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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1939
Page
4
Miss Marie Cakin recounts travel from Germany to Italy with S I T A travelers. They tour churches, palaces, museums, and alpine scenery while shopping and riding trains. They note crowded sacred spaces, Bavarian culture in Innsbruck, and meals on the move as they proceed toward Venice.
A modern 18 by 50 foot poultry house will be built on the Shafter high school farm under an NYA project led by Glenn O. Nay. It will house 500 chickens and employ eight to ten boys, with 200 White Leghorn chicks ordered from Kimber Poultry Breeding Farm. The NYA plan also relocates 1,500 feet of irrigation and plants about 60 fruit trees for practical student experience, with trees to be planted in about 30 days.
A west side high line canal over 100 miles from Stockton to Mendota will carry the San Joaquin Pumping system linking Sacramento and San Joaquin valley water. The route preserves the river channel and supports delta exchange with Friant reservoir water movable to Madera Fresno Tulare Kings and Kern counties.
Union Congregational Church posts a Loyalty Sunday program with a 9:50 a.m. Sunday school, 11 a.m. worship led by Willing Workers, soloist Miss Marie Cakin, organist James Livers, and Rev. Paul A. Davies of Los Angeles as guest speaker delivering Beyond the Horizon.
St Johns Catholic Church at 9th and Broadway Wasco California led by Rev Owen McMullan offers Sunday masses at 8 am and 10 am Confessions are Saturday at 7 pm Weekday masses are at 7 am.
Edgar H. McAllister is pastor at First Baptist Church 289 East Lerdo Highway. Bible school at 10 a.m. P A Schmidt serves as superintendent. Morning service at 11 a.m. Sermon titled Distinctive Baptist Principles. Young People Crusaders Prayer League meet at 6 30 p m.
The Shafter Reformed Church invites the public to its annual mission festival on October 29 with German services 9 to 10, English 11 to 12, and a 7:30 p m German service. Rev G J Zenk will speak. choir and men's quartet provide music. Midweek prayer is 7:30 p m Wednesday. sermon at 7:30 p m What We See and What We Do Not based on Hebrews 2 5 18.
Kiwanians discussed the Shafter-Wasco game ahead with Wasco tomorrow as Coach Bill White of the Generals spoke on the challenges of coaching. The meeting also featured a Halloween report and related club business.
Laurence Baughman, parade chair, will stage the parade Tuesday evening. A White report on a proposed community show notes several plans under consideration.
The Chinook is a dry warm wind from west or north descending over the Rockies. It arises when a cyclone moves northward and lasts from hours to days. In Oregon and Washington the term also denotes a warm moist southwest wind named by Astoria settlers from the Chinook camp.
The Bank of the Manhattan Company began in New York City in 1799 and still operates from its original charter and address. The land once cost $311,000 and today the building owner pays $500,000 in annual rent to the bank.
Frozen meats and fish can be started while still frozen or after thawing. If cooked from frozen, allow more time than usual to ensure doneness.
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