Shafter Band Concert Seeks Funds for Uniforms
The Shafter high school band under P L Arnold will perform its second annual concert at the school gymnasium tomorrow evening. Proceeds support uniforms and veteran welfare programs run by the American Legion Auxiliary. Les Robinson Post No 213 will lead poppy sales with Camp Fire Girls assisting, aiming for 550 flowers. The article defends amateur youth performances and stresses music’s value beyond sports.
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Shafter High School
Shafter
P. L. Arnold
Arnold
Theqand
American Legion Auxiliary
American Legion and Auxiliary
Leslie L. Robinson
America
In Memory Of Poppy Fund Appeal
A brief notice invites readers to buy a paper poppy to support a fund. Donors are asked to give what they can from a dime to fifty cents or more, with proceeds aiding the memorial effort.
Dwarf Horses of Grand Canyon Confirmed by Cattleman
Lee Clayton says he has seen two dwarf horses in the Grand Canyon valley brought out by Jack Tooker. A mare about 30 inches tall and a colt around 19 pounds, part of a herd of about 50, are said to live in an isolated canyon via rope access.
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Grand Canyon
Colorado
Lee Clayton
Arizona
Jack Tooker
WPA Hearings Expose Abundant Life Claims and Misuse
The House investigating committee cites WPA funds fund private clubs and luxury projects from New Orleans yacht basins to Mandeville golf courses. It notes Seattle demonstrations buying pricey foods while meals for reporters and officials were served at no cost, and flags gains in Del Mar racing and Florida golf ventures amid relief misuses. The report argues these findings reveal a broader pattern behind relief programs.
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House Committee
Roosevelt
WPA
Congress
Howard O. Hunter
House Investigating Committee
Municipal Yacht Basin
New Orleans
Southern Yacht Club
Mandeville
Louisiana
State of
Stration Project
Seattle
Spokane
Washingon
Country Club
Pennsylvania
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
California
del Mar
Florida
Marianna
Mariianna Country Club Association
Shafter projects push toward deep oil and gas finds
The North American Royalties Co. shifts to rapid spudding at Shafter with calls to go deeper than a mile as geologic reports indicate abundant oil and gas. Shafter shipments rise daily, acreage dug reaches 200 with 1300 remaining, and prices await eastern auction.
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North American Royalties Co
Shafter
Kern County
Local residents attend events across California
Mr and Mrs W S Walker of Burbank and their son Glenn of Shafter spent last Sunday at Kernville. Messrs Dave and Jake Nikke were Fresno visitors last Tuesday. Miss Livia Neufeld of this city graduated from the Glendale sanitarium last Tuesday. Mrs W B Camp will leave next weekend for San Antonio Texas for a national convention of the Federated Women's clubs.
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W. S. Walker
Burbank
Glenn
Shafter
Kernville
Dave
Jake Nikke
Fresno
Livia Neufeld
Glendale Sanitarium
W. B. Camp
San Antonio
Texas
Federated Women’s Clubs
Poetry and political officials clash in California notes
R H Norton complains about spring poetry submissions while Thomas W McManus warns against the Ku Klux Klan denouncing communism and Nazism. Assemblyman Sam Yorky of Los Angeles criticizes relief workers for refusing to testify to a legislative subversive activities committee.
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R. H. Norton
Thomas W. McManus
Bakersfield
Ku Klux Klan
Russia
Germany
Sam Yorty
L. A
Assembly
People
California
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H. G. Comfort
Central Avenue
Kernity
Nesten
Shafter, Cadfornha Uader
Ree Alocution
Lexington Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
New York City
Cecil Raben
CWNU
Washington
House
Gainesville
University of Florida
State Welfare Board
Presse
Packer
The
New York Daily Mirror
Dean
Blackboard
Shafter Warehouse Company
J. C. Channeson
H. C. Neufeld
Woods Stone
F. E. Manuel
C. Eskridge
Harry West
C. P. Morgan
W.B. Camp
Marion _ Hitchcock
Mesdames
Ed. Kolbenstetter
A. B. Fox
Zachery
D. Glantz
Morgan
Camp
San Diego
Elsie Manuer
Jean Chat
Jean Maurer
Shafter Camp
J. B. Engle
Olive Sly
Evelyn Jumper
Helen Stringham
Daphne McKinley
Velma Rightmire
Engle
Rose Willis
R. F. Jumper
Niels Pedersen Ranch
Maple School
Susan Duerksen
David Gloeckler
Dan Barling
William Siemens
Harvey Gaede
Harry Koop
Daniel Gloeckler
Ernest Neufeld
Clinton Covert
Esther Frantz
Fern Wiebe
Jessie Reimer
Julia Adams
McNeil
Miss Thiessen
McCullough
Hetz
Richland School
Canada
George H. Hecke
Lassen
Plumas
Sierra
San Joaquin Valley
Sacramento
Shafter District
Delta
Tulare County
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