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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1971
Page
4
During the fall duck migration the Department of Fish and Game and the U S Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife plan to prevent an avian botulism outbreak in the Tulare Lake Basin. They will collect and burn carcasses and use airboats pyrotechnics and aircraft to divert birds from toxic zones.
Maria Socorro Lugo Ramos of 445 Klassen Drive became a U S citizen in Superior Court Bakersfield before Judge J Kelly Steele. Ramos and 24 petitioners from 12 counties took the oath of allegiance administered by Vera K Gibson County Clerk. Father Silvio D Ostilio Our Lady of Guadalupe Church Kern District Attorney Albert Leddy and Kern County Bar Association President Jack B Hislop attended. Each new citizen received an American flag after the hearing.
The message promotes living with electricity for every room, highlighting an electric kitchen, automatic clothes drying, individual room heating, fast water heating, full housepower wiring, and planned lighting to improve daily life.
Howard K. Dickson warns that August 28 is the final day to enter livestock and agricultural mechanics projects for the Kern County Fair. Open and junior divisions cover beef dairy cattle swine and sheep with total prize money of 22047 dollars. Ed Tischberek notes 406 dollars for top farm mechanics projects and eight classes for homemade items, with entrants required to be enrolled in a California state plan vocational program and to show products from their instructional year. Fair runs September 24 to October 2.
The statement estimates that if every U.S. family owned a farm, each would live on 27.5 acres with six acres planted in crops. It notes most land would be pasture, woodland or fallow, highlighting land use patterns.
California plans widespread use of international symbol road signs aided by word plates for years to help non English speakers and travelers. Signs will use black figures on yellow backgrounds for warnings such as slippery when wet deer crossing and yield no left turn with red regulatory signs to indicate danger.
A New Holland Sperry Rand farm machinery official notes that farmers received about 67 percent of USDA appropriations in 1970. Of $12.5 billion spent under the ending of agriculture that year only $8.3 billion directly benefited farmers by supporting farm income.
Ildefonso Torvey Beltran received 90 days in the Kern County Road Camp after probation revocation for petty theft from a local market. Ignatio Robles was sent to county jail for 30 days after a revocation hearing for public intoxication disturbing the peace minor in possession of alcohol and resisting arrest.
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