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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1936
Page
8
A burning match touched lint from cottonwood trees near Central avenue in Shafter causing a rapid fire scare Monday. Dozens of men quickly battled the flames, holding the fire behind offices and Santa Fe housing without tipping off an alarm, and the fire was out in about five minutes.
Marie Jackson 28 wife of Clyde Jackson of Shafter died after more than a year of illness. She passed at Kern General Hospital Bakersfield two days after admission. Funeral services were held Thursday at the English Adventist church conducted by Elder Peter Nightingale. Burial followed at Shafter cemetery. Survived by her husband two young daughters a baby son and her parents Mr and Mrs Jacob Dick of Newton Kansas.
The Shafter Public Utility District in Kern County will hold an election on May 5 1936 to elect one Director at Large. Polls open 6 a m to 7 p m at the American Legion building Shafter. Election board includes Inspector Gladys Crandall and judges Emma Lachenmaier Edythe Wittmayer Elizabeth Comfort clerk Neva A Warren.
Sunday timetable lists church school at 9 a.m. supervised by Mrs. A. W. Eckman and adult Bible class led by W. A. Livers. Morning worship at 10 a.m. with R. Rath as accompanist, music director Mrs. J. W. Porterfield, sermon by Dr. T. Hilton Ratcliffe. Evening Young People’s Society Endeavor at 7 p.m. All youths invited.
Members of the Church of Christ meet in the east end of the old Richland grammar school building after relocating from the Adventist Church. Sunday services begin at 10 with Bible study and song, and on Sunday March 7 at 11 a.m. preaching followed by communion. A cordial welcome is extended to all.
The Christian Science Society a branch of The Mother Church in Boston announces services in Wasco at Corner Sixth and E streets with 11 A.M. Sunday worship and 10 A.M. Sunday school. Wednesday evening meetings gather the first Wednesday monthly at 8. The lesson sermons quote Paul and Mary Baker Eddy on reconciliation through Christ and Love.
On Tuesday morning John Gaede began a crew to build two and three room cottages beside his service station on the highway, a half block north of Central Avenue. The plans call for 12 by 16 feet two room cottages and 14 by 22 feet three room cottages with showers and lavatories in all. five lots are prepared for future cottages.
George J. Strauss spends Sunday at Keene visiting his wife who remains there for the hot weather period. G H Carmondy of Twin Falls Idaho arrives in Shafter to oversee the new warehouse project led by Robert Neuman and brings potato district experience. J J Cahill of Southern California Roads Company purchases a new sedan after starting a new assignment.
A. Jack Zimmerman of Shafter Insurance Man was a business visitor in Wasco on Tuesday, stopping to discuss local insurance needs and potential collaborations with Wasco firms. He is identified as a visiting businessman from Shafter.
Fresno born freight agent H R McNalley, traveling for the Santa Fe, spent Wednesday in Shafter on business.
Mrs. M Thornburg and her daughter Jo depart last evening for Muncie Indiana due to the illness of Mrs Thornburg’s father.
Three young men from Shafter completed three months of spare-time work to launch their 14 foot outboard boat on Lake Yosemite. The boat with a four and a half foot beam was loaded on a trailer Saturday night and taken to the lake Sunday. Accompanying them were Mrs Regester, Miss Dorothy Regester of San Francisco and Miss Alice Lee of Bakersfield, who had come to Shafter for the event.
George Boese was found unconscious in his Bakersfield garage last Thursday. A physician initially treated a fainting spell but Boese remained in a very serious condition with a serious head blood condition confirmed by X rays. Mrs Beese stays at his bedside continuously since Thursday.
The post office will close from 6 p m to 7 a m while the postmaster Mrs Lois Berry is on duty. A letter receptacle will be available in the lower part of the north door for letters and small articles during the closure period.
Administrator Chester Davis of the AAA concedes a paradox in the new $470 million program. He notes that in recent years the government has allocated about three quarters of a billion dollars to reclaim arid land. Under the updated AAA, benefits will go to farmers who occupy reclaimed lands as vast tracts enter cultivation, while the government spends heavily to curb production on land already paid for.
Resettlement expert Tugwell’s costly program to move families drawn interest from tax planners. They frame it as shifting the burden like a chess game, but ultimately the average American home bears the tax once more.
Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood will be pleased as the WPA in Clovis allocates 12106 dollars to demolish old stables and construct new ones for the New Mexico National Guard horses at federal expense.
International Labour Office figures show the United States trails major powers in returning jobless to work. Japan Britain Canada Sweden and others cut unemployment by substantial percentages while the U S notes only a 16 percent drop and carries a record debt despite large public works programs.
The article notes 600 Illinois girls are trained by the federal government at a cost of 40000 to become servants. The first class of 19 is led by the Household Occupations center with aims to teach tasks from polishing a petal to cleaning rooms and serving meals, framed as a complex middle class craft.
Washington D C The potato control act is dead but the memory of the New Deal era’s odd farm policy lives on in stamp albums. After repeal by Congress stamp collectors can obtain the stamps with tax paid from the bureau of internal revenue in Washington. Orders are limited to one sheet of 50 stamps per person.
A Kern County report shows a slight decrease in cotton produced and ginned in 1985 compared to 1934. The figures are drawn from March recapitulations compiled by P. A., a special agent, detailing countywide ginning totals and related metrics.
Joseph Scott a Los Angeles attorney and Hoover Warren delegate candidate says a majority of his group favors Gov. Landon of Kansas for the Republican nomination. He notes Warren would receive a complimentary first ballot vote and then release the delegation. Joe Crail of the Southern California committee replies that Landon pledges exist but prefer elected delegates pledged to Kansas.
W H Jahant chairman of the Kern county planning commission toured Shafter on a Wednesday morning business visit from his Wasco home.
Visiting relative Dorothy Regester of San Francisco spent several days in Shafter with her brother W. A. Regester and family before returning home on Wednesday night.
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