Shafter Flower Festival Elects New Exchange Club Officers
The Shafter Exchange club elected new officers at Cafe Neuman on Tuesday. Officers named were Orvin Mettler president Wm Lachenmaier vice president A J Zimmerman secretary treasurer Glenn O Nay sergeant at arms. Board of control members elected were E P James M L Thomas Ira Unruh and F W Handel.
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Shafter Exchange Club
Board of Control
Cafe Neuman
Orvin Mettler
Wm. Lachenmaier
A. J. Zimmerman
Glenn O. Nay
E. P. James
M. L. Thomas
Ira Unruh
F. W. Handel
Roy Woollames
Kern county vegetable season projected to begin soon
Buford Fox, assistant agricultural commissioner, says Kern county vegetable season will start later than last year due to unfavorable weather. Potato harvests begin mid month in Edison Magunden Lerdo districts, onions follow, spring lettuce ships in from Delano and McFarland, cantaloupes and watermelons need warmth, apricots are heavy and early plums plentiful.
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Kern County
Buford Fox
Denominationalism Sermon Highlight At First Mennonite
April 11 1987 at First Mennonite Church led by J W Bergen includes German service at 9 15 am Sunday School at 10 am and an 11 am sermon on Denominationalism A 7 30 pm special service features the pastor and wife sharing his life story Visitors from Columbus Ohio J Gladden and daughter Dorothy join Mrs Gladden at the church after sunrise services in Pasadena en route from the east facing dust storm in Texas and a blizzard at Grand Canyon during travel.
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First Mennonite Church
J. W. Bergen
Germany
Ohio
J. Gladden
Dorothy
Columbus
To Shandon Miss Leota Buckingham Maple School Instructor
Miss Leota Buckingham is named as an instructor at Maple School in Shandon. The notice lists Buckingham in connection with teaching duties and school affairs as part of the local education column.
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Shandon
Leota Buckingham
Maple School
Kern C of C Meeting Date Shifts to Bakersfield
The Kern County Chamber of Commerce April session moved from Shafter to Bakersfield to align with the potato harvest. Shafter will host the group in May to showcase the local potato crop. The Bakersfield meeting also endorsed urging children to walk facing traffic near schools.
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Kern County
Voters In Shafter To Cast Ballots In Special Election
Voters in the Shafter area will vote Tuesday May 4 at the American Legion hall Shafter in a special congressional election. Precincts Lerdo Maple Shafco Shafter Shafter South and Shafter West are consolidated into Precinct No 5. Polls open 6 am to 7 pm. Election officers include Mrs Juanita Bobst inspector Harriet Nottingham judge Gladys Crandall and Mrs Margaret Fox clerks.
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Shafter
American Legion Hall
Board of Supervisors
Lerdo
Maple
Shafco
Shafter South
Shafter West
Juanita Bobst
Harriet Nottingham
Gladys Crandall
Margaret Fox
Press installs its second Linotype press
The Press office is equipped with two Mergenthaler Linotype machines, the second installed to keep pace with Shafter’s growth and serve a growing clientele. With new matrices arriving from Brooklyn, much display and “heads” will soon be set in Linotype to speed production and improve appearance.
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Mergenthaler
Shafter
Genthaler
Brooklyn
Junior Hi Y group in Shafter hears speakers and eats hot dogs
Twenty members of the Junior Hi Y of Shafter High School enjoyed a weiner bake after a meeting at the high school on the Calloway banks. Waldo Unruh presided as Bob Ford and Al Eckmann spoke on clean sportsmanship and outlined the YMCA camp program for Portuguese Meadows this summer.
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Calloway
Shafter High School
Waldo Unruh
Bob Ford
al Eckmann
Portuguese Meadows
Camp Buys Central Avenue Frontage Extension
A. Camp purchased an additional 50 feet on Central Avenue adjoining Shafter Furniture Co on the north side. No public plan announced yet but it is thought he intends an improvement for the site.
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Central Avenue
Shafter Furniture Co
Trueness to Ideals in California School Building
A fragment highlights commitment to ideals in constructing and maintaining California schools. The brief emphasizes steady devotion to educational purposes, governance, and preservation of public school facilities for future generations.
