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...hear them talk about him in little (pop. 6,000) Wasco, Calif., one would think that P. D. Spilsbury was both mayor and millionaire benefactor. Actually, he is a high school teacher of vocational agriculture, and his chief achievement is the Future Farmers of America chapter that he and his students have built up. To the citizens of Wasco, this is achievement enough. "By golly," says Fred Fry, co-owner of the Wasco Hardware Co., "we just couldn't get along without...
...from their chapter and grow crops on ground leased through it. These they can sell for a profit, while the chapter uses whatever is left over to make a profit of its own. Under P.D. (for Paul Duane) Spilsbury, this learning-by-earning process has paid off handsomely in Wasco. When he took over in 1938, the Wasco Union High School's chapter was worth $275. Its assets today...
Into a Pittsburgh church one day last week marched Judge Michael Angelo Musmanno and 77 automobilists convicted of drunken driving. In a coffin below the pulpit lay the corpse of one Wasco Bombar, killed by a drunken driver. Ranging the 77 culprits in front pews where they could see the coffin and a big wreath they had jointly bought for it, Judge Musmanno entered the pulpit to deliver a funeral sermon. Excerpt...
...When Wasco Bombar left his home in turbulent Europe to come to the land of peaceful America, he did not realize he was coming to a place where in many ways the highways are as dangerous as a no man's land of war. He did not know every year 36,000 lose their lives on those highways. No one told him every year more than 1,000,000 are injured and crippled on our thoroughfares. Had he known all of this, he would have preferred to remain on his little farm in Poland where one lives...
President Hoover is one of several stockholders in Poso Land & Development Co., which operates a truck ranch-cotton, grapes, alfalfa, melons-at Wasco, in the San Joaquin Valley south of Stockton. There are no labor signs of any kind on or near this ranch...