Shafter High Baseball Shifts Through Delano Tourney
Shafter High baseballers went 1 win 2 losses in the Delano tournament last weekend. Tulare won the title by beating Delano 2 0 in the final. Shafter fell to Roosevelt High Fri morning, then won 3 2 overSanta Paula in a consolation game before Visalia routed them 14 0 Saturday. Merced beat Visalia to claim the consolation trophy.
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Shafter High Baseballers
Delano
Tulare
Delano & Tw
Shafter
Roosevelt High
Santa Paula
Visalia
Merced
Prospects for Another Billion Bushel Wheat Crop
The Department of Agriculture reports favorable conditions for a U S wheat harvest nearing a billion bushels this year. The forecast highlights strong yields across major growing regions and suggests ample supply for markets.
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U. S
Department of Agriculture
Father and Son Banquet Planned by Shafter FFA
The Shafter High School Future Farmers of America will host its annual Father and Son Banquet on Friday April 26 in the Richland school cafeteria. The event features Kern County Union High School superintendent Theron ly McCuen as principal speaker with student speakers Tom Fletcher Marvin Kirschenman and Allen Mettler. Committees cover decorations food entertainment and cleanup and all FFA freshmen are invited progenitors and guests expected to attend.
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Shafter High School
Future Farmers of America Club
Richland School
Theron Ly McCuen
Kern County “Union High School
Tom Fletcher
Marvin Kirschenman
Allen Mettler
Fred Starrh
Victor Bender
Herbert Spitzer
Don Johnston
Arnold ‘Enns
Robert Pognoff
Elmer Mettler
Charles Hitchcock
Kenneth Buller
George Cooper
Bill Haralson
F.F.A
Canning Lecture To Be Given Here
Interest grows in the Delano Cannery as Mrs. Monroe of Delano High School is invited to speak on Canning and Food Preservation at the Mennonite Brethren Church. The lecture is scheduled Friday May 3 at 7 p.m. and all are invited.
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Delano
Services for Albert Richardson Held in Bakersfield
Funeral services were held for Albert Joseph Richardson 87 of 257 Atlantic St Shafter who died Friday morning at Bakersfield Hospital. The service was Wednesday April 24 at 2 p.m. at Greenlawn Chapel Bakersfield with Rev. C. H. Hoffman officiating. Richardson was born in Minnesota and lived in Ohio and Illinois before settling in Kern County in 1919, first in Arvin then moving to Shafter to be near his daughter Mrs Arras W Wilson.
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Albert Joseph—Richardson
Atlantic St
Shafter
Arras W. Wilson
Sixty six Shafter students named to honor roll
Sixty six Shafter High School students earned places on the honor roll for the fifth six week period ending last Friday. The list includes Sue Alexander Vernon Anderson Virginia Anderson Dana Baughman Geraldine Becker Joyce Bender Jimmie Bishop Donna Lee Beese Ann Bryan Lorna Bryan Barrie Sums Maynard Dalbec Donna Dalke La Quita Dillingham Marvin Dirksen Rufus Dozhier Tom Fletcher Norman Fortenberry Barbara Fox Don Gaede Jeanette Gilbert Reba Grant Betty Graves Chuck Hitchcock Weldon Howze James Hubble Elda Janzen Jimmie Janzen Pat Kelly Marvin Kirschenman Leland Kroeker Wanda Little Dixie Mathis Jerry Mathis Francis Martin Betty Merz Elmer Mettler Mary Lee Mouser Burton Nance Bobby Nichols Johnny Nickel Katherine Nikkel Peggy Nikkel Greg Channeson Claudine Parkison Robert Peters Mamie Rains Loraine Rice Mary Rice Edna Rodgers Juanita Rohrbach Leona Rohrbach Minor Roots Francis Ruse Bernice Spohn Shirley Thomas Donald Voth Norma Watson Lois West Betty Wilcoxon Mack Wilcoxon Bonnie Williams Thelma Woolf Zelma Woolf and Inez Wright.
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Sue Alexander
Vernon Anderson
Virginia Anderson
Dana Baughman
Geraldine Becker
Joyce Bender
Jimmie Bishop
Donna Lee Beese
Ann Bryan
Lorna Bryan
Barrie Sums
May‘nard Dalbec
Donna Dalke
la Quita Dillingham
Marvin Dirksen
Mary Lee’ Mouser
Burton Nance
Bobby Nichols
Johnny Nickel
Katherine Nikkel
Peggy Nikkel
Greg Channeson
Claudine Parkison
Robert Peters
Mamie Rains
Loraine Rice
Mary Rice
Edna Rodgers
Juanita Rohrbach
Leona Rohrbach
Minor Roots
Francis Ruse
Bernice Spohn
Shirley Thomas
Donald Voth
Norma Watson
Lois West
Betty Wilcoxon
Mack Wilcoxon
Bonnie Williams
Thelma Woolf
Zelma Woolf
Inez Wright
Scouts Trek to Sequoia National Park
Local Scout Troop 44 conducted a three day weekend hike to Sequoia National Park. Scoutmaster Ned Smith supervised the trip with Jack Hare driving a donated truck. They camped in tents first night and used a 4 H club cabin second night due to deep snow.
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Sequoia National Park
Ned Smith
Roy Sneed
Jack Hare
Park
J. D. Farrel
USDA Announces 1946 Sweet Potato Price Support Plan
The government will support sweet potato prices to growers at no less than 90 percent of parity. The program covers purchases from September 1 to November 15, 1946 and loans issued after November 15 through January 15, 1946.
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USDA
Willoughby Returns to Shafter as Potato Shed Foreman
Willoughby discharged from the Army Air Forces has returned to Shafter to make his home. He will be employed by Battaglia and Hare as potato shed foreman.
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Lee ‘Willoughby
Army Air Forces
Shafter
Battaglia & Hare
Cub Pack 13 Shafter Reschedules April Meeting
The Cub Pack 13 monthly meeting in Shafter is moved to Friday April 26 at the Womens Club House, replacing the prior Richland Cafeteria plan.
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Cub Pack 13
Shafter
Womens Club House
Richland
California grape acreage more than doubles from 1944 to 1945
New acreage planted by grape growers in California during 1945 more than doubled that planted in 1944, highlighting a sharp expansion in vineyard development during the period.
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California
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