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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1945
Page
3
A Navy enlistment notice reports a son of NERS MATE entering naval service after time served in the Army Air Forces. Details on ship or rank are not specified in the readable portion.
A fragment notes a student selection at Shafter High School for the tradition of school leadership. The brief indicates a campus event naming a new pioneer representative.
Jewel W. Rose Jr. of Shafter serves at the U S Naval Air Station in Honolulu in the chaplain's department. His parents Jewel W. Rose Sr. live in Shafter. He attended Shafter High School before enlisting in April 1944 and has been overseas ten months.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors unanimously resolves to support San Francisco Bay Area as the permanent World Peace Center or as a conference site for UNCIO related offices. The city pledges full cooperation with the United Nations Organization and provides to delegations copies of the resolution.
Technician 5th Grade Robert F. Scott of Shafter is stationed at the U S Army General and Convalescent Hospital in Camp Carson Colorado. The hospital offers outdoor recreation trips and pre occupational training to help convalescents choose vocational training after returning to civilian life. Scott served in Normandy Germany and northern France and holds the ETO ribbon the Purple Heart and the Good Conduct ribbon. A brother Yeoman 2/c Chester Scott is stationed in San Diego.
The California Taxpayers Association released Ten Years of County Spending showing 1943-44 per capita expenditures by category: general government 4.54 dollars health and sanitation 1.93 dollars highways and bridges 3.69 dollars protections to persons and property 4.94 dollars corrections and charities 19.23 dollars and recreation education and miscellaneous 2.66 dollars.
Seaman First Class William B. Hancock, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Hancock of Shafter, earned a Bronze Star to his Asiatic Pacific ribbon for bombardment duty aboard a heavy cruiser during the Iwo Jima operation. The ship fired hundreds of tons of shells against enemy positions near Tokyo in the Volcano Islands.
S/Sgt. Dewitt Deming returned to Shafter on Monday to visit his uncle E. K. Grant after spending two years overseas with the Air Corps in the European theater. Before deployment he worked as a fruit and vegetable inspector.
Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Lindquist entertain guests Sunday. Among the visitors are Mr. and Mrs. Vincent A. Chindberg of Los Angeles.
Fred Grether of Stockton spent three days in Shafter last week on business. He is connected with the Paramount Mfg. Company.
Cuba is the biggest and most populated island among the West Indian group, noted for its size and population within the Caribbean region.
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