California Farm Opportunities Booklet Promises Rich Prospects
A new booklet from the Santa Fe Railway agricultural department promotes California farming for war veterans and others seeking new agricultural and industrial growth. It highlights the Central Valley Project as key to making the valley the world’s richest agricultural district and notes California led the nation in cash farm income in 1944 with about 1.74 billion dollars. The state is described as the nation’s fruit nut and vegetable basket with orchards groves and vineyards yielding about half the commercial fruit and one fourth of the commercial vegetables.
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California
Agricultural Department of the Santa Fe Railway
Central Valley
Great Central Valley
True Facts Across Ages From Ancient to Modern Times
The piece surveys remarkable historical and natural facts from ancient lions in Maryland to Russia’s prince degraded as a jester, Pheidias founding a free hospital in Athens, 17th century English clerks at dawn, Carthage’s vast population and walls, Earth’s plant and animal diversity, a 200 inch telescope resolving 150 feet on the Moon, and Chinese military kite observers centuries ago.
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Maryland
Galliczin
Russia
Anna
Pheidias of
Rhodes
Greece
Athens
England
Carthage
Potatoes Price Support Schedule For 1946 Announced
The U S Department of Agriculture outlined f o b price schedules and conditions for Irish potatoes under the 1946 price support program. Prices apply to U S No 1 grade sacked at ship point and to bulk U S No 1. early and intermediate crop support by direct purchases, late crop by loans with possible diversions. September 15 set as loan diversion cutoff with storage quality rules.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
U. S
U.S
Kern County Chamber Grants GI Bill Training for Suydam
The Veterans Administration approved on the job training under the GI Bill for Don Suydam in office management and statistical research at the Kern County Chamber of Commerce. Emory Gay Hoffman announced the program, noting Suydam’s 42 months in the Army Air Forces and Shafter High School graduation in 1937. Suydam, a Kern County resident for 22 years, is married with a young son.
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Veterans Administration
Don Suydam
Emory Gay Hoffman
Kern County Chamber of Commerce
Shafter
Suydam
Army Air Forces
F. R. Kalloch
Chambers of Commerce
Kern County
Shafter High School
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By Theodore Maisch
Dear Watkins
Mr. Coates
Watkins
Robert H. Childs
Watkins Dealer
Albert Nikkel
D. L. Nix
Nikkel
Iron Works
Willie Woo
Central Avenue
Dalke Bros
General Building Contractors
P. QO
B. Dalke
WM. H. Dalke
Shafter District
Hitchcock
Auto Parts
Charles V. Hitchcock
Aly
Anderson’s Music Shop
Central Ave
Shafter Highway
Walter Emerald
Bryant & Hitchcock
Shatter, Calif
Bakersfield
EL Tejon
Seventeenth
K — Truxtun
Shafter Press Clas
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