Shafter City Slaps Windshield Stickers On First-Time Violators
Local readers report Shafter police using 3 by 6 inch windshield stickers as a first offense penalty to curb street parking violations. The ploy aims to deter repeat offenders while prompting community discussion at Kiwanis and in town chatter about local merchants and go kart plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hanley Witcher
Central Avenue
Dave Waldrums
McMahan’s
Dave
Art Hemingson
Los Angeles
Mel Nonhoff
Mel
Art
L. A
Apnoea
Shafter
Warl
Shamrockers
Safeway
Big Chain
Unreality of Discord Discussed in Christian Science Services
Sunday services address the question Are Sin Disease and Death Real with readings from Deuteronomy and Psalms. Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health asserts God as the sole cause and harmony as universal. The lesson emphasizes divine goodness healing and redeeming life from destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Israel
Mary Baker Eddy
California One Variety ACALA 442 Cotton Dominates 1959 Market
The 1959 California ACALA 442 cotton season exceeds expectations with strong seed supply from 1958 Purple Tag fields and favorable weather. Mills contracted vast quantities, production surpassed two bales per acre statewide, and demand for cloth boosted new mill customers. The One Valley District leads in quality practice, predicting higher yields if One Variety remains dominant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Shafter
San Juana
Mills
Brand Research Cotton Center
LAND BANK REPORTS A STRONG YEAR IN BAKERSFIELD
The Federal Land Bank Association of Bakersfield sent its board to a regional stockholders meeting of the Federal Land Bank of Berkeley in Palo Alto California. James C Beagle reports Berkeley bank again shows substantial gains in total resources and net worth. Ernest Neufeld of Wasco presided over the two day conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal Land Bank Association of
Bakersfield
Federal Land Bank of Berkeley
Palo Alto
California
W. L.smith
James C. Beagle
Federal Lands Bank of
Berkeley
Ernest Neufeld
Wasco
Largest child ever born 1897 to Nova Scotia mother
Report states the largest child on record weighed 23 pounds 4 ounces and measured 30 inches at birth in 1897 to Anna Bates, a seven foot five inch tall Nova Scotia mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medial’ Rcords
Nova Scotia
Anna Bates
Sanders Joins 101st Airborne Exercise in Puerto Rico
Army Pvt. Charles L. Sanders of Shafter California participates with other servicemen from the 101st Airborne in Exercise Puerto Pine in Puerto Rico. The 18 day drill ends March 31 and tests airlifted movement of Strategic Army Corps units to a staging area. Sanders serves as a cannoneer in Mortar Battery, 327th Infantry, Fort Campbell Kentucky.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Charles L. Sanders
Geneva Schultz
Beach Ave
Shafter
Calif
Puerto Pine
Puerto Rico
U. S
Sanders
327Th Infantry
Fort Campbell
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Texaco
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Pekoe
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Empress
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