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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1937
Page
3
Local notices list numerous Shafter area residents on trips and visits to destinations such as Yellowstone Ventura Beach Pismo Beach and San Francisco. Entries include families, extended motor tours to Canada Oregon Washington and British Columbia and returns from trips to Long Beach Mor gan Hill Sequoia Park and Santa Maria with many names and relations.
Mr and Mrs Bill Bestwater left Shafter Tuesday for a motor trip to Monterey via the Carmel San Simeon highway. They plan 10 days to three weeks with fishing and travels to the Bay district and other points. Ernest Panero Shafter Theatre manager visited the county seat Tuesday. Bill Bestwater left Saturday for Lodi on a business trip, returning Sunday.
State and county officials seize a shipment of 100 tomato plants 25 pepper plants and 25 eggplants sent to Oakland from Texas to prevent Colorado potato beetle entry. The beetle could devastate California potato crops worth about 2 million dollars this season, forcing costly control if established.
A six horse team of Clydesdales from the Canadian ranch of the Duke of Windsor appeared at Stockton in the show running from August 20 to 29.
A new county ordinance restricts the sale of substandard nursery stock. Officials aim to protect plant health and ensure buyers receive quality trees and shrubs. The measure focuses on limiting sale of poorly rooted or diseased specimens by local nurseries and garden centers.
California employers began monthly contributions to the unemployment trust fund with a revised CURC-3 form. The 1897 rate is one and eight tenths percent of wages plus a deduction of nine tenths of one percent from employees. The Social Security Board requires monthly remittances to better meet future benefit needs after January 1 1998.
The Fresno district fair will sponsor a butterfat contest open to cows owned and entered by residents of the county.
A Whittier mushroom canning concern projects an early annual capacity of 250 tons. The plan highlights local agricultural processing expansion and potential employment impact in the region.
Board of Supervisors of Kern County invites sealed bids for Maple School District bonds. Bonds dated July 26 1937 to run from four to fourteen years, interest five percent, at par with accrued interest. Bid deadline 11 a m August. bids to be cash and sealed to F Smith Clerk.
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