Air School Grad Clarence Shults Receives Metalsmith Rating
Clarence Woodrow Shults son of Mr and Mrs C E Shults graduated from Aviation Metalsmith class at the Naval Air Technical Center Norman Oklahoma. He earned Aviation Metalsmith third class and will be assigned to a naval aviation unit afloat or to a naval aviation station. In civilian life he worked as an automobile metal worker.
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Clarence Woodrow Shults
C. E. Shults
Aviation Metalsmith
Naval Air* Technicaling Center
Norman
Oklo
Shults
Norman Soon
Navy
Naval Aviation
Kiwanis Fetes Ladies With Grand Canyon Motion Pictures
Corwin Hansen Santa Fe public relations representative presented fur colored motion pictures of the Grand Canyon. E. H. Gamegan chaired the day. Guests included Louis La Duce manager of Paramount Manufacturing and Chester Bartlett Kern County Boy Scout executive and Bakersfield Kiwanian also attended.
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Grand Canyon
Corwin Hansen
Santa Fe
Hansen
E. H. Gamegan
Louis la Duce
Paramount Manufacuring Company
Chester Bartlett
Kern County
Bakersfield
Cuest
Sulphur Dust Helps Prevent Chigger Attacks in Warm Weather
The article advises daily fine sulphur dusting on bodies and clothes to protect against chigger bites in grassy areas. Prompt baths after exposure, soap lathers, and rinsing help remove chiggers. Soothing measures include ammonia or salt solutions, bicarbonate mixtures, and caldian new skin. seek medical antisepsis if infections occur.
Cotton and Alcohol Form Cold Resistant Plastic
Robert J. Metzler reports ethyl cellulose made from cotton and alcohol creates a plastic that withstands very low temperatures and up to 175 degrees Fahrenheit. The material insulates airplane engine wires in subzero air and is used for aluminum parts, produced by a leading cotton linters supplier.
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Robert J. Metzler
Metzler
Aged Redwood Tells Its 1200 Year Story in Rings
Berkeley forestry associate Emanuel Fritz recounts a 1200 year old redwood fallen on March 13, 1933. The giant tree stood 310 to 320 feet tall, four to nine feet in diameter across eras, and would have yielded 95 000 board feet of lumber weighing about 500 tons. Its rings reveal fires in 1595 1789 1806 1820 and a 1147 fire scar. Root and sediment clues show seven great floods raising ground level over 11 feet and a prehistoric flood leaving 20 feet of silt forcing a new root system.
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Emanuel Fritz
Berkeley
University of California
England
America
How to Clean Crabs Alive and Quickly
The guide explains keeping crabs alive until cooking and a quick method to kill them. It details stabbing between the eyes, removing the mouth eyes and gills, loosening the sand bag, lifting the ventral apron, extracting the fluid bag, then washing and drying the crab in about a minute.
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Co-Ordinator of Fisheries
Musicians of the Fifth Regiment in Bel leu Wood Battle
Musicians attached to the famed Fifth Marines turned back the German advance at Belleau Wood in 1818 and served as stretcher bearers, medical aides and messengers under fire. Many earned decorations for heroism, with some never returning to their instruments.
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Fifth Marines
Belleau Wood
Fifth Regiment
Bitsy the Hen Becomes War Martyr in Food Drive
In South Bend Indiana a White Rock hen named Bitsy owned by Mrs. Frank Boner of Mishawaka laid a seven ounce egg with dimensions seven and a half inches around and then died. The hen is cited as a martyr to the war effort and increased food production.
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South Bend
Ind
Century-Old Survivor Defies Nazi Camps With Living Spirit
New York report profiles Mrs. Mathilde Wertheimer a 100 year old Holocaust survivor who endured Gurs camp in the Pyrenees 1942 43 and now despite hardship remains active and outspoken. She refuses a wheelchair walks the Hudson by day and keeps a sharp humor despite memory of camps and family losses.
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New York
Mathilde Wertheimer
Europe
Gurs
Pyrenees
Berthe Schwab
Hudson
Wertheimer
Rose
Sophie
Casablanca
Dog unearthed body of missing veteran in Calico Rock
In Calico Rock Arkansas a dog digging in dirt uncovered the body of 43 year old Charles Durant a missing World War veteran. Deputy prosecutor Harris filed first degree murder charges against Durant's wife Armanda Rose Durant and her daughter Mary. Police in Romeo Michigan arrested Mrs Durant. A coroner's jury found Durant died by violence with a pistol bullet in his head.
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Calico Rock
Ark
Harris
Armanda Rose Durant
Mary
Romeo
Mich
Durant
Rodman
Little Rock
Veterans Administration
Mother of Yank Soldier Finally Sees Guadalcanal Newsreel
Mrs. S. L. Wilson fainted four times before her 17 year old son Melven Lee appeared in a Guadalcanal newsreel at a Kansas City theater. She described the moment as a split second when he smiled and saluted the camera, his rifle handling noted. She plans to attend every showing.
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Kansas City
Don’t Get Excited Catch on Honeymoon Quail Bill Tale
A Charlotte honeymoon couple dined in a small restaurant when the bridegroom received extra quail on the house. The scene included plentiful sides and coffee as the proprietor urged another serving. The odd bill came to 50 cents, recalling a 54 year old memory.
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Charlotte
N. C
Manne Lewis H. Johnston
Inisced
Protect Winged Heroes Protect Winged Heroes
A wartime notice from the 1310th Signal Pigeon Corps at Kern County Airport urges safe conduct around homing pigeons trained for overseas combat use. It notes thousands of birds fly over the valley learning their role in war, while stressing they harm crops carry no disease and look unlike common birds.
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1310Th Signal Pigeon Corps
United States Army Air Forces
Kern County
Protect the Army Pigeons and Lifesaving Carrier
A brief item urges protection of Army pigeons and warns that careless actions could aid the enemy. It stresses pigeons as lifesavers in military operations and calls for responsible handling to ensure their safety and effectiveness.
Wiebe Heads Youth Parley at Kern County Revival
Elias Wiebe of Shafter chairs the Kern County Christian Fellowship Revival Conference to be held September 4 through 6 at Greenhorn Mountain Park. Joel Wiebe serves as vice chair with Evelyn Hiebert as secretary and Arnold Liesch as treasurer.
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Elias Wiebe
Shafter
Joel Wiebe
Kern County Christian Fellowship
Greenhorn Mountain Fark
Evelyn Hiebert
Bakersfield
Arnold Liesch
Henry Lepp
Theodore Heinrichs
Willis Reimer
Rosedale
J. N. C. Hiebert
H. D. Wiebe
Frank Peters
H. Sepp
J. E. Kroeker
Henry Kliewer
Paul Richert
H. H. Nikkel
Vacation Plans for Sanders in Pasadena
Mr and Mrs Paul Sanders will leave Saturday for Pasadena to spend a five day vacation.
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Paul Sanders
Pasadena
Back From Sun Valley Pharmacist Second Class
Mrs. Ralph Janzen returns from a Sun Valley Idaho vacation with her husband who is stationed there. Mr Janzen has just received the rank of Pharmacist Second Class.
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Ralph Janzen
Sun Valley
Idaho
Mr. Janzen
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