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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1958
Page
9
Shafter celebrates two decades as a municipality as a new city regime takes office. City officials serve without pay and volunteers drive progress. The steady leadership and Kern County hub location fuel plans for growth and development in coming years.
The Shafter librarian Effie Wedge has quietly built the town library since 1925. Circulation rose from 25 to 400 daily and stacks expanded from 400 to 10,000 volumes. Her work fostered a link with Richland school and inspired thousands of students to love books and learning.
The Pacific Telephone Company will commence direct distance dialing at 11 p.m. Saturday allowing calls station to station to over thirty million telephones nationwide. A simple booklet explains DDD though the underlying machine remains complex to most users.
By H. W. Pat Kelly outlines ongoing legislative efforts to unlock a water funding deadlock. Despite delays and risk of a fifth compromise, officials push for a budget agreement before June 30 to keep state operations, schools, and courts funded.
Mrs Anne C Ward a Shafter High School history instructor has traveled extensively through Europe Africa Asia and the Orient with her late husband a geologist. She is from Murphy North Carolina and after teaching there returned to Murphy then moved to Shafter where she now teaches senior problems and world history. A UC scientist has described a new method that could make large scale seawater distillation economically feasible.
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