Many Shafter Residents Take Labor Day Trips
A long list of local residents spent the Labor Day weekend away or visiting. Trips covered Santa Maria, Sequoia Park, Kern River and Morro Bay, with returns to Shafter and nearby towns. Several visitors from Hurley South Dakota Reedley Los Angeles and Bakersfield were noted, and local officials and families were mentioned in passing as they enjoyed holidays and reunions.
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Santa Maria
Mrs
Raymond Kay
Ben Peters
South Dakota
Sixtus Nelson
Helen
Hurley
Shafter
William Dalke
Dalke
Nelson
Bud Janzen
Sidney Gering
San Francisco
Claude Newsoms
Sequoia
Claud Newsom
Sequoia Park
South
Les Hobson
California
Santa Monica
William Dean
Jack Baker
Wasco
Morro Bay
O. H. Stroms
Long Beach
George Isaac
Ronald
Bakersfield
Bill Bestwater
Los Angeles
Compton
Neufeld Throws No Hit Game in City League
City league action features Cotton Neufeld delivering a no hit no run performance as Hi club defeats FSA first half winners 14 0. Neufeld follows with a two hit game Tuesday night beating the Shafter Aggies 11 1. Standings show South Shafter Kiwanis Juniors tied for first with nine wins four losses. Shafter Aggies third with six and four. Hi-Yim fourth with five and four. Butler Willow sixth with eight.
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Cotton” Neufeld
City Recreation
FSA
Neufeld
Shafter Aggies
South Shafter
Kiwanis
Hi-Yim
Button Willow
Flooded artificial logs burst warehouse in Lewiston
A Lewiston warehouse suffered near total ruin when 500 tons of compressed sawdust logs swelled after floodwater entered the building. Fire officials blamed a faulty sprinkler system for triggering the accident and spreading the disaster.
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Lewiston
Idaho
Bad Men of Today Are Not So Tough
A reminiscence of Conconully Washington sheriffs George Tindall and Fred Thorp. It recalls Tindall’s 1887 start, 1902 sheriff term, and 22 convictions in ten months, plus the cattle war and Thorp’s hard but peaceful rule, highlighting their view of modern criminals.
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Conconally
Wash
Sweet Williams
George Tindall
Fred Thorp
Tin
Tindall
Derer
Hughes
Thorp
West
Offer to Give Away Sons Nets City Job for Bread Crumbs
Fred Mc Neil a WPA worker who offered to give away two of his five sons due to poverty will start work in Columbus city engineering next Tuesday. The position pays $80 to $100 monthly with advancement potential and keeps the family together after Mayor Floyd F Green learned of their plight.
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Columbus
Ohio
Fred McNeil
WPA
City of
McNeil
Floyd F. Green
City Engineering Department
Boulder Saves Train In Alaska Canyon
Passengers recount how a massive boulder near the tracks prevented a derailed train from plunging 300 feet into a rocky canyon below on the White Pass and Yukon railway. The derailment occurred in the Skagway river canyon seven miles from Skagway, Alaska, with a passenger and baggage car toppled.
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Prince Rupert
B. C
Vancouver
White Pass
Yukon Route
Skagway River Canyon
Skagway
Alaska
Stocking Stash Saves Actress’s $80 Wages
In a Broadway backstage theft the thief stole the weekly pay of every male actor in The Weak Link but left Peggy French 18 with $80 hidden in her stocking. She kept her wages in the First City bank and reported the incident.
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New York
Peggy French
Woman shot in Richmond shopping district as gunmanloiters
Pistol shots rang out in Richmond Virginia early today in a busy shopping area. A well dressed woman fell to the street with a bullet wound to the abdomen. Police detained a gunman nearby but did not explain whose shot caused the injury.
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Richmond
Kern County Potato Ring Rot Report by Lindsay
The Kern County farm advisor Marc A Lindsay releases a yearly progress report on ring rot control in potatoes. Findings show the disease spreads via cutting knives tables sacks planter spikes and diseased seed pieces, with little spread from whole tubers. The study advocates seed free of disease and notes four danger zones in planting. The work is the largest such California experiment and one year of work with more needed for conclusions.
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Kern County
Marc A. Lindsay
California
Lindsay
Amador County Tax Rolls Rise on Quartz Mining Dredging
Increases in quartz mining and dredging largely drove a 183,009 rise in Amador County tax rolls, boosting assessed values and revenue projections for the fiscal year.
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Amador County
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E. B. Stringham
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Peter Shultz
Alice Echante
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Karl Wells
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Sol Byrd
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Joy Crain
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