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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
5
Chaplain Jack Abs Dergt ed at arms and Glenn O Nay adjutant were noted. Election of officers will be held at the next Monday evening meeting. After a brief session a smoker followed with Russian style barbecued lamb served by Bill and John Chernabaeff.
The Rev Alfred T Chandler of the Union Congregational church plans to attend a Southern California conference of Congregational church representatives in San Diego over the weekend.
In Chicago a messy affair of sharing a husband ends with Nelson Petersen jailed six months for failing to pay $30 in temporary alimony. Mary Petersen seeks divorce while Caroline Bertram, Petersen's old flame, loses her bid to keep him at her boarding house.
Joe and Jacqueline, two wary travelers, encounter Red Jim in a tense nightclub. Jim boasts of red style and hair, but police corner him after Jacqueline exposes a matching red rug from a Macrae house theft. The alibi fails as the couple reveal the crime’s color clue and end the chase.
Shafter Merchants lose 4-3 in 12 innings to Porterville Reds, last season's valley champions. DeShane tied the game with a ninth inning home run after Threlkeld homered in the 12th. Lachenmaier pitched all 12 for Shafter, Reds outfielder Stadmiller scored the decisive run. A rematch is planned, no date set.
At a Shafter Kiwanis luncheon speaker Eugene Ford reports Shafter High School enrollment at 360 this year, up from 296 last year and 162 in 1935, while Kern County Union High School District grows from 1400 in 1924 to 5650 today.
In Paqua Mekeo district mountain villages Parrots sit on a smooth wooden bar near the stockade top. A coconut shell ring fixes one leg so the birds roam the bar but cannot fly away. The parrots cry out to alert when strangers approach, replacing barking dogs and waking sleepers.
Cleveland patrolmen Charles Kolesar and Clarence Smith engaged in a marijuana den raid. A tenant hurled alcohol at Smith, igniting his clothing. Kolesar struck Smith to knock him out, then dragged him to safety and smothered the flames with a mattress.
In Miami Florida M V Swaine crashed into a telegraph pole with a fire alarm box. The car overturned pinning him beneath. Firemen freed him while police arrested him for reckless driving.
Zinaida Troitskaya leads the Moscow Belt railway as women fill half a million railroad jobs. The workforce includes 400 station masters 1 400 assistant masters and about 10 000 engineers and technicians.
Cal Wilson of Bakersfield spent the week end with the E B Suydams. E P Hustons and family visited Coalinga relatives on Sunday. Dell Brandon and son from Monterey Park visited the Suydams. Carl Haag and family spent the weekend in the bay region. Frank Munse and Hattie Mecham visited brother Walter Mecham in Los Angeles.
J. E. Haag spent Sunday in Fresno and vicinity while weekend activities in Los Angeles area are noted. Patronize Press advertisers.
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