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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1938
Page
2
A Florida farmers note highlights 8454 fertilizer brands with 577 varieties from one company and 51 special mixes. Growers face choice fatigue as agricultural suppliers offer complex options. Hillsborough County home demonstration women reuse mango seeds as decorative tassels for window shades.
A special committee to survey Florida fruit fly losses will meet in Washington at the call of Secretary of Agriculture Walace. Congress appropriated $10,000 for the survey to be conducted by James W. Morton of Athens Georgia Arthur Porcher of Cocoa Florida Dr J G Crump of Winter Haven Ben H Thibodeaux economist and Bernard Conner assistant business manager of the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine FNS.
The State Dairy Association will meet in Lake City on July 12 and 13 and its members will join general farmers in Gainesville on July 14 for a dairy agronomy field day at the College of Agriculture.
The Lake County Board of Public Schools approved the budget for the coming year and teacher appointments. Salaries stay level though experience raises apply. contracts run nine months with ten monthly payments starting October. A new policy requires elementary teachers to hold at least a two year college diploma and high school teachers a four year degree. Transportation rules tighten with a bus stop signal and driver duties for student safety.
The corner stone of Montverde public school auditorium will be laid at a public ceremony at 2 30 Saturday afternoon July 9. R W Harper Jr will chair District 34 board of trustees and Mayor R W McQuaig will speak. Subscribe for the Topic.
The Supreme Court will be asked to review Judge Love’s injunction rulings on ad valorem taxes in Atlantic Coast Line Railroad cases. The decision outlines tax collection limits, budget brackets, and a 95 percent collection expectation, with emphasis on timely protests at budget hearings and before bond issues.
Governor Fred P. Cone announced there will be no rise in the state tax on real estate, kept at three and five-eights mills. The tax supports the state school fund, Livestock Sanitary Board, Prison fund, free text book fund, and pension fund, with county millages added for local operations. Last year the tax yield was near one million dollars.
M J Bouterse Jr son of famed radio evangelists will address Montverde Community Church on Sunday July 10 at 1055 a m The service merges with Montverde Union Sunday School and the public is invited He is preparing for the ministry and is in Florida during vacation after preaching June 19 to a pleased pulpit supply committee.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce will present colored motion pictures free to the public in the Lake County court room at the courthouse in Tavares at 8 o clock Friday evening July 8. Col C E Lester, president, announced the event and notes a board meeting at 7:30 prior to the showing. The city of Miami has purchased 1,500 acres of Biscayne Bay bottom land from the state for 10 000 as the first step in harbor development.
By final decree entered July 6 1988 Judge in Lake County Florida will sell at the courthouse in Tavares the property in Mount Dora described as blocks 6 11 and 14 Sadler Subdivision with a 271 25 debt plus costs. Special Master W M Kennedy will conduct the sale on August 1 1938 to the highest bidder for cash.
Hortense L. Davis as guardian seeks court permission on July 29 1938 to sell a 3 4 interest in Lot 5 Wildwood Mount Dora Block 240 Section 29 Township 19 South Range 27 East Lake County Florida to fund guardianship for Gerald Martin Davis Frances Helen Davis and Bess Barney Davis. The sale request will be heard before County Judge A B S Herlong Jr at the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares Florida.
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