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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1945
Page
7
Citizens urged to buy bonds to fund weapons of victory with the call Win A Complete Victory and Bring the Boys Back Home. Local merchants and organizations including Machine Shop Fuqua's Cafe Coberly-West Company Shafter Drug Company E. B. Stringham Post Office Market Home Appliance Company participate.
Kern County Council Boy Scouts of America reports a record year with 1104 Scouts in 45 troops and 661 Cubs in 17 packs across 20 communities. 610 volunteer leaders serve as scoutmasters cubmasters committeemen and den mothers and council members. nationwide enrollment also reaches a high of 1 800 000 Cubs Scouts and Scouters.
Futures trading for California Long White potatoes for May and June 1945 began on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Oscar W. Olson announced the move citing grower and trader demand for a hedgable contact market amid rising production and strong domestic demand. Delivery requires U S No 1 size A potatoes in 360 bag lots shipping refrigerated from the West Coast to Chicago terminals. Early 1944 crop estimates put production around 19 845 000 bushels with about 64 000 acres planted.
Mr and Mrs Norval Fair of Las Vegas New spent a few days in Shafter this week with Mrs Fair and her father. Lois Curtis began work at the Fe depot as telegraph operator this week. A World War I note mentions inter military information moved between Pek and language by two.
A compact weekly program listing with two events titled You Ration Love and Ride Ranger Ride. Includes cartoon Fox News style entertainment for Friday and Saturday night showings.
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