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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1940
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Edwin F Bender welcomed a son named Frederick August weighing seven pounds born last Thursday at the Strauss Maternity home. Mrs Margaret Hetz returned home Monday from Bakersfield hospital after a two week stay.
The Merchants lose a 12 inning game to Belridge 2 to 0 on the Picha diamond. Carberry hits a home run for Belridge and the visitors add one more in the frame to seal the victory. Ralph Lachenmaier faces Haney as Taft’s schoolboy pitcher. Merchants threaten in the ninth through eleventh innings but fail to score. Ray Mettler and Billy Lachenmaier make solid plays in the outfield. Harvey Gaede and Pete Duke contribute infield defense.
Calder and family spent the weekend at their mountain cabin near Jack Ranch. Mrs J W Mayer visits in San Francisco for the fair. Fern Calvert and son Tommie visit Calvert brother in Inyo. Rose Huston summers with a sister in Coalinga. Geo Grimes and Frances return from vacation touring Boulderdam Grand Canyon Mexico and other places. J E Haag and Myrtle attended a niece's funeral in Uplands.
The flax seed harvest in California rose from 419000 to 2715000 dollars, a gain of roughly six hundred percent, signaling a sharp rise in farm value for this six year old commercial enterprise.
U S weather records show winters shortening and summers lengthening over 80 years. The growing season expanded from 188 to 206 days in the Middle Atlantic area, moving crops like cotton and corn 225 miles north. Temperature rise began around 1875 with highs above the 100 year average since 1898.
Edinburgh The registrar general of Scotland rejects the belief that midnight is foreboding for births and deaths. Analysis of 6055 deaths shows 48.8 percent occur before noon and 51.6 percent after noon, with 50.8 percent between six AM and six PM versus 49.2 percent after six PM.
Governor Leverett Saltonstall and five Republicans announce plans to proclaim November 28 as Thanksgiving in Massachusetts. The state will observe the holiday on the traditional last Thursday of November despite Roosevelt’s nationwide shift to an earlier week.
London reports a trailer mounted gas works enabling a car to travel about 100 miles on anthracite carbon monoxide at roughly $1. The fuel is produced by burning anthracite in a small mobile unit with paraffin aiding ignition. The car runs smoothly on the gas but with lower efficiency.
Marine fossils found in the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert indicate a former arm of the sea once covered northern Arizona. The region is over 6,000 feet above sea level and more than 500 miles from the nearest salt water, the Gulf of California.
Mrs May Woods aged 65 is killed in Seattle when she stoops to pick up a dollar bill and a streetcar strike decapitates her. investigation details unavailable.
Funeral services for Willis R. Jones 41 will be held tomorrow at 3 PM at the Jansen home with Rev H D Wiebe of the Mennonite Brethren church officiating Interment will be in Shafter cemetery Jones died yesterday at a Bakersfield hospital after several weeks illness He lived in Shafter district on the W H Hitchcock ranches He was born at Fort Sill Oklahoma Survived by his wife Anna Schultz Jones and a sister Mrs Beulah Smith of Pueblo Colorado
Vallejo reports a severe housing shortage as Mare Island navy yard expands. Officials estimate about 9000 men will be employed by August 1, underscoring the need for housing, utilities, and services to accommodate workers.
City of Shafter votes to establish described streets as Kern County highway per 1940 Board resolution. Emergency measure aims to enable WPA sidewalk curb and gutter construction without delay. Publication required in Shafter Press with council members’ votes.
Shafter merchants will meet an All-Star softball team on the Wasco diamond tomorrow evening. Locals will then travel to Lost Hills Monday for another tussle with the pilers there.
Military aircraft including bombers pursuit planes interceptors naval patrol bombers reconnaissance ships and basic and advanced trainers are being produced in California factories for national defense.
Regular session began 10 10 A M with all members present. Minutes approved and published. Payroll and large claims approved. Resignation of Ralph A Ager accepted and Adele Rice named Acting Welfare Director. Various actions include airport receipts, stenographic hire, fingerprinting study, alien applications, and sale of surplus farm equipment. Budget items, licenses, road petitions, and bond sales noted. Board adjourned after recommissioning duties and committee appointments.
Eugene Ford announces a revised eightball schedule for the Shafter summer recreation program. The list includes matches from June 14 through July 3 with teams such as Kiwanis Jr Federal Camp Mexican Colony Buttonwillow Hi Y Rio Bravo South Shafter Feather Merchants and locations at Richland diamond and Buttonwillow. First games start at 7 30 p m with second games at 8 35 p m and Buttonwillow games at 8 00 p m.
Fire crews from Shafter Wasco and Bakersfield tackled a 25 acre blaze on Kern County Land Company property north of town. Dry grass under the alfalfa fed the flames.
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