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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1948
Page
9
The article notes bakers facing losses from a penny bread price cut while a penny rise would restore profits. It adds a bulbous aside about Bulgarian women keeping men from saloons and parrots a jab about lack of television.
Bakersfield bail bond broker Walter Binger spoke to the Shafter Kiwanis Club at Motel Cawelo about his experiences and the process to obtain a release from custody. He noted how many friends one discovers in jail and touched on related laws and the bail bond trade. Don Christensen and J M Banks attended, alongside visiting Kiwanians M B Carrington and G I Lammon.
William Van Ewert of Bakersfield College spoke at the Shafter Rotary Club luncheon outlining how Czechoslovakia’s communistic control curtails free enterprise while Finland preserves it despite Kremlin pressure. He noted Finland’s population, wars with Russia, and the scarcity of men aged 22 to 37 during his travels, contrasting it with Czechoslovakia’s oppression and urging individuals to defend their ideals.
Bakersfield report by Stanley Abel shows Kern County gets 1.417 million dollars in the 1949 50 state highway budget and participates in an 11.22 million allocation for U S 99 improvements. Major projects include 322 thousand for deflector barrier and curbs from Fort Tejon to north of Grapevine, 308 thousand for Golden State Avenue grade and surfacing, plus 39 thousand to 162 thousand for additional southbound lane work and related barriers and rights of way along the U S 99 corridor.
The Shafter Junior Women’s Club held a post for a social night at the Woman’s Club House with costumes from little Lord Fauntleroy to mama’s spoiled darling. Prizes went to Beverly Lane and Vivian Neuman for the funniest and cutest costumes as members enjoyed games, verses, anecdotes, treats, and a milk fund project was announced.
A brief item notes that metals constitute about three percent of California's municipal resources. It references fiscal context and the state's balance of revenue sources.
The text notes 1947 talc mining value near one million dollars and lists the Fuerte and Pueblo avocado varieties introduced in California in 1911 and 1912. It cites the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco with 1005 members. It mentions Zanzibar’s size, a wind speed definition, and a wildfowl refuge near San Francisco's Golden Gate.
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