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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1940
Page
2
An editorial endorses Wendell L. Willkie for president, arguing the election favors individual enterprise over state control. It contrasts Willkie’s belief in individuals with Roosevelt’s New Deal, urging readers to vote next Tuesday and defend personal responsibility via ballot choice.
In a manifesto style appeal voters are urged to back Wendell L. Willkie for president as a champion of private initiative over federal control. The piece contrasts Willkie’s belief in individual liberty with Roosevelt and New Dealers favoring government run control of business and life. It also reports on a Fresno draft board incident involving a Mexican youth reclassifying as Indian and then white amid debate over race designations.
Government investigators report only five smokes remain in the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes a noted tourist attraction. The piece notes that even peaceful nations spend a third of their national income on military preparedness to stay neutral amid global frictions.
The piece argues Roosevelt moves from silence to stump speeches as Willkie gains, blaming Roosevelt's earlier leadership and the Boss Flynn era for party weakness. It notes changes in campaign leadership with Barkley and Byrnes replacing Flynn and portrays public mood as wary of smears and manipulations.
A collection of quotes from public figures across fields. Sen Johnson critiques power as a heady wine while Hollywood figures discuss glamour oils, social clubs in schools, and a young English girl evacuated during wartime. Samuel Goldwyn defends star salaries as worth the cost.
A big crowd gathered at the Farm Center meeting in Shafter to elect officers, with Dave Gloeckler as director, J. J. Siemens as alternate director, and Woods Stone as secretary. Judge T. N. Harvey spoke on amendments, and Laurence Taylor demonstrated an electric sewing machine’s farm use.
Professor E H Hughes of the University of California College of Agriculture states growing pigs must receive one to three milligrams of riboflavin per 100 pounds of body weight daily to ensure proper growth.
University of California Agricultural Extension Service records for 1939 show that 18 percent of the yearly living expense went to run the family car and keep it in good condition.
Sales of chinchillas for breeding purposes are subject to California sales tax. The ruling clarifies that such animal transactions are not exempt from tax, affecting breeders and pet shops operating in the state.
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