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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1940
Page
5
Willie Dobrenen Alex Dobren en Mary Dobrenen and Mrs. Ag nes Dobrenen left Shafter Monday for a week in the San Francisco area. They planned to visit the Golden Gate International exposition and to spend time in Golden Gate park.
Two pistol shoots are announced in Kern County. The Kern County pistol league monthly shoot is set for Tuesday August 20 at Kern River Park range at 7 p.m. The sheriff's barbecue event follows at 9 a.m. August 25 at the same park.
Rod ney Turner of Delano a state assemblyman spoke at a Shafter Kiwanis luncheon about California social security law. He described old age pensions and unemployment insurance funding, noted rising admin costs and potential next session revisions to tighten unemployment insurance controls. the Central Valley project and legislative agenda were also discussed.
Notice that on Monday August 26 1940 at 8 PM the Shafter City Council will sit as Board of Equalization to equalize property assessments. The board will meet for three nights. Clerk F G Shaw signs the notice for the City of Shafter.
City of Shafter approves its annual budget on August 12 1940 detailing payrolls for department heads officers and staff including police fire and street departments. It lists anticipated revenues and receipts and shows a total general receipts balance and year end figures with disbursements across administrative taxes licenses court engineering and public works.
Mennonite Brethren, First Mennonite, and St. John Catholic churches schedule sermons, Sunday schools, and special events. Highlights include German and American services, Bible readings, evangelistic sermons, and a youth retreat August 20 to 23 sponsored by local MB churches.
The Christian Science Society branch of The Mother Church in Boston located at Corner Sixth and E streets Wasco offers Sunday services at 11 a m and a Sunday school at 10 a m.
In Grahamstown South Africa Kalele Gxowa leader of a native sheep-stealing gang was sentenced to six years in prison and eight lashes. A witness detailed how the dog was trained to seize sheep at night with a whistle signaling. The eight year old daughter of the accused testified she rode with her father on a bicycle to help catch sheep.
Thieves used handcars to haul stolen safes from two Canadian National stations, breaking into St Eustache and Crabtree Mills. They opened vaults with hammers and took $125 from St Eustache and $11 from Crabtree Mills. handcars and empty vaults were later found along the tracks.
Ray Minehan, a San Francisco newspaper artist, claims his peg terrier Cupcake is the only piscatorial pup in America. He attached a fishing line to the dog's leg on a barge and the terrier quickly hooked a cod so large that Minehan had to reel it in.
Ultra slow motion footage reveals hummingbirds can hover and fly backward using unique wing movements. Scientists say understanding the backward flight remains far from applying the trick to human or mechanical aviation.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology reports bread and molasses as a superior remedy for nutritional anemia in children. The biology and public health department notes molasses provides accessible iron and may outperform chemical injections and even beef liver.
Safety experts argue for stronger pedestrian education to reduce fatalities. A Washington survey found seven of ten traffic deaths involve pedestrians, and the American Automobile Association notes unlicensed walkers are nine times likelier to be killed than licensed pedestrians.
The crossing of the line ceremony traced to ancient seafaring customs with Neptune arriving aboard first as Davy Jones deputy and later as judge. New sailors, the polywogs, face boisterous ritual punishment by shellbacks with soap, creosote, whitewash, and sea-water dousing.
The article traces the shift from manual pill impaling and gelatin sealing to automated processes using suction bars for mass coating. It notes pill forming begins with doughy masses shaped into pipes and slugs, then rolled by eccentrically moving belts. Automatic presses stamp compressed tablets at very high speeds and inspire use in plastics.
One of the world’s strangest clocks sits in Rome’s Villa Borghese municipal park and runs on water power. Water drops from a fountain into descending cups to provide motive force for the mechanism, and the Italian information center at Rockefeller Center notes it has kept perfect time for over a century.
Albert and Mrs Kattenhorn visit Shafter at the E. V. Kattenhorn home. Dr and Mrs Taylor Tabb tour to Port Hueneme via Maricopa and Santa Barbara. Mr and Mrs Art Johnson vacation in southern California. Miss Betty Spry travels from Shafter to Barstow to visit the Fultons.
Don Wheeler of Culver City paused while traveling to Yosemite Valley for a visit with Shafter friends on Saturday.
Allen Bartel teaching at Randall Kansas and Ernest Rogalsky of McPherson Kansas arrived in Shafter this week to spend about three weeks at the home of Mrs Ida Bartel. Mr and Mrs B W Bernice Meuter of Hollywood stopped in Shafter en route home from a trip to Santa Cruz San Francisco and Yosemite to visit friends and relatives. Mrs Meuter is a former Shafter resident and will be remembered as Cora Daniels. Her husband is assistant general manager of Bradley chain of five and ten cent stores.
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