Students Win Cup in Davis Contests at UC Davis
Shafter high school agricultural students added a silver cup and medals after winning first place in cheese judging at the University of California Davis contests. Victor Voth secured third place in dairy products scoring. teams were led by Glenn O. Nay and Walter Emrick.
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Shafter High School
Davis
California
Theiversity of California At
Shafter
Victor Voth
Glenn O. Nay
Walter Emrick
Richland school presents Saucy Hollandaise to capacity crowds
Students of Richland school performed the musical operetta Saucy Hollandaise for two nights in the auditorium. The cast included Joe as a red nosed salt, Harry Hofman as Hans, Ruben Mettler as Prince, and Meena as Hans sweetheart, with numerous court ladies, sailors and Dutch figures. The production was aided by director Robi Rath and staff including Ida Engle, Virginia Maddox, Frances Dederick, and Thelma Watt, with Linnea Johnson and others providing music and lighting.
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Richland School
Joe
Harry Hofman
Hans
Ruben Mettler
Calvin Gaede
Meena
Opal Barlow
Doctor Quick
Myron Annis
Louise Livers
Nina Peters
Letha Bartel
Doris Davis
Charlotte Herman
Kathleen Janzen
Luella Johnson
Laura Koop
Minnie Koop
Juanita Mayfield
Helen Sly
Patty Stringham
George Desatoff
Calvin Newton
Winfred Westbrook
Glenn Bender
W. R. Cloud
Clarence Kattenhorn
Everett Puckett
Elmo Potts
Elmer Schmidt
Leon Stone
Merton Wiedmann
Robi
Rath
Ida B. Engle
Virginia Maddox
R. E. Gribble
Frances Dederick
Thelma Watt
Linnea Johnson
Wm. Threlfall
T. V. Little
First Carload Shafter Onions Sent Last Week
The first carload of locally grown new crop onions was shipped from Shafter last Thursday night via the Santa Fe to Portland Oregon. The shipment was sent by H A Saunders the local representative. The carload consisted of 1040 crates.
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Shafter
Santa Fe
Portland
Oregon
H. A. Saunders
Los Ype
Kern School Band Promises Night of Richland Auditorium Music
Kern County Union High School and Junior College Band, 70 members, will perform at Richland auditorium in Shafter tonight under the Shafter high school music club. The program features marches, folk tunes, standards, solos, and overtures by Verdi Sousa Offenbach and others.
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Shafter
Kern County Union High School
Richland Auditorium
Music Club of
Shafter High School
Princes Jaune
C. Siant Saens
Stephen Foster
Luis Guzman
Chas, Ross
Jeanie
Richard Sturtmann
Leonard Turoski
Old Kentucky
Leland Holland
Black Joe
Bill Landsborough
Lloyd Vath
Paul Landry
Frank Tomlinson
George Sullivan
Tony Pasquini
Jim McCullough
Massa
the Whistler
Author Pryor
Lombardi
Guiseppi Verdi
Stutzman
William Poole
Robert Zuercher
Glen Siemon
Edwin Franke Goldman
Orpheus
J. Offenbach
Roberts FANS 13 MEN HERE SUNDAY
Roberts star pitcher Rags Roberts, drafted to Rio Bravo, dominated the game with 18 strikeouts in 19 batters faced. The Rio Bravo vs Shafter East contest ended 9 to 9 after 11 innings when Corcoran failed to appear, with Nieto the sole runner reaching first base.
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Corcoran
Shafter
Rio Bravo
Shafter East
Joe Nieto
Roberts
Nieto
Tannahill Drives to Fresno to See His Son
A report notes Tannahill drove to Fresno Monday night to visit his newly born son. The brief item records the journey and the family connection without additional details.
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Earlee Eae
Tannahill
Fresno
California Democrats Lead In Presidential Primary Race
Registration figures show Democrats 1,687,288 and Republicans 1,163,780 statewide with 2,964,336 total. Kern County lists 41,307 total with 26,803 Democrats and 13,641 Republicans, plus minor party totals and 684 undeclared. Neufeld Kaisden: Wedding in Reedley outlines Jake F. Neufeld and Mary Klassen wed at Mennonite church with 450 guests. couple to reside in Shafter after honeymoon.
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California
Frank C. Jordan
Kern County
Prohibition
Socialist
Progressive
Communist
Commonwealth
Miscellaneous
Commonwealth Party
Los Angeles
Neufeld-Klassen
Jake F. Neufeld
Shafter
Mary Klassen
Reedley
Mennonite Brethren Church
G. B. Hulbert
J. J. Klassen
J. P. Neufeld
Richland Grammar School
Bakersfield
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
California Avenue
G. J. Siemens
Wm. Siemens
Geo. Nikkel
H. M. Dueck
H. W. Karber
A. R. Neufeld
H. Neufeld
Rahmgran Transfers to Planada Section Foreman Post
Fred H. Rahmgran, after four years as Shafter section foreman on the Santa Fe, will leave Saturday to head the Planada section. Previously he served as construction supervisor for Santa Fe at Ash Fork, Arizona.
