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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1947
Page
2
Eva Risnel a teacher at Richland School was summoned to Los Angeles Thursday due to her father Andrew Risnel suffering a stroke. A report Friday stated he was very low in condition.
Huntington Park residents Elmer Chinberg and C G Lindquist hosts discuss rising illegal car sales. E K Grant warns buyers to demand the pink slip for title transfer, noting stolen or unpaid cars move through multiple hands ending with the purchaser as the loser.
The Junior Women’s Club met Wednesday with a successful program by guest Mrs. Fred Henry Junior of Bakersfield. Attendees included Mesdames Burley Dooley Wesley Linda Jack Hare Gregory Malory Dan Weitz Lorn Bryant Marvin Lane Dan Bledsoe Harry Vannatta and Johnnie Brannan. Plans announced for a March 15 formal dinner dance at the Spanish Ballroom Hotel Elain and a late March image sale. The Senior Club is invited to the next meeting featuring a high school Glee Club. Mrs. Harold Schnidt presided.
Kern County mobile X-ray unit will visit Shafter March 24 to 26 to X-ray high school students and the public for tuberculosis. Ruth Rhoads, the high school nurse, announced the effort. This first year the service is offered to schools, with Shafter among the first visited. High school students to be X-rayed Monday, public Tuesday and Wednesday.
Rev and Mrs W H Brown of South Gate will serve as guest ministers at the Pentecostal Church of God in Shafter on Sunday. Rev Brown will preach at the church during the service that day.
The Third Western States Certified Seed Potato Test Plot Field days are set by the State Department of Agriculture for March 6 and 7 at test plots near Oceanside in San Diego County California. Officials from nine western states and two Canadian provinces will inspect about 50 acres of potato samples. Several hundred people are expected to attend. Seed potatoes were planted in late November and early December to detect virus diseases and help growers select the best seed and divert poorer lots to nonseed uses.
Recent weekend visitors at Pismo Beach were Mr. and Mrs. Roland Mettler and their family.
Despite far below zero temperatures Kiwanis International forms four clubs in Alaska and the Yukon Territory meeting weekly to plan broad activities. New chapters arise at Fairbanks Anchorage Juneau and Whitehorse Yukon Territory marking the first cross border expansion for Kiwanis.
Austin Wikoff was taken to Cottage Hospital in Oildale for minor surgery on Friday and returned home the same day.
Mr and Mrs W C Grose visited Pismo Beach for several days last week enjoying the coastal town and its amenities.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry F. Mettler are on a trip to South Dakota to visit friends and relatives.
Mrs Irma Moore of Huntington Park and Mrs Nora Coker of Santa Monica visited their mother Mrs Clara E Thomas and her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Harry Paslay for the weekend at their home.
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