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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1960
Page
1
Supreme Air marks its first year in York at 169 Central Avenue celebrating selling over 280 tons of air conditioning in the Shafter area. Owner Leon Pitts thanks customers and supporters for the store’s early success amid August 1959 beginnings.
The column mixes holiday shopping tips with remarks on returning to school and a look at local business success. It highlights grocery deals and suggests visiting Irvin E. Fike for full details, while weaving in motivational quotes about overcoming setbacks and stories of self-made success figures.
Funeral services were held for John Frederick Anderson 83 at Armstrong Mortuary Shafter with Reverend Emil J Johnson of Messiah Lutheran Bakersfield presiding. Born January 21 1877 in Kansas he lived thirty years in rural Shafter as a farmer later retiring with wife Alice to Morro Bay San Luis Obispo. He died in Bakersfield after a hospital stay July 30 survived by wife daughter Alema two sons Kermet and Hiram two Kansas brothers Luther and Gust and three Anderson in laws and their daughter.
Parents in the Shafter area are warned about a man in a green station wagon who reportedly approached three children at Richland Park on Saturday August 6. He claimed two puppies in the car were worth 250 dollars each and showed a radio in the glove compartment. The police report says he offered a puppy like the ones in the car and said he was headed to Mexico. He left the park promising to return, with no report of a return yet.
Sapulpa Oklahoma wedding of Mr and Mrs J W Wray on August 3 1935. The Wrays marked 25 years of marriage with a Lake Tahoe vacation. They moved to Kern County soon after marriage and have lived on the R A Jacobsen ranch most of their life. Mr Wray is foreman at the ranch. They have four children Jack Donna Jeffrey Don David and Darlene with two teens expected to graduate next month at Shafter High School.
Boy Scouts have been home about a week after attending the National Jamboree celebrating 50 years of scouting. They shared reports of busy days, trading patches in Kern County, candle-lighting ceremonies, and a return train journey via Grand Canyon to Bakersfield with fond memories of new friendships.
Attendance across divisions of the Shafter Recreation Commission program totals 31,300 participants. Spring and summer activities include Girls Volleyball 240 participants, Play Days 300, Junior Olympics 175, Softball 2,500, Baseball 750, Swimming 4,500 lessons and 6,000 total, and Chess Club 75 with 100 overall.
Shafter swimmers led by coaches from Shafter Barbara Hill and Jessie Willis excel at the Bakersfield College pool Friday July 29 with over 200 entrants. Results list multiple top placements across girls and boys divisions including first second and third place finishes in various age groups and events.
The county board estimates a drop of about 12 cents per $100 of assessed valuation in the operating tax rate, to an estimated 1.55. Principal and interest on the 1953 bond issue add about 43 cents and 1960 bond issue about 7 cents, totaling 50 cents per $100. The total tax rate with bond payments is projected at 2.05, down roughly 6 cents from last year.
Tess Norris of Buttonwillow plans an October festival exhibit featuring watercolors from Kern coast scenes painted last fall and during summer vacation. Her pieces decorate four Community National Bank branches in Shafter Buttonwillow Arvin and Kernville and have earned awards at Delano county fair and Kern Art Festival. Norris, wife of Joe Norris, taught art at Shafter Play Center last summer and spent time with her three children and their father who worked inspecting melons near Madera.
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