Shafter-Tied for First in Hardball League
Behind Bill Woop three hit pitching the Adamson Thompson Truckers defeated Kern county league 8 to 0 to reach a two way tie for first. Woop struck out 15 and allowed three singles in a complete game win. The team has seven wins and two losses with games set for 8 15 p m at Sam Lynn Park Bakersfield against Matherfield. Players Bill Boyd and Jack Thompson play for Shafter.
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Bill Woop
Adamson-Thompson Truckers
Woop
Sam Lynn
Shafter
Bill Boyd
Jack Thompson
Roses Thrive in San Joaquin Valley Gardens
The article extols growing roses in the San Joaquin Valley, praising sun exposure and long bloom life. It outlines care tips including regular feeding from spring through fall, nitrogen for vegetative growth, and phosphorus and potash for root and overall plant health. It notes deficiencies and remedies such as ammonium sulfate and bonemeal.
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San Joaquin Valley
Chain Lashes Out Over Milk Price Controls
Safeway Stores argues in Kings County Superior Court that milk price controls amount to bureaucratic maladministration and favor a small group of distributors. The brief contends the Desmond Act was misused to enrich powerful milk distributors and seeks abolition of minimum resale price setting as unconstitutional.
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Safeway Stores, Incorporated
Kings County Superior Court
State Bureau of Milk Control
Safeway
Bureau
Bob Bann Named Top Salesman at Shafter Banquet
Bob Bann of radio station KWSO in Shafter received the Top Salesman award from the Central Valley Empire Association. Also at the banquet were T. G Heinrichs James C Hodges and Irvin E Fike from Shafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Bann
Cross Street
Tony Brown
Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Bann
Central Valley Empire Association
Shafter
KWSO
T. G Heinrichs
James C. Hodges
Irvin E. Fike
Glory of the Fourth and the Olympic Dream for California
The Shafter Press salutes the Fourth of July as a declaration of human dignity and unalienable rights. It lauds California for securing the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley through state unity, foresight, and civic cooperation led by Governor Knight and local bodies.
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City Park
Dempsey
Jess Willard
Placer County
Squaw Valley
California
Goodwin Knight
Pearl Mesta
California Hosts United Nations Delegates
California served with distinction as host to United Nations delegates from around the world, highlighting a notable international gathering in the state.
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California
United Nations
Potato Board Seeks Public Hearing on Marketing Order
The California Long White Potato Advisory Board asks the state Director of Agriculture to hold a public hearing in Bakersfield around September 15 1955 to allow testimony to terminate modify suspend or amend the Long White Potato Marketing Order. Board manager Donald F Maupin says producers should freely express views on all aspects of the order. MISS BARBARA WROTEN is spending the summer at a Girl Scout camp at Dinky Creek, 70 miles east of Fresno.
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California
Long White Potato Advisory Board
California Director of Agriculture
Bakersfield
Donald F. Maupin
Barbara Wroten
Dan Wroten
Dinky Creek
Fresno
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Tony Curtis
Gloria DE Haven
Gene Nelson
Corinne Calvet
Paul Gilbert
del Kern Theatre
Zanzibar
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