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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1959
Page
7
Taxable September cigarette figure nears 1 million dollars above August due to pre tax inventory exhaustion. About 3.7 million free cigarettes sold to military exchanges and ships stores not included. Total cigarette tax revenues through October 31 reach 23.041 million including floor tax and advance collections.
Paul Laseman joins Shafter High School this year with ten years of teaching in Oklahoma and last year in Arvin. He will teach freshman world geography and sophomore English and has prior experience in world and American history economics and serving as librarian. Laseman is a US Marine veteran of World War II with two overseas years including Guam and Okinawa. He is married with four children Sue Tom Rachel and Rebecca and enjoys bridge book and stamp collecting.
Ten million Texable gasoline and high test motor vehicle fuel distributions in September reached 497 177 075 gallons according to John W. Lynch. Year to date nine months totals rose to almost 4.2 billion gallons, surpassing 1958 figures by about 274 million and 7 percent. The 6 cent tax yielded 29 830 624 dollars. after 2 039 796 dollars in claims for non highway purchases, 27 790 828 dollars remained for state highways county roads and city streets.
Water deliveries from state projects like the Feather River system are predicted to transform Kern County's economy. Deputy DWR director Ralph N. Brody says within 25 years 75000 new jobs will arise, with two thirds in local cities and boosts to retail and farm sectors. He urges passage of the Burns Porter water bond act as the funding step to build needed works. The talk was hosted by the Kern County Farm Bureau Water Problems Department.
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