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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1938
Page
2
Fragmentary OCR shows 1921 established publisher details for H. G. Comvort in Shafter California. Advertising policies note Yates service and private ads. Entry indicates second class mail matter under March act.
A probing column surveys quirky laws from several states, noting odd statutes in South Carolina Maryland California and Nebraska. It highlights March 15 as the final tax payment date and praises a swift drop in January auto fatalities nationwide while stressing cautious driving as life saving.
Kern County Farm Bureau adopts a resolution supporting Shafter potato growers in opposing Section 10 of the state Net Container Act. The measure would require sacks to be labeled and weighed, but critics say shrinkage alters weight from shipment to sale and potatoes are sold by hundred weight, not by the sack.
Four more cars of drilling mud for the Shafter field, used by the Superior Oil company, arrived here via the Santa Fe.
Sounds recorded in Kern county by E J Sperry of radio station KFAC Los Angeles will be shipped to stations nationwide for use in scripts with an oil field setting.
A weary pair of prospectors recall a youth with maps and a prophecy of black gold. The elder Sills narrates past hopes of gold, while Jack remembers a college map predicting wells that would birth a town into a city of oil wealth.
Santa Fe Railway Co and its Santa Fe Trail Transportation Co and bus subsidiaries regain normal operations. For a large storm flood area, coordinated rail bus truck service bridged washouts, moving 700 stranded passengers from Barstow to Los Angeles and maintaining all schedules pending rail repairs.
Three Seattle enterprisers launch a light hearted response to recession proposing a National Laugh Club. They urge Americans to laugh off hard times and plan local lodges across the country, claiming laughter is wholesome and merciful in a democracy.
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