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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1943
Page
6
In Tule Lake testimony a guard quits to sleep without fear of throat slitting. Apt. W E Smith praises Seabees in the South Pacific and pilots reflect on mission discipline. Mrs. Cott travels for business from California to Long Beach.
State Fish and Game chief H R Dunbar warns pheasant hunters to purchase licenses and pheasant tags immediately as sales lag. Opening day is Nov 28 with limits of four birds on day one and two per day after until ten total. all birds must be tagged for legal possession.
Week-end visitors at Helmuth Mettlers home included Elmer Mettler Lester Mettler and Harold Peacock. Elmer works as a riveter at Lockheed Lester serves in the Coast Guard stationed in San Francisco and Harold is employed at Los Angeles shipyards. A party followed in their honor with local families in attendance.
Regular monthly High School Faculty women and wives gathering at Mrs. Lowell Todd home on Nov 15 includes a personal shower for Miss Frasquita Sullivan. Special guest Mrs. Thompson of San Francisco. Page notes other members and a Red Cross bandage drive. Frank Russell baby birth announced at Wasco Maternity. Ralph Janzen home visit. Car Steel’s Los Angeles trip. Lt. Rodgers to transfer from South Carolina to Kentucky. Population note on San Francisco growth.
Ernest Linwood Hawkes, famed astronomer evangelist from Los Angeles, will present a series at the Church of the Nazarene in Shafter from Nov 24 to Dec 5. The program features 12 foot projected celestial images from the Carnegie Institute, mural rock displays, demonstrations of light and sound, and a dramatic high voltage act. Admission is free with a capital-raising push urging war bond purchases.
The Office of Price Administration announced a 3/10 of a cent per pound increase in the maximum price of cabbage for sales to retailers institutions and government buyers in California Idaho Arizona Utah New Mexico Nevada Wyoming North Dakota South Dakota and Nebraska. The higher price aims to place cabbage in shortage areas while retail prices should rise less than a cent per pound. Previously Zone III had a limit of 2.9 cents a pound for October and November.
A sale limit is announced setting a maximum price of 11.2 cents per pound for Zong across several states, signaling a controlled market move. The measure appears aimed at stabilizing prices and preventing spikes in early autumn commerce.
The article lists seed potato ceiling prices for months October through Jurie with values per unit. It explains that prices are set by seller’s maximum price in March or February if not sold, or by last year’s price if no sale then, and by the nearest competitor’s price if none last year.
The Office of Price Administration permits sellers buyers and lessees of machine parts and services to enter adjustable pricing contracts while an application to grant maximum prices is pending. The rule lets charges rise to the current maximum if a price change request is pending authorization is needed to aid distribution and does not undermine the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942.
More than 54,000 communities in the United States lack rail service and depend entirely on highway transport for movement and freight, underscoring a landscape built around road networks.
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