Shafter Theatre Presents Colorado Hill Billies Show Saturday
The Shafter Theatre hosts the Colorado Hill Billies with Walt Shrum and ten performers for afternoon and three evening shows on Saturday. The act features western ballads and novelty numbers and includes Rusty Cline Toby Stewart Ab Wilder Cal Shrum and Tony Fiore. The show is an added barn dance style attraction alongside The Bad Man From Brimstone starring Wallace Beery and Virginia Bruce. Admission prices remain unchanged.
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Shafter Theatre
Colorado Hill
Generals Extend Victory Run in Sierra League Clash
Shafter high School’s Generals defeated Tehachapi Mountaineers 21 to 11 as Potter, Golding, and Koop led the attack. The win keeps Shafter undefeated in Sierra league play except for a prior loss to Maricopa. Friday brings a showdown with the McFarland Cougars as a possible step toward the league title.
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Shafter High School
Generals
Potter
Tehachapi
Maricopa
Cougars
McFarland Cougars
Shafter
W. Kirschenmann
Koop
Heinrichs
McCoy
McLarty
Hodges
Castro
Fritz
Marble
First US Typewriter Patented In 1892
George C. Blickensderfer received the patent for the first typewriter in the United States in 1892, marking a milestone in writing technology and office equipment history.
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United States
George C. Blickensderfer
Richland Grammar Girls Begin New Volleyball Tournament
A new volleyball tournament starts with twelve Richland Grammar School upper grade girls split into Reds and Blues. Games run Monday to Wednesday with Thursday reserved for indoor matches among top teams. Recess practice sessions help players learn and refine volleyball skills.
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Richland Grammar School
Reds
Blues
Lost Horizon to Bow at Shafter Theatre Next Week
Columbia’s Frank Capra production stars Ronald Colman in the screen adaptation of James Hilton’s novel. Five travelers are kidnapped in China and reach Shangri La, a serene Tibetan valley, where romance and adventure unfold.
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Shafter Theatre
Columbia
Frank Capra
Ronald Colman
Robert Riskin
James Hilton
China
Forbidden
Tibet
Shangri. la
World News and Local Disasters Toll From Conflicts and Fires
Capt Nikolai Evdokimoff dies in Moscow claiming record high parachute jumps. Samoan Clipper and crew of seven destroyed by fire and explosion near Pago Pago. Geopolitical shifts as French cabinet changes and ambassadors recalled. A violent North Atlantic storm kills twelve in Britain and Canada reports mass casualties. Fire, explosions and accidents across North America report dozens dead or injured, including oil fires in Kilgore and refinery blasts in Mountain View. Local crime and political shifts accompany regional incidents in California and Nevada.
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Nikolai Evdokimoff
Moscow
Pago Pago
Avocet
China
Shigeru Kawagoe
Hsuh
British Isles
College of Sacred Heart
St. Hyacinthe
Quesbec
Canada
Jacqueline Jean Benson
Chicago
Frederick Cecil Powell
Arlington
Massachusetts
Cowley Fathers
United States
Harwich
Pittswas
Dallas
Texas
E. T. Thomas
Frank B. Noyes
Washington
Associated Press
Emil Wooley
Tillamok
Oregon
Wooley
Salt Lake City
D. D. Richards
Stanley Reed
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Reed
Senate
George Sutherland
Portland
Bernard M. Baruch
New York
Birger Ruud
Cary
Illinois
Joe DiMaggio
Yankee
Baseball Writer’s Association of New York
Kilgore
Wilbur Shaw
Indianapolis
Harry Raymond
Los Angeles
Vice
Raymond
Charles L. Willoughby
San Carlos
Willoughby
Alaska
Klondike
Navy
San Diego
mid-Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Charles S. Ross
Peter Anders
George F. Talbot
Nevada Supreme Court
Adolph Buttner
California-Fresno Oil Company
Fresno
Williams
Taft Kiwanis Iee
Buckley
Coalinga
Barbara Buckley
Paris
Richard P. Gross
San Francisco
Curb Exchange
Oceanside
Private
Kiwanis
California- Nevada
Bakersfield
Albert Ancker
Tehachapi
Wes Kern County
Taft
Stanford Hanah
Kern
Allan B. Campbell
Golden State Highway
Skyhaws Club
Kern County
Christian Endeavor Society
Rio Bravo
Kernville
UltIma G. Brown
Sturn H. Kyle
Delano Grange
Golden Butte Bease
Soledad Mountain
Mojave
Leonard Johnson
United Geophysical Company
Saco
Johnson
Bakersfield Hosts Eastern Star Leader Dinner
Mrs. Helen L. Edwards of Fullerton, grand conductress of the state Order of Eastern Star, is entertained with a Bakersfield dinner by Kern O. E.S. members. John Fanucchi of Bakersfield junior college wins the central California junior college oratorical championship with five valley schools competing. Bradley Ritter of Taft junior college takes second.
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Helen L. Edwards
Fullerton
State Order of Eastern Star
Bakersfield
Kern O. E.S
John Fanucchi
Prices at Los Angeles Eggs and Poultry and Potatoes
Prices listed for eggs poultry and potatoes in Los Angeles on January 19 show candled eggs extra price 22 cents a dozen for large and 20 cents for medium. fryers and hens priced by weight up to 25 cents. potatoes U S No 1 Idaho Russets 1 05 to 1 10 per 100 pound sack with Stockton Burbanks and Prides at 1 50 good and 1 10 to 1 25 fair. White Rose sacks 75 to 85 cents, 65 cents for fair.
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Los Angeles
Usc
Huscisateschtani
U. S
Idaho
Stockton Burbanks
Kern County
Anvil and the Hammer Proverb in Brief
The line counsels patience when you endure pressure and decisiveness when you hold power. It contrasts the steady duty of endurance with the force of swift action, urging balanced response to circumstances.
When Jesus Went to Peter's House and Healed
Lesson text Mark 1 29 45 centers on Jesus at Peter's home healing Peter's mother in law and many others. It contrasts healing with sin and notes Jesus prayer and preaching priorities. The piece urges compassionate care, persistent prayer, and bold gospel proclamation.
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Jesus
Peter
Son of God
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Rainfall at Shafter Dips To .60 Inches This Storm
The first 1938 rainfall at Shafter began Thursday evening and cleared dense fog. Intermittent showers continued through the week with occasional sun. George Harrison reports 0.60 inch from the storm, bringing the season total to 2.20 inches versus 5.16 inches last season. No data yet on rain that began yesterday noon.
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Shafter
United States Experimental Station
Geo. Harrison
Toll of American Revolution death toll figures
At least 4,044 men were killed or died of wounds in the American Revolution, per the adjutant general's available statistics.
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Adjutant General
Streets Now In Good Shape In Shafter
Supervisor Roy Woollames oversees a week of street work in Shafter to ready the area for transfer to the new city. Parkings lines repainted and school crossings striped, with roads and alleys repaired and dirt cleared to improve drainage before rain season. Thirty three carloads of fertilizer and fifteen carloads of seed potatoes received for the 1938 potato crop this month.
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Shafter
Roy Woollames
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Wasco
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