Panui Callman to Speak at Pacific Coast Electrical Meet
Dr Panui Callman is named principal speaker for a banquet of the Pacific Coast Electrical Association at El Tejon Bakersfield January 31. The program includes talks by Dr Paul Cadman and R M Alvord with reports from October conclave on lighting, wiring and industry progress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Cadman
University of California
Pacific Coast Electrical Association
el Tejon Hotel
Bakersfield
Harold K. Fox
San Joaquin Light and Power
N. W. Phillips
Visalia
Southern California Fdison Company
C. W. Lightner
Malcolm Brock
George Crome
John Ware
San Francisco
Santa Monica
Association
Sacramento
Harmonica artist entertains Shafter Exchange Club
James Hartley demonstrated harmonica tricks at the Shafter Exchange Club luncheon. He showed harmonicas of many sizes, played old favorites and blues, and noted 11 years of school performances. Hartley, linked to Hohner, toured Kern County with Miss Gertrude Ganzenhuber, Kern County musical director, thanking Principal F.E. Jones for arranging the appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Exchange Club
James Hartley
Hartley
Hohner Harmonica Co
New York City
Shafter
Gertrude Ganzenhuber
Kern County
FE. P. Jones
Julius Zimmerman Erecting New Home
Construction starts on a modern five room house for Mr and Mrs Julius Zimmerman. The residence rises at Shafter and Golden West avenues with George Isaac as contractor.
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Julius Zimmerman
Shafter Avenue
Golden West Avenue
George Isaac
Social Wedding in Shafter and Cordell Nuptials
Miss Katherine Nikkel of Shafter married Mr. George B. Flaming of Cordell Oklahoma in a family ceremony at the Nikkel home conducted by Rev. Wm J Bestwater of the Mennonite Brethren church. The couple planned a two week honeymoon in southern California after gifts and congratulations. A separate tea hosted by H C Janzen entertained sewing circle members including S P Shultz Gus Weyand J E Unruh Z C Bartel J W Nickel A F Boese and E J Thiesen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katherine Nikkel
Shafter
George B. Flaming
Cordell
Oklahoma
H. H. Nikkel
Wm. J. Bestwater
Mennonite Brethren Church
Glenn
Louise Bergthold
H. C
H. C. Janzen
S. P. Shultz
Gus Weyand
J. E. Unruh
Z. C. Bartel
J. W. Nickel
E. J. Thiesen
M A S Group entertained by Mrs Lawrence Annis
The M A S society met at Mrs Lawrence Annis home Thursday afternoon with a brief business session. Plans were made for a shower for Mrs Fay Whitney at Alvina Hildebrand’s home this afternoon. Refreshments were served to members Mesdames Harvey Geede Harlin Wilson Johnnie Siemens Eve lyn Unruh and guests Mrs Frank Midgat and Mrs Handel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. S. Society
Lawrence Annis
Fay Whitney
Alvina Hildebrand
Harvey Geede
Harlin Wilson
Johnnie Siemens
Evelyn Unruh
Frank Midgat
Handel
Plum Growers and Peers Marketing Plan Meeting Discusses 1938 Program
Kern county plum growers and shippers gathered Monday night in Richland grammar school music room to debate maturity size and grade controls under a California tree fruit agreement. N D Hudson spoke on 1937 control results and 1938 market outlook while soliciting participant recommendations for safeguards.
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Kern County
California
Richland Grammar School
N. D. Hudson
Bids Called for Central Valley Tunnel and Canals
The U S Bureau of Reclamation issued bids for a tunnel construction contract and two canal supply contracts. Kern County official Roland Curran says this marks the start of substantial work on the Central Valley Water project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Bureau of Reclamation
Roland Curran
Kern County Water Development Commission
Central Valley Water Project
Market Eggs and Poultry Prices in Los Angeles
Los Angeles market notes list large eggs at 20 to 20.5 cents per dozen for candled extras, medium eggs around 19 to 19.5 cents, and small eggs about 18 to 18.5 cents. Poultry prices include leghorns hens under 4 pounds at 2 to 3 percent, over 4 pounds at around 25 cents, and fryers priced by weight. U S No. 1 Idaho Russell potatoes range 1.12 1.15 per 100 pounds, with Stockton Burbanks and Pride $1.35 to $1.50 and Kern county Rose Ings 40 to 50 cents.
