Salute to Pioneers Inspires Shafter Festival Tribute
The Shafter Press presents a special edition honoring the annual Potato and Cotton festival and the pioneers who built Shafter’s agricultural wealth. It praises the community’s vitality, German heritage in parts, and a generation of resilient farmers, noting water and land development challenges ahead and speculation on future leadership and energy from younger residents.
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Shafter Press
Shafter
n.Cottonestival
America
Kern County
Water districts unite to push Central Valley Project action
Upper San Joaquin Valley irrigation districts form a single front to urge Washington to clear water rights blocking Central Valley Project delivery. Individual districts such as Shafter Wasco lack influence alone.
Call for federal action to clear water rights for Central Valley Project
A 1921 editorial urges Washington to resolve water rights to advance the Central Valley Project. It warns Rank vs Krug litigation could block delivery to upper San Joaquin districts and calls irrigation districts, including Shafter-Wasco, to unite and press for title clearance.
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Rank Vs. Krug
Central Valley Project
Mosquito Abatement Districts Shape Kern County History
The Kern Mosquito Abatement District formed in 1917 to control malaria near Bakersfield grew through annexations to 972 square miles by 1947. The district pursued spray programs and water management, facing insecticide limits in 1952 and emphasizing area water reduction and cooperative irrigation practices. It notes historic efforts in 1903 04 and 1910 and early trials near Burlingame and Penryn. It also records local society items: Elmer Isaacs welcomed a daughter Nancy Josephine on Oct 10 1937 and notes a 1926 rail shipment of 569 carloads of Shafter potatoes and a Miss West from Glendale teaching at Richland School in fall 1925.
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University of California
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Potato Industry Embraces Free Enterprise and Growth
The article argues for free enterprise in the potato industry, stressing independent thought, minimal government regimentation, and strong individual leaders. It notes extensive research by USDA and other groups, calls for cooperation across regions, and highlights rapid production gains with 1953 planting at about 1.509 million acres and potential yields up to 375 million bushels.
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United States Department of Agriculture
USDA
Potato Growers Seek Markets Beyond Fewer Pots
A historical report notes potato growers face the task of proving efficiency in marketing their product to expand markets, just as they have improved production methods. The piece frames a shift from farming efficiency to market expansion to boost demand.
Miss Carrie Boyd Visits Porterville After Christmas 1925
Miss Carrie Boyd went to Porterville soon after Christmas in 1925 to spend a few days with her sister Mrs. Dick Oglesby.
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Carrie Boyd
Porterville
Dick Oglesby
Svecs Spend Christmas at Daughter Mrs Lee Armstrong Home
Mr and Mrs Frank Svec spent Christmas in 1925 at the home of their daughter, Mrs Lee Armstrong, according to a brief family note.
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Frank Svec
Lee Armstrong
Cy Pearce Serves With Coast Guard
Cy M. Pearce serves aboard the U S Coast Guard Cutter Vance as engineman third class. He is the son of Mr and Mrs O L Pearce of 233 Elm Street. Pearce enlisted in December 1950 in Los Angeles and trained at the U S Coast Guard Training Center Alameda after graduating from Shafter High School.
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Cy M. Pearce
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Los Angeles
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Coast Guard
Shafter High School
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E R. Dick Smith
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Elmer Isaacs
Nancy Josephine
Shafter District
West of
Glendale
Richland School
National Potato Council
KTKR
Shafter Cotton
Kruger Farm Supply
Robert Neuman & Sons
Cy Pearce
Standard Oil Company of California
Standard Man
Ray Albert Wasco
Ameerica
Oldsmobile
Genarels Motors
Rocket
Engin
Woodard Motor CO
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