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Rahmgran
Shafter
Santa Fe
Fred H. Rahmgran
Planada
Conta
Ash Fork
Arizona
Landon Club Forming in Shafter Seeks GOP Support
London for President club activity grows in Shafter with Ed Schnidt W H Hitchcock A J Zimmerman and Ray Dye among leaders reporting a strong local swing to the Landon primary. Kern County lists Thomas W Mc Manus Bakersfield real estate and insurance man among Landon instructed delegates.
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Shafter
Kansas
Ed. Schnidt
W. H. Hitchcock
A. J. Zimmerman
Ray Dye
Kern County
Landon
Thomas W. McManus
Bakersfield
Potatoes Drive Kern County Economy As Shafter Leads
Over the 1925 to 1935 period Kern County produced 8,944,796 sacks of potatoes worth 8,737,708 dollars. The Shafter area supplied the majority of the crop, with significant gains in 1933 and 1935 when output topped two million sacks and income exceeded a million dollars. Harold Greene returns to Shafter to work for Randolph Marketline Co.
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Kern County
Shafter
Shafter District
Lewis A. Burtch
Greene
Harold Greene
Fresno
The
Randolph Marketine Co
Aggies Win Farm Tractor For Shafter High Students
Bakersfield implement dealer donates a new farm tractor to Shafter high school students in the Aggies agricultural classes improving hands on training opportunities and local rural education.
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Shafter High School
Bakersfield
Delano Supervisor Roy Woollames Stricken With Influenza
Delano supervisor Roy Woollames has been confined to bed at home for several days with influenza, causing concern among Shafter friends and colleagues.
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Shafter Friends
Supervsor
Roy Woollames
Delano
Shafter High Plans May Comedy Production
Shafter high school junior class presents Robert Ray’s comedy Ive Campus Quarantine May 8 at the campus sorority house setting. The cast includes Gloria Smith Violet Smith Mrs Smith Rosie Unruh Beryl Shepherd Norma Lea Cloud Edythe Rhodes Willie Steele Deborah Mercer Gladys Breckenbridge Lela Dunn Rosella Heinrick Leon Atwell Henry Janzen Elliott Maxim Mike Janzen Finlay Carruthers Jack White Howard Ross Harry Bergen Renny Steele Lewis Edward Gordon Dunn Tommy Doris.
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Shafter High School
Robert Ray
Southern
California
Gloria Smith
Violet Smith
Mrs. Smith
Rosie Unruh
Beryl Shepherd
Norma Lea Cloud
Edythe Rhodes
Willie Steele
Deborah Mercer
Gladys Breckenbridge
Lela Dunn
Rosella Heinricks
Leon Atwell
Henry Janzen
Elliott Maxim
Mike Janzen
Finlay Carruthers
Jack White
Howard Ross
Harry Bergen
Renny Steele
Lewis Edward
Gordon Dunn
Tommy Doris
First Aid Classes In Rio Bravo District
Thirty people attended the first in a series of first aid classes at the Rio Bravo sub station of the San Joaquin Light and Power Corp. The session, April 17, was organized by Carl Haag of the Rio Bravo Boys 4H and included 4H girls and boys, adults, and led by Lindsay Lyons with instruction from R. P. Kirkham’s Rio Bravo representation. Lyons demonstrated arterial bleeding checks, fracture support, wound protection, shock treatment, artificial respiration, and snake bite care.
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Rio Bravo
San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation
Carl Haag
Rio Bravo Boys
F. J. Schierlmann
R. P. Kirkham
Power Company
Lindsay Lyons
Bakersfield
Lyons
Rosalyn Sears
Marcella Sanders
Joyce Haag
Hean Haag
Dorothy Sigman
Mary Ellen Sigman
Evelyn Conley
Mildred Conley
Laverne Morehead
Muriel Kirkham
Philip Haag
Conrad Newman
Robert Curtis
Chester Dickinson
Denzil Sanders
Ray McClure
Wilburn Rice
Calvin Wilson
Charles Morehead
Theodore Nunes
Joe Mankin
Curtiss
Escaped Murder Suspects Hidden Near Shafter
Ernest Monroe Brillby known as Roy White and Clyde Jackson, both linked to multiple robberies and a 1931 Alpaugh murder gang, failed capture after Brillby’s release. they fled in Brillby’s car as Constable Reily and Kern deputies pursued across Kern and Tulare counties.
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Ernest Monroe Brillby
Shafter
Roy White
Tulare
J. C. Reily
Kern County
Reily
Kern
Conley House
Alpaugh
Pixley
Pond
Delano
Brillby Andackson
Brillby
Texas
San Quentin
Folsom
Jackson
North Shafter
Constable Reily
Special music set for Shafter Public Schools Week program
A public Schools Week program in Shafter on April 28 features principal speaker Judge Erwin Owen of Bakersfield, with talks by Jesse Jones and Waldo Unruh. Shafter High girls glee club will perform Birds Are Singing and Sparkling Sunlight, directed by Robert Gates. Richland school orchestra will perform Loyal and True and Novelete, directed by Robert Rath.
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Shafter
Erwin Owen
Bakersfield
Jesse Jones
Waldo Unruh
Richland School
Novelete
DeLamater
Robert Rath
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