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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1940
Page
7
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts selected and copyrighted by the International Council of Religious Vocations, used by permission.
The article presents Luke chapter 2 as a study of Jesus growing from boyhood to manhood, emphasizing growth in body and spirit, obedience to parents, and readiness for his divine mission. It contrasts Jesus normal childhood with his later obligation to serve God, and urges children to seek daily companionship with the Son of Man while noting the symbolic value of maturity and grace. It also includes a separate short column praising Old Glory and civic sentiment, urging respect for the flag and national anthem.
The fragmentary OCR reads on sports smacks and high school talk, voting options for November, Wendell L Willkie, car headlights safety, community needs, and a joking note about conscripting women. The text mixes local sports chatter with broad civic musings and light humor.
Experimental sugar beet harvesting equipment developed at the University of California will be tested in Colorado beet areas this month. Roy Rainer says a variable cut beet topper and vibrating lifter will be shipped for Colorado trials alongside three commercial harvesters to harvest about one hundred acres.
The night school at Shafter High School reopened its adult physical education program this week with 22 participants. Ninety enrollees are in typing and 28 in first aid, as Eugene Ford notes that enrollments continue with seven weeks left in the session. Classes meet Monday and Thursday evenings from 7 to 9.
Twenty two adult volumes arrive in the first of the month shipment from the Kern County Central Bakersfield library. List includes Equality Bellamy My America Gibbons Fruit Out of Rock Gillmor Rocky Bend Gregory Man in the Saddle Haycox Black Sombrero MacDonald With Spurs Mann Angels in the House Norris Windy Range Ogden Guns of the Round Stone Mountain Roe American Merchant Marine American Bureau of Shipping Down to Earth Cronise Field Book of Western Flowers Armstrong Happy Birthday to You Gardner Story of 20th Century Exploration Key Circling the Caribbean Marvel Blue Jacket Buenzle Beyond Horizons Ellsworth From Cowhides to Golden Fleece Underhill We Lindbergh Old Jules Sandoz Sidelights on American History Elson.
Kern County Farm Bureau directors met at the Bakersfield agricultural building to hear reports from the National Reclamation association meeting in Montana and discuss county agricultural matters and membership. Attendees from Shafter and Rio Bravo included A. W. Eckmann, Jim Haag, and W. E. Haag. Membership drive dates were set for November 25 to December 5.
In Rossland British Columbia a former auto mechanic named D A Lins transformed the Midnight mine from a beleaguered hope to a potential province leading gold producer. After leasing the failing mine in 1958 Lins rebuilt workings and machinery, finding a new vein that yielded vast sums including 12060 in one shot and 32000 from a 400 pound ore shipment. In little more than a year he earned over 100000 and now owns the mine, hailed as a possible provincial treasure. The tale reinforces the old miners’ maxim that gold is where you find it.
Pasadena man James R. Pharres 26 invents a sport teeing a 22 caliber cartridge with a golf club. A cartridge exploded when the primer was struck and bullets were aimed at a garden wall. His wife used a mashie and the cartridge backfired injuring her calf. Police advise using a golf ball.
Golden Colorado report: George Parfet aged 49, secretary treasurer of George W Parfet Inc a major clay mining firm, exploded a box of dynamite and died three hours later. He told onlookers I was in a jam as he lay on the operating table before death.
John Hume of Milton lost his watch while plowing a field. He sold the farm years ago, and his son James, now working for the current owner, turned up the watch in the same field while plowing.
Warren C. Thompson, Shafter High School faculty member, describes the National Academy of Physical Education in Germany built around the 1936 Olympic site. He notes rigorous training for men and women, facilities, and a focus on track, swimming, boxing, and weight lifting, while contrasting German and British programs.
Plans to form three bowling leagues in Shafter with 20 teams are moving forward this week. Bill Neuman invites interested players to contact him at Cafe Neuman as league classifications are finalized. Play is slated to begin next Monday at Neuman alley with a new bowling establishment already drawing high scores.
Dr. Paul Grosshuesch president of Mission College Plymouth Wisconsin will address the Evangelical Reformed Church at morning and evening services next Sunday In observance of the Mission festival he will speak in German at 11 am and in English at 7 pm with a sermon on Mission College Special music will be by the church choir Public invitation extended by Rev Klaudt.
A Farm Center meeting will be held Thursday evening at the Rio Bravo school with Albert Lane presiding. Attendees will hear reports on roads hay cotton cattle hogs and the Home Department and 4-H club activities.
The speaker states British prefer joy in play while Germans adopt the American idea of winning. He asserts Germans are stronger by race, but British appearances mislead and history shows they muddle through. Thompson introduced by Rotarian E P Jones. guests include Gene Harrison Fresno G H Sullivan Delano Fisk Harlow Bakersfield.
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