Garbage Pit for Rural Areas as Disposal Solution
Kern County Health Department outlines a simple garbage pit system for areas lacking waste service. pits of 2 by 4 feet and to any depth, with adjacent pits for rotation, a light cover, flyproof options, and easy construction using common materials. The method aims to reduce odors and replace burning practices with inexpensive disposal.
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Kern County
Department of Public Health
Kern County Health Department of Public Health
Maple Scout Troop 44 Plans Fall Winter Kickoff
Members of Maple Scout Troop No. 44 will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at the school to organize for the fall and winter season. Leonard Dorn scout master announces the event. Last year's high school attendees are invited. The Shafter Kiwanis club sponsors the troop and Kiwanis Scout committee members plan to attend.
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Maple Scout Troop No
Leonard Dorn
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis Scout Committee
Cooper Service At Pentecostal Church For Mrs Pearlie Cooper
Services were held Monday at the Pentecostal Gospel Mission for Mrs Pearlie May Cooper age 22 with Rev Thelma Edwards officiating. Interment followed in Shafter cemetery. She died in childbirth Saturday and her infant son died an hour later. Survived by husband William Cooper and one child. The family lived in the Shafter district for over a year.
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Pentecostal
Gospe Mission
Pearlie May Cooper
Thelma Edwards
Shafter Cemetery
Ruben Mettler Heads Forensic Club At School
Ruben Mettler was elected president of the Shafter high school forensic club. Calvin Gaede became vice president, Louis Rivers secretary-treasurer, and Hattie Mecham forensic manager. The group tentatively planned an interclass speech contest in October with John Walters as club advisor and coach.
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Ruben Mettler
Shafter High School
Calvin Gaede
Louis Livers
Hattie Mecham
John Walters
County to Acquire City Blocks for Park Sidewalk Project
City officials plan county sidewalk work around the county park in Shafter. Concrete sections now city owned must be deeded to the county before construction can begin. Steps will be taken to complete the transfer this week.
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Shafter
Paging Joe Louis Shafter Man Also Packs Wallop
G. J. Rieker of Shafter reports a field clash where two men were fighting and then attacked him. He used a flashlight and a gas pipe to subdue them and helped detain Jim and Leonard Doherty of Farm Worker’s Camp. They received 60 days in the county road camp after appearing before Judge H. A. Rightmire.
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Joe Louis
G. J. Rieker
Shafter
Louis
Rieker
John Reily
Jim
Leonard Doherty
County Road
Justice Court
H. A. Rightmire
Navy Seeks Recruits At Los Angeles Station
The United States Navy announced new recruitment in Los Angeles at the Main and Temple streets station. Eligible ages 18 to 31 for six year terms. former Army Air Force Coast Guard and others under 35 may enlist. Re-enlistments open to honorable discharged veterans within eight years. Seamen first class or fireman second class enlistment terms four years. Discharged men under special order to bureau.
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United States Navy
Main
Temple
Los Angeles
Army
Machine Corps
Coast Guard
Bureau
Shafter Business Men Meet Discuss Pension Plan And Delano Days
Routine matters at the Shafter Business Men's Association luncheon covered bringing in speakers on both sides of the pension plan for the November 7 vote and voter registration importance. The group decided not to participate in Delano Days Harvest festival in October and tabled sending a representative to a county economic council meeting after a letter from Harry Hopkins. Introduced was Irving E. Fike, who recently started a business in Shafter.
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Shafter Business Men's Association
County Economic Council
Harry Hopkins
Trvin E. Fike
Shafter
How Fatigue Affects Man Brain to Muscles
Fatigue starts in the brain and spreads to the nervous system before impacting the muscles. Early mental tiredness reduces focus and slows reaction times, followed by slower nerve signaling and ultimately diminished physical performance.
Neighbor's Desperate Plan Changes Night in the Building
Ella Caldwell stages a dramatic ruse to test Ed Mink by leaving Nancy with Mrs. Mink and claiming to visit a movie, while Mrs. Mink reveals dislike of babies and questions the affair. Ed returns to a tense dinner with Nancy and a kiss amid the confrontation.
