Visitors, trips and residents in Shafter this week
Local notes show visits in Shafter by T C Payne Hollywood and Louise Warner Fresno. Several trips to San Francisco Los Angeles and San Jose. Army recruiting for John Call Shafter announced along with other county men. Social visits include Hare and Unruh households, Dinuba guests, and trips to Pismo Beach Death Valley and Morro Bay. Local groups met for winter sports and a poultry show plan.
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United States Army
John Call Shafter
Bakersfield
Business Men Discuss Variety Of Subjects Friday
Shafter Business Men's association met at Crawford's cafe noon Friday with President Herb Schirmer reporting plans to maintain wildflower booths and an inquiry into mail handling at the army airfield east of town by Postmaster Lois L Berry. Santa Fe railroad seeks bus route franchise on Lerdo road and cemetery cost surveys were assigned to the committee of Little Gaede Chandler. Ed Siede outlined costs for a spring poultry show and WPA labor in a potential mosquito abatement district was discussed.
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Shafter Business Men's Association
Crawford’s Cafe
Herb Schirmer
Army Airfield
Lois L. Berry
Santa Fe Railroad Company
State Railroad Commission
Lerdo Road
T. W. Little
A. W. Gaede
al Chandler
Ed. Siede
Bakersfield
WPA
Erosion Damages Grow in United States on Matter of Cost
Erosion has already damaged land across the United States and now causes nearly 40 million dollars in annual losses.
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Land OF Liberty
United States
Ithis
Ladies Auxiliary Iowa Association Forms Kern County
Mrs W W Gilbert of Bakersfield reports the Ladies Auxiliary of the Iowa Association for Kern County has formed. Former Iowans and wives of Iowa natives may join. Monthly meetings occur on the first Tuesday with 30 to 40 participants. March events include an all day wildflower caravan and a pot luck supper at the Coca Cola parlor.
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W. W. Gilbert
Bakersfield
Ladies Auxiliary
County
Iowa
Kern County
Wien
H. S. Knight
Oildale
Cobra Kiss Features Picture At Rotary Meeting
A Rotary lunch program in Shafter showcased Wheels Across India, showing an Indian ritual scene with a woman kissing a cobra. Afterward, the club nominated officers including E. B. Stringham for president and other officers. Nominations stay open two weeks with guests and visiting Rotarians noted.
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Cobra Kiss
Rotary
India
Shafter Rotary Club
Crawford's Cafe
Corporation
Everett Burkett
Wasco
Shafter
E. B. Stringham
Karl Wells
Art Craig
Ernest Panero
V. Little
Ted Vignolo
Doera
Federal crop loans top cotton growers in California in 1940
California cotton growers received 12.476 million dollars in federal crop loans in 1940, making them second only to Texas in loan totals. The brief also lists A. J. Zimmerman as notary public and insurance counselor, with automotive mentions following.
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California
Texas
Potatoes Lost In Caliente Creek Flood
About 50 acres of Kirschenmann potatoes were washed away by flood waters in Caliente Creek after heavy rains. An additional 50 acres were lost east of Bakersfield. Flooded creek beds blocked water, closing three local roads and damaging nearby bed deposits.
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Kirschenmann
Caliente Creek
Bakersfield
Racing Water
Slit Desk
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T. C. Payne
Hollywood
Presno
Louise Warner
Fresno
San Francisco
Jim Beard
J. B. Beard
Los Angeles
Ralph Locke
Jerry Ann
West Los Angeles
Shafter Sunday
Les Hobson
Shafter Man
Ned Marksheffel
Richland
Downey
Morro Bay
Vernon Pierce
O. H. Stroms
Belnap
Pismo
Hare
Lee Hare
Port Hueneme
Fred Hare
J. W. Fannin
Salinas
Dave Unruh
Mrs
Frank Stanton
Paso Robles
San
Dinuba
Carl Steele
John Dalke
J.D. Patterson
J. B. Moore
Vernon
North Dakota
Jake Jenner
Dan Wendland
Charles Ingalls
Jack Hare
the Ingalls
San Miguel
Sequoia Party
Sequoia ~ Park
Lawrence Kattenhorn
Paul Jackson
Lowell Casey
Marion Kattenhorn
Rosalie Tittchcock
Elizabeth Otto
Jane Pasley
Khesma Klub
Unruh
Rosie Unruh
Edina Beese
Aldeen Beese
Edna Nikkel
Vivian Bartel
Powell McCoy
Frank Russell
Don Klingenberg
David Orr
Selma
San Fernando
Elvin Schmidt
al Irvin
T. V. Little
Death Valley
Nevada
Joe Roundtree
Ed. Peters
Esther Hiebert
Waldo Unruh
Pismo ‘Beach
Stoller
Bill Soller
Edison
Porterville
Shafter Business
Lena Shultz
Martha Wedin
Arlene Bokemper
Lois Berry
Maybelle Powell
Jake Siemens
Ben Peters
A. J. Miller
Paradise
Peters
Siemens
Ferguson
Pittsburg
Bill Bestwater
Guest
Mary van Horn
Witchita
Kansas
Mrs. Wells
Bill Boyd Russell Hayden
Old
Colorado
Jane Withers
Lewis Stone
Andy Hardy
Spencer Tracy
Claudette Colbert
Bette Davis
James Stewart
Chevrolet
N & K Chevrolet Co
RTAL
Stokely
Castle Crest
Cinemma
Town House
C &E
Safeway
Hills Bros. Coffee
Atte
Gardenside
Eee
Geeeertie Globe
Kellogg
Kellogg's
Pai
Price
Chase & Sanborn Coffee
Lucerne
Carnation
Kitches
Asparagus Se” Raley
Contes
Ben Potters
Washington
Eask Gee
SR Sg
Itea
URY
The
E. L. Buckner
Pasadena
Lyle Riel
Joe W. Frizzell
Emil Bender
Louis J. Brandt
Fred Widmer
F.E. Manuel
Pioneer Shafter
A. J
Jack” Zimmerman
L. H. McGrane Optometrist
Sunset Ave
Phone
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