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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1938
Page
2
An item notes a publisher in Shafter Kern County California with Thursday issues. It mentions office location Central Avenue and advertising terms payable in advance. The text references an August entry and a 1935 post office matter under the 979 Act.
The document discusses mounting costs from 1929 debts and failed prosperity lessons, urging Americans to pressure Congress to stop costly stimulus. It notes Kern County’s reliance on migrant labor for crops and lists seven inquiry topics on relief misuse, subversive camp activities, and motives for labor mobility.
Dr. J Leon Lazarowitz, labeled a wandering expert, was released from a local jail on vagrancy charges and spoke at Hollister High School. He defined a real hobo as one driven by wanderlust who offers labor for shelter and food after roaming about 1000 miles from his home state.
Pete Miller and Henry Miller of Shafter harvest a 40 acre potato crop yielding over 200 sacks per acre on average. P D Enns ships onion crop from Shafter earning $350 on under an acre. Sol Camp reports a cotton blossom pick and seedless grapes ripen in June. Last day of May potato car counts rise from 87 to 230 as prices hold firm. F E Mannel begins cutting.
The afternoon diversion included prizes with Mrs FW Zier bert winning first and Mrs BG eo second. Dozens of locals attended a Kiddie Camp visit, a Mennonite Sunday school picnic at Mooney grove, and a school honor roll listing Poplar school students such as Austin Baker Earl Walker May Haag Clyde Walker Beulah Walker Edward Haag Opal Baker Catherine Dequine Myrtle Haag Helen Neufeld Ellenor Rowlee Clifford Rowlee Clifford Porter Cecil Haag Dorothy Sargent Clara Dequine Allen Vandam Elsie Newfeld. Mrs Lawrence Haggerty and Mrs E B Stringham plan trips to Chicago and Long Beach respectively.
Shafter high school principal E. P. Janés addressed seniors about future vocations at a class meeting. He endorsed Bakersfield Junior College as a next step but warned students to prepare for the required English examination before entry.
Coaches and managers will meet under H. J. Hath to discuss summer ball in Shafter and Wasco and to enter teams in the county summer league. J. W. Wilson planned a city league but summer school prevents action. No substitute organizer has volunteered yet as interest lags.
Fire reported Sunday afternoon on Central Avenue damaged a car belonging to Jesse Stockton of Bakersfield. Firefighters responded quickly and extinguished the blaze after the engine backfired, ending the incident with no further injuries noted.
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