Local Notes and War Era Moves in Shafter
Shafter residents report family moves and wartime updates. Northams return from Las Vegas, Annis ships to the South Pacific, and Chandler begins a new pastorate. Enlistees receive notices in Los Angeles while others relocate to Fresno Bakersfield and Idaho. guests visit, ambulance corps members tour Minter Field, and local families host relatives during wartime travel and postings.
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Women’s Ambulance
Shafter
Amublance Corps
Food Distribution Rules Explained by FDA Official
Merritt A. Clevenger explained wartime food distribution orders issued by Secretary Wickard. Order details cover butter, citrus juices, sugar, tobacco, chicory, and milk usage aimed at war needs, with impacts on consumer supply and production shifts for butter and dairy products.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Merritt A.clevenger
Pacific Region
Food Distribution Administration
Clevenger
U.S
WPB
FDA
Farmers Urged To Read New University Circular
Kern county farmers are urged to read Circular 126 from the University of California titled Farm-finance Dangers and Opportunities in Wartime. The bulletin reviews World War I impacts on farming finances and presents 1941 1942 recommendations from 2550 California farmers on debt reduction long term land valuations building reserves buying war bonds and avoiding speculative land buys and wildcat stocks.
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Kern County
University of ‘California
M. A. Lindsay
California
Lindsay
Suburbanites Urged To Keep Pig Or Two
Suburban residents are urged to raise pigs or calves to bolster home meat supplies and support the war effort. The Kern County Home Food Production Committee notes town dwellers should limit to chickens and rabbits, while suburbanites with space may rear larger animals.
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Sistant County Farm Advisor
Kern County Council of Defense
Strong
Feeding Young Pigs: Balanced Rations Advise By Mr Strong
Mr Strong outlines feeding for piglets from weaning to 125 pounds emphasizing full feeding for maximum gains. Use animal protein such as meat scrap tankage or milk, with 90 percent ground grain and 5 percent tankage and 5 percent oil or soybean meal. Ground barley and milo or coarsely ground wheat recommended, with alfalfa hay. after 125 pounds shift to 95 percent grain and 5 percent protein, using tankage or cottonseed linseed or soy, plus hay. Skim surplus milk can replace tankage if available.
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Strong
Strang
Advise on Grape Pruning For Raisin Conversion
UC Davis viticulture professor A J Winkler explains pruning for converting Thompson seedless from table grapes to raisins. He warns against leaving too much wood in year one to avoid late or failed fruit maturity, recommends about 50 percent more wood than normal, and notes possible yields not to double without thinning.
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Davis
Thompson
A. J. Winkler
University of California College of Agriculture
Winkler
Julia Lee Wright
Grape Production Forecasts Hint at 1943 Shortfalls
UC Berkeley professor R L Adams warns 1943 grape output faces uncertainty from shortages pest control materials and fertilizers. Estimated losses vary by county with raisin and table grapes set to fall while new vine plantings and adjustments may offset some declines. Sizeable disease pressure and central San Joaquin Valley risks add to uncertainty about final production.
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Berkeley
R L. Adams
University of California ‘College of Agriculture
Kings County
Stanislaus County
Sacrament County
San Bernardino County
San Os Nardino
Yuba
Take
Sacramento
Ees
San Joaqhin
Chicago firm scraps dies for first stringer lined trains
The Pull-Inan-Standard Car Manufacturing Company of Chicago is melting down dies used to build the nation’s first stringer lined trains for metal.
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Chicago
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Las Vegas
W. C. Northam
Nevada
Sia
Conard Annis
South Pacific War Zone
Wenn Reesed
Frank Anmi
Everett Hall
E. K. Grant
California Avenue
Fresno
T. V. Little
Gene . Bosserdet
Mr. Bosserdet
Clyde Smith
Robert Senn
Fred Senn
Air Corps
Los Angeles
Fred Vandenbere
Vandenberg
Fred Grvin
Puente
Z. W. Wonders
Whittier
Vandenberes
Bakersfield
Idaho
Hoot Petty
Farracut
W. E. Perry
Hoot
Mr. Perry
Farragut
Pearl Leach
Velmac
Virgil Leach
Tong Beach
Mrs. Leach
Dave Unruh
Jewell Wakill
Marenea Avenue
Jean Henderson
Ae ‘Lemoore Air” Bee
J. R. Henderson
Albertee
Patty Lou
David
Taft
J. W. ‘Lassiter
Carlton
Walker
Santa Monica
He Midgley
Sunset Avenue
Les Hobson
Long Beath
Eureka
Schneider
Wikoff
Shafter R.F.D
New University
Bank of America
Bank of America Trust National 54
Vines
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Adams
K. K
Emdar
Burma
Picatitiny Arsenal
New Jersey
Home Appliance Company
Morning Glory
Kellogg
Lido Club
Lord Mott Brand
Mott Brand
Benedetto
Leslie Salt
Dixie Etry
Sige
Kix
General Mills Corn
Delicious
Nabisco
Hse
Boyden’s
Nabusco
Hills Bros. Coff Edwards Coffee Maxwell House Coff
NOB Hill Coffee Airway Coffee
Avocados Farry Spa
Ceneta Paneth
N Dee
Inser Yaler
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