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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1954
Page
5
Local druggist offers free jars of Hollywood type hair pomade to readers while supply lasts. The pomade, used in film studios for grooming, is available at Shafter Drug with no obligation to readers who present a coupon today.
Elder Stanley Huen leads the Adventists in Shafter where six founding families arrived in 1914. By 1919 the group counted about 80 worshippers meeting at Kern Academy and the Old Maple School served as a gathering site with 30 members. They built a church completed in 1920 and later expanded to a 400 member congregation with a parsonage by 1947.
East Bakersfield JV doors shut out North Hi 132 by six runs in the Shafter Invitational. Taft JV beats East Bakersfield 10 to 7. East Bakersfield JV defeats Bakersfield JV 8 to 7 for consolation. Harold Gladden belts two homers for Taft in opening loss to North Hi. Jim Garr homers for North Hi. Shafter hosts seven schools in a park department event with multiple junior varsity and varsity matchups, including Corcoran forfeiting to North Hi and Taft forfeiting after losses.
A sequence of school events highlights a Friday April 30 primary festival at Lerdo Primary and Shafter High School music programs for Rotary Club Lion's Club Kiwanis Club meetings. Dr Grant Jensen invites parents to visit facilities as Mayor Kirschenmann urges attendance. Across the Bay, 51 percent of 75 San Francisco peninsula rail crossings are protected by gates or manually operated controls.
Shafter thinclads captured first in Class C at Wasco Relays and placed high in A and B divisions. Two Shafter athletes set new school pole vault records B 11 feet 10 inches and A 11 feet 4 inches while Wasco led with 67 in A, 62 in B, and Shafter totaled 68 in C as Kern Relays loom next.
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