War Chest Aids British Bomb Victims
The British War Relief Society aided by the National War Fund kept 24 hour emergency service for bomb victims in D-Day and post invasion operations. Ambulances faced danger from robot plane debris. quick wheel changes helped transport wounded to hospitals. Local volunteers and families are cited amid vacation notices and birthday celebrations in Shafter.
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British War Relief Society
National War Fund
Mettler
Seman Seemunity
War Chest
California War Chest
British War Relief
Mercy
Mettier
Comforts of Home Chats With Maj Harold Sparks
Comforts of Home sits up in bed for final night chat with Maj Harold P Sparks of Frankfort Ky. Stollers Back from Lake Tahoe Mr and Mrs Ben Stoller and family returned to Shafter Friday from Lake Tahoe where they had spent two weeks vacation. Guenthers Return from Vacation Dr and Mrs P C Guenther returned to Shafter last Friday evening from San Luis Obispo where they had spent their two week vacation visiting Mr and Mrs Eddie Guenther who have recently met Mrs Stone Celebrates Mrs Eliza Stone long time resident of Shafter celebrated her 88th birthday anniversary August 11 with an afternoon at home to receive her many friends best wishes for many happy returns of the day. Mrs Hill Has Out of Town Guests Mrs Amos Lenard and her granddaughter Carol of North Sacramento and Mrs Leland Wall of Bakersfield were guests in role on Senie B Hill.
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Stone
Eliza Stone
Shafter
Hill
Amos Lenard
Carol
North Sacramento
Leland Wall
Bakersfield
Senie B. Hill
Captain Rodgers Recovery Distress Mentioned
Word confirms Captain Rodgers is recovering and Gene Ford visits from Franklin with Mrs. Ford accompanying.
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Captain Rodgers
Gers
Gene Ford
Franklin
Rodgers
Harvest Brigade Photos Show Two Man One Arm Operator
Laura Lee Wilde of Muenster helps Harvest Brigade workers drive a 500 self propelled combine across Texas and Oklahoma fields. The Wildes harvest wheat on Congressman R. Ewing Thomason's farm near Valley View, as the Massey Harris campaign promotes cutting more grain with fewer men using one man combines.
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Laura Lee Wilde
Muenster
Texas
Oklahoma
Wilde
Laura Lee
Wildes
R. Ewing Thomason
Valley View
Tex
Massey-Harris Co
Racine
Paign
California Parties Back Veterans Bond Issue
Leaders of both major parties in California endorse Proposition No. 1 the $30,000,000 World War II Veterans Farm and Home bond issue for ratification by voters at the November 7 general election. The plan was drafted at their presiding conventions and includes provisions benefiting service members from World War I and World War II through the California Veterans Welfare Board.
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California
Pla
Sacramento
California Veteranan Welfare Board
Shafter News Roundup of Local Visits and Travel
Mr and Mrs Joe Turner and family return from McAllister Oklahoma after a monthlong fishing and hunting trip. Pvt J M Banks Jr arrives on leave for 12 days and is stationed at Camberts. Oxnard visitors join Mr and Mrs Paul Sanders. Mrs M M Nash returns to San Leandro after week in Shafter visiting daughter Mrs Dick Arnold. C R Codd hosts barbecued supper with Clint Parker and family M J Lohr and others. Mrs T V Little hosts a desert bridge party with Mrs M L Thomas Sylvia Baughman Ed Gamegan Glen Compton Floyd Cooper Ed Brown C G Haycock. Mrs Brown tops for the afternoon with Mrs Cooper second and Mrs Thomas low. Everett Clark and wife return from two weeks in the Redwoods.
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T. V. Little
Aslem
M. L. Thomas
Sylvia Baughman
Ed Gamegan
Glen Compton
Floyd Cooper
Ed Brown
C. G. Haycock
Church U S C Hosts Sunday Services in Shafter
Congregational church members will host USC Club Hall activities on Sunday August 27. Guthries’ daughters Mrs H Russell and Essie Jo visit from Tulare with Mrs H C Littlefield and Emma Jean. Esther Goertzen of Ulysses Kansas visits Shafter. she plans to attend the Los Angeles Bible Institute this fall. Miss Katherine Hurd new fourth grade teacher at Richland Grammar School arrived in Shafter last week from Colorado. Ninety one per cent of New
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Congregational Church
USC ‘Club
Wm. Goertzen
Esther Goertzen
Ulysses
Kansas
Shafter
William Goertzen
Goertzen
Bible Institute
Los Angeles
Katherine Hurd
Richland Grammar School
Miss Hurd
Colorado
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Alvin W. Gaede, MD
James Street Shafter
Johnson Neuman’s
A. F. Beese
Mary Burkhard
Greenhorn
R. B. Leitch
Santa Monica
Sidney Dawe
Leitch
Wasco
Mrs. Mundt
Richard Turknett
Shafterng
Ine Mundt
Turknett
Venezue
Furmans
Steve Furman
Nancy Irene
Furman
Irene Wilson
Shafter High School
Jerry Smith
Ralph. Smith
Maj
Harold P. Sparks
Frankfort, Ky
Frank Johnson
Central and James
H. A. Hubble
Shell
Shell Gasoline Shellubrication
Girl
Harvest Brigade
America
Lincoln Park
William Ordway Partridge
Shakespeare In
Chicago
England
BY Leff
August Friberg
Beaumont
Turners
Joe Turner
Shafter Week
McAllister
Okla
Turner
J. M. Banks, Jr
Banks
Camberts
Oxnard
Paul Sanders
Mrs.ohn Dell
Son
Codds
C. R. Codd
Clint Parker
M. J. Lohr
Mrs. Allen
Mrs. Little
Clarks
Redwoods
Mrs. Everett Clark
Ray Albert
Hiner Ee
I Ea
Wir
Jack” Zimmerman
U.S. C
Electric Irons
Duehren
Lowell
Thomas
Sears
Shafter Drug Store
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