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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1945
Page
5
Hitchcock and his uncle Dave Brewsley depart for a yearly hunting expedition in the Sierra west of Fresno. They expect other hunters to join as the season advances. The party plans to stay up to a month, hunting bear and deer. Pack mules will carry gear 40 to 50 miles into high country.
Major Arthur Clemens of Wasco spoke to Shafter Rotary about his Germany tour near the Buk Enwald camp. He described starvation, brutal treatment, and executions in concentration camps, noting German reluctance to admit Nazism and citing captured memorabilia and atrocities observed during his service with American troops.
Crum, previously division field representative for the San Joaquin Power Division of Pacific Gas and Electric, is named division superintendent. He will oversee construction, operation and maintenance of all gas and electric properties in the division and report to the division manager. Prior to moving to Fresno in December 1943, Crum served as superintendent of the Bakersfield Steam Plant for five years and was a power sales engineer in Bakersfield for four years.
Mrs Joel McCrum and Family thank the employees of Jacobsen Potato Shed Mettler Potato Sheds and neighbors for their kindness after their recent bereavement.
Marine First Sergeant Fred Heinrichs 26 of Shaffer was awarded the Silver Star by Major General Thomas Bourke for gallantry on Iwo Jima. He volunteered to lead a wounded platoon, crawled under heavy fire, hurled hand grenades into enemy emplacements, silenced them, and then returned to push the platoon to its objective.
Mexico operates 22 ocean ports with Vera Cruz and Tampico as the key Gulf of Mexico hubs. Vera Cruz handles major trade and Tampico serves as a leading commercial gateway along the gulf coast.
The world's tallest tree is a 364 foot redwood located near Dyerville in Humboldt County. It stands as a landmark specimen confirming California's giant sequoias and coastal redwoods reach extreme heights.
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