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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1942
Page
2
In Shafter the only local business institution to mark Columbus Day was the local branch of the American Bank. The American Legion post also acknowledged the holiday by decorating the business section with the Stars and Stripes. Outside these gestures, business activity appeared normal.
Larry Frazier a Wasco furniture dealer has enlisted in the Air Corps and joined the Minter Field band. A World War I veteran and longtime musician he is well known to friends in Shafter awaiting news of his service with the armed forces.
The first Tu Bahi Camp Fire Girls meeting met October 8 with sponsor Mrs. Phil Channeson present. Officers chosen include Joyce Bender president Carolyn Leedom secretary Donna Baughman vice president and Jean Bartel song leader. A Halloween party is planned for October 22.
Mrs Karl Gunnnarson and Mrs Cecil Golding hosted a layette shower last Thursday at the Gunnarson home on Orange street honoring Mrs Judson Appley. The guest of honor received numerous useful gifts from attending guests and others unable to attend. Attendees included Miss June Lachenmaier Miss Elsie Bergen and Mesdames Elmer Anderson Ernest Panero Jack White Kenneth Howell Frank of honor.
Dr. Lawrence H. McGrane spoke to Richland P T A in the school cafeteria on American Patriotism and the duty to vote. He urged voting for capable leaders, noting sacrifices of service members overseas. The program included song, a flag film, and remarks on funding for the local YMCA drive.
Lt. Col. Louis W. Proper announced two auxiliary fields at Famoso and Semi-Tropic have been reopened after paving. With this completion Minter Field now has three fully paved auxiliary landings, with Dunlap Field as the third.
Members of the Business And Professional Women group convene at Mrs. Floyd Er on Lerdo Road for dinner at seven, followed by a business session. The week features observances with the Shafter club joining a nationwide event. Representatives include Mrs. Floyd Codner and others. activities include observer posts and local drives.
The Couplers of the Union Congregational church held a work party to place hymnal racks on church chairs. Wives served beef stew and apple pie after the project. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Pipkin and son Gordon, Mr and Mrs Wesley Burford and son Jimmie, Mr and Mrs David Powell and son Mickey, Mr and Mrs David White, and Rev and Mrs Alfred Chandler.
Army calisthenics occupy most of the boys physical education program at Shafter High School in cooperation with the national Army fitness plan. Students are tested in pull ups, broad jump, standing backward jump, pushups, sit ups, 75 yard dash and 20 foot rope climb. meeting a designated standard advances a student from private to captain, with Christmas expected to bring a small squad achieving captain rank.
A jumble of captions features Captain C Vanda of Hollywood signing a photo for his recently divorced wife and a note by Dr J Whitcomb Brougher of Los Angeles, plus remarks by Preston Sullivan and S F sports columnists. Archbishop John Jitty Los Gatos comments on global conflict and First Lieutenant Agnes Kutac at Fort MacArthur praises a new nurse order amid wartime experiments.
Women run many of the 45 passenger interurban buses serving the San Francisco Bay region. They handle routes, stops, and passenger safety as part of a growing municipal transportation effort.
A reminiscence of a selectee recalling basic training in Class A and the move to Class B. He describes registering with a milkman as registrar, mispronunciations, uniforms that barely fit, an underwear inspection in freezing weather, and marching to Australia. The narrator recounts seasickness, a mistaken identity with a brigadier, trench life, and the joke about facing 10,000 Japs. The tale ends with a morgue detour and a nurse interlude.
Intramural rugby to replace the football season at Shafter High due to transportation problems. Captains named from gym classes, with co captains listed for each period. Thirty players per class to compete. rugby described as a fast 15 a side game. interclass schedule set to start Friday with period I against VII and II against IV.
Four hundred San Francisco postal employees have left for the armed services or war industries, reducing city mail operations and prompting temporary replacements and backlogs as the war mobilization continues.
Shafter High School enacts new attendance rules after a faculty meeting led by Principal J H Porterfield. Students must attend daily to support the war effort, with makeup work assigned for all absences and readmittance slips required. If a home excuse is missing for three days, the absence is treated as a cut in grades.
Berkeley historian Dr. Robert J. Kerner warned at a New York conference that Germany faces a massive disaster next spring and summer from external attack and internal revolt. He said a second front in Europe could signal Nazi collapse and sparks of European uprisings against the Nazi regime.
The article argues Germany faces near internal collapse and warns that Britain and the Allies gain momentum as 1942 wanes. It cites three fundamentals: Germany near political strain, allied strength, and strategic peril for Hitler.
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