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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1944
Page
4
Kern County Chamber of Commerce delegates at El Tejon hotel propose a 1944 work program. Items include appointing a full time postwar planning director, urging Omnibus bill support, seeking federal aid and highway projects, opposing Elk Hills condemnation, and advancing mineral lands and farm relief measures.
Funeral services for Earl Wroten were held January 24 at the Janzen Funeral Home chapel. He was born October 10, 1903 in Oklahoma and died January 20, 1944 in Shafter. Rev. F. W. Carter conducted the service with Miss Frances Richey singing and playing. Interment was in Shafter Cemetery.
The Lawrence Kansas born writer earned a PhD in 1904 and published her first book that year. She later produced a rhetoric text and shifted to sociological topics, traveling Europe to broaden her outlook. Multilingual and cosmopolitan, she taught at several universities and received seven honorary degrees. Married in 1907, she is mother of two and wrote works including The Bent Twig Rough Hewn The Real Motive The Brimming Cup and The Deepening Stream. She translated Papini Life of Christ and used the byline Dorothy Canfield.
Practical and warm women’s clothing takes a new trend with a Mainbocher designed suit dress. It uses heavy English men’s brown wool fabric with gray and white stripes, a tailored fit, tiny lapel collar, diagonal pockets, and front self buttons. The trouser pleated skirt shows diagonally worked stripes meeting at center.
William Stoller of Home Appliance Company announces a major expansion of furniture stock for wartime needs with a wide range of chairs divans and mattresses arriving. He attends a furniture mart in Los Angeles next week and in San Francisco the following week to consider further purchases.
Dr O H Perry Pepper argues that high blood pressure is not always an illness and that some people have normal high readings while others have normal low readings. He cautions against laymen deciding medical matters for themselves due to human variation in health.
The report notes 16 million trout were caught by California anglers in state waters during 1942. Aquatic Park in San Francisco resembles a streamlined battleship at anchor as a shore side recreation center. Chinese New Year varies between January 20 and February 20 depending on the lunar calendar. War bonds offer a way to support the nation's war effort.
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Ellen Hamilton will be held Friday January 28 1944 at 2 p m in the Janzen Funeral chapel She was born September 15 1867 in Bosque County Texas and died January 26 in Shafter She lived in Shafter twenty years with survivors including husband W F Hamilton children Fred Hugh Elza Stella Ella and Lydie and siblings W W Sapp Wesley Sapp Ambers Sapp and Zona Alexander Interment will be in Shafter cemetery Pallbearers are D A Frost Derwood Frost Hilley Frost Murphy Beaty Walter Coneway and Jim Morris. Interment in Shafter cemetery.
The term lens comes from Latin for lentil and describes the lens shaped seed. The word's etymology traces to the seed’s rounded form and the optics term adopted due to its curved surface.
Mrs Cecil Pool of Shafter was honored with a layette shower hosted by Mrs Oliver Sly and Mrs J W Rose. Attendees included numerous local residents and friends such as Mrs J A Bonds Mrs M W Hand Mrs H L Cole Mrs L J Reed and Mrs P R Lee among others. Private Nixon Stationed In Texas At Fort Sam Houston Pvt F C Nixon was reported stationed at Fort Sam Houston Texas joining the Army on January 7 1944.
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