Shafter Area Happenings and Visits Highlight Week
Local residents and visitors gather across Shafter and nearby towns. Neufelds visit Sanger. Neufelds and Stoller families travel. Bakersfield guests and Canadian visitors arrive. locals attend San Francisco events and football trips. Milon Lohr returns home after illness. officials and teachers note office changes. Drake and Bergman clan feature in regional notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magnus Little
Decker
Manitoba
Canada
Shafter
T. V. Little
Edward Little
Navy Trade Training launched my career says Sperry leader
Thomas A. Morgan president of Sperry Corporation recalls Navy trade training as his start. The article notes he enlisted as a youth and credits Navy schooling with valuable skills later used in aviation and marine instrument manufacturing. Navy programs offer 50 trades with equal pay and benefits in regular Navy and Naval Reserve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
NAVY
Sperry Corporation
Thomas A. Morgan
U. S. Navy
Morgan
Naval Reserve
Army Airfield Operators Handle High Call Volumes
Lt. Warren F. Austin reports at the Air Base near Bakersfield that Army telephone operators answer about 25 local calls per day per line, triple Bakersfield’s rate. The Air Corps number pleasers route 2000 calls daily with peak activity of one call every 20 seconds during 2 to 3 pm and high volume mornings, using 400 trunk calls daily all managed by field equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bakersfield
Warren F. Austin
Signal Corps
Air Corps
Army telephones improve Bakersfield base coms with weekly upgrades
The 10 week old field telephone system at Bakersfield basic flying school handles about 14 000 calls weekly as traffic charts track busy lines and trunks. Lt Austin leads a crew nicknamed miracle men including Chief Operators Les Jordan and James McMeans and Privates Pfe Goalen Roach Betit Morris Palco Goshen Fred Stevens Ford Knabb in daily switchboard work to fix five exchange difficulties and smooth service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army Field
Bakersfield
Austin
Miracle Men
Les Jordan
James McMeans
Pfe
Goalen
Roach
Betit
Morris
Palco
Goshen
Fred Stevens
Ford
Knabb
Eighteen Cars of Buttonwillow Tomatoes Shipped
Eighteen cars of tomatoes grown in the Buttonwillow district have been shipped from the Kimberlina shed in Shafter over the past month. The produce is packed locally and sent by rail to eastern markets. The crop marks a return to commercial scale production with excellent prices reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buttonwillow
Kimberlina
Shafter
Hodl and Macmillan Tackle Field Phone System Crisis
Hodl and Macmillan act as trouble shooters for a 74 unit field phone network facing system issues. They coordinate repairs, diagnose faults, and implement fixes to restore communications across the units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodl and
Macmillan
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pesant
Sanger
A. B. Neufeld
Elsie Neufeld
George Neufeld
M. S. Neufeld
Wm. Jackson
William Jackson
Bassa Church
Mrs. L. McNeil
W. C. Grose
Albert Wiedenbach
Scotland
South Dakota
William Hauck
Utica
Ts. Vistor
Miss Irmgrad
Brekelbaum
Richland
Oxnard
San Francisco
Lucile Johnson
Milton Lohr
Miton J. Lohr
Hosptal
Santa Barbara
Wasco
Charles Shomate
Charles H. Shomate
County Recorder
Lewis Edwards
John Spencers
Redding
Mrs
John Spencer
Mr. Spencer
Southern California
Raymond Herron
Lomita
William R. Codd
Long Beach
Bob Burdick
Heinz
Charles Codd
Oakland
Marion Crockett
Rachel Mouser
Bob Curtis
Stanford University
Shafter l
Los Angeles
Lee Bergman
Marjorie Bergman
Robert Bergman
George Nikkel
Marvin Voth
Rob Nikkel
Art Penner
Leland Bergman
Marjorie
Bill Bestwater
Clarence Neuman
G. C. Skaggs
Order of Druids
Alfred ‘Chandlers
San Pedro
Alfred T. Chandler
Elinor Enns
Shafter High School
Eleanor Reimer
Bob Carter
Enns
George Harrison
al Eckmann
California Farm Bureau Federation
San Jose
United States
Shafter Radio Electric
Pacific Avenue
L. H. McGrane
Optometrist
Sunset Ave
Calif
Oo Ee
Johnson-Schaaf
Lerdo
Army
Turkey
Parte
Safeway
BELL
Lsot
Maxwell House
Edwards
New York
Suet
Cattle Crest
Pineapple Juice
del Monte Toma
Dole
Greta
Taylor
Zagate
Nas
C. Ao
Iain
Fidelis
Carter Son
Les Olives
Green Olives
Les Olives Green
Libby
Southern California Gas CO
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