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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1940
Page
3
Shafter residents and visitors spend weekends across California and nearby states. Cross of Coalinga and former Shafter residents visit, while Bob Gaddy returns from Santa Cruz and Santa Barbara trips. Many families vacation in Oakland San Francisco Lodi and Sequoia Park with local gatherings and road openings noted.
Mrs Milo Weston returned to Shafter Monday after spending ten days vacationing in Santa Monica at relatives homes. Frank Jeppi and J A DiGiorgio of Bakersfield visited Shafter Tuesday for a noon meeting of the Shafter Rotary Club.
The Shafter Business Men's Association referred the plan to place a Shafter directional sign at Kimberlina and 99 highway to the existing sign committee. The committee includes E. P. Jones J. W. Frizzell and Lawrence Baughman. Meeting was a reg ular noon luncheon with low attendance due to vacations.
A letter from Central Valley Project Association president outlines Monday ceremonies for pouring the first concrete at Friant Dam. Fred Pritschke of the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District is invited to attend as Brenner notes the San Joaquin valley celebrates nine months after starting construction of the world’s fourth largest concrete dam with Griffith Company Bent Company contractors and U.S. Bureau of Reclamation oversight.
Digging begins on the Kirschenmann and Jacobson holdings in Tehachapi district. An expected yield of about 300 sacks per acre is anticipated.
A J Zimmerman known as Jack, longtime notary public and fire insurance counselor, who also served as public weighmaster, is reported among casualties.
The Port of Stockton hosts the first competitive bidding wool auction on the Australia New Zealand plan in California. California-Nevada Wool Sales of Pacific Wool Growers conducts the first series August 8 and 9 with over 100,000 pounds of Kern county wool set for auction.
The note lists a cryptic score or shorthand sequence with numbers 49 20 4 2 16 and letters ace mc ie, suggesting a fragmentary sports or gaming reference without clear context. No clear event, participants, or organization is identifiable from the readable OCR segment.
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