Hagen libel threat spurs editorial rebuke in Shafter
The Shafter Press reprints from Lemoore Advance harshly critiques congressional candidate Mr. Hagen for libel scares and faulty reasoning over the term socialist. The editorial urges clear stances on issues such as Field Act exemptions, water rights, federal actions, Taft Hartley, and the candidate’s district positions before voters decide.
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Hagen
Paul Newell
Shafter Press
Independent Weekly Press
Red
Kern
King Counties
California
Tulare Lake
Fallbrook
Mr. Hagen
Tidelands
Congress
Federal Powers Seen as Main Election Issue
The piece argues the election hinges on opposition to an expanding federal government. It cites the doctrine of paramount powers, claiming federal claims to state lands, submerged lands, and water resources threaten state and individual rights, with examples including the Central Valley Project and the Fall Brook case.
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Central Valley
California
Bureau of Reclamation
Federal doctrine sparks party clash over power and property
National figures clash over paramount powers and federal control. Eisenhower backs reversal while Stevenson has not opposed the line of Truman policy. Congressman Werdel critiques this doctrine as harmful, while Hagen remains silent on key federal appropriation and 160 acre limits affecting the Central Valley Project and related abuses.
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Eisenhower
Adlai Stevenson
Truman
Tom Werdel
Congress
Harlan Hagen
Central Valley
Fallbrook
America
Overhead Sprinkling Seen Expanding Irrigated Land
Fresno pump company official Charles H. Sarter told the Beltwide Cotton Mechanization Conference that overhead sprinkling will expand irrigated acreage across large areas. He urged unbiased water surveys and local owner funding, warning irrigation can erode soil as water moves from high to low elevations.
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Charles H. Sorter
Fresno
National Cotton Council
Fuller Wins Praise For Cotton Gin Work
J. H. Deacon Fuller will receive a letter of commendation from Shafter City Council for efforts to curb scattering of cinders from his cotton gin on South Shafter avenue. After engineering consultation, Fuller installed an incinerator unit to prevent ashes from spreading in the neighborhood.
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J. H
Deacon) Fuller
Shafter City
South Shafter Avenue
Fuller
Irrigation Plot Describes Shifting Water Levels
The excerpt notes a plot where the lower portion remains heavy while the upper portion grows lighter over time, indicating a gradual redistribution of water across the irrigation area.
Richland School PTA Thanks Supporters for Carnival Help
Editor's Mailbox extends heartiest thanks to hundreds of Shafter area parents and friends who joined in the annual Richland School PTA barbecue and carnival booths. The support enables the organization to carry out charitable programs in the coming year.
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Shafter Area
Richland School
Parent-Teachers Association
PTA
Thanks for help with Ebenezer Reformed Church dinner
To the Editor the writer expresses sincere thanks to the boys and girls men and women for their help with the mission festival dinner at Ebenezer Reformed Church Lydia Bender serves as chairman.
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The
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Lydia Bender
Farm Price Levels Rise Across Goods in August
Hog and potato growers saw the sharpest price gains in California for the period ending August 15. Barley oats dried beans hay lambs chickens eggs and milk also rose moderately while veal calves fell sharply and beef cattle turkeys and wool declined slightly. Corn wheat flaxseed grain sorghums alfalfa seed and milk cows held steady from mid July.
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California
Ceiling prices rise for linseed meal in dairy beef feeds
Ceiling prices for linseed meal and other flaxseed products fed to dairy and beef cattle have been increased from 6 to 8 dollars per ton at the processor. The move aligns linseed with ceilings on competing feeds such as corn soybean meal and cottonseed meal.
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Levek
Herbicides Seen as Key to Cotton Mechanization
Buford Williamson of Stoneville Mississippi argues pre and post emergence herbicide use offers the best path to weed control in cotton. He notes chemical methods, flame, and cross plowing, alone or combined, can outperform mechanical or flame-only approaches, with flame aiding late-season control. Roy Lovghorn of USDA predicts weed-control advances could cut man-hours per acre to ten.
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Buford Williamson
Stoneville
Miss
Williamson
Visitor and guest travel between cities after hunting
Mrs. Anne Frank of Long Beach visited for a few days with Mrs. William Neu mann of Los Angeles avenue. On Neumann’s return from deer hunting in Utah he drove Mrs. Frank back to her home.
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William Neumann
Los Angeles Avenue
Anne Frank
Long Beach
Neumann
Utah
Frank
Woollomes Funds and County Cooperation Details Revealed
The document discusses road construction west of Delano in cooperation with Tulare county, and probes allegations of improper handling of blood serum funds and county finances. It notes Dr. Alfred E. Rhoden’s part time pathology role, private practice during wartime, and questioned accounting at Shafter Experimental Farm.
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Kerhell
Delano
Dave Waloff
Walker
Tulare County
Board of Supervisors
The
Assembly Committee On
Sacramento
Mar
Alfred E. Rhoden
Kern County
Rhoden
Nic Rilcoff
Shafter Experimental Farm
of Kerth
County of
Granday
George Harrison
Shafter Press
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