Potato and Cotton Spotlight Pushes Shafter Festival Change
The Shafter Potato Festival committee renamed the event Potato N Cotton Festival to highlight Shafter's leading role in potato and cotton production. The town hosts Acala 442 seed development and multiple ginning concerns, with the California Cotton Seed Distributing Associa tion distributing parent seed from Shafter. Local leaders urge strong support to position Shafter as a statewide agricultural hub and boost both crops in the national market.
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Shafter
San Joaquin Valley
California
San Joaquin Valey
George Harrison
United States Experimental Farm
Kern County
Shafter Farm
California Cotton Seed Distributing Association
Farm Labor Camps Vital to Community
Jack Manweiler who heads the North Shafter Farm Labor Camp discusses the camps history and evolution from charity ideals to affordable housing. He notes strong community spirit at North Shafter with resident regulations and shared funds for laundry, holidays, and the Shafter Community Chest. He emphasizes workers' ambition to improve their lot and the positive role of their families in society.
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Jack Manweiler
North Shafter Farm
California
Jack
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Manweiler
North Shafter Camp
Abbasiate
Shafter
County Building Addition Boosts Shafter Facilities
Completion of the new wing in Shafter provides a spacious justice of peace courtroom and executive quarters. It houses police headquarters and the township constable office with improved facilities, plus juvenile and women prisoner quarters for overnight detention before transfer. Judge E. K. Grant is credited for championing the project.
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Shafter
Justice of Peace
Justice
E. K. Grant
Disaster Council Seeks Volunteers in Shafter
The Shafter disaster council pleads for more volunteers as limited enrollments hinder training and the ultimate program. Executive secretary Few warns time is running short and urges citizens to enroll with the Shafter defense council. The piece notes local civic duty and readiness to serve.
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Shafter
Shafter Defense Council
Shafter Newsmast Head Details Advertising and Staff
The piece lists Jack Fleming as managing, Juanita Battaglia as advertising manager, Fritz Miller as photography and engraving director. It notes the newspaper was established in 1921, entered as second class matter August 1, 1935, and published every Thursday at 183 South Central Valley Highway, Shafter, Kern County, California with subscription rates of $2.50 per year inside California and $3.00 outside.
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Jack Fleming
Juanita Battaglia
Fritz Miller
Shafter
California
South Central Valley Highway
Kern County
Calif
Red Cross Drive Success in Shafter Urges Quick Gifts
The Shafter Lions Club reports the city is over 75 percent subscribed to the Red Cross drive. Officials extend the local campaign by 15 days urging residents to contribute now to meet the quota and support services at home and for American troops overseas.
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Shafter Lion's Club
Shafter
Red Cross
Water's Fine at Richland Aquatic Center
The Richland Center swimming program faced weather delays last week with postponed starts as Roy Farrell notes that local children attend weekly lessons. The effort highlights swimming as a healthful sport amid a state average of low learning rates.
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Richland Aquatic Center
Roy Farrell
Richland School
Shafter
Berlin Epidemics and Door Latch Theft Spark City Fear
Berliners face mysterious infant deaths amid global outbreaks while a second, odd epidemic unfolds as Stalin's thieves dismantle door latches and telephone wires across the western sector. The crime feeds East German rearmament fears and provokes Western police action.
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Stalin
Russia
East Germany
Greck
Grotewohl
People Police
Belgium
McClure Drug Store Ad Promises Quick Athlete’s Foot Relief
An ad promotes use of a product labeled T-4-L for athlete’s foot with 90 percent alcohol base to penetrate and kill germs on contact. Offers relief in one hour and a 40 percent money back guarantee at McClure Drug Store, 333 Central, phone 628.
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McClure Drug Store
Central Phone
Kern Artists Enter Finals Of March Kern County Art Contest
District finals proceed with competitions across Shafter Delano Taft Lamont Wasco Panama Greenfield and more. Winners advance to the County Finals judged May 6 by three Southern California art experts.
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LaVerne Swift
Shafter High
Wasco
Shafter
Ruth Hilbert
Wanda Lukes
Lamont-Arvin
Lamon Community Hall
Peggy Turoonjian
Baldwin Road
Panama-Greenfields
Panama School
Dorothy Murray
Panama
James L. Ross
Greenfield
County Art Committee
Isabella Patriotic Hall
Ridecrest
Tehachapia
May Bozeman
Alexis Dember
China Lake
Ruby Rogers
Cantil
Anita Cowan
Southern California
Youth Leaders Attend CSF Spring Meeting
Forty seven Shafter High School students attended the California Scholastic Federation spring conference at Bakersfield High School. Amelia Cornell led the Shafter group as CSF advisor with officers Layton Lynch president Troy Smart vice president Janet Correll secretary Joyce Bell social chairman.
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Shafter High School
California Scholastic Federation
Bakersfield High School
Kern County
Amelia Cornell
CSF
Shafter Group
Layton Lynch
Troy Smart
Janet Correll
Joyce Bell
Becker
Jim Brown
Morty Brown
Karen Clarkin
Daniel Contreras
Jim Correll
Maudie Crabb
Johnny DeVincenzo
Anna Duggan
Norma Dunham
Bert Fuller
Harold Gaede
Betty Grundy
Joyce Hall
Kenneth Handel
Norma Harrison
Wanda Horn
Roy Jones
Lavelle Kirschenmann
Ida Koenig
Robert__Liles
Harley Martin
Marion Mettler
Paul Middleton
Donna Mixon
Barbara Neeley
Norma Nix
Mickey Perry
Kay Raney
Geraldine Reynolds
Jennie Riley
Marilyn Smith
Mary Stephens
Max Tudor
Donne Weitz
Jimmie Witcher
Chuck Wright
Barbara Wroten
Kenneth Cooper
Patsy Harvey
Alpine County Located in California Not Nevada
A survey concluded Alpine county is in California rather than Nevada as previously thought. This finding clarifies state boundaries and resolves regional misidentification.
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Shafter Press
Big Boon
Disaster Council
Galapagos Islands
Thealifornia Academy of Sciences
San Francisco
Humboldt Bay
C. B. Stern
Berlin
Great Britain
West Berlin
Germany
Stalins
Karlshorst
Marshal Tshaikov
Cawelo
Highway
Lerdo
Bakersfield
Fort
Taft
Garetta Howard
Delano Library
Charles Chichester
Delano
Clara Jackson
McFarland
East Bakersfield
Rosedale
Buttonwillow
Wheldon’s
Union Congregational Church
Forrest Jones
Gordon Baker
Jones
Robert
Leslie Karen Jones
J. J. Baerg
D.C
Alpine County
Nevada
Oldemobile
Engi
General Motors
Oldsmobile
NEA
SimMo
Woodard. Motor Company
Central Ave
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