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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1945
Page
8
Shafter High School seniors are measured for caps and gowns and nominate speakers for the commencement. The class will elect a speaker, with Pirce as a candidate, and graduation is set for May 31.
Pvt. Wayne Guenther reached Shafter on Saturday from Camp Roberts to spend Easter Sunday with his parents Mr. and Mrs. William Guenther.
Mrs Fay Hill sister of Mrs T V Little arrived from Puente to stay a week as a house guest. The two sisters will be together during the visit and plan local outings and calls.
The Bakersfield Camp of the Gideons will hold services in three Shafter churches this Sunday. Camp president Theodore Kummerfield will speak at Missionary Baptist Church in the morning and state trustee R J Gaves from Fresno will speak at First Mennonite Church in the morning and at Night Menonite Brethren Church in the evening.
Gene Guenther was home from March Field over Easter Sunday to visit his parents, Mr and Mrs George Guenther. Mr and Mrs Jack Hare of 240 Golden West Avenue Shaffer are the parents of a baby girl Con stance Eva born March 31 at Mercy Hospital Bakersfield.
McElroy of Pacific Gas and Electric spoke to Shafter Rotary members about chemurgy the effort to fashion industrial uses for farm surpluses. He traced U S agricultural productivity since 1850 noting fivefold gains while population doubled and predicting plastics growth postwar. Guests included Campodonica Neil Fox Hadlock Peters with Pat Kelly presiding.
The Internal Revenue Service cannot deliver about 30,000 income tax refund checks totaling roughly six million dollars. Collector Harry C. Westover sent an SOS to anyone who moved since filing 1943 returns. Send name, old address, new address, and social security number to Westover’s office to reclaim a 1948 refund.
Wendell Fate Tate, long serving in an engineer group in the Pacific theater, has been promoted to Private First Class, confirmed by his parents Mr and Mrs H H Tate.
The column contrasts caveman battles with modern warfare describing war as a tidal wave and potential annihilation. It cautions civilization may not endure another total war and urges conscience and hope for a hopeful outcome from San Francisco.
Memorial services were held for Pfc. Harry Shultz formerly of Shafter who was killed in action on Luzon January 27 1945. The service at First Baptist Church Ferndale Washington was led by Rev C W Wheeler. Shultz born October 4 1914 in Hydro Oklahoma came to Shafter in 1919 and worked as a farmer before enlisting June 18 1941. He trained at Camp Roberts California served in the South Pacific and fought on several islands including the Philippines where he fell in action. He is survived by two brothers Bill and Johnnie of Shafter and four sisters Alvina Warkentin Bakersfield Rubena and others.
Oakland and Mabel Martins of Een Eino join Lena Kinnicutt of Shafter in a regional notice highlighting personal name associations. The fragment outlines residents linked to local affairs and upcoming community events.
Mr and Mrs Willis Biloff and their young son relocate to Carrington North Dakota where they plan to farm.
Mrs. Aldyth Jackson from Shafter visited her husband Pvt. Kenneth Jackson of the 84th Infantry at Camp Roberts over Easter. Jackson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Nicklas Johnson of Smith's Corner and has recently been hospitalized at Minter Field.
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