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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1939
Page
7
A brief notice notes that lessons for December 17 were chosen by the International Council Religious Education and used by permission. The text mentions lesson subjects and scripture selections without further detail.
The text analyzes Jesus parables as teaching tools, focusing on the sower, four kinds of hearers, the dangers of worldly influence, and the leaven as evil. It emphasizes consistent interpretation with scripture, warns against hardened hearts and shallow faith, and stresses redemption bought by Christ's sacrifice.
The annual sugar beet conferences sponsored by UC College of Agriculture will be held in Berkeley on December 15 16 and in Ventura on December 20. Staff from the college and the U S Department of Agriculture along with sugar company representatives attend to discuss industry problems.
A briefing notes that four hundred miles of link sausage wrapped in "skins" from cotton linters are consumed by Americans each day, illustrating a food processing detail.
The Rio Bravo School District in Kern County California invites sealed bids for additions to the school building and demolition of an existing structure. Bids due December 18 1939 at 7 30 PM with a 5 percent bid bond. Plans available from Perrine & Associates Fresno California. Prevailing wages required for local trades with specific rate schedule. The district may reject any or all bids.
Special revival and evangelistic services at First Baptist Church on Lerdo Road run through Sunday led by Rev. Edgar H. McAllister and speaker Dr. J. Harvey Deere. Topics include Head Over Heels in Love, The Motherhood of God, How I May Know I'm Saved, and The Hobo's Return. Evening services 7:30, Sunday 11. Attendance includes 17 states represented at all-state night. Public is invited.
The 1939 cotton season in the Shafter district stood at 12 752 bales this week with ginners predicting a stretch to February first given good weather. Camp West Lowe reported 4 482 bales, D O Moore 4 270, and Shafter Wasco 4 000. Prospects point to a district total above 14 000 as prices rise with stronger demand amid the European war.
Plans for a junior senior party were made for December 15 at Shafter High School. Freshmen discussed placing a Christmas tree in the study hall while sophomores consider a Christmas assembly for the student body on December 15.
Central Market defeated King Lumber 31 to 15 in a city league basketball game at the high school gym. Jona Nikel scored 12 points on five field goals and two free throws, while Lewis Edwards added 10 points. King’s top scorer was Dude Moore with seven points. Jim Taylor and Johnny Gatde had four each.
Mayor Phil Ohanneson of Woodland has been released from Sutter hospital in Sacramento. He is recovering at Woodland and plans to stay a day or two in Shattering before returning to Woodland. He recently lost a toe in a hunting accident.
Australia faces a serious problem disposing of its harvest of 179 million bushels of wheat due to a lack of shipping space to foreign ports.
California citrus growers report improved citron supplies as imports from Italy Sicily and Greece decline because of the European war. Local markets expect steadier availability and prices as supply chains adjust to wartime disruption.
Beacons along the Mississippi and Gulf coast trace the rise of U S lighthouse service from 1721 to modern times. Fort Boulaye near New Orleans marks early maritime signaling with 62 foot tower. by 1831 lights marked both passes and gulf shores as coastal commerce grew. The eighth district now lists over 750 lit aids and 1130 unlit aids with several radio beacons in operation.
Dr Henry Gideon head of the compulsory attendance department of the Philadelphia board of education says delinquent girls are three times as bad as boys. He notes gangs of delinquent boys in Philadelphia have been largely wiped out and the issue now focuses on individuals.
The Walter Scott left Nantucket on October 31 1840 for the Pacific. Its 1841 South Pacific sighting of 5000 whales is recorded in whaling entries later found by WPA workers among Augustus L. Fisher’s antique collection.
Dennis and Dennis practice with father and daughter as partners. Elizabeth Drayton Dennis joined after bar admission earlier this summer and works from her father's Windham county juvenile court affiliated office. Judge Edward L. Dennis says she grew up hearing about law.
Three men received seven years penal servitude each for stealing a buffalo by violence from a field at Kom Hamada in Alexandria Egypt. Two accomplices got five and two years respectively while the women alleged as accessories were acquitted.
Six years after removal of an entire lung for bronchial cancer, a Pittsburgh physician remains alive and active. Dr Evarts A Graham performed the pioneering operation at Barnes Hospital on April 5, 1933, with mortality now about 10 to 15 percent and only one death in the last ten cases observed by Dr M F Arbuckle of the St Louis Medical Society.
Cleveland organist Edwin Arthur Kraft and painter William J Edmonson have played checkers together for 32 years. Kraft, once confident, now trails as Edmonson leads the series. The outcome remains unsettled as age could shift the lead again.
Singapore report notes rubber planters in Johore British Malaya plant hedges of stinging nettles around estates to deter wandering elephants that uproot trees and damage fences. The hope is the nettle sting will deter elephants from returning.
Mrs. Margaret Robertson of New Britain advises women to avoid losing temper with husbands. She notes occasional squabbles are harmless if tempers do not clash and says women should not expect an ideal man since none exist.
In Hutchinson Kansas Mrs. Mattie Fisher noted medical journal records matching the case of Abner Hess born June 13 1857 in Hartford City Indiana weighing three pounds and his sister Emily Jane Hess born August 2 1857 weighing nine pounds.
GENEVA NY Jesse H Johnson refuses new models. He has driven the same car since 1914 with the engine never out of the chassis. The vehicle has no accidents or towings, uses kerosene headlights, and retains the brass radiator. He achieves about 27 miles per gallon.
A group health and accident insurance plan is being purchased by Kern county high school and elementary teachers. The plan requires 50 percent participation, with Bakersfield elementary teachers already covered. Deductions come from monthly salaries, and the aim is a pre Christmas rollout. Committee members include Jack Singer Miss Mayme Brother and Frank Rose.
Mack Smith a resident of Shafter for ten years was accepted for enlistment in the United States Marine Corps. He was enlisted on November 24 and transferred to Recruit Depot San Diego for training. After training he will be qualified to serve aboard a battleship or at a distant foreign station to protect American interests.
John Cagwell Walser 70 longtime Kern county sheriff and member of a founding family died Sunday. Born September 9 1869 in Walker's Basin he helped build the Walser ranch. Survived by widow two daughters a grandson sister and cousins. Funeral Tuesday at First Christian Church Bakersfield with Rev. B B Baird officiating.
Two basketball games that were postponed from November 30 will be played Tuesday evening in the gymnasium due to the Kiwanis charity show conducted there.
The city league schedule announced for Tuesday December 19 features King Lumber versus Pontiac at 8 00 pm and Central Market against Falcon Oil at 9 00 pm Har vey Gaede president of the local athletic association said the games fit the Christmas holiday gym closure plan.
Nearly half of the state’s grape and wine production is centered in the southern San Joaquin Valley, highlighting regional dominance in California’s viticulture and enology sectors.
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