Epitome of the Week's News Highlights
A roundup of global incidents spans a $600 fine, a pilot missing on a Manila to Paracale flight with $30,000 payroll, Japan abandoning salmon research ships to Alaska, and Canada ruling taxes on Alberta bank bills invalid. Also noted are Caspian Sea rescue, Belgium fog prevention, Olympic doubt, crashes in India and the U S, and various law and local events with multiple named people and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burton G. Hall
Manila
Paracale
Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Tokio
Japan
Alaska
Supreme Court of Canada
Alberta
Caspian Sea
Belgium
Meuse
Sugiyama
Datia
India
Prince Wilhelm Schaumberg- Lippe
Principality of
Schaumberg-Lippe
Shafter Man Leases Land Amid Oil Agreements
Adolf Kirschenmann and others lease land to Union Oil Company dated December 28 1937. One eighth royalty with five year drilling clause. Property: south half of the southeast quarter of Section 20 and southwest quarter of Section 21 27 26 in Shafter area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adolf Kirschenmann
Et al
Union Oil Company
Shafter Adopts Uniform Building Code Ordinance No Eight
Shafter City Council adopts the Pacific Coast Building Officials Conference Uniform Building Code by reference as the city building code. The ordinance passed February 28 1938 with no opposition and was introduced February 21 1938. Clerk confirms official copy and seal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
State of
California
Re Mavor
Axe
Reales City
Aves
Channelor
Mideley
Nav
Strom
Fair
Noes
City of
Raymond 1
TVR
Oe wen To Build On California Avenue
Dan Loewen purchased three lots from Kern County Land Co on the south side of California avenue near Santa Fe. He plans a six room modern stucco building on two lots and a plumbing shop with fixture display on the third. Construction to start immediately. Say you saw it in The Press. Rosedale School Grant Allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Ingram
McFarland
M. M. Taggart
Clair Edwards
Hollywood
Bakersfield
Golden State Highway
Ernest Fudicker
M. S. Platz
Omar Ahmann
Nellie Clare Mahoney
Greenhorn
Big Creek
Clyde Wallace
TWA
Kernville
Robert Fleming
Kern County Christian Endeavor Society
Arvin
Mohawk Oil Company
John Forsythe
Raymond McIntosh
Sierra County
Kern County
Emil Delgado
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Sacramento
United States
Dan Loewen
Kern County Land Company
California Avenue
Santa Fe
Loewen
WPA Grants 23002 Dollars To Rosedale Union School District
The WPA approved a grant of 23002 dollars to the Rosedale Union School District to upgrade school facilities and fund the construction of required buildings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WPA
Rosedale Union School
Richland Students Present Tom Sawyer Operetta
Richland seventh and eighth graders stage Tom Sawyer in three acts at the Richland grammar school auditorium on March 25 and 26. The cast promises excitement humor and pathos as Tom Huck and the gang evoke childhood memories and adventures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Richland Grammar School
Tom Sawyer
Tom
Huck
Tom la
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John J. Pershing
Tuscon
Arizona
Donald M. Erb
University of Oregon
Thomas B. Bell
Kansas
Berengaria
New York
Lee Ashley
Warsaw
Missouri
James Lincoln Hartley
Tacoma
Washington
Congress
Hartley
Schwellenbach
Glenn Cunningham
Corpus Christi
Texas
Marie Soliday
New Castle
Indiana
Gunner Barland
Buddy Baer
Lizie Bennett
Laura Hickman
Forest Grove
Oregon
Philadelphia
Supreme Court
Jay Neil Dirlam
Mansfield
Ohio
Ceest
Cupid
Rancourt
Sabasters
Maine
LeRoy Morgan
Oakland
Joe Crail
Los Angeles
Spencer St. John
Monterey County
Robert P. Scripps
Santa Margarita Island
Monterey
William Henry Carpenter
el Dorado County
Rescue
Cleveland
Skippy
High Sierra
Flemming
San Jose
Thomas Rhoades
Mount Ayr
Town
Shafter Man
Hay
J. H. Becker
H.E. Wall
Wall Tract
P. H. Kroeker
Tulare Street
A. R. Neufeld
Ben Giesbrecht
P. H.dirksen
North Shafter
Hugo Zimmerman
Kimberlina
Wasco Road
McNess
Reedley
H. H. Eit
Penn
H. P. Smeltzer
Goede Cabin
Shafter Press
Calif
Dustesen
San Joaquin Valley
Crisco
del Monte
Libby
Durkee
Justesen's
del Monte Tomato
Scott Towels
Ivory
Hershey
Folger’s Coffee
Meat Department
Scottissue
Sam Toxo Cars
Wachets
OEWEN
Rosedale School
Grant
Hannibal
Old
Mississippi
Huck Finn
Joe Harper
Ben Rogers
Beck Thatcher
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