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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1951
Page
5
Mrs. Vernon Holland was honored at a stork shower last week at the home of Mrs. Frank Annis 122 Stone St with Mrs. J W Lassiter as co host. Hydrangea and roses decorated the room. Gifting table centered by baby theme cake and punch. Prizes went to Mrs. Dick Lynn and Mrs. Dora Byrd.
The Spaniard Bruno Haceta is recorded as the first white person known to land on the Oregon coast in 1775. The region features 440 square miles of open water surfaces and islands across San Francisco Bay San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay.
Drifting back from July trips, locals note Ann Jacobus took her first steps on Highway 101. Visitors include Dr and Mrs Ryland Jacobus, Art Brownell, Dick Eckman, Phil Clarkin, Ed Brown. Mississippis-bound Ewings join a summer escape. Jim Hodges and Emily celebrated at Bakersfield Country Club. Local weddings include Mary Carter, Jerry Mathis and Marcia McKee, with Aug 11 planned in Bakersfield. Families travel to Oklahoma City and Wasco. poolside talks, birthdays, and anniversaries fill the week.
Mr and Mrs Truman Horn of Fresno Avenue host visitors including Mrs Horns brother and family from Rock Springs Wyoming and later Chester Brown family from Stockton with Lois Frediani. The Horns, former Shafter residents, will spend three weeks in Tacoma Washington with her brother and sister Morrison and Cook.
William Lachenmaier and Bob Neuman returned this week from Sportsman's Park in Chicago where their horses were entered in the harness racing.
The Walapai or Hualpai Indians live on a reservation in the Great North Bend of the Colorado River northeast of Kingman Arizona.
Recent guests at the Nelson West home were their daughter and husband from Ventura who were moving from Stockton. Family members joined for dinner including Don G. Johnson and family of Shafter and Jack Dodgen and family of Shafter.
Mr and Mrs Robert L Hearn and their two sons moved to Pollock Pines near Placerville for the timber season and plan to return to their Shafter home in the fall Delbert and Janet accompany them
Mrs. Phil Jeffries hosted a barbecue last week to honor her husband on his birthday. Guests included his mother Mrs. Ruth Jeffries of Bakersfield his sister and her family Mr and Mrs Francis Bettencourt of Bakersfield and her mother Mrs William Lachenmaier of Shafter.
City Councilman and Mrs. Earl Johnson return home Sunday night after a weeklong visit to Bass Lake Lake Tahoe Yosemite National Park and Nevada. They stayed with sister Mrs. Betty Springett of San Francisco and were joined by another sister Mrs. Walter Staley of Bakersfield.
Miss Gloria Brockett, bride elect of Don Saulsbury of Lodi, honored Tuesday at a shower hosted by Patti Wikoff on Riverside Avenue with co host Mrs Earl Bailey. The couple met in Lodi while she attended Lodi Academy and plan to wed at 8 pm Sunday at the Seventh Day Adventist Church in Shafter.
A surprise birthday party for Mrs Harold Elam was held in the city park Saturday night. Her sister Mrs William Hearn and mother Mrs S L Osborne organized the event with hot dogs ice cream cake and punch. Attendees included Cleo Hathcock family Charles Osborne Herman Osborne Richard Hearn William Hearn Lottie Cummings Roy Hathcock and Lois Jean. Gifts were sent by Denver Wall Modesto Joseph Stinnett and Marvin Sexton Shafter.
The birthdays of Charles Paslay and his daughter Linda were marked Sunday at the Chester Paslay home on East Orange Avenue with a supper. Present were Mr and Mrs Chester Paslay and Anita of Shafter. A separate birthday for Mrs James Flanagan of Wasco prompted a dinner hosted by her parents, Roy and Anita Paslay of Shaffer, in Wasco. Later, Mr and Mrs Kenny Paslay and Richard were visiting.
The article outlines San Francisco’s 1856 consolidation of city and county governments. It notes the move aimed to streamline administration and unify services under a single governing body, shaping municipal structure in the mid 19th century.
Mrs. Geraldine Mundt of 330 Central Ave announces closing Dianne's Beauty Shop and leaving Shafter this week. She will visit Bakersfield with a daughter, stay with relatives in Oregon, then establish a new home in a city yet to be decided. She will resign at the first September meeting of the local Business and Professional Women's Club.
Early settler Juan Bautista Roger Cooper, a Yankee trader, lands in Big Sur Valley Monterey County and claims land in 1852. A Hammonton gold dredge in Yuba County aims to reach 124 feet below water level.
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