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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1947
Page
2
The Shafter Press reports sugar stamp number 12 becomes valid this week for 10 pounds of sugar for canning, contradicting earlier notes about no canning stamps this year. An additional regular sugar stamp is expected to be validated by August 1. Sugar fishing remains scheduled to end October 31, with potential extension by Congress.
Mr and Mrs Laverin Roth one of the teachers at Kern Academy have left to attend the Seventh Day Adventist Theological Seminary in Washington DC for the summer session.
The notice lists subscription prices five years ago twelve months per year with four dollar ninety cents inside California and four dollar fifty cents outside. It notes advertising rates available on request and that the document was entered as second class matter August first nineteen twenty five at the Shafter post office under the March third eighteen seventy nine act.
Wages for cotton and berry harvests were recommended after recent Agricultural Labor Bureau meetings. Cotton chopping pay 2.75 per acre with housing 3.00 per acre without housing. 0.70 per hour. Berry pick 28 cents per flat crate 12 pounds with 7 cents per crate bonus for full-season workers. President Truman extended the farm labor program through 1947 with a 30 day liquidation to Jan 30, 1948.
Granny Gay recalls a noon birthday surprise as self invited guests bearing cakes gifts and a birthday rocker gather at Shafter cared for by her daughters and extended family from Los Angeles and Shafter. Numerous relatives and friends call to wish Granny a joyful seventy one surrounded by children grandchildren and great grandchildren. Mrs Joe Frizzell and daughter Virginia visit Southland over the weekend.
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