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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
3
Social Realm Variety outlines requested summer itineraries of Richland elementary staff. Many will travel to New York, San Francisco, British Columbia, Oregon, or remain at home, with several attending universities and summer schools.
Miss Willene Camp daughter of Mr and Mrs S A Camp Shafter and Donald Milton Hart son of Mr and Mrs T J Hart Buttonwillow were married Friday night at the Little Chapel of Sacred Memories Bakersfield in a ceremony by Rev Grover Ralston. Guests included Harold Hart Lou Rose Bob Ulrich and many others. They will live at 1725 Baker Street Bakersfield.
A group of P Y P A girls met at Mrs Harold Brumbaughs home to organize a sewing club with Mrs Brumbaugh as president and Mrs Norman Potts as secretary treasurer. Mrs Richard Wood was named reporter and Muriel Kroeker and Dela Walker to care for sewing materials. Meetings planned each Wednesday.
Mrs F J Schierlmann and daughter Elnor hosted a Saturday night gathering in honor of Miss Maxine Moore, a bride to be. Guests played games, watched gifts opened, and prizes went to Frances Wilson and Miss Moore. Refreshments were served to listed ladies and Misses Irene and Frances Wilson plus Cecilia and Myrtle Haag.
Mrs Bessie Thomas was elected president of the Ladies Aid of the Union Congregational church at a meeting at Mrs Martha Hampton's home. Officers include Mrs G L Starrh as vice president Mrs O E Wiedmann secretary and Mrs G Linguist treasurer. The group planned plans for the coming year and announced that committee chairs would be named later. A potluck luncheon preceded the final meeting of the season.
Miss Lorraine Stewart became the bride of Boyce Parris in a May 29 Las Vegas ceremony. Witness was Miss Rachel Mouser. Mrs. Parris is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W W Stewart and Mr and Mrs C L Parris. The couple plan to make their home at a Grande.
Miss Lola Mae Bynum and Jim Parker united in marriage in a noon ceremony in Las Vegas Nevada. They were accompanied by Mr and Mrs Jim Hindes Carter. The couple plans to reside in Shafter.
Shafter high school teachers announced summer plans including trips through Oregon and Washington by Principal and Mrs. E. P. Jones. Several staff will attend summer schools at UC Los Angeles, USC, or travel to San Francisco, Berkeley, Salinas, and New York, with others supervising recreation or touring the coast.
Sub Debs gathered 14 dollars for Red Cross at a Saturday event. The amount was reported at a Monday meeting held at Miss June Lachenmaier’s home. Attendees included Misses Lachenmaier Norma Fox Mary Catherine Lockard Tommie Lockard and Eleanor Reimer.
Remodeling of the Shafter Farm Workers clinic includes a drug room with sink and drainboard, a glassed porch, linoleum floors, venetian blinds, and a new cooling system. A knee action sink aids patient care as 25 to 30 people use the morning clinic daily. A monthly well baby conference is held, and eligibility requires agricultural background and aid eligibility with repayment possible to the Farm Security Administration.
Ruth Lewis and Charles Clayton received 30 days each in the county road camp after appearing before Judge H A Rightmire on drunk charges. Mrs Lewis drew an extra 30 days for failing to leave the county after a prior court order.
Luxembourg, the small duchy between Belgium France and Germany, is ruled by Grand Duchess Charlotte who strengthened her position with 66 811 votes to 16 885 for a republican alternative. The nation, long called the Gibraltar of the North, sits atop fortified hills and has a historic ruling line Siegfried through the fifteenth century.
The rickshaw originated in the Far East due to Private Jonathan Goble of the U S Marines. While serving on the Susquehanna he conceived the idea and later promoted it in Japan after leaving the service. The first rickshaw appeared in Japan in 1867 and spread across the region.
Joseph C Fayder of Jersey City swallowed a five inch toothbrush while brushing at 2 30 pm as his son John aged 15 months spoke Daddy The father was surprised and the toothbrush slipped down his throat An X ray showed no danger and no immediate removal planned The boy has not spoken since the incident.
