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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1948
Page
6
A flotilla pulls a body from the lake after a bridge incident. Witnesses describe a tense scene as police search boats and grappling lines. A decoy is displayed in a gunny sack, while locals debate whether the jumper acted alone or was pushed. Dr. Warren is missing and under police inquiry.
A narrator describes spotting Old Doc Warren at a lakeside scene where a suspected death is discussed. Volunteers haul a log mistaken for the body while townsfolk doubt the suicide. At Phil Er Up a gas attendant outlines events as Doc and a companion interact, with mislaid hats and windy chaos.
The Pittsburgh City Council votes to abandon the Stephen Foster Memorial Home rather than spend 10 000 to rehabilitate it. The 14 room brick mansion, once considered the authentic birthplace site, will be deeded back to heirs of James H. Park.
Officials urge motorists to heed a nationwide highway safety plea noting one of every three child deaths stems from traffic crashes. Children ages 5 to 14 account for a third of accidental deaths. drivers are told to watch for kids, watch bicycles, slow in school zones, and assume drivers must think for them.
A single seed package sent by a missionary to an immigrant lespedera farmer led to a crop now valued at over 200 million dollars annually. Dr. Ralph’s agriculture station planted the crop near Washington, expanding to state farms and East Central states. The Korean lespedera supports seed, hay, and pasture value totaling about 200 million dollars, with widespread use on low fertility land.
The common Norway or brown rat is described as the most destructive animal, destroying about 4 percent of U S grain and cereal crops annually. Rats carry or spread bubonic plague typhus and other diseases. farms are seldom rat free. Effective control requires a permanent year round program including cleaning, rat proofing, removing food sources, poisoning and trapping. Rat populations drop only with sustained measures, not short term efforts.
Increased efficiency enters the dairy industry with wider use of milking rooms and milk houses. Cornell University figures show adjacent milk houses and milking rooms save miles of walking annually and permit same roof construction for coordinated feeding, care, milking, and milk handling.
To offset high meat prices, home production of rabbits and chickens can be carried on economically, making the family partly independent of commercial sources. Rabbits and chickens mature quickly and use feed efficiently, lowering feed cost per pound of weight gain.
New York supreme court Justice Henry Clay Greenberg ruled that Antoinette, a four year old child born via artificial insemination, is legitimate. He granted visitation rights to the estranged husband Antoine Straad despite custody arrangements favoring Julie Straad.
The atomic energy commission posted a Danger Keep Out notice covering 39 000 square miles of the Pacific Ocean around Eniwetok atoll where tests of military weapons will be conducted. Hazards will exist in a rectangle about 173 miles by 226 miles and the danger remains through 1948.
An Australian flying boat carrying 29 passengers and a crew of 6 landed in Sydney after a 380 mile crossing of the Tasman Sea with one engine out. Among the passengers was Episcopal Bishop G Ashton Oldham of Albany New York and his wife.
A band of thieves used gas to put passengers to sleep aboard the Bucharest to Iasi train. Upon arrival at Iasi station, passengers discovered their luggage missing and the robbery uncovered, per the newspaper Natiunea.
The copy touts Soretone Liniment as fast relief for fatigue and muscle soreness with warming rubefa tents that improve surface blood supply. It claims unique class status and notes a one dollar economy size with refund offer. Also promotes use for Athlete's Foot and claims to kill all types of common fungi on contact.
The article cites 1947 export estimates of 392 million bushels of wheat 88 million bushels of corn and 328 million pounds of meat products. Hoban notes the farm market was the biggest sales opportunity and will grow in 1948. He adds rubber-tired tractors save 24 working days and 675 gallons of gasoline yearly per 150 acres.
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