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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1940
Page
2
The article highlights Steen Bock and others funding Vitamin D research through royalties from dairies and medical products. Funds support young scientists nationwide, further study, and disease cures, reflecting a life of service over profit despite rising anti semitic sentiment.
Lake County Fair Association announces five days of events from January 15 to 20 with Officials' Day on January 15 featuring Rhodes and 7:30 PM address. January 16 is Children's Day with free admission for white schoolchildren until 6 PM. January 17 is Tourist and Civic Clubs Night with civic clubs hosting visitors. January 19 highlights 4H Club Day with 600 members. January 20 marks Everybody's Day concluding with 6th Annual Fair and 18th Annual Poultry Show. Endy Brothers Inc. provide midway shows. Kay Brothers perform as headlining free act. Free orange juice served six hours daily, 8 PM to 10 PM.
The Rotarian feature tells how Harry Steenbock of the University of Wisconsin found sunlight’s UV rays boost bone vitamin D and how his method concentrates it in foods. He patented the process but refused to sell out for money, choosing to share its benefits with the world.
Florida newspapers feature Lake County figures and projects. Stanley Nelson of Eustis photographed feeding a bass for the Florida Times-Union. A Times-Union/photo team will visit Lake County in January for more pictures. Billy Lorenz Mohawk is noted as the longest planting slash pine seedlings youth in Florida, ordering 1200 seedlings as part of 7,000,000 seedings shipment. J W Bell of Lake Monroe hires 300 workers to grow 100,000,000 truck plants near Sorrento. The Miami Herald profile “Men Who Make Florida” spotlights Karl Lehmann, secretary of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce.
Asher Frank director of the Florida Safety Council reports from a state traffic survey that between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. twelve cars per minute enter Florida totaling 5760 cars in eight hours. Each car carries about three passengers averaging 17 290 visitors every eight hours. The 7500 miles of state maintained roads would host nearly a million cars in a 90 day period and 1.5 million visitors, creating highway congestion of 133 cars per mile. Frank warns drivers and pedestrians to exercise caution during peak travel.
Al P Burgert of Tampa chairs the State Board of Photographic Examiners warns against unlicensed itinerant photographers during tourist season. The law requires licensing and asks the public to demand licenses before entry and report infractions to W L Coursen in Daytona Beach.
Literature from Lake County has been sent to the Automobile Club of New York offices in New York, Bronx, Brooklyn, Lynbrook, Middletown, Jamaica, Tompkinsville, Bayshore and New Rochelle for distribution to interested readers.
Ten states and the District of Columbia sent requests for information to the Lake County Chamber of Commerce last Tuesday morning as the county promotes itself in sports publications. Inquiries from Michigan Indiana West Virginia Illinois Wisconsin Ohio Iowa Kansas Tennessee and DC included a University of Michigan note with a Christmas greeting seeking fishing information. The chamber promptly sent updated literature highlighting Lake County attractions and extended a cordial invitation to visit and enjoy local recreation.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce released a folder titled Bass Wishing in Lake County detailing local fishing sports, camps, and resorts. It advertises Lake County fishing resources in Field & Stream and Outdoor Life and offers a new booklet A Home on a Florida Lake from its Tavares office.
Mayor Henry M. Lockwood of Charleston S C urges support for the nationwide celebration of the President's birthday to fund the Fight Infantile Paralysis campaign. He credits the National Foundation with reducing the impact of last summer's epidemic and notes 175 victims are now under care with hope for recovery. He calls for united effort before communities are struck by the disease.
Paul Jones of Miami buys forty acres at Montverde including five acres of grove from Philip Peters. He plans to develop the land and build a home. Fred White rebuilds and remodels the Ottis McQuaig property into a four apartment building. Mrs. Jack Morrison remodels downtown Montverde property.
The second annual meeting of Central Florida's $350000 Rural Electrification project will be held at Dade Memorial Park Bushnell at 10 am Tuesday January 9. A free luncheon is offered to all members and a small charge for nonmembers.
Florida author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Pulitzer Prize winner for The Yearling, purchased a house on Crescent Beach near St. Pa. in Florida. The purchase highlights her continued ties to the coast and rural storytelling heritage.
W. J. Rogers, chairman of the Southwestern Passenger Association, thanks the Lake County Chamber of Commerce for hospitality shown to railway passenger agents. He notes the orange juice reception and praises Lake County’s lakes and orange groves as part of a promotional educational tour through Florida.
Boston based Gillette Razor Company president Geshe caught a fifteen pound large mouth black bass at Montverde this week. President Graham and his family are spending two weeks at Tom Fishing Camp on Lake Apoglsan enjoying fishing in that section of Lake County.
U S engineers deploy a machine devised by a Floridian to clear salt water hyacinth from lakes and streams at about 30 dollars per acre, improving water flow and navigation.
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