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Schools of
California
Shafter Spuds Nearing Market Time Despite Late Start
Shafter's long white potato crop, once thought late, now appears ready for sale soon thanks to favorable weather. Planting occurred February 5 to 25 with some earlier and later plantings. about one quarter of the acreage is harvested. Acreage totals include 14 046 in the district, 7 121 south of Kimberlina road, 6 025 north of Kimberlina road, and 810 in Lerdo.
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Shafter
Department of Agriculture
Kimberlina Road
Lerdo
County Barber Prices Set By Board of Supervisors
Shafter residents and all unincorporated areas will pay 35 cents for a share and 50 cents for a haircut under a county ordinance adopted by the board. The measure, requested by county barbers, passed 8 to 2 with Woollames Abel and Wimmer voting yes and Parish Hinman voting no.
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Shafter
Board of Supervisors
Roy Woollames
Stanley Abel
Chas Wimmer
George Parish
Jay Hinman
Local Matron's Mother Dies in Santa Cruz
Mrs. Nathan Knapp of Santa Cruz mother of Mrs. J. H. Maurer of Shafter died in Santa Cruz after a short illness. She had been there for weeks to care for her father. Mr. Maurer returned to Shafter on Wednesday.
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Nathan Knapp
Santa Cruz
J. H. Maurer
Shafter
Maurer
Reform Church Weekly Service at Laodicea
Pastor A Fanck leads a 9:30 Sunday School and 10:30 Morning Service using Rev 3 14 22 focusing on the church that is neither cold nor hot The sermon explains the last call to the church and its remedy for awakening and renewal at 7 30 p m English Bible Hour.
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Laodicea
Union Congregational Church Service and Sunday School
Sunday School convenes at 9 50 a m followed by church services at 11 00 a m The Adventur e of Hikippiness led by The Rev Alfred Chandler with Mrs J H Porterfield as musical director Christian Endeavor meeting at 6 0 p m led by Miss Louise Livers with station schences 4 ceat.
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Alfred Chandler
J. H. Porterfield
Stoddard
Schences
Ceat Christian Endeavor
Louise Livers
Delridge Ad Ready Gap Shrinks to Three Miles for Lerdo Road
Crews near completing Lerdo road will open travel between Shafter and Belridge oilfields within thirty days though full completion awaits. Supervisor Stanley Abel told The Shafter Press that remaining three miles will allow traffic and shorten Shafter to Belridge by seven miles and coast by seven miles.
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Lerdo Road
Shafter
Belridge
Stanley Abel
Shafter Press
Abel
Great Belridge
Spud Growers Turn Old Mine Into Profitable Venture
Shafter potato growers William Bender Emil Bender and F W Handel converted a Trona area old gold prospect into a working mine in under a year. Gold Bottom Mines Inc.'s T C Niceley says the property is already earning. Ore reserves exceed 150000 tons at $20 per ton potential. Veins four to eight feet wide carry lead silver and gold. A 30 ton mill operates on three shifts with smelter returns and mill heads yielding $100 and $20 to $30 per ton respectively.
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Shafter
William Bender
Emil Bender
F. W. Handel
Trona
T. C. Niceley
Gold Bottom Mines Inc
Incicte
Delegates Selected for California Scholarship Federation Convention
Eight Snarter high school students chosen as delegates to the California Scholarship Federation convention at San Mateo High School. Attending are Rosie Unruh Gladys Breckenbridge Elner Frances Schierlmann Monna Latta Vivian Bartel Amanda Johnson Marian Mann.
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Snarter
California Scholarship Federation
San Mateo High School
Rosie Unruh
Gladys Breckenbridge
Elner Frances Schierlmann
Monna Latta
Vivian Bartel
Amanda Johnson
Marian Mann
Taft Wins Three Way Oratorical Plaque at Shafter High
Taft emerged victorious in a three way oratorical contest at Shafter High School earning the Sierra league plaque for 1987. Participants were Shafter Bakersfield and Taft with Rosemary Nokes and Myrtle Kliewer of Taft placing first and second. Shafter would keep the plaque on 1936.
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Taft
Shafter
Bakersfield
Rosie Unruh
Rosemary Nokes
Myrtle Kliewer
Eugene Ross
Virginia Maddox
W. L. Bradshaw
Jimmie Horton
Henry Janzen
What a Grower Thinks of Potatoes
A poem exploring the potato trade from grower to broker. It satirizes inspectors, color blind graders, and middlemen who erode the grower’s profits through endless grading, bidding, and fees as potatoes move from farm to market.
