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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1940
Page
4
In the Mexican colony south of Shafter a Halloween party was hosted at the First Baptist church. Alex Ustayillo led the event as recreation leader and organized various games in the church basement for attendees.
Members of the Khesma Klub held a regular meeting on October 23 at the home of Miss Rosie Unruh. Attending were Misses Edna Beese Vivian Bartel Edna Nikkel Rosie Unruh and Mesdames Frank Russell and Don Klingenberg.
Berry hosted members of the Shafter Business and Professional Women’s club for a dinner on the Berry lawn last Thursday evening. Thirty four attended. Hugo McKinley of Delano spoke on drawing wills. The club will close its charter member list on November 1.
New officers of the M. B. Sewing circle assumed leadership at a Monday meeting at Mrs. Leonard Gaede home. Edna Beese named president, Suderman vice president, Becker secretary, with Epp assisting and a buying committee led by Beese and Karber. Outgoing officers include Balzer president and Gaede secretary, with devotions led by Unruh and Becker.
Pupils in Miss Thelma Fisher Were awarded top honors in a Maple P T A membership drive recently completed at Maple school. The winning group will be placed on a trophy at the school. A new meeting of the organization is planned for November 8 with A Fy Isaac as president. A motion picture Shaw Holiday will be shown. Shafter Mennonite Brethren will sing. a piano selection will be offered by Enid Wmatey. Talmadge Hiebert will present a reading. Membership totals reached 67 persons.
A Wasco gathering hosted by M A S members for Mrs Darrell Janzen featured a table lamp gift and a social evening. Guests included Ernest Schnidt Laurence Annis Ray Mettler Walter Bergen John Siemens Leonard Gaede Harvey Gaede Durward Anis A Peters Harlin Wilson. Rose and Gladys Huston hosted a costume party with prizes for Muriel Kirkham and Phil Haag and guests enjoyed games and refreshments.
Rio Bravo reports Mr. and Mrs. Whiting Martin and daughter Marion left Tuesday for southern Oregon to establish residence. Mrs. Frank Munsey accompanies them for several weeks. Nearby, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Haag and sons visited relatives, and Mr. and Mrs. George Chaffin of Wilmington are visiting relatives. Leonard Duck announces the arrival of a son born last Thursday at Mercy Hospital. Carl Haag and Joyce, Jeannie and Phil spent Sunday with Visalia relatives.
A dramatization by Mrs S M Bobst’s primary class opens the Sunday school exercises with special Junior choir music directed by Miss Carole Pulfer. Junior choir rehearsals are Wednesdays at 4 oclock and open to all who enjoy singing.
Cast selected for the Kiwanis Follies to be staged November 14 and 15 at Shafter High School gym. Rehearsals begin Monday in room 14 at 7 30 with Miss Ann Gorman directing. funds will support the local Kiwanis charity fund aiding underprivileged children.
Seven Shafter Hi Y members joined a Y day event in Hollywood last Saturday. They rode a YMCA bus with Bakersfield youths to the Oregon U C L A football game and heard a lecture by actor Edward G Robinson. Local group members included Leland Bell Bob Curtis W R Cloud Jack Wilcoxon Charles Potter Don Loewen and Merton Wiedmann.
Funeral services for Lesly Gains Helm age 54 a Kern county pioneer and Shafter property owner were held Tuesday in Bakersfield with Rev John Murdoch officiating Charles E Wakefield Jr past exhausted ruler of B P O Elks Lodge No 266 read the Elks eulogy Helm died last Saturday in Los Angeles He was noted for owning land and city buildings and recently built the Helm building on Santa Fe way housing offices of several potato men.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces open competitive examinations for Senior and Junior Stenographers to be filed by men only. Vacancies may occur in California Arizona and Nevada with salaries from 1440 to 1620 a year less a 3 percent retirement deduction. Applications may be filed with the manager Twelfth U S civil service district room 119 Federal Office Building San Francisco.
Donald G. Morgan of Seattle has been appointed to Trinity College Hartford in Connecticut to teach European history. Morgan, who became blind at 17 after a fireworks accident, joins the faculty as an instructor.
Rotary club program featured motion pictures on paper production from logging to finish. Roy Nisbet and Ron Freeman of Bakersfield led the noon meeting of the Shafter Rotary. Tip Henderson was welcomed as a new member and a letter from Judge F. E. Manuel was read. Visiting Rotarians included W. H. Nicholson of Taft and A. C. Dimon of Bakersfield.
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Janzen parlor for Robert Lee Hammit one year old son of Mr and Mrs Tommy Hammit who died Saturday at Kern General hospital Bakersfield Interment was in Shafter cemetery
A regular Shafter Business Men's Association meeting was held Friday at noon in the Union Congregational church. Luncheon was served by the Ladies Aid at the church.
R Eugene Ford dean of boys announces collaboration with Science Research Associates to use its Occupational Information system. The program aims to answer most student job questions and guide occupation choice. SRA was created by educators as a national clearinghouse for vocational trends and opportunities, aiding thousands of schools.
Vocational guidance advocates report that educators are using new materials and methods to assist young people. The shift aims to improve career planning and technical training through updated resources and instructional approaches.
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