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Newspaper

Shafter Press

Location

Shafter, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 17, 1957

Page

6

Sermon on Hell Draws Wasco Parish Audience

Rev Mei Krug of Trinity Lutheran Wasco announces 11 am Sunday sermon on hell with Bible-based discussion. The service includes 9 45 am Sunday school and adult Bible class. Special Wednesday 8 pm studies cover fundamental Christian doctrine.

Mei Krug The Baptist Church Hell Jesus Christ Rev. Krug Trinity Lutheran Church Shafter-Wasco Sixth Street Wasco W. O. ‘Grunow Homer Watson

Christian Science Sermon on Life at Wasco

The Wasco Christian Science church holds a Sunday sermon on Life, stressing spiritual understanding of God as Life gives strength and freedom. Scriptural selections include John 17 3 and the Science and Health reference to Life as God with immortality. The Golden Text from Proverbs 16 22 highlights understanding as a wellspring of life.

Christian Science Church Wasco Jesus Christ Mary Baker Eddy

Baptist Youths Plan 1957 Program At First Baptist

Rev Menno H Schellenberg youth director of the First Baptist church chairs a planning meeting for a 1957 youth program. Attendees include Rev Ivin N Krug Clarence Kattenhorn Mrs Beth Schardt Lawrence ttenhorn Daniel Lewis and Mrs Marie Schellenberg. The group outlines an all youth banquet January 25 and aims for rallies snow trips skating parties and summer camps for ages from high school to college.

Fellowship Hall First Baptist Church

89 Persons Join Congregational Church in 1956

The Union Congregational church held its 41st annual meeting after a potluck on January 13 with nearly 100 attendees. Rev. Paul Edward Babbitt presided as reports showed 89 new members in 1956 and $30,000 spent on local and benevolent work, plus a 31 percent rise in 1957 budget pledges. Officers and trustees were elected, and next Sunday service featuring Rev. Ralph W. Jeffs is announced. The U S Department of Agriculture reports 1956 farm crops valued at $18 973 732 000.

Union Congregational Church Paul Edward Babbitt Hal McKusiek Fred Starrh E. Gordon Smith Fred Mason John H. Turner, Jr John R.stockton Harold C. Freedmann Ed Schacht Earl Johnson Earl Wipf Ervin Toews Roy Farrell Don Zachary George Starrh Beaconesses Wallace, Weyand Francis Wilson Ralph W. Jeffs Dick Southwick Zingarelli Roff U. S. Department of Agriculture

Adventist Church Backs Blue Laws Protest

Shafter Seventh-day Adventist Church publicly supports its national body in opposing blue laws that enforce Sunday observance. Pastor Harvey Retzer presented a Washington DC statement warning that civil restraints on religion threaten free exercise and minority rights. The church plans to circulate Liberty, the denomination journal on religious freedom.

Shafter Seventh-day Adventist Church Harvey Retzer Washington, D. C America Retzer Church

Alexander Shares Navy Gunnery Honor On Takelma

Ronald E. Alexander and crew of the USS Takelma earned a battle efficiency E award for excellence in all three gun mounts during Pacific gunnery exercises in 1956. The Takelma, among the smallest ships in the Navy, competed with more than 100 Service Force vessels.

Ronald E. Alexander USN Fred Alexander Takelma

SHS Students to View Films at Lunch Sponsored by Library Club

Shafter High School students may watch one full length movie during lunch for 10 cents per day, with extra sessions free if needed. Movies shown in the study hall use a white wall as a cinemascope screen, and profits fund a cinemascope lens. Future titles include Two Weeks With Love and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. An exhibit of Willard E Worden photographs from 1906 San Francisco earthquake is in the Wells Fargo History Room.

Shafter High School Theodora Richard Library Club Bobby Brown Dick Howard Phyllis Waters Donna Waters Richard Willard E. Worden San Francisco Wells Fargo History Room

Sky Watch Notes and Awards at Shafter GOC Post

Mrs. Dan Voth, Thursday Day Captain, has been ill but feels better. She has earned a 10 hour GOC Wings, 100 hour Service Award, 250 hour merit pin, 500 hour bar, and is eligible for a 760 hour bar to be presented at the next award meeting. Pvt. Henry Badgett, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Badgett, was home on 15 day leave from Fort Devens, Mass. Air Force eyes a 3000 mph steel fighter plane designed by Republic Aviation to fly by radar, a crucial jet craft rumored as highly advanced.

Dan Voth Shafter GOC Voth The Post Wasco Post Pvt Henry Badgett U. S. Army John Badgett Shafter Avenue Fort Devens Mass Air Force Republic Aviation Farmington Long Island

Shafter High School Science Display By Three Students

A showcase in the main hall features biology chemistry and physics sections created by JoAnn Méttler Carol Anderson and Pat Jones under guidance of art instructor Dave Marsh. The biology area displays skull cross sections skin inner and outer ear and the eye. Chemistry shows test tubes bunsen burners flasks storages and equipment. Physics highlights electrical devices and measuring instruments.

Shafter High School Pat Jones Carol Anderson John Mettler JoAnn Méttler Dave Marsh Marsh

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Church News Lord Jesus Christ Krug Pentecostal Church OF God Shafter Ave West Ash Wesley T. Williams Ginst Baptist Church E. Lerdo Hwy Pioneer Melvin N. Krug Ph. Pioneer Training Union Evening Gospel Hour Family Bible Hour Christian Science Sermon On “Life Baptist Youths Plan FIRST Southern Baptist Church Betty McLeod Brotherhood Lone Graves Olds Oldsmobile Ismobile Quality Dealer's Woodard Motor CO Central Ave Ftea Seti Advventist Church Alexander Tae Bell Upwell Electric Eye Thane Mone CC Mora Revolutionary Bell & HH Cai Stringham’s SHS Skywatch By Ruth Stover Shafter Phone Pioneer P. G California Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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