In a heated argument of the Newhall PTA, it was decided to stop showing moving pictures at the school until the Fall semester began. There had been problems of blurry projection and a fire danger had been cited. Film fix-its would work on the project during the summer. Folks, probably rightly so, were complaining about trees vs. development even back in 1928. State road crews were yanking out several old growth behemoths to widen and pave the road between Newhall and San Fernando.
Folks often wax poetic about the romance of being a farmer.
But sometimes, it's plain downright dangerous. On this date, L.B. Culver took a pitchfork in the lung when the thing was caught up in a huge bailer. Seems the postal workers who had to drive up the back canyons wanted to make sure the brush was clear around the P.O. boxes. Slight matter of rattlesnakes and all. Old P.H. Dennis was selling his gasoline-powered washing machine.