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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1947
Page
4
A garden party plan for a birthday child born in July or August suggests 3 to 5 pm or 4 to 6 pm. It features simple, wholesome food: chilled fruit juice, creamed chicken on toast, peas in mashed potato nests, ice cream, birthday cake, and milk. The menu favors easy serving and child friendly portions.
Mr and Mrs Harvey Gaede entertained a group of friends at a barbecue dinner on Sunday evening in Wasco. Guests included Ken and children from Wasco and Mr and Mrs John Siemens with daughter, along with Mr and Mrs Al Peters and children, also of Wasco.
Mr and Mrs C T Olson and their daughter Marjorie have returned from a several days visit to San Francisco They will resume at Oregon State College in mid September with the fall term starting around the middle of the month
Mrs Ruth Trout returns home with her seven pound seven ounce baby boy named Danny Ray Trout. The infant is seven days old and gaining weight at Wasco hospital.
The entry highlights two California items and two dates from history. On August 26, 1920 the Nineteenth Amendment granting women suffrage became law. On August 28, 1791 Mission Santa Cruz was founded. Also on August 28, 1784 Father Serra died and was buried at Mission San Carlos de Borromeo.
Emerson Gibson and his family spent Saturday night and Sunday visiting friends in Shafter, enjoying a weekend stay with local acquaintances.
Former members of the Womens Army Corps have until midnight September 30 to re-enlist in that unit of the Army. War Department directive released to Col Leslie W Jefferson at Fort MacArthur notes the deadline and urges former WACs who served as medical technicians X ray specialists cooks stenographers and clerk typists to rejoin. Ist Lt Murray C Arthur of the Bakersfield recruiting station offers information on WAC enlistment.
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