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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1945
Page
6
Mr and Mrs J D Horton of Scotts Bluff Nebraska arrived in Shafter this week. Mr Horton is a potato buyer.
Johnnie Bartel, H A 1 c U S Navy, on leave, visits his parents Mr and Mrs John Bartel and friends in Shafter during a homecoming.
The University of California issues a bulletin describing five new strawberry varieties bred for resistance to the Yellows virus. They boast high dessert quality and are suited for the fresh market though suitability to the San Joaquin Valley is still uncertain. Nurseries supply plants. no university stock is available. Contact the Agricultural Extension Service in Bakersfield for copies.
In a feature on California place names the article lists Nor thern and Central towns and explains origins. Tres Pinos derives from three pines, Santa Clara honors St Clara, Alameda means avenue of poplars, Alvarado for Juan Batista Alvarado, San Quentin linked to Point Quintin, Petaluma from indigenous words, and Marysville after Mary Murphy Covilland of the Donner party lineage.
Mrs Bert Hebel returned Wednesday from a several day visit with friends in Long Beach.
Pvt Carroll M Hansen of Shafter is assigned to the 397th Infantry Regiment in the 100th Infantry Division. He serves on the Seventh Army front in eastern France where the Century Division helped break German defenses in the Vosges at Raon VEtape and push toward Strasbourg.
A new 48 by 78 foot stucco building is under construction on Shafter Avenue between James and Santa Fe to house the Shafter Body and Paint Shop. Dan Voth is building it, and the shop will be operated by Voth and Bud Arnold.
Cpl. Cleo Groves is home in Shafter on a twenty day furlough visiting his parents Mr and Mrs W F Groves. Groves is stationed at Brooks Field Texas.
Mrs. H A Rightmire reports frequent letters from her son Cpl Walter Rightmire stationed in the South Pacific He writes that he is getting along fine and is in good spirits with his duties abroad
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