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Roy Woollames
J. G. Siemiens
Shafter Potato Grower
Loss Angeles
Dinner guests of Unruh family from Reedley and others
Recent visitors to Mr. and Mrs. H. BE. Unruh and family included Mr. and Mrs. Willems and children from Reedley, Miss Lula Becker, and Glenn Bergthold. The note mentions flower fields.
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H. BE. Unruh
Willems
Reedley
Lula Becker
Glenn Bergthold
Maple district to hold $65 000 bond election Friday
Voters in Maple school district will cast ballots Friday at a special bond election. Polls open 1 p m to 5 p m at the school. Bond funds would buy land, build and alter facilities, cover maintenance and operation costs, purchase furniture and equipment, and improve grounds. Bonds are in denominations of 1050 with 5 percent interest.
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Trict
Los Angeles to Aid Regulating Spud Packing
Los Angeles officials pledge tighter potato packing rules with two deputies assigned by Kern County weights and measures chief Loya Sands. A 1933 rule set a 34 pound lug box with two pounds tolerance. enforcement will curb growers who repack to gain excess lugs.
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Loya Sands
Kern County
Los Angeles
State Division of Market Enforcement
Sands
Mr. Sands
Wedding at Clubhouse Unites Elia Root and Lee Berg
At the Wednesday Afternoon clubhouse Miss Elia Irene Root and Mr. Lee Berg wed with Ruben Nightengale officiating. The bride wore white satin with a trailing veil, carried calla lilies, and was attended by LaVerne Heinze, Lily Root, and Della Berg. The groom's party included Rudolph Nightengale, Orley Berg, a flower girl, and a veil boy. A large reception followed with an accordion band, a singing quartet, and a humorous reading by Professor Berry.
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Elia Irene Root
Lee Berg
Ruben Nightengale
Pomona Seventh Day Adventist
Rudolph Nitengale
Orley Berg
Kenneth Zimmerman
Humorus
Professor Berry
Kern Aica
Davis Family Visits Shafter Wildflower Fields
Mr and Mrs T W Davis travel with their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Prentice Smith and their daughter Pauline of McFarland to the Shafter wildflower fields this week for a visit and outing.
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Prentice Smith
Ee Pauline
McFarland
Shafter
Building Activity Jumps in Shafter Amid New Projects
Shafter sees a surge in construction on Central avenue and nearby streets with the Haberfelde automobile agency and the Shafter Theatre rising. A service station showroom at Central and Munser, and another at Lerdo road and Santa Fe avenue are under rapid construction. The James street post office building progresses with Besaw set to occupy space for a store. Several warehouses and office buildings go up by Maurer Mettler Shafter and Bell Sibbald, with occupancy planned early May.
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Shafter
Haberfelde Automobile Agency
Shafter Theatre
Central Avenue
Central
Munser
Shafter Furniture
Lerdo Road
Santa Fe Avenue
James Street
George E. Besaw
A & and
10 Cent
J. H. Maurer
D. F
W. F. Mettler
H. J. Shafter
W. H. Hitchcock
Bell-Sibbald
Stockton
Perrin Miller
Menonite Brethren Tells Of Coming Evangelistic Week
The Menonite Brethren church announces April 11 services with Wm J Bestwater as minister. Sunday 9:30 Sunday School. 10:30 morning sermon by Rev Abraham Nachtigal from British Columbia. 6:30 Christian Fellowship. 7:30 evangelistic service. Weeknight services at 7:30 with Nachtigal preaching. German speakers invited.
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H. A. Janzen
Abraham Nachtigal
British Columbia
Poster Winners Named by Shafter Legion Auxiliary
Luella Johnson and a Richland grammar school student placed first and second in the annual pop poster contest sponsored by Shafter's American Legion Auxiliary.
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Luella Johnson
Richland Grammar School
Shafter’s
American Legion Auxiliary
Keene Couple Visits Wildflowers Here Saturday
Mr and Mrs Gene eer Keene visited the local wildflowers on Saturday creating a small news moment about their outing.
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Gene Eer Keene
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