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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1940
Page
8
Teddy Newman saves a drowning girl, Betty Lyons, after she fakes a deathly plunge to meet him. Their sea rescues spark a romance culminating in an engagement and Betty revealing a swimming championship silver cup.
Washington experts say European naval lessons will reshape U S strategy and ship design. Secretary of the Navy Charlie Edison urges stronger superstructures on large warships. Pacific patrols, Caribbean threats, and Pearl Harbor’s role frame a defense prioritizing stealth, air and undersea threats, while destroyers and anti aircraft defenses rise in emphasis.
An observation notes the hummingbird flap rate at 55 beats per second during hover and 75 beats per second during rapid movement in bright air.
In Gallup New Mexico traders report Navajo households increasingly rely on canned goods. Navajo women are adept with can openers while meat, corn, and goat milk make up limited local foods. Typical meals feature coffee mutton stew canned tomatoes and wheat bread with watermelon and soda.
Cambridge Massachusetts Prof Murray P Horwood of MIT says public health programs have raised life expectancy to 62 years for men. He forecasts further gains with smallpox typhoid and diphtheria likely eradicated this generation and tuberculosis cut 75 percent while infant mortality falls by half.
Mrs. Sadie Tuxford seeks an analysis of her two year old apple tree that has blossomed five times this year and produced four crops of fruit, an abundance beyond normal expectations, prompting agricultural curiosity.
In Bradford England a saloon party filled a pew at St Marys church as the vicar faced a dominoes challenge. If he lost beer would be the stake. if he won attendees would endure church service for the drinkers.
Florence Arizona reports say an abandoned Spanish gold mine of unbelievable wealth may lie in the Superstition mountains. Prospectors Marion Walker and explorers Barry Storm and Walter Upson discuss the find and compare it to the famed Lost Dutchman mine, noting cave-like tunnels and timbering.
In Boston a Belmont two year old girl, Carol Hunt, nearly choked on a toy Easter rabbit spring. Dr. Joseph Factor used a clothes pin to keep her mouth open during transfer to Cambridge Hospital. She nearly suffocated again en route, but Factor and a police sergeant revived her with artificial respiration. The spring was removed at Boston hospital.
Cambridge Massachusetts reports civilization in North America as nearly 25 000 years old not 5 000 as once thought. Geology professors Kirk Bryan and Louis L Kay found stone implements in Lindenmeier valley Colorado fossils and Harvard experts assessed the age of the tool users. The culture layer aligns with a geologic event 25 000 years ago, dating the implements.
Fay Eberly of Dublin Ohio began recording births deaths and marriages in 1878 at age twelve. He now extends the ledger to nearby villages and its pages are often used by children of former Dublin residents. He calls it a personal hobby and enjoys reflecting on the town's history.
Bridgeport news reports a thief struck Oliver's Stratford Avenue yard three times in a month stealing bathrobes towels stockings and two pairs of women's garments. Oliver taunted the thief in a note inviting him to return to match the upper garments.
Gen George C Marshall told senators the army plans a Alaska National Guard as part of a new defense program. He cited a 12 million dollar appropriation and said units could form in Seward Anchorage Fairbanks Ketchikan and Nome with support from federal armories. He noted Alaska’s native population and expected broad citizen enlistment.
SPRING HILL KAN L. H Snyder owner of Mijo Telephone company with over 200 subscribers and 24 party lines encourages rubbering listening in on neighbors conversations. He argues it aids in emergencies such as sickness, fires, and missing cars and can spark help and social planning among neighbors.
Shafter California hobbyist Ralph Short collects carved replicas of famous weapons. His models include a Haiti duel knife, a Chinese dagger, a 1912 Marines machete, John Wesley Hardin’s gun, Wild Bill Hickok’s revolver, an English pistol, a Roy Bean prisoner’s cap and ball derringer, and an early Colt.
Warsaw New York Wyoming county's prison farm once cost taxpayers a daily dollar per inmate. Sheriff Lewis Spring started a farm system three years ago. The 227 acre operation now covers costs and generates a small profit from surplus crops.
In Becccles England the war emergency committee of the local council bans early rising roosters for the duration of the war.
In Hays Kansas Ignatz Lang a 71 year old Romanian native who was once blocked from marrying his first love has remarried now to the daughter of that old sweetheart. The second Mrs Lang is 25 years younger than him.
Funeral services for 59 year old Bertha Choate were held this morning at the Janzen chapel. Mrs Choate died Monday at Kern General hospital in Bakersfield. Surviving are her husband Charles A Choate and four children Lucille Ruthie Delbert and Wanda. Interment followed at the Home of Peace cemetery in Porterville.
S Fernandez of Eastside and Coors topped the Commercial League with a 591 series, including games of 237 203 and 151. The Brewers rolled a team total of 2554 pins as Eastside and Coors shared top honors this week.
Funeral services were held yesterday at the Janzen chapel for Cecil J. F. Willis three day old child of Mr and Mrs Cecil Willis The Reverend Thelma Edwards officiated interment was in Shafter cemetery The child died Tuesday at the Strauss home Surviving are the parents a sister Alice M Willis and a brother Jay Lee Willis
At noon on April 3 1860 the first pony express rider left St Joseph Missouri carrying a letter from President Buchanan to the California governor.
At the start of the year farm horses were at a 60 year low and mules at a 30 year low. Soft chinchilla fur is exceptionally fine with a single follicle producing up to 80 hairs.
The article notes that cocoa seeds once functioned as money in many Mexican regions and that valued beverages made from the beans were affordable only to royalty, highlighting cocoa’s historic prestige and economic role.
Mrs. Katherine E. Graf, 49, died at her home three and one half miles west of Shafter on Tulare Avenue after a sudden heart attack Friday. Services held at Seventh Day Adventist church with Elder L. S. Melendy officiating. Interment in Shafter cemetery. Survivors include three sons Dolos Leland William Jr and three daughters Frances Velma and Imogene, plus father Conrad Spady and multiple brothers and sisters.
Doris Jean Smith, 11 month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Otis Smith, died Monday. The Rev Sam Wilcoxon officiated with interment to follow. She is survived by her parents a sister Sybil and four brothers Earlen William Melvin and Bob with Gene the latter a twin.
John Dalke with teammates Sie mens and Hitchcock topped the Produce League at Neuman alley posting 167 183 168 for a 518 series. Results were listed for the week with high scores by Dalke and others.
The Aleuts, a native race of the Aleutian islands, are estimated at about 3 000 persons.
Berlin reports a British convoy destroyed in the north Atlantic. Italy’s Centaur division annihilated by Greeks. Empress of Japan disabled by bombs. City of Rayville sinks after striking a mine. Chamberlain dies. Molotov and Hitler meet as arms deals surge. Draft and airplane plans dominate U.S. headlines.
The 1941 sugar beet acreage allotment deadline is moved from November 15 to December 1. J R Bright, chairman of the Kern County Agricultural Conservation Committee, announces the extension after Kern County was reclassified into the southern counties group.
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