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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1940
Page
3
Shafter residents and visitors fill the week with trips to Hanford Taft Reedley and Sequoia Park. Local students and faculty travel for holidays while families host relatives and planning for future church landscaping continues.
Members of Draft Board No 137 in Shafter mail 580 questionnaires for the selective service, with 50 per day recently, to classify registrants and send 1-A exams before January 3. Delinquents reduced from 121 to 46 after follow up. 47 volunteers now, plus eight already sent for training, with 100 to 120 inductees planned by March 15 under state guidance.
Mrs. Abe Strauss announced the Strauss Maternity home will close for two weeks as interior remodeling and painting take place.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Nelson of Bowling Green Ohio toured Shafter and parts of California with the Fred Christensens. They found not the cool Ohio weather but much sun and wind. after travel they praised orange groves and fields but promised not to share the dust storm memories with friends back home.
About 400 migrant farm workers and families were left homeless as heavy winds toppled tents and shelters. County welfare department and the board of supervisors organized aid at Fairfax Grange hall Arvin and Old River migratory camps and Edison school.
The Appalachian trail extends 2050 miles along the crest of the Appalachian range from Mount Katahdin in Maine to Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia.
The Shafter directional sign at Lerdo Road and 99 Highway was repaired but reportedly burns again at night. The issue was reported to the Shafter Businessmen's Association, the group operating the sign.
Morgan cows lead the Kern County Cow Testing association North unit with first and second in the purebred class during November. Zampa Girl produced 83.9 pounds of butterfat and Zamp Mitzi 63.7 pounds. Five Morgan cows and seven Woods Stone herd cows earned North unit honors for producing over 40 pounds of butterfat that month.
Abe Isaac of Shafter reported 25 Farm Bureau members were secured in Shafter with more expected to join soon at the Kern county Farm Bureau directors meeting held at the Agricultural Building in Bakersfield. Also present were TM Woods Stone and A W Eckman. Local committee members conducting the Shafter campaign were W H Hitchcock Sherman Bobst August Bender Eckmann and Isaac.
Rotarian Bob Neuman presented color travel and fishing photos at the Shafter Rotary noon meeting at Crawford's cafe. A Shafter High saxophone sextet directed by P L Arnold performed several numbers with members Phoebe Wiebe Wayne Guenthen Dudley Steele Billy Becker Gwendolyn Voth Marvin Sie Esther Becker. Guests included Supervisor Roy Woollames Delano Walter Joost San Francisco and N Pollasky Bakersfield.
A saxophone sextet from Shafter high school with Esther Becker as vocal soloist and Betty Mark on violin performed at Crawford’s cafe yesterday noon for the Shafter Kiwanis. P L Arnold directed the group and spoke on the school band’s history.
A regular meeting of the Shafter Business Men's Association was held Friday at Crawford's cafe discussing a depot mailing box an annual children’s Christmas party and cemetery improvements for Shafter.
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