Shafter News Briefs Note Seed Grower Visit and Local Activities
Oscar Ebe a seed producer from Custer Washington visited Shafter with county potato specialist T. H. Hawkins. Four cars of early potatoes shipped from Edison district tonight. Local residents travel to Los Angeles Bakersfield and Sequoia Park. Alumni and visitors join church events and a range of social and civic activities reported this week in Shafter.
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Oscar Ebe
Custer
Washington
T. H. Hawkins
Edison
Volunteer Wheat Policy Eases War Time Planting Rules
Kern County Agricultural Conservation officials announce relaxed AAA rules on volunteer wheat growing beyond farm allotments. Farmers may let volunteers grow for any use without AAA payment deductions if seeded within 1942 acreage and harvested from the excess, with stored grain on the farm subject to a quota penalty.
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Kern County Agricultural Conservation Assocation
AAA
R. Bright
Civilians May Pilot Army Air Corps Planes
The Army Air Corps plans to enlist civilian flyers at Minter Field Bakersfield with Captain Roy L. Jones announcing 100 licensed pilots aged 21 to 42 may join. Enlistments are voluntary and new civilian pilots will be paid 3600 dollars yearly while in a six month brush up program before commissioning as lieutenants.
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Army Air Corps
Minter Field
Roy L. Jones
Air Corps
Jones
Bakersfield
Hhe
Cvil
Minter
World News Roundup From The Week In War Europe
British bombers raid Germany and attack the Krupp works as reports claim Bulgaria will supply 210000 troops to Germany. See arrests in Brazil linked to a large Nazi spy ring, and a raid on St Nazaire. Japanese forces advance in Sumatra while New Guinea floods hinder moves. China accuses germ warfare by Japan as Domination talks loom. Frank Kavaski linked to Black Dragon unit. Bakersfield man Restitute denied bail. Air raid siren tests planned countywide.
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Bulgaria
Brazil
St. Nazaire
Great Britain
Domin
New Guinea
Sumatra
Frank Kavaski
DiGiorga
Arvin
Black Dragon
Society
Jerry ‘Restitute
el. Adobe
Bakersfield
War Time Budget Pushes Massive Army Expansion
Emergency appropriation of 18.302 billion dollars would fund 31 070 new army war planes and support 3 600 000 soldiers. Roosevelt orders priority shipment of war supplies to Russia. War Production Board unfreezes domestic refrigerator stocks. Stassen, 34, announces he found naval reserves and will resign as Minnesota governor. Franklin named to head army transport service and Pacific War council created. Tax revisions proposed for medical expenses dependents and home expenses when wife works. Roosevelt tax policy signals effort to fund war and debt limits.
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House
Roosevelt
Russia
War Productions Board
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Carolyn Wells
New York ‘City
John M Franklin
Army Transport Service
Pacific War Council
Washington
W. S. Farsh
Standard Oil Company of New
North American
California News Roundup of War II Era Events
The report lists multiple items from the day including an explosion at Cal Tech injuring six, a plan to recruit 100000 farmers to defend the state, Japanese air activity over Los Angeles, a 4-H conference in Berkeley, marriages and legal actions involving film figures, and military orders. It notes arrests of Japanese aliens in Kern county and a new Kern River bridge opening, plus local parade scenes and a Bakersfield alien detention case.
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James ‘A. Mills
Associated Press
D'Esat
Ventura
Kellogg
California Institute of Technology
Culbert ‘Olson
Avnences
Los Angeles
Berkeley
Busby Berkeley
Hollywoer Tanee
Claire James
California
Lew Avreés
Cama
Robert Noble
Ells Jones
Earl Warren
MacArthur
Los Angeles Harbor
Edward H. Heller
San Francisco
University of California
Kern County
William Compton
Bakersfield
United States Army
Anir Corps
Hawaiian Islands
Japanese ‘Imperial War Fund
Kern River
Oildale
Taft Merchants
Jerry Restitute
High School Firemen Learn Forest Fire Duties
Shafter high school boys volunteering for summer forest fire duty attended a Tuesday class at the school. About 40 boys were present as a motion picture was shown and instruction given on handling fires. Three more instructional classes will be held. San Francisco contains 67 of 104 regional federal offices in California. Civic Auditorium seats over 10,000 and was presented to the city by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.
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Shafter
Asx Forest Fire
San Francisco
California
Sugar beet acreage expansion to ease shortage eyed
A proposed national sugar shortage remedy includes increasing sugar beet cultivation by 7000 acres in the district, boosting total from 3000 to 10000 acres next year. Most expansion centers at Lerdo Buttonwillow with minor plantings in Tulare county. The American Crystal Sugar Company of Oxnard holds the crop contract.
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After
Lerdo
Buttonwillow
Tulare County
American Crystal Sugar Company
Oxnard
23000 Farmers Enrolled In California Volunteer Fire Brigades
More than 23000 California farmers have enrolled in volunteer firefighting companies organized across rural areas. Woodbridge Metcalf reports 2154 companies in 42 counties, with crews already formed and ready to operate.
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California
Woodbridge Metcalf
University of California Agricultural
Extension Servie
Metcalf
Rural Fire Prevention Groups Formed in War Plans
Metcalf announced new rural organizations under the Agricultural Extension service, State Council of Defense, and State Division of Forestry to address summer fire hazards. The groups will integrate into the state fire disaster plan created before U.S. entry into the war, coordinating community cooperation and use of all firefighting facilities to protect every area.
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Ganized
Cooperative Supervision
Agricultural Extension Service
State Council of Defense
State Division of Forestry
Met
Elf
United States
Metcalf
Friends Vacation At Woodlake Hosts
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Buhler spent the week end as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Dan F. Heinrichs at Woodlake.
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Tom Wedge
Long Beach
William Michael ‘Thompson
Harry Thompson
Wedge
Thompson
J. D. Patterson
Shafter
Barling
Texas
Marion Crockett
N Atwater
W. S. Crockett
A. W. J. Bestwater
Huntington Park
Bill Bestwater
Adolph Buhler
Woodlake
Dan F. Heinrichs
Pacific Coast Salmon Pack Rises 41 Percent Over 1940
The Pacific Coast salmon pack increased by 41 percent compared with 1940, reflecting a strong rise in catches last year and signaling improved yields for the fisheries sector.
Defense Bonds or Stamps Every Pay Day
A patriotic appeal urges purchase of Defense Bonds or Stamps each pay period to support national defense. The message contrasts bonds with stamps as options for funds, urging steady public investment.
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U. S
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