City Boosts Tax Rate to $1. Adopts $123,578 Budget
Shafter city council members raised the property tax to $1 per $100 assessed value and approved an operating budget of $123,578 for 1953-54. The move follows an unexpected deficit partly due to a $5500 architect fee for the new city hall.
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Shafter City
Frank G. Shaw
Shaw
Corporation Yard
Shafter Recreation Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Merrill Thomas
Annual Field Day Set for Cotton Growers Aug 26
San Joaquin Valley cotton growers will gather on August 26 at 10 a.m. for a field day hosted by Seed Distributors and the California Planting Cotton Seed Distributors to review breeding and seed programs. Farm Adviser George W. Ferry notes the event will showcase Acala 4 42 and Acala P 18 varieties and discuss seed quality and distribution aims.
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San Joaquin Val. Rater
George W. Ferry
California
Ferry
United States Department of Agriculture
Arizona
New Mexico
Shafter
Assemblyman Kelly Names Third House Aid and Water Bills
Assemblyman H. W. Pat Kelly addressed Shafter Rotary Club on lawmakers’ reliance on lobbyists seen as watchdogs for industries and professions. He discussed bill handling, committee makeup, past vetoes on the cotton trailer bill, and favors pay as you go budgeting. He highlighted the earth barrier feasibility study for San Francisco Bay and debated Central Valley Project funding and state control versus ownership.
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Third House
H. W
Pat) Kelly
Shafter Rotary Club
Kelly
Shafter
Assembly
Earl Warren
San Francisco Bay
San Joaquin Valley
Central Valley
Bay
Sacramento
San Joaquin
CVP
Judge Collects 350 From Drunk Drivers
Judge E. K. Grant of Shafter Court collected 350 in fines from two drunk drivers. L. B. Fisher, 46, paid 150 after conviction, and Jack Greer, 36, was fined 200. The judge reported the totals.
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E. K. Grant
Shafter Judicial Court
L. B. Fisher
Jack Greer
Grant
Cotton seed distributors boost Shafter station expansion
The group allocates 30 000 to expand X Farm work at Shafter with a greenhouse head house and new humidifying system to upgrade cotton testing labs. Turner leads breeding work across Chowchilla Firebaugh Visalia Shafter and Imperial Valley areas as tests under local conditions aim to aid research. Harold L. Pomeroy is re elected president and Floyd Nelson becomes vice president with E G Buerkle replaced by Marvin Farley as director after 27 years. The organization handled about 35 000 tons of planting seed valued at 4 600 000 this year across 90 000 acres.
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Nourse
Shafter Station
Kern County
Turner
Shafter
Chowchilla
Firebaugh
Visalia
Imperial Valley
Harold L. Pomeroy
Arvin
Cotton Seed Distributors
Floyd Nelson
Madera
Buerkle
Marvin Farley
E. G. Buerkle
Directors Assess Water Distribution Costs for Friant Kern Canal
District directors review proposed distribution types to bring Friant Kern Canal water into Shafter Wasco Irrigation District. Engineer Paul C Bailey presents cost analyses for concrete lined canals steel pipe systems and Bureau of Reclamation plan. Motion to appoint Whimpey Bender as first paid chief engineer retroactive to July 1.
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Friant-Kern
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
Paul C. Bailey
Bureau of Reclamation
Bender
SWID Considers 60 Cent Tax Rate
Shafter Wasco Irrigation District directors weigh a 60 cent tax per 100 dollars of assessed value to fund area property services. The levy would take effect Sept 1 after the equalization hearing, with a likely rate of 60 cents or possibly lower. Directors also voted to donate 50 dollars to the irrigation districts association water economics committee for statewide ship fee efforts with the California State Chamber of Commerce.
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Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District Board of Directors
John J. Peters, Jr
SWID
Water Economics Committee
The
Irrigation Districts Association
California State Chamber of Commerce
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Dick Smith
Ken Joaquin
Jim Ta
Marvin Hoover
Exr
Don Little
Ito
Hiphere
Rea Bath
Assemblyman
Erk
Tors
Mandy
Alvarado
Ben Alvarado
North Shafter
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