Shafter Area Residents Travel Visit And Life Notes
Local residents and families from Shafter and surrounding towns are noted for travel visits, guests, and community events. Highlights include trips to Culver City Santa Monica and Burbank. visits to Corcoran and Lemoore. hospitality for visitors from Visalia Bakersfield Dinuba and Stockton. and plans for campus and club activities.
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Burbank
Mrs. Vernon Pierce
Southern California
Culver City
Santa Monica
Take Over At High School
Officers of various classes at Shafter high school have taken over duties with the opening of a school. Elsie Dahl heads seniors, Russell Stone juniors, Kenneth Burkhart sophomores, and Jack Wiebe freshmen. Additional junior officers include Rosewell Daniels and Mu riel Kirkham.
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Shafter High School
Elsie Dahl
Russell Stone
Kenneth Burkhart
Jack Wiebe
Glenn Bender
Kathleen Janzen
Patricia Stringham
Ivan Mettler
Rosewell Daniels
Muriel Kirkham
Treasee
Betty Bayless
Walter Rodgers
First House in San Francisco Built by Captain Richardson
The first house in San Francisco was erected in 1835 by an Englishman named Captain William A Richardson. The early settler is noted for establishing the settlement's initial dwelling and signaling a new era of growth in the region.
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San Francisco
Willian A. Richardson
Cotton Ginning Season Progresses Amid Late Pick
Ninety bales ginned across local gins in a week with D Moore leading at 66 bales, Shafter-Wasco 22, Camp-West-Lowe 2. The season is several weeks late and crops are green and moist, slowing ginning and reducing expected yield. Cotton prices rebound to 1.25 per hundred pounds picked, easing labor concerns though few pickers have appeared.
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Moore
Moore Gin
Shafter-Wasco
Camp-West- Lowe
Gas line contract awarded for 16 mile 18 inch pipe
Southern California Gas selects Macco Robertson for a 16 mile 18 inch gas line from Grapevine ridge to the Rio Bravo transmission line. Project cost around 400000 with completion planned before November 15. The line boosts capacity toward Los Angeles and adds 20 million cu ft daily from San Joaquin valley fields.
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Southern California Gas
Macco-Robertson, Inc
Grapevine
Rio Bravo
Paloma
A. B. Newby
Gas Company
Foot Neck
Los Angeles
Tha
Dewey
Wseeland
San Joaquin Valley
Junior Class Party At Shaf To Include Box Supper
Junior class members plan a box supper and scavenger hunt in the near future. Invitations are being extended to seniors.
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California Scholarship Federation
Shafter High School
Shaf
California Farmers Reliant on Vineyard Livelihoods
About thirty thousand California farmers depend on vineyard products for their living. The note highlights the central role of vineyards in the state’s agricultural economy and suggests broader impact on rural communities.
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California
Man Chases Autos Ends Up Jailed in El Paso
El Paso police jailed Ricardo Corona after he repeatedly chased moving cars to avoid danger from his own reckless actions. Authorities ordered him to quit nightly clubbing, but he continued the dangerous behavior, leading to his confinement for safety.
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EL Paso
Ricardo Corona
Corona
Crash in Flight Ends in Double Death at Wichita School
Two student pilots William D. Woodward and John K. Blanpied died after a struggle for control of a two seat trainer. Coroner Bowman cited notes indicating Woodward intended to crash. The aircraft crashed in a meadow near the airport after a brutal in-air fight.
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Wichita
Kan
William D. Woodward
John K. Blanpied
Lang P. Bowman
Woodward
John Knightly
Blanpied
Alphabet Takes on New in War Uses
London editors report that wartime letters from British boys include initials such as C.Y.K. and S.W.A.L.K. with meanings like Consider Yourself Kissed and Sealed With a Lover’s Kiss. The piece notes a playful primer of government A B Cs listing groups like F A N Y and W A A F among service abbreviations.
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London
C.Y.K
T.H.F
S.W.A.L.K
F.la.k
A.b.c.s
F.A.N.Y
W.A.A.F
Women's Auxiliary Air Force
W.V.S
Women’s Volunteer Service
A.T.S
Navy, Army, and Airforce Institute
English Hamlet Girls Compete For Tommies Deluge
In Bridgewater Somerset two girls eyed soldiers billeted locally and resorted to stealing coats they could not afford to buy. A solicitor told the court village life has quickened tempo due to soldiers and girls' strong wish to look attractive. Both defendants were bound over by the magistrates.
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Bridewater
Somerset
England
Bridgewater
Heart on Right Side But For Army It’s All Right
Los Angeles report of Yukio Honda a 27 year old American born Japanese man with a heart on the right side and a liver on the left. Doctors found he was in perfect health and sanction him for military service as one in a million.
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Army
Los Angeles
Yukio Honda
Japaene
StacAreest
Calif
Honda
Lovers Part in Silent Hollywood Home
Grant endures a cold goodbye as Charlotte prepares to leave their Hollywood marriage after a costly, starry ascent. He clings to memory and a favorite poetry book, watching her depart while grief and desire mingle amid the unanswered questions of their strained union.
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Charlotte
Mabel
Grant
Pearl
Seniors Win Student Card Sales Contest at Shafter High
The senior class will have its name engraved on a cup as winners of the annual student body fund contest. Enrollment shows 54 percent of seniors, 41 percent of juniors, 33 percent of freshmen, and 28 percent of sophomores purchased cards, with 39 percent overall. Edna Wycoff
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Shafter High ‘School
Edna Wycoff
Sixty Students Attend First SHS Dance
Approximately sixty Shafter High School students attended the first school dance Saturday evening. The hall featured Spanish style decorations as the Spanish Club sponsored the event. Kenny Burkard entertained the students with several guitar solos.
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Shafter High School
Kenny “Burkhard
California factory payrolls rise 73.4 percent since 1940
California August 1941 payrolls grew dramatically from August 1940, showing a 73.4 percent increase across factories. The surge reflects wartime labor demand and shifting industrial activity in the state between the two periods.
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California
Vernon Grant Draws Colliers Magazine Cover
Vernon Grant drew the cover for the current Colliers magazine issue. He is the nephew of E. K. Grant of Shafter and resides in New York City. Grant has worked as a commercial artist for several years and his Collier’s covers have appeared before. He attended McFarland school and is known to many older Shafter residents.
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Colliers Magazine
Vernon Grant
E. K. ‘Grant
Shafter
Grant
New York City
Collier's
McFarland
Civil service driving jobs posted this week
Driving positions open under Civil Service include chauffeur driver storekeeper and property and supply clerk with varying grades. Full information available from John Roskam at the Shafter post office.
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U. S. Civil Service
John Roskam
Shafter
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Safeway
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Airway Coffee ‘Nob Hill Coffee
Welch's Grape Juice
Reminane Juve Libby Tomato Juice
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Nalley's
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