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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1951
Page
10
The Shafter Press opens a new plant and office unit inviting a Friday housewarming from 4 to 9 p.m. The editorial emphasizes the newspaper as a public institution and pledges service to the community through expanded printing, engraving, and magazine production, linking growth to advertiser support and regional development.
Kern Kings and Tulare supervisors urged to push, quickly. Funds exist, but right of way and local matching are required. Kings may fund 30000 for Corcoran area. Tulare is slow due to limited local population. Completion would connect Shafter Wasco Corcoran Hanford to Bakersfield and Fresno, boosting Valley development.
Shafter gears up for the Potato n Cotton festival set for May 19 with a Apr 28 kick off dance at Veteran's Memorial Hall. Four contestants vie for festival queen via barbecue ticket sales through May 18, as the parade draws over 50 entries including six bands. Roy Farrell directs the aquatic show at the Richland School recreation center as preparations heat up.
Humboldt County tops California in lumber production, outpacing other counties in total volume for the period. The report highlights the county's dominant timber industry and compares output to neighboring regions.
The Shafter Press and Shafter Progress publish weekly on Thursdays from 188 South Central Valley Highway, Shafter, California. Paul C Newell serves as editor and publisher with Florence J Newell handling art photography and engraving. Paul Groves directs. established 1921. post office entry August 1 1935.subscription rates list one year at 2.50 within California and 3.00 outside.
The city of Shafter launches a spring cleanup April 16 to 30 led by the fire department. City streets are now cleaner thanks to a new street sweeping machine. The Santa Fe yard at Lerdo remains a dirty eyesore, with calls for repainting and more trees and shrubs to brighten town.
Goad, new Kern County Fair manager, aims to make the annual celebration the tops in the region. With new fairgrounds under construction and a broader exhibition program planned, he seeks strong community support to ensure the fair's success. California leads the nation in waterfowl hunting.
A Berlin dispatch reports that 80 percent of streetcar drivers in the Soviet Zone are women as Communist planners push female labor for a massive five year plan. The piece argues the policy coerces women from homes and children, enriches state control, devalues the East Mark, and worsens living conditions while promising false social progress.
The University of California at Berkeley conducts a study led by Frederick J. Ludwig to analyze educational news content in weekly newspapers. Preliminary results show California's newspaper landscape includes 470 weekly, 119 daily, 32 semi weekly, four bi weekly and one tri weekly, with major growth in the 1920s and 1940s.
The article follows the weekly flow from copy to print at Shafter Press. Jim Rash and Frank Hawkins shape metal type and ads, while John Rotherdale engraves photos. Editors, reporters, and publicists coordinate news from city meetings to sports and agriculture, aiming for Page 1 prominence before the Wednesday deadline.
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