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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
4
A compilation of Florida topics from baseball players in sunshine to civic virtues. Highlights include safety, civic progress, canal debates, local journalism praise, fashion tweaks, gladioli farming growth, and federal farm aid benefiting 25 000 farms with three million dollars spent in the past 18 months boosting cropland yields.
Florida offers a busy March calendar as sunshine and mild weather bring fairs festivals flower shows pageants horse shows sailboat races yacht races and outdoor sports across West and Central Florida. Big league baseball training also draws tourists.
The Dania region hosts the twelfth annual tomato day festival as Florida’s tomato crop grows into a principal vegetable industry. Residents earn livelihoods from growing packing and shipping while the state’s tomato production supports many growers and thousands of workers.
A Lake County letter praises Umatilla merchants for better meat quality and lower prices than Orlando stores. Frank A. French of Orlando Advertising Co. cites a Pensacola trip and remarks on 19 to 21 cent meat in Umatilla versus higher Orlando prices, urging Orlando retailers to match Umatilla’s value.
Those advancing Dr. Charles H. Herty's pine paper method stress the revenue from planting pine seedlings. The Herty Nursery near Albany, Georgia, now among the largest in the state, produced 13 million seedlings last year and expects a larger crop this year. Unproductive Florida lands could become profitable by pine cultivation, turning waste land into long term revenue.
A new $250,000 state farmers' market addition was dedicated at Plant City last week. The Plant City facility spans 27 acres and is touted as the largest of its kind in the United States. Since Florida's first market at Sanford, similar centers have risen statewide, boosting agriculture by providing a major outlet for farm products worth millions.
The National Safety Council report shows 32,000 traffic deaths vs 32,500 home accidents. Carelessness and lack of precautions caused the rise, urging vigilance against common household risks in daily life.
Florida taxpayers shift over two decades. The Florida Research Bureau notes real estate and personal property taxes produced only a small portion of 1938 state revenue while motorists bore the heaviest burden. In 1938 total state revenue reached 59 million dollars with 30 million from gasoline and automobiles. Business levies totaled 13.5 million, racing and alcoholic beverage revenue 4 million, and real estate, personal property, estates and intangibles combined 2.5 million.
Florida's canned citrus industry shows vast demand with over 1,000,000 cases of canned grapefruit and by products exported through Tampa to 31 foreign countries last year. England led the buyers with additional shipments to Borneo Federated Malay States and East Indies.
The Florida State Librarians annual convention will be held at Mount Plymouth Hotel from March 30 to April 1 with expected large attendance from across the state.
The Villa Dora Hotel hosts another dessert bridge party for about 60 guests with prizes in contract auction and Chinese checkers led by Mrs. Eardley Wilmot and others, plus a Saturday bingo with men and ladies prizes. A third house picnic at Juniper Springs drew 31 attendees after two canal boat trips and perfect weather. New arrivals Dr and Mrs James Cook and Mr and Mrs W L E Lewiston are welcomed.
The Mount Dora bowling group extends thanks to members and guests as the season continues with league matches and the annual picnic planned for next week. Speakers toast friendships formed this season and express appreciation for allies traveling north, noting the joy and fellowship shared on a pleasant journey.
B F Hawkins of Groveland and Mann Brown of Bay Lake sent the season’s first cucumbers from Bay Lake on February 28. Four bushel tubs fetched about 45 dollars, with one tub selling for 25 dollars at Bushnell auctions. Growers expect about 750 acres in Lake and Sumter counties and a crop value near a quarter of a million dollars as cold weather recedes.
Karl Lehmann, secretary of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce, loaned to the Florida Highway Council for March, flies to the East Coast for meetings. In Jacksonville he speaks at the American Legion Luncheon Club, then at 2 p.m. hosts a highway conference at the Mayflower Hotel led by E Screven Bond. At 7:30 p.m. he addresses the Lions Club in Macelony Florida.
A slightly used two cylinder outboard motor is offered for sale by Elmer R. Eckis of Sylvan Shores. The note lists multiple upcoming talks by Secretary Lehmann across Florida, detailing meetings with Rotary, Kiwanis, and Junior Chamber of Commerce groups from Vero Beach to West Palm Beach, Lake Wales, and the west coast. He will present the Florida Highway Survey findings from the Federal Bureau of Public Roads and the State Road Department.
Reader's Digest abridgment of Address Unknown praised as a must read. Public Library copy circulated once and soon available for patrons. Two vases donated to the library will be filled with home garden flowers or vines to honor the piece.
The Lake County News issue mails to nearly 3000 readers including prospective visitors and settlers. The publication, printed at the Mount Dora Topic press, features Barnarr McFadden's article Why I Came to Florida and tracks county developments.
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