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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1938
Page
5
A Loyola Duffey report on Wheeler Syndicate Inc and WNU Service highlighting women in business leadership and industry impact. The piece profiles female executives, corporate growth, and market strategies shaping a modern business landscape.
Marilyn enjoys monetary freedom and fashionable pleasures while navigating relationships with Mr. Nelson the office manager and her Aunt Carrie. A sequence of dinners, dances, and social outings expands her world until betrayals and mixed loyalties threaten her plans and independence.
A London Answers Magazine piece catalogs places named after Satan across Britain. It lists Devil's Punchbowl in Hindhead Surrey and two others in the Scillies and near Killarney, plus Devil's Dyke, Staircase, Chimney, Frying Pan, Spoon, Bellows, Kitchen, Agglestone, and other formations linked to satanic lore.
The Daughters of the American Revolution planned ten foot high Madonna of the Trail statues as pioneer mother memorials along the Old Trails route from Baltimore to the Pacific coast. Each statue weighs five tons with a six foot base and a nine by two foot foundation, bearing inscriptions about the Covered Wagon Days and National Old Trails Road.
The Washington Star notes Leif Erikson led 35 men from Greenland around 1000 A D to a land he named Vinland due to abundant grapes. Historians debate landing areas from Nova Scotia to New England. no Norse forts or settlements are found, yet Norse sagas document the voyage.
The United States Bureau of American Ethnology asserts that nearly all tribes sustained defined regions, with limited exceptions, rather than roaming without a fixed home. Boundaries were traditional and rarely relinquished except to superior power.
The document lists multiple biblical sites mapped across Britain noting Jerichos Paradises Egypts Edens and recurring figures Nineveh Mount Zion Ararat Ephraim Calvary in Bedfordshire Jordan Hill Dorset Job's Hill Durham Land of Nod Moab's Wash Pot Noah's Ark and a collection of place names Jerusalem Bethlehem Gideon Gebron Joppa Herod Babel and Golgotha.
Abraham Lincoln reportedly declared that if vast attacks overwhelmed him, the shop would close for any other business. He said he would do his best and persist until the end, believing favorable ads could salvage his reputation despite criticism. If wrong, he asserted, ten swears would not matter.
Local Shafter police Chief Murray Arnold and Lawrence Baughman expand a city hall print file creating permanent state and federal records. Offenders and civilians are fingerprinted for identification, with copies sent to the FBI for nationwide access and safety.
Health and education aspects of the migratory problem in the state will be studied at a Fresno State college meeting on October 21. Plans call for 25 million dollars in federal funds to establish camp sites and build nearby schools. Sanitation will be monitored and migrants health checked regularly to reduce charity hospitalization costs and relieve burden on small school districts.
Beautiful Warner Brothers star Gale Page will be Kern County’s guest of honor during Bakersfield Frontier Days. She is slated to arrive in Bakersfield, with plans for events on September 29 and 30 October 1, announced today by the Frontier Association.
Harold K. Fox says a $125000 program to boost voltage and reliability in northern Kern County is near completion. Upgrades include doubling Famoso substation capacity from 1500 to 3000 KVA, expanding Lerdo step regulator, adding four 4000 KVA capacitors, and a new regulator station near McFarland serving Wasco and Famoso substations to provide duplicate service and better voltage.
Getty Well Ramsay No 3 on the George F Getty lease in the Shafter oil field drilled ahead Tuesday at 8 700 feet with operations smooth since spudding three weeks earlier.
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