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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
7
A sermonized study on Acts 15 to 16 showing how Paul follows divine guidance into Europe. It contrasts providential hindrance with inward prompting and Scriptural teaching, stressing obedience over self-will and the need for a receptive heart.
Chevrolet Motor division announces promotions in Detroit with K M Chase becoming Atlantic Coast regional manager and F Norman Phelps moving to Pacific Coast regional manager. S. M. Johnson rises to assist Phelps in Oakland as assistant regional manager. William G. Lucado will lead the Los Angeles zone.
A state wide census on migrant families is being conducted in California schools this week. Students with parents who entered the state since January 1, 1930, fill out questionnaires as part of the migration study. Say you saw it in The Press.
A fifth Sunday singing meet will be held at the Orthodox Missionary Baptist Church on Northern Street. Pastor Sam Wilcoxon announced the event this week. Several visiting churches and a number of guests are expected to participate in the afternoon program.
T M Martin, chairman of the Kern County Agricultural Conservation Association, announced that farmers may now receive full payments on 1939 cotton, rice, wheat and potato allotments even if planting falls below 80 percent, provided the farm is not idle. The change follows a congressional amendment to the AAA act. If normal cropping is not carried out in 1939, the farm is idle and payments are limited, unless at least half of the soil-depleting allotment is seeded or cropped for pasture.
Near capacity audience at Richland auditorium Friday watched Shafter High School present Trail of the Lonesome Pine. June Lachenmaier led as June Tolliver with strong support from Elmer Unruh as Jack Hale and a cast including Paul Garrett Marvin Neuman Marlien Neufeld and others. William White directed with Katherine Goode costumes, John Channeson and Merwin Olson properties, Powell McCoy stage management, and the high school band and girls quartet providing music between acts.
J. W. Trapp, long associated with the Department of Agriculture in Washington, joins Bank of America’s commodity loan division per president L. M. Giannini. Born 1900 in Croydon KY, Trapp earned a B S in agriculture, an M S in economics, and studied economics at Harvard. He held AAA posts and directed the CCC and FCIC, bringing extensive California agriculture experience to the bank.
The statement notes plans to strengthen service to California farmers by adding a nationwide crop expert to the staff. Tapp will establish headquarters in San Francisco to support this effort.
The San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Labor bureau announced a 75 cents per acre and 20 cents per hour wage scale for cotton chopping in 1939. The rates match last year and were adopted after approval by 60 growers from six cotton producing counties in the valley. Preceding the bureau meeting,
The Associated Cotton Growers of California met to elect officers, naming all incumbents to continue in their present capacities. On the board of directors are E. F. Loescher of Fresno as chairman J. E. O’Neil of Fresno H. L. Pomeroy of Bakersfield H. E B. Woodworth of Bakersfield T. C. Burke of India Carl Denk Dave Thomas of Dos Palos. Pomeroy also serves as secretary.
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