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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1937
Page
7
A religious lesson outlines Paul’s guidance from Titus on church order and holy living. It contrasts lost humanity by nature with salvation by grace through faith in Christ, urging believers to live meekly toward rulers and others as a living testimony.
A compact reflection on the secret pathos of nature and the melancholy inherited from Eve. The author argues this feeling is an unconscious memory of paradise and that humans would not be fit to fully enjoy or remain in another Eden.
A county committee met to promote a nationwide project by the American Home Economics Association. The goal is to bring home economics books to lay readers, expanding topics from food and nutrition to shelter health and social values. Miss Harriet G. Eddy chairs the national committee guiding wider circulation of books to the public.
Leonard Ratekin, star halfback for the McFarland Cougars, may miss the rest of the grid season after a broken ankle. If Coach Noble cannot find a running mate for Weaver, the Cougars risk losing championship form.
Shafter High School student body sends condolence to Tehachapi on the death of Milton Myers 15 star Tehachapi football player. Message from Shafter Student Body President Herbert Neuman expresses sympathy to friends and schoolmates and notes shared league sorrow.
The Richland Elementary School District board accepted Norval Fair’s bid for a new 60 passenger bus to be delivered around November 1. The all steel body features aluminum front windshield section and rear quarters, spring steel lazy back seats, and a Reo motor. The P and C body company at Newman manufactures the body and the chassis uses long springs for smooth riding.
Scattergood Baines writes to W H Hitchcock of the Kern County Chamber of Commerce praising the county and its merchants. He notes a Monday October 25 program on the Columbia Network will honor the area andBoosts to regional renown are hoped to spread further.
The Shafter high school athletic department ordered kidney pads for every football player to add protection alongside the existing guards. The pads will be worn for the first time in the Maricopa game at Maricopa Friday night.
Harry A. Hopkins resigns as chairman of the California highway commission to become assistant director of public works under state director Earl Lee Kelly. Governor Merriam appointed him. he will supervise the southern district from Los Angeles offices. Delano harvest festival planned October 14 to 16.
The Kern County Board of Supervisors will hear a report of viewers for proposed County Road No. 1006, sixty feet wide with thirty feet on each side along the center line from Section 27 to the Golden State Highway. The hearing is set for November 1, 1937 at 11:00 A.M. in Bakersfield. Non consenting landowners are advised to attend.
By order of the Kern County Board of Supervisors on September 27, 1937 assets and oil interests in multiple sections are allocated among Midway Oil Co Wear Wie Jacob Thomas General Petroleum Corp James A Maloney Ones Oil Co Lerdo Land Co and others with allocations in sections 27 26 34 35 and 28 including west and east halves and fractional parts. County Clerk F E Smith issues the order.
In Kern County California the Superior Court notices the administrator of the Marguerite Luders estate requests all creditors and claimants to present their claims to the administrator per the probate proceedings.
The Administrator at the law office of Peter Chenneson in Shafter Kern County California is designated as the place of business for all matters connected with the estate. Creditors must file their claims with vouchers within six months after the first publication of this notice. The Superior Court of Kern County appointed the Administrator A. P vt for the estate.
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