Shafter Residents Demand Santa Fe Train Signals
A letter to Mr. Santa Fe pleads for warning signals at Lerdo road and Shafter highway after repeated near misses at the crossing. Residents note high speeds on trains and assert railroad officials should fund signals without threats of bankruptcy, warning they may appeal to the railroad commission if ignored.
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Santa Fe
Shafter Highway
Shafter
Lerdo Road
Mr. Santa Fe
Railroad Commission
Helicopter Flight Foretold As Family Airplane
Nine bids were submitted to the U S Army for a slow hovering helicopter type. The bids show serious interest by helicopter designers, signaling potential for private and commercial use and a future family aircraft.
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United States Army
Army
Air Corp
Water Deposit Rule Aims to Check City Water Use
Shafter Public Utility district passes an ordinance requiring a 2.50 deposit to turn on water for rental properties. Refunds after discontinuance or one year. Rules prohibit waste, mandate shutting water off during fires, restrict yard use to 4 a.m. to 10 p.m., and charge full rent for vacated premises. Also notes U-235 energy substance with potential global power impact.
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Shafter Public Utility District
Power and Gas Companies
Attention Requested for a Possible Meeting
The speaker asks to bring issues to attention and inquires about arranging a meeting with Mr. Santa Fe. The tone suggests a polite request rather than a demand, emphasizing reasonableness and the hope for a constructive discussion.
New Deal Propaganda Over Corporate Gains Masks Unemployment
The piece condemns Democratic claims that rising corporate earnings prove recovery, arguing 1939 profits don’t reflect real health as mass unemployment remains at 10 million. It notes declines in farm market income and exports during the New Deal era, with widespread labor strife in seven years.
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Democratic National Committee
Mos
New Deal
New York
Franklyn Waltman on New Deal impact and dividend checks
The speaker cites annual employment averages and dividend figures to argue the nation remains economically ill and that typical workers lack job security under the New Deal. He contrasts high dividends with the scant gains for factory and farm workers.
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United States
Messrs
Roosevelt
Farley
Michelson
UC Lecturer Illus trates outdoors impact with dream of world leaders
Visalia Times Delta reports Dr Joel Hildebrand a California dean imagines five dictators Stalin Mussolini Chamberlain Hitler and Daladier visiting a Sierra ski lodge The Terra Bella News notes Supreme Justice Frank Murphy’s opinion influencing California anti picketing ordinance during a Michigan sit down strike
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Visalia
Stalin
Mussolini
Chamberlain
Hitler
Daladier
High Sierra
California
Terra Bella News
Supreme Justice
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Shafter Victorious In Local Baseball Clash At Wasco
Shafter beat Wasco 18 to 17 in a heated game with Johnny Schultz homering twice. Ralph Janzen and Ed Hein starred in the Shafter battery while Wasco seeks a rematch to regain pride.
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Shafter
Wasco
Shafter Boys
Johnny Schultz
Ralph Janzen
Ed Hein
Janzen
California Speaks on Politics and Public Life
A composite column quotes California figures criticizing political targets. R C Fleharty parodies closeness of Eleanor Roosevelt to publicity. Ed Vandeleur defends modeling as labor while A F of L objections are aired. Governor Culbert Olson laments outside influence on the Patterson primary. Lt Governor Ellis Patterson attacks the governor as a phony liberal. John Joseph Murphy of Salinas chides a son’s view of his hobo father with a wry Noah’s Ark metaphor.
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R. C. Fleharty
Patterson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Evalin Strayer
Ss. F- Model
A. F
L. Czar
Ed Vandeleur
Vandeleur
Culbert Olson
America
Ellis Patterson
John Joseph Murphy
Salinas
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Kern County
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Een LG Sar
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New York Sun
Emory
Southern California Gas Company
Board of Supervisors
Coast
Los Angeles
J. J. Siemens
North American Royalties Co
McVey
Royalties’ Company
C. P. Morgan
Kern County Federation of Women’s Clubs
W. B. Camp
American Home Department
W. J Vogel
Wasco Progressive Club
S. ‘V Frigate
Wasco Club
California Federation of Women’s Clubs
San Diego
Morgan
Modesto
Maple School
Bakersfield
Golden State Highway
Kern River
Wilma Hammond
Hanford
Kings River Canyon
E. A. Waldo
Santa Ana
Sargent
Calfornia
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