Firehouse Construction Planned Here in Shafter
Harold Bowhay announces construction of a new WPA linked fire station in Shafter on Santa Fe Way to begin in about 60 days. The project, funded in the 1940 41 Kern County budget, will feature a two stall engine bay a meeting room and potential future offices and living quarters. The site west of the ranger station on Santa Fe Way is to be the new highway aligned firehouse with plans drawn months ago and county style matching existing buildings.
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Shafter
Santa Fe Way
Harold Bowhay
Bakersfield
WPA
Kern County
Shafter Ranger Station
Sarita’ Fe Way
Bowhay
Greenfield
Randsburg
Theity Council
Union Moves Into Section 27 For Next Well
Union Oil begins work on the 76-27 location in the southeast quarter of Section 27 28-25 west of Beech street as crews drill an offset of Superior's Fink wells. A second Union project 2-34 in Section 34 shows depth of 11 420 feet with cementing at 14 27 feet and is expected to be completed soon.
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Union Oil Company
North Shafterfield
Beech Street
Union
Superior
Shafter Public
Fishermen Bring Home Three Trout Limits From Mountain Trip
Ralph Lachenmaier Ralph Janzen and Bill McClain returned to Shafter Tuesday with three limits of trout taken on a pack trip into the mountains behind Mountain Home. They were gone several days.
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Ralph Lachenmaier
Ralph Janzen
Bill McClain
Shafter
Labor Day Portraits From The Nation's Workers
Labor Day 1940 honors 45 million Americans in the workforce. The collection of pictures asks where workers stand in the ranks and whether anyone can truly rise through the system.
Infections linked to arthritis in historical overview
The text describes arthritis as inflammation of joints caused by infection and notes pneumonia scarlet fever tuberculosis rheumatic fever and wounds near joints as sources of infection. It presents a concise medical overview rather than new research findings. The language reflects early 20th century medical explanation of infectious origins of joint inflammation.
Shafter High School Registration Set for Sept 6 7
Principal E P Jones announced Shafter high school will hold student registration on Friday and Saturday September 6 and 7 to prepare for the fall term. Registration runs 9 to 12 and 1 to 4 with first come first served locker assignments. Annual teachers meetings are set for September 5 with faculty called to Bakersfield and an afternoon session at the school.
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Shafter High School
E. P. Jones
Janes
Bakersfield
Dogs Must Still Be Kept Tied In Shatter City
City officials reiterate dogs must be tied or confined in Shatter City as cooperation improves but stray disposal noted. Health officials issued the order two weeks ago after a dog linked to Vern B. Jansens tested positive for rabies and will keep effect until further county health guidance.
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Shatter
Vern B. Jansens
Temperature Stays In the 90s Across Week At Farm
Readings from the experiment farm on Shafter highway show weeklong high temperatures in the 90s with a peak of 95 and lows from 52 to 63. Daily highs ranged from 87 to 95 and lows from 52 to 63, with most days in the upper 80s or low 90s.
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Shafter Highway
Labor Day Holiday Declared By Community Officials
Labor Day observed next Monday brings an official holiday with banks, post office, and city offices closed. Businessmen have not agreed on closing and may defer to individual choice, with a decision likely at the Shafter Business Men's association meeting tomorrow noon at Ruhiman's.
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Shafter Business Men’s Association
Ruhiman’s
Mandell No 1 oil well yields 1526 barrels in Shafter field
Mandell No. 1 completed by Superior Oil in the Shafter field's Section 27 28-25 produced 1526 barrels of 39 gravity oil from 11400 feet. Cemented casing at 11157 feet places the producing formation higher than others in the field and the well is limited to 164 barrels daily. Osborn No 11 slated next with depth 11392 feet. Pasadena Realty project in Section 33 has casing cemented at 11260 feet and depth 11275 feet. Smith No 2 spudded, surface casing at 2029 feet and depth 2779 feet reached. Rudnick No 4 rigging underway and Rudnick No 3 reached 10585 feet Tuesday morning.
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Union
Ter
Mandell No. 1
Section 27
Mandell
Osborn No
Rudnick No
Maple School Opening Set For September Tenth
Maple School plans a September 10 opening with about 125 students anticipated. Faculty includes Thelma Fisher Sepha Larson Enid Hartley Leonard Dorn with Singer on full time and Sessions and Bowers on part time roles. Frances Kattenhorn to teach art at Maple and Buttonwillow. classes expected to mirror last year.
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Thelma Fisher
Sepha Larson
Enid Hartley
Leonard Dorn
Alfred Sessions
Paul Bowers
Wasco High School
Frances Kattenhorn
Maple
Buttonwillow
Singer
Garbage Rate Increase in Shafter City
Garbage rates in Shafter will rise starting September 1 from 60 to 75 cents monthly for residences and from 30 to 35 cents for apartments. Business rates remain unchanged. Residential collections occur twice weekly, business district six days weekly. Garbage collector Mike Poznoff cited wage issues under old prices.
