Birthday honors at Mrs Dalke party and July Rousse
Mrs John Dalke was honored at a birthday gathering hosted by Mrs Menno Siemens at the J J Siemens home with guests including Ennis Hughes Baren Mayfield William H Dalke Ruth Myers Elvin Schmidt John Dalke Menno Siemens and others. Edward Haag hosted a Fourth of July Wennie roast for boys and friends with a bonfire games and refreshments and a large attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Dalke
Menno Siemens
J. J. Siemens
Messrs and Mesdames Ennis Hughes
Baren ‘Mayfield
William H. Dalke
Ruth Myers
Wasco
Elvin Schmidt
Rio Bravo Sunday School Class Mentors Guests Evening
The Rio Bravo young peoples class hosted a teacher from Shanghai Miss Inez Green at C A Merrill's home. She shared life experiences in China and the group enjoyed games and refreshments with members Gladys Huston Rose Huston Thelma Warden Betty Harrell Jettie Stevens Lois Lane Edward Haag Phil Haag Albert Hacker Ken Huston Lloyd Warden Don Suydam Marvin Lane Mrs May McBride Mac Terry and Mrs Merrill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Haag
Rio Bravo
Wennie
Wennies
Alveria Hilbrand
Rose
Gladys Huston
Ruth Risner
Thelma Warden
Clyde Garret
Rafe Martin
Bill Bradley
Albert Hacker
Phil Haag
Marvin Lane
Lloyd Warden
Wilburn Rice
Ray Mays
Columbus Rice
May McBride
Bill Thompson
Oscar Rice
C. A. Merrill
Inez Green
Shanghai
China
Merrill
Gladys
Rose Huston
Betty Harrell
Jettie Stevens
Lois Lane
Edward
Ken Huston
Don Suydam
Mac Terry
Ping Pong Date Change Delays July Tournament
A ping pong tournament open to all residents, set for July 15 at the high school, is postponed to July 29 per Eugene Ford, recreation director of the local summer program. First and second place winners will receive gold and silver medals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene Ford
P.Y.P.A. Group Meets at Brumbaugh Home
Yesterday afternoon the P.Y.P.A. gathered at Mrs. H. R. Brumbaugh home with several new members joining. Neva Lee Fuller state P.Y.P.A. president visited Shafter for two weeks as an honored guest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.Y.P.A
Brumbaugh Home
H. R. Brumbaugh
Neva Lee Fuller
Shafter
Mesdames
Lois Potts
Johnnie Nance
Richard Woods
Art Stinson
Harold Brumbaugh
Jean Grose
Lola Stewart
Juanita Stewart
Shafter Tire Shop Wins Guild Bronze Award
Shafter Recap Tire Shop is awarded the bronze Guild of Tire Craftsmen honor and gains Guild membership. A representative praised the recognition and noted high standards and adherence to the Guild code. The shield, presented by Oliver Tire and Rubber Co., is on display at Lerdo highway plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Guild of Tire Craftsmen
California
Oliver Tire and Rubber Co
Oakland
Lerdo Highway
Bakersfield and area families visit friends and kin
Rio Bravo visitors included Mr and Mrs Tom Devlin with Bobby and Mary Ann near the bay region. The Haag family and C L Martin group dined at Jefferson Park Bakersfield for Bobby's birthday. Mrs Ora McClellan and baby daughter returned from Bakersfield hospital. Breunle Grose guests in Suydam home. Fern Calvert and son Tommie traveled to San Diego to visit relatives. Mrs Clarence Rice recovering from surgery in Bakersfield hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Devlin
Bobby
Mary Ann
Bay Region
Walter Haag
Carl Haag
Jeannie
Phil
C. L. Martin
Jefferson Park
Bakersfield
Ora McClellan
Christ Breunle
Lenox
Kenneth Grose
Kernville
E. B. Suydam
Fern Calvert
Tommie
San Diego
Peaches from Anderson Ranch Boost LA Market
Peaches from the Charles Anderson ranch on Santa Fe Way east of town bring strong prices on the fresh fruit market in Los Angeles. Shipments move daily by truck to distribution points in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Anderson
Santa Fe Way
Los Angeles
New Deal deficit nears 1933 total budget
The 1940 deficit excluding defense items rises to 4.032 billion dollars, nearly matching the 1933 budget of 4.325 billion dollars. The comparison highlights the expanding fiscal strain during the New Deal era.
