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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1945
Page
5
Mr and Mrs B P Thorsell left Shafter on Wednesday to return to their home in Portland Oregon after spending two weeks at the home of Mr and Mrs J Hemingson Mrs Thorsell is a sister of Hemingson.
Pvt. Bob Nikkel, paratrooper, writes his parents Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Nikkel that he is due to have the cast removed from his leg. He broke it six weeks ago during his last practice jump at Fort Benning Georgia.
Pvt. Dewey A. Wood and Pfc. Severa A. Lopez, Shafter youths, serve with the 362nd Infantry in the Fifth Army campaign in Italy. The regiment broke the Gothic Line, crossed the Sieve River, reached Mount Calvi, and captured 400 Germans in an 11 day push. Activated at Camp White Oregon in 1942, the unit trained at Oran and Italy, joining the 91st Division in the drive toward the Arno River.
More than one hundred Democrats from Tulare Kern and Kings counties gathered at the Hotel Tulare to plan shared action by the Tenth District Democratic Central Committees. They endorsed the Heisiner resolution calling Federal control of water and cement, and appointed three delegates from each committee to back pro Roosevelt candidates in state and national elections.
Community notice promotes 12 flowering plants with a one year subscription to the Shafter Press from March 8 to March 31, 1945. Choices include petunias, snapdragons, English daisies, stocks, and asters. Get yours today.
The War Manpower Commission urges public cooperation with a nationwide midnight curfew directive from Justice Byrnes effective Monday February 26. It lists night clubs theaters dance halls and many entertainment venues as affected, with exemptions for meal service venues and non profit military sponsored activities such as USO and stage door canteens.
Government orders reduce available meat per person to about 125 pounds in 1945 from 140 earlier. Federal inspected packers must set aside 60 percent of choice beef, 70 percent of utility, and 80 percent of canner and cutter grades. Pork dressed is 50 percent set aside for the Government. About 10 percent of dressed chicken is reserved for military and hospital use. canned poultry also set aside for Army and overseas needs.
Robert Wiseman outlined Red Cross services for service members on home and front lines and for their families. He cited aid with personal problems, travel funds, and home contact, plus life safety training, London furlough hotels, and 3 million kit bags. he urged support for the Red Cross fund drive.
The War Production Board report shows farm machinery production lagging in the second half of 1944, with total output down compared to 1944 figures when excluding wheel tractors, repair parts, and attachments. The decline signals tighter supply for farmers as the war economy shifts.
Bob Devlin, winner of the Lions Club public speaking contest, presented a talk on What My Parents Mean to Me. Tom Letizia of Shafter High School faculty was inducted by Holger Hansen. Hansen’s team led the attendance and membership contest by six points after Week One. Eight members attended the sub district meeting in Taft with dinner featuring a whole roast pig. Dinner speakers included Supervisor A. W. Noon and Wiley Peterson, Maricopa Schools superintendent.
Private Melvin C L Barnes 19, son of Mr and Mrs C M Barnes of Shafter, recently promoted to corporal at Walla Walla Army Air Field Washington. He trains as a B 24 Liberator gunner with a combat crew formed here after specialist schooling and final training. Before Army service he was engaged in farming.
Wartime call stresses military and industrial needs for fats and oils far surpass civilian use. Declining supplies of lard and flaxseed threaten essential oils, with 1945 target to salvage 250 million pounds of used fat to close a deficit.
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