Post Office Notice From Shafter California
Entered as second class matter August 1 1935 at the post office at Shafter California under the act of March 3 1879.
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Shafter
California
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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1936
Page
4
Farmers pay for Delano Utility District despite inaction
The Delano Utility District formed by Sacramento promoters collected voluntary contributions from farmers to cut power bills but has done nothing substantive. It incurred about $2100 in obligations and adopted a $3688 budget funded by a nine cent tax per hundred dollars of assessed value. Directors plan no further meetings until something arises.
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San Joagiin
Delano Agers
Sacramento
Delano
Delano Utility District
Crop Improvement Day at Davis September 14 1936
The California Seed Council schedules its 1936 annual meeting at 10 o clock Monday September 14 at the University Farm Davis. Leaders include John C Knox Dr W L Howard B A Madson F M Briggs and other speakers on new crop varieties. Farmers urged to attend with details from the Bakersfield farm advisor's office.
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California Seed Council
University Farm
Dalvis
California
John C. Knox
Seed Council
W. L. Howard
College of Agriculture At
Davis
B. A. Madson
Division of Agronomy
F. M. Briggs
Court House
Bakersfield
M. A. Lindsay
New Deal Policies Hit American Farm Market
Department of Commerce data show a sharp rise in U S hog imports from 1933 to 1935 as New Deal actions slashed domestic production and opened markets to foreign suppliers. Farmers warn the flood of hay butter beef and other farm products hurts domestic producers and consumers and demand action.
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Department of Commerce
Washington
Capitol Comment highlights Townsend losses and California politics
In Sacramento Townsend opponents claim a primary setback as Townsend supporters cite mixed results with eight incumbents favored and several defeats. The piece notes shifts in party power in the 52nd Legislature, the balance in the Senate and Assembly, and references investigations led by Donahue and Collins amid liquor control scrutiny.
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State Senate
Assembly
Los Angeles County
Youth Dies From Car Injuries in Local Accident
Merle Madewell aged 15 died last Thursday from injuries in an automobile accident that also killed another man and seriously injured his mother and brother John. The mother and brother are hospitalized at Kern General Hospital and recovering.
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Merle Madewell
John
Kern General Hospital
Pass Examinations Sacramento Medical Board Announces
The state board of medical examiners announced that 146 candidates for physician and surgeon 13 for chiropodist and three for drugless practitioner passed the written examination held July 7 through 9. Applicants for licenses totaled 152 14 and respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
State Board of Medical Examiners
New Deal Seeks Greater Powers Through Executive Expansion
A pamphlet from the American Liberty League criticizes the New Deal for enlarging executive powers. It cites delegation of legislative authority, creation of agencies, vast spending, and actions bypassing Congress, warning thatobliteration of constitutional lines could pave the way for a dictatorship.
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Acrats
of Congress
American Liberty League
League
Supreme Court
New Deal
Senate
Congress
Passamaquoddy
Florida Ship Canal
My Mother
A poetic tribute by Theodore F. Bayles recalling a mother in a wooded cottage. The narrator describes her youthful beauty, gold hair turning white, and the enduring bond as life fades, imagining reunion in a place without care or pain.
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Theodore F. Bayles
Mother
Shelterbelt Plan Abandoned in New Deal Weathering Debate
The shelterbelt project, a Roosevelt era soil and moisture conservation program, was dropped after spending 2.5 million of a 75 million initiative begun July 1934. Congress refused further funding to continue soil and climate study as the plan of a 1000 mile by 100 mile tree belt failed to gain support.
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Canada
Texas
Congress
Youth and Debt Promise in New Deal Appeal
The New Deal calls on youth to back its spending program claiming they will inherit the earth. Observers warn that youth may instead bear the burden of mortgages and long term debt.
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Donihue
Leon M. Don- Jose
C. Don Field
Glendale
James S. Blaine
Oakland
Budget balance pledge echoed at credit men convention
San Francisco delegates heard H. H. Heimann of the National Association of Credit Men state that regardless of the president elected, the budget would be balanced.
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San Francisco
National Association of Credit Men
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H. G. Comport
Dietrich
Hollywood
Marline Dietrich
John Gilber
Gilbert
Capitol Comment
Townsend Old Age
Townsend
Long Beach
Sheridan Downey
Frank Arbuckle
Los Angeles
Pardox
Richard E. Collins
State Board of Equalization
Assemblyman
Donahue
Collins
Matthew Brady
Legislative
Brady
Deonihue
Repo
Citizens Liquor Law Enforcement Committee
F. M. McAuliffe
The
San Francisco Bar Association
Stueken
Frank C. Jordan
William H. Waste
Emmet Seawell
Gertrude W. Clark
Sutter Creek
California Congress of Parents and Teachers
State Division of Highways
National Guard
Fish and Game Commision
Ocean Patrol
San Joaquin Valley
Shafter Mercantile Co
Young Men's University
Dhade
Floyd Gibbons
Adventurers Club
Aes
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