Couple Married At First Baptist Church Parsonage Here
Charles B. Pastey of Bakersfield and Miss Melba Clements of Buttonwillow were united in marriage at the First Baptist church parsonage here by Reverend William Jackson. Attendants were Miss Jane Pastey and Milfred Smith. The Tahohi Camp Fire group elected Zella Marie Baughman as president and other officers at its second meeting of the year. A gala pre Thanksgiving buffet hosted by the Ernest Schnaidt and Raymond Mettler families featured a harvest theme, a large fruit basket centerpiece, and dinner in woodenware. games followed with high scores by Ben Peters and John Siemens and consolation prizes to Mr. and Mrs. Jake Siemens.
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Charles B. Pastey
Bakersfield
Melba Clements
Buttonwillow
First Baptist Church
William Jackson
Jane. Pastey
Milfred Smith
Tahohi
Zella Marie’ Baughman
Cnt
Donna May Baughman
Joan Loewen
Ferraline Parker
Annabell Hopkins
Betty Anne~ Pritchett
Richland School
Ruth Kennedy
Oda Peters
Ernest Schnaidt
Ernest Schnaidts
Raymond Mettlers
Hugh
Ben Peters
John Siemens
Jake Siemens
Messrs
Old Settlers Banquet at Rio Bravo School
The Old Settlers supper was held at Rio Bravo school where a chicken supper was served to a large crowd. A program followed in the auditorium with T M Martin as chairman and Mrs Carl Haag as secretary, followed by talks from W Haag J E Haag Earl Calder Mrs W B Wilson and F J Schierlmann. A committee was appointed for next year including FJ Schierlmann C Martin W E Haag and Maxine Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Bravo
Peditorium
Aengax
Carl Haag
W. Haag
J. E. Haag
Earl Calder
W.B. Wilson
FJ. Schierlmann
FJ Schierlmann
C. Martin
W. E. Haag
Maxine Williams
Firemen Dance Slated Saturday At Clubhouse
Shafter Volunteer Fire Department members plan their annual four alarm dance at the Wednesday Afternoon clubhouse on Saturday evening. Herb Neuman leads the dance committee with good music and favors promised. Chief Jack Hare says ticket sales are strong as volunteers work to contact residents. funds fund general departmental activity and new equipment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Volunteer Fire Department
Herb Neuman
Jack Hare
Probation Officer Speaks at Richland PTA Meeting on Citizenship
A. W. Brink Kern county Chief Probation Officer addressed Richland P T A on citizenship and home training as key to democracy. Sixth grade chorus led by Evelyn Marshall opened with songs including Kern County and Boy Scouts tunes. Mrs. George Vannatta announced a 182 member PTA. Miss Ellamarie Crawford’s fifth grade won a $2.50 prize for 44 new members. Joyce Bender earned a personal award for 21 members. close runner ups were Edna Prieve and Patricia Myrick. The most parents present went to Paul Hughes sixth grade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Brink
Kern County
Richland P.T.A
Richland School
Brink
Evelyn Marshall
Harl Tener
Wasco
Boy Scouts
George Vannatta
P.T.A
Ellamarie Crawford
Joyce Bender
Edna Prieve
Patricia Myrick
Eunice Gaines
Martha Gloeckler
Paul Hughes
Business Women To Attend Kiwanis Show
Members of the Shafter Business and Professional Women's club will attend the Second Annual Kiwanis Follies this evening after a regular meeting at Crawford's cafe. No speaker is scheduled, but committee reports are expected. The club women will adjourn to the high school gymnasium for the group show.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Business and Professional Women’s Club
Kiwanis
