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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1935
Page
1
Bakersfield Shafter area voters will decide on a 200000 bond issue to fund a new study hall classroom building upgrades to the girls gymnasium earthquake upgrades and purchase of additional school sites over four years with annual 50000 repayments. Enrollment growth drives the plan.
N. D. Hudson of the farm advisory staff warns growers to obtain certificates of sale as evidence for AAA cotton loan payments. The program pays the difference between 12 cents and the national spot average, with a cap of 2 cents per pound, and access depends on signing 1935 and 1936 allotment contracts. Certificates must be secured promptly for early sales and filed with the farm adviser in the courthouse, with deadlines around November 16 for 1935 sales and seven days after November 1 for later sales.
California Grange leaders tour the state ahead of the State and National Grange conventions in Sacramento November 11 to 21. About 2,000 are slated for the seventh degree in Sacramento with expectations of 5,000 to 10,000 delegates. Special trains, hotel blocks, and mass meals mark the preparations for what could be the largest western Grange gathering.
Drilling proceeds at the Superior Oil wildcat well west of Shafter and is believed to become the state's deepest. Reports say the hole exceeds a mile in depth with small gas shows, while operations are tightly surrounded by surrounding leaseholders under a secrecy policy.
Automobile tourists from other states entering California in September reached 84 812, rising 13 845 from a year earlier. It marked the 25th straight month of gains, with northern central gateways totaling 43 221 and southern gateways 41 591. For the first nine months of 1935 total visitors numbered 686 618, up 34.7 percent from 1934, with northern central gateways 311 217 and southern gateways 375 396. Carriers report similar increases.
The P T A will meet Tuesday November 12 at 2 15 p m The program includes a business session three orchestra numbers and two one act plays by Miss Maddox Mrs Gardner will speak on hobbies
The Shafter Business Men's Association will discuss the sewer matter in detail at tonight's regular monthly meeting at 8 o'clock in Legion Hall. A county engineer report is in President Dye's hands and will be presented, with the next local move on the sewer issue expected.
A national tax exempt potato sales allotment of 226,600,000 bushels for 1936 was fixed by Secretary Wallace. The 1935 production was forecast at 366,000,000 bushels. Potatoes sold above the allotment face a tax of three fourths of a cent per pound.
California led all states with 1 923 traffic deaths in the first nine months of 1935, compared with 1 975 the year before. The national toll reached 24 840, slightly below last year at the same point, per the National Safety Council.
The state highway commission has earmarked 75000 to be spent on four miles of road from Shafter to four miles south of Shafter on the Bakersfield Shafter highway. Work is expected to begin immediately.
The annual Red Cross membership drive opens next Monday Armistice Day and runs through Thanksgiving Day. Mrs. J C Channelgon leads the effort in Shafter seeking broad community cooperation to meet and exceed the quota.
The Wednesday Afternoon Club sponsors a play to be given by the Fine Arts Players of San Diego on Tuesday evening November 12 at Richland grammar school. The married couple's journey from altar to anniversary day drives the storyline.
Pacific District Conference of the Mennonite Brethren church will meet in Shafter with delegations from Pacific coast states. The Dallas Oregon conference from October 27 to November 3 selected Shafter as the next city. Speakers included Rev Bestwater of Shafter on prophecy and Rev Hiebert of Salem on the Church of Christ. Reports from missions in India and China were given. Officers named: Moderator Rev F F Wall, Secretary Rev Herman D Wiebe, Assistant Moderator Rev P N Hiebert, with assistants H J Wiebe and Rev J D Hofer.
The Shafter library reports a busy October with 834 adult books and 47 magazines withdrawn, 1165 books and 45 magazines used by juniors, 281 visitors to reading rooms, and 84 special requests filled. New adult titles include As the Earth Turns and The Road Back among others.
Shafter lost the last football game of the season to Wasco 24 to 0. The match, played in Wasco, drew the season's largest crowd to witness the defeat.
The Shafter library marked children’s book week by receiving 70 new children’s books yesterday.
The Rev. Wint J. Bestwater returned from Dallas Oregon where he served as a delegate to the Mennonite Brethren Pacific District Conference. He notes the cold weather in Dallas and elsewhere in Oregon and adds a lighter jab about Shafter.
A joint committee from Leslie L. Robinson Post of the American Legion and the Shafter Business Men’s Association will survey ground for a public park in Shafter. Traffic regulation on Central Avenue also discussed. plans include pedestrian zones and occasional officers to enforce laws amid daytime speed concerns. Supervisor Roy Woollames attended, contributing to park and traffic discussions.
Mitchell Greenwood visited the Fred Ransford family Sunday afternoon. A Plymouth sedan helps Albert Duran transport his family. Roy Gossett and wife moved into the J H Sanders tenant house and are picking cot ton. A turkey hen hatched fourteen eggs and eleven turkey poults. A doctor and nurse vaccinated Wildwood schoolchildren for diphtheria and smallpox, only three needing hospital care. The Halloween show drew a large crowd with folk dances, games, music, a ghost story, lunch, and late hours. Charley Jackson and family attended a birthday dinner for Mrs. Eliza beth Lewis at Tip Matthews' home. relatives planned gathering in Wasco. Mrs. Lewis is Matthews’ mother.
A state controller’s checkup shows Californians spent over 60 000 to send officials to out of state conventions and conferences in two years. Investigators report joy rides in official cars and plane trips, prompting Governor Merriam to vow reforms. Finance Director Stockburger says about 100 new cars are bought monthly and car use will be trimmed to save hundreds of thousands yearly. The Highway Patrol will assist the Department of Finance to curb abuses.
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