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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1940
Page
2
The Nation four issue announces Thursday publication from 169 Central Avenue Kern County California. Advertising rates listed for space and duration.
William Allen White argues in favor of Wendell Willkie over Franklin Roosevelt. He contends Willkie has the better brain and practical experience, while Roosevelt relies on inherited wealth and government expansion. White casts the race as a side by side test of temperament and approach.
A Kansas education proposal aims to teach Intelligent patriotism by comparing Democracy with totalitarian governments. The plan, prepared by leading educators and veterans groups, will study dictatorships and the lives of Americans under democracy, with a call for open discussion to counter propaganda.
The article reports Nikola Tesla claiming a new teleforce beam could disable aircraft at 250 miles. A $2,000,000 plant could produce the beam, with a dozen plants along coasts. Tesla seeks sole government work but insists on independence from experts. The piece also notes road signs in Southern California and shifts in dance trends, plus a fuzzless peach breed by Hoffmann.
The piece rebuts rumors that Wendell Willkie sympathizes with Nazism, noting claims are unfounded. It emphasizes his German ancestry and family history, and cites his U S enlistment in 1917 as evidence of his opposition to Hitler.
The piece links Wendell Willkie to fighting the Ku Klux Klan in Akron and cites his 1924 Democratic convention activity. It traces family military service, immigration roots, and a lifelong stance against autocratic rule, weaving ancestry into his Allied cause support and New Deal critique.
W. B. Camp of the United States experimental farm at Shafter is transferred to a post in Georgia effective the first of the month. Camp, famed for cotton planting work, is hospitalized after duty injuries. F. W. Herbert will lead the Shafter staff in his stead. Camp plans to leave once he is discharged.
The California division of motor vehicles calls motorists to note a 1929 cutoff on muffler cutouts. The rule bans use on any vehicle on public highways except fire and police equipment and forbids driving a car with a cut-out that can be used.
E. K. Grant takes over local management from John Post. S. E. DeRackin, ex The Progress editor, visited Monday to finalize matters before returning to Hollywood. Katherine Kohfeld returns to Shafter after a San Francisco trip. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Diehl, visiting Shafter six months, depart for Peoria Heights Illinois. They are parents of Mrs. J. L. Lorenz of Shafter.
Ward attendant and leather and canvas worker positions are open in the civil service. Full information may be obtained from John Roskam secretary of the U S civil service board of examiners at the Shafter post office.
A noon Friday meeting of the Shafter Business Association addressed routine agenda items during a regular luncheon at Ruhman’s venue.
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