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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1938
Page
7
A mother and two daughters endure a bleak Christmas in a worn apartment. Barbara worries Santa won’t come as Tom returns after losing track of them, then reappears with savings and hope. A Santa figure helps reunite the family as Mummy recovers and Babs discovers real Christmas love.
A lonely stranger Jim Sheridan meets Joan Siegfred in a city Christmas Eve mishap as packages fall in the snow. He helps her pick up the broken bundles and learns she lives in his building. They plan Christmas dinner and find companionship, ending with shared holiday goodwill.
A survey notes that Adeste Fideles was composed around 1700 and used in Roman Catholic churches, adopted in England in 1841 as O Come All Ye Faithful, with popular carols like While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night and Christians get Sing. It also claims St Ambrose wrote an early Christmas hymn in 340 A D.
Chicago reports that December 1936 traffic fatalities rose with holiday travel until a National Safety Council campaign cut the toll. The article notes the higher December toll compared to the Revolutionary War era, and credits the campaign with lowering fatalities last December.
A vaudeville bicycle act by 67 year old Harry Kramer halted traffic in Shafter on Monday. Police halted the street show after crowds gathered and streets stopped, forcing Kramer to relocate. He recalls 55 years in show business, has traveled the world with major circuses, and currently earns by street performances in a house car with his wife and 12 children.
Farm economist Omer Mills told a Fresno conference that California’s migratory labor issue stems from large scale farming. He noted 12 percent of farmers use 78 percent of workers and suggested reforms including revising the state employment service and moving surplus labor to conservation projects. Health and education officials cited sanitary camp conditions and 30 000 migratory children needing education.
The Danse Macabre by Saint Saens draws on a grotesque poem by Henri Cozati. Death is depicted as a fiddler summoning skeletons from graves at midnight for a dance. The hour signals the dancers to vanish as the cock crows.
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