Mechanical Arts Club To Sponsor Dance At Shafter High
The Mechanical Arts club of Shafter high school will sponsor a junior dance tomorrow evening at the Wednesday Afternoon club house. The event is for high school students and their invited guests. Committee workers include Calvin Newton Phil Haag Leroy Witcher Earl Glenn Wade Hamilton Don Latta Don Lowen James Son Ben Myers Lloyd Suckut Charles Sanger Harry O’Neill and Bill Pearce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanical Arts Club
Shafter High School
Calvin Newton
Phil Haag
Leroy Witcher
Earl Glenn
Wade Hamilton
Don Latta
Don Lowen
James Son
Ben Myers
Lloyd Suckut
Charles Sanger
Harry O'Neill
Mrs Aaron Thiesen Honored At Armistice Birthday Party
Mrs Aaron J Thiesen was surprised with a party on Armistice day and her birthday as friends gathered at her home. Guests arrived singing Happy Birthday and shared refreshments and games. Two pictures and several gifts were presented to Mrs Thiesen. Attending were the Funk family Biloff family Henry Funk and sons Kurtz family Gottfried family Kurtz guest Aaron Thiesen and Roger Thiesen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaron J. Thiesen
Thiesen
Arlis
Henry Funk
Garry Wayne
Julius Kurtz
Wilma
Waldimore Gottfried
Vera
Richard Kurtz
Aaron Thiesen
Roger"Thiesen
Review Scheduled For Book Section Meeting
The play Skylark will be reviewed by H H Brock of Bakersfield at the book section meeting next Monday at 8 o clock evening. Brock, a former Richland elementary school teacher, will lead the event at the home of Mrs R A Jacobsen. Club women and guests are invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H.H. Brock
Bakersfield
R.A. Jacobsen
Brock
Richland Elementary School
Engagement of Shafter Man and Lodi Girl Announced
The engagement of Bily. Lachen maier of Shafter and Miss Thelma Eproson of Lodi was announced in Lodi. Miss Eproson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. For rest Eproson. Lachen maier is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lachen maier. No wedding date is set and the couple plan to marry later. Lachenmaier is in business in Shafter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bily. Lachenmaier
Shafter
Thelma Eproson
Lodi
Miss Eproson
Forrest Eproson
Lachenmaier
John ,Lachenmaier
Local Social News Highlights Regional Visits
Mrs Leonard Duck and her infant son return from Bakersfield and are at home. Frank Munsey and P L Bergen spent days visiting Mr and Mrs Whiting Martin who now live near Glendale in southern Oregon. Mrs Nellie Pitt of Long Beach visits relatives here. Mr and Mrs F W Haag of Martinez spend a couple weeks here with relatives.
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Leonard Duck
Baby Son
Bakersfield
Frank Munsey
P. L. Bergen
Whiting Martin
Glendale
Oregon
Nellie Pitt
Long P
Crawford's Cafe to Host Grand Opening this Sunday
Crawford announces the grand opening of Crawford's Cafe next Sunday with a special menu after 11 a.m. About 20 to 30 friends from Palmdale and Lancaster are expected for the event. The cafe opens daily at 6 a.m. and the special menu runs through the afternoon and evening.
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Crawford's Cafe
Jack Crawford
Crawford
Palmdale
Lancaster
Palmdale Inn
Antelope Valley
Kiwanians Plot Final Show Plans At Regular Meeting
Shafter Kiwanis club members finalized plans for their second annual follies at a noon luncheon. Mrs Ann Gorman served as show director and Bob Wardwell attended with visiting Kiwanians including John Ware.
