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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1942
Page
3
The Pentecostal Church of God held a fellowship meeting Monday with many visitors from southern California and Fresno. Digitalis, once imported from Europe, can now be furnished from plants naturalized in coastal Humboldt and Mendocino counties.
Bakersfield event raises over $200000 in war bond purchases during a victory luncheon at Hotel El Tejon. Col C W Pyle leads the program with Min ter Field Commanding Officer among participants Binnie Barnes Don Wilson and Ann Miller also attended. FBI San Francisco office noted as second largest in the nation by staff.
Maj Daniel O Webster Field's School Secretary announced officers aged 27 to 49 in the Army Air Forces are now eligible to attend regular bombardier navigation observation and gunnery courses at special service schools. Those 36 and older may serve only as ground instructors, with top qualified officers selected to teach to free younger officers for combat.
The dental department at Minter Field expanded with six new chairs, giving eight chairs total and a modern office. Captain A W Johnson noted improved capacity and efficiency, with five officers listed and a civilian hygienist arriving from Flint, Michigan to join the staff. San Francisco consumption data appears unfinished in the source.
Church notices list times for Prayer Circle at 6 30 p m and Bible study at 7 00 p m at Mennonite Brethren Church 400 Kern with pastor H D Wiebe and Jugend verein 8 p m Wednesday midweek prayer services Our doors open to the public especially service men Also First Mennonite Church corner Golden West Avenue and Wall Street hosts Arthur D Wenger 10 a m Sunday school and morning worship Builders Bible study at 7 p m
Herb Schirmer, a Shafter merchant, will represent the Shafter Kiwanis club at the California-Nevada district Kiwanis International convention in Los Angeles October 14 to 16. District governor Dean Hugh Jackson of Palo Alto, Dean of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, announced the theme Building for Humanity and Country guiding the event.
A three day Kiwanis convention in two western states will feature many qualified speakers addressing sessions on war effort phases and conditions affecting communities. Open discussions will cover how to meet dislocation and how service plans can aid the war effort. A major activity aims to revitalize youth movement in 157 Kiwanis communities.
In a historic midsummer milestone San Francisco postalists surpassed the million-dollar threshold. Meanwhile state run California workshops employed totally blind workers who produced goods valued over $800,000 last year much of it for the armed forces.
The notice lists worship times for Wasco churches with sermons on Worship and The Christian and Work. It notes a junior church at 10:50 and evening services at 7 with related prayer meetings. It also mentions St. John’s Catholic Church Ninth and Broadway and Sunday Masses at 7 and 9. It cites a broader claim that Womanpower is replacing man power in California industry at 25,000 a month.
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