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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1939
Page
7
Openings listed for junior custodial officer in the bureau of prisons, chief budget examiner, and principal budget examiner in the bureau of budgets and textile. Full information available from John F. Roskam, secretary, U S civil service board, Shafter post office.
The California Railroad Commission examines fatigue impact on the brain nerves and muscles in the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company case. Examiner Fry presides in San Francisco as H. G. Mathewson appears for the Railroad Car of the State of California.
Notice of special election and intention to sell alcohol at Smith Corner Service Station Shafter California. Election to determine if Sierra Vista Tract annexes to the City of Shafter with polling at 212 Orange Street and appointed judges H J Harder H L Comfort Inspector Milo W West.
The Rev. and Mrs. P. A. Penner described thirty years of mission work in India at three First Mennonite church services and Mrs Penner spoke at the First Baptist church afternoon gathering. They discussed conditions in the foreign field and remained in Shafter until Monday morning.
The agricultural office in the shop building at Shafter High School is this week being enlarged to provide more space for projects and student work. Local staff say the renovation will improve facility flow and storage while classrooms remain in use.
Mrs Viola Strong opens a beauty shop this week in Allen’s barber shop at Myrick’s corner. Modern equipment installed for patrons. She brings wide experience from Chicago and most recently Bakersfield.
The project remodels the former office into a larger unit with a back store room now in use. Available office spaces will be more than doubled by the ongoing work.
A 125 acre grass and brush fire burned Thursday afternoon south west of Shafter near the Kern river. Local and Buttonwillow Bakersfield crews fought the flames with aid from Kern County Land Company workers. Investigators suspect hunters starting the fire by dropping cigarettes or matches on land owned by the Kern County Land Company.
The article notes that for the twentieth wedding anniversary, gifts of china are the most widely accepted. It discusses traditional expectations and social norms surrounding this milestone gift choice.
The Shafter Merchants lost 7 to 3 to Lost Hills on their home field, ending their tri city league title bid. Walt Kirschenmann pitched the deciding game, allowing nine hits while Red Howard limited the Merchants to six. Lost Hills advances to the county championship finals in Bakersfield in September.
California Industrial Welfare Commission clarifies record keeping for employers of women and minors. Records must include employee identity, birth data for minors, hours daily, overtime, and total wages, kept for at least one year with no fixed form as long as totals are shown.
A meeting for all participants in the summer tennis tournament connected to the local recreation program will be held tonight at 8 at the high school. All interested players are invited as officers will be elected and future activities planned.
Kern county junior chamber partners with Taft Condor club and Taft Moose lodge to mail thousands of applications for the Condor club second annual gas powered model plane meet set for September 24. Contestants must fly fuselage type gasoline models with at least 10 ounces wing loading per square foot wind area and may have two flights per plane.
Roy Golyen of Bakersfield, a California Highway Patrol captain, says no action has been definitively taken to revoke licenses issued in 1927 1928 and 1929 despite a circulating rumor. Closely held belief suggests no one will be affected.
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