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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1947
Page
9
Shafter hosts a three day Thrift Days event featuring hundreds of Christmas merchandise bargains across the town’s stores. Merchants deck the Shafter shopping center with holiday displays offering deep discounts on gifts for all, with prices slashed for Thursday through Saturday only and returning to normal on Monday.
The 106th District of the Rotary Club accepted Stockton to host the 1948 District Conference from March 25 to 28. District Governor H. W. Kelly noted the first day will focus on registration and housing. Harry Noble of Stockton Rotary reported a written agreement ensuring at least 500 hotel rooms. Committees will finalize the conference program and distribute details to clubs.
Preparations near completion for Santa Anita Park as the winter racing season opens December 27 and runs through March 6, 1948. The meeting will feature entrants from global stables and a high-profile visit list with Turf Club memberships limited to 600 and a long waiting roster. Officers of the Los Angeles Turf Club include Leigh M. Battson as president and Charles H. Strub as executive vice president along with other key directors and officials.
Boy Scouts of Kern County distributed 1,000 posters for the 41st Annual Christmas Seal Sale Drive of the Kern County Tuberculosis and Health Association. Posters were distributed in all parts of Kern County and the Association thanks the Scouts for their time and service.
Kern County tuber culosis association thanks postal workers for assisting the mail sale begun Nov 24 and running to Christmas. Mrs. H C Gardner says postmasters aided with mailing procedures and sends lapel pins to staff. The program funds tuberculosis control and stems from a 1904 Danish clerk's idea.
California motorists will be asked to place 1948 registration cards so the name and address are readable through the closed front left window. The request, printed on the card’s reverse side, aims to speed Division of Registration work hindered by up to 1500 daily inquiries from San Francisco.
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