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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1942
Page
8
The piece argues for a postwar recovery bond plan to fund industry conversion from war to peace production. Each industry would invest at least 20 percent of war profits in bonds that lock until peace is declared, creating a ready reserve to finance research, plant conversion, and employment as war ends. The mechanism aims to prevent a postwar slump and sustain prosperity.
A newspaper ad argues workers are a capital asset valued at 14 dollars per employee and urges mindful postwar retooling. It stresses owners must fund reconversion from war to peace production and warns impatience damages effort. calls for planned action backed by sufficient capital.
The Home Demonstration meeting on Friday October 16 at the County building in Shafter will cover care and repair of clothing with an emphasis on conservation for the war program. Miss Dorothy Wilkinson of the Agricultural Extension Service will lead demonstrations on refining winter coats and repairing and mending techniques.
Lieutenant Commander Patrick H. Winston told the National Association of Food Chains that draft status does not improve by switching from non essential to essential industry. He warned that such moves could lead to earlier calls to service. The remark, made in Chicago, was interpreted locally as advice to remain in regular employment. Also noted, California in the 1860s grew silkworms in the Napa Santa Clara and Sacramento valleys to spur a silk industry.
The Kern County Agriculture Committee of the War Manpower Commission plans a meeting to address labor shortages in dairies and asks for wage stabilization to boost California milk production by 14 percent for war needs. Causes include reduced labor, disease, high turnover, and draft board handling.
Soldiers at Minter Field will be contacted this week by Public Relations staff to assist in securing votes for bringing a named band to the field under Coca Cola’s Victory Parade of Spotlight Bands. Blank forms may be secured at the orderly room and picked up there by PR staff.
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