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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
7
Religious education lesson notes list subjects and scripture texts for June 30. The material is provided under permission from the International Network of Religious Education and includes edified content for classroom use.
A sermon on Jonah 3 1 10 and 4 11 emphasizes God granting a second chance to Jonah and Nineveh. It contrasts merciful revival with selfish human concern and calls believers to pray for renewed outreach and personal witness to win souls to Christ.
A religious supplication asking for divine grace to choose the right and remain faithful to the highest good. The text emphasizes loyalty to moral truth and steadfastness in living uprightly.
Local notes advocate increased tree planting in Shafter. City Clerk Frank Shaw explains recent small trees lean south and east due to prevailing wind. three stakes per tree recommended over tying to provide lasting support as they grow.
An onlooker recalls a chance seating with Louretta Adams at a Mexican colony Tabor meeting. Adams is identified as a congress candidate on the Communist party ticket and described as secretary of the Workers Alliance and former Kern county organizer. The piece quotes Communist party lines asserting democratic gains and opposition to subversion.
A spinster school teacher with imaginative nerves finds church attendance relaxes her. She sits straight and rests hands while feet on floor, believing the church offers relief. A clergy member notes the odd link between Sunday services and coke bar rushes, while a bellhop observes gendered attitudes toward hotel accommodations.
On a Shafter California note the author claims 25 percent of patrons are heels with 90 percent from Los Angeles and asks why locals or patrons struggle to relate to those they see as superior. The piece cites the phrase about a leader’s greatness measured by subordinates’ view and queries Kimberlina road signage near Shafter highway.
Scientists note plants manufacture vitamins for their own needs not for human benefit. Professor D R Hoagland says plants also require inorganic elements similar to animals, with differences in needs such as iodine cobalt and selenium and arsenic toxicity potential. Climate soil and fertilizer affect plant nutrition and animal feed value.
George C. Mann of the California State Department of Education told a UCLA audience that California has 125,000 illiterates with 30,000 studying to improve. He noted illiteracy ranks about twenty ninth among states due to continual in-migration despite strong literacy and Americanization programs. He said adult education must be practical for nearly all applicants and joins the UC Los Angeles summer faculty July 1 to teach courses on the topic.
Clyde Grant, an American engineer, visits Shafter after a 17 month stay in Barquisimeto Venezuela described as 75 years behind the US in many respects yet advanced in aviation and Coca Cola distribution. He notes daily flights, a modern bottling plant, high prices for imports, health concerns, and a strong upper class with Catholic influence. He heads to California for an aqueduct job.
The city of Biggs in Butte County announced it is entirely free of bonded indebtedness, marking a clean fiscal slate for city finances. No outstanding bonds or related liabilities were reported.
Merchants walloped Lost Hills 15 to 2 in seven innings at Shafter on the Richland diamond. Ray Mettler and Billy Lachenmaier homered, Lachenmaier added a triple, Tex Campbell tripled and drove in a run. Ralph Lachenmaier pitched seven strong innings, allowing one hit and no earned runs as Lost Hills managed a single in the seventh.
The Kern County Cow Testing association lists 13 high producers for May as Woods Stone and Nell J. Morgan Shafter herds have 11 and 2 cows respectively. Cows must exceed 60 pounds butterfat to qualify, with five Stone cows and one Morgan cow among high producing heifers over 40 pounds. Overall 2,850 cows were tested and a Wasco creamery Holstein achieved 91.1 pounds.
Jack Shore of Shafter was elected president of the Pilgrim Fellowship of Kern County at a Congregational summer camp concluded at Greenhorn last week. He will serve as an ex officio delegate to a state fellowship conference in San Francisco from August 13 to 20.
Wake Island begins an agricultural program to feed 50 plus people using a well equipped tank farm. Torrey Lyons of Stockton, UC May 1938 graduate in botany, leads the effort despite the island’s lack of fertile soil for food crops.
A party was held for Robert Neuman and Sons field ware house and office staff Friday evening to celebrate the end of the season run of spuds for the Neuman and Sons concern.
The Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for the senior radio electrician position in the Sixth Air Navigation Region of the Civil Aeronautics Authority. Duty locations include California Arizona Nevada and Utah. Full information available from John Roskam at Shafter post office.
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