Strategic South Tyrol Links Italy to Europe
The South Tyrol region in the Alps borders Austria and links Italy to central Europe via the Brenner pass. After World War I the 1919 treaty moved the frontier north, transferring Trento and Bolzano districts with over 200000 Germans facing loyalty to the Reich or Italian citizenship. Italianization followed with Italian as official language and German place names replaced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Tyrol
Alps
Italy
Austria
St. Germain
Brenner Pass
Europe
Ais
Trento
Tyro
Bolzano
Tyrolean
Air-Minded Spiders Soar Long Distances Over Louisiana Study
Researchers trap insects from planes over Louisiana to study crop pest control. Federal entomologist P A Glick notes spiders ride air currents more than six times as often as winged moths and butterflies, with many able to steer their flights. Spiderlings launch from tall plants, then drift or fly with prevailing winds aiding seasonal migrations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
P. A. Glick
Federal
Exterior house colors shift to brighter hues
American homes are moving away from dull grays browns and buffs toward brighter youthful colors for walls roofs and trim developed in the last decade Rose red and blue green asphalt shingles are common roofs while walls feature whites blues reds and unusual shades like coral beige chocolate and hunter green A popular display model shows lemon yellow siding a blue roof and light yellow trim
Doe Babe the tame fawn on Kellogg ranch near Yakima
The Kellogg family raised a fawn named Babe after it was abandoned and nursed with cow milk. Three years later Babe is so tame it enters the Kellogg house, though the deer was eventually released to the hills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Kellogg
Yakima
Wash
Kellogg House
Babe
Kellogg
Kelloggs
Summer Slices Winters Time
Washington records show winters shorter and summers longer over 80 years. The growing season lengthened by two to three weeks, with the Middle Atlantic region rising from 188 to 206 days in similar recent periods. The growing season shifted northward about 225 miles since 1860, enabling crops like cotton to move northward. Change began around 1875, with temps rising above long-term averages since 1898, though officials cautioned on predicting a turning point after the severe winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States Weather Bureau
J. B. Kincer
Bureau
Middle Atlantic
Kincer
Indianapolis
Ind
Nashville
Tenn
Virginia
Weather Bureau
Midnight Births and Deaths Not More Common at Midnight
Edinburgh reports the Scotland registrar general rejects the belief that midnight is the most foreboding time for births and deaths. A study of 6055 deaths shows 48.8 percent occurred in the first half of the day and 51.6 percent in the second half, with 50.8 percent between six a.m. and six p.m. compared to 49.2 percent between six p.m. and six a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
Registrar General For
Scotland
Massachusetts Remains Loyal to Traditional Thanksgiving Date
Massachusetts will observe Thanksgiving on the traditional last Thursday in November 1940. Gov. Leverett Saltonstall and New England’s Republican governors announced plans to proclaim November 28 as Thanksgiving, resisting President Roosevelt’s earlier adjustment to an earlier date for Christmas business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Boston
Leverett Saltonstall
New England
Roosevelt
Alfred Riani
Marlborough, Mass
Gas From Anthracite Drives British Motors
London reports a trailer mounted gas works attached to a car that makes about 100 miles per tank at roughly $1. It produces anthracite carbon monoxide fuel, burned with paraffin-treated tow coaxing, and powers the car with smoothness but lower efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Fossils Show Sea Covered Grand Canyon
Marine fossils found in the Grand Canyon and Painted Desert indicate an arm of the sea once covered northern Arizona. The region lies over 6,000 feet above sea level and more than 500 miles from the nearest salt water, the Gulf of California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Canyon
Ariz
Painted Desert
Arizona
Gulf of Lower California
Woman 65 Is Decapitated by Streetcar in Seattle
Mrs May Woods, 65, stooped to pick up a dollar bill and was hit by a Seattle streetcar, resulting in fatal decapitation. Police and transit officials investigate the accident as a streetcar collision in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stoops
Seattle
May Woods
Books Received At Library Here In Fight Month Shipment
The Shafter Library lists adult and juvenile titles arriving this shipment. Notable works include Our Common Airmen, Death By Moonlight, Tell My Horse, Ivanhoe, The Chute, and Pilate Said. Several juvenile titles feature Alice, Mr. Popper's Penguins, and The Adventures of Susannah among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Library
