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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1937
Page
3
Commissioner Burtch notes California law sets minimum sugar content for table grapes to avoid immature fruit. It lists varieties and required percentages, bans packing or selling below standards, and requires inspectors to enforce maturity and defect rules to protect eastern markets.
The state maintains roadside inspection at Sylmar and Tracy to certify shipments entering southern California. Kern County earns praise for grape quality in the eastern market, backed by strict standardization enforcement and county inspector regulation.
A rural oil tale explains why drilling mud is essential in rotary drilling. It details mud’s two main roles: carrying cuttings to the surface and walling the bore to prevent collapse. The Shafter wildcat near town reached two miles deep with oil sand, using no protective pipe.
Governors nationwide to receive copies of Kern county board resolution declaring it will not admit indigents from other counties. The measure cites high maintenance costs and threatens confiscation of property if aid continues, with employable indigents required to work.
Nine veterinarians conduct tuberculosis testing on cattle in San Joaquin County and officials expect the area may be designated a modified risk region soon.
A 25 foot painted plaster map showing California outlines marks the Central Valley water project route from Kennett and Friant Dams. Part of the Alta California exhibit at the State Fair in Socra to, with scrip admission at 25 cents minimum. Other notes cover 4-H and Future Farmers events, a special train for dealers, and multiple regional agricultural updates.
Shatter youths prepare to join a two week summer camp on Brekenbridge mountain sponsored annually by the Cigorian club of Bakersfield. Delegates include Art Penner Ed Duerkesen Herbert Duerksen Eddie Gaede Charles Potter Geneva McCoy and Marjorie McCoy among others.
Union Oil crews located oil at the Shafter field after earlier exploration in 1924. They struck 41 feet of oil sand three miles south of town, then drilled to 6053 feet before abandoning the hole. The early venture stood about a mile and a half west of the present site. a Chine the fifty four acre fruit orchard.
Charles Cummings of Porterville in Tulare county pays 15000 dollars for a new forty acre Barr ranch near Dinuba. Aram Kinosiam is the seller and the deal involves Tuare county and adjacent lands.
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