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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1945
Page
6
Bert Cook Cub Scoutmaster of Shafter led the Bakersfield area meeting with J W Gwin. Seven Cub Scout Packs from Bakersfield and nearby areas attended the meeting.
Shafter residents who attended a Christian Endeavor conference in Bakersfield last weekend include Rev. and Mrs. Chris Ummel and Gwendolyn, Willis Reimer, Zelma and Thelma Wolf, Juanita McAllister, Lela Terry, Betty Parks, and Winfred Allen.
California town names reflect Indian Spanish pioneer and descriptive roots. Almaden recalls the Spanish mine name, Tiburon means shark, Pinole from Aztec grain, Mendocino honors Antonio de Mendoza, Solano from a Suisan chief, Tulare means place of reeds, Gilroy after John Cameron who adopted the name, and Mare Island remembers General Vallejo’s mare saved at sea.
California voices present varied views from Grover Dahlbender the San Quentin inmate organizer of a prison club to Lefty O DouL of the San Francisco Seals. John Hinton of the California Medical Association warns against compulsory medicine. Chester Rowell comments on the cost of Iwo Jima in American lives.
Kern County government received 1 320 570 in direct state aid for the year ending June 30 1944 according to California Taxpayers Association. Of the total aid 680 891 funded the state share of aid to needy aged 21 796 to the needy blind 143 711 to dependent children and 407 685 came from gas tax and other motor vehicle receipts with smaller amounts for tuberculosis liquor taxes and misc. purposes.
Mrs. J. A. Bonds reports regular letters from her son Corporal Ralph Browner stationed in the Pacific area. He writes that he is getting along fine.
Six weeks before the April 25 United Nations peace conference in San Francisco, city officials and State Department representatives organize housing, transport, health and entertainment for delegates. The War Memorial Opera House and Veterans Building will host meetings with hotel and restaurant resources mobilized, telegraph and phone services arranged, and Army Navy buses ready. The event aims to showcase San Francisco's wartime hospitality and Northern and Central California's role in the historic gathering.
Sgt Virgil Farr returns to Shafter from Camp Barkeley Texas to be with his wife after an emergency operation at Mercy Hospital last Tuesday. Her condition is reported satisfactory.
Mrs Roxie Dial reports frequent news from her husband Jackie Dial 2 c U S Navy stationed on a submarine and presently at sea He assures she is well and getting along alright
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