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Los Angeles
Cince Eicisiareae
UU i
Insakt
Diacia Eiachasieckosoos
U. S
Idaho
Russell
Stockton
Burbanks
Pride
Kern County
Heart Recovered After Twice-Removed Heart
London doctors Dr William Gissane and Dr B Schulenberg report a 23 year old man Harold J Aldridge stabbed in the heart. The chest was opened, heart lifted, wound stitched, and the pericardium bled again necessitating a second heart removal and repair. He is stated to be fit and at work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
William Gissane
B. Schulenberg
Harold J. Aldridge
Battersea
Homemade Electric Chair Ends Life In Chicago
Bertram Braucher a 27 year old student at Chicago Technical College rigged a deadly home made electric chair using a transformer and copper wires. He attached wires to his wrist and ankle and killed himself with a wall socket current. A note cited family discord and his belief he wasted opportunities amid claims the act was premeditated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Bertram — Braucher
Chicago Technical College
New Vespucci Letter Said To Prove Earlier American Landing
A Florence archives reveal a unpublished letter from Amerigo Vespucci to Lorenzo de Medici detailing his third voyage and routes to the New World. The document, found by Marquise Ridolfi, cites Vespucci’s South American sighting on June 16, 1497, before Columbus’s claimed sighting in 1498.
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Vespucci
America
Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
Florence
Florentine
New World
Lorenzo Pierfrancesco de’ Medici
Atlantic
Roberto Ridolfi
Council of the State Archives
Lorenzo de’ Medici
South America
Columbus
Trinidad
Mechanical Heart Use Described by Carrel and Lindbergh
Dr. Alexis Carrel explains a mechanical heart pump developed with Colonel Lindbergh to perfuse thyroid glands and keep organs alive after removal. He reports glands remain viable for three to twenty-one days and notes a simple technique for routine study. Cats and chicken thyroids tested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Minn
Charles A. Lindbergh
Alexis Carrel
Dog Site in Chair to Eat Painesville Ohio
A brief item notes a dog site in a chair at Painesville Ohio with a specific time reference to 5 15, indicating a planned feeding or event. The fragment suggests a local oddity or community notice reported in the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Painesville
Ohio
Horse Is 41 Years Old in Adrian
Hudson reports a 41 year old horse living in Adrian. The owner, Stevenson, keeps the aged animal at the property and maintains it as a living record of longevity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson
Stevenson,ives
Adrian
Suit Against County Being Heard In Bakersfield
A $51,000 damage suit against Kern county opened in Bakersfield before Superior Judge Louis C. Drapeau. Plaintiffs Gustav and Julia Weyand and A. J. Zimmerman claim the county’s negligence on an approach to a ridge over the Calloway canal on the Seventh Standard road caused auto wrecks that killed Howard Weyand and Rose Zimmerman on October 2, 1936. The county denies fault. attorneys Patrick Petri ni and Harry Conron lead the plaintiffs, with W. A. McGinn and Chester O. Hansen for the county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
Bakersfield
Louis C. Drapeau
Ventura County
Gustav
Julia Weyand
A. J. Zimmerman
Shafter
Weyands
Howard
Zimmerman
Rose
Calloway Canal
E County
James Petrini
Harry Conron
W. A. McGinn
Chester O. Hansen
Cantata by Reedley Men’s Chorus Draws Praise
A cantata Good Tidings of Joy was well received Sunday night at the Mennonite Brethren church in Reedley. The Reedley Men’s Chorus of 30 voices, directed by Ernest Enns with Mrs. John T. Enns on piano, performed after a banquet hosted by the local church festival committee and a brief sermon by Rev. J. J. Penner of Reedley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Men’s Chorus of
Reedley
Mennonite Brethren Church
Reedley Mennonte Brethren Church
Ernest Enns
John T. Enns
J. J. Penner
Bids on Hospital Building Refused
Bids for the new wing at Kern General Hospital were rejected Monday by the board of supervisors as too high. The bids reportedly ran up to $400,000. The notes mention a new garage, Charlie's Auto Service, opening in the former Shafter Cabinet Shop space at T. V's Corner, with C. R. Furguson as proprietor from Delano.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie’s Auto Service
