June heat records: Shafter reports top 10-year June average
The June high temperature at Shafter experiment farm reached 99.33 degrees, the highest 10-year June average. Over the decade the June high averages range from 87.2 to 96.6 degrees, with 1934 the low and this year the high at 99.93. Temps in the San Joaquin valley run about two degrees higher in the north. Recent week lows ranged 63 to 74 degrees, and highs 94 to 107 degrees.
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St the Shafter Experiment Farm
San Joaquin Valley
Mayo Clinic Physicians Tour West Visitors in Shafter
Mayo Clinic physicians Dr. Walter M. Boothby Dr. W Randolph Lovelace and Mrs Boothby visited Shafter last week at the home of Mr Boothbys brother and sister in law Mr and Mrs Charles Burns They are noted for advancing an oxygen breathing device for aviators They came to the Pacific coast to speak before the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences in Pasadena and at an aviation conference in Seattle They plan an air trip to Alaska before returning east.
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Walter
W. Randolph Lovelace
Mayo Clinic
Pasadena
Seattle
Alaska
Cantaloupes From Mettler Tract Near Wasco
Cantaloupes are being shipped from a 160 acre tract near Wasco by W H Mettler with picking expected to continue over three weeks. The Mettler packing shed at Wasco is handling the melons.
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Wasco
W. H. Mettler
Mettler
Foot injury from broken glass at Cafe Neuman
Hazel May sustained a deep cut on her foot Tuesday noon after stepping on broken glass at Cafe Neuman. She received treatment at a local doctor’s office.
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Hazel May
Cafe Neuman
Duerksen Building Near Completion on Lerdo Road
Near completion is the H. B. Duerksen building on Lerdo road and Jackson street designed to house a greasing and steaming rack.
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H. B. Duerksen
Lerdo Road
Jackson Street
Real Estate Specials and Rental Listings
Specials include almost new five room house in Wall Tract priced at 3500 with terms. Manne Tract residence near high school with fireplace and modern amenities at 5000. Lot outside city limits Lerdo 50 by 150 financed at 350. Income units in Southern California for exchange. 20 acre San Dimas grove earning over 5000 yearly. 7 room house with 4 beds and 2 car garage at 42000. Rentals include a new 3 room apartment above a garage at 30 monthly with water, and a new 2 bedroom unfurnished home at 40 monthly with water. Licensed broker H John Harder.
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Wall Tract
Manne! Tract
High School
San Dimas
Trailer Fire Causes $180 Loss Near Shafter
A Tuesday morning fire on a fertilizer trailer road belonging to Camp West-Lowe, about a mile east of Shafter highway, caused $180 damage. The blaze started from a flat tire. Fire Warden Art Craig and assistant Lloyd Cummings responded, and driver Thomas Humphries saved about $1,206 in property.
M B Chorus Presents Ventura Program Sunday
The Mennoite Brethren church male chorus performed a full program at Ventura Baptist church Sunday evening under Arnold Bergen with Abe Goertzen as accompanist. Twenty one members participated and the group will next appear at the Mennonite Brethren church in Bakersfield on July 14.
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Menknonite Brethren Church
Ventura Baptist Church
Arnold Bergen
Abe Goertzen
Mennonite Brethren Church
Bakersfield
Local Ping Pong Tournament Opens July 15 at Shafter High
The city will hold a ping pong tournament open to all, starting July 15 on Shafter high school tables. Eugene Ford, director of the summer recreation program, invites adults to participate. Play runs 7:30 to 9 p.m. and entries are taken at Richland school by Eldon Sprayberry.
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Shafter High School
Eugene Ford
Richland School
Eldon Sprayberry
Ford
Richland'scheot
Church Services for First Baptist and Wasco Parishes
The notice lists services for First Baptist Church at 289 East Lerdo Highway led by Pastor Edgar H. McAllister with Bible School at 10 a.m. and morning sermon To Whom Shall We Go, communion, Young People and Prayer League, evening sermon The First Four Trumpets, midweek prayer on Wednesday. Also St John’s Catholic Church in Wasco with Mass from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and Saturday confessions at 7 p.m., plus Christian Science Society services at 11 a.m. and Sunday School at 10 a.m.
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First Baptist Church
East Lerdo
Edgar H. McAllister
Bible School
P. A. Schmidt
John
Young People’s Societies
Prayer League
St. John’s Catholic Church
9Th and Broadway Streets
Wasco
Owen McMullan
Christian Science — Christian Science Society
Mother Church
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Massachusetts
Sixth and
E Streets
Corn or Callous GREAT reward offer from manufacturer
A manufacturer announces a $25.00 reward for information or returns related to a product named Corn or Callous GREAT. Details on eligibility and submission are not provided in the fragment.
Shafter Crime Wave Foreshadows Local Turmoil
A string of four major crimes in less than a month hits Shafter with a 9:30 p.m. holdup at Neufeld Automotive Corner where thieves took 300 dollars in cash and checks and Henry Janzen was struck with a blackjack. Deputies hunt a trio described after also seeking routes on Lerdo highway, with further raids and community notices tracking the case as the community weighs safety and law enforcement responses.
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Shafter
Neufeld
Henry Janzen
Lerdo
Harry O’neal
O'Neal
Shafter School Board Awards Construction Contracts
At a Union high school board meeting on Monday night the contract for the new class room unit at Shafter was awarded to F H Dequine for 45218 dollars. W H Fisher of Bakersfield won the heating contract at 3205 dollars and Drury and Fingerhut of Bakersfield received the electric fittings contract at 2417 dollars. Construction will start immediately and the unit is expected to be ready for occupancy by the fall term.
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Union High School Board of Trustees
Shafter
F. H. Dequine
W. H. Fisher
Bakersfield
Drury and
Fingerhut
Public debt per US family climbs from 269 to 2000
The public debt of the United States before the World War stood at 269 dollars for the average family and has risen to about 2000 dollars per family.
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United States
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