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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1960
Page
2
California farmers possess about 174000 automobiles 149000 tractors 130000 motor trucks 10000 grain combines 8000 hay balers 3000 field forage harvesters and 640 corn pickers. Some 5000 mechanical cotton pickers cost more than two pricey cars and are now operating in the state per the California Farm Bureau Federation.
The Junior-Senior Prom is titled The Loveliest Night of the Year and scheduled for May 21, 1960. No time or venue set yet. The junior class sponsors the event with Gloria Yamamoto as decoration chair and Karen Morse as publicity chair. Brent Roberts leads entertainment and Carolyn Kittredge handles refreshments. Budding helpers include Bert Fuller, Lower Todd, Elliot Gartrison, and James Stone assisting in preparation.
SHS principal Arthur H Johnson travels with Dr Grant Jensen and district officials visiting San Jose San Francisco University of California Fresno State Colorado and Wyoming colleges to interview future teachers. About ten candidates are interviewed per hire and yearly visits rotate to different colleges to refresh SHS teaching personnel.
Students from Mr. Jim Stone’s biology classes toured the Shafter Experimental Station three miles north of Shafter on February 25. They studied wild versus tame cotton, cotton development, soil fertilizer testing, and crop-destroying insect prey. The group viewed hot house experiments and watched films for a Channel 29 segment airing March 26, 1960.
The cost of living index in Bo livia rose fifteenfold from 1945 to 1955, while Paraguay experienced a similar surge in the same period, reflecting broad postwar inflationary pressures and shifting local economies.
Governor Edmund G. Brown announced near the close of the 1960 Legislature that he will cut individual items to balance the budget after the session. The amended budget totals 2.481 billion dollars, with lawmakers boosting state employee and academic pay. The special session will decide how to implement further cuts and other items, including higher education and veteran bond issues.
Mr. Chuck Van Blair’s drama class spent six weeks preparing four plays. Three were shared with second period English, including Shakespeare’s Ladies with Phyllis Smith as student director and cast members Kay Schellenburger Louise West Marilyn Barnes and Jane Harrison.
Charles F. Baze, long-time Shafter resident and retired trucking contractor, dies at 69. Services were at Nazarene Church chapel with interment at Shafter Cemetery. Surviving wife Virgie and a large family a total of four sons, five daughters, three brothers, one sister, twenty-eight grandchildren, and six great grandchildren.
The Women of St Mark's gathered at the Cooper home on a Monday evening. Mrs Roy platesongs led the minutes and a raffle for a rum sale was planned for May 14 at 135 North at 7:30 am. Mrs Douglas will collect textiles and items. Little reviewed Cry the Beloved Country. Rev Edward Key shared musical selections from Lost in the Stars and Beth Van Blair led a South Africa economy and sociology talk with Edward Key and P L Arnold co hosting next at the Vicarage.
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