Shafter Community News Roundup Highlights Local Visits
Shafter watchers report visits and trips of residents and former locals. Many followed drives to Tehachapi Fresno and Monterey while others gathered in Wasco and Bakersfield. Local hunts and ducks notes surface alongside a Mennonite conference in Rose Dale and UC Los Angeles Oregon game views.
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Oregon
Shafter
Jake Buhler
Dallas
Ore
Henry A. Warkentin
Buhler
Rosedale
Largest Class to Enter Lerdo Basic Flying School Arrives
The largest aviation cadet class will enter Bakersfield based Lerdo Basic Flying School on November 4, numbering 206. Class 42-C includes 110 from Ventura Flying Service and Southwest Airways Pip, 35 from Ryan School of Aeronautics, and 8 from Cal Aero Academy. The group will join others at Moffett Field Gardner Field Taft and Ontario for later training.
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Lerdo
Basic Flying School
Air Corps
Bakersfield
Pcavel
WAMU
WANT
VO Levitt Southwest Airways, Inc
Glendale
Arizona
Ryan School of Aeronautics
San Diego
Calif
Cal- Aero Academy
Ontario
Moffett Field
Gardner Field
Taft
California
Luke Field
Phoenix
Mather Field
Sacramento
Kern County
Wasco
Kern Golf Course Offers Low Rates To Lerdo Personnel
The Kern County Golf Course announces a special rate of 25 cents daily green fee on weekdays and 35 cents on Sundays and holidays. Open to officers, cadets, and enlisted men of this station.
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Kern
Lerdo
Kern County
Golf Course Access at County Park Closest to Kern County Park
The station promotes use of the nearby course at a reduced rate for personnel interested in golf, noting the location about four miles beyond Kern County Park and encouraging staff to visit.
Three Officers Are Given Appointments In New Detachment
Major Lee B. Goff Jr former commander of the 72nd Air Base Group becomes administration inspector of the basic flying school Lerdo Captain C W Braswell moves to command the 72nd group and leads the field defense force Lieut Paul R Brayton attached to the cadet detachment becomes commander of the 327th School Squadron Changes effective October 20.
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Lee B. Goff, Jr
72Nd Air Base Group
Lerdo
C. W. Braswell
327Th
Goff
72Nd Group
Paul R. Brayton
C. O
Fresno Business Visitor Seen in Shafter Monday
Siede Ed of Fresno was a business visitor seen in Shafter on Monday morning.
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Bakersfield
Emil Hein
Shafter
Ed. Siede
Fresno
Training Planes Moved to Permanent Concrete Apron
One hundred twenty training planes of the Air Corps Basic Flying School near Bakersfield were moved to a permanent concrete warm-up apron in front of the hangar. The field layout includes two sections with three 4,500 foot runways and a two-lane concrete apron stretching seven inches thick.
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Air Corps Basic Flying School
Bakersfield
Officers Halloween Party Set for November First
An officers party will be held Saturday night November 1 at the Officers Club Lerdo basic flying school. The event is a costume party with prizes for funniest and most original costumes and for best matched couple. Novelty numbers and contest games will be featured.
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Lerdo Basic Flying School
Wright Field Visitor Tours Base Testing AT-13
Lt Col Orvald Cook from Wright Field inspected the Air Corps Basic Flying School near Bakersfield last Wednesday. He piloted an AT-13 experimental plane being tested by the Army Air Corps. Wright Field remains the nation’s largest aircraft testing base.
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Orvald Cook
Wright Field
Air Corps
Bakersfield
Army Air Corps
United States
Human Heart Beat Rates Through Life
A medical note states the infant heart beats about 120 times per minute, dropping to 60-75 in adulthood. It cites typical values around 62 for men and 69 for women, illustrating how resting heart rate varies with age and sex.
Wasco Auxiliary Field Used for Routine Flights
The text notes that the section served as a subsidiary landing field, consisting of rolled and oiled runways. The sole auxiliary field currently used for routine flights is at Wasco.
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Wasco
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