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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1937
Page
2
Advertising rates are furnished on page AP and the notice notes second class matter entered August 1 1935 at Shafter California post office under the 1879 act. Telephone 57.
A non partisan editorial recalls various Roosevelts from Teddy to Alice and descendants, noting their public roles and noted antics. The piece contrasts Republican and Democratic associations while wryly remarking on the family’s varied public personas and a current political jab.
The United States dominates global power production and use. Its electric generating capacity exceeds that of Great Britain and Canada, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan combined, per a National Resources Committee Science Committee report. The text notes mechanical power transformed life and urges careful, deliberate policy action to maximize humanity’s benefit.
The text argues that private industry drove the expansion of SAE use and power in the United States, with government agencies playing a minor role. It notes about 40 horsepower per family, mostly electric, as a record of achievement, boosting wages and living standards, under a policy of private initiative with fair regulation.
A study notes that many states still rely on basic rule speed laws but officials increasingly favor fixed speed limits. It argues that the basic rule has failed, speeding remains the top highway killer, and fatal crashes occur on good roads with well-maintained cars. It urges modernization of traffic codes, stricter enforcement, and universal penalties.
The piece notes a drop in arson but urges stronger efforts to curb the crime. It cites historical conviction rates and peak arrest figures, emphasizing arson as a grave threat to life and property.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters uses trained agents to aid civil authorities in arson cases as records on gangs are kept and fires with suspicious elements thoroughly investigated. Their work, along with a model arson law, has led to many gang crackdowns and prosecutions nationwide.
A collection of old maxims about money measures thrift and prudence. Warnings include weighing purchases, moderation in prosperity, avoiding overreach, and valuing practical profits over flashy spending. The set uses familiar phrases like measure thrice and cut once.
The Itinerant Workers' Union Hoboes of America reports a membership above 800,000. The item notes a large umbrella union presence amid broader labor activity in the period.
A plan for an annual census of bears in Sweden is announced. The article notes census ambitions as a government or scientific effort to track wildlife populations.
An essay by Irvin B. Cobb reflects on wartime double standards and U S history with Native Americans, then pivots to modern media and telephone privacy concerns. The piece skewers sensationalism in cinema, exposes telemarketing schemes, and comments on Bolshevik and Red politics with Cobb’s signature satirical tone.
Richmond readers learn of gentle spirits in the Tuckahoe district of Henrico County. A house on the upper James recounts a sieged ceiling saved by an unseen summons, while a Quaker-dressed apparition haunts a paneled room. A boy ghost revisits childhood scenes, and a bedroom bed drama endures, with playful hauntings near portraits of Virginia history.
Benedict Kampa a ten year old from Whitehall Wisconsin survived severe injuries from an automobile accident where four and a half inches of skull bone were torn away after four complex operations a silver plate supported his skull. Eight years earlier he fell through a hay chute landed on a cow back and horn punctured his throat.
An isolated elephant disobeyed the herd chief and attempted to rejoin the group, leading to a grim combat between the two mighty tuskers that lasted for a week, day and night.
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace reports a likely 20 percent cut in soil depleting crops for 1938 based on 1937 base acres. Kern county farm advisor M A Lindsay notes cotton corn sugar beets may drop to 80 percent of 1937 levels. The 1938 plan outline is under discussion in Washington with input from California farmers from a July Bay Area meeting.
Basil T. Kehoe of Palo Alto recently bought a 100 acre Tokay vineyard near Lodi in San Joaquin County. Lateness of the grain harvest delayed planting of a second crop of Blackeye beans in the San Joaquin valley.
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