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Shafter
Mike Poznoff
Aliens Registration Effort Expands At Shafter Postoffice
About 50 registration forms issued since opening Tuesday by Postmaster Lois L. Berry. Foreign-born men over 14 must register under the 1940 act. fingerprints will be taken once equipment arrives in about 10 days. Closing date is December 26 with penalties up to $1,000 fine and six months in jail for noncompliance. Forms are mailed to Los Angeles then Washington. no fees or paid assistance. information remains confidential and updates must be reported to the federal authorities.
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Shafter
Lois L. Berry
United States
Los Angeles
Washington, D. C
Postal Department
Department of Justice
Woollomes Thanks Shafter Voters After Primary Win
Roy Woollomes, chairman of the Kern county board of supervisors, reelected in the Tuesday primary, thanks Shafter voters for support. He praises volunteers and pledges to honor his campaign promise to serve all and advance district interests.
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Roy Woollomes
Kern
Postmaster Warns On Mailbox Tampering in Shafter
Postmaster Lois L. Berry warns that small boys tampering with mailboxes in Shafter will be turned over to local officers. She notes recent attempts to pry open boxes and says the offense is serious with officers on lookout for future offenders.
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Lois L. Berry
Shafter
Thompsons Picked for Wine
A number of Thompson Seedless grapes are being picked in the Shafter district for sale to wineries. They will go to Delano concerns and also to points further north in the state.
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Thompson
Shafter District
Delano
California Returns Show Johnson Reelected to Senate
Early election tallies indicate Hiram Johnson, long time California isolationist, secured reelection to the U S Senate by about four to one over Republican rivals and a clear majority over Democratic opposition. Alfred J. Elliott leads in the tenth district race for Congress with a two thousand vote edge over Walter Scott Franklin. Rodney Turner is reelected in the forty first district for state assembly. Governor Olson’s purge sees one ally survive and the opposition gain seats in the assembly while two senate seats are contested.
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Hiram Johnson
California
United States
Senate
Alfred J. Elliott
Walter Scott Franklin
Rodney Turner
Delano
Cecil Cole
William J. Wizzard
Olson
Chester F. Gannon
Sacramento
Assembly
Sweeps City
Woollames
Shafter City
No. 1
Maple
Mettler
Woollomes
Svee
Annis
Burbank
Poplar
Richland
Sage
Scaroni
Shafco
Shafter South
Bender
Federal Camp
Johnson
Ellis E. Patterson
John Anson Ford
Samuel W. Yorty
Richard Stewart Otto
James D. Meredith
Shafter
James Hollister
Hewitt Reynolds
Napoleon M. N. Shalhoob, Jr
Forty-First
William J. Vazzard
Mennonite Brethren Conference Opens Saturday on Greenhorn
More than 75 members of Shafter Mennonite Brethren church plan a three day Kern County Christian Fellowship conference on Greenhorn mountain starting Saturday. Rev H D Wiebe and others assist with the program with talks by T R Nikkel and Rev J D Hofer. Sunrise service at 6 30 Monday morning.
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Mennonite Brethren Church of
Shafter
Kern County
J. D. Hofer
Rosedale
Oughton Well Spudded by G P Corp in Shafter Greeley Zone
General Petroleum Corp spudded its Oughton No 2 well, section 1 29 26, in the Shafter Greeley interfield area Friday. The well lies south of the Wallace project and west of Oughton No 1 in a high potential production zone. At Caldwell No 5 in Shafter’s southeast corner, a fishing job continues after a string of drill pipe was lost near 8 000 feet.
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General Petroleum Corporation
Oughton _No.2
Shafter
Greeley Fields
Wallace
Oughton No. 1
G. P
Caldwell No. 5
Shafter Field
Woollomes wins Shafter primary by large margin over Svee
In Shafter and nearby areas Roy Woollomes secures a landslide re election to the county board of supervisors first district with 744 to 297 over Bryan Svee based on unofficial returns from 15 precincts. Johnson leads U S senator ballot with 672 votes in the local tally.
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Shafter
Roy Woollomes
County Board of Supervisors
Bryan Svee
Orth County
Woollames
Delano
Wasco
McFarland
Oil company spud 12-1 well in Greeley field
Standard Oil spudded its 12-1 well in Section 7 29-26 northeast Greeley field. Drilling continues below 1000 feet east of General Petroleum Oughton projects near the producing zone extending through Shafter and Greeley fields.
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Standard Oil Company
Greeley Field
General Petroleum Corporation
Shafter and Greeley Fields
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Henry Ford
U. S
J. C. Penny
Irving Berlin
Inset
America
Shatter City
Superior Oil
Superior Oil Company
Shaf
Maple School
Shafter Postoffice
Thompsons
M. B
Greenhorn
Kern County Board of Supervisors
Eliewer Strong
Arch Beckes
J. M. Bowhay
Democratic County Committee
Jack Kliewer
Walter S. Allen
Joseph R. Alexander
Willam Jahant
Hiram W. Johnson
Congress
Rodney L. Turner
North Greeley Field
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