Mine With the Iron Door film at Shafter Airdome Saturday
Harold Bell Wright inspired story comes to life in the Columbia screen version at Shafter Airdome starring Richard Arlen and Cecilia Parker. The adventure follows a young salesman and a promoter as they trek from the Rocky Mountain canyon to Arizona seeking a legendary mine and treasure with humor and peril along the way.
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Harold Bell Wright
Columbia
Shafter Airdome Theatre
Richard Arlen
Cecilia Parker
Henry B. Walthall
Rocky Mountain
Tive
Arizona
Stanley Fields
Spencer Charters
Barbara Bedford
David Howard
Social Security Board Sends Funds for Unemployment Costs
The social security board forwarded 130,185.12 dollars to California to cover administering the state's unemployment compensation law. The federal government now contributed a total of 252,486.26 dollars to this fund.
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Washington, D. C
Social Security Board
California
Landon Worked on Pipeline Gang to Fund College
Governor Alf Landon earned money for tuition by joining a pipeline gang during summer months.
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Alf Landon
Farm Bureau to Take Secret Poll in Kern County
Kern County Farm Bureau members are invited to vote on three November ballot issues Civil Service Chain Store Tax and Railroad Commission. Members meet at center meetings discuss pros and cons then cast secret ballots the statewide plan aims to reflect membership views before the California Farm Bureau Federation takes a position.
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Farm Bureau
Kern County
T. M. Martin
Kern County Farm Bureau
Railroad Commission
Martin
California Farm Bureau Federation
State Federation
Traffic Safety Courses Planned for Shafter High School
The 1935 legislature required traffic safety study in all high schools. Courses are prepared by the education and motor vehicles departments along with public works and industrial relations. Local officials decide the presentation method and certify course execution. Shafter high school will receive the program later this month.
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Shafter
State Department of Education
Legisature
Departments of Education and Motor Vehicles
Public Works and Industrial Relations Department
Shafter High School
State Highway Body Recommends Vast Road Improvement Plan
Sacramento reports a $60 million statewide road improvement program being considered by the state highway commission for 1987 to 1989. Public Works Director Earl Lee Kelly says applications total $100 million, with $25 million from gas tax and federal funds likely. One quarter of projects may be funded, $14 million of the total would go to the Los Angeles area.
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Sacramento
State Highway Commission
Earl Lee Kelly
Public Works Department
Commission
Los Angeles
Two Areas Annexed to Utility District
The Press reports that two areas have been annexed to the local utility district. The acquisitions expand service coverage and bring new residential zones into district management, affecting rate schedules and future infrastructure work.
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Utility District
Local notes from Shafter and nearby towns
A digest of community items from Shafter California including visits by Walter E Barry and L A residents, a new roof at Shafter Furniture Co, summer ending next Monday, J P Harris statewide motor tour with Sacramento state fair and towns en route, auxiliary of the American Legion meeting, extended motor tours by Mr and Mrs Arthur Unruh, Judge Manuel at his wife’s bedside, Stanford medical courses in San Francisco with 95 physicians, licenses to wed John M Donakis and Effie B Holcomb, Glen O Grant named western executive of the National Recreational association with Pasadena headquarters.
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J. P. Harris
Sacramento
Santa Cruz
Oakland
Tulare
Glen 0. Grant
National Recreational Association
Pasadena
E. K. Grant
Shafter
Col. O. S. Grant
McFarland
Five State Civil Service Exams Set for October Dates
Five Shafter open civil service positions announce three exams on October 17 and two on October 31. Applicants must file a week prior. Jobs include hospital attendants male and female in Patton and Camarillo, a bookkeeping machine operator, a journeywoman bindery worker for women, and a field assistant for the bureau of correction of speech defects. Exams held in Sacramento San Diego Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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Patton
San Bernardino County
Camarillo
Ventura County
Bureau of Correction of
Sacramento
San Diego
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Wasco approves $90,000 sewer bond by landslide
Wasco voters pass a $90,000 sewer bond with a 316 to 32 tally at a special election. Officials expect a 45 percent PWA grant added to funds from bond sales. In other news, Marjorie and Mary Grant, daughters of E. K. Grant, Shafter, buy a Wasco beauty shop and plan to take charge October 1.
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Wasco
PWA
Marjorie
Mary Grant
E. K. Grant
Shafter
Wascot
Marriage Witnessed By Four Hundred At Adventist Church
Four hundred relatives and friends attended the marriage of Miss Rachel Dirksen and John D. Morse at German Adventist church last Thursday evening. Elder P. J. Gaede officiated as the couple planned to reside in North Shafter after a brief honeymoon in the south.
