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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1940
Page
2
National Editorial urges Kiwanis support for a Shafter community building to house a youth club and provide meeting space. Ports of precedent in Porterville show a self built clubhouse boosting local pride. A cemetery plan with a small tax levy could fund improvements, leveraging existing district funds.
Wasco and Shafter residents collaborate on a new cemetery administration plan within the Wasco Shafter district. The proposal calls for upgrading Shafter’s cemetery to a standard with Wasco’s, and purchasing a site near Wasco to create parallel, well kept burial grounds. The effort aims to end cross town tax funding disputes and define district administration after two cemeteries are improved.
Engineers study plastic and elastic movement in concrete using scaled test cylinders from the Upper Narrows dam. Lab simulations with controlled temperature and load reveal how shrinkage stresses are relieved as the dam cools, guiding future dam construction and design.
A number of Shafter farmers plan mint plantings this season with expectations of a large acreage next year. Dave Unruh proves the crop profitable, netting about 250 dollars per acre and averaging 160 pounds of mint oil per acre on seven acres. The oil goes to druggists and chemical suppliers, fueling demand and inspiring others to join the mint rush as flu clouds drift over Richland school with 50 students out sick. Santa Claus visits Shafter stores on December 15 and 22, with E. B. Stringham arranging the appearances for local children before Christmas Eve festivities.
Two carloads of lettuce daily are shipped from the area with four or five local growers sending produce to the middle west and the north. The crop is exceptional this year with large firm heads and good prices. Meanwhile Maple school lunch fund efforts raised 51 dollars to replenish supplies, awarding Alma Gloeckler's room a prize at the next PTA meeting.
B M Spangler cultivates 80,000 papaya trees on an 80 acre site in the lower Rio Grande valley Texas. He envisions papaya used in face powder marmalade and papaya paste with first production in 1941 and a nine month crop cycle. Also notes a pharmacy job outlook from Dr Charles W Ballard of Columbia University suggesting 2,500 new pharmacist jobs yearly versus 2,000 graduates.
The Shafter American Legion post plans the largest turkey shoot ever in California at C. B. Yates ranch three miles west of Shafter next Sunday. One thousand turkeys will be awarded to top marksmen, with 40 gunmen on the line. Ranges for .22 rifles pistols high power rifles trap shooting and clay pigeons will be used, and special ranges for women are provided.
The Women's club building hosted a Saturday bazaar organized by multiple town groups including the Women's club Richland P T A Ladies Auxiliary Ladies Aid and Camp Fire Girls. The hall featured Christmas colors bells trees and garlands creating a festive display. The flu epidemic has struck Shafter hard this week reports Principal O T Olson.
The Meyer home hosted a joyful surprise for Bertha Schmidt on Monday evening. Friends organized games and refreshments to celebrate her birthday, with cheerful memory-making moments described in the gathering.
The student body organized a Friday evening party at the new Shafter high school building with games and music from a large radio. Punch was served by students. Teachers present included Mrs. G Robinson and G. Gillette. Miss Voth was away due to her mother's illness in Long Beach. Adults in attendance were M. G. Robinson, E. B. Stringham, Mrs. Roy F. Jumper, and L. B. Scott.
At the Kern River Water Storage District meeting charges of bad faith and ethics arise over a state engineer report on the district. The report, directed to the board, was not presented and later withdrawn by the state engineer department. Airline notes include Kern County airport moving to self support next month under Bob Martin with a new price list. Air mail activity grows with 825 pounds shipped from Bakersfield port. air express remains a novelty and is expected to expand.
A Fresno Bee reader notes an inventor evolving a system to de shine trousers with an invisible patch sought. The playful item references other small town notes and light editorial humor throughout the region.
More goods will be carried from Bakersfield in the future. Max Daphne and Billy McKinley are ill with the flu but improving. Miss Arline Becker has battled flu and pneumonia and shows partial recovery. Sylvia Patzkowski, daughter of Abe Patzkowski, recently wed Myron Ball. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Becker hosted Mrs. R. L. Hull of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Unruh entertain Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Unruh and family of South Dakota.
Senator Hiram W. Johnson predicts a war after returning from Washington. Charles P. Vance, ex convict, discusses counterfeiting schools at San Quentin. Darryl F. Zanuck extols newspaper advertising. John Francis Neylan cites farm city interdependence. Dr. Walter Scott Franklin quips about flattery. Bob Moulton Jr notes government aid to private enterprise during a tax event.
Dr. R. M. Bohart of UC Los Angeles notes many insects aid humanity. Silk worms and honeybees pollinate crops, lac insects provide shellac, termites clean fallen wood, weed feeders curb weeds, Cactoblastis moth controls cactus, and spiders kill various pests.
Largo a 1 087 pounds Hereford owned by Evelyn Asay a 19 year old from Mt Carol Illinois sold for 3 30 a pound as the grand champion steer at the forty first International Livestock exposition in Chicago The price was about two and one half times last year s winning bid.
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