Shaffer Pilot Undergoing Surgery After Desert Crash
Mel Vaux, 32, of 413 Munzer Street, is in surgery at Fresno Veterans Administration hospital for a badly broken right arm from a crash near LanCaster while piloting an Ercoupe on a flight from Minter Village to San Bernardino. Passenger Ralph Baehr of Selma sustained facial cuts and lost seven teeth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lancaster
Mel Vaux
Shafter
Ralph Baehr
Selma
Vaux
Veteran’s Hospital
Fresno
Munzer Street
Fresno Veterans Administration Hospital
Desert
Minter Village
San Bernardino
San Bernardion
Baehr
Janice
Winter visitors and social notes from Bakersfield area in the 1920s and 1930s
A series of brief social mentions records April 1925 travel in a Hupmobile by Glen Thompson, August 1932 Bakersfield visitors the Gwin family, Christmas 1924 with Elizabeth Neufeld and the Janzen couple, May 4 1925 dinner guests of the Wedges and Smiths. Canadian winter visitors in fall 1936 include Mr. and Mrs. Radekop and family of Herbert Saskatchewan, in-law couples of Rev. Bestwater and Neu feld, Menno Bergon and family of Wasco, and Willems of Waldheim Saskatchewan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. R. Gwin
Bakersfield
Thomas Wedge
Frank Smith
Shafter
B Radekop
Herbert
Saskatchewan
Radekop
Wm. J. Bestwater
TI. I. Neufeld
Saskatoon
Menno Bergon
Wasco? Ant
Willems
Waldheim, Schowarte—Tie-Pereoah
Be Peters
Private Wood Visits Parents Before Report to Presidio
Private Robert Wood son of Dr and Mrs Rodney Wood of 444 Faber Street has visited his parents prior to reporting to the Presidio of San Francisco where he was recently assigned He was inducted in June and sent to Camp Pickett Virginia for training later moving to Fort Sam Houston Texas to train as a medical laboratory technican at Brooks hospital
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Robert Wood
Rodney Wood
Faber Street
Presido
San Francisco
Wood
Camp Pickett
Richmond
Virginia
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
Medical Laboratory
Coast Counties Gas and Electric Becomes PG and E Customers
The Coast Counties Gas and Electric Company merged into Pacific Gas and Electric Company with a California Secretary of State ownership filing Tuesday. About 139,283 gas electric and water customers became PG and E customers, and service continuity was unaffected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Counties Gas and Electric Company
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Pg&e
Secretary of State of California
Coast Counties
PG&E Rates Apply For Shafter Residents
The Shafter area is served by Pacific Gas and Electric Company and residents face only PG&E rate increases. The Shafter Press notes an inadvertent publication last week misstating Edison Company rate changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Press
Edison Company
Shafter
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Coast Counties joins PG E in interconnection and merger
Coast Counties utilities in Santa Cruz Watsonville Gilroy Hollister Capitola San Juan Bautista Tres Pinos and Morgan Hill become integrated into PG E. Jack K Horton former Coast Counties and Pacific Public Service president becomes PG E vice president. Other Coast Counties executives and staff join PG E. Pacific Public Service subsidiaries Natural Gas Corporation of California and Gas Lines Inc. are acquired by PG E.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Counties
Pg&e
Jack K. Horton
Pacific Public Service Company
Sutherland
Santa Cruz
Watsonville
Gilroy
Hollister
Capitola
San Juan Bautista
Tres Pinos
Morgan Hill
Pacific Public Service
The
Natural Gas Corporation of California
And
Gas Lines, Inc
Thrifty Shopper Continues With Baby Gifts and Old Spice
The column describes a shopper carrying a bundle of cute baby items and a gaggle of Old Spice aftershave at McClure's Drugstore. Hal McKusick demonstrates products while the author enjoys the aroma, noting the economy-sized Old Spice offer for one dollar. The piece ends noting a stop at The Post Office Market on the return trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
McClure
Hal MckKusick
McClhure’s
Shafter Press
Baby
Elizabeth
King’s Department
Legion Women To Meet Tuesday In Memorial Hall
The American Legion Auxiliary plans its first fall meeting Tuesday evening at 8 in Memorial Hall. Delegates will report on the convention, and members will be initiated and take office. Rehabilitation projects include gifts for veterans hospital gift shops. District President Mrs. Nora Hayes will visit Shafter on Sept 21. Mrs. Yvonne Wipf and Mrs. Elmer Eckert will travel to Delano for a meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion ‘Auxiliary
Memorial Hall
Elmer Eckert
Shafter Group
Delano
Mrs Wilder Returns From Sterling Ill This Week
Mrs Grace Wilder returned this week from Sterling Illinois aboard the San Francisco Chief. She resides with her son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs Maynard Wilder at 347 East Marengo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace Wilder
Sterling, Ill
San Francisco
Maynard Wilder
E. Marengo
Kern County Uranium Exhibit At State Fair
Kern County shows uranium ore from Miracle Mining Co near Miracle Hot Springs in its State Fair exhibit. Taft operators Killmer and Mann and Bakersfield’s Musick supplied the specimen, highlighted as California’s first commercial uranium shipment. The display, built under Peter Gilli Jr and Keith Skidmore, emphasizes “Twins of the Soil” with other minerals, petroleum items, and gold and silver ore, and travels to Sacramento after the fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
Kern County Board of Trade
Board of 7
Miracle Mining Co
Miracle Hot Springs
Kern River Canyon
George Killmer
Brooks Mann
Taft
Chris Musick
Bakersfield
California
John Gills
Board of Trade
Gilli
Pacific Coast Borax Co
Boron
Moonolith-Portland Cement Co
Tehachapi
Kern County Oil Information Committee
Burton Brothers
Tropico
Rosamond
Kern County Fairgrounds
Peter Gilli, Jr
Keith Skidmore
Sacramento
Southern Sales Co
Soil — Agricul
Also Mentioned on This Page
Shaffer
Glen Thompson
Elizabeth Neufeld
Henry Janzen
Ernest Kincaid
Hig
R. F. Wood
Mod
Kern St
Shafter, Calif
Private Robert Wood
Butch
Shafter Paint Store
Ovenglans
Silhouette
Olympic
Central Ave
Pg&e Coast Counties
Legion
State Fair
W. W. Alving
W. R. Johnson
W. R. Winton
Oil Information Committee
Glenn Hallock
Wasco City
H. W. Kelly
Charles Grimm
R. W. Bovee
James Radoumis
Park & Recreation
Shafter Truckers
Kern County Baseball League
Wasco Dons
Trackers
Kern Municipal Athletic Association
M. A. Scales
Ernest Adamson
Jack Thomas
Shamrock Cleaners
State St
Kelly & Somers
Your
W. B. Hawthorne
Calif
George Globe
Chester Avenue
Leeds
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