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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1940
Page
3
Bakersfield residents visit Shafter families and attend events. Notable absences include Miss June Schirmer from Los Angeles visiting her parents in Shafter. Local travels feature Delano visitors, Ontario guests, and trips to Taft and Sequoia Park with updates on housing, band needs, and school activities.
Wanda Fay Allen from Kern General Hospital Bakersfield is reported to be improving while undergoing treatment for scarlet fever. The case highlights ongoing illness in the local hospital.
Weekend activity spans Visalia Coalinga and Sequoia Park with snow reports during the outing. Sprouse-Reitz store move to Shafter with new local residents E A Weil and wife. Visits include Rotary meeting in Shafter and a trip to Los Angeles for business.
Mrs. Jean Leahy district nurse spoke before the senior problems class at Shafter High School on Tuesday about nursing as a profession.
Three onion strains resistant to downy mildew are being used in a breeding program to develop a resistant commercial variety. Co authors include H A Jones from the USDA and D R Porter and L D Leach from UC. Downy mildew has caused seed crop losses up to 80 percent in California.
Progress is being carried on as a cooperative effort between the Truck Crops Division of the University College of Agriculture and the Bureau of Plant Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Election of six month camp councils held at Shafter Farm Workers Camp selected four members from each of six units. Unit 1 Elen Waters Hazel Lane Gay Billings Charles Baker. Unit 2 Fronie Gilbert Dorie O Neal James Mills William Bright. Unit 3 Fay Wright Cecil Crownover Mary Fulcher John Stevens. Unit 4 Flora Robertson Jess Franks Lola Halbrook Henry Andruss. Unit 5 William Strickland Ernie Franklin Ruby Vossler Willis Conkle. Unit 6 Frank Gonderman Ethel Craig Vernon Cellen Bertha Avants.
Theodore Dobie Graves and Lon Johnson of Shafter faced Justice Court before Judge H A Rightmire this week for stealing 12 chickens from Bob Dequine. They were fined $25 for the theft and ordered to pay $7 for four chickens that did not return to the Dequine pen, plus a 90 day jail sentence suspended for one year.
Constable John Reily located four reported stolen hens after Dequine reported the loss. The birds were described as missing and presumed dead.
The Shafter Rotary Club will hold a regular board meeting next Tuesday evening at 7:30 at the home of Rev. Alfred T. Chandler, the club secretary, located next to Union Congregational Church.
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