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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1951
Page
13
Taxpayers' association notes that each cent of the county wide tax rate raises the levy in proportion to valuations. For 1950-51 the levy was $50,589 based on $505,892,410. If 1951-52 valuations rise, the per cent rate would yield a higher levy for the county and for cities, school and special districts.
Delinquent assessment list enumerates multiple tracts and owners with parcel details in section 12 to 22, town 28 range 25 and surrounding ranges. It lists parcels with lot lines, platted plots, and measurements, plus amounts owed such as $1.1, $3.7, $1.5, and others, including names like Osborn, McDonald, Nixon, Pankratz, Navarov, and Margaret Pickering.
The California deer season begins Saturday with a half hour before sunrise opening. Wardens predict conditions range from excellent to poor across counties from Mendocino to Monterey. Bag limits are two bucks in central and south coastal regions.
Pacific Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists raised 525 724 in the first half of the 1951 annual public solicitation for missions. Three hundred forty six California Arizona Nevada Utah and Hawaii churches participated. Central California Conference received 90743 reported by R C Baker of San Jose. Funds support training schools hospitals clinics leper colonies floating dispensaries on South American rivers and aid to foreign lands with medical care disaster relief and food and clothing.
The article explains how Wilt controls dominate cotton science at the farm. Harrison and UC Berkeley collaborator Rudolph work on wilt resistant seeds for 1953. They study planting methods irrigation and row spacing to boost yields and convert farmers to scientific farming despite small operators’ limits.
Kern County Public Health warns home canning can save money but risks botulism without a tested pressure cooker. Dr. Buss notes recent California cases. only high acid foods tolerate oven or boiling methods. Inspectors ensure proper heat and pressure for low acid foods, with sterilized jars essential.
A S A Camp Company project at Cawelo pushes a million dollar cotton oil mill toward completion by harvest to handle a doubled valley cotton volume. The Lerdo plant processed about 38 000 tons of cotton seed last year and aims to double this. The oil by product serves livestock feed foods and industrial uses. Linters hulls and meat from cotton seed feed further processes and by products for various applications.
The fragment notes how to learn canning methods by consulting the health department or obtaining Home Canning Bulletin H D 417 issued free by the University of California Agricultural Extension Service in Berkeley California.
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