Scout Fund Announced by Kern County Council
The North District of Kern County Council Boy Scouts of America prepares a May week finance campaign led by Dr. Wm. Smith of Delano. District totals include 288 Cubs and Scouts in Shafter Wasco McFarland and Delano with 95 volunteers guiding the effort. Funds benefit a general council fund and Scout Headquarters. Community chairs named Mac Cameron Delano K A Handih McFarland Judge A R Beckes Wasco and A Peter Channeson Shafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North
Kern County Council
Boy
Scouts of America
Wm. Smith
Delano
Shafter
Wasco
McFarland
Smith
Mac Cameron
K. A
Hand Ih McFarland
A. R. Beckes
A. Peter Channeson
Clifford Gray
Bakersfield
Ray Burum
Wm. Gilchrist
C. D. Bartlett
Shafter Meatsman Modernizes Food Town Market
W. Frank Johnson, longtime Shafter resident and head of the Food Town meat department, recently updated the market with two new meat cases. A community booster, he supports Kiwanis, the Shafter Volunteer Fire Department, and the Mennonite Brethren Church, and believes Shafter will grow into a progressive San Joaquin Valley town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Frank Johnson
Meat Department
Food Town
Frank
Shafter
Johnson
Kiwanis Club
Shafter Volunteer Fire Department
Mennonite Brethren Church
San Joaquin Valley
Social News and Local Visits Highlight Community Life
Multiple informal notices record Sunday dinners and weekend visits among Neufeld, Eaves, Kolbenstetter, Lumsden, Morss, Balko, and other households. A May 10 bridge party at Mrs. Elmer Anderson’s yields high and low scores. A dinner hosts list includes Kirschenmanns, Preszlers, Handel family, and Wilbert Kirsch enmann. Mrs Hull plans El Paso move with Pvt. Hull. Linda Fedenrecht visits home in Shafter. The note closes noting India child mortality at forty five percent before age five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer Anderson
Richard Arnold
Gordon Churchill
Art Johnson
Harvey Gaede
Bruce O’neil
Harry Thompson
Dick Eckman
Fred Rick
Clarence Neuman
Soldiers endure Arctic glacier training in Northern Ireland
Pfe Everett M. Corma and a group of thirty Army officers and men spent three weeks on an Arctic glacier in Northern Ireland as part of a rigorous Winter Warfare Training. The program tested cold weather gear, diets, and shelter to develop effective practices for extreme cold operations. Back home they now teach Winter Warfare Tactics classes for their units. John Wellnitz, stationed on the east coast, hopes to return to Minter Field and asks friends in Shafter to remember him. he met John Heinrich of Shafter and they shared Shafter Press readings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pfe Everett M. Corma
Shafters
Northern Ireland
United States Army
Johnnie
Clara Schnidt
Cpl
John Wellnitz
Minter Field
Shafter
John Heinrich
Shafter Press
Home For Week End Aviation Cadet
Elmer Anderson spent the week end in Shafter visiting his wife and his parents Mr and Mrs Martin Anderson. Elmer is stationed at Santa Ana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold J. Morss
Fresno
Fred. Jeffries
Julia Morss
Seaman
Otto Balko
U. S. Navy
Scott McMichael
Seaman Balko
McMichael
Vega
Burbank
Elmer Anderson
Shafter
Martin Anderson
Elmer
Santa Ana
Also Mentioned on This Page
Scout Fund
Mrs. Black
Oneita Black
San Francisco
Woodrow Black
Nightengale
Marie Nightingale
Elizabeth Duerksen
Santa Fe Ave
Seventh Street
Fuqua's Cafe
TRAY
Shafter Enterprise
Eaves
Lawrence Subbar
Lorraine Ratzlaff
E. G. Kolbenstetter
Earl Marcotte
Los Angeles
Kolbenstetter
Sandra Lumsden
Hollywood
Adolf Kirschenmann
Edwin Preszler
Otto Handel
Wilbert Kirschenmann
Mrs. Hull
Harold Hull
el Paso
Texas
Pvt. Hull
Army Medical Corps
H. C. Hull
Linda Fedenrecht
Linda Fodenrecht
Hanford
Ben Fodenrecht
India
Aime
Hae Graduate
Cologne
Stringham’s
Shafter Drug Store
Ae Ea
Bakersfield Union and
Ripert
Butch” Heffley
Sam Lachenmaier
Central
Daehren
Sears of
Sears
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