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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1939
Page
2
A terse advertisement lists H. G. Comfort as publisher with a Thursday publication schedule. It provides a subscription price per year, a contact location at 169 Central Avenue Shafter Kern County California, and references a 1879 Act with a telegraph-like note.
High school band and singing groups under Shafter Rotary sponsorship present a benefit program at Richland Auditorium to raise money for uniforms. The effort aims to support community representation and boost school pride amid state funding limits.
A discussion recalls early doubters of innovations like radio and flight. A. D. McFadyen cites Lee deForest and Wright brothers to show how seemingly impossible ideas later become commonplace. The moral: stating it can't be done is replaced by what remains undone for now.
Bureau of Reclamation engineers describe the Friant Kern canal as a young river with initial capacity around 1 500 second feet. The concrete lined channel runs 30 feet wide at the bottom and 68 feet at the surface, extending 160 miles from Friant dam to the Kern river near Bakersfield. Water storage comes from Friant dam on the San Joaquin river, designed to rise about 300 feet and span 3 500 feet crest to crest. the Madera canal will divert 1 000 second feet over 40 miles to the Chowchilla river. The system serves Shafter, Kern county farmers, and other points north of Red Bluff.
Shafter Hi Y drafts plans to sponsor a summer program for grammar school boys featuring tennis handball badminton and baseball tournaments. J W Wilson will supervise with 18 active members and 50 honorary members assisting.
A Fresno company introduces a mechanical cotton chopper tested in Santa Maria fields that could also work for sugar beets and lettuce. The device promises rapid, uniform results and lower repair costs, potentially replacing thousands of agricultural laborers and reshaping rural employment across the nation.
About 60 000 crates or 110 cars of onions from Sha and Wasco fields are planned this year across 150 acres in two communities. Hoover farm accounts for 60 acres with harvest underway. 3 cars shipped last week. Onions, mainly Crystal Whites and Bermudas, yield about 400 lugs per acre at $1.65 to $1.75 per lug. Potatoes seen down 50 to 60 percent from government estimates. Richland school graduates receive diplomas. 42 diplomas awarded at a women's clubhouse ceremony. Total area under cultivation last year reached 10 334 acres producing 2 227 cars, not counting Hoover farm. frost affected Neuman field potatoes. digging to start July 1 with expected 135 sacks per acre.
A 320 acre grain farm owner plans harvest with about 150 acres in wheat and will return to Shafter after three years away. He will visit his former home in 26 ane r. Measles outbreak in the community leaves about 15 schoolchildren and several adults ill while visitors from Duarte and Monrovia call on local residents including Mr. and Mrs. J. Co and Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kolbenstetter.
M E Brame secretary of the Kern County Agricultural Conservation association announces that all farmers wishing to join the 1939 conservation program must file intentions by June 1 1939. Those failing to file lose eligibility for any 1939 conservation payment. Form WR-314 will be mailed by June 22 or growers may visit Room 127 Hay Building Bakersfield to sign.
A J Zimmerman known as Jack Zimmerman served as notary public, fire insurance counselor and public weighmaster. His death marks the loss of a longtime civic official involved in automobile affairs.
Brame stresses the deadline of June 1 1939 for filing an intention to exercise conservation rights with the county Agricultural Conservation office. The note emphasizes timely action before the cutoff date.
Pomona Grange files a formal request with the board of supervisors for appointing a five man county water commission. W L Smith Grange master says the move followed a special meeting of the Grange executive committee and was approved by the group.
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