African Missionary Visits In Shafter Easter Sunday
Miss Pauline Frans a returning missionary of Unevangelize Africa visits Shafter with Mrs Altig visiting Mrs Margaret Hetz. She began field work in 1918 among the Agikuya in Kenya then moved to the Belgian Congo and has been honored by the Belgian government for long service. She had to abandon a station among the Saki tribe after Mount Myamlagiro eruption.
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Pauline Frans
Unevangelize Africa Mission
Belgian Congo
Lake Edward
Lake Kivu
Shafter
Altig
Long Beach
Margaret B. Hetz
Miss Fraas
Hetz
Kenya Colony
Africa
America
Miss Frass
Myamlagiro
National Geographic Magazine
Miss. Frass
Entebbe
Lake Victoria
Equator
Cairo
Nile
Frans
Artesia
Gas Engine Purchase For City Water Plant
The Shafter Public Utility district board decided Friday to buy a gas engine for the city water plant on Santa Fe Way. The total cost for the engine and installation is 5 644 797 dollars, to be paid over time from revenue. The four cylinder engine has a 7.5 inch bore 9 inch stroke and 1810 cubic inch displacement, manufactured by Minneapolis-Moline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe Way
Shafter Public Utility District
The
Minneapolis-Moline Company
Large pilot training takeoff expands student corps
A total of 10,027 students are now taught flying under the Civil Aeronautics Authority pilot training program. Of the 330 students trained last spring, 95 percent have received pilot licenses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Harold Bowhay Heads Valley Fire Protection Body
Harold Bowhay of Bakersfield named president of the newly organized Central California Rural Fire Association meeting in Merced. Seventeen counties join the group to improve city and county fire department cooperation and share educational material and mutual aid in disasters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Bowhay
Bakersfield
Kern
Central California, Rural Fire Association
Merced
New Gas Range Installed at Congregational Church Kitchen
A restaurant-type gas range with six burners a griddle hot plates and oven has been installed in the kitchen of the Congregational church. The new equipment includes several modern features enhancing meal prep and service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Church
Rifle and Civil War relics on display at Shafter library
A fragment of an 1850s New York Tribune copy displayed by Frank Annis at the Shafter library highlights a senate discussion on California’s admission. The exhibit also shows Civil War era stamps, letters, and a cap and ball rifle once owned by Oliver Sly’s father.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Senate
California
New York Tribune
Frank Annis
Shafter Library
Henry Clay
Free Soil
Annis
Oliver Sly
Senior Class Vocational Speakers At Shafter High
Speakers addressed the senior problems class at Shafter high school during a seven week session on diverse careers. Next year the class may extend to a full semester with more subjects. County high schools consider similar programs.
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Shafter High School
Shafter
Henry Nightingale
Ford Hudson
Jean Lehy
Joe W. Frizzell
Don Bentley
A. W. Gaede
Claude Johnson
Howard Dickson
Dean Smith
Paul C. Newell
Wallace Johnson
John Brock
Guy Garrard
Cecil Meadows
Laurence Baughman
Finger Printing
Civil Service
John van Qosdel
Stump Killing Method Announced By N. D. Hudson
N. D. Hudson reports a simple stump killing method using about 10 percent sodium chlorate solution to stop sprouts from tree stumps. The process requires cutting off tops, exposing live tissue, and saturating with solution to kill roots, with caution on handling and weather.
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California Forest’ and Range Experiment Station
N. D. Hudson
Kern County
Hudson
H. D. Bruce
California Forest and Range Experiment Station
Woodbridge Metcalf
University of California
Farm Advisor
M Street
Bakersfield
California
Forty Three Babies Examined At Legion Well-Baby Session
A Well-Baby conference at the Legion hall in the fourth Friday schedule examined forty three babies, including thirteen on their first visit. Local doctors and county nurses conducted checks with Auxiliary members Glenn O. Nay and P. C. Guenther assisting. Morning hours feature weights and general checks. afternoons see two doctors joining the examination.
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Legion Hall
Leslie L. Robinson
American Legion Auxiliary
Glenn O. Nay
P. C. Guenther
Cine-Sports booklet aids Shafter track athletes
Eight books from the Cine-Sports library assist Shafter high school track and field athletes. Compiled by Dean B. Cromwell of the University of Southern California, the booklets feature motion picture style pictures printed on successive pages. Introduced recently in southern California schools.
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Shafter
Cine- Sports Library
Dean B. Cromwell
University of Southern California
Southern California
Column of opinions and misc notes from Shafter area readers
A collage of letters and briefs covers European politics and American life abroad, local spelling debates, railroad movement, and business notes. It mentions Romanian martial law, oil exploration, wildflower income in Kern county, and nostalgic song references, plus local names, roads, and community tidbits.
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Rumania
New York Herald-Tribune
Paris
Europe
Los Angeles Times
Ohanneson
O’hanneson
Three Shafter Brothers
Kern County
Q Enterprises Incorporated
Bill Bestwater
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Valley Fire Protection Body
the Press
Joan Cameron
Kensington
Miami Beach
Harry J. Klinger
Pontiac Motors
William A. Fisher
Fisher Body
General Motors
W. S. McLean
Rome
River Tiber
Nell O'Day
Hollywood
Honeymoon Isle
King & Queen
Tom Phelps
St. Louis
Tampa
Fic
Shatter
National Tourist Association
Tehachapi
Sage Brush
Lerdo Road
Shafter District
Tsk
Jack A. Lighthill
Sunset Ave
Wasco
Calif
L. H. McGrane
Singin Sam
KPMC
Bohemian Distributing CO
Union Avenue
Peansr' Cape Manne
Pathfinder
Rus Os
Shafter Press
Womans Home Companion
Woman’s World
American Poultry Journal Farm Journal and
Farmer's Wife
Movie Mirror
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