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...voters the economic picture is far from dismal. Said House Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas: "The recession hasn't hit this part of the country yet." Reported Indiana Republican William G. Bray: "Recession talk is not as prevalent as I thought." Even in Florida, hard hit by a citrus freeze and a bad tourist season, Democratic Senator George Smathers was "most surprised" at the lack of interest in the recession. California's Republican Congressman Craig Hosmer said: "The people in my district [Long Beach] are mostly afraid of Congress. They think Congress is acting hysterical...
...noted at the Dodgers' camp at Vero Beach. Fla., was "the impounding" by club officials of Manhattan newspapers that carried stories critical of the Dodgers, "lest the Los Angeles contingent be contaminated." Other "small reprisals": the Dodgers' announcement that their plane would take only California sportswriters to citrus-circuit exhibition games; the "eviction" of New York newsmen from sleeping quarters at Dodgertown; timing of press releases, which in the case of a spring-training automobile accident involving Duke Snider and two teammates were held up to favor Western dailies' later deadlines. The Associated Press was so miffed...
...CITRUS PRICES, a big factor in January's .7% jump in living costs, will stay high because growers will need at least two years to make up for weather-ruined crop. Frozen juice prices will rise 15% to 20% in next two months; orange prices will remain about 25% above 1957 level...
Smoke for Heat. Many fought back at the cold. Around the Lake Okeechobee area, vegetable growers tried desperately to warm the land by raising the level of water in the canals, or plowing soil loosely over young tomato plants for insulation. Citrus growers, their groves all but stripped of fruit and leaves, lit smudge pots, and when these gave out, blackened the sky by burning old auto tires. Preliminary estimates of the citrus-crop loss, on the low side, showed that the expected 142,500,000-box yield of oranges, grapefruit and tangerines has been cut back...
WORST FLORIDA WINTER in this century has taken $55 million bite out of state's citrus, vegetable and flower production. Heavy snow wiped out half of crop in Dade County (Miami), but growers hope to recoup by pushing up prices...