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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1944
Page
7
Government ration notices explain validity periods for meat and sugar stamps through 1945 and June 21 for gasoline coupons. It warns car owners to immediately write their license numbers on all gasoline coupons to prevent black market use.
J R Bright head of Kern County AAA urges standard fireguards to protect standing grain and forage under the 1944 conservation program. Farm loans and non-recourse credit aid grain and wheat producers, while farm workers retain draft status under the Tydings amendment. Marketing spreads urged to avoid jams. limited feed wheat supply available via the CCC. Alcohol diversion rules limit fruit use under War Food Order No 69, with hardship relief possible. Prisoners of war to receive 15000 pounds of seeds via Red Cross funded by WFA.
Among the first female garbagemen in San Antonio Texas is Mrs Catherine Bailee 27 wife of a soldier and mother of a seven month old girl She says the job will be fun and wages are four dollars a day.
Virginia War ren of Miami Florida aged 19 receives the Miss Pan-America 1944 trophy after being chosen in a Miami contest.
Herbert Spitzer from Bakersfield spends the summer in Cuyama working on his brother Oscar's farm. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Preszler and family of Bakersfield were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Adolf Kirschenmann. The University of California Berkeley campus spans 530 acres overlooking San Francisco Bay.
Miss Rudean Lockard of Bakersfield, formerly of Shafter, and Capt. Don Hogan of Minter Field married Sunday at St Joseph’s Church in East Bakersfield. A reception followed in the El Tejon hotel Spanish ballroom.
Mrs. Percy Abbott hosted a third birthday gathering for Wanda Pearl Abbott. Attendees included Dolly Cook Wanda Cook Betty Scratt Caro Roberts Emma Mansfield Glenda Mansfield June Barnett Joy Barnett Patricia Huggett Carolyn Huggett Shirley Curten Donald Curten Lorraine Curten Leroy Curten and mothers Mrs. Amanda Curten Mrs. C W Burke Mrs W A Connell Mrs Don Huggett and Mrs E W Curten. Children enjoyed games ice cream cake and punch.
The record notes the Sonoma Mission was the last to be established by the padres, dating to 1823, marking the end of their mission-building era in the region.
Etta Lee Leach 55 resident of Shafter for eight years died Sunday at home. Born in Texas, she is survived by husband John Leach two sons Lawrence and Clarence two sisters Mrs Nancy Sapp and Mrs Malissa Bowles a brother Wm Kitchens and two grandchildren Virginia and George Thomas Leach. Funeral Thursday at Zen Zen Funeral Home with Rev T C Mouser officiating. Interment Shafter Cemetery. Also a son Tommy born May 28 to Oscar and Mrs Richards at Shafter Maternity Home weighing nine pounds.
Richard Schaeffer, a member of the Merchant Marine, spent the weekend in Shafter with his mother, Mrs. Rose Schaeffer.
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