Local Visits and Planning Notes From Shafter and Bakersfield
Don Klingenberg and family spent the weekend at Santa Ana visiting the home of his parents Mr and Mrs A A Klingenberg. John W Eckhardt a Bakersfield county office official planned educational film scenes at Shafter High School. F Latta attended a Kern County Historical Society meeting to discuss publications including Life of Edward M Kern by H A Spindt and Alexis Godey by Latta with Roy Loudon Hal Bannister Gretchen Knief and William Van Ewert involved.
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Shafter
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Don
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John W. Eckhardt
Bakersfield
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F. Latta
Kern County Historical Society
Roy Loudon
Hal Bannister
Gretchen Knief
William van Ewert
Society
Edward M. Kern
H. A. Spindt
Alexis Godey
Latta
Shafter High Launches New Physical Education Programs
A new PE program started at Shafter High included tumbling boxing track and basketball with 26 boys in the tumbling class led by F F Latta and A B C basketball teams coached by Bill White Jon Wilson and R E Gates. Eugene Ford leads track and boxing. A Girls league pie sale raised funds yesterday. The department of commerce notes false teeth exports are lucrative with about 41 million annually.
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F. F. Latta
Bill White
Jon Wilson
R. E. Gates
Eugene Ford
Girls’ League
Department of Commerce
America
P T A President Attends Tehachapi District Meeting
Mrs. C. A. Merrill presides at PTA district meeting in Tehachapi. Leo Hart county superintendent of schools was a caller at the school Monday. Edward Haag Oscar Rice and Carl Haag attended a Farm Bureau membership meeting in Bakersfield. Mr and Mrs Wallace Merrill of Sierra Madre were holiday guests in the C A Merrill home.
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P.T.A
Tehachapi
Leo Hart
Edward Haag
Oscar Rice
Carl Haag
Bakersfield
Farm Bureau
Mrs. Wallace Merrill
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Mennonite Brethren Plans December 3 Baptism
Plans are underway for baptism ceremonies on December 3 at the Mennonite Brethren church. Eight candidates are ready for the rite to be held at G. J. Siemens residence on Lerdo road west of town.
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Mennonite Brethren Church
G. J. Siemens
Lerdo Road
Old Dobbin Losing Ground On American Farms
George A Bell of the University of California predicts a continued decline in horses used on U.S. farms. He cites 1940 USDA Farm Outlook figures showing a steady drop in farm horses since 1913 due to increased mechanization small crops and disease.
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Old Dobbin
United States
George A. Bell
University of California College of Agriculture
Bell
United States Department of Agriculture
Farm workstock numbers and colt production trends 1932–1938
By January 1 1939 there were 10 800 000 horses and 4 382 000 mules on U S farms. From 1932 to 1937 increased colt production slowed the decline in workstock numbers. In 1938 colt production fell again and is now well below the level needed to replace aging stock.
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United States
Colt
Postoffice adds brick walls to Shafter building
Brick walls for the addition at the back of the Shafter postoffice are up this week as work on the project progresses.
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Shafter
Handel Advances Work on Post Office Building
Building progresses as F. W. Handel, owner of the post office building, leads the project.
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F. W. Handel
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