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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
2
Floyd Taylor of Coalinga connected with Superior Oil visits Shafter for business. Residents and visitors travel to Mojave Long Beach Santa Monica Delano and Santa Barbara.
Dick Arnolds of Stockton arrived in Shafter for an indefinite stay to oversee business interests. Howard Miguel of Richland faculty spent the weekend in San Francisco visiting parents and reporting a large Treasure Island crowd. Two carloads of Shafter hunters left for a week in southern Oregon. Canadian visitors Mr and Mrs B F Redekop and family arrive from Herbert Saskatchewan to stay about a month. Wasco Oddie lodge members plan Bakerfield lodge meetings with first and second degree work tomorrow night. J P Harris of Shafter serves as past roble grand of Bakersfield lodge.
A freemartin is a female calf born as a twin to a male calf and is sexually imperfect. The term explains a condition arising in mixed-sex twins in cattle.
Jack Hare, local inspector, reports about 12 percent of the potato crop remains in fields while roughly 20 percent of spuds hauled to sheds in the Shafter Wasco and Edison districts were dumped after prorate took effect. M L Thomas returns from San Francisco trip with his mother Mrs Bessie Thomas.
Richland's intramural touch football teams concluded the season with Bages first after six straight wins followed by Wildcats, Golden Bears, Drillers, Giants, and Cubs. This week teams switch to speedball. intramurals promote participation and sportsmanship with no school competition.
A well baby conference under the auspices of the American Auxiliary with local doctors and county health officials is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon between 1 and 3 o'clock at the Am. Assisting doctors and nurses will be Mesdames Glenn O Nay Clyde Bell and Jack Janzen. Members of the Auxiliary recently purchased a pair of scales to be used to weigh babies.
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