Increase in Machine Use Will Relieve Manpower Shortages
California Farm Labor Service estimates a threefold rise in machine harvesting for the 1966 canning tomato crop to reduce hand labor needs. Peak shortages are forecast for the week ending September 17 with about 5,000 man-weeks missing. Machines are expected to pick 60 percent of 3,032,000 tons from 92,000 machine-picked acres, while 59,600 acres will be hand-picked. Additional notes cover prior year comparisons, foreign labor certification possibilities, and competing crops drawing labor.
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California Department of Employment
Farm Labor Service
Sacramento
Albert B. Tieburg
Tieburg
Mel Jans named manager of Stockdale Development Corp
Mel Jans, formerly manager of Wheeler Ridge Farming Company and Kern County Land Company subsidiary, is appointed manager of Stockdale Development Corporation replacing Lee C. Philips who resigned. Jans, a 1950 North Dakota Agricultural College graduate, has a background as irrigation and hydraulic engineer with the U S Bureau of Reclamation and KCL water resources staff.
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Bakersfield
Mel Jans
Wheeler Ridge Farming Company
Kern County Land Company
Stockdale Development Corporation
KCL
Lee C. Philips
Jans
North Dakota Agricultural College
U. S. Bureau of Reclaimation
Minot
N. D
Tracy
Calif
William E. Rand
Project Marker Unveiled in Kern County Celebrations
One of Kern County’s most impressive historical markers was unveiled on Friday July 7 as part of festivities for the arrival of Central Valley Project water in the Arvin Edison Water Storage District. A large redwood marker will stand along Bear Mountain Boulevard naming the Sycamore Spreading Works, a core Arvin Edison Project facility. The marker funding group includes Bidart Bros Giamarra Corp John Kovacevich and many local farms and businesses.
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Kern County
Central Valley Project
Arvin-Edison
Bear Mountain Boulevard
Sycamore
Arvin- Edison
Bidart Bros
Giamarra Corp
John Kovacevich
David and
Betty Moore
John C. Moore
John Patterson
Robert P. Mettler
Hugh Jewett
Haddad Bros
Ned Smith
Muzinich Farms
Opal Fry
Lee Herring
Floyd Hadburg
Clarisse Haberfelde
Berchtold Equipment
Ewald Goehring
Harry Hake
Gideon Goehring
Sara O’hare
Kern County fair exhibit to rise 26 feet for state fair
Kern County plans a 26 foot tall futuristic display at the California State Fair in Sacramento with the theme Stage coach to Spacecraft. The moon rocket centerpiece will survey Kern County’s 100 years of progress and showcase agricultural mineral industrial and petroleum products. The exhibit moves to Pomona for the Los Angeles County Fair after Sept 11 and features space age animators and a crane operator among 100 blue ribbon products.
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Kern County
Sacramento
Kern County Board of Trade
Pomona
Los Angeles’ County
James Radoumis
Board of Trade
C. Seldon Morley
E. Alan Pettit
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Project Marker
George Guenther
Ed Jensen
Jamestown
Keith Sacramento
Batersfield
Fieldcrest
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