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Rachel Dirksen
John D. Morse
German Adventist Church
P. J. Gaede
John D. Dirksen
Philadelphia
Vera Johnson
Turlock
Seventh Day Adventist Academy
Lorene Heath
Miss Nicholson
Los Angeles
Ed Dirksen
William Dirkson
Mountain View
Abe Taves
Chowchilla
Mildred Barling
Velda Wall
Virginia Lee Heinze
Arta Bietz
Famous Historian Attacks New Dealers on Broken Pledges
James Truslow Adams, in his new volume on current history, argues from a nonpartisan historian view that the New Deal administration has broken more pledges than any prior president and party. He warns that such repudiation threatens self government and party rule, risking dictatorship or chaos.
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New York
N. Y
America
James Truslow Adams
New Deal Administration
Ce Ee
Adams
Hoover Dam powers Southern California after valve activation
President Roosevelt triggered a White House button last week releasing water through Hoover dam valves, making the plant’s power for Southern California a reality.
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Los Angeles
Roosevelt
White House
Hoover Dam
California
Community Thanks For Kindness After Tragedy
The Samuel Madewell family publicly thanks friends neighbors and local organizations for their untold kindness shown during a recent tragedy.
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Samuel Madewell
U S Loses Trade by New Tariff Treaties Under New Deal
Washington reports show U S foreign trade balances shrinking as the New Deal reciprocal tariff treaties take effect. Exports fall with 14 of 51 nations while imports rise from 1924 to 1935, with Germany barred from benefits and Cuba’s deficit widening under the pacts.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Commerce
United States
Germany
Cordell Hull
Cuba
Brazil
Sweden
London Leading 2 to 1 in Six-State Radio Poll
London holds a decisive lead with a 2 to 1 advantage in WIND six state radio poll covering Illinois Indiana and surrounding markets. Local survey tracks public opinion on regional issues and political figures.
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London
WIND
Dlinois
Indi
Evils of Restricted Production Speech by Frank Knox
A speech argues that restricting production raises prices and lowers real wages, harming the standard of living. The speaker asserts such policy is unsound and references a bread price concern in a broad critique of market interference.
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Frank Knox
Camp-West-Lowe Farms Announces Frontier Days Prizes
Following its annual custom Camp-West-Lowe Farms Co offers a $400 silver mounted saddle to the cow girl contest winner on October 4 during Frontier Days. This year they add silver mounted Spurs for second prize and a cowboy belt with silver buckle for third prize.
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Camp-West-Lowe Farms Co
Donkey Ball Exhibition Draws Large Crowd in Shafter
A big crowd attended the first ever donkey ball exhibition in Shafter last Saturday. Wasco faced Shafter in the game with the outcome unknown to the local press, but the event provided much amusement and concluded with a speedy donkey race.
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Ball Park
Shafter
Wasco
Landon Viewed as Human Rights Champion Governor of Kansas
The record shows Alf M Landon as a champion of human rights during his tenure as Kansas governor and liberal in most matters aside from government spending.
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Alf M. Landon
Kansas
Classified Advertisement Rates and Terms
Public notice outlines pricing for classified ads including For Sale Wanted For Rent Lost Found and other listings. It specifies one cent per word for one insertion and two cents per word for three insertions with minimum 25 cents for a single line and 50 cents for three insertions.
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Aroome
Bank of America
Socals Gk
T. C. Payne
Walter E. Barry
Shafter Furniture Co
L. A
E. S. Wallace
Auxiliary of the American Legion
Legion Hall
Arthur Unruh
Middle West
Manuel
F. E. Manuel
Alameda
Stanford University
W. A. Gaede
Gaede
Wed
John M. Donakis
Effie B. Holcomb
Delano
Adventist Church
F. R
U. C
U.S
WEST
LOWE
Frank Shaw
Shafter Dairy
Altimore Hotel
Baltimore
Arthur J. Fry
Wakcome
Bosper
O. O. Reynolds
Earlimart
Calif
Ducor Highway
Opal Fry
Grant Tract
Dye
Richert
King Lumber Yard
Shafter District
Box M
The
Shafter Press
Bakersfield
New International
L St
Shafter Folk Jno
Demos
Derrell S. Clark
Strumeff Bldg
Shafter Garbage Service
G. A. Wittmayer
Prop
Casualty
A. J
Jack” Zimmerman
Pate Weis
Tomobile
T. V. Little Complete Machine Shop
Ad Welding
Shafter, California
Janzen Funeral Home Ambulance Service
H. G. Reif
Paso Robles
Payne
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