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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1941
Page
5
The United States ends the year with almost thirty million motor vehicles registered, reflecting a broad vehicle ownership base across the country. This figure signals stable demand and broad consumer access to personal transport.
Collier's reports a rare dental anomaly where a tooth grows inside another. In a Tennessee case the outer tooth split during extraction and the inner tooth, loose and separate, dropped out, illustrating the unusual condition.
The ohm honors German physicist Georg Simon Ohm, the ampere recalls French physicist Andre Marie Ampere, and the volt is linked to Italian Count Alessandro Volta through historical naming of electrical units.
Congre gational Sunday School plans a Rally Day at 9 45 next Sunday to renew enthusiasm for Christian education. Nine classes range from beginners to adult with staff including Mrs Sherman Bobst Mrs J H Fuller Mrs George Vannatta Miss Ellamarie Crawford Mr Wendell Allieh Mrs Peter Channeson Mr J W Wilson Miss Z Carol Pulcifer Mrs O T Olsen Mrs J L Hill Rev Mr Alfred Chandler Miss Mary Ellen Hansen Miss Doris Davis and Mrs Bessie Thomas.
Bob Curtis Ruben Mettler and Leroy Witcher are nominated for student body president at Shafter High during the second semester Election is set for next Monday Other nominees include Wilbert Kirschenmann Merton Wied mann Patty Stringham Rosalie Hitchcock Nedra Latta Kath leen Janzen Phil Haag Ed Gaede Louise Livers Tene Marleti Edna Wycoff Minnie Koop Mary Catherine Lockard Jane Pasley
The Dan family traveled to Tehachapi and Keene to visit Mrs. Loewen who is a patient at the Keene sanitarium. She is reported to be getting along quite well.
Readable fragments describe volunteers in Hong Kong forming a defense unit with uniforms featuring stamped Japan buttons and buckled trousers. The text hints at rapid mobilization and patriotism amid wartime tensions without clear dates or organizational names.
California irrigation district declares election set for February 5 1941 to fill first fourth and fifth division director seats and district wide assessor collector treasurer. polls run noon to 6 pm at five precinct polling places with appointed inspectors judges and clerks listed for Wasco Shafter areas. secretary Fred Pritschke signs January 16 23.
Army officials told U.S. senators Alaska would get a National Guard as part of a new defense plan. General Marshall said armories and equipment would be supplied, with units likely in Seward, Anchorage, Fairbanks, Ketchikan, and Nome and an ROTC unit at the University of Alaska. He noted Russia’s fortified bases opposite Alaska and new naval air and submarine bases being established there.
L. H. Snyder, 61 years in telephony, promotes listening in on party lines at the Mijo Telephone Co in Kansas, arguing it aids emergencies and neighborhood notices. With 200+ subscribers on 24 party lines, neighbors hear rings and respond to illnesses, fires, or other incidents, organizing help locally.
Shafter California hobbyist Ralph Short carves copies of famous weapons from originals loaned by friends. His collection includes a Haiti dueling knife replica, a Chinese dagger, a 1912 issued machete to U S Marines, a gun linked to outlaw John Wesley Hardin, a .45 revolver carried by Wild Bill Hickok, an English pistol, a cap and ball derringer once owned by a prisoner aided by Judge Roy Bean, and a Colt from the 1850s.
In Warsaw New York Wyoming County's prison farm becomes self supporting under Sheriff Lewis Spring. Three years ago the facility cost the county $1 daily per inmate but now prisoners grow crops and sell surplus produce on a 227 acre site reducing the tax burden.
Becccles war emergency committee of the local council has banned early rising roosters for the duration of the war.
Ignatz Lang, 71, born in Romania, twice widens ties to love. Parental objection kept him from marrying his former flame decades ago in Hays Kansas. Four decades later he marries her daughter, now Mrs. Lang, uniting past and present in a surprising family reunion.
Church notes list services at Mennonite Brethren and First Mennonite congregations with Sunday School at 9:45 a.m. and 10-11 a.m. services, plus midweek prayer and youth activities. Special rally day planned for next Sunday, with choirs, nursery care, and Christian Education director Miss Carol Pulcifer. Sermon themes center on conduct and spiritual health.
First Baptist Church Lorth East led by Pastor William Jackson invites all to Bible School at 9 am with classes for all ages and Morning Worship at 1 am featuring a sermon Baptism With the Holy Spirit. Evening services at 6:30 pm and 7:30 pm cover worship and a sermon The Only Foundation. St John Catholic Church Wasco led by Rev Owen McMullan offers Mass 8 am to 10 am and Confessions Saturday at 7 pm.
The Christian Science Society in Boston Massachusetts lists Sunday services at 11 a m Sunday school at 10 a m and Wednesday evening meetings the first Wednesday of each month at 8 o'clock The Bible lesson titled Life includes Revelation and Matthew verses describing healing by Jesus and the centurion who asked for his servant's healing
Donald G. Morgan of Seattle has been appointed to teach European history at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut. Morgan, a blind man, lost his sight in a fireworks accident at age one.
The Shafter Co-op Ramblers defeated Arvin Recreation 39 to 13 in the Bakersfield Commercial league opener. Bobby Laughlin led with 14 points while teammates Laughlin Apley Cecil Smith Levi Gaskins L. E. Sanders Eldin Sprayberry and D. Duke filled the local lineup.
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