Supervisors Fund Shafter Experimental Farm and Hear Pro County Code
The Kern County Board of Supervisors approved a special counsel appointment for the Grand Jury at Shafter and arranged funding, with Robert Walch set at 150 per day plus 15 per hour for investigations. They also reopened hearings on the pro county building code and adjusted the April 11 session to 7 p.m. to improve attendance. Additional actions included relief committee briefings, a forest service leasing request for Kern River land, road relocation surveys, and water level petitions for dams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Walch
Hanford
Walch and Griswold
Kern County
Grand Judy
Board of Supervisors
Bakersfield
Walch
Fred Howser
Norbert Baumgarten
Leo Rapp
Shafter
County General Fund
Ardis Walker
C. W. Harty
A. W. Noon
Relief Committee
State Supervisor’s Association
Los Angeles
Kern County Board of Supervisors
U. S. Forest Service
Kern River
B. O. Webber
Walker
U. S. Corps of Engineers
Entries For Kern County Art Contest Due By Midnight
Last call for amateur artists to submit entry forms for the Kern County Art Competition. Postmark deadline is midnight tonight April 1. Preliminary contests will be held countywide from April 7 to 25 with locations announced to entrants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
County Recreation and Cultural Commission
A. W. Eckman
Shafter
F. E. Robertson
McFarland
la Verne Swift
Wasco
Lester Frick
Arvin
Fanny Estes
Tehachapi
Wilbur Reynolds
Mojave
Ben Bolt
East Bakersfield
Paralee “Kohlstedt
Bakersfield
Tess Norris
Buttonwillow
Shafter Committee
Governor Declares April Cancer Control Month in California
Governor Earl Warren proclaimed April as Cancer Control Month urging Californians to support the American Cancer Society education and fundraising drive. He noted rising cancer fatalities but optimism over research funding and a state goal of 1,050,253 dollars toward a nationwide 14.5 million target for research education and service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Warren
Canine Rabies Clinic Planned for Shafter Area
Dog owners in Shafter urged to vaccinate and tag pets during a county rabies control clinic on Saturday April 2 from 9 a.m. to 12 30 p.m. at the Shafter County Fire Department. Fees are 1 50 for male and spayed dogs and 2 00 for females. Untagged dogs may be impounded as strays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
William C. Buss
Shafter County
Preliminary con test planned in Shafter
The county art committee will decide next week whether to stage a preliminary con test in Shafter. Entry blanks for participants are available at the Shafter Branch Library, all local schools, Stringham's Drug Store, and the Shafter Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Stringham’s Drug Store
Shafter Press
Six Radio Relay Stations To Be Erected Between LA and SF
Contracts awarded for six reinforced concrete radio relay stations to span the Los Angeles San Francisco route. Sites include Mt Diablo and several peaks in the San Joaquin Valley with a fall completion target by early fall and service by year end or early 1950. Larsen Company and Sjoberg Son awarded valley and Mt Diablo contracts respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Telephone Company
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Ray Dempsey
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Montgomery Street
Mt. Diablo
San Joaquin Valley
Tehachapis
Grand Avenue
Mt. Oso
Panache Peak
Black Mountain
San Joaquin Ridge
Pyramid Hills
Temblor Range
Modesto
Fresno
Tulare
Famoso
Bakersfield
Dempsey
H. H. Larsen Company
N. H. Sjoberg and Son
Oakland
Largest Glacier Near Nevada Border Described
Palisade Glacier near Glacier Lodge in Inyo County is noted by the National Automobile Club as the southernmost glacier in the United States. The ice mass measures about seven miles from lodge, about three miles long, a mile wide and hundreds of feet deep, a relic of the ice age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palisade
Glacier Lodge
Inyo County
National Automobile Club
Nevada
United States
Kern County Juniors Enter Greased Pig Event at Grand National
Ten Kern County boys entered the Greased Pig division of the 1949 Grand National Junior Livestock Exposition and Arena Show to be held April 9 to 14 at the Cow Palace San Francisco. More than 1,200 Future Farmers of America and 4-H youths will bring over 4,000 head of cattle sheep and swine for six days of judging demonstration and sales. Entries include Frank Lurber James Rogers Lloyd Hokit Jack Woodruff Emerson Philbrook Roy Hand Stanley Jones Bill Atkinson Leon Bright Robert Combs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
San Francisco-San Mateo
McFarland
James Rogers
Lloyd Hokit
Jack Woodruff
Emerson Philbrook
Roy Hand
P. O
Stanley Jones
Buttonwillow
Bill Atkinson
Bakersfield
Leon Bright
Robert Combs
Also Mentioned on This Page
Shafter Experimental Farm
California
Safeway
Yim
Busy Baker
NOB Hill Coffee
Royel
Minnesota
Yorkshire
Lids
Ur. Ponty
Nortreen Coony Spears
Fen, Caren
Emma Domb
National Cotton Council
Walker St
Shafter, Calif
Kern Welding Supplies
Chester Ave
Chrysler Products
Central Valley Hwy
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