Atherton
Burt
Chambers
Fisher
Harper
Hauck
D Cedars
Lancaster
MacGregor
Silhouett
Olsen
Christina
Alberta
Wells
Weston
Zara
Lagerlof
Aaron
America
Thomas
Hill
Bemelmans
Chiera
France
Dutton
Bailey
Henriques
Hurston
Appel
Scotland
Lockhart
Ross
Hendrick
Alcott
Alice
Mr. Popper
Atwood
Burglon
Eberle
The
Colt
Orton
Swift
Rosa Maiie
Rankin
Ivanhoe
Scott
Home Run Lifts McFarland Past Shafter in Final Inning
Russell hit a go ahead homer in the seventh inning as McFarland nightballers edged the Shafter Merchants 6 to 5 at McFarland. McFarland rallied with ties in the fifth and sixth after Merchants earlier built a lead on walks and hits. Ralph Lachenmaier pitched for Shafter while Ratekin and Angel worked for McFarland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Russell
McFarland Nightballers
Shafter Merchants
McFarland
Jim Taylor
Merchants
Ray Mettler
Pete Duke
Rodgers
Russell
Ralph Lachenmaier
Ratekin
Angel
McFarland Club
First National Bank Bulletin on Government Payroll Drain
A bulletin from the First National Bank of Boston argues that if all expenses were met, Americans would work three months per year to support Government costs. It frames the tax and spending burden as a substantial annual drain on households.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First National Bank of Boston
New Deal spending peak goes to administrative personnel
The largest single item in New Deal spending is for administrative personnel. It exceeds the pay for WPA workers farm aid benefits the Army and Navy CCC camps or old age pensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.P.A
Army
Navy
C.C.C
Oldest European Assembly the Althing of Iceland
The Althing is Europe's oldest parliament, convened in 930 and functioning continuously except for 1798 to 1874. It marks a historic cornerstone in Icelandic governance and parliamentary tradition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Althing
Kingdom of
Iceland
Europe
Sale of Richfield Service Station stock in bulk
Notice states Robert Neuman will sell by bulk sale to Hugo Reich all stock and equipment of Richfield Service Station No. 13 at Santa Fe Avenue and Shafter Highway Shafter Kern California. Purchase price to be paid July 18 1940 at 9:00 AM. Vendor address City of Shafter Kern County California. Seller Robert Neuman and Hugo Reich as buyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF California
Robert Neuman
Hugo Reich
Richfield Service Station
Santa Fe Avenue
Shafter Hy
Shafter
County of Kern
Shafter Highway
Notice of Intention to Sell Alcoholic Beverages
Notice dated July 1 1940 states a proposal to sell alcoholic beverages fifteen days after posting at premises on Santa Fe Road two miles NW of Shafter Kern County California. It applies to a 1940 On Sale Beer License with protest rights to the State Board of Equalization Sacramento California. The premises are currently licensed for sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe Road
Shafter
Kern County
California
State Board of Equalization
Sacramento
Child knocked from tricycle in county camp hit and run
The small son of the Martin Lamberts in the county camp was knocked from his tricycle by a hit and run driver last Friday but was uninjured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Lamberts
Trucker Killed in Collision at Seventh Standard
Floyd Markt, 29, died when his dump truck was struck by a locomotive at Seventh Standard road and 99 highway. He was hauling gravel to the Shafter Oil field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Markt
Seventh Standard Road
99 Highway
Shafter
Painting At Shafter High School
Interior woodwork at Shafter High School is being painted this week as rooms and equipment are prepared for use next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Delinquent Tax List for City of Shafter 1940 Notice
Public notice by Frank G. Shaw Tax Collector of Shafter listing delinquent taxes for 1939-40 fiscal year with sale scheduled for July 1 1940. Names and amounts shown include Latta F F Oore D C Eufeld Henry H Stewart W W Vaughn Leah Aughn S A Camp A R Duehren D A Flaming Robert L Gates Peter Goertzen L H Hitchcock M E Hitchcock W H Hitchcock and others with totals and penalties. Notary confirmed June 25 1940.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Frank G. Shaw
City of
California
Ste Latta
F. F
Oore
D. C
Eufeld
Henry H
Potter Tract
James
Goertzen
Peter
Hitchcock
L.H
M. E
WM. H
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Shonghai
Roy Rogers
Ranger and
the Lady
Wendy Barrie
George Brent
Virginia Bruce
Lucille Bal
Shafter Recap Tire Shop
Clarence Rice
Bakersfield Hospital
British Motors
Dobry
Shannon
Skinner
Snedeker
Steen
Cowboy Tommy
Tousey
Williamson
D’aulnoy
Aulnoy
Harris
Kelcher
Earhart
Steffens
Detisny
Eaton
Vendee
Veel Pay
F. E. Manuel
Kern
Pennzoil
Auto Laundry Jackson and Lordo
H. B. Duerksen
Phone Mage
Home Appliance Co
Emil Stoller
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