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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1963
Page
4
Mount Dora Topic is a weekly Mount Dora Florida newspaper published every Thursday by the Mount Dora Publishing Company. It operates as a second class matter, entered April 7, 1916, at the Mount Dora post office under the 1879 act.
The piece links a stimulated economy to business confidence and notes rising legal costs deter investment. It cites the Kennedy tax reform debate, including proposed limits on itemized deductions and shifts in relief to lower incomes, warning of political and economic roadblocks to a sound climate.
Editor Nick B Williams of the Los Angeles Times argues the bill to provide government funded medical services to all social security recipients risks a move toward socialism. He warns government control could extend to other professions, framing the issue as a battle over individual freedom for doctors and patients alike.
Florida cattlemen faced multi‑million losses from screw worm maggots until USDA entomologists Dr. Raymond C. Bushland and Edward F. Knipling proposed sterilizing male flies. They bred millions of irradiated insects in Orlando and released them to suppress wild populations, a pioneering pest control campaign.
Spessard Holland a Polk County citrus grower will speak at the 20th annual Florida Fruit and Vegetable Association convention in Miami Beach this fall. Other participants include Rep A S Syd Herlong Jr Florida Secretary of State Tom Adams and Doyle Conner. Holland a Senate Agriculture Committee member helped create the Florida Citrus Commission in 1935 and will stress Florida agriculture's national and world role.
Entomologists’ research and effort ended the screwworm threat in Florida. The July True magazine issue features a detailed article on the program and plans to expand the campaign to all infested areas to eliminate the pest.
The Florida World’s Fair Authority seriously weighs building a Florida Fishing Center on Meadow Lake at the Florida site in the New York World’s Fair. No law protects unless obeyed.
A reader column denounces expanding federal ownership of electric power as wasteful and tax funded, arguing it creates a tax-destroying monopoly and erodes individual freedoms. It cites Canton Independent Sentinel remarks honoring military service and warns against military glory amid peacetime neglect.
The article notes detergents cause water pollution as foaming agents persist in sewage systems. It covers biodegradable soft detergents, regulatory hopes, and a California foam recycle concept. It also reports a Texas farmer winning a tax depletion case for deep well water used in irrigation and discusses agribusiness shifting economic and political power away from farmers toward industry.
Superintendent Thomas D. Bailey announced two University of Florida faculty appointments to the Florida Council for Economic Education. Economics Chairman Clement Donovan joined the Council’s Board of Directors, while Dr. James W. Crews, assistant professor of business education, was named associate director.
University of Florida veterinary scientists receive a 13750 grant from the Atomic Energy Commission to study irradiation methods using X ray and cobalt sixty. The project aims to weaken Anaplasma marginale organisms to develop a vaccine against cattle anaplasmosis, reducing losses from the parasite carried by pests. Dr. J R Beckenbach notes irradiation could prevent carrier states in vaccinated cattle.
A compact juxtaposition of Thoreau and Byrd debating invention and progress. Thoreau questions measuring human capacity by precedent while Byrd warns that new knowledge must avoid ushering a dark age.
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