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Ella Caldwell
Ella
Neddy
Alicia Graves
Nancy
Alicia
Eila
Mrs. Mink
Neddy Darling
Neddy Dearest
Irene
Eyla
Trapper Trapped by Own Bear Trap in Snow
Baptiste Pete, an Indian trapper, stepped into a bear trap while searching in light snow near Williams Lake B C. He was caught by the foot in the steel jaws and imprisoned for five hours before another trapper freed him.
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Williams Lake
B. C
Baptiste Pete
Crippled officer back on job after long recovery
Patrolman William McNearney of Schenectady returns to duty in the criminal identification bureau after months of pain and ten operations on his shattered left arm. He endured lengthy rehab and exercises and now predicts full recovery within two years.
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Schenectady
N. Y
William McNearney
McNearney
Law
Bureau of Criminal Identifcation
MecNearney
Cavearney
Old Con Game Hoodwinks Yale Professors
Two youths hoodwinked Yale President Charles Seymour and Dean Samuel W. Dudley in a fake bail scam. Professor Dudley lost $15 while Professor Whitbridge was approached with a $35 demand. Yale professor Arnold Whitbridge was not deceived. Louis Marmitt and Benjamin Rutstein, both 23 and 25, are jailed on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses.
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New Haven
Yale
Charles Seymour
University
Seymour
Samuel W. Dudley
Yale Engineering School
Arnold Whitbridge
Calhoun College
Whitbridge
Dudley
Louis Marmitt
Benjamin Rutstein
Voder Speech Imitator Traced to 18th Century Device
ST Louis reports the Voder, a speech imitation machine recently shown, was devised 159 years ago by Viennese scientist Wolfgang von Kemplen. Dr Max Goldstein of the Central Institute for the Deaf notes the Bell Labs design and a 1791 Vienna book describing the device.
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St, Louis
Max Goldstein
Central Institute For the Deaf
Bell Telephone Laboratories
Franklin Institute
Philadelphia
Goldstein
Wolfgang von Kemplen
Vienna
Kemplen
Europe
Fresh Air Prescription From Mary Warner in Fremont
Ninety year old Mary Warner of Fremont Ohio says longevity comes from plenty of fresh air. She notes simple breathing and outdoor time as the key to a long life.
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Fremont
Ohio
Mary Warner
California unit of National Cotton Council opens Fresno HQ
The California unit of the National Cotton Council of America will open headquarters in the Hotel Californian Fresno on October 1. The move follows state unit setup this week to boost domestic cotton consumption through publicity and research into new uses such as road construction. The organization funds come from voluntary bale and ton assessments totaling about 250000 dollars, with officers listed and ten San Joaquin Valley cotton men on the fifteen member Board of Directors.
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California
National Cotton Council of America
Hotel
Californian
Fresno
Harry S. Baker
National Council
State Unit
Stat
Charles E Wakefield, Jr
Bakersfield
Fred Sherrill
Los Angeles
Marty S. Baker
Norman R. McLaughlin
San Joaquin Valley
L.W. Fricks
Tonwillow
F. J. McCarthy
Tulare
C. C. Selden
Walter Busby
W. D. Griffin
Charles E. Wagefield, Jr
Walter Simpson
H. G. Thompson
W. B. Coberly
R. A. Jensen
W. A. West
Phoenix
Arizona
China as Anniversary Gift The Twentieth Year
The era marks the twentieth wedding anniversary with china as the most common gift. Couples often exchange durable china sets and decorative pieces to celebrate two decades of marriage.
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China
Disincorporation Hearing set for Shafter case in Bakersfield
A Friday session in Superior Court with Judge W L Bradshaw continued the disincorporation hearing for the city of Shafter to October 16. Petitioner Joseph Subbar is represented by W C Dorris. the city by A P Charleson and W A Howell of Bakersfield.
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Superior Court
W. L. Bradshaw
Bakersfield
Shafter
Joseph Subbar
W. C. Dorris
A. P. Charieson
W. A. Howell
Brush Fire Burns West of Calder’s Corner
Firefighters responded to a Sunday alarm west of Calder’s corner near Shafter. About 35 acres of grass and 40 acres of brush owned by Kern County Land Company burned in the spread.
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Calder’s Corner
Shafter
Kern County Land Company
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