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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1942
Page
6
Officials at Minter Field urge civilians to report any military aircraft accidents immediately to local police or law enforcement. Reports should include location, crew status, and assistance given to injured personnel.
Gordon L. Smith of Shafter writes California Cotton Insects a bulletin published by the University of California Berkeley. The document outlines major and minor cotton pests in the state, their damage, development, and control methods learned from years at the Shafter experiment farm with US Department of Agriculture and George Harrison noted. Copies are available from Bakersfield extension office or county farm adviser in Bakersfield.
G. E. Gordon of the University of California Extension outlines eleven methods to boost milk output toward a 1942 goal of 125 billion pounds. Strategies include more grain, heavier summer feeding, continued roughage, increased milking, eight week dry periods, cows calving every 12 months, good calving condition, gentle handling, comfortable housing, ample water, and more milking cows. The target is seven percent above last year with only three percent more cows available, urging full use of practical production methods.
Robert Brewer Anderson of Shafter is sworn in as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps at Minter Field California. He received a 30 day furlough and will report for preliminary training at Santa Ana on March 28 before undergoing primary basic and advanced flying training.
A hunter named Daniel Hutchison aged 26 was critically wounded when his shotgun discharged after his blind ing dog stepped on the trigger. The incident occurred as the weapon was laid on the ground in a hunting area striking him in the chest.
Dr James Mahoney treated a gunshot wound at the Clearing Industrial hospital while two robbers and two youths loitered inside He said the bandits forced him to phone police and promised not to alert authorities for 15 minutes in exchange for his word of honor to keep quiet.
In Chicago an 81 year old accountant, visiting his brother-in-law, drew a pistol from a cigar box and thwarted a holdup at Flood's liquor store. He fired, wounding one assailant identified as Nicholas Condes. Roche and the wounded robber were hospitalized.
Eleven year old Russell Scott, left behind on the Norvell farm in Uniontown Pennsylvania, hunter with a BB gun. He boasted a plump pheasant he shot and killed after it fell to the ground.
Mrs. Gomer Codling of Ipava Illinois found her hen laid a double yolk and a third soft shell egg inside the same shell during a bake week inspection. The curious find underscores a rise in demand for eggs amid higher living costs and national efforts to increase production.
A Baltimore man was charged with disorderly conduct after a street skit involving a coin trick and a deaf card reading routine. A police drop of a cent piece led to a confrontation, and the man paid $25 in fines and costs.
Fragmentary note references a March 8 lesson on scripture and conduct. It mentions Bert, Iiincentonal, and sto Batication in unclear phrasing, suggesting a school or church study session with lines about etiquette and religious instruction.
A 1942 lesson outlines why people drink using Genesis and Proverbs themes. It presents seven motives including sociability happiness responsibility avoidance sorrow poverty satisfaction hope and play with biblical guidance toward a Christian alternative.
Shafter audiences will see the Howard Lindsay and Russell Crouse comedy in an Oscar Serlin production starring Dorothy Gish and Louis Calhern. Clarence Day’s true stories of a New York family in the 1880s are dramatized on the Bakersfield Fox Theatre stage with a 16 member cast. The show runs Wednesday afternoon and evening March 25 under Brettaigne Windust, with a strong company including Hanson Towne and Violet Holliday.
Public auction set for March 13 1942 at 3 10 PM at Bakersfield County Courthouse front entrance to sell Lot 38 and Lot 37 in Tract 1058 Kern County California to satisfy deed of trust held by The San Francisco Bank on Adelbert and Minnie Stearns property recorded January 13 1940. Also notice of Board of Supervisors purchase intention March 9 1942 for Kern County road yard parcel 132 feet by 1.91 acres in Township 28 South Range 25 East Mount Diablo.
The Farallon Islands remain under strict control with no city or county authority able to land without explicit authorization from the lighthouse superintendent. This policy enforces limited access to the remote San Francisco area.
The Richland School District of Shafter invites sealed bids by 8 PM March 20 1942 for two Gillig De Luxe Model No 429 64 school bus chassis with 230 inch wheelbase 9.00x20 Budd wheels and 101 HP engine. Bids must meet California Education Board requirements and will be opened at Richland School. The district may reject all bids and waive bid defects.
Acme Breweries reports a record 24.74 percent of California beer sales in 1941 from its two Los Angeles and San Francisco plants. CEO J S Foto credits aggressive newspaper ads and a sales forecast driven budget, noting 20 421 800 gallons sold in 1941 and a bottling expansion in San Francisco.
Local members of the California Teachers' Association consulting group will meet next Tuesday at 7:30 P M in the sewing room of Richland School to discuss a war policy for California Schools. Discussion leader will be R Eugene Ford Kern County group chairman.
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