Shafter News Reflects Weekend Visitors and Trips
Oakland visitors the Misses Henrietta and Albertina Treadwell plan to Honolulu for months. Vernon Pierce family vacationing in northern state for 10 days. Local residents return from Fresno Selma Long Beach and fairs. John J Peters Jr. heads to Golden Gate Expo. Norma Neufeld to Berkeley. several families on trips to San Francisco Los Angeles and South.
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Henrietta
Albertina Treadwell
Oakland
Shafter
Marion
Hitchcock
Treadwell
Honolulu
Vernon
Long Beach
Dave Unruli
Pear Leach
Selma Leach
Dale Leach
Ida Bartel
J. W. Nickel
A. I. Frantz
Pennsylvania
Bartel
John J. Peters Jr
Phyllis
San Francisco
Abe Strauss
Abe Neufeld Family Returns Home From West Coast Trip
The Abe Neufeld family returned to Shafter on Saturday after a two week vacation that took them to Los Angeles and up the coast to San Jose. They visited friends and relatives in several coast towns during the trip.
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Arlene Bokemper
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Arthur Bokemper
Bokemper
H. J. D. Janzens
H. J. D. Janzen
Gloria
Shafter
Nebraska
Minnesota
North Dakota
Yellowstone Park
Mike Janzen
the Heights
Michigan
Abe Neufeld
San Jose
Eighty Trees Staked In City With Two Lost
City officials report eighty of the small trees planted four months ago along city streets were staked and wrapped with burlap. Of 350 trees set out, only two have been lost while the rest thrive and receive constant summer care, according to City Clerk Frank Shaw.
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Frank Shaw
Shaw
Kern Public Utility Property Valued For 1940 Tax Roll
The State Board of Equalization set the public utility property value at 1 011 140 980 for tax purposes. Tangible property totaled 962 591 800 with intangible credits at 48 549 180, a gain of over 12 million from the prior year. In Kern county the 1940 roll lists intangible 71 100 and tangible 35 280 980 compared with 1939 figures. Fred E. Stewart highlighted the change as part of the tax reorganization efforts returning utility property to local rolls.
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California
State Board of Equalization
Fred E. Stewart
Second District Board
Kern County
Stewart
Sixth Assessment Roll Adopted by Board
The text notes that this was the sixth assessment roll adopted by the board, indicating a pattern of annual or periodic property evaluations and formal approvals by the governing body.
Water Spreading Results From Henderson Letter 1938
G L Henderson of Kern County Land Company reports 33340 acre feet diverted from main canals into spreading ponds on land east and south of Shafter. The spreading area totaled 288.9 acres with percolation rate 115.4 acre feet per acre and an average pond exposure of 136 days. He notes the net water applied to the net area details follow.
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Kern County Land Company
Shafter
G. L. Henderson
Land Company
Charles Westenberg
Shafter-Wasco
Henderson
Spreading Grounds Water Use Averages Reported
The report notes areas of spreading ponds excluding groundwater percolation and lateral canals supplying spread ing grounds. It states the average depth of water applied in the spreading grounds during this year is 86.4 acre feet per acre.
John Hopkins Professor Visits Shafter Farm Camp
Dr Henry E Segerest of Johns Hopkins University conducted an inspection tour of the Shafter Farm Workers community during a California migrant medical study trip. He was accompanied by R W Lyons and Dr E R Scarboro of Fresno, officials with the Agricultural Workers Health and Medical Association.
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Shafter Farm Workers
Henry E. Segerest
John Hopkins University
California
R. W. Lyons
E. R. Scarboro
Fresno
The
Agricultural Workers’ Health and Medical Association
A J Zimmerman Named Public Fire Insurance Counselor
A J Zimmerman listed as a bonds notary public and fire insurance counselor with additional public weighmaster and automobile roles. The note references multiple public service titles under his professional profile.
Chinese Pioneer Dies in Bakersfield
Mrs. Chung Kim, 77, a San Francisco native and Bakersfield resident for over 50 years, died Saturday. She was said to be the first Christian Chinese woman in Bakersfield and widow of Ng Ah Kim, a Chinese merchant killed in the 1917 conflict.
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Chung Kim
San Francisco
Bakersfield
Ng Ah Kim
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