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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1956
Page
7
Shafter High School parents plan their first meeting of the year on Tuesday January 17 at 6 30 P M in the school cafeteria. The program topic Is My Teenager Normal with Mrs Curtis Graves as chair and Mrs George W Pracy as guest speaker.
Fragmentary text lists individuals including Mrs A Peter Ohanneson C R Howe and Mrs H P Kliewer along with the date January 18 1956, indicating a public notice or social event entry.
John J. Selover of Long Beach California spoke on Christian Science in Wasco praising prayer as the unlimited power to heal and meet needs. He urged humble earnest prayer focusing on God and perfect ideas and described treatment as prayer relying on divine help for lasting security and health.
Miss Ahlida Ballagh of the Shakespeare Study Club of Bakersfield will speak on Shakespeare's Richard III at the Shafter Woman's Club Book Section meeting on January 18 in the home of Mrs. C. D. Handel. The program will also include discussion of the War of the Will.
In the wake of floods along the Kaweah and Tule rivers, federal aid expands to include long term low interest loans up to 75 million dollars to California residents and businesses. The Small Business Administration will offer 3 percent disaster loans, with an emergency field office planned in Visalia to start accepting applications.
The Starlight Circle will hold its first potluck of the year at 12:30 p.m. on Monday January 16 at 289 Golden West Avenue hosted by Mrs Velma Guenther. Members are invited. The item mentions relief efforts and dam construction as regional flood mitigation goals and references a pending session of Congress to authorize work.
Victorine Bair reports three colored scientific films shown for primary level youths. Topics included The Stars Around Us and the sun as Earth’s nearest star, Little Things in Water about microscopic sea life, and From Gazing on salt sugar sand and stalactite formation. Thirty children attended with room for more. films are planned monthly Saturdays at Room 10, Primary School, starting at 10.
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