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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1937
Page
4
A Shafter district report shows four months of 1937 fatalities at seven and 52 injuries, up sharply from 1936. Experts pin rising traffic and two lane roads, stressing individual driver responsibility and safer habits to reduce slaughter on rural highways.
The piece outlines Mother's Day celebrated on May 9 with a dedication to the best mother in the world. It notes practices like wearing red carnations for living mothers and white for honored memory, highlighting common acts of kindness, visits, letters, gifts, or tributes.
The text warns that a successor will assume control of Congress, cities, states, and empires, managing treaties and institutions. It emphasizes that all work will be judged by this figure, shaping humanity's destiny. It urges paying attention to this impending power and its reach.
A Shafter Girl Scouts outing at Kern River Park included lunch, biking, and swimming with several members earning second class test milestones. The trip was hosted by Mr. Hansen. Also, Richland grammar school fourth graders hosted a Swiss program with songs poems and Swiss refreshments in class.
Shafter fire crews were called Friday at 5 PM to battle a grass fire in the area east of Famosa. The blaze scorched about half an acre before containment.
A blaze was extinguished before it spread to a neighboring hay and grain field. At its peak, the fire endangered several large farm buildings, though authorities contained it promptly.
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