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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1941
Page
5
S log of local business ads includes a furniture and upholstery shop contact at Wasco with Case baler promotion by Johnny Fleming near Shafter cemetery, plus multiple rental notices for rooms and a furnished cabin in Shafter area. Renters include E V Kattenhorn and Mattie Riggs with specifics on location and terms.
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind was voted the most popular book of the 1940 41 school year by Shafter High School students during book week last week. Little Bo Peep also received votes, attributed to factional senior sentiment at the school.
Several positions are listed under the U S civil service including junior communications operator air navigation junior stenographer railroad track foreman and trackman junior custodial officer in the bureau of prisons inspector of engineering materials and inspector of ship construction. Full information may be obtainable from the appropriate employment offices.
Word was received in Shafter this week of the death of Charles Anderson a pioneer property owner in the community. He came to Shafter in the early 1920s and had owned land here for decades. He died about one mile southeast of the Santa Fe railroad in southern Shason.
Alternate bids were submitted for concrete ramp, curbs, electrical and plumbing work on the garage project. The board plans to reconvene tonight to act on the bids and determine awarded contracts.
The First Baptist Church in Shafter will host a Bible Vacation School after public schools close for summer. Led by Rev. William Jackson, six teachers will run two-hour morning classes over two weeks and all community children are invited to attend.
The June twelfth date is official for Shafter's annual party dette set sponsored by Q Enterprises Inc. It will start in the morning and last through the day at the 10 acre potato field site. Bill Bestwater Tom Jones and G H Carmody predict strong crop performance and favorable market timing.
The federal government spent funds to purchase farm orchard surpluses in the San Joaquin Valley during 940 as part of an agricultural support program.
Union Congregational Church lists Sunday School at 9 45 a m and a morning service with a children sermon titled The Man Who Talked with God The Chapel Choir under Mr Helvey sings an anthem by Jan Sebelius The Christian Youth meet at 6 30 pm at Plymouth House 400 Kern H D Wiebe pastor also German and American sermons at 11 am with music by M B church choir Revival services 8 pm with The Nazarite Who Lost His Power and weekday prayer groups 7 45 pm Special music and California Gospel Musicians invited, free will offering St Johns Catholic Church in Wasco offers 8 10 am Mass and confessions Saturday at 7 pm
William Jackson, minister, invites new residents to a friendly church with 10 a.m. Bible School led by P. A. Schmidt and an 11 a.m. sermon titled Will We Know Each Point in Heaven. Evening services include junior activities and a 9:30–10 a.m. sermon with fellowship, while midweek prayer, Bible study, Endeavor, and singing fill the schedule. John J. Unruh oversees Sunday school. Do not get discouraged, the key may be the last in the bunch.
An area of about 1 000 acres of potatoes in the Shafter district has been dusted by airplane over the past two weeks, mainly in early mornings. The operation targets stopping the spread of potato blight, which hit Shafter and other Kern County areas after heavy late rains.
G L Starrh was elected commander of Leslie L. Robinson Post No. 213, American Legion at a meeting held in the Legion hall here. Walvice commander, Dr Jes H McGrane chaplain, Glenn O Nay adjutant, Clyde Bell sergeant at arms. Executive board members are W H Hitchcock, W W Tannahill and Pete Bender. Outgoing commander is Tannahill. The meeting closed the season with post to resume after summer months.
A motion picture on soil conservation titled Our Precious Heritage will be shown by Horace Strong at the Shafter Farm Bureau unit meeting next Tuesday evening at 8 in the Richland school music room. George Harrison, superintendent of the local experiment farm, will speak on farm work. All area farmers are invited to attend future Shafter center meetings.
A letter from the Wednesday Afternoon Club to The Shafter Press thanks the paper for its publicity over the past year. Signed by Velma Guetither as secretary, the note expresses appreciation for coverage of club activities.
J H Porterfield principal of McFarland high school and former Shafter high school staff member will lead the Richland graduation next Wednesday evening in the Shafter high school gym. The Richland band and seventh and eighth grade girls choir directed by Kenneth Helvey will provide music. The Rev Sam Wilcoxon will give the invocation and diplomas will be presented by A P Channeson clerk of the Richland board. About 175 pupils will receive diplomas. Public invited. exercises begin at 8 o clock.
The Shafter city council is set to appoint a city judge at an adjourned meeting tomorrow evening in City Hall. Judge F. E. Manuel resigns effective tomorrow due to poor health, accepted by the council at the same meeting.
A Boy Scout troop sponsored by the Shafter Rotary Club is expected to organize tomorrow evening at a meeting at Kenneth Pipkin's home 290 Sunset Avenue. Pipkin to serve as scoutmaster for the new unit following several informal gatherings with Rotary members Don Hart Glenn Nay and Vernon voting to sponsor.
The Christian Science Church Society in Wasco, a branch of The Mother Church in Boston, lists Sunday services at 10 a.m. and Sunday school at 10 a.m. Wednesday evening meetings occur on the first Wednesday of each month at 8 o'clock. The Sunday Bible lesson subject is Soul and Body with Paul’s Thessalonians text.
Maple School will hold graduation exercises in the school auditorium on May 28. Principal Jack Singer announced the program includes 18 diploma recipients with musical numbers by the school band and girls chorus. Performers include Helen Schellenberg, Mary Dobrenen, Alice Nikkel, and ensemble pieces led by Enid Hartley and Mrs Sepha Wiebe. Reverend H D Wiebe speaks, with Pauline Williams, Betty Nielsen, and Helen Schellenberg as speakers. Mary Dobrenen gives a monologue. Diplomas are presented by D L Schellenberg.
A sequence of names including Richard Bailey Mary Dobrenen Bill Duke Harriet E Poust Esther Mae Gloeckler Lee Ray Grumbles Charles Klassen Bernice Mayberry Homer Montgomery Elizabeth Jean Niessen Robert E Perkins Roxanne Rodgers Pauline Russell Leonard Schaeffer Helen Schellenberg Steve Schriakoff John Wiebe and Pauline Williams appear in a community roll call or notice listing.
Dr. William G. Campbell of the University of Southern California will speak Monday to Shafter high school seniors on vocational placement. Campbell, director of school relations at USC, will discuss career guidance and opportunities for students.
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