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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1944
Page
7
The project will hold 6,000,000 cubic yards of concrete marking a major dam construction milestone while health data shows the United States records the highest diabetes death rate.
The USO Camp Shows network finances from the National War Fund and operates the world’s largest theatrical circuit for service members overseas. Most entertainers are at home-front camps, with 469 overseas, including vaudeville acts, singers, comedians, and dancers. Dinah Shore arrived in England to join the circuit, while Bob Hope tours the South Pacific under Chairman Mettler.
A group of young people from Shafter and members of Rosedale and Bakersfield churches spent last weekend at Greenhorn for the Mennonite Brethren Conference.
Les Hobson PhM 2/c departed Shafter on Wednesday ending a 10 day leave spent with wife Mrs Helene Hobson. Mrs Hobson accompanied him to San Francisco to visit her son Kenneth Crocker in the Navy. Redon Baker family spent Labor Day weekend at Pismo Beach. Marjorie Duncan Baker of Glendale visited Mr and Mrs E K Grant. Baker is the Grant’s niece.
Volunteers at the local ration board prepare the new A gas ration books which become valid on September 22. Miss Shirley Wilkinson reports strong cooperation and many extra volunteers and well filled forms aiding timely issuance. The Shafter ration board expects to issue nearly 3000 A gasoline ration books by September 22.
Demographic snapshot shows Hindus number 255 million making up 65 percent of India's people while Muslims total 94 million or 24 percent. The figures reflect the country's religious composition trends and distribution.
The notice outlines validity for Red Blue and Sugar Book 4 stamps, with indefinite validity for many items and specific expiration dates for sugar and home canning. It also notes Shoes Book 3 airplane stamps and Gasoline Book renewals, urging car owners to apply for new A books and listing application blanks at the board office.
J R Bright of the Kern County AAA Committee announces War Food Administration price support for 1945 beets, noting California averages about 13 50 per ton under the Sugar Act of 1937, higher than the national 12 50. He urges increased plantings to aid war needs and pay wage rates to attract workers, citing 1944 progress and pending congressional appropriation under the Stabilization Act of 1944.
Sunday visitors joined Mr. and Mrs. G L Starrh at their Shafter home. Present were Starrh's brother J E Starrh and his sister and family Mr and Mrs Weaver and son David, all of whom traveled from nearby.
Kern County Democrats announced opening of headquarters in Bakersfield to direct Roosevelt’s re election drive. Precinct workers will be organized for block to block voter convoys and outreach to farm, business and labor groups to register nearly 60 000 voters. A Get Out the Vote Week and women’s committees were to be proposed to Bakersfield City Council with a broad newspaper advertising plan for 310 precincts. Support for Downey was pledged to aid victory and peace.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Grant and daughter Laverne of San Diego arrived in Shafter last Thursday to visit Grant's parents Mr. and Mrs. E E. Grant. On Friday Grant left on a business trip up north, while Mrs. Grant stayed in Shafter visiting her sisters Mrs. Lachnenmaier and Mrs. Tip Henderson.
About a half million California citizens serving in the armed forces anticipate mustering out and returning to civilian life. The Veterans Welfare Board aids postwar reestablishment, following bond-issue patterns used in 1922 1926 1930 and 1934 to help veterans acquire farms and housing.
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