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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1945
Page
7
A Pickers ad in Spepee notes two burglaries and a theft of ration tickets from Elza Hamilton's No-Way Auto Laundry and candy bars from Richfield Service Station. Up to last night the burglars had not been caught. Six drunks were arrested by the city police and one by Constable Hanley Witcher.
The Wasco levy estate once run by Mother and Bddie West for 35 years was sold last week to Mr and Mrs in Northrop and Mr and Mrs Larry Lynch. The Northrops run the dining room and cocktail lounge of the famous establishment. The deal includes 20 cottage units and about two and a half acres of grounds. The Weits keep a 20 acre tract adjoining the hotel and plan to subdivide it. The Weits arrived in Wasco in 1910.
Otto J Bryant 55 died suddenly Monday night. Funeral Friday at 2 30 p m at Janzen Funeral Home. Survived by wife Bessie mother Mrs May Bryant of Okishome two daughters Edith Rogers of Shafter Arline Groves of Marysville three sons Selene Bryant Howard Bryant in U S Army James Bryant U S Navy three grandchildren and a son in law. The family plans service details in Shafter and Anderson.
The Wednesday Club installed officers after a luncheon on January 23 at Carlisle av. President is Mrs. Ed Rast. Vice-President Mrs. Tom Rootes. Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Rolf Jacobsen. Recording Secretary Mrs. Ed Gamegan. Treasurer Mrs. J. W. Lassiter. Auditor Mrs. J. J. Peters. Parliamentarian Mrs. J. W. Frizzell. Board Member Mrs. Orvin Mettler. Beth Dye Henley reviewed Pick Them Up Lightly and Noel Coward biography. Mrs. John Peters sang. The meeting closed the season except for summer board meetings.
Technical Sergeant Arthur H. Fast, reported missing in action, died July 19 1942 in a Philippine Islands prisoner of war camp. The War Department notified his mother Mrs Anna Fast of Shafter that malaria and an ab sence caused his death. Fast had lived in Shafter for many years before joining the service.
Lt. Donald E Trimble Jr son of Mr and Mrs Donald E Trimble of Yakima Valley arrived last week from the South Pacific where he spent 39 months duty Visiting his parents who are living in Shafter during the potato season
Unclear fragmentary note mentions guests including Ray Car Art Stone and Wg Bond, with a reference to a Monday event at Shafter Motel. Details are incomplete, making full context and outcomes uncertain.
Doris Davis became the first Kern County music student to win the Young Artist Diploma at a National Guild of Piano Teachers event. The Bakersfield contest, held last Friday, required memorization of 20 piano pieces.
Mrs. Vic Lombardi and her daughter Vicki were guests at the Fred Stone home last weekend. Mrs. Lombardi will soon travel to the east coast to join her husband who is pitching for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The principal peoples of Yugoslavia are the Serbs, Croats, Slovenes, and all Slavs.
A Friday morning fire at 4 00 a m destroyed two trucks and their loads. One truck owned by the Hanford Bag Co carried 32 050 sacks of potatoes and burned beyond recovery. A second truck from A and B Rent Truck in Bakersfield was involved, also sustaining total loss.
A 1510 event marks the first permanent European settlement on the American mainland, established by Spanish explorers in what is now Colombia.
The climate of New Zealand resembles that of the Pacific Coast between San Francisco and Oregon, indicating mild temperatures and maritime influences across both regions.
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