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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1940
Page
7
The city reported a one million dollar rise in building permits in January, marking a notable increase for San Francisco.
A fire destroyed the Mc Farland gin at Camp West-Lowe early Monday, causing $1,072 in losses. No injuries were reported.
Fragmentary OCR reads February lesson content with stray words and possible personal names. Readable items include references to dates and topics but significant portions are garbled, making precise event or subject identification unreliable.
A sermon on Matthew 22:15-22 argues character is proven by inner devotion to God, not lip service or public display. It links patriotism and neighborly love to a right attitude toward God and a sacrificial, inclusive readiness to help others.
Mrs. Thomas Wedge, Shafter librarian, announced received titles at the local library. The list includes Enchanted Ground Bailey Mistress Anne Bailey Chip of the Flying U Bower Flying U Strikes Bower Iron Trail Brand Good Earth Buck Arabian Nights Murder Carr Rawhide Johnny Coolidge Danger Trail Curwood River's End Curwood Make-Believe Cuthrell Count of Monte Cristo Dumas Children of God Fisher Stopover in Paradise Greig April 1939 Harper's Y Cheung Business Detective Keeler Great Tradition Keyes Light That Failed Kipling Catalogue Milburn Flame in the Wind Piller Footprints on the Ceiling Rawson Cloister and the Hearth Reade Six Guns of Sandoval Snow Heaven Lies Within Us Bernard How to Win Friends and Influence People Carnegie Feast of St. Friend Bennett Crime as a Business MacDonald Paints and Painting Molle son Steel Square Townsend Through Embassy Eyes Dodd Memoirs of a Revolution Kropotkin. Children books Manuela's Birthday Bannon Hannah Marie Bennett Time for Bed Bertail Skippack School De Angeli Pony Named Nubbin Gale Boy Rides with Custer Hawley Oh Susannah Holberg Continental Dollar Knipe Silver Birch Lyons Dobry Sharmon Penguin Twins Tompkins Lost and Found Turpin Wonder Tales Retold Pyle Picture Dictionary for Children Watters How the Weld Began Heal Where Did Your Garden Grow Lucas Story Book of Rayon Petersham Two Sailors Tompkins Kanguk Kanguk and Alexander Hamilton Hicks.
In high school gym Thursday, Barbers beat Friesen 32 to 26 as Graves led with seven points and Voth added 12 for Friesen. Pontiac topped Falcon Oil 21 to 20, Potter had 11 for Pontiac and Schnidt led Oilers with six. Earlier King Lumber rallied to defeat Falcon Oil 31 to 30, and Pontiac routed Central Market 31 to 10.
The Wasco Business Men s association urges painting a white safety line on the Shafter Wasco highway. A committee including W C Thomas Tor Shafer and A R Beckes will confer with Al Geurin state highway foreman. They cite heavy traffic and night driving as reasons for the line.
City league basketballers continue play this evening in the last round of the schedule. Pontiac meets King Lumber at 8 o clock and Central Market faces Falcon Oil in a close game. Next Wednesday the Firemen meet King Lumber in the opener of a two game bill and Pontiac plays Friesen service in the second.
A Civil War era display arranged by Frank Annis at the Shafter library commemorates Abraham Lincoln’s birthday. Items include a May 1863 scroll naming Company C, 37th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, a 1861 homemade uniform, portraits of Charles Annis and an uncle, and assorted relics such as a snuff box and a leather sailor’s needle.
J Edgar Hoover head of the FBI compliments the Shafter Kiwanis club on forming a Boy Scout troop at the Federal Migratory Labor camp. In a letter to Laurence Baughman Hoover signs part of the message and offers FBI publications to aid the program and crime prevention activities.
Forecasts predict a favorable year for sugar beets in Siskiyou County with strong yields and favorable growing conditions. Farmers anticipate solid production across the region as weather cooperates.
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