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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1966
Page
5
Cotton planting spans February to June across the Belt from Virginia to California. The process covers seeding, thinning, weed control with herbicides, and insecticide use. Harvest now mostly mechanical with pickers and strippers, followed by ginning, lint separation, and fiber processing through spinning and weaving into finished cloth.
Bill Banks was elected Commander of the Leslie L. Robinson Post 213 of the American Legion at a Monday meeting at the Veterans Memorial Hall. He will be installed June 6 at a joint ceremony with Wasco Post at the Shafter Veterans Hall. Other officers elected include J. P. McCoy as first vice commander Charles Beighle as second vice commander Lee Thomas service officer Grady Bartlett chaplain John Everett judge advocate Leon Morgan and John Sloas finance officer.
Legal notice details a June 7 1966 election in Kern County California for Richland School District to vote on raising the maximum tax rate from 2.30 to 2.69 per 100 of assessed valuation. Polls open 7 am to 7 pm with returns canvassed June 9. Also includes a separate contractor bid notice for a utility district digester project and wage requirements.
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