Hopkins WPA Critics Stir San Francisco Meeting
Kern county supervisor Stanley Abel led speakers at a San Francisco gathering of northern California officials denouncing the WPA administration as inefficient. Fresno official Eugene Cincent joined the attack while Harry A. Hopkins defended the agency saying finances, not rules, caused friction.
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Stanley Abel
Kern County
WPA
San Francisco
Harry A. Hopkins
Federal Works Progress
Northern California
Hopkins
California
Works Progress Administration
Abel
Kern
State Supervisors’ Association
Works: Progress Administration
Eugene Cincent
Fresno
California League of Municipalities
Roosevelt
Harvard Expert Studies Driving Habits in California
Dr. Harry B. DeSylva of Harvard University leads a California tour for the Bureau of Street Traffic Research to test steering vigilance night driving speed estimation and brake response using mobile equipment. The study aims to identify what makes a good driver and will also examine habitual violators and high risk operators with no intent to revoke licenses.
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Harry B. DeSylva
Harvard University Bureau For
California
de Sylva
Department of Motor Vehicles
Sacramento
Univeristy Bureau
Examinations Planned for 11 State Civil Service Posts
California State Personnel Board schedules exams for 11 civil service positions in October. Postings include Institution Baker, Senior Claim Auditor, Messman, ships cook, junior mining engineer, junior messenger, bridge tender, foundation drilling foreman, and dentation repairman with various age ranges and monthly salaries. Exams set in Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.
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Sacramento
The
States Personnel Board
Ocober 8
Baker
Ocober 10
California
Tiburon
Cook
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Shafter News Highlights Local Births Burns Fire and Visit Notes
A son born to Mr and Mrs Harry Gilbreath of Shafter at Kern General Hospital September 17. A daughter born to Mr and Mrs Finley Osborn Wednesday. Mrs D P Harris of El Paso Texas visiting nephew J P Harris and family with daughter-in-law Mrs Harry Harris. A small home on Scarony ranch southwest of Shafter destroyed by fire with fire trucks stopping spread. Enrolment at Shafter High reaches 220 students.
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Harry Gilbreath
Shafter
Kern General Hospital
Mrs
Finley Osborn
D. P. Harris
el Paso
Texas
J. P. Harris
Harry Harris
California
Fellows
Scarony Ranch
State Forestry Department
Republican County Central Committee Names Its Officers
Officers of the Kern Republican County Central Committee were named as follows W J Schultz chairman Harold M Van Clief vice chairman Oran W Palmer secretary and Louis J Brandt treasurer.
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Republican County Central Committee
Kern
W. J. Schultz
Harold M. van Clief
Oran W. Palmer
Louis J. Brandt
Shafter Group Probes Maricopa For City Incorporation
Members of the Shafter Business Men's Association incorporation committee visited Maricopa Tuesday afternoon to gather facts on small city incorporation. The team included Emil Stoller F L Kinyon T C Payne L Kirschenmann and H G Comfort. A Delano trip is planned next Tuesday with a formal report due Thursday evening.
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Maricopa
Shafter Business Men’s Association
Lutth West
Oil City
Emil Stoller
F. L. Kinyon
T. C. Payne
L. Kirschenmann
H. G. Comfort
Shafter Press
Delano
California Liquor Bill Totals 117 Million for Year
Sacramento reports California's liquor bill for the year ending July 1 reached 117.5 million dollars with 9 million in excise taxes and 4.15 million from license fees. Beer led consumption at 85.86 million gallons followed by 11.603 million gallons of wine and 5,149 gallons of spirits. State liquor administrator George Stout described bootlegging during prohibition days as staggering.
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Sacramento
California
George Stout
Four-Letter Word to Guide a United World
A reflective piece on the power and reach of a single four letter word. It envisions a future where understanding and acceptance lead to global harmony and a more wonderful life for all.
USC Founder Dr William Bovard Dies at 72
Dr William S Bovard aged 72 who helped establish the University of Southern California and was one of its six founding brothers died last week in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
William S. Bovard
University of Southern California
Gold Strike at Hawke Ranch Sparks Local Excitement
At the A. L. Hawke ranch near here gold and silver were found in a rock discovered during drilling done to care for Hawke’s chickens. Hawke owns a hatchery and reports a generous surface yield from the specimen.
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Calistoga
A. L. Hawke
Hawke
TVA Spending Surge Sparks Congress Debate
Congress appropriated 50 million dollars for TVA over two years. In the first 18 months expenditures reached 110 million dollars, with the government now obligated to spend at least 379 million dollars in total.
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TVA
Congress
Invisible Taxes Speech by Alf Landon in Buffalo 1936
Alf M Landon criticized hidden taxes in a August 26 1936 speech in Buffalo New York. He argued every purchase from clothing to food and entertainment funds government revenue. He described taxes as an invisible arm reaching into consumer spending.
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Alf M. Landon
Buffalo
Bureaucrats Are Still in Clover
An article critiques growing federal bureaucracy under the Roosevelt era, noting large increases in civil employees since 1933. It cites figures for June 30, 1936 showing 824 259 total federal executive branch workers, with gains across cabinet departments and new agencies, and argues merit system erosion and widespread patronage.
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Thomas Jefferson
Roosevelt
Executive Branch
Gas Tax Revenue Reaches New Peak in 1935
State and federal gasoline taxes topped 789 million dollars in 1935, with 616.9 million from state levies and 172.3 million to the federal treasury. The report notes taxes are hidden in prices, totaling roughly 54 million more than the prior year, while driving home the burden on motorists and other goods.
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American Petroleum Industries Committee
Prices and Happiness in a New Deal Era Ad Debate
A national advertiser uses slogans like Watch Costs and Low Costs Mean Greater Savings, arguing prices to consumers shape the abundant life. The piece notes this clashes with New Deal theory that emphasizes consumer prices as a driver of well being.
Sixty Four Year Old Statute Halts Ouster
Sacramento Attorney General U S Webb bases his opinion on an 1872 statute that protects Lucille Stewart Monroe a state service employee and daughter of a board member from ouster by the personnel board Ouster talks followed her Donahue committee testimony she admitted taking stamps borrowing money and using state cars but Webb says the testimony is not admissible immunity is guaranteed yet the state may sue to recover money owed.
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Sacramento
Lucille Stewart Monroe
Equalization Board
Monroe
Donahue
Oakland
Fred Stewart
Webb
Assemblyman Donahue to Reconvene in San Jose on Liquor Probe
Assemblyman Leon Donahue of Oakland announced his interim finance committee will reconvene in San Jose on September 30 to investigate reports of corruption in liquor law enforcement in Santa Clara County.
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Sacramento
Leon Donahue
Oakland
San Jose
Santa Clara County
Meat Tax Foreshadows Higher Bacon Costs
The text notes a New Deal tax on bacon at eleven and two thirds cents per pound, not including state sales taxes, signaling rising meat prices under new federal policies.
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