First Soft Ball Practice Slated Sunday Morning
Shafter soft ball team holds first workout Sunday at 10 on Shafter high school grounds. Bill Lachenmaier to manage and invites new players. Three top pitchers Ralph Lachenmaier Billy Lachenmaier Ray Mettler will be available, with Bill White or Ralph Janzen possibly handling receiving duties. No games or league yet. warm weather may bring night play and regional negotiations with Wasco Lost Hills Belridge McFarland Delano and Taft. Six to eight veterans expected to report for practice.
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Shafter
Shafter High School
Bill Lachenmaier
Lachenmaier
Ralph
Billy Lachenmaier
Ray Mettler
Bill White
Ralph Janzen
Wasco
Lost Hills
Belridge
McFarland
Delano
Taft
County Fire Protection Setup Explained
Kern county fire department details its funding, structure, and operations at a Rotary club talk by Harold Bowhay. County funds support the unit with federal and state money also aiding. stations cover all towns with planned expansions and lookout posts.
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Kern County Fire Department
Oon
Rotary Club
Lowell
Bowhay
Bakersfield
Harold Bowhay
State Division of Forestry
State Civil Service
Kern County
Board of Fire Underwriters
Shafter
National Transcribers’ Society For the Blind
Club
Howard Kirtland
San Luis Obispo
Karl Wells
Santa Barbara
Pete Martin
Wasco
Art Hill
William van Ewert
Si Williams
Bob Ford
Frank Degier
Stuart Nill
Avenal
Epitome of The Week's News Semi-official
British sources voice peace appeal support from President Roosevelt amid reports of air raids on British ships and airports. Chamberlain marks his 71st birthday as Europe eyes possible peace talks. Gandhi proposes delaying independence until war ends.
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Germany
Scapa Flow
Neville Chamberlain
England
Republic
Mexico
Finnish Commission
Moscow
Finland
Russia
Mohandas’ K. Gandhi
India
Carol
Romania
Britain
Sumner Welles
Adolf Hitler
Benito Muscolini
Rome-Berlin
Italy
Berlin
Noerth
Chamberlain
French Chamber of Deputies
All India Congress
Great
Students spending vacation with families in Shafter
Menno Schellenberg and Elizabeth Epp of the Bible Institute in Los Angeles join Richard Hetz of San Jose State Richard Gubble of Chico State and Monna Latta of the University of California at Berkeley in Shafter for the Eastern vacation period with families.
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Shafter
Menno Schellenberg
Elizabeth Epp
The
Bible Institute
Los Angeles
Richard Hetz
San Jose State
Richard Gubble
Chico State
Monna Latta
University of California At Berkeley
Kern County News Briefs Highlight Local Events
Sixty thousand workers will join the state unemployment system on April 15. Picketing by Workers' Alliance members draws suspicion of communistic agitation. McMillan and a Bakersfield city gambling case are noted. Road work to Mount Abel resumes. Kern High enrollment may reach 6610 next fall. Epworth League to sponsor Easter sunrise service at Harry Quinn ranch. Plans for Arvin glider meet April 13 to 21. Harvey Wesgate of the county sheriff’s office dies in Bakersfield. Taft weighs new city jail. Monsignor Crowley killed in Mojave auto crash. Eight injured in Kern county crashes last weekend. Wool clip begun at San Clemente ranch near Delano. Sheriff cars to get two-way radios.
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Samuel Untermyer
New York
Palm Springs
Inez ‘L. Burns
San Francisco
California
State Board of Nurse Examiners
Fresno
Nettie Ponte Padini
Madera
State Relief Administration
State‘ Assembly
Redet
Alameda County
Culbert Olson
Gordon Garland
Assembly
Sacramento
Sam Yorty
Swallows
San Juan Capistrano Mission
Sacramento County
Workers’ Alliance
J. J. ‘McMillan
Bakersfield
Mount Abel
Kern County
Epworth League of the
Community Methodist Church
Delano
Harry Quinn
Arvin
Harvey Wesgate
Thern
Taft City
New City
John Joseph Crowley
Mojave
San Clemente Ranch
Ralph Short Builds Four Horse Team and Wagon Model
Ralph Short completed a wooden model of a four horse team and wagon using a pocket knife sandpaper and paint. The coal black horses pull a green and red wagon with harness, patterned from catalog and magazine pictures. He plans to exhibit the model at the Shafter Central Valley Poultry Rabbit and Small Stock show next Wednesday.
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Ralph Short
Short
Shafter-Central Valley
Relatives Visit Mrs Tannahill and Son from Fresno
Relatives visited Mrs. W. W. Tannahill and her son Alex who returned Tuesday after spending several days in Fresno visiting relatives there.
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W. W. Tannahill
Alex
Fresno
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