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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1947
Page
4
George W. Wendt, Secretary of the Kern County Fair, reports unprecedented community effort for the 1947 event. Cooperation from Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce and Kern County organizations aims to surpass all prior fairs in exhibits beauty and educational value.
The 1947 March of Dimes raised a record 17 million 987 thousand 800 dollars and 66 cents through 2 719 chapters nationwide to battle poliomyelitis. Basil O Conner, president of the National Foundation, credited 60 000 volunteers for the surge, noting the increase over 1946.
The Kern County Free Library reports 1 057 440 books periodicals and pamphlets circulated in the 1946 47 year surpassing the previous year by 94 510. Across 154 distribution agencies including large branches in Oildale Taft and smaller stations in Arvin McFarland Weldon Lebec and Belridge the average per resident was 5.3 items.
The California State Fair in Sacramento hosts a broad display of farming machinery from August 28 to September 7. The exhibit features postwar advances and includes a California made tractor, tillage tools, disc harrows, spike and tooth harrows, and a molasses feed mix. Also shown is an Electrovator device that kills weeds underground with electric shock.
Public utilities and state assessed property will be added to local tax rolls, totaling over 1.2 billion dollars, under the State Board of Equalization. The assessments will raise city, county, and district revenues to about 60 million dollars. In Kern county tangible property assessed by the board rose from 40,923,230 in 1946 to 45,123,400 in 1947.
Several Shafter youths enlist in the U S Naval Reserve and begin training at the Bakersfield Naval Armory. Enlistees include Bill McWilliams Bill Jeffcoat Bill Crawford Roy McDonald and John Thomas. Training runs two hours weekly with a two week annual cruise across four years. Trainees may be called to active duty in a national emergency.
A Shafter Press summary from the Department of Motor Vehicles reports 76,883 motor vehicles registered in Kern County in the first six months of 1947, excluding unregistered fees. County totals show 57,057 autos, 8,928 trucks, 783 motorcycles, and 9,615 trailers, with statewide totals of 3,529,215 registrations including 2,878,740 autos and 317,095 trucks.
Support prices for the late crop of potatoes are set for Kern County varying month to month from 2.25 dollars per hundred pounds in August to 3.05 dollars in January 1948. The figures apply to U S No 1 potatoes sacked and shipped in carloads or truckloads at country shipping points.
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