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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1944
Page
5
Church notices for Union Congregational and East Lerdo Highway feature morning and evening worships on Sunday with Sunday School at 9 45 and 11 00 am. Activities include Baptist Youth Fellowship at 7 00 pm and an 8 00 pm evangelistic service plus midweek prayer and Bible study.
Orval Seago pastors the Church of the Nazarene West Lerdo inviting attendance at Sunday School 9:45 A M worship 11 00 A M N Y P S 7 00 P M evening service 7 45 P M with motto Fortitude defined as quiet self possession and duty amid adversity.
Rosedale M B Church announces Sunday School at 9 45 am and church service at 10 45 am. Evangelist Rev A P Koop begins meetings at 7 15 pm with Christian Fellowship at 8 00 pm Monday through Friday.
Daily church schedule lists 11 00 am sermon by Rev Pp N Hiebert and 8 00 pm evangelistic services by Rev P N Hiebert with evening prayer circle and Christian Fellowship at 6 30 and 6 45 respectively. Services continue through the week.
Rev. Owen McMullen, pastor, issues a new schedule with Masses at 7 30 am in Wasco 9 00 am at the Women's Club building in Shafter and 10 30 am back at Wasco Confessions are offered Saturday evenings and before Sunday masses.
Staff Sgt. Lawrence W. Leach, son of John T. Leach of Shafter, completed 27 missions as a ball turret gunner on a B-17 in Europe and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross along with the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters. He told the Shafter Press the news came from a War Department release and that his squadron flew missions over Politz and the Ruhr Valley without enemy fighter attacks. Leach left England in October for the States and plans another tour, hoping to return to England.
More than five hundred miles of farm electric power lines were certified for approval by Kern County AAA committees in the first six months of 1944. About four thousand applications covered new or expanded services for farms, with 70 percent for irrigation power and 17 percent for livestock ranches.
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