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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1944
Page
7
Mrs. Elizabeth Rice at the USO club hall asks Shafter residents with rooms to rent to register them. She seeks both permanent housing and rooms for short stays to help servicemen find lodging.
City Council meeting approves Gus Myers proposal to establish a trailer camp on Shafter highway just southwest of town pending compliance with Kern County Health Department sanitary requirements.
The May meeting of Kern County Farm Bureau directors was held in Bakersfield. A W Eckman represented Shafter. Membership tops 900, a record. Directors support valley wide wage ceilings. The bureau’s compensation group insurance remains popular and saves members thousands yearly.
Seaman 1/c Roy McDonald of the U S Navy returned to Shafter early Tuesday morning to spend a 14 day leave with his parents Mr and Mrs Tom McDonald after nine months at sea.
The Cub Scouts of Shafter continue gathering coffee jars through the week aiming to finish Saturday. Jars will be loaded onto a truck from coffee companies for pickup Monday. Call Mrs J W Gwin or Mrs Ted Kinman to arrange large contributions.
Mrs. Dan Kliwer receives a Mothers Day telegram from son Cpl Laverne Kliwer serving in a transportation dispatching office of an Air Depot in England. He longs for Shafter sunshine amid English fog. Their older son Ben, an Ensign in the U.S. Maritime Service, is on his third Atlantic convoy and saw action at Anzio, Italy.
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