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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1938
Page
4
In the Social Realm a brief meeting with Mrs. Glenn O Nay Mrs. Lois Berry and Mrs. Frank Annis finalized arrangements for a card party next Thursday February 24. The event will feature a patriotic motif and games of Bridge and Five Hundred.
Shafter high school Girls Glee Club will perform at a Maple Parent Teacher Association meeting to be announced by Principal Jack Singer. R. L. Gates will direct. members include Freda Mettler Marion Harrison Amanda Johnson Luella Johnson Rhona Mettler Irma Wedland Leola Kir kern.
The Wasco Girl Scouts visit Shafter for the annual Valentine party at the American Legion hall. Guests mingle with hearts and arrows as red and white crepe paper streamers transform the hall into a festive fairyland.
A Penstale Gospel Day class hosted a St Valentine’s party at Rev E T Edwards home with games and grab-box valentine tasks. A dessert bridge at the clubhouse followed and Wasco guests attended. Washington’s Birthday birthday party planned at Shafter High School includes a pot luck dinner for classmates with gifts and refreshments.
Amanda Johnson presides over a growing Camp Fire Girls unit at Shafter High School with junior and senior girls organized for the group. Miss Daisy Bleader is named advisor of the new Faculty Wives Club. Faculty Wives Club members enjoyed a luncheon at Mrs. Arthur Johnson’s home hosted by Mrs. J. H. Porterfield and others.
The Amazons of Shafter high school defeated the Demons 5 to 0 on Monday to reach a crucial point in the girls soccer race. After a 3 3 tie on February 10 and a first win on February 7, a final deciding game remains to determine the finalist vs the Bulldogs for the championship.
Warner Bros presents Dick Foran in a Western romance musical at Shafter Theatre. The show features his baritone voice with two original songs and a plot about rustlers trying to murder a widow and her son to steal inheritance. M. B. to Tuesday.
Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Janzen Funeral Home for Clyde Hendrick 34 of Idaho Falls who died of a heart attack Thursday in Idaho Falls. Interment followed at Greenlawn Memorial Park Bakersfield with Rev. T. Sylvester officiating and pallbearers including Robert Quin. Surviving relatives include his mother, brother Burton of Red Mountain California, and stepfather A J Loewen of Shafter. He had not lived in Shafter but visited often.
Prices in Los Angeles on February 16 show candled eggs with various grades and sizes priced per dozen. Poultry sections list hens of different breeds and weights with per pound prices for leghorns and colored varieties, including fryers.
Shafter man and family were notified by phone of Albert Register’s death from a heart attack. W A Register and Mrs. Register are planning funeral services in Oakley after his passing on Wednesday noon.
Nat Rogan, IRS collector for Southern California, warns employers about Forms SS-2 and SS-2a due January 31. He cites Section 807(c) of the Social Security Act, noting penalties up to 10 000 and a year in jail for willful failure to file or supply information. He says delays may be treated as delinquency and emphasizes forms aid in crediting employees’ social security accounts.
The note describes workers contributing portions of wages and taxes to fund public needs and maintain government services through a payroll based levy system.
Rogan concluded that deadlines require filing these forms by December 31 1937. The note emphasizes the end of year filing obligation and urges prompt compliance by affected individuals or organizations.
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