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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1948
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Jack Crewell of Shafter and Mr and Mrs Joe Crewell of Tehachapi were guests for a venison dinner.
Veterans recall a shift in army insignia as ranks are redesigned. The article explains that pay remains unchanged while titles and chevrons are reorganized from World War I and II era standards to new insignia rules. It notes the conversion from private to recruit, and from corporal to buck sergeant and beyond.
A W Eckman board member of Kern County Farm Bureau Federation visited Visalia on Thursday for a regional gathering with delegates from Kern Tulare Kings Fresno and Madera counties in attendance.
Friends of Rev and Mrs Wm Harper received a letter this week about W L Livers III, a former rancher in the district and husband of a Richland school teacher. He has suffered strokes causing partial paralysis and speech difficulties but remains able to be up and around though not in good condition.
Answers to TEST YOUR I Q Questions on page 6 cover seventeen vessels with 1500 persons, Hindustan meanings for dust fabrics, origin of a wine exchange, no evidence wheat grows wild, and Taft. New Mexico and Arizona were last to join the Union in early 1912.
A sergeant still bears the same insignia, the familiar chevrons and three rockers, signaling his continued status and rank.
Shafter Press reports California cotton growers employ machines that plant two to twelve rows at once using about 30 pounds of seed per acre. The article also notes Golden Gate Park in San Francisco follows a design originated by William Hammond Hall, indicating a link between agricultural practice and park planning in the region.
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