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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1936
Page
4
In Shafter California voters are urged to register for the May 5 presidential primary. The piece stresses citizenship duty, warns against wasted election costs, and notes the responsibility of Californians to express opinions through ballots in a national election year.
Jackson H. Ralston of Palo Alto a retired international lawyer writes to the State Board of Equalization questioning the board’s advisory role to voters on taxation. He notes a Death Valley meeting on March 10 and questions who funded it and the authority behind resolutions claiming repeal of the sales tax would imperil school funding and force ruinous ad valorem taxes.
Judge Ralston challenges the Board’s right to advise voters as an official body. He argues that schools create and maintain land values, while business, necessities and industry should pay education expenses, noting the conflict with property owners and large landholders.
Ward remarks on Long Beach life comparing it to a mix of sailors and retired farmers. He notes the town’s activity centers on sailors while farmers remain underrepresented, a scene Long Beach papers may find useful to copy.
Pauline Gator presents spring imagery in the San Joaquin Valley where flowers symbolize diverse races. Each blossom is described as a race and child of Mother Earth, sharing a common tongue and song yet wild and untamed compared to cultivated garden blooms.
In San Jose a defendant William E. Mason, 80, of San Francisco, failed to recite a tongue twister in court citing a speech impediment. Evidence introduced showed he could be sober yet still struggle with the line around the rock the ragged rascal ran.
Mr and Mrs Fadenrecht of Shafter visited relatives in Armona Sunday, sharing time with family and catching up on news.
The ninth Interstate Junior Livestock and Baby Beef Show arrives by train of 40 cars in South San Francisco April 4 for a five day event at Union Yard. Exhibitors from Utah Idaho Nevada and California compete in baby beef lambs and hogs with 1700 youth and chaperones present. A dormitory tent rises at the stockyards to house boy exhibitors while girl exhibitors and mothers stay at Bellevue Hotels.
A U S Department report cited by Kern county farm advisor M A Lindsay shows California farm labor averaged $2.50 per day without board in 1936, tied for highest with Massachusetts. South Carolina paid 70 cents with workers supplying board, while Western states averaged 2.36 with Georgia at 15.75 per month without board.
The report from the U S Department of Agriculture places Kern County farm labor at the highest level in the United States, elevating local labor practices and productivity in context of national agriculture.
A group of Shafter veterans traveled to Bakersfield Sunday for a county wide reception honoring James E. Van Zandt national commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The event began with a breakfast at the El Tejon Hotel.
The University of California Farm at Davis reports a rare twin foal event as Sally, a horse, gives birth to a boy and a girl foal. Sally has limited vision due to an old fence accident leaving her with one eye to care for her twins.
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