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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1960
Page
10
See Your Concrete Pipe Yard reports daily stock at Snow Irrigation Supply Co. The item highlights concrete pipe inventory and irrigation fittings with potential pricing notes. Local notices emphasize availability for contractors and municipalities.
The guide outlines planting shade trees this ideal month to promote early root growth. It suggests quick growing annual Alyssum to edge bulb beds, notes Fuchsias bloom on new wood and advise pruning hard. It also recommends a weed killer now to reduce lawn competition and moving Camellias and Azaleas during bloom with moist roots.
Massey Ferguson plans a 38 000 square foot two story engineering and laboratory center north of the present Detroit facilities to consolidate product design for North America excluding combines and swathers. Completion is targeted for June, with existing space rehabbed and dynamometer testing added. The company posted 1959 net income of 21 018 93 including 7 200 000 tax credits, vs 1958 13 025 282. world sales reached 491 947 763, the highest in company history, driven by North American gains and lower cost of goods sold.
Repayments totaling 3 748 333 dollars from 207 districts under the 1952 program and 1 465 948 dollars from the 1949 program will be applied toward custodial balances. The burden falls on taxpayers, with Compton Union High School district owing 450 609 under the 1949 plan and Bakersfield districts totaling 156 690 37 across Mojave Unified High and Vineland. Shafter is not among the districts required to pay.
A compiled item recalls educators moving from New York to California including a teacher who sought a Long Beach post and a Beardsley School vacancy in Bakersfield. It notes local club activities at Ebenezer Reformed Church and mentions Miss Lydia Bender and Bethel Mertz among others. Taxes in Texas section ends the piece.
A local church invites residents to attend services this Sunday with a focus on community outreach and fellowship led by Pastor key pe WELCOME.
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