First Construction On Central Valleys Project Starts
The Central Valleys Water project begins permanent works with a four mile Contra Costa canal segment from Rockslough intake to a pumping plant near Oakley. The line will extend to a reservoir above Martinez and serve Suisun bay industries, irrigation for uplands, and five municipalities. Preliminary work continues at the Friant dam site on the upper San Joaquin.
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Central Valleys
Contra Costa Canal
Knightson
San Joaquin
Oakley
Martinez
Suisuin Bay
Friant
San Joaquin River
Wake Up On Time by Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley, famed for How to Sleep, offers five tips for waking early. He suggests setting a mental alarm, inviting the mother in law, avoiding snakes, not going to bed, and hinting at an Irish Sweepstakes win to spur early rising.
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Robert Benchley
Metro- Golwyn-Mayer
Lard Off Scales Brings Guilty Verdicts In Bellflower Market
In Bellflower Los Angeles county Fred Rapp proprietor of a market was found guilty on two counts of using and maintaining short weight after deputies found lard stuck to the scales platter and the scales set ahead of zero. Clerk John Allen was fined for selling short weight. The case grew from a complaint aided by the state agriculture department.
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Fred Rapp
Bellflower Boulevard
Bellflower
Los Angeles County
Rapp
C. E. Tucker
Weigts and Measures
State
Gambel
Downey Township
Allen
Cotton consumption rises early season gains 11 percent
A Commerce Department report shows domestic and export cotton use in the first two months of the season advancing 11 percent over August and September of last year. Lower prices reduced the gain in value to 7 percent.
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United States Department of Commerce
Plans To Divert Part Of Potato Crop
Farm administration officials announced plans to remove 25,000,000 bushels of this year’s large potato crop from normal trade channels. Federal funds would feed low grade potatoes to livestock, manufacture flour and starch, and distribute products to relief recipients.
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Farm Administration
Fluid milk price rises 3 cents in two California areas
Effective October 16 the price paid to producers for class one milk in the San Francisco and Alameda County marketing areas rises to 75 cents per pound milk fat, an increase of 3 cents. A public hearing is set for October 20 in San Diego at the Chamber of Commerce to consider designating San Diego City and County as a marketing area under the Young milk control law.
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Fluid Milk
San Francisco
Alameda County
San Diego
Assembly Hall
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Clark Gable
EMC
Robert C
Paris
Joan
Robert Taylor
Eleanor Powell
L. A.merchant
Board of Supervisors
Roy Galven
State Highway Patrol
Kern County
Bob Taylor
Bill
Lawson
Myrna Loy
Greta Garbo
Charles Boyer
Spenger
Spencer
Capina
Tracy Wenenged
Sasha Matte
Radiodeeta Af Blanbatten
Pacific Coast Gas Ass'n
Cal
Ifornia Gas Company
Strom’s
San Joaquin Pipe and Salvage Company
Bakesfield
Casualty
A. J
Jack” Zimmerman
SAN Joaquin Grain CO
Bakersfisl
Shafter~ Wasco
Janzen Funeral Home Ambulance Service
Shafter
California
Shafter-Wascomnning
J. H. Fuller
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