Big Farm Bureau Plan For Pasadena Convention
Kern County Farm Bureau reports estimates of ten thousand attendees at the American Farm Bureau Federation convention in Pasadena December 7. A Kern quota of 150 members may be surpassed, with a 400-voice California chorus, a December 6 pre concert, and a December 8 reception. Spanish barbecue December 9, tours, and events through December 12 in Catalina Island and Mt Lowe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
Farm Bureau
American Farm Bureau Federation
Pasadena
A. H. Walker
County Farm Bureau
California Farm Bureau
Brookside Park
Henry A. Wallace
United States Department of Agriculture
Robert Gordon Sproul
University of California
Southern California
Mt. Lowe
Aarm Bureau
Catalina Island
California Farm Bureau Federaton
California
F. J. Coddington
Delano
Incorporation Debate Prompts Tax Concerns and City Revenue
Arguments for city incorporation claim taxes may rise only slightly with better administration. Proponents note revenue would shift from county to city coffers, while opponents warn of higher costs. Debate continues as committee prepares its report for informed decision making.
Kern County Receives Federal Vocational Education Funds
Sacramento reports Kern County will get 17,179,382 dollars from a federal California program for vocational education. Director Vierling Kersey announced California’s 693,720 dollars supports agricultural, homemaking, and trade and industrial education plus coordination services, with Kern’s share split among agricultural 9976.64, homemaking 3568.18, and trade and industries 8634.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Kern County
California
Vierling Kersey
Education Department
First Pioneer Woman Nancy Kelsey Buried in Cuyama Canyon
The grave of Nancy Kelsey the first white woman to cross the plains to California lies in Cottonwood Canyon near the upper Cuyama Valley believed buried on the Kelsey homestead. A 1896 death certificate notes she died unattended August 9 1896 at age 73 8 with nearby graves for relatives. Native Daughters of Taft marked the site in 1927 and urge public support for a memorial park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Plains
California
Santa Barbara
Cuyama Valley
Kose
Nancy Kelsey
Cottonwood Canyon
Yris Covarrubias
H. C. Mallory
Nancy [Kelsey
Cottonwood Creek
Cuyama
George Engelbert
Mission Canyon
Engelbert
Taft
Kelsey
Clanton
Clanton—1895.” On the Other, “Baby Blummer
Engelberts
Golden West
Outing Members Return From Sequoia Trip And Local Notes
The column reports E. B. Stringham and daughter back from Sequoia National Park while F. L. Kinyon's two day motor trip ends early in Shafter due to no lodging. It notes new shifts at Shafter depot, aviation interest of D. W. Moore, and several visits and travel plans including San Francisco courses, Riverside Labor Day outings, and family arrivals such as John Peter DeVincenzo Jr. born in Shafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Kinyon
Shafter
Castiao
Santa Paula
Ventura
Santa Barbara
Santa Maria
Pismo
San Luis Obispo
Morro
Paso Robles
John P. DeVincenzo
Abe Strauss
Thas
John Peter, Jr
Nona Beresford
Knoxville
Iowa
Taylor Tabb
Beresford
Veterans’ Hospital
Minnesota
Vancouver
B. C
San Francisco
Dr. Tabb
Tabb
Lawrence Osborn
Gilroy
Frances Stone
Labor Day
Sequoia
General Grant
Long Beach
Thomas Wedge
Anabel
Wedges
Inlaw
Donald Wedge
Dona Lee
Tommy
Tommy Wedge
Bakersfield
County Officers to Get S Man Aid in All Mysteries
Clarence S Morrill proposes state bureau of identification expansion to place a permanent S Man in Kern County Eureka speech outlines changes to the Division of Criminal Identification. The plan would increase investigators from six to 25 and appoint a four member Board of Managers with the Attorney General and governor named appointees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Kern
State Bureau of Criminl
Clarence S. Morrill
Bureau of Identification
Eureka
Morrill
Division of Criminal Identification
Board of Managers
Landon Assails New Deal Tax Burden at Buffalo rally
Governor Alf M. Landon charged the Roosevelt administration with raising the direct tax share on lower incomes by 25 percent between 1932 and 1935. He urged simple bookkeeping, warned that dollars spent by the government will be paid by children, and defended GOP relief with less wasteful spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buffalo
N. Y
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Roosevelt
Gov. Landon
Columbo River Salmon Doom Warned by Darling Cartoonist
Washington radio interview with Jay N. Darling known as Ding the cartoonist warns that the Grand Coulee dam now under construction in Washington will end most salmon fishing in the Columbia River. He criticizes changes in the federal fisheries bureau and predicts a $10,000,000 annual food loss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Grand Coulee
Columbia River
Jay N. Darling
Ding
William Hard
Bureau of Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
United States
Bureau of Fisheries
Darling
William Hard's Hour to Replace News for Voters on Radio
The radio division of the Republican National Committee announced that the program News for Voters will be renamed William Hard's Hour. It will be heard at 8:45 P M EST in Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Hard
Chicago
The
Republican National Committee
New Deal Spending Through 1936 Estimated At 23.36 Billion
The New Deal administration spent 23 billion 360 million dollars in fiscal years 1934 1935 and 1936, nearly a billion more than the combined total of the first 24 presidential administrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Government cautions UC cuts to meet deficit
Governor Merriam warns California officials to trim university spending to two years ago levels to cover the current deficit amid a restrained state budget push in Sacramento.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Merriam
University of California
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Mit
E. B. Stringham
Hitl
Sequoia National Park
F. C. Raney
Milan
Indiana
Shafter Santa Fe
E. M. Dobson
Antioch
D. W. Moore
Shafter Airdome
Los Angeles
Moore
Avenal
Loyalton
Calif
P. M. Cowbrough
H. S. Hampton
Bob Cowbrough
James E. Nugent
Modesto
Albert Annis
Bill Unruh
Annis
T. V. Little
Emabel Henderson
Velma Jean
Leroy
Selmia
Henderson
Della Benadon
Marie Reid
Gold Hill
Nevada
C. W. Henderson
Mr. Reid
Colorado
W. A. Gaede
Stanford University
Gaede
Jerome
Arizona
Reedley Pane
Reedley
Great Plains
Riverside
Ray Dye
Mrs. Dye
Len Born
San Miguel
Harold Hart
Nacremiento Ranch
Oregon
Ralph Vaughn
Bakersfield Hospital
Frances Midgley
Landon
New Deal Party
Republican Party
Jay N
Ding” Darling
U .S
Opal Fry, Shafter
Grant Tract
Dye
Co. C. VanGorkom, Shafter
H. J. Winger
Earlimart
Cal
Shafter District
Box M
Shafter Press
Bank of America
L St
Shafter Folk Jno
Demos
Derrell S. Clark
Strumeff Bldg
Wasco
Shafter Garbage Service
G. A. Wittmayer
Prop
Casualty Bonds
A. J
Jack” Zimmerman
T. V. Little Complete Machine Shop
Ad Welding
Shafter, California
Janzen Funeral Home Ambulance Service
Frank Shaw
Shafter Dairy
J. P. Harris
Los Angele
Baltimore
Arthur J. Fry
H. G. Reif
Payne
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