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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1940
Page
5
Lumber dealer advertises rough 2x4 at 25.00 per thousand and 2 by rough at 25.00 per thousand plus other building materials. Visitors invited. Located at the southwest corner of Airport and Norris Road in Bakersfield. Phone 2028.
Kern county wheat growers will gain guaranteed income on the 1941 crop through Federal insurance covering up to 75 percent of unavoidable risks. J R Bright reports the county office is accepting applications for insurance, citing past Farm programs that doubled cash income with loans and payments. Farmers leveraging loans and storeage saw higher effective prices, while insurance provides a sale guarantee, aiding loan placement and farm finances.
Floor furnaces and new lights are being installed this week at the Shafter library. New bulletin boards have also been arranged in the reading room, according to Mrs. Thomas Wedge, librarian.
Dr Helen Macklen of the California Department of Public Health will speak next Wednesday noon at a Shafter Kiwanis meeting. Her topic covers social diseases and she is a recognized authority. Rotary members were invited. at yesterday’s Kiwanis meeting guests included Jack Montgomery Shafter high school football coach and visiting Kiwanian John Ware of Bakersfield.
Shafter high school trains 35 candidates under Coach Monty Montgomery for the General varsity squad. A Delano scrimmage October 20 marks first exposure to live action ahead of October 28 season opener at Lancaster, with home game October 5 versus McFarland and other key dates through November.
Wendell Willkie slated to appear at the Seventh Annual Bakersfield Frontier Days and Kern County Livestock Show. He will arrive by special train September 20 and speak at the fairgrounds about 9 a.m. No admission charged. Event runs September 18 to 22 with parades rodeo and entertainment nightly.
Miss Betty ne, youth personnel supervisor, will accept NYA work applications every Wednesday morning from 10 to 11 30 at the Shafter Ranger station on Santa Fe Way. Eligible applicants are youths 18 to 24 who are unemployed.
Large-mouth bass fill Lake Mattamuskeet in North Carolina, keeping the fishing season open year round with abundant catches and an unlimited timeframe for angling success.
A W Eckmann of Shafter was named as a member of the nominating committee of the Kern County Farm Bureau board of directors during a Saturday meeting at Bakersfield. Other members include E G Buerkle chairman C J Cheek Frank Alves and A H Walker. A slate will be presented at the November board meeting when officers will be elected. Only routine matters were considered.
A rate hearing for the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation district will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 at the district office on Santa Fe Way in Shafter. The district board sits as an equalization board and protests may be filed with reasons for changes. The first equalization meeting occurred September 5 with no protests.
A Mennonite Brethren group of 15 traveled to Keene Sunday evening to present its second and final program. Participants included Ernest Schellenberg Elias Wiebe Ernest Siemens Willie Johnson Phoebe Wiebe Rosie Unruh Louise Bergthold and Rev H D Wiebe. Songs readings and prayer were offered by group members.
The Shafter Public Utility district board heard a possible water rate increase Tuesday at City Hall but took no action. They accepted No. 2 plant as completed and Plant No. 1 was previously accepted. Directors Oliver Sly H W Hitchock and H Midgley and district superintendent C L Black attended.
The Greenville Mississippi bridge project will finish in July 1940. Over 1,000 workers are on the $4,447,000 structure, which rises 128 feet above the river’s average stage.
Georgia and Louisiana sugar cane byproducts provide insulation board and other building materials. An estimated 375 tons of bagasse are converted daily by a company into usable construction materials supporting housing needs.
In Bonaparte Iowa farmers report a surge of snakes and carry chibs while working fields. The note likens a modern figure to St Patrick and suggests a protective stance against reptile incursions.
In Loudonville Ohio a resident trapped a red mouse to show guests and a week later another citizen found a white frog and shared it with about a dozen friends.
A fragmented note from Omaha Nebraska describes criminals using spiders and motorists to avoid about three dollars in city taxes per day, detailing a scheme that targets the treasury.
Preliminary crews have built temporary quarters on Lerdo Mesa for Kern County Industrial Farm. An 1000 foot water well supports an 387 acre site with adobe buildings for 180 residents. Superintendent L E Nance notes frostless conditions and potential winter garden crops.
Ten years after his first Detroit to Milwaukee hop in an amphibian, Captain Sam Carson formerly of Lake Michigan pilots marks an anniversary flight. The round trip across Lake Michigan took forty minutes on the newer voyage.
The sentence discusses an ant noted for a large brain relative to its body size. It claims the ant has the largest brain in proportion among animals, though no specific species or study is named.
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