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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1957
Page
7
The Shafter Grain Letter notes pressure to abandon the bushel in favor of pounds for grain pricing. It explains how bushel conversions mislead, cites USDA studies, and gives California price quotes for barley corn and Ramona wheat along with the Hunley submarine note.
Margaret Freedman of Shafter High School was chosen as Kern County's alternate representative for the Odd Fellows United Nations Pilgrimage to New York. Don Muffin announced after a March 21 county contest in Harvey Auditorium, where Margaret placed second and earned the alternate spot.
Larry Powell, a Shafter High School student, built an instrument to trisect any angle by straightedge and compass. Jim Wilson, a mathematics instructor, explains the device follows classical methods, yet achieves the impossible in theory.
The fourth annual Buttonwillow Lions Club Train ride and barbecue funds education for Wayne a 14 year old boy blinded years ago in an accident. The train departs East Bakersfield at 1 00 PM arriving Buttonwillow at 3 00 PM on May 5 via Southern Pacific.
Assemblyman H W Kelly of Shafter endorses a state federal San Luis Project proposal linking it to the Feather River and Trinity projects. He notes it would create a reservoir to supply water to the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California and mentions a separate measure adding 1 million dollars for design work.
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