Record yield of California beets tops state history
California reports the 1951 beet sugar crop will yield about 1.8 tons per acre on roughly 144000 acres the highest per acre average in state history. Growers expect favorable prices in 1952 with a joint payout system spreading final net price determination to year end. The industry emphasizes economic impact and anti prejudice campaigns with planned expansion to Sacramento Stockton Modesto Yuba City Marysville Fresno Bakersfield San Diego and San Bernardino.
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California
Jenne
Ers
Lyons
Santa Maria
Oxnard
Watsonville
Salinas
San Jose
Sacramento
Stockton
Modesto
Yuba City
Marysville
Fresno
Bakersfield
San Diego
San Bernardino
Mid-Winter Farm Employment Rises in California
Edward F. Hayes of the California Department of Employment reports a mid January rise in farm placements with about 35 000 workers in cotton and a general expansion in livestock and winter vegetable harvesting. Rain slows machine picking but hand picking drops less than expected. weather will largely decide completion of the cotton harvest.
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Edward F. Hayes
California Department of Employment
State Board
Hayes
Wage Rate Set For Workers in Sugar Beet Field
The USDA announced 1952 wage rates for sugar beet producers in California Southwestern Arizona and Southern Oregon under the Sugar Act of 1948. Non harvest work pays 65 cents per hour and harvest work 70 cents. younger workers ages 14 to 16 and handicapped workers may receive up to one third reductions. Workers are to be furnished customary perquisites at no charge, such as housing.
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California
Arizona
Oregon
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Yellow Dwarf Disease Strikes California Grain Fields in 1951
An agriculture extension report identifies Yellow Dwarf as a virus disease spreading via common grain aphids. Researchers at Davis confirmed the cause after analyzing samples. Symptoms vary by crop, with yellowing in barley, green striping in wheat, and reddish tones in oats.
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California
Kern County
Roy M. Barnes
Agricultural Extension Service
Davis
John Oswald
Byron
Houston-of the
Bakersfield
Kern County Sets Share Of Federal Budget At Over 149 Million
California Taxpayers' Association reports Kern County would receive about 149.98 million dollars from the proposed 85.4 billion federal budget submitted to Congress on January 21. The county share equals roughly 630 dollars per person for 238,070 residents. This amount is about five times the county's total local property tax levy and about a quarter of county taxable property value for the year. Statewide, California would gain more than 7 billion dollars from the same budget proposal.
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Kern County
Congress
California Taxpayers’ Association
Association
California
Lake Tahoe Holds Much More Water Than Lake Mead
Lake Tahoe contains almost four times the water of Lake Mead yet has one third less surface area, highlighting Tahoe’s deeper volume compared with Mead.
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Lake Tahoe
Lake Mead
California Grows Third of Nation’s Fruit Output
Sidney Hoos of the University of California reports California produces more than a third of the nation’s fresh and processed fruits and about a quarter of vegetables and two-thirds of commercial tree nuts. The state ranks high in wool, sheep, lambs, turkeys and honey, but only a quarter of land is farmed. Over six million irrigated acres in California account for one-third of US irrigated acreage.
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Sidney Hoos
University of California College of Agriculture
California
Commander Staff Gains Paper Subscriptions
The Commander Staff at Shafter High School ran a campaign to sell subscriptions for the school newspaper printed at the Shaf ferd Press. Harold Gaede led the contest with classes achieving 80 percent earning attendance to see The Foxes of Harrow starring Maureen O'Hara and Rex Harrison.
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Commander
Shafter High School
Shafferd Press
Harold Gaede
Foxes of
Harrow
Maureen O'Hara
Rer Harrison
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Dick Smith
Joe
David Towns
Corcoran
Shafter
Gordon Lyons
California Rowers Association
Western Beet Sugar Producers Inc
California Procesors
American Crystal Sugar Company
Holly Sugar Corp
Spreckles Sugar Company
Union Sugar Company
California Beet Growers Association
MOTEL
Cawelo
Highway
Lerdo
John Notley
Generals
Jack Yates
Jocabi County Production and Marketing Administration Committees
Kern
San Francisco
Municipal Railway
Ray Albert
RPM
Stendard Ol] Company of
Bay Albert
Res
Chrysler V8
Chrysler
Ervin E. Frake
Central Valley
Tenho Wateau
Dj Shade
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Planter
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