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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1941
Page
4
Shafter Volunteer Fire Department honored Johnny Gaede at a department meeting at the Shafter Ranger station. Gaede has been inducted for selective service with the United States Army. Members presented him a leather wallet engraved with his name. A short business meeting preceded the social session.
The Business and Professional Women's club of Shafter invites prospective members to a dinner tonight at Motel Cawelo. The club conducts a membership drive led by Geraldine Mundt and Maxine Sanders.
The Wasco couple Frankie Irene Trogdon and Ruben Siemens plan a church wedding. The Trogdons announce the engagement and note both graduates of Wasco High School with Siemens working in Shafter. The wedding date is to be announced.
Fort Lewis Washington memory lingers for Pvt Thomas Skewers from St Paul Minnesota as friends relatives and former customers send a 25 foot long letter signed by over 200 people.
Mickey Bakalis, a two year old in Chicago, interprets between his Greek grandmother and English speaking aunt. Since 15 months old he has learned both languages, translating conversations and even requests like water. He speaks to toys in both languages and shows no fatigue in his interpreter role.
In Detroit, Alex Lundy was acquitted of driving while intoxicated by Judge George T. Murphy. He stumbled on the stand, was held in contempt, and sentenced to 10 days in jail. The judge threatened permanent license revocation, replying that Lundy would not get it back “in a hundred years.”
In Cincinnati a 175 pound St Bernard named Bad Girl ignored her owner Miss Anna Marie Schmidt to aid a starving German Shepherd puppy in a basket. After the leash broke, Bad Girl leaped a 40 foot embankment to retrieve the puppy and carry it up the slope, while another puppy in the basket lay dead.
A Lexington man charged with intoxication was treated leniently after the arresting officer testified the defendant believed Lexington whisky was superior to his home liquor and caused him to drink too much before the charge. The judge dismissed the case.
A woman recalls leaving a package at a store and returning for it but instead going to the hospital. She forgets the car was parked atop a hydraulic grease rack.
Dr James M Wood of Stephens College for Women claims personality training improves marriage outcomes. He cites divorce rates under 3 percent at his school versus 8 percent nationally, with 80 percent of graduates marrying within five years. He notes students also find employment quickly and highlights studies by Dr Louise Price on female social confidence.
A new air powered whipper named Whip-Rite freezes cream into perfect ribbons quickly. The metal dispenser pours cream, pumps, shakes, and yields fluffy whipped cream that stays stable from morning to dinner. It also makes fresh putter in less than a minute and light batter for waffles omelets and hot cakes.
Frost bitten house plants should be kept in a cool dark place until thawed, no warming room and no watering for two or three days. Sterilized baby bottles must be fully submerged in water to be germ proof, with at least three inches of water when starting to bail. If a room is bare, add a hanging shelf and decorate with small colorful objects or trailing greenery. For a quick meal, heat two eggs with canned mushroom soup and cheese, then serve over rice or pasta.
Dr George W Peavy president emeritus of Oregon State College and state forestry board reports rising private land reforestation interest in western Oregon. Hearings consider classifying about 40000 acres of logged off lands as reforestation lands with 5 cent per acre taxes during classification and a 12 percent yield tax to counties when timber is removed.
A慎 fragmentary note describes the Havasupai of northern Arizona who call themselves the blue green water people. The tribe, numbering only a few hundred, lives on about 100 acres of tillable land within canyon walls and remains peaceful and isolated from outsiders.
A youth told police he burglarized homes to raise money for a waiting uniform for his girlfriend. He said she needed the uniform to get work, and they believed marriage depended on her employment.
James Masters, 60, a ventriloquist without a dummy, drank and held chaotic announcements at a Joliet bus depot. Shouting fake arrivals and departures, he triggered a scramble as passengers rushed doors and curbs. Police restrained the disembodied voice and placed Masters in custody.
In Brockton Massachusetts a police dog was picked up after acting oddly on the street. Patrolman Frank McKay detained the intoxicated canine, later learning window washers spilled denatured alcohol in a solution the dog drank. The dog was kept at the station to sober up while authorities searched for the owner.
George B. Duncan, jailed for nine years on housebreaking, slipped from central prison Trusty cell. Night Patrolmen G R Glover and R E Goodwin nabbed him in a Raleigh grocery after a robbery call, alerting authorities unaware of the escape. Duncan faces new charges of breaking and entering.
Camden South Carolina Capt T R Wright chief of the army flying school snagged a gold wrist watch from the air at 2500 feet during a slow roll with instructor L P Speth at the controls. Hazellief had previously flown the ship and lost his watch.
Abram Friesen, now in Los Angeles, called on Shafter friends on Wednesday. Jack Hare and his family sailed four days fishing off Port Hueneme. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Janzen and Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Friesen traveled to Pismo for a night then along the coast to Lompoc and back. Thelma Fisher and Audrey Mitchell, local school instructors, visited Shafter on Tuesday. Postmaster Lois Berry Reuters on a Pacific Northwest vacation including Vancouver. George Isaac and family drove to Long Beach with visits to Huntington Beach and a birthday celebration for Mr. Isaac.
Four Shafter residents were naturalized and admitted to U S citizenship in a naturalization ceremony before Superior Judge W R Bradshaw. The group of 41 included 27 from Great Britain and others from Mexico Italy Russia Sweden Denmark France and Greece. Those from Shafter were Henry H Karber Marie Klassen Blondina Siemens and Susan Penner.
Grape and raisin growers in the San Joaquin Valley vote 34 to 12 to raise picking wages for the 1941 harvest. Basic rates for Thompson seedless rise to 2 cents a tray for 500+ trays, with scale downs to 2 cents per tray. Tray turning wages jump to 2.25 per 1000, cigarette trays to 1.20 per 1000, as costs and grape prices climb. An estimated 25,000 pickers will be needed at peak harvest as Thompson seedless prices advance to 65 to 70 per ton from 45 to 50 last year. Weather delays push picking start, but activity is imminent.
The mountain rises 2600 feet above the San Francisco Bay area, dominating the landscape and offering sweeping views of the bay and surrounding regions. Locals note its prominence in the skyline and recreational appeal.
Tempa Swan a 17 year old Shafter girl will travel to Sitka Alaska to conduct missionary work among native Indian and Eskimo populations representing the Pentecostal Church of God She plans to close her revival at the Pentecostal Gospel Mission on Sunday She has attended Shafter High School for three years and is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd Swan.
Members of the Shafter Kiwanis Club are drafting plans for their annual home talent charity show. Herb Schirmer is named general chairman of arrangements. The exact show format is undecided but will differ from prior years yet remain as funny, with the legitimate theatre expected to face its usual roasting.
Pvt Jim Gelardi of Brooklyn plays what is believed to be one of the oldest violins in U S The Maggini instrument bears the year 1634 and is used by Gelardi on off duty time at the Field Artillery post in North Carolina. Rudolph Sarna from Pittsfield contributes a longitudinal girder from the German Zeppelin RZ 3 to an aluminum for defense drive.
A Carlsbad cat's curiosity caused a transformer to short and cut power to part of the town for nearly an hour. Electric crews restored service after the device was safely deenergized and the animal neutralized.
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