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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1944
Page
3
Mr and Mrs J W Lassiter were guests of Mr and Mrs Bert Hebel for a waffle supper at their home Sunday evening. The event followed a Christmas holiday visit in Atas and a stay in Shafter during the season.
A brief note reports a person from Kansas City Missouri, identified as Back st Minter, visiting with her aunt Mrs Grace Swa Rienim from Los Angeles. The fragment provides no further details on relation or occasion.
War time ration and price news outline sugar stamps and validity dates, cotton fabric allocations, tenderness of shoes sold ration-free, and military family visits. It notes rubber heel pricing, gas ration for service members, infant wear programs, and flatiron production plans for 1944.
An urgent wartime appeal invites women without dependents under 14 to join the WACS. The need is for highly specialized skills, with strict demands from the Surgeon General and a strong patriotic mission guiding recruitment.
Mr and Mrs H B Duerksen formerly of Shafter have relocated to a new residence. The brief notice notes their departure from the area and announces their updated address.
Guests at the Clyde Bell residence for New Year’s Eve included Dr. and Mrs. P. C. Guenther, Dr. and J. B. Henderson and Leroy, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Lassiter, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Hebel, and Mr. and Mrs. George Starrh. Donna Gersthing visited her sister Mrs. Otto Becker in Shafter. Gorsching trains as a Cadet Nurse in Fresno. expects February graduation.
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