Fires and community notes from Shafter and Kern County
Local column from Shafter chronicles fires at the Shafter Drug Store and Halepoff home, a vehicle accident injuring a driver, and a Boy Scout trip. It also reports Kern County cotton output, Bank of Italy deposits, a home construction project, and county fairgrounds purchase by the board of supervisors.
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Shafter
E. B. Stringham
Halepoff
Otto Zimmerman
Ed Unruh
Arvin
Shafter Boy Scouts
C. A. Campbell
Ivan Stone
Ivan
J. W. Leslie
University of California
Riverside
Daniel Voth
Helena Gaede
California
Kern County
Department of Commerce
Bureau of Census
Bank of Italy
W. E. Rose
William Handel
Ludwig Mettler
August Mettler
John Wudrich
Lodi
Rosedale
Orvin Mettler
Herbert Midgley
San Franisco
Ed Isaac
Stockton
P. Isaac
E. Temple
Voters favor familiar figures ahead of 1940 campaign
Voters show no clear urge to back newcomers, with Democrats leaning to John Garner or Jim Farley for the presidential nomination. Republicans largely support Senator Vandenberg of Michigan and believe fall campaigns will signal the political weather for 1940.
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American Institute of Public Opinion
John Garner
Jim Farley
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
U S Navy Opens Wide Pacific War Games
In a vast Pacific triangle covering 12 million square miles, the U S Navy begins extensive mock warfare through late April. About 80 000 sailors aboard ships simulate combat using searchlights, dummy bombs, and smoke devices to test defense rather than aggression in a peace time exercise.
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Pacific
U. S. Navy
America
Kentucky man faces $7.40 tax bill in federal inquiry
A Kentucky man with a $400 monthly salary complains that someone else took his job, car, home, and wife while he endures a $7.40 federal income tax. He vows to begin paying by working in the Internal Revenue Department, but Uncle Sam refuses.
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America
Kentucky
Department of Internal Revenue
Sam
World Around Us shows newspapers still read by 91 percent
A University of Chicago survey reveals 91 percent of America's adults read a newspaper. The study counters fears that magazines or radio would end papers, stressing the home town paper provides the full picture of the world and people around us.
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University of Chicago
America
Ledétne
American Slang and Radio Talk in the King’s English
The piece shows aviation and radio slang such as skipping through the upper air and a flying helmet, explains terms like fuzzy canary belcher and bugs, and notes that phrases like bust the fan and kill the broad have radio or film industry meanings rather than literal crimes or birds.
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Noah Webster
Belcher
Sally Rand
Hampton Restores Eunice Cole to Honor After Witch Trial
Citizens of Hampton New Hampshire gathered in the town meeting house to burn old documents of the 1656 Eunice Cole witchcraft accusations and to reverently re inter her ashes. The action seeks exoneration after centuries and serves as a warning against mass prejudice in legal cases.
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Hampton
N. H
Eunice Cole
Old Town
Early potato crop in Shafter promises good prices
In the Shafter district warm fields now show green growth as potato crops advance toward harvest. Early yields look promising with potential high prices if the weather stays frost-free. The Shafter Farm Center met at the school house with talks by Richard Stansbury L. W. Taylor Whit Barber and Tom Burke. George Straus was hospitalized with an infected knee.
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Shafter
Shafter Farm Center
Richard Stansburry
L. W. Taylor
Whit Barber
Tom Burke
George Straus
Olare
Kern County Sees Vast Potential Farm Acreage
A UC and USDA soil survey shows about 535000 acres of first class farming land in Kern County with additional irrigable land limited by hardpan subsoil or alkali. 1937 crop survey cites around 275000 acres irrigated and notes much good land could double with adequate irrigation water, though some areas are hard to reach for new water under the Central Valley project.
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Kern County
University of California
United States Department of Agriculture
R.E. Storie
Division of Soils
College of Agriculture
N. D. Hudson
Hudson
New Sudan Grass Variety 23 Boosts Yields Over Old Type
University of California tests show Sudan No. 23 yielding from 15 to 50 percent more green forage than the common Sudan Grass. Dairymen planning pasture in 1938 are urged to secure Sudan No. 23 seed for higher per acre production, with gains up to 10,000 pounds of green weight.
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University of California
Sudan
Davis Picnic Day to Feature Major Horse Show
The largest horse show at Davis campus will anchor Davis Picnic Day on April 23 led by Picnic Day chair Charles Fenn and the Davis Riding Club. Bleachers for 2,000 fans, a ring, tan bark, and a big corral set the scene. Five classes include gaited horses, jumpers, reined horses, stock horses, and stallions in hand with trophies and ribbons for winners. Cups donated by campus friends and Sacramento merchants.
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Davis
Charles Fenn
The
Davis Riding Club
Sacramento
Northern California Horse Show Sees Entry Rush
Sixteen students have entered the show while ten noted horsemen and horsewomen from Northern California intend to compete. The event features a stake race, a pleasure horse class in two parts, a jumping class at four feet six inches and five foot jumps, an open division, and a musical chairs contest.
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California
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