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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1935
Page
4
The Shafter Press lists its office on Central Avenue Shafter Kern County California with editor Ht G Comfort. Subscription price is 2.00 per year payable in advance single copies cost 4 cents and advertising rates are available on application. Post office filing details dated August 1 1935 under 1879 act.
The Shafter community faces a forthcoming limit on potato production under state tax free provisions. Officials and experts warn 1936 sales may drop to around 90 percent of last year, with higher retail prices possible and added government cost. The piece debates whether regulation will curb over production or raise consumer burden.
A poem recounts a dream of a western train journey through a plains frontier beset by Comanche attack. The speaker recalls past scenes of buffalo, wagons, and battles, then awakens aging and sure it was a dream with lingering haunting images of war and survival.
Indications point to paying adjusted service certificates the Bonus by an early congress. The original Bonus Bill contemplated about five billion dollars with a tax of 1.71 per hundred dollars of assessed valuation. The tax has stretched over ten years and the bonus would bring over twenty million dollars to California, affecting property owners and taxpayers.
The article estimates Kern County World War veterans will receive about one million dollars when the last half of the bonus is paid under a law enacted thirteen years ago. It urges immediate authorizing payment in January and February to care for the funds.
E P Janes principal of Shafter high school was chosen president of the Sierra League at a Bakersfield meeting. Lester Hedges of McFarland high school was elected secretary treasurer. The group includes Shafter Maricopa Wasco McFarland Tehachapi for A and B teams. The season runs from December 13 to February 28 1986.
Thanksgiving Day visitors at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Harris included Miss Margaret, Mary Daly of Bakersfield, and Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Comfort.
Santa Clara County formed February 18 1850 as one of California’s original twenty seven. Santa Cruz County named from Holy Cross and famed for apples and beaches. Shasta County created February 18 1850 named for Mt Shasta with diverse resources and hydro power potential. Next week topics: Sierra Siskiyou Solano.
Simon Peters, a Shafter resident, was released from custody after authorities found no blame in an accident that killed an elderly man named Kittle on the Golden State highway at Turlock. Witnesses and the examining physician attributed death to the shock of the fall, not the truck impact, and no inquest date was set.
Mr and Mrs E W Gage and daughter Muriel spent Thanksgiving at Taft. Mrs Raymond Shilling sister of Mrs Gage hosted a large Gage family gathering at the holiday dinner.
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