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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1941
Page
5
Ruben Mettler of Shafter High tied for second in the Sierra League extemporaneous speaking contest held Tuesday afternoon in Delano. Finalists entering included Mable Hiebert of Shafter and Kelly Grant. Forensic coach is Miss Patricia Sepulveda.
Sunday school at Union Congregational Church 9 45 led by Miss Carol Pulcifer with church service at 11 featuring a sermon titled The High Use of our Dual Nature. May 4 plans include a German foreign missions message and a song festival with M B and K M churches. First Mennonite Church notes no preaching this Sunday due to S S Convention. prayer meeting and Bible study Wednesday at 7 30.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church one mile west of Shafter on Lerdo highway lists events led by Pastor L S Melendy. May 1 investiture service at 7 30 p m, May 2 Sabbath school at 9 30 a m with Kern Academy Glee Club, May 3 musical program and sermon The Mystery of Three Angles Preaching in Mid Air Rev 14 6 14, May 5 Home Builder's meeting for ladies, May 6 Prayer meeting at 8 p m Bring your Bibles Visitors welcome Radio program The Voice of Prophecy Sundays at 9 15 p m on Mutual stations.
A sermon on Acts chapter eight explains the church's growth through martyrdom and dispersion. It highlights Stephen's death, believers fleeing to preach everywhere, and Philip’s Samarian mission leading to a new fellowship between Jew and Gentile. It calls for active gospel outreach and broader vision.
A special Shafter meeting reviewed possible dissolution of the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District. Attorney Edward West outlined steps for petitioning an election, including debt, delinquencies, assets, and landowner signatories, with a two thirds vote needed for dissolution. West urged circulating petitions while board members consider the plan for court approval. Directors Rolf Jacobsen and others weighed bringing the issue before landowners and pressing for action if support exists.
Gold cups were awarded to Joel Wiebe and Merton Wiedmann for the first Americanism essay contest. O T Olson and Eugene Ford received school cups while Al Anderson presided. Leslie Hedge urged focus on social studies and media literacy amid population growth from the nearby army airfield.
Tuesday evening a Shiners banquet in Isakerefield drew a group from Shafter including Dr. Pase Glenn Nay FP L Arnold Cayin Mett ler BUH Lachenmies Rolf Jacobsen A P Chenneson Phil Channson Tip Herdersen and Dr. Jack Lighthill.
Mayor Ohanneson heads to the Biltmore Hotel for an Army and Navy recreation conference in Southern California. The meeting will address recreational facilities for soldiers stationed at the Shafter airfield east of town. A Shafter Business Men's Association recreation committee, including Henry Neufeld A Weil and Rev. Alfred T Chandler, discussed local action with the mayor. Accompanying the mayor was Mrs Ohanneson.
Local men Phil Channeson and Joe Channeson of Shafter announce the purchase of the Kimberlina pumping station on 99 Highway as a site for an auto and trailer camp near Bakersfield. Improvements planned include landscaping and a natural attraction with mature trees, located about no miles from the intersection.
Kern County Union High School district teachers plan a May 8 picnic in Bakersfield. The event features a performance of The Shooting of Dan McGrew by Wendall Allen Monty Montgomery and Tommy Thompson of the local faculty, with help from McFarland high school staff.
Siemens of Shafter was reelected to the board of directors of the Kern County Junior Chamber of Commerce at a meeting held Monday evening in Bakersfield.
Richland presented a Friday evening program featuring the school band directed by Kenneth Helvey, the Girls choir under Helvey, and the Intermediate chorus led by Miss Martha Gloecx ter. Sevenths and eighth graders performed Spanish dances among the numbers with many participants named.
A long roster of attendees and contributors is listed by name, including Eleanor Carter, Charla Sue Alexander, Annette Pitman, Phyllis Henning, Ethel Gaede, and many others. The fragment also notes dancers Paula Raney, Bernice McQuilliams, Loretta Jacobs, and others.
A list of helpers includes Miss Long, Miss Past, Dan yers directed by Miss Ditto, Miss Hessenflow, Miss Stycus for darkness, Miss Carlisle lighting, Miss Pulcifer assistants, and Mr. Gribble, Mr. Shotwell, Mr. Squire, Mr. Wattenberger.
Santa Fe train master of Fresno Ty Visitor E B Hicbert arrived as a business guest this week to discuss operations and gauge local railroad needs.
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