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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1938
Page
7
The piece urges strong character in youths to resist liquor and its advertising. It frames prohibition repeal fears, cites Proverbs 4 as guiding wisdom, and highlights training through home and church to combat temptation and promote a life guided by God's word.
Irene Hall meets Richard Bradstreet after a flower box surprise. He proclaims love and a career shift as he proposes, revealing he once sold teacher gift boxes and charged the difference to his own account. They plan a wedding with teachers invited but without the joke about the flowers.
In a school scene Miss Gilbert discovers Flowers sent to Irene from an admirer. Irene dismisses the gift as her own devotion and names Richard Bradstreet as the sender, noting his uncle’s business. Miss Gilbert then orders weekly flower boxes from Bradstreet’s, echoing Irene’s tale.
A historical note recalls the belief that church bells could halt storms pestilences drive away enemies and quench fires. It mentions the bell at St Pauls Cathedral as part of this lore.
Five year University trials by Professor W. B. Herms and J. K. Ellsworth test insect electrocuting lights in 10 grape centers including Delano Reedley Kingsburg Madera Livingston Ceres Modesto Escalon Ripon and Vernalis. Lights reduced pest damage and cost compared with standard controls, with small 6 to 10 acre plantings averaging 35 dollars per acre upfront and annual maintenance declining over time.
Frank Latta spoke to the Bakersfield Parlor Native Sons of the Golden West at the W. O. W. hall about his water trip from Bakersfield to San Francisco. Ten candidates, the Frank Latta class, were initiated during the evening.
Fourteen percent of the state population will receive aid as seven agencies budget 17.5 million to assist about 900 000 people in August. Expenditures exclude community chests and private relief groups.
Farmers and Kern County officials seek funds to complete survey work by Army engineers on Kern and Kings rivers and launch a 125 million flood control program. The War Department has given 100 thousand dollars for the survey. 67 thousand more is sought from irrigation and flood control districts and county supervisors. If funded, the survey could finish this year and storage reservoirs may follow to reduce next winter and spring flood risk.
Nine satellites of Jupiter have been observed by astronomers. Four were known to Galileo and four were discovered by University of California astronomers at Lick Observatory. Professor Charles H. Smiley notes this as a key UC contribution to astronomy.
The Dixie highway was officially launched at a governors conference held in Chattanooga Tennessee on April 3 1915. Governor Samuel Ralston of Indiana presided over the meeting with delegates from interested states.
Three carloads of beets, the first of the season, left Kingsburg last week for American Crystal Sugar at Oxnard. Beet shipping is also underway at McFarland with a 40 day harvest expected.
H Midgley, confined to bed two weeks with an infected leg from a scratch at his store, shows marked improvement this week. Doctors say he may be up and around in a few days as the infection subsides after a serious illness.
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