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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1941
Page
5
Multiple rental notices describe living accommodations including a four room house with bath and furnished water and gas range. Listings mention Clyde Bell contact and a rate around $20 monthly near the Experimental farm.
A Shafter Farm Center session focused on control methods for the cotton dauber led by Gordon Smith of the University of California. The event featured a motion picture by Henry Longfellow and committee reports, with refreshments served. The meeting closed the year, with a possible July social and regular meetings resuming in August or September.
Eugene Ford reports steady growth in the Shafter army recreation and U S C fund with about $900 deposited in the Bank of America Shafter branch recreation account. The drive continues through month end and will be highlighted Sunday with a benefit barbecue and horse show at Bill Lachenmaier ranch north of town.
North Kern Fish and Game Association to plant young pheasants in the north Kern county district on July 2 under president Wray Phillips. The group will seek input from local sportsmen on placement and invites interested persons to contact Phillips in Wasco to assist with the planting.
A Shafter community drive for the Salvation Army raised 506 dollars. At a Tuesday committee meeting led by Herb Schirmer, 80 percent was designated for the local Army district including Shafter, while 20 percent remained with the overall committee for charitable purposes.
The War Department explained that lower average pilot experience among army air corps trainees will raise the rate of flying accidents as training for modern aerial combat intensifies. Officials stressed that accident rates, not totals, measure proficiency and highlighted high instructor loss due to personnel errors amid rapid expansion.
London report says a German prisoner of war wearing gray flannel trousers and a cap boarded a bus between Gainsborough and Sheffield and asked for a return ticket. Conductor Colin Spittle, warned of a prisoner at large, alerted his driver but did not act further as the bus continued on.
In Fort Wayne Indiana a check for two dollars measuring one and seven eighths by three quarters inch was sent as payment of a wager. The stamp sized check was produced by photostatic copy of the regular check. The loser was Richard B Alleman of Hanover Pennsylvania.
Dana and Simon form an insurance firm after taking over a company. A dispute over a contract clause leads Dana to a desperate plan. Attorney Davis visits, offering to settle for 2000 dollars to destroy the contract rather than risk a costly suit.
Camp Huntington opened with 26 Kern County Boy Scouts arriving by chartered bus and Morot Launch to spend weeks at Huntington Lake. Camp director Paxton split scouts into two troops with four patrols, tents, and canoes for afternoon recreation. The Piute and Mono troops organize under Dale Cunningham and Paxton respectively, with patrol rosters listed. By season end, 70 boys have signed to participate, with 15 returning to the valley.
Four days before July 1, graders at the Lachenmaier Brothers potato shed wore sweaters despite warm weather. Coffee was served to shed workers by the Lachenmaiers. An instrument measured temperature with high precision, noting unusual early summer conditions in Shafter.
Mennonite Brethren Church at 400 Kern presents a Sunday program with 9:30 Sunday school two departments and classes for all ages. 11:00 German language sermon Gottes Plan mit einem Gerettenten and 11:10 English sermon God’s Way of Salvation. Evening events include 6:30 prayer circle 6:45 Christian Fellowship with missionary Miss Bifflere and 7:45 singing and 8:00 Shaddai sermon. Wednesdays 8:00 midweek prayer. First Baptist Church on Lordo Road with Lord Jackson minister holds services at regular hours plus special hour services emphasizing old time religion.
The Wasco Christian Science Society meets at Sixth and E streets for Sunday 11 a.m. services with 10 a.m. Sunday school and Wednesday 8 p.m. gatherings on the first Wednesday each month. The Bible lesson topic is Christian Science with a Golden Text from Isaiah and readings from John and Mary Baker Eddy's Science and Health.
The St John’s Catholic Church at 9th and Broadway streets Wasco lists Rev Owen McMullan as pastor. Sunday Mass runs from 7 to 9 a.m with confessions on Saturday at 7 p.m.
Mesdames Frank Russell and George Gaede with their young sons attended a homecoming party Tuesday at the Nelson Maternity home in Wasco.
Three San Francisco physicians have developed a portable kit to perform battlefield blood transfusions. The device enables rapid blood transfer in combat zones, potentially saving lives by simplifying procedures and reducing equipment needs for medics on the ground.
Harold Unruh of Shafer Kern County California announces a sale of all stock in trade of Shell Service Shafter California including oils gasoline grease and auto accessories. The sale is scheduled for July 3 1941 at 10 90 am at the offices of A Peter Channeson Shafter California with transfer effective July 1 1941. Notarization by M L Thomas Notary Public Kern County California confirms execution.
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