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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1940
Page
6
A temperance lesson by Bill Rodgers lee ds the need to test conduct by usefulness. It condemns liquor traffic and contrasts biblical imagery of salt light and fruit with worldly claims, urging moral living. Local notes describe railway workers, a taxidermist in Kern County, truck names, and town growth near Lerdo.
Honor awards from the past semester were presented to Shafter high school students during an assembly at the school. The program honored recipients in girls and boys tennis, library awards, perfect attendance, debate and oratory, class basketball, baseball, track, future farmers, and a special football captain award. Notable mentions include Marie Jones, Ruby Froese, Helen Nickel, Letha Bartel, Ruben Mettler, Walt Kirschenmann, Ed Gaede, and Omer Evans among others.
A devotional excerpt from Psalm 111 9 20 praising the Lord as holy and reverent and declaring wisdom as beginning with fearing God and keeping commandments. The passage emphasizes steadfast praise and enduring covenant.
Dr. P G Agnew testified before the Temporary National Economic Committee in Washington that gas appliance testing and standards have driven major improvements. The American Standards Association and American Gas Association note 50 percent burner efficiency gains and 25 percent hot water heater gains in ten years. The Cleveland testing lab set 27 appliance standards, shaping safer, better equipment for homes.
Motion pictures of Niagara Falls and scenes from eastern and middle western states were shown at a regular Shafter Rotary luncheon Tuesday noon by president Orvin Mettler. Visiting Rotarians included George B. Crore George Kunst Bob Ford Fisk Harlow of Bakersfield and Gene Harrison of Fresno.
Notice to Richland Elementary School District electors in Kern County California of the annual election for school trustee to be held at the Richland Schoolhouse on June 7 1940 from 6 am to 7 pm for a three year term. Inspectors listed are Mrs Gladys Crandall and Mrs Harriett E Nottingham with Mrs Anna K Pedersen as judge. Dated 3 1940. A Peter Channon Emil Bend.
Election for the coming year will be held Monday with nominations due this week at the school. Presidential candidates include Bob Curtis Leroy Witcher Wilbert Kirschenmann and Ruben Mettler. other posts list nominees such as Merton Wiedmann W. R. Cloud Patty Stringham and several others for secretary treasurer social chairmen yell leader and athletic managers.
The Tabor College male chorus from Hillsboro Kansas will perform at the Mennonite Brethren church on Tuesday evening starting at 8 o clock. Herbert C Richert directs the group and a free will offering will be received.
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation district board set to meet Tuesday at 2 PM at district office. Petitions for district dissolution may be discussed, likely to wait until the July meeting for presentation.
A 25.00 reward offered for a corn salve claiming the product from E B Stringham Drug offers a 35 cent price comparison and notes it cannot remove callous in a manufacturer price dispute.
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