California Agricultural Forum to Address Valley Water Issue
Central California Agricultural Forum will discuss water problems and modern systemic insecticide use in agriculture at a May 13 meeting in the Palm Room. Dr. R L Metcalf will moderate with Drs Hal Reynolds and Lee Jeppson presenting on systemics in crops and related topics.
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California Agricultural Forum
California
Central California
Metcalf
Hal Reynolds
Lee Jeppson
P. H. McGauhey
University of California Field ‘Station
Richmond
Santa Fe Essay Contest Set For Shafter Festival
Santa Fe launches an essay contest for Shafter school students with prizes of 100 50 and 25 dollars tied to defense bonds. Cash awards plus engineer caps go to entrants from 4th to 13th place. Topic Why I Would Like to Work for Santa Fe Railway ends May 10 1953 with postmark deadline.
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Shafter School
United States Defense
Santa Fe Railway
Santa Fe
Shafter
F. C. Raney
Richland
Raney
San Bernardino
Kern
Starring Kern County Artists to Highlight Spring Festival
The Seventh Annual Spring Festival at the Little Theatre May 13 features two parts. Part I presents intermediate winners of Starring Kern County Artists junior auditions. Part II, An Evening of Chamber Music, spotlights brass string and reed ensembles with Haven Lucas on viola, Susan Hodge, Patricia Pyne, and other Kern Philharmonic artists performing works by Bach, Man ning, Gilberto, Kwanyi and Brahms.
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Carol Buckner Rodgers
Little Theatre
Kern County
Haven
Lucas
Layne Stramler
Racharini
Bach
Caroline Magnuson
Helen Marie Flaming
Berto
Susan Hodge
Kwanyi
Florence Bayles
Edward Anderson
Claude Trainor
Wallace A. Turner
Gaylord Fox Opens New Stationery Gift Shop
Gaylord Fox opened a stationery store and gift shop at 433 Jamies Street after purchasing from Valley Office Supply. The store offers stationery gifts office supplies forms art materials cards and magazines. Fox, with sixteen years at Valley Office Bakersfield, plans to move to Shafter with his wife and two children to run the business.
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Gaylord Fox
Jamies St
Fox
Valley Office Supply Company
Valley Office
Bakersfield
Local Boys Named Shafter Boys State Delegates
Johnny DeVincenzo and Gary Weyand of Shafter High School are appointed delegates to Boys State by the Shafter American Legion. Chosen by teachers for leadership, cooperation, citizenship, loyalty, and scholarship, the juniors will travel to Sacramento this summer with other state delegates, expenses paid by the local Legion chapter.
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Johnny DeVincenzo
Gary Weyand
Shafter High School
American Legion
Shafter
Johnny
John DeVincenzo
Jack Ave
Wibker
Warship Federation
Gary
W.W. W. Weyand
Mettler Ave
Shafter Hi-V
Shafter American Legion
Sacramento
Agricultural Engineers Test Cotton Planters at Shafter Station
Agricultural engineers at the Shafter Experimental Station test three mechanized cotton planters from major farm implement firms. Herb Miller says the trials run during planting season assess efficiency, soil interaction, and operation under local conditions. After testing, engineers analyze results and report effectiveness, with recommendations to manufacturers for adjustments to fit area soil and conditions.
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Shafter
Herb Miller
X-farm
Shelley Bergen Burned Repairing Electric Pump Plant
Shel l enberger was severely burned while making necessary repairs on an electric pumping plant at the Goods ranch. He was replacing a burned out fuse when a large flash occurred and burned his face and hands. He recovered rapidly and is at Cottage Hospital under Dr Ted Worden with bandages being removed.
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Shellenberger
Cottage Hospital
Ted. Worden
New California Bean Growth Circular Issued
A free circular titled Production of Dry Edible Beans in California by UC agronomist Robert W Allard outlines adaptation culture post harvest operations diseases pests weeds and seed production for experienced farmers and those considering planting the crop.
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California
Agricultural Extension Service
UC. Agronomist
Robert W. Allard
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R. L. Metcalf
Department of Entomology
The
University of California Citrus
A. G Mortimore
Tony
Acacia St
Mortimore
San Franciscco
Ean
Colorado
Central Ave
Mrs. Johnson
Bank of America
Bank of America National Trusta'2 Association Insurance CO
New Mexico
Tracy Ranch
Buttonwillow
Ape Ditch
C. W. Sherwin
Patricia Pyne
de George
Katims
William Burton
Harold Hill
Johannes Brahms
Kern Philharmonic Orchestra
Emurtone CO
Calif
Shelley Bergen
24Th St
Los Angeles
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