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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1937
Page
6
The article describes training for air stewards and stewardesses in Kansas City area classes. It notes graduates are often nurses taught greeting passengers, serving meals, making up beds, and maintaining grooming standards. It also covers mechanical basics of aircraft, cabin heating, flight principles, and pilot duties.
Clara Whelpley faces mixed feelings as Uncle Joe leaves for a new life with Colonel West while her husband Tom celebrates a raise and a cottage planned for the family. The scene shifts between longing and new beginnings as Bernice and Junior cope with change. Uncle Joe's future visitations loom over the tiny Benton home.
Three days before Christmas Marla resolves to share her hidden wish for luxuries by wrapping and distributing gifts. She visits Linda Larsen Effie Lynn and two girls with handkerchiefs towels and other items, then returns home to a warm family celebration and a golf set for Bobby.
Herbert L. Healy, Kern County schools chief, says about 100000 students were tested with tuberculin and X ray in California surveys funded by Christmas Seals. One third of high school students show prior infection, higher in college, with 20 to 25 percent of grammar school children affected. Tests aim to detect early cases and are paid for by Christmas Seal funds.
Census data compiled by A. Schmidt shows Kern county ginned 95,821 bales from the 1937 crop before November 14. For the same period in 1936 the total was 68,893 bales.
A fragmented OCR note mentions a curling iron and a radio console in a bedroom setting. The garbled text lacks clear names, dates, or actionable details, yielding a brief, ambiguous item suitable for a compact newspaper card.
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