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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1940
Page
3
Shafter residents hosted or visited friends and relatives over the weekend with trips to Reedley Dinuba Santa Monica and Los Angeles. Notables include Geneva and Dickie Payne visiting parents in town and Reedley trips by the Unrahs.
Mr and Mrs Charles Ingalls spent the week end in Los Angeles as guests of friends. John G Fox of Hollywood visited Shafter to review ranch interests. Robert Warren visiting his parents in Shafter while attending Burbank Military Academy. A C Friesen made a Los Angeles business trip returning yesterday. Work began on a six room Peters home in the Manner tract with a den and double fireplace. H J Harder and family spent the weekend in southern California for business and visits. Construction started this week in the Wall tract on a five room house by the Business Credit Service Bureau.
About 400 to 500 small trees provided by the Wednesday Afternoon Club are ready for planting in the city. The trees were stored behind the forestry building after arrival from Shafter. Planting last year was delayed by sidewalk work, but with that work finished and spring approaching clubwomen urge action to distribute the trees citywide.
One of the few in the San Joaquin valley who produces real sorghum molasses is George Maynard of Tulare. Last season Maynard planted two and a half acres of sorghum cane and yielded about 309 gallons of sorghum syrup.
East Bakersfield High School prepares three basketball squads to visit Shafter tomorrow evening for Sierra League games with Buck-Dirk billed as a key championship tilt. East Bakersfield aims to join leaders Maricopa and Shafter, while Shafter seeks to extend its slim edge over the field.
A north Carolina south carolina bridge ends straddle the states with the north end in south carolina and the south end in north carolina revealing a curious cross state alignment on the span.
McFarland hosted two Sierra League basketball games Friday as the Generals beat Shafter 42 to 10 and the Colonels won 23 to 12. Coach Bill White praised steady ball handling led by Walt and Wilbert Kirschenmann for 16 points and John Searcy with Omer Evans contributing defensively. Merle Annis led the Colonels with six points, while Merwin Olson and Ohanneson added offense for the Generals.
A dense list of player names and statistics appears to depict a basketball game lineup. The text reads like a score sheet with positions f c g and point totals, including several repeated surnames and mixed punctuation.
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