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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1951
Page
13
County Fire Chief Elmo Freear warns Christmas trees and decorations pose major fire risk. He urges safe tree placement, angled cut base, wet sand or water, flameproof decorations, UL approved lights, and proper disposal of paper products to prevent fires this season.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Williams and Mr. and Mrs. Muriel Swan hosted a square dance at the Rosedale Grange last Saturday night. The hall glowed with fall colored streamers and balloons as about 40 guests enjoyed a midnight chuck wagon dinner.
Santa Fe Railroad crews work on the two mile Shafter link of the $3,000,000 centralized train control system between Bakersfield and Fresno. The 13000 foot siding speeds traffic by letting slow trains move off as faster trains pass, operated via a dispatcher in Fresno using lights and buttons.
Mr. and Mrs. John J. Peters Jr. plan to attend a family pot luck dinner organized by a parents company at the UCLA Los Angeles campus. They expect to return home immediately after the event. Mrs. Peters and her sister in law spent a couple of days in Los Angeles earlier this week.
Maple PTA leader Mrs Reuben Siemens expresses gratitude for generous donations that funded PTA work for the year. The evening drew many residents including out of district attendees and featured a film with refreshments and student volunteers. Leroy Balzer received a Boy Scout pocketknife from Mrs Bill Siemens as a ticket donation reward.
A single flask of hot coffee weighs roughly 76 pounds. The estimate highlights the unusually heavy load described in the fragment.
Bonnie Rieinrichs, a Maple School pupil, is reported improving after an emergency appendectomy last week and is expected to return in time to join the Christmas program.
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