European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To t � Iff. I. _ rom put fee 1j water dotted with hammocks of cabbage arms and Cypress. They stretch Over a million acres South of Lake Okeechobee spewing out into the Gulf in a final gasp of Green mangrove. On the tentacled roots of the mangrove the sea deposits oysters and seaweed and at Low tide you can Harvest oysters the Way you would Pic cherries or apples in 1.947 the Everglades became a National Park third largest in the United states Central Florida is easily the most Beautiful part of the state and Orlando is its Hub. Here is the Lake country the Hill country and the beginning of the Moss Laden live Oak country three features that South Florida lacks. The soil is red and Rich with Iron compared with the White Sandy Loam and Black muck of South Florida. The highest Point in the state is Little More than a big Hill called Iron Mountain 325 feel above sea level near Lake Wales on the Crest of it. In a Forest of slash Pine. Edward Bok the famous editor of the ladies Home journal built his famous singing Tower a 205-foot Campanile con Taining perhaps the finest set of  America. Florida s cattle country through the heart of the town of Kissimmee South to., Bee and East to the coastal counties. The Best the Brahman imported front 50 years ago a relatively new Central Florida is Florida bred Fec Les von Derby in 1956, the number of around foals in Marion count bed to 43, Many of them tithe Kentucky Bluegrass. North Florida is the old Are the plantations and colonial an All but forgotten age. Tuner rises in Georgia s Oke Fenland winds slowly through Pine studded forests and  until it empties into the Gulf. W Tallahassee originally a Dian Village became the _ in 1824 because it was exactly Between Jacksonville and  More Ante Bellum Homes and Nolia Trees than any other c Florida s place names area coast ". A � " "  " Ife to vf1 a in \ f if v. Ba1 jur.,?-?- air i to set or r aft. I b a a left "tajftl1 1, Jug of fir j s�?.� of of i t Lafe James Deering s palatial Winter Home is now the Dade county Art i is a v 1 Sawi Iii a 1? Vij Ftp it ii ifretdollaropthetat1 provides-5 per cent of world uppity. La to of set w Tiu f -. F i a Sunshine Skyway on Tampa boy connects St. Petersburg to Bradenton the stars and stripes