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Shafter High School
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Crawford’s Cafe
Ann Gorman
Bob Wardwell
John Ware
Harvard to Build Giant Observatory for Eclipse Study
Harvard University will construct the world's largest astronomical observatory this summer in Colorado's Rocky Mountains at Fremont Pass. The facility, at 11 318 feet, will use a coronagraph to create artificial eclipses for regular study of the sun, corona, sunspots, and prominences, with a spectograph and motion-picture records to document changes.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Colorado Rock Mountains
Donald ‘Hh. Henzel
Harvard, Observatory
Climax Molybdenum Company
Fremont Pass
Climax
Cole
Henzel
Bernard Lyot
Indian Race Seen Dying Out Within Five Years
F B Zahn, Flying Cloud, Carlisle Indian School graduate and interpreter, predicts full-blooded Indians will vanish as intermarriage with whites increases. He argues Indians are becoming a memory, calling them copper men and noting cross-dressing can blur lines with Orientals. He contends the Indian came from Asia when Alaska and Asia were connected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orlando, Fla
F. B
Flying Cloud
Zahn
Carlisle Indian School
Hemisphere
Asia
Alaska
Italians Rebuild Gondar Castles in Ethiopia Restoration
The Italian government restores ancient Ethiopian castles at Gondar near Lake Tana. Rebuilding targets Portuguese era fortifications built for emperors from 1632 to the mid 1700s. Fasili das Castle houses the Italian governor of Asmara. another castle serves as the viceroy Duke d Aosta’s residence.
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Gondar
Ethiopia
Goa
Lake Tana
Fasilidas
Asmara
Duke d'Aosta
Italian scientist links planets to Biblical flood
Prof Raffaele Bendandi claims a flood happened in 2687 B C citing four new planets beyond Neptune. He argues planetary movements regulate the solar system and drive geological events, claiming scientific proof support for the Bible’s account of Noah’s flood.
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Rome
Raffaele Bendandi
Neptune
Surgeons Move Infant Heart Recovering Well In Ann Arbor
University hospital surgeons reported that a 10-week-old infant, Eleda Baumann, daughter of Theodore R. Baumann of Hope, Mich, was recovering and gaining weight after a complex operation three weeks earlier to move her heart from the right to the left side. The procedure, performed under anesthesia for over an hour, involved addressing an opening at birth that affected intestinal placement.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University Hospital
Eleda Baumann
Theodore R. Baumann
Hope
Curiosity Kills Bull Head First in Missouri
Blytheville, MO report: farmer Jerry Roche's prize Red Polled bull died from suffocation after curiosity caused its head to be stuck in a gallon straw bucket. The harder the bull fought, the tighter the container became until it suffocated.
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Blythedale
Jerry Roche
Roche
Giant Catfish and Sheep in Struggle
A Boulder Dam area tale claims a catfish four to five feet long swallowed the head of a live bighorn sheep at Lake Mead. Deputy Game Warden John Edwards cites tracks and whitening bones as evidence, while anglers use a submarine to hunt in modern fashion.
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Boulder
PAM
Ariz
John Edwards
Lake Mead
Boulder Dam
Edwards
Arizona
Man Bitten by Bookends in Cleveland Nonsensical Accident
John Donnelly, chief clerk of the municipal court, claimed his nose was bruised and swollen after being bitten by a pair of bookends while moving books. He said the bookends fell and he tried to push them back with his chin, but his nose took the impact.
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Cleveland
John Donnelly
Donnelly
Man Fights Illness Then Takes Own Life in Denver
Calvin Campbell aged 48 died after stabbing himself with a pocket knife kept by his bed while in an oxygen tent. He had suffered multiple illnesses including chronic stomach ulcers pneumonia and heart attack with nine major operations over recent years.
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Denver
Colo
Calvin Campbell
Campbell
Elected as Joke Woman Becomes Notable Police Chief
In Warren New Hampshire Mrs Dorothy Clark who was elected last year as a joke was re elected on the first ballot by a wide majority at today's town meeting She became New England s only woman chief of police and after enforcing the law began making arrests while earning public trust The townspeople also chose her overseer of the poor.
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Warren
N. H
Dorothy Clark
New England
Clark
Not Guilty Plea Pops Up Watch in Court
In Baton Rouge Judge J D Womack hears Charlie Williams a Black man plead not guilty to concealing and embezzling a woman's wrist watch valued at $25. Williams produced the watch to prove his plea.
