Cadet Class 42-8 Begins Basic Course
Aviation Cadet Class 42-B arrives at Lerdo from Phoenix and Oxnard to start basic training. Lt. M A Anderson explains dual aims of officer training and flight proficiency as cadets log 60 hours of primary flight and plan 70 more in Lerdo. Cadets will spend 110 hours in ground school with others reported to Moffett Field Sunnyvale Gardner Feld Taft and Ontario.
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Lerdo
Southwest Airways, Inc
Phoenix
Cal-Aero Training
Oxnard
M. A. Anderson
Aviation Cadets
Moffett Field
Sunnyvale
Gardner Feld
Taft
Ontario
California
Screen Stars Host Soldiers at Bel Air Party
Don Davis and Bruce Maylor among guests at a Bel Air party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond with Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond. Ten UC L A coeds attended as dates for soldiers and sailors from the 4th Air Base squadron and the 324th School squadron. The event included a steak barbecue and games under USO auspices and will be repeated biweekly.
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Don Davis
Bruce Maylor
Pvt
B4th Air Base Squadron
324Th School Squadron
Jeanette MacDonald
Gene Raymond
Pvt. Davis
Eagles Plan Large Initiation Class at Wasco
A 25 member Fraternal Order of Eagles initiation class will be inducted in Wasco on October 17. The Wasco committee led by Les Moore handles arrangements and extends an urgent invitation to Shafter Eagles to attend.
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Shafter
Order of Eagles
Wasco
Les Moore
Shafter Egales
Horseshoe Collector Keeps Vast Trove from Famous Horses
Edward H. Clucker of Cleveland Ohio describes a collection of more than 1500 horseshoes from well known American horses. He claims to produce a shoe from every famous gelding and lists Twenty Grand Cavalcade Man o War Greyhound and Pony the move horse among his finds. Ellen Kerr and Katie Cook former residents of Shafter visited this week.
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Edward H. Clucker
Cleveland
Ohio
Ellen Kerr
Katie Cook
Shafter
Epitome of The Week's News Aimed at Axis and Allies
A sweeping circa wartime digest notes Nazi advances and setbacks in Europe and Ukraine, U S ship losses to U boats near Brazil, and Soviet Nazi battles in Russia. It mentions Japanese maneuvers in Indochina, strikes on U S flags, and fights around Leningrad Kharkov. Also cited are church liberty in Russia debates, domestic economic and political turmoil, and local California items such as a Bakersfield tragedy toll and state stock show profits.
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Crimea
U. Svair
Iceland
Ukraine
U. S
Teutons
Dinepalac
Hitler
United States
Axis
Russia
Brazil
Leningrad
Kharkov
Indo
China
U.S
Stalin
Yugoslavia
Brooklyn
AFL
Seattle
Constantine Brown
Louis
Brandeis
Yankees
Solons
Kansas City
White Mountains
Indiana Steel Company
Stanford
Garland
Monterey
Wheeler
Benedict Arnold
Paul Limberger
CIO
Hugh P. Donnelly
Senate
Fresno
Kern
Shafter
Bakersfield
Kern Fair
Saco
Santa Fe Rail Detector Car Demonstration in Shafter
A Santa Fe detector car visited Shafter on Central avenue where a moving warning device drew crowds. The rail car combines a motor vehicle and a small box car with a dynamo to graph rails as it travels. Operator W W Tannahill inspects tracks to find defects not visible to the eye. The unit covered Bakersfield to north of Wasco recently, capable of about ten miles per day.
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Shafter Press
Santa Fe
Central Avenue
W.W. Tannahill
Bakersfield
Wasco
Shafter High Oratorical Preliminaries Announced
Shafter High sets preliminaries for the year’s intra school oratorical contest in the week of October 27 with freshmen and sophomores versus juniors and seniors. Semi finals follow in November with four to six minute speeches. Forensic club sponsors all speeches and lists future contests including Sierra League in March Bankers Lions and Native Sons events. Californians drink seven times as much wine per capita than other Americans.
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Shafter
Sierra League
Bankers
Lions
Native Sons of America
Shafter High School
Forensic Club
The
United States
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Moscow
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Yankee Stadium
Ickes
Charles Lindbergh
Wyoming
America
San Francisco
Chiriatown
Santa Fe Rail
Folger’s Coffee
Justesen
Libby’s
Libby
Sean
Prune Jones
Graney Tunes
Heo
Shaan Can
Lsc
Tissui
SCO
Boston
Mary Taylor
Sades
Igen
Saxki
Sellefleur
Stee
Formay
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