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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
3
Shafter residents host and visit relatives across California. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Henderson Martin of Encino and A Pollock of Los Angeles. Trips span to San Miguel Morro Bay Fresno Long Beach and Pismo Beach with multiple family and army base correspondences noted.
Kern county potato program shows strong performance with over 1 000 cars shipped and most certificates clean though some ring rot detected by Rutledge. Burtch notes cool weather may delay breakdown and cites excellent seed arriving in destination. Plans to continue seed effort with industry and rail cooperation.
Gordon Smith of the University of California at Shafter advises immediate burning of dry weeds to control army worms and other pests. He notes that burning grass as soon as it dries can destroy various insects during this season.
Eight teams will compete in a four week summer bowling league opening this evening at Neu Mann alley. Manager Sam O'Brien announced the lineup. In Sundays play the local bowling academy lost to ABC Fieldsfield 2 676 to 2 639 while Neuman Cafe defeated E H Clerereappearance.
Considerable sales of postal saving stamps and bonds are being made at the Shafter post office, according to Postmaster Lois L. Berry. The program started May 1 to raise funds for national defense projects.
The Shafter Business Men's Association met at Crawford's to discuss future plans with the Shafter Public Utility District board. A committee of Henry Neufeld E B Stringham and T W Little will meet them about subdivision land near Shafter for new homes for army airfield and oil field workers. Budget talks for valley mosquito control were noted by Clifford F Baughman with no annexation of Shafter to the Abatement district planned.
Clyde Jones WPA recreational director introduces broom ball at Shafter High School. The game played on foot uses a sawed off broom as a stick and an indoor ball as a puck on a 50 by 100 foot rink with five players per side. A summer league may form.
Kern County Mineral Society directors met at the Little home last Friday to discuss general affairs and arrange a junior mineral display by Miss Leatrice Evinger of Bakersfield for the state convention in Oakland. Attending from Shafter were Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Little and Gene Bosserdet. present were Glendon Rogers president Carl Bangle vice president Emorre Harman field scout Warren Freeland curator and editor. Mrs. Little serves as secretary-treasurer.
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