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Baton Rouge
J. D. Womack
Charlie Williams
Williams
Funeral Service Tomorrow for Bender Baby
Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 2 p.m. in the Janzen chapel for Frederick August Bender five month old son of Mr and Mrs Edwin Bender. Rev R Klaudt will officiate and burial will be in Shafter cemetery. Surviving are the parents a sister Virginia Edna a brother Gerald Edwin and grandparents Mr and Mrs August Bender of Shafter and Mr and Mrs Fred Bender of South Dakota.
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Janzen
Frederick
August Bender
Edwin Bender
Golden West Avenue
R. Klaudt
Shafter ‘Cemetery
Virginia Edna
Gerald
Edwin
Shafter
Fred Bender
South Dakota
Floyd Burcham Tops Business Bowling League
Floyd Burcham led the Business Bowling League with a 557 pin total. Other results followed as the Neuman team placed, with Fri esen’s service contributing to the high scores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Burcham
Business
Friesen
Resignation of City Judge John Wells
John Wells tendered his resignation as Shafter city judge at Tuesday’s city council meeting. The 26 year old law school graduate had recently been appointed after F E Manuel’s removal to Sawtelle hospital and plans to move to New York for law enforcement work. No replacement has been named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Wells
Shafter
F. E. Manuel
Sawtelle Veterans’ Hospital
California
New York
Wells
Mr and Mrs Regier Visit Los Angeles
Mr and Mrs H W Regier motored to Los Angeles Saturday to visit friends there. They returned to Shafter Monday.
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H. W. Regier
Los Angeles
Shafter
Shafter Meeting to Discuss 1941 Agricultural Conservation Program
Farmers in Shafter will gather Monday at 2 p.m. in the American Legion hall to discuss the 1941 Agricultural Conservation program. Three community committeemen and delegates to the county convention will be elected. all farmers may vote and attend. J R Bright of Buttonwillow chairs the county committee.
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Shafter
American Legion Hall
J. R. Bright
Buttonwillow
Bright
Kern County Agricultural Conservation Association
Kern County
Pentecostal Gospel Mission Radio Program Set Sunday
A musical and speaking program by Pentecostal Gospel Mission members will air on radio station KPMC Bakersfield next Sunday afternoon at 3 oclock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentecostal Gospel Mission
KPMC
Bakersfield
Routine Business At Shafter-Wasco Irrigation Board Meeting
Directors Westenberg Nale Bender and Channeson met Tuesday afternoon at the Shafter district office for routine business. Engineer Althouse and Assessor Pritschke attended as listed.
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Shafter-Wasco
Shafter
Charles’ . Westenberg
John Nale
August Bender
A. P. Channeson
Irvin Althouse
Fred. Pritschke
Mrs Walker Ward Returns From Cleburne Visit
Mrs. Walker Ward came back last Thursday from Cleburne Texas after traveling due to illness and the death of her mother Mrs. E A Petty.
California population rise 21 percent in decade to 6,872,688
California’s population grew 21.1 percent from 1930 to 1940 reaching a total of 6,872,688 persons. The gain reflects migration and natural increase across the state.
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California
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R. McCarty
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H. Fast
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J. Wells
A. P. Ohn'son
P. Ohn’son
C. Black
A. H. Karpe
S. Stone
C. Neuman
B. Slagle
Hole
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H. Neuman
D. Loewen
J. Gaede
Lakewood's
P. V. McClure
C. Walton
E. Nikkel
S. Wood
J. Neuman
Union Oil
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J. Hunt
J. Boutwell
P. Welch
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H. W. Regiers
AAA
Charles Starrett
Marjorie Rambeau
Alan Hale
Annie
Claudette Colbert
Ray Milland
MY Love
Jean Parker
America
Texas
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Ene Sk Saad
Sean
Shafter Mercantile Co
Federated Stores
Union Congregational Church
Alfred T. Chandler
Christian Youth Meeting
Sam Lachenmaier
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