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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1938
Page
3
Shafter residents attend the California Scholarship Federation convention in Fresno. The Well Baby Conference met with Auxiliary representation. Girls showcase fashion at the Girls League event. Local families plan moves to California Hot Springs and Los Angeles while visitors tour Shafter oil fields. Biology and book clubs meet. students rehearse a junior play. wedding licenses issued. and local travel and social notes fill the week.
A regular American Legion meeting is set for Monday evening at the Legion hall in Tulare. Phil Wachtel of the Tulare Bank of America is a weekend visitor en route to Atascadero to see his parents. Mrs. Gus Weyand shows marked improvement and is able to leave bed briefly. Lula L Kruger and Hugo Zimmerman, both of Shafter, have been issued a Bakersfield county marriage license.
Supervisor Stanley Abel of Taft, a well known Kern county official, was elected to the directorate of the County Supervisors Association of California at its San Diego convention. The group favored consolidating the State welfare department and relief administration and urged federal action to remove aliens accused of fomenting labor strife. Sacramento was picked as the next convention site.
High school public speaking students enter the third annual California Crusaders contest. The subject is American Citizenship and What it Means to Me. Coach W. B. White guides the participants.
Delanan to be arraigned in Visalia Superior Court on a negligent homicide charge after a preliminary hearing. Warren Hough, 29, Delano, was arrested after a collision between his car and a vehicle driven by Paul Foster of Shafter. J. H. Foster, also of Shafter, died and seven others were injured. The crash involved a horse trailer driven by G. Purinton on a highway.
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