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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1938
Page
6
A quirky instruction piece suggests quick baking and serving ideas. It touts bacon and eggs with a focus on a modern, high powered oven range and easy steps. The text mentions keeping food warm, ready plating, and serving bread promptly.
Maurine Boradori of Southern California Gas Co will lead the Modern School of Gas Cookery at Richland Grammar School Auditorium on April 5 and 6. She will show efficient kitchen layouts and demonstrate Electrolux gas refrigerators and a modern gas range to help local home managers avoid a lazy kitchen and handle the six o'clock rush with ease.
W Handel emphasizes crop diversification on his property in Shafter. He grows potatoes and cotton alongside a Red Emperor and Carignan grape vineyard and Santa Rosa plums. This fall three acres of carrots and eleven of lettuce were planted, forming possibly the largest areas in the Shafter region. Weather and soil conditions boost expected yields.
Puzzle page presents a jumble of cryptic style clues and partial answers across multiple rows. Entries include references to a racing improvement law, nights hero, mutton, nervous, fabric, a female deer, a South American city, and other numbered clues. The grid shows scattered letter patterns and missing letters awaiting the next issue for solution.
The University of California Scripps Institution of Oceanography will launch an intensive study on oil bearing rock formation funded by a $1,200 grant from the Geological Society of America to Dr Roger Revelle. The work analyzes marine sediments off the west coast of North America and their link to California's sedimentary rocks containing the oil.
California state election calendar lists key dates from June to November 1938. It covers naturalization, registration, nomination papers, absentee ballots, primary and general election deadlines, and state party meetings at the Sacramento capitol.
Kern County farmers increasingly seek emergency crop loans under the Kern Office of the Agricultural Adjustment Agency in Bakersfield. Beatrice Kitch says loan checks reach holders about ten days after applications are complete and mailed to growers. Loans cover all crops including grain and cotton and may pay for fertilizer spray materials gas oil pumps and feed. The maximum loan is four hundred dollars per borrower.
Kern county ranked third among 58 counties for automobile deaths in 1937. State figures show Los Angeles leading with 1,001 deaths and Alameda with 181. Kern recorded 145.
In 1925 Mr and Mrs Fred Wesner moved to a five acre ranch in Shafter and developed a successful poultry operation. The farm houses 800 White Leghorn laying hens in clean modern buildings with concrete floors and open screened fronts. Wesner notes careful flock management and a home mixed feed using yellow corn wheat barley milo maize and bran. Alfalfa is grown for green feed and milo maize is partially raised.
Enlargement and remodeling of Shafter station began Monday with E Colclough and two carpenters laying out the work. Plans include a waiting room, two new restrooms, enlarged offices, and full repainting. The station will be rushed to be ready for the spud harvest with two teletype printers installed for the expanded clerical staff.
High school journalism students and their teachers from across the state will gather March 24 to 26 on the University of California Berkeley campus for the annual spring high school press conference. About five hundred students are expected for lectures demonstrations and entertainment by the Associated Students. Prizes for high school publications will be awarded. Speakers include John B. Long of the California Newspaper Publishers Association John B. Hughes radio news commentator and Charles H. Raymond head of journalistic studies at the university.
A China Inland Mission telegram to Peter Kohfeld in Vancouver reports Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Kohfeld and their son Byron left Hankow by train on March 6 for Canton and Hongkong. The family, missing for three months, is now said to be safe.
Richland indoor teams have played eight games to date and show mixed success. The standings place the Cubs first, Witte second, Eagles and Giants third, and the Drillers in last.
Observers note that as planets move against the backdrop of stars they seem to drift backward before continuing their path, forming a full loop across the heavens before resuming forward motion.
The Commercial club has been active for three years with P. L. Arnold serving as faculty advisor.
Five more cars of oil well casing were unloaded in the Santa Fe yards this week. The shipment was consigned to the Superior Oil Company.
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