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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1942
Page
3
Shafter residents host visitors from Visalia and Hollister while locals join trips to Inglewood Los Angeles and Porterville. Military and public service moves include Bakersfield personnel enlisting in the Marines and a Shafter man serving in the U S Navy in Boston. Local sports figures Ed Gaede and Harry Kessler feature in regional leagues and firefighting duties.
Signs warn road access is blocked at all intersections into and through the Shatter oilfield as authorities discourage general travel. The measure is a defensive step to protect wells with substantial work already completed to guard against possible sabotage.
American shipyards are launching one ship daily and expect to double that rate by year end 1942, reflecting wartime production acceleration.
On Monday a Court of Honor at Shafter Primary School awarded ten tenderfoot badges and five second class awards. Don Loe wen and David McComas became the first to earn first class scout insignia. Chet Bartlett conducted the candle light ceremony.
Shafter's home nursing course advances into week five with four of 20 lessons completed. The class meets Tuesday evenings at the Mennonite Brethren church under county nurse Miss Dulcie Green. A second class may start if an instructor is found. contact Jack Hare at the county fire station on Santa Fe Way.
The Shafter Generals meet the Maricopa Indians on February 27 at Shafter High School to celebrate basketballs 50th anniversary. Proceeds go to the Hall of Fame building fund with a local demonstration of original rules between halves.
California growers earned 35.395 million dollars from lettuce as the state's top truck crop in 1941, reflecting its dominant market role and strong returns for growers in that year.
Local farm leaders see guayule rubber as a potential crop in Shafter and across Kern County. Federal subsidies may back up to a million acres nationwide. If profitable, about 50,000 acres could be planted in Kern, as war needs push for new rubber sources.
An historic note records a small experimental crop on the Hoover farm north of Shafter between 1927 and 1932, halted by unfavorable economic conditions. A parallel pilot plot was grown at the Shafter experiment farm during the same period.
Final examination for 60 to 70 participants nearing completion of a standard Red Cross first aid course will be given next week. Jack Hare, Red Cross activity chairman of the civilian defense council, announces the testing this week.
Instructors Frasquita Sulli van and Fred Shaffer of Bakersfield lead high school classes. An advanced first aid course is likely to start soon. Standard courses are forming at Shaffer Farm Workers’ Community Rio Bravo and with Shafter Volunteer Fire Department. Mosaic land root rot of beans and two chronic diseases are being curbed in Salinas Valley through Growers and UC Agriculture cooperation.
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