Shafter Seaman Details CAHABA Service In WWII
Pearl Harbor veteran T H Elmer C Hammett from Shafter served aboard the USS Cahaba fleet oiler. The Cahaba fueled ships from PT boats to battlewagons and supported invasions at Hollandia Ulithi the Palau Islands Okinawa and Leyte Gulf. After Japan collapsed Cahaba delivered the first cargo of American oil to Shanghai in over four years.
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Pearl Harbor
T. H
Elmer .C. Hammett
Seaman
Shafter
Cahaba
Japan
Hollandia
Ulithi
Palaus
Okinawa
Leyte Gulf
Shanghai
Present Plays In Delano Saturday
Shafter High dramatic students will visit Delano High on Saturday February 16 to perform two one act plays for the Delano group. Delano students will return the favor by staging one or two plays for Shafter guests. A program and social time are planned by Harold Ertzmann. The Shafter shows begin Friday at 8 15 in the gym presenting Cleaned and Pressed and Apartment for Rent.
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Shafter High Dramatic
Delano
Delano High
Burton Filut
Shafter
Shafter Thespians
Harold Ertzmann
Shafter High
Mother Daughter Banquet Planned by Shafter High Girls
Girls Athletic Association members from Shafter High School and their mothers will attend a mother daughter banquet at a Bakersfield restaurant on Thursday February 14. Five new members Barrie Burns Barbara Fox Donna Lee Beese Elsie Brown Myra Malory Jean McDonald and Edna Rodgers will be initiated. Miss Venetta Liepman is faculty sponsor.
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Girls Athletic Association
Shafter High School
Bakersfield
Shafter School
G.A.A
Barrie Burns
Barbara Fox
Donna Lee Beese
Elsie Brown
Myra Malory
Jean McDonald
Edna Rodgers
Venetta Liepman
Bakersfield Guests Dine With Frizzells
Dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Frizzell included Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Hudson of Bakersfield and J. W Frizzell Jr his wife and son with the Frizzells hosting.
Soldiers Return Home From Pacific Duties
Army and Navy veterans are noted returning home across California after overseas service. Sgt J N Zachary heads to Fort MacArthur for discharge in Shafter, others include Bernard Dyer and Gerald Bayless arriving home in Richmond and Seattle, plus families visiting and funerals in the area.
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J. N. Zachary
Army Air Corps
Lena Zachary
Guam
Pacific
Fort MacArthur
Shafter
Bill Dyer
Bernard
Richmond
California
U. S. Army
Infantry
New Guinea
Shafter High School
Corine Smith
Velma Bradshaw
Ben Bewley
el Centro
H. C. Evans
Bewley
Evans
Bewleys
Fort Worth
Texas
P.F.C. Hubert Ray
U.S. Army
Pennsylvania
Camp Beale
Naomi
San Francisco
Sgt
L. C. Jackson
Washington
Jackson
Europe
Kenneth
Tokyo
Japan
Air
T. D. Bayless
Gerald
U. S. Navy
Dane
Seattle
Wash
Okinawa
Pearl Harbor
Pacific Sea
China
Cpl
John L. Talley
Daff Tolbert
Virgil Hamlin
Seabees
Betty
Hanna
Arizona
Virgil
Arthur Branch
Santa Maria
J. L. Branch
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Shafter Press
Shafter Man
Shafter Maintenance CO
Gene Autry
Florence Rice
The
Edward G. Robinson
Langford Greer
Shatter
Hitchcock
Auto Parts
Charles V. Hitchcock
Lerdo Ave
Johnson
Newman
Kaho
P. O
Signey W. Souers
Truman
Taowinnare Arene
Noak Lors Collier
Johnny Morton
John Utel
Universal Picture
Columbia Pictures Presents
the Rockies
Charles Starrett
Franchot Tone Foster d
Hs Bruce Alubritton
Columbia
Dalke Bros
General Building Contractors
J. H. Dalke
WM. H. Dalke
Wes
Shafter, Calif
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