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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1967
Page
3
The article notes color TV dealers sold 4,675,861 sets last year, up from the previous year, while black and white sales fell by 13.4 percent. It also mentions a new minimum wage of 1.40 dollars per hour for inter-state employment, reflecting on past wage laws and economic fears.
The 500-bed Sunland Hospital in Tallahassee opens March 1 marking Florida’s 50th anniversary of fighting mental retardation. It adds needed beds for non ambulatory and profoundly disabled residents and eases travel for families in Pensacola and Jacksonville.
The piece notes world phone usage topping 200 million with the US home to 93.7 million calls, Japan at 14 million and Canadians leading per person at 635.6 calls annually. It cites inflation in Indonesia and Chile, then a humorous anecdote about a woman in Little Neck and Elvis Presley’s Rolls Royce purchase.
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce and the Lawn Bowling Club co sponsored an Invitational tournament at local rinks on Wednesday February 8. Opening ceremonies featured Mount Dora Mayor Jesse D Will mott and Chamber president Sam. Twenty eight teams of three competed in three 10 end games with prizes for game winners runners up and top game high scores.
Florida Welcome Stations logged 76 409 visitors in November 1966 at the border points with 852 heading to Lake County. Leesburg accounted for 306 visitors while Mount Dora 151 Tavares 144 Clermont 32 Groveland 19 and Unadilla 17 served other communities.
The Mount Dora Public Library receives numerous new fiction and nonfiction titles funded by contributions from the Mount Dora Women's Club. The list includes works by Ann Fairbairn, Howard Arnold, Ben Haas, Vladimir Nabokov, John Steinbeck, Kip Wagner, Nan, and many others across genres from mystery to memoirs and reference.
Jeannie Wilson and John Townsend were elected to the Lake Sumter Junior College Student Government Association. Dr. Raymond E. Schultz of Florida State University spoke on campus as treasurer of the Florida Association of Public Junior Colleges. Major league star Johnny Mize and singer Lanny Ross visited the college while two faculty members attended a conference in Clearwater.
Florida personal income grew 101 percent from mid-1956 to mid-1966 while federal income taxes on that income rose 110 percent. In the last year Florida collected 1.544 billion dollars in individual income taxes, representing 74 percent of the state total.
Boaters may have their vessels inspected for Coast Guard safety at no charge. The effort aims to promote safer boating by issuing a 1967 decal to boats that meet the requirements and by advising others on how to qualify after a followup examination.
The article notes that Florida now accounts for 29 percent of the total federal internal revenue collected in the state, down from 71 percent ten years earlier. It reports Florida’s federal internal revenue last year at 2,076,660,000 dollars, including gift, inheritance, excise, corporate, and individual taxes. Personal income of Floridians from all sources reached 14 billion in 1965, up from 6.9 billion in 1956.
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