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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1959
Page
6
Inquiries total about 25 with two thirds on social conditions and schooling details. Transportation to work is among topics, while housing census will include about 35 questions on housing characteristics plumbing water supply and equipment. New 1960 census items include home conditioning units water heating fuel and number of passenger automobiles.
Agricultural notice discusses controlling boll rots in lodged cotton fields. Recommends defoliation timing and Amino trezole as a growth inhibitor option, noting limited success and higher costs. Advises continuing defoliant use as harvest nears and temperatures rise for leaf drop efficiency. Also mentions SHAFTER CHURCHES WELCOME YOU and a note on US car production in 1900.
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