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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1954
Page
9
Fragmentary advertisement lists multiple land tracts and lots with section township ranges and parcel descriptors. Names include Willis George and Willis John R with various lot and tract references and surrounding coordinates. the garbled text references sizes and lot positions but is unreadable in places.
Kern County residents invested over 2.18 million dollars in U S Series E and H Savings Bonds during the first half of 1954. Harold A. Witham, bond activities chairman, reported the county total at 2,184,389.16, up 13.4 percent from the prior year. June sales reached 397,009.34 of the period’s total.
Fresno District Liquor Administrator A. S. Madden reminds license holders off sale state licenses must be renewed by July end or face automatic revocation. Renewals for off sale licenses suspend July 1 and revoke August 1. on sale licenses renew in December.
Governor Goodwin J. Knight calls June Speed Control Month under the National Safety Council campaign Speed Kills Take It Easy sponsored by the California Association of Insurance Agents and local associations. He urges motorists to curb speed, cooperate with police, and reduce highway fatalities by 25 to 35 percent in a month.
Pacific Gas and Electric weekly water summary notes good conditions on lakes and main streams, while hot weather pushes small streams below ideal fishing levels. Reservoir-supported rivers from Feather to Kern remain favorable through summer. Mossy Pit River sections appear early.
Civilian employment in California increased by 35 000 from May to June raising total employment to 4 930 000 the year’s high but 39 000 below 1953. Unemployment grew by 9 000 in the same period with graduates entering the labor market and total unemployed at 243 000 versus 160 000 a year earlier.
California fishing license sales reached an all-time May high with 231 000 licenses issued at 3 each. Department director Seth Gordon notes a rising long term trend with 1953 monthly and 1952 annual records surpassed, as five month totals through May show 534 000 licenses sold and efforts to increase fish crops continue.
License sales climb boosting funds for stocking and habitat work but each new fisherman's catch adds strain on California wildlife resources. Replenishment grows more costly as pressure increases.
In August 1925 A L Schellenberg editor of Hillsboro Forward was expected to arrive in Shafter to visit his brother David Schellenberg and other relatives and friends.
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