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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1940
Page
2
Chad Lane Redny is listed at 169 Central Avenue California in a short notice row. It notes the location and person involved without further context or dates.
The article urges readers to lend or finance musical instruments to underfunded high school students eager to join the band. Director P. L. Arnold notes about six youths lack instruments, with clarinet interest high, and the school needs smaller instruments donated or rented from the community to broaden students' learning and activity options.
Wet weather brings door to door roof repair pitches by out-of-town workers. Fresno reports a racket where hired strangers take payment and materials then vanish, leaving homeowners with unpaid material bills. Local contractors pay taxes and licenses, stay to finish jobs, and are cheaper in the long run.
Harvard professor Martin Wagner studied beehive huts and Eskimo igloos to design a modular low price dwelling. Each round dome room connects via hallways and uses electric heating and cooking with no chimneys, preserving exterior lines.
The article describes Professor Wagner's wind and quake resistant house using a mass produced panel system. Walls combine enamel steel glass-wool copper glass-wool and plywood to exclude heat moisture and noise. The design allows room reconfiguration and near full depreciation value if moved or sold.
The piece notes a wartime surge in artificial hair prices and supply shortages. It cites Alfred Barris and Met Opera wigs makers Adolph and Ira Lenz facing sourcing issues as Europe’s conflict disrupts hair lace and toupee materials. A Fifth Avenue wig dealer comments on artistry versus material costs amid the crisis.
In Corpus Christi Texas owners of 15 tourist camps and hotels offered free lodging for each day the temperature dropped to freezing. The stunt drew visitors but left operators paying out nine straight days of free rooms during a cold spell.
A pro Dies Committee editorial lauds the House vote to renew the Un American Activities panel for another year. It defends the panel against critics while condemning Roosevelt and his aides for alleged sympathy with Communist groups and the Workers Alliance.
Arthur Capper hosts a grass roots conference with 500 farmers proposing a 1940 legislative program including continued soil conservation and low farm interest rates while opposing tax increases and steps toward war. The Christian Science Monitor urges purposeful action by 1940 youth amid global tensions.
More than 135 men earned an average daily payroll near 1200 drilling wells and conducting geological surveys west of Shafter and Wasco. Rabbits on Mrs. O S Poler’s ranch near Shafter number 600 with 147 hutches and 50 rabbit pens, marketing to Taft weekly. An Adventist PTA meeting named new officers, and local events included Legion rehearsals for the play An Arizona Cowboy, traffic patrols visiting Shafter, and social gatherings at Miss Frances Wilson and Miss May Haag hostings.
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