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...Medfly" is no laughing matter. Its last visit in 1929 cost millions. It was eradicated in 18 months, but only after 75% of Florida's citrus crop had been destroyed. This year's crop is practically all harvested, but if the fly hangs around until next year, it will get a crack at a crop worth half a billion...
...Orlo L. Prior of Miami, who found a maggoty grapefruit in his backyard. Not until April 22 was the discovery publicly announced, and by then the fly had made considerable progress. It has now moved northward into Palm Beach County, and has been reported from Alcoma, in the citrus belt...
...Spain. The cold wave which had paralyzed southern Europe swept down over the Pyrenees and deposited a blanket of frost which chilled to the bone millions of lightly dressed Spaniards living in unheated homes and, far worse, ruined the crops on hundreds of thousands of olive, almond and citrus trees. Hardest hit was Valencia, where the thermometer registered an all-time low of 16°, and some 400,000 tons of oranges were frozen into balls of ice as they hung on the trees. Surveying the damage last week, Spanish syndicates estimated a loss of $50 million in citrus exports...
Died in Committee. In Inverness, Fla., the Citrus County Chronicle carried a notice: "An announcement by J. Wallace Cooper: I said I would be a candidate for council. My wife said I wouldn't be. So ends my thoughts on seeking a place on the city council...
...notch, so U.S. businessmen were no longer content with existing facilities. In their steady drive to produce more, they laid out $28 billion for new plants and equipment in 1955, 5% more than 1954. California's economy grew with gold-rush speed. In the San Fernando Valley a citrus farmer was tempted to take $3,500 an acre from a housing developer for his 40 acres, but an expert advised him to wait. A few weeks later, the farmer was back with a mile-wide grin. Said he: "I just wanted you to know that I've sold...