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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1941
Page
5
A Shafter Press report finds the Shafter Corcoran road offers faster travel than the 99 highway, with a seven mile Tulare county section now passable. Traffic is lighter along the route, and civic groups have long sought year round use as demand grows in the San Joaquin valley.
Ambrose OConnell announces mail for the U S Army airfield east of town will be distributed from the Bakersfield post office instead of Shafter. The local office is expected to gain revenue from stamp sales to field personnel as press advertising covers costs.
Detroit reports a new high speed process for duraluminum sheet welding that could replace most rivets in a four engine bomber. Tests show spot welds twice as strong as needed and formed in one quarter of a second with minimal variation in stress results. The pulsating direct current welds through duraluminum strips produce crack free joints unseen by recording equipment.
Work teams race to finish a 200 acre Douglas facility in Long Beach California under the speedup program. The 11 building site will include bomb shelters vaults and no windows with transformers built underground to conceal power for a future bomber and transport production for the United States army navy and the RAF. The plant, aimed at midsummer operation, emphasizes stealth and armored design.
An Atlantic skipper described German bombers attacking his ship off an East Coast Canadian port. He said nine bombs fell, two hit, one denting the deck nearly two feet before the bombs proved to be duds. He displayed a 500-pounder fin as proof.
Washington announces the nickel mint has surpassed two billion coins as the nation observes the seventy fifth anniversary of the five cent piece. Nellie Ross, director of the mint, notes the Jefferson nickel has produced 453,314,458 coins to date and traces the Nickel’s history from 1866 to the buffalo issue. The Jefferson nickel began production on October 1, 1938.
A Waldorf Astoria incident recalls a valet department mishap with $13,131.30 left in clothes last year. The article notes further unreturned funds and related issues in the cleaning and storage process.
Joan, a shy 22 year old in a Westfield party, falls for Clark Howard, a young dentist. After stolen evenings with fudge and dessert, he declares he loves her and Emily reluctantly suspects a romance may bloom before his return.
City Judge Frank Shaw ordered three loiterers arrested in the park behind the American Legion hall to perform city work. The sentence options were thirty days and 25 dollars or twenty days of city labor. The adopted verdict is twenty days work, with the men now cleaning the park and employed on city streets.
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