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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1953
Page
4
The Kern County Health Department announces a second rabies vaccination clinic for dogs on May 8 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Shafter Fire Station. Dr. William C. Buss urges unvaccinated dogs and new owners to attend to prevent rabies, noting vaccination and impoundment as key controls.
Mr and Mrs R Perkins of Pacific Street returned Sunday from a month long trip to Culver City to visit son John and family. They also visited another son Russell and his family in Gardenia.
Rev Fr James Collins announced St Marys Catholic Church Buttonwillow will hold a steak barbecue Sunday from 2 to 5 PM. Proceeds support parish activities and community outreach.
The staff promotes a memoir collection with shipping at 15 cents. Mr and Mrs Don E Timble arrived at Andersons Trailer Court for a repeated season and visited Los Angeles after buying potatoes, reflecting a light community note on travel and local figures.
The Area Folk Dance Festival slated for May 8 at Rio Bravo School will run 10 to 12 with about 100 elementary students from Lerdo, McFarland, De. Visiting schools will lunch in the school cafeteria. Mrs. Helen Hicks leads the program with square and round dancing and folk dancing on the tennis courts.
Jake C. Siemens of Shafter and partners unveil a mechanical cotton topper field tested last season. The 60 inch frame drives a 4 by 14 foot cutting head with four 4 foot blades, topping 5 to 7 acres per hour and shredding tips to prevent irrigation-ditch clogging. Machine enables earlier picking and may improve lint quality while costing under $1 per acre vs manual topping at $8 to $15.
The weed issue in cotton will be a top level assignment paralleling mechanization and fertilizer tests. The Shafter station will coordinate procedures and policy while tests on seed varieties and strains run across Valley counties.
Shafter High hosts an Open House tonight as part of National Public Schools Week 34th annual observance. General Chairman C Rhoads leads committees planning a fashion show The Greatest Styles on Earth, an athletic exhibition, classroom displays, a 6:30 luncheon, and a Shafter Wasco Art Association display with a plan to prize a top painting for permanent cafeteria display.
Mayor Adolf Kirschenmann proclaims May 1 through May 7 as Good Posture Week in Shafter. The National Chiropractic Association sponsors the observance, aiming to raise public awareness of posture as a health indicator and to promote school and community education. The proclamation notes the event as an annual observance beginning in 1950.
McKinley Dillard led Shafter High at Tulare last Saturday earning C honors for the Bucks. The team, coached by Lowell, Todd and Dusty Rhoads, aims to field its A squad at the South Sequoia meet in Lemoore this Saturday after two tough weekends.
Paul Leonard, musician and expert on bird calls, presents a program at 7 30 p m Saturday in the Kern Academy Assembly Hall featuring bird rhap sodies with sound effects and audience participation. Leonard is a featured artist on national broadcasts. The event is open to the public.
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