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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1938
Page
7
A cairn north of Traverse City Michigan holds a stone from every county and marks the state midpoint between the equator and the north pole. It was erected to honor a veteran resort association manager.
At the American Legion hall Friday afternoon the Well Baby clinic examined 26 babies. Six new children joined the group under the care of Dr. Jack Light hill and Dr. A. W. Gaede with two county nurses and Legion Auxiliary volunteers Anna Janzen and Clyde Bell assisting.
State agriculture reports fewer cattle in California feed lots for fattening than in any year since 1935. If demand holds, about 70 000 to 75 000 fattened cattle will enter the state in the next few months of 1939.
The California Department of Motor Vehicles will place a guest of California sticker on every visiting car entering the state in 1939. The All-Year Club and its Visitors' Bureau in downtown Los Angeles will promote state tourism and assure out of state vacationers a good time. President James R. Page announced that over 450000 stickers are expected to be used in the next year. The sticker design alternates featuring attractions from each coast.
Under the direction of the United States Department of Agriculture a nationwide fur farming survey is being conducted with 20 000 questions. It is estimated that this year farmers will sell about 300 000 silver fox and 200 000 mink furs in the United States.
Bill Brown and Bill Brown owners of the Midway Market near the Shafter Wasco cotton gin and Johnny Gillis announced this week their purchase of Al Petty’s business at the White Spot in North Shafter. They will run both markets on a cash and carry competitive price basis and remodel plans include enlarging the Midway Market after remodeling of White Spot.
A Christmas program was held at Shafter High School on Thursday afternoon in the study hall. The event featured a band under P. L. Arnold, a mixed chorus, girls choir, a double trio, speeches by Lorene Dougherty Pauline Potts and Hattie Meenam, and group singing led by Robert L. Gates.
Santa's Volunteers staged by Rio Bravo 4-H girls for Rio Bravo school’s upper grades on Thursday. The Christmas program showcased student performers and district audience participation in a festive event.
Twelve gins participated in the presentation and after the wing the play, popcorn was buted among the students. The fragment mentions Stang Over a Urey Se their SF wah al pe plow.
The Agricultural Economics Bureau estimates an 18 percent increase in the 1938 fall pig crop, totaling 27,651,000 head. Spring and Fall production combined reach 71,088,000 head, with California contributing 861,000 head.
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