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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
5
W A Minner Lumber Co offers rough and S2 by Thousand pricing for 2 by 4 and 1 by 2 lumber plus other building materials. Visit the yard at the southwest corner of Airport on Norris Road for estimates and sales. Phone 2028.
Eleven Hereford steers were bought this week from Peter Frices of Hollister for Shafter High School's agriculture department for project use. Glenn O. Nay announced the purchase, noting the animals will be shown at the California State Fair by Friees and delivered after the show. The stock rates among the best in the state.
Mr and Mrs E W Gage plan to reopen their Spud Cafe likely the first Monday after returning from a vacation. The couple left Shafter at the end of potato season for several weeks in Auburn and Santa Ana and came back Monday evening.
Open positions include statistical draftsman freight rate clerk assistant curator motion photographer principal marine engineer and principal naval architect. Full information may be secured from John F. Roskam secretary of the U S civil service board of examiners.
Fifteen days after posting, Othos Cafe at the Santa Fe and Fresno corner applies to the State Board of Equalization for an on sale beer only license. Anyone may file a protest in Sacramento stating grounds for denial. the premises are currently unlicensed.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors met in regular session at 10 25 a m with all members present. Minutes approved and statement ordered published. Payroll and large claims approved. Non-budget items indigent roll and group insurance protests heard. Committee to obtain Kern River fish hatchery appointed. Various road, property, and welfare items approved or referred. Many resolutions, ords and hearings set for September 1940.
The Connecticut River expedition of 1772 marks Ledyard as The American Traveler. He later sailed with Captain Cook, met Jefferson and Jones, and pursued exploration across Europe Asia and North America. His 1786 Baltic voyage led to a 1500 mile trek around the Gulf of Bothnia before further travels and a Cairo death in 1789.
Scientists describe Oregon’s proboscideans including the northern mammoth and Columbian elephants, found across the coast and Willamette Valley. Remains of the colossal Elephas imperator point to massive hornless giants, with mammoth species such as Mammut oregonense unique to the Oregon region.
A WPA project in New Orleans produced a vast aviation weather study using over 19 million observations from 239 major airports. It analyzes visibility wind direction and velocity to aid airport planners in runway extensions and instrument landing system placement, with more than 100 workers involved.
The world hosts about 700 submarines in active commissioning across navies. Vessels vary from the 2 880 ton French Surcoaf to the 99 ton Finnish Sauk ko, illustrating wide size range in modern undersea fleets.
Proponents and qualified electors of Shafter California announce plans to circulate a petition for the dissolution of the city. They cite taxpayer burden lack of advantages and propose Kern County to assume all services. Signatories include James W Fowler Abe J W Walter and A Emerald.
In Lewiston Idaho a warehouse was nearly ruined when 500 tons of compressed sawdust logs flooded, swelled, and pushed out the sides of the building. The accident was blamed on a faulty sprinkling system.
Two old Northwest sheriffs, George Tindall and Fred Thorp, recall a harsher era when cattle rustling and gunfights defined law. Tindall transformed the region with 22 convictions in ten months, while Thorp earned a reputation as the sheriff who brought in his man, dead or alive, sustaining a fierce stand against modern crime.
Fred McNeil, a WPA worker who offered to give away two of his five sons due to poverty, will start a city job in Columbus in the engineering department next Tuesday. The position pays $80 to $100 monthly and offers advancement, a move sparked by Mayor Floyd F Green learning of the family’s plight to keep the family intact.
Passengers describe how a huge boulder prevented a derailed train from plunging 300 feet into the rocky canyon below. The White Pass and Yukon route locomotive had derailed in Skagway river canyon seven miles from Skagway Alaska when a rock beside the tracks miraculously held the entire train on the cliff edge.
New York backstage thief emptied the wages of every male actor in The Weak Link, a Broadway drama about bank robbers. The lone female cast member Peggy French, 18, kept $80 in her stocking at the First City bank, avoiding theft.
In Richmond Virginia a gunman fired in a shopping area waking shoppers. A bullet struck a clothes dummy in a store window while police stopped the shooter nearby but did not reveal who fired the stray shot.
Ray B. Wiser president of the California Farm Bureau outlines a four point agriculture program for dealing with the Federal government on preparedness food conservation at the University of California Los Angeles campus meeting. He urged farmers to ensure cost of production determined by the Agricultural Extension Service and to run programs with minimal government cost while expanding domestic marketing and distributing surplus foods to avoid disrupting normal markets. F R Wilcox urged youth opportunity in agriculture and its security, noting agriculture provides essential fibers and needs hard work and learning for those who want to farm.
Inspectors now assess Bartlett pears for canning with a peeled ratio increased from 1 16 to 1 8. The change was approved by the California Agricultural Prorate Advisor Commission.
A $25.00 reward from the manufacturer for any Corn or Callous. GREAT CHRISTOPHER POSITIVTS CORN SALVE cannot remove 35c at E. B. Stringham Drug Store.
Rev and Mrs J P Suderman will discuss missionary work among the Hopi Indians at First Mennonite Church. A motion picture show and talk will recount work with Indians, starting at 7 30 o clock. A silver offering will be taken and the public is invited.
An outline explains that carbon monoxide is odorless colorless and tasteless posing hidden risks in homes. It warns of exposure symptoms and the need for detectors to prevent poisoning.
The Farm Administration estimates 600 loans can be made from 476 982 dollars allotted to California for the current fiscal year to aid tenants purchasing farms.
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