New Zealand’s dried fungus industry, once boosted by a Chinese buyer Chew Chong from New Plymouth who paid settlers a pound per pound of fungus, now faces a sharp drop as demand from China wanes and the market cools. The sector’s fortunes fluctuated with prices rising to seven to eight cents a pound before the current downturn.
Three recent flights into the stratosphere near Beltsville Maryland used tandem rubber balloons to lift an observer robot and instruments. The missions, a National Geographic Society and National Bureau of Standards joint effort, measured ozone concentrations and transmitted data to ground stations.
Dr. Lee de Forest predicts future warfare includes radio guided bomber planes that fly unmanned to targets. He cites tests in the United States and Europe and explains a remaining plane could return home after release. He also describes a television facsimile system to transmit maps of enemy positions to headquarters.
A note advises motorists, especially one eyed drivers, on removing stuck headlight bulbs. Wiggling the bulb up and down can break corrosion. A lamp glove aids removal, and coating sockets with coldiodial graphite during installation prevents corrosion and sticking.
Police in Argentina report the seizure of Arturo Placeras and Agati Galiffi at Rosario and capture of Jose Manuel Paz known as Capitan and Antonio Di Santo with accomplices. The ring, once dictating counterfeit schemes, is said to have reorganized the Mafia across South America and preyed on society.
The new underground cemetery in Buenos Aires features circular crypts and a central garden. It will hold 18,000 coffins with sunlit surface gardens above. Authorities report a waiting list of 7,000 for accommodations.
The Italian South Tyrol in the Alps borders Austria and links Italy to central Europe via the Brenner Pass. Post 1919 peace shifts moved 100 miles north, transferring Tren to and Bolzano region with over 200000 Germans. Italy pursued Italianization including language, placenames, and signage.
A research program uses airborne spiders to study crop pest dispersal. P A Glick notes spiders travel long distances with favorable air currents, six times as common as winged moths and butterflies, and three times more numerous than beetles and weevils. Immature spiders often ride first, releasing or reeling silk to rise or end the flight as winds push north in spring and south in fall.
Durable dull grays browns and buffs are being replaced by brighter youthful colors for walls roofs and trim developed in the last decade. Rose red or blue green asphalt shingles appear on roofs, walls show whites blues reds and unusual shades like coral beige chocolate and hunter green. An exhibit model features lemon yellow clapboard walls a blue shingle roof and light yellow trim.
The Kellogg family nursemaid Babe the fawn deer found three years ago near starvation. Raised at the A H Kellogg ranch in Yakima Washington the doe grew tame enough to enter the Kellogg house. The children fed Babe with cow milk until she recovered.
First Mennonite Church announces pastor J P Glanzer leads Sunday services from 10 to 12 with Bible study, sermons by Rev A Becker from Huntington Beach, junior and senior Endeavor in the evening, and a June 10 start for a two week Vacation Bible School for ages up to high school. St John’s Catholic Church offers Mass 7:30 to 9 and Saturday confessions at 7. Wasco.
The Mennonite Brethren Church at 400 Kern lists a 9 30 Sunday school with two departments, 11am German and 11 10am American sermons, 6 45pm choir, 7pm Christian Fellowship and Bible study, 8pm evangelistic services, 8pm midweek prayer. Vacation Bible school starts Monday at 9 36am with adult class and a Sunday 2 30pm meeting for teachers.
Christian Science Society a branch of The Mother Church in Boston holds Sunday services at 11 a.m. and Sunday school at 10 a.m. at Corner Sixth and E streets, Wasco.
Mr and Mrs J P Harris joined Art Regier and Jim Stone for a Bakersfield get-together of Kern County Odd Fellows on Saturday evening at Il Trovatore.
Salvation Army fund drive in the Shafter district advances satisfactorily, reported yesterday by N. L. Good who leads the effort. Local committee chairman is T. V. Little.
Mrs and Mrs C H Perry welcomed an eight pound son born yesterday at a Wasco maternity home.
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