. Labor costs and availability posed a challenge, as Chinese workers earned 50 cents weekly while Florida farm labor starts at 60 cents per hour.
An editorial note mocks Fred Allen as Lake County prepares for television coverage. Films will be shot around Mount Dora showing lawn bowling and the Caster’s club on Lake Dora and aired on a Cincinnati station this fall. The piece cites Allen’s envy and urges him to learn of the televised plans.
In Montreal, a Star column notes a smoky joke about a resilient politician. The humor suggests that while he could survive typhoid pneumonia meningitis and yellow fever, a single lockjaw would surely burst him.
The first unit of a Jacksonville to Tampa through highway will rise in Lake county as a three lane steel concrete bridge over Big and Little Lake Harris. Contracts valued around 1,000,000 will be let Oct 4 in Ocala. The span links Howey-in-the-Hills to the new state road and connects with highways 27 and the Dora canal bridge.
A Sunday lightning bolt hit the First National Bank cornice on Fifth Ave blowing bricks onto the sidewalk. Eight year olds Dell Hill and Donnie Dake fled the ledge as debris fell, with two women nearby treated for shock. Minor exterior damage noted. interior remained unharmed.
Dorans in the downtown area recall a lightning strike on the First National Bank building while two 8 year old boys Dell Hill and Donnie Dake perched on the bank window recalling dashing for the Princess theatre ahead of the brick collapse. The incident ties together speed of the strike and the boys as witnesses to the near deadly moment.
A New York paper allegedly ran a sensational horror story about a mob chase from Tavares to Orlando during a Florida trial. The piece claimed reporters and lawyers were in peril with a NAACP counsel present, but Mount Dora received no mention in the spread. The report centered on a driver and a reporter surviving a deadly chase.
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