Local Happenings in Shafter and Nearby Areas
Community notes list visits and relocations. Mother’s birthday in Fresno. church pastor Alfred Chandler pleased with new post. Letters report Lawrence Baughman’s Indian voyage. Jimmie Klassen at Camp Roberts. Donald Dumble earns corporal rank in Blythe. Dye family moves to Riverside for health. Sea-Bees and Marines visit home towns. teachers and friends catch up across Wasco and Shafter.
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al Chandler
Alfred Chandler
Congregational Church
Chandler
Fresno
Shaffer
M. Chandler
Donald Dumble
Bank of America
Finance Department
Air Corps
Blythe
California
Arthur Dumble
Bakersfield
Residents visit Southland and coastal towns
Notes of visitors returning home from travels in Long Beach and Goleta plus brief local calls. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac visit nephews in Long Beach and Shafter business. Mr. and Mrs. Coker return to Los Angeles after a stay with relatives. Mrs. Strauss returns from Long Beach. Louis Wade injures back at work. Hugo Zimmerman on weekend visit from San Diego. Mrs. Brown and infant Mary Ellen arrive from Mercy Hospital. Mrs. Rodgers and Mrs. Brinegar trip to Hollywood. humorous hometown jab about a boss calling in an employee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sea-Bee
Oran Metter
Sea- Bee Nctc
Davisville
Rhode Island
Adolph Mettler
Munter Street
San Francisco
Lester Coker
Los Angeles
Mr. Coker
J. W. Lassiter
Abe Strauss
Long Beach
Mrs
Albert Strauss
Agricultural wages higher than ads in Shafter 1939 note
The Shafter Press remarks that since 1939 California paid higher agricultural wages than any other state, contrasting with classified ads. The brief reflects on wage levels and regional comparisons in labor postings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Shafter Press
Goldenrod Rubber Initiative Moves Into Georgia
The Automobile Club of California funds tests on a specially developed goldenrod strain in Georgia to produce rubber. The U S Forest Service will plant twenty million holies near Waynesboro to study growth, harvesting, and processing of rubber from leaves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Club
Eee
California
U.S. Forest Service
Waynesboro
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AMAL
Worthern
A. Peter Charmeson
Aecton
Ad Pack and
Sopare Cone Mercy Hospital
Lawrence Baughman
India
San Pedro
Jimmie Klassen
Camp Roberts
Central Market
Camp, Robérts
Dyes
Riverside
Ray L. Dye
Shafter
Santa Rosa
Sonoma County
Ray
James W. Woodard
Marines
Cane Elliott
Guy Woodward
Wasco
South
Ted Andrews
la Canada
Stert
PGE
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
George Isaac
John Dalke
Wm. Dalke
Jone
Southland
Louis Wade
Louis
Wade
Coast
Hugo Zimmerman
San Diego
Julius Zimmerman
Bill Brown
Mary Ellen
Mercy Hospital
Bakesfield
Hollywood
Wm. Rodgers
J.B. Brinegar
Jacksonville Journal
Goldenrod Rubber
UE Ah Sale
Alex
State Fair Tomatoes
C&e
Libby
Justesen
Morton
Fentieces
Ivory
Dustesen
San Joaquin Valley
Mary Lee Taylor
Ea Mae
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