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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1941
Page
8
BP Bennett rolled 221 to lead the Commercial League at Neuman Alley in the past week. Other stores followed as bowlers competed in the weekly standings.
British massed 90,000 at Singapore base and threaten Bulgaria over German troop passage. Italians lose Benghazi to the British as German invasion of England looms. Greece advances, Boulogne Dunkirk Dieppe docks bombed, Red Sea port Mersa Tadlai occupied by Britain. Turkey offers aid, Franco to meet Mussolini, Rio de Janeiro hot with 104 degree heat. Wreckage from a 1937 airliner found in Costa Rica. US evacuees move toward Manila. War emphasis across Europe and North Africa with political shifts in Romania and Spain.
Boston report says a thief climbed a high fence and forced open a barred door to steal 50 empty milk bottles from a locked room. None of the bottles could be redeemed and the effort produced no profit.
Holger Johnson and his family have left their 37 year isolation on a Lake Superior island as Isle Royale becomes a national park. The family carried provisions each fall and relied on a lone radio to reach Coast Guard and doctors during six months of winter isolation. With tourism to begin, Johnson plans to guide visitors to the rugged island.
Shafter residents joined Gideon banquets and a Sunday meeting in Bakersfield. They helped dedicate 50 Bibles at the Motel Inn and explained Bible distribution at county churches. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. J P Glanzer, Mr. and Mrs. Sam L Becker, and Mr. and Mrs. Abe Isaac.
Iowa tax officials received a letter from a resident asking which states have no income tax so she can choose where to move. The communication notes that fourteen of the nation’s forty eight states currently have no income tax.
Emerton school auditorium at Truxtun and K streets Bakersfield hosts a talk by Mrs C B Fry on Tuesday evening February 18 at 8 o'clock under the Kern County Union High School and Junior College Parent-Teacher-Student association and the evening high school. The public is invited.
An estimate suggests Liberia hosts about 10,000,000 rubber trees. The figure reflects a broad survey of forest resources and plantation stock across the country.
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