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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1945
Page
8
Mr and Mrs Sam Whiting were guests of Mr and Mrs How aera Russell over the New Years. Whiting a Naval Air Cadet is in pre flight school at Whitman College in Walla Walla Washington.
Herbert Midgley returns home after nearly two months in a local hospital. He thanks Shafter friends for letters and flowers and invites them to visit at his home, 276 Sunset.
Twenty one members of the Shafter High School California Scholarship Federation chapter took over offices and classrooms for a day with Leroy Henderson acting principal. C S F members filled teacher roles while teachers remained in class as silent observers. Mrs. Amelia Cornell serves as faculty advisor.
The Wednesday Afternoon Club sponsors the teen age dance Friday evening January 26 from 8 30 to 11 30 at the Women's Clubhouse. The Smith Family Orchestra of Buttonwillow provides music. This is the third monthly dance for Shafter high school teens with aid from a local service club.
War Food Administrator Marvin Jones lauds Kern County Farm Rationing Committee members for aiding maximum production with limited farm machinery. The group includes J. R. Bright chairman, John J. Peters Jr., Keith Mitchell, A J. Peterson, and alternates Lester Frick and A J. Peterson.
The Defense Transportation Committee approved a 35 704 unit light truck program for 1945 with 17756 to be built in the first half and 17948 in the second half. Most units will serve agricultural needs while farm tire allocations tighten civilian supply.
Mr and Mrs H R Janzen marked their thirty seventh wedding anniversary on January 12. They dined in Bakersfield and later joined friends at the Bakersfield Inn for the remainder of the evening.
The Richland Teachers Club held its monthly party with a pot luck dinner in the Rich land cafeteria. Members played games and sang as Mrs Myrtle Iverson Mrs Katherine Harrison and Mrs Mary Tomney received gifts from the club.
The Jayhawkers once famed in Death Valley held occasional reunions in California for many years, bringing together surviving members and enthusiasts to reminisce about their desert exploits and shared adventures.
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