Shafter
T. V's Corner
C. R. Furguson
Delano
Kern General Hospital
Board of Supervisors
U S Oil Production Rises to 3 478 886 Barrels Daily
The Oil and Gas Journal reports U S oil production for the week ending January 15 at 3,478,886 barrels per day, an increase of 42,403 barrels daily from the prior week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
The
Oil and Gas Journal
Spud Growers Meet Today in Bakersfield
The Shafter Potato Growers association will meet today at the court house in Bakersfield to devise measures against weight shortages on potato shipments. The announcement comes from L. M. Sands, county sealer of weights and measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Potato Growers Association
Court House
Bakersfield
L. M. Sands
Weights and Measures
Oil Lease Signed for Opal Fry and L G Helm
Listed oil agreements this week include Opal W Fry and wife to L G Helm. oil lease dated December 10, 1937 grants one eighth royalty and five year drilling clause on portion of Section 6 27 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opal
Keeping Machines Running Cuts Costs in Industry
A London Tit-Bits Magazine writer notes that it is cheaper to keep blast furnaces and certain turbines running over weekends and long periods than to stop and restart. Continuous operation reduces wear from starts and avoids costly reheat and restart, despite light load.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Tit- Bits Magazine
Eckmann Presides At Y Banquet In Kern County
A. W. Eckmann, after two years as Kern Cox California president, steps down and Glen E. Stanfield of Bakersfield is named successor. Yale Griffith of Santa Barbara delivers a talk on Layman views of YoMCu AS. A skit by Shafter Y club titled Youth on Trial features James Livers Herbert Neuman Marvin Neuman Myron Annis Elmer Unruh. Attendees include Mr and Mrs Eckmann and several local members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern Cox
M. CA
A. W. Eckmann
Shatter
Glen E. Stanfield
Bakersfield
Eckmann
Yale Griffith
Santa Barbara
Yomcu
Shafter
Z. C. Bartel
J. V. Wilson
R. L. Gates
Curious Malady Of Reedley Man Baffles Doctors
Henry Warkentine of Reedley collapsed during a Sunday cantata with a nose bleed and deteriorated in a Fresno hospital. Doctors worry over his condition as siblings John Warkentine of Rosedale and local church members monitor the case.
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Reedley
Fresno
Henry Warkentine
Golden Bears Win Wintage Title At Richland
Golden Bears clinched the Wintage title at Richland as the final A game between Drillers and Bears ended with Bears players Elbert Elliott Roy Carter Jack Highfill W R Cloud Lester Cook on the winning side. The B game finished 6 to 5 in favor of the Bears with Lester Cook James Bobst John Camp Elmer Schmidt Walter Hei and Don Latta contributing to the victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Drillers
Golden Bears
Elbert Elliott
Roy Carter
Jack Highfill
W. R. Cloud
Lester Cook
Bears
Eagles
James Bobst
John Camp
Elmer Schmidt
Walter Hei
Don Latta
Rankin Announces Candidacy for Kern County Sheriff
Charles R. Rankin, former undersheriff under Sheriff Cas Walser, declares his candidacy for Kern County sheriff. Rankin, a Kern County native, cites nearly nine years of service and his proven record as the basis for his campaign. Subscribe for The Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Rankin
Ster
Bakersfield
Mond
Kern County
Rankin
Kern
Cas Walser
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Harmonica
Gentral Valley
Dr. Carrel
SPUD
Santa Fe
Bank
H. Midgley
Shafter Mercantile Co
David Wittenberg
Tulare Street
Abel Karber
Safeway Meat Market
R. R. Carter
Poplar Ave
Wasco
North Shafter
Pitts Camp
Boysen
Yates Turkey
Lerdo
Bill Bestwater
Lachenmaier & Neuman
Oliver
Walter Haag Ranch
Rio Bravo
Fairbanks-Morse
A. Caldwell
Los Angeles Avenue
Middle House
E. I. Wallace Concrete
Golda Martin
A. J. Loewen
Marengo Ave
Nicol Tract
P. A. Reimer
Lerdo Street
Bergen
Ane
Home Appliance Co
Emil Stoller
Jon Hall
Dorothy Lamour
Tom Keene
Claudette Colbert
Charles Boyer
Melton
All Winter Merchandise Redue Shafter Mercantile Co
Federated Stores
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