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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1939
Page
6
A devotional study on John 21 11 19 emphasizes loving Christ as the root of true devotion. It highlights Peter’s threefold confession, the need for divine direction in fishing for men, and the call to active service and steadfast witness until death or life for Jesus.
A 26 acre Shafter high school farm provides hands on experience for students with crops such as potatoes cotton corn onions alfalfa and truck crops. Livestock including hogs sheep and Hereford cattle is used for field study under instructors Glenn Nay Arthur Johnson and Holger Hansen. The farm features a new barn mill room and tool building and operates as a laboratory linking classroom work with individual and group projects in Future Farmers of America programs.
Two people were slightly injured and five others unhurt after a truck driven by C. M. Crow from Shafter Farm Workers camp and a car driven by Claude Gienn from Shafter collided Saturday at 4 20 p m at the Orange street and Poplar avenue intersection. Glenn Crow and G R Crow received first aid. Other occupants included Mrs Glenn and Leonard Crow. Odis O Neill and C C Harrington were in the truck. The cause at an open intersection was not determined. Both vehicles were wrecked.
Ancient rattles discovered in Kish have been traced to 2600 B C with researchers linking the artifacts to early Mesopotamian life. The find indicates early care practices and suggests trade links in the region.
The Santa Fe railway announced a booklet titled Delicious Foods in Tin and Glass tracing the history of home preserving and the railroads role in transport. It is the third in a 1937 series. earlier topics covered wine and citrus, noting pioneers Scheele and Appert and the evolution to modern canned foods.
December shows a slight upward trend in farm prices per the Giannini Foundation and U S Department of Agriculture data. Twenty four commodities averaged 86 percent of July 1910 to June 1915 prices, up from 79 percent in mid November. Fourteen items including beef cattle, veal calves, sheep, lambs, milk, butter, wool, wheat, and potatoes were higher in December than November.
Members of the B Y P U of Lamont Baptist church were guests at the Orthodox Missionary Baptist church Sunday evening and presented a program on farm prices hovering near 1938 summer levels and above late 1938 figures. A social with hot chocolate and cake followed, hosted by Lucy Mouser Guy Fris Rachel Ouser and Rind Buttler.
The article notes the Grand Canyon's deepest point at 5 560 feet and Hell Canyon on the Snake reaching 6 900 feet. It states the Snake averages about 40 miles with a depth near 5 500 feet, closely matching the Grand Canyon's maximum depth.
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