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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1946
Page
12
The Shafter Press discusses the Cross Country Highway Association and its goal to promote a transcontinental route. Difficulties in completing it exceed those faced by the Central Valley highway, but early recognition could attract substantial federal aid and military consideration, speeding construction for Kern County.
Coach Lowell Todd announced Shafter High will play a full 1946 grid with three new opponents Lindsay Exeter and Pacific Grove joining the slate. The season includes games with Avenal Fowler Sierra League foes McFarland Tehachapi and Maricopa plus the Wasco rivalry.
A fragmentary ad lists tools and hardware including ladders hose axes sledge hammers picks handles brass fittings builders hardware tacks pipe and bench. The reader is left with incomplete items and no clear sale or date.
Plans for Richland School’s third all school play day set for Saturday April 6 from 2 P M to 6 30 P M The event features boys and girls track and field events with a 5 P M picnic and weiner roast Winners receive printed ribbons in light and heavy classes.
Herbert C. Goldman veteran of both world wars announces bid for the California Assembly in the thirty-ninth district. He has filed on both major tickets and backs veterans’ issues and public service. Goldman, a Taft native now in Bakersfield, cites law training and Army service as qualifications. He names E. C. Emmons head of the West Side committee and plans a Shafter chairman.
The Panero theatre chain expands to nine with the Poso in Wasco. Frank Panero and his sons Ernest and August run multiple venues including Shafter Delano Reedley and McFarland. A third Delano theatre is nearing completion and set to open this summer.
Dr Taylor Tabb a Shafter dentist for seven years died early Monday in Gilroy from a sudden heart attack He was born in Mississippi in 1887 and trained in California after graduating from dental college His career carried him from Tuolumne to Corcoran Gilroy and Shafter Survived by his widow a stepson and a stepdaughter and linked to Masonic bodies including the Shrine
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