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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1947
Page
1
The Collier-Burns highway bill raises gas and truck taxes to about one billion dollars over ten years. It mandates centralized county road administration, supports secondary road improvements, and targets Lerdo road from Cawelo to Shafter for overhaul to connect with the Airline Highway.
Shafter Public Utility District directors call a September 9 bond election for 248000 to fund a new sewage disposal plant outfall sewer and extra water wells. They warn delay endangers health and growth. new facilities would serve up to 15000 people with room to expand and aim to finish before the next potato season.
District Superintendent T L McCuen outlined a record anticipated attendance of 7797 students for the 1947 48 Öff school year with new courses and teachers across member schools. Opening dates vary by site from September 2 to September 8 and registration runs August 29 to September 5 at multiple campuses.
Four of five members were named to study supplemental water needs for the Shafter Wasco district and advise the board. Members include Tom Crowe Visalia water attorney Harry Riddell Delano irrigation engineer Henry Karrer Bakersfield Bureau of Reclamation John J Peters Shafter former member. The fifth member from Kern County Land Company is pending. Board members present were Clarence Annin chairman Ed Thiesen and John Nale.
Shafter Druids plan a Kern county visit to Sumner Grove No. 56 Bakersfield on Monday evening August 11. Noble Grand Arch E N Marelli will lead with Grand Officers. Initiation ceremonies then banquet. Noble Arch Karl Fluhrer will preside. Marelli from San Francisco.
Mrs. Oscar Hamrick travels to Pasadena for her son Joseph Johnston’s wedding to Myrle Royal. The ceremony at 7:30 PM at the Baptist church will honor Miss Royal, daughter of Clive and ? Royal of Shafter, who earlier won Miss Kern County and placed top ten for Miss California.
Mrs Gladys Rightnoure III was taken to Kern General Hospital Sunday with an illness. Mrs Opal Williams has recovered from a recent illness and is now at home.
The Shafter Men’s Softball League wraps its season next week with two final games on Tuesday and Wednesday at the Richland Diamond. Hitchcock’s Auto Parts faces Kelly & Channeson Tuesday. Food Town and North Shafter Government Camp play Wednesday.
Funeral services will be held Monday morning at 9 a.m. for Margaret Melvinalius of Delano who died Wednesday at her home. Janzen Funeral Home Chapel will host last rites with burial in Shafter Cemetery. Surviving are three daughters Myrtle Cornelius and Mrs Adami of Delano and Minnie Miller of Oklahoma City. three sons William Arthur and Walter Cornelius of Phoenix Oklahoma City and Altus. 20 grandchildren 32 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren. She was 89 born January 27 1858 and had lived in Delano four years and in Shafter eight years. Rev W A Reading and Rev Orval Seago will conduct services.
A barefoot intruder entered Shafter Billiards during the night and left no loot. Evidence shows removed hinge pins from an outside door and footprints inside. Police suspect the burglar was accidentally locked in or entered by daytime hinge removal and exited by the same method.
In Kern County about 10 000 acres of sugar beets are roughly 35 percent harvested as officials from Holly Sugar Spreckles and American Crystal report. Average sugar content runs 16 percent, two points above last year, boosting total sugar production to level with prior season. Harvest began mid July and runs to late September with expected 19 to 20 tons per acre. Beets now a staple crop in the area with three companies shipping to Santa Ana Tracy Manteca Woodland and Oxnard factories.
California reports a total of 33,542,829 standard cases in 1946 canned vegetable production. Industry data show the nationwide scale for canned vegetables and indicate strong postwar demand.
James, Kern county planning engineer, told Shafter Rotary Club that California will undergo a decade of major road building under the Collier Burns bill. He praised Shafter’s role in the Central Valley Highway Association and outlined county funding growth and centralized oversight for road programs.
R. H. Armstrong and B. R. Zimmerman acquire Janzen Funeral Home from Mr. and Mrs. Henry Janzen. They will split time between Shafter and Bakersfield chapels with services shared between communities. Re decoration planned at Shafter parlor.
The Navy Oil Company super service station in the Schirmer triangle bounded by State Street James Street and Lerdo Highway is nearly complete and will open some time this month. The building is being rushed to completion with black-top laid over the lot, making it ready for operation.
The Recaps and Kern Materials square off Monday night on Richland’s primary diamond in their third meeting of the season. Kern Materials, first-half Bakersfield American Softball League winner with 10–1, features pitchers Mike Barrett and Dick Belcher against Recaps ace Ralph Lachenmaier. The Recaps recently beat Bakersfield foe after an earlier season loss, while Superior posted a 1–0 win in a tight duel with Lachenmaier and Forsyth.
Dr. Mark W. McCormack of San Diego traveled to Shafter last Tuesday in his new Cessna for lunch at the Shafter Motel with local Dr. O G Ohlsson and Wasco’s Dr. M T McDaniels.
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