Minter Field to Honor Hero at Dedication
Minter Field schedules a dedication ceremony at the Officers Club starting 12 50 with Lt Hugh C Minter honored by name to the field among local dignitaries including mayors from Wasco Delano Shafter Bakersfield Kern County supervisors and Colonel Carl W Pyle Other officials will attend as Minter Field hosts a luncheon parade ground review Air Force band atmospheric music and a field tour by staff cars under military escort
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Officers’ Club
Minter Field
Clarence Minter
Merced
Hugh C. Minter
Gardner Field
Wasco
Delano
Shatter
Bakersfield
Kern County
Board of Supervigors
Carl W. “Pyle
Minter” Field
Air Force Band
Everett Gray Promoted District Sales Head for Mobilgas
Everett M. Gray, in his fourteenth year with General Petroleum, is named district sales manager for the Bakersfield Mobilgas district by Southern California manager C. W. Hartman. He replaces the late Graham Hornbeck and will oversee operations in Shafter and surrounding areas.
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Everett M. Gray
General Petroleum Corporation
Bakersfield
C. W. Hartman
Southern California
Gray
Shafter
Yrer
Graham Hornbeck
Mobilgas
Mobiloil
General Petroleum
Mob'sgas
Los Angeles
San Diego
Bakerssfield
Oregon
California
San Francisco
Golf Pro to Army San Francisco
Ed Wysowski a 21 year old professional golfer left the winter tournament circuit to report for a physical examination and military training orders. He will return home to Kewanee Illinois.
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San Francisco
Ed Wysowski
Kewanee
Til
Night Sentry Challenges Apparition at Camp Lee
A sentry at Camp Lee halted a mysterious intruder when hoofbeats sounded at night. A horse whinnied and the guard ordered the rider to advance, noting the stranger's approach at the motor cavalry camp.
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Camp Lee
Veterans groups base in San Francisco memorial building
About 150 veterans organizations maintain headquarters in the Veterans War Memorial building in San Francisco, reflecting the site’s role as a central hub for military service groups.
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Veterans’ Organizations
Veterans War Memorial Building
San Francisco
Ideal Unions End in Tragedy and Jealousy Motive
A survey of lavish honeymoons ending in murder suicide and mysterious deaths across America. Kay Nolan, 26, and Dr Stuart Nolan, 41, killed themselves after slashing wrists and Arteries. The piece links jealousy to other fatal unions including Zachary Reynolds Libby Holman and Adelaide Moffett.
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Kay Larson Nolan
Stuart Elliott Nolan
Kay
Dea
Nolan
Firearms, &S
Chicago
Lee Sherman
Ronald Toft
Sherman
Toft
Kay”Weber
Ciel
Los Angeles
Zachary Smith Reynolds
Wins’lem
N. C
Libby Holman
Reynolds
Miss Holman
Christopher
Bridge of Ships Pushes U.S. War Shipbuilding Surge
Washington reports a rapid shipbuilding drive as American yards along the Atlantic Gulf and Pacific coasts accelerate the production of merchant vessels. The program aims to deliver hundreds of ships in 1942 and 1943 as part of a two-ocean navy buildup, with comparisons to World War I production and a 50-ship annual target set by the Maritime Commission.
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Washington, D. Oe
Atlantic
Gulf
Pacific
America
Hog Island
Philadelphia
The
Maritime Commission
American Workers Grow Fat in Northern Ireland
In Londonderry Northern Ireland about 1000 American technicians on vital war work dine in the best meals across the United Kingdom. An 85 member kitchen staff serves American style meals with items like cigarettes and luxuries. Recreation includes baseball basketball tennis and badminton with a 2000 book library and plans for film showings. Wages cover a week plus expenses.
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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
United Kingdom
Atlantic
Belfast
Sport Is Quite a Dog Has More Lives Than Cat
DUPONT GA Grover Lee's dog Sport tangled with a train and lost one eye. He then collided with an automobile and was badly bruised. Three weeks later another car struck Sport and Mrs Lee backed the family car over him. Lee dug a grave but Sport recovered and stood again.
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Dupont, GA
Grover Lee
Sport
Lee
New Zealand to Breed More Horses for War Use
Wellington reports the internal affairs department confirms a government plan to breed horses for use where auto transport fails. Under the World War Remounts Act, approved stallions will be moved nationwide with subsidies to improve stock. Last year 800 foals were born. total stallions will not be fewer than the prior year.
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New Zealand
Wellington
Internal Affairs Department
Burglar Seized After Hat Clue at Fraternity House
In Philadelphia Kappa Sigma members nabbed a youth claiming to be an engineering student after a puzzling remark about turbines raised suspicion. The man was held on $1,000 bail.
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Philadelphia
Kappa. Sigma
Gay Parties With G Men Stir FBI Scandal
Washington report details FBI officers amid a scandal involving a woman using multiple aliases, linked to Nazi spying rings. It notes prosecutors' cases against Lily Stein Else Wuestenfeld and Tyler Kent, plus 49 defendants in a broad espionage sweep.
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G-men
Brooklyn
Federal Court
New York
Lily Barbara Carola Stein
Moskee Wyoming Vanishes From Map and Post Office
Moskee a former lumber camp in Wyoming loses its map presence and post office. Once booming, mail is now delivered three times weekly from Lead, South Dakota. Herald Haas, later of Rapid City, chose the name Moskee meaning it makes no difference.
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Moskee
Lead
S. D
Herald Haas
Rapid City
S._D
Haas
Meongelia
Proves That He's He Man Bears Outskirts of Aberdeen
Aberdeen, Wash. Jim Clark and his girl encountered a 200 pound bear near a river bank. Clark treed the animal, flashed a light, and the bear climbed a tree. Edith Olson brought a shotgun to Clark's home. one shot killed the bear, proving Jim is a man.
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Aberdeen
Wash
Jim Clark
Clark
Edith Olson
Jim
Come On You Cadets Embrace Air Corps Training
Hundreds of young men at the Replacement Center in Min ter Field begin a demanding yet supportive indoctrination in the Air Corps. The article urges cadets to view training as a path to practical skills and personal growth, emphasizing responsible leadership, teamwork, and the shared road of learning.
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Air Corps
Income Tax Information Given By State Officer Here
California income tax guidance was announced with an official visit by Harold F. Clifton, examiner for the Franchise Tax Board, at the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District office on Feb 27. The notice outlines filing rules, joint returns, filing deadlines, installment payments, penalties, and lack of earned income credit for state purposes.
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Harold F. Clifton
California
Shafter
Shafter - Wasco
Cae A
Franchise Tax Commissioner
Sacramento
Man Mountain Dean Enlists in U S Army
The bearded wrestler known as Man Mountain Dean announced his enlistment in the United States Army last week claiming he has defeated every Japanese opponent he wrestled and can still win today.
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Man Mountain Dean
Dean and recruitment waivers at Fort Benning
Dean, 50, weighing 280 pounds, obtained waivers and reported to Fort Benning Georgia. California 4 11 club members produced farm products worth over 500000 with a net profit of 136362 in 1941.
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Dean
Fort Benning, Ga
California
4-11 Club
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