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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1939
Page
3
Thanksgiving 1930s scenes fill Shafter as residents host and visit relatives in Bakersfield Tehachapi Long Beach and other towns. Notables include Mr and Mrs Angres Green Miss Arlene Bokemper Elmer Songer and Elmer Klassen with numerous extended families and friends from San Jose Lindsay Corcoran and Mountian View.
Wasco residents Mr. and Mrs. Moman Durrett were in Shafter Sunday visiting friends. Thanksgiving guests at Lohr home included Lois L. Berry and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Partridge of Shafter. Roy Dillingham and family celebrated in Dela no with his parents. S. C. Van Norman of the U S Chamber of Commerce visited Shafter and Kern county. Elsie Mannel recovering from appendix operation at Alameda Sanitarium. she spent Thanksgiving in Bakersfield with her father Judge F. E. Mannel of Shafter.
Mr and Mrs H Rogalsky Miss Lydia Rogalsky of McPherson Kansas and Allen Bartel left Shafter for Kansas after attending the funeral of Z C Bartel Allen Bartel will finish work at Bethany College in Lindsborg Kansas
Home of Mr and Mrs Elvin Mankins hosts Mr and Mrs H B Howard and family. Also present were Mr and Mrs Marvin Williams and family and Mr and Mrs Martin Mankins and family with Paul Mankins from Visalia and Mr and Mrs Robert Howard and family from Vestal.
The San Joaquin Valley Oil Producers Association hosts its annual dinner in Bakersfield on December 6 with Frank Buttram of Oklahoma City as keynote speaker. Buttram, newly elected president of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, will discuss national tax and regulation issues facing the industry. Dana Hogan will deliver the association’s annual report, and local and state oil concerns will be addressed by other speakers. The event, at Hotel El Tejon, includes directors Allen Jergins William Keck Jr R A Bloomfield Jr A L Marsden and E E Pyles.
Shafter Business Men's Association met at Cafe Neuman to approve street decorations and a children’s party at the Shafter theatre before the holidays. Apples for gifts come from Waville growers and walnuts from the California Walnut Growers' Association.
Mayor Phil Channeson, injured in a hunting accident near Wood Lake on the Sacramento River, is expected back in Shafter next week. Reports from Sutter Hospital in Sacramento say he is progressing well and his foot is healing.
Global consumption of wood pulp for rayon and staple fiber leaps from 50 000 tons in 1925 to 950 000 tons in 1937, an increase of 1 900 percent, signaling expanding textile raw material demand and industry growth.
The individual is expected to spend several days at Woodland before returning to Shafter, as part of his ongoing itinerary.
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