Shafter Plans Citywide Sale and Back-to-School Drive
Merchants of Shafter announce a weekend August 26-27 citywide summer clearance and back-to-school sale with double dollar days. Factory stock boosts, reduced prices, and weekend bargains aim to lure shoppers while an industrial committee forms to attract new businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shatter - Buttonwillow - Minter Field
Merchants
Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Shafter
Herb Howell
Farm Group Names Slates For Kern County Seats
Page Atwater of the Kern county committee announced slates for the ten agricultural stabilization and conservation communities. Five local members will be chosen for each 1956 board, with nominees from Shafter and Buttonwillow. Additional candidates may be petitioned by August 25 in Shafter or Buttonwillow. The committees advise the county USDA.
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Page Atwater
Kern County Committee
Shafter
R. E. Dargatz
Buttonwillow
Curtis Graves
P. O. Box
Bakersfield
United States Department of Agriculture
Shrine Football Game Tickets Go On Sale October 4
Public sale of tickets to the Eighth Annual Kern County Shrine Club Poratsy Bowl football game is set for Tuesday October 4 at Club headquarters 1608 California Avenue. Tickets are 2.50 with all seats reserved at Memorial Stadium. The game will be Saturday December 3 with two top junior college teams invited.
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Kern County
Bakersfield
Horton
Shriners
E. L. Goodspeed
Buttonwillow
Tom Rootes
Shafter
Shafter Man Arrested After Hit and Run Crash
A 61-year-old Shafter resident was arrested after a Sunday night hit-and-run south of Seventh Standard Road, according to the highway patrol. William J. Patrick of Route 1 Box 556, a night watchman, was jailed as the accident’s suspect. Involved were R. D. Perry, 1881 Beech Avenue, and his wife Juanita plus their son Ronald, all taken to Kern General Hospital.
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Shafter
Seventh Standard Road
Highway Patrol
William J. Patrick
Route 1
Box 556
R. D. Perry
Beech Avenue
Juanita
Ronald
Kern General
Hughetts Named Press Reporters For Buttonwillow
The Shafter Press announces Bob and Ellen Hughett as Buttonwillow correspondents to report weekly news. The couple, longtime Buttonwillow residents, will work with the Press to expand coverage. They live at 224 West First St with their son Donald Allan and welcome news tips from the community.
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Robert
Ellen Hughett
Buttonwillow
Shafter Press
Paul McDonald
McDonald
Shafter
Bob
I. Great Falls
Montana
Ellen
Don
The
Lions Club
Community Baptist Church
Lady Lions
Hughetts
West First St
Donald Allan
Two Holdovers Lead Generals into 1955 Football Season
Shafter High’s Generals face a tight 1955 football campaign with only two definite returning varsity players and one possible returnee for scrimmage. Coach Dan Bledsoe remains optimistic the squad can improve beyond last season’s four wins and five losses.
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Shafter High School
Generals
Dan Bledsoe
Shakter
Store Is Sold In Central Valley Highway Area
Brock’s grocery on Central Valley Highway in North Shafter was sold to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Turpin from A. J. Brock. Turpin, a Richland school district bus driver, will open a grocery in Shafter where Brock ran a food market for 18 months.
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Brock’'s
Central Valley Highway
North Shefter
A. J Brock
Bill Turpin
Marengo Street
Turpin
Richland
Brock Side de Des
Normal Cotton Year Expected For Shafter By Farm Advisor
Two juveniles aged 16 and 18 admitted stealing about $1000 worth of clothes from the wrecked car of Portland photographer Robert Petonti. The clothes were found buried under tumbleweeds north of Lerdo highway. The teens, from well-to-do families, were released to their parents as they await a Bakersfield hearing. Petonti was hospitalized in Los Angeles with multiple fractures.
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Robert P. Petonti
Portland Oregonian
Bakersfield
Glenn Holt
Santa Fe
Shafter
Highway 99
Canelo Station
Holt
Claude Mitchell
Lerdo Highway
Friant-Kern Canal
Petonti
Veterans Hospital
Los Angeles
Mrs DeVincenzo Named to Family Sample Service
Mrs John De Vincenzo of Jack Avenue was named to the national family test group of Farm Journal. She is one of 400 members chosen from across the United States to test new foods and products and advise editors on homemaking service.
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Shafter
Anna DeVincenzo
de Vincenzo
John DeVincenzo
Jack Avenue
Farm Journal
DeVincenzo
Cartier
United States
Anna DeVincengt
1955 Cotton Prospects in Kern County Cited as Mixed
County experts note 1955 may start slow with weather and disease issues but expect a near normal finish. Emphasis is on finishing the crop, proper irrigation after early September, defoliant use to avoid immaturity, and careful mechanical picking to preserve grade. 1954 record yield praised and guidance given for harvest quality and market competitiveness.
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Shafter
Kern County
Fern County
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Sol Camp
Scott Frost
Springfield
Ill
Frost
Maynard Wilder
Western Automotive
Whit Whitson
King's Department Store
Art Hemingson
Shafter Mercantile
Bill McCullough
Kirby Shoe Store
Don Isell
Cornet’s
Wayne Woods
Woods Shoe Store
Tony Brown
Central Hardware
Vernon
Edna Ross
Rasco's
Cora Ryan
Made O'Day
Earl
Christine Johnson
Johnson-Ne' Man
Bob Bann
KWSO
James R. Bobst
Bud Mouser
Herb Spitzer
Fred Starrh
John Balzer
Troy Aday
M. C. Connell
A. W. Ehrhorn
Robert Senn
Menno Siemens
Carl Steele
Ervin Toews
Buttonwillow Board
Carl Twissleman
Allen Bottorff
Jack G. Thomson
Ted B. Olsen
Jack Frey
Don Hughett
John Parsons
DeWitt Matson
Alfred Palla
Irvin Baublitz
Chamber
Ed “Wimpy” Bender
Donald Knowles
Shafter-Man
Bledsoe
Igures
Cocoran
Shatter
Wasco
Exeter
South Sequoia
Coalinga
Lemoore
Garces
Ed Ellis
Amick Steele
George Borton
Secon
Roger Tatum
Jesse Bradford
Asteriks
North High
Arvin
Taft
Corcoran
Sanger
Shafter High
George W. Ferry
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