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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1937
Page
4
The Kern County Chamber weighs alternatives to Arvin for a wildflower festival site. Shafter area offers colorful blooms along the Seventh Standard road parallel, with fields of poppies lupins buttercups and other varieties. Residents are urged to campaign if Shafter wants the event.
The article extols Shafter as the site of a brilliant spectacle and argues its fields and color effects surpass those of rival towns. It emphasizes Shafter’s sincerity and invites support for the display.
A mother sends Jack to find Kate the cow as dusk falls. The boy recalls Kate’s roaming, greens and clover on the hill. He heads to the pasture and leads the cow through the bars, a simple rural scene of a country lad and his mother's cow.
At Visalia training, over 70 Kern Tulare Fresno and Madera leaders backed a plan to boost 1986 Farm Bureau membership by at least 30 percent in 1987, with a goal to reach 33 000 members from 25 000. The conference highlighted Farm Bureau achievements in legislative gains and rural welfare. E C Eckmann of Shafter attended the school.
Various brief items report a missing explorer located by a flyer 300 miles from Georgetown BC, banana peel cotton textile work in Manchester, Mount Mihara eruption survivor, Italian liner Rex wrecks, tax and oil rights moves, Sherman Act cases, deaths of judges and public figures, strikes in progress, accidents, and regional developments across the United States including California pine flood aftershocks, traffic initiatives, and local government updates.
Two automobiles collided at the Shafter highway and Fresno road intersection injuring neither driver. Raymond R. Rains of Shafter had the wrecked car while Clarence Mitchell of Wasco drove the other vehicle. Investigating officers attributed the crash to the accident conditions at the scene.
Steps are being taken toward the incorporation of Wasco with strong enthusiasm reported from neighboring towns. Local leaders push for formal governance and taxable benefits as residents show support.
A petition filed February 23, 1937 by Kern County Supervisors seeks to close vacate and abolish portions of roads in Shafter Townsite First Road District. Public hearing set for March 29 at 11:00 A.M. in the Board of Supervisors room.
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