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Where Everything Grows Slogan War Between Shafter Wasco
A humorous chronicling of a rivalry between Shafter and Wasco over the community slogan Where Everything Grows. Wasco claims the phrase and copyrights it, while Shafter plans a rival brochure and jokes about inflated town populations and local boastful marketing. A light aside covers a talent-show gas prize at Mettler's Service Station.
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Shafter
Wasco
Chamber of Commerce
Nossir
Mettler
Associated Service
Howell
Firestone Service