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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1937
Page
2
Publisher H. G. Comfort announces the Shafter California office on Central Avenue prints every Thursday. Price five cents per copy with advertising rates on second class matter. Annual subscription $200 payable in advance. Post office entry August 1, 1935. Telephone 57.
A historical reflection on fire from primitive discovery to modern firefighting. The essay warns that careless storage, waste, tampering with electricals, and smoking cause most fires, while education and vigilance can save lives and money. Fire remains a useful servant when treated with respect, and ignorance is costly.
A historic overview of U S railroads highlighting their growth interwoven with national development. It notes expansion from wagon trails to steel rails, cross continental spans, and the rail system supplying year round fruit imports and vast daily freight movement, underscoring organization and readiness in emergencies.
The piece argues the Federal Relief Administration should spare newspapers from endless WPA praise releases. It notes editors already cope with 30 to 50 relief notices weekly and calls for relief from propaganda and a government wastebasket for eulogisms.
The piece argues that people of small means bear heavy taxes through indirect charges. A study by Dr Mabel Newcomer shows New York workers earning 2000 dollars pay 276 to 334 dollars in taxes and Illinois workers pay 279 to 359 dollars, with average national taxes around 20 percent of income. It notes taxes fall on manufacturers and service providers and are passed to consumers, making taxation unavoidable for all, not just the rich.
Government traffic experts predict highways may become 100 mile per hour speedways in 25 to 30 years. Urban streets would still enforce slower speeds around 60 mph, with cars adapting to new flow patterns.
The passage muses on a world with fewer signals and more transport overpasses, praising pedestrian walks and the rush of 1962 life. It reflects on rapid invention, space travel, and the unstoppable tempo of change, noting humans rarely wish to slow or reverse civilization.
Santa Monica column catalogs quirky political types from the cigar store politician to the socialite who greets every voter by name and hugs them. It contrasts these traits with Nahum’s chariots and cites traffic fatality fears, plus Hollywood fashion jabs and local sartorial bravado.
Wah Chee, a Kickapoo Indian, speaks with a White Boy about the Happy Hunting Ground. He describes scaffolds for the dead, spring flowers, and a land where all beings are peaceful with endless buffalo and game.
Press previews at the Westwood theater Sunday and Monday November 14 and 15 featured William Powell and Myrna Loy in Double Wedding. The film, produced by L. Mankiewicz and directed by Richard Thorpe, drew praise for witty slapstick blended with high society flavor and a strong supporting cast.
Wah Chee contemplates animal motherhood and sorrow after witnessing hunters. The dialogue questions whether mother buffalo, deer, and antelope care for their young, while the speaker notes animal grief when their offspring are harmed. Wah Chee, deep in thought, watches as the narrator rides away.
Hollywood and trade reviews praise the William Powell Myrna Loy pairing in a delirious romantic farce. Direction by Richard Thorpe and lively photography by William Daniels provide brisk pacing and musical backgrounds as Mankiewicz mounts a stylish production. Critics call it a rollicking riot of romance and slapstick with broad, profitable appeal.
Stan dard Oil drills its first Kern County well since the Greeley field discovery. Fleishauer Community No. 1 in section 20 29-26 reaches 7716 feet with 9 inch casing at 7670 feet in the Stevens zone. A successful completion would aid small landowners in Shafter Rio Bravo and Rosedale.
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