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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1951
Page
2
A January 1949 meeting in Tulare pits Harrison against doubt as he pitches Acala 4-42 to 2000 valley farmers. He risks the industry’s welfare by urging a switch from known P-18 to the unproven seed, while being mistaken for a laundryman on arrival, yet rising to read his speech before industry leaders.
Perry Brite, Kern County tax collector, announced Standard Oil as the biggest taxpayer with 3 352 692 07. Other major contributors include Pacific Gas and Electric Company 1 406 507 28 and Superior Oil 1 025 463 99. Additional large payers like Kern County Land Company and Southern California Edison are noted. The piece ends with a quip about Acala 442 cottonseed.
Council refused a Thompson street property swap due to heavy opposition. Four owners Balzer Harder Bender and Tudor protested citing garage and sidewalk changes as too costly. Assembly Kelly pledged support for a bill taxing unincorporated areas benefiting from city services. The council backs the bill and will review the 1951-51 budget at the June 25 session.
Kern county businessmen invited to a Controlled Materials Plan Clinic at 8 p.m. tomorrow in the Fittl Theater Harvey Auditorium Bakersfield arranged by the Kern County Chamber of Commerce and conducted by Los Angeles National Production Authority officials including Sidney S. Smith and Fred Warrick. The public clinic focuses on C M P and priority problems. Tuolumne county is noted for the Mother Lode with 22 000 square miles.
Firemen answered three alarms yesterday. The largest blaze involved a tractor on the Clyde Zachary ranch on West Lerda, saving about $900 of the $100 loss. Another fire at 501 Staf ter avenue started from a curtain blowing onto a stove burner and was extinguished on arrival. A third fire involved a car at Five Points owned by Dink Casey with unspecified loss.
Carl Oliver Grant, 36, had his driver's license revoked and faced up to 150 days in Kern County Jail for drunk driving. He could elect jail time or pay a $75 fine as the sentence was handed down by Justice of the Peace E. K. Grant.
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