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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1946
Page
9
The Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco hosts one of the globe’s most colorful live fish collections. Mr and Mrs Bill Brown and family spend the week in Eureka, Brown’s boyhood home, visiting relatives and exploring the coast.
Mr Clark V Wiedman son of Mr and Mrs O E Wiedman of Shafter and Ens Eleanor Ibbet son of Washington were married at St Matthew's Catholic Church Long Beach The bride a civil service officer in Washington D C expects discharge soon The bridegroom a Pan American Airways pilot based in Miami stood with family members at the ceremony Attending from Shafter were numerous Wiedman relatives and local friends
Shafter High School plans an original comedy That Crazy Smith Family by Burton Filut speech instructor. The Dramatics Club cast and Opal Evans will assist as narrator with direction Friday night May 10 at 8:00 p.m.
The April meeting of Cub Pack 13 at the Woman's Club House featured kite and airplane displays from the dens. Ron Siemens showed a limited radial model and small plane, Reverend Harper compared early auto racing with modern speeds, and several boys earned advancements while Donald Melvin sought Cub membership. Refreshments were provided by Mrs. Goossen's Den. the next meeting on May 31 will present the new charter.
The Army Air Forces open a new recruiting office at Minter Field in Kern County for men interested in enlisting. Applications for specialized air corps training including radar television mechanics and jet propulsion will be accepted. Officer in charge is Lieutenant L D Erickson with Master Sergeant Fred Gamm as assistant.
S.F. artist Raymond Puccinelli faces eviction, noting he once declined Paris due to housing fears. National Education Association president F. L. Schlage speaks in Santa Barbara on education as a force for world peace. Nobel laureate Dr. Harold C. Urey in a San Francisco interview argues civilians must design future weapons, not the Army.
California Highway Patrol will join a nationwide Police Traffic Safety Check starting May 15. Chief E Raymond Cato said inspectors will test licenses plates brakes lights tires wipers horns on moving violation vehicles. The event is sponsored by the International Association of Chiefs of Police and runs across the United States and Canada after Truman's May 8 10 Traffic Safety Conference.
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