Growth of Telephone Service Sparks Kern City Debate
The Shafter Rotary hear Ray Dempsey cite a 900 percent rise in Shafter phone installations over 11 years while Delano shows 1087 phones, up from 379 in 1930. Bakersfield struggles with growth outside the city limits and rising taxes amid disputes over services and control.
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Delano Record
Delano
Dempsey
Shafter Rotary Club
Shafter
Kern City
Bakersfield
Phone Installations Show Phenomenal Shafter Growth
Ray Dempsey of Pacific Telephone reports Shafter's telephone installations grew over 900 percent since 1935. He notes wartime priorities, 71 nonpriority applications, and rapid postwar expansion with 18 trunk lines to Bakersfield and tests of car radio service. Universal dialing is being developed to allow dialing any number nationwide.
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Shafter
Ray Dempsey
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company
Shafter Rotary Club
Dempsey
Bakersfield
Betwen Shafter
Los Angeles
San Francisco
United States
Local Schools Plan September 3 Start Across Shafter
Shafter will open all schools on September 3 to finish summer early for potato harvest workers. High School enrollment last year reached about 350 with 400 anticipated this year. Richland district Grammar School expects 1100 plus, staff 52, with 1486 total in May and growth projected. Dan P. Bledsoe named football coach from Ely Nevada. bus schedules remain as last year.
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Shafter
Jack Hill
Shafter High School
O. T. Olson
Richland
Dan P. Bledsoe
Ely
Nevada
Rich
Grammar School
Arnold Enns Passes After Brief Illness
Arnold Enns a Shafter high school student and lifelong resident died early Saturday after several weeks of illness. He was 16 and active in Future Farmers of America. Services were held Monday at Mennonite Brethren Church in Reedley with Rev G B Huebert officiating. Burial followed in Shafter cemetery. Survived by parents two sisters Delores and Marilyn and brother Donald all of Shafter. an uncle Frank F Enns and several other uncles and aunts in Reedley and Fresno.
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Arnold Enns
Shafter High School
Shafter
Arnold
Arnold L. Enns
Farmers of America
Mennonite Brethren Church
G. B. Huebert
Reedley
George Cooper
Fred Starrh
Victor Bender
Robert Peters
Donald Zachary
Gregory Channeson
Shafter Cemetery
Delores
Marilyn Enns
Donald Enns
Frank F. Enns
Fresno
Housing Needed For Teachers Housing Shortage Pressed by Richland Schools
O. T. Olson superintendent reports that housing is needed for several Richland school teachers as a critical support issue for the district. The note highlights the urgent demand for accommodations to attract and retain qualified educators.
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Richland
O. T. Olson
Shafter Records .14 Inch Rainfall In Freak Shower
Shafter experienced a rare light shower totaling .14 inches, per the U S Experimental Farm at Shafter. With a prior .04 inches this month, August total reaches .18 inches, surpassing the former August record of .04 inches since 1922. Bakersfield report notes Shafter as the only rainfall west of the Continental Divide with .01 inches in Wednesday’s shower.
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Shafter
U. S
Bakersfield
Continental Divide
McClure Family Home From Vacation
Mr and Mrs P V McClure and daughters Paula and Cheryl return from a week in Santa Monica aboard their car and plans for resuming daily routines after their trip.
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McClure
Santa Monica
Mrs. P. V. McClure
Paula
Cheryl
Hour Glass Filled With Water or Not
An exhortation to Californians in Shafter Wasco to act now on water shortages. It warns underground reserves are shrinking and wells are failing, urging unified pressure for the Central Valley Project and rapid completion to save land values and regional futures. Promotes state and national support.
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San Joaquin Valley
Shafter-Wasco
San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles Ti
State Chamber of Commerce
California
Wasco Rotary Club chartered with 300 attendees
Impressive ceremonies marked Wasco Rotary Club’s charter night with 300 Rotarians and wives from 49 clubs of the 160th district. Sponsored by Shafter Rotary, the Wasco club becomes Kern County’s first sponsored by a club other than Bakersfield, with notes on leaders, members, and sponsors.
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Wasco Rotary Club
Shafter Rotary Club
Wasco Club
Kern County
Bakersfield
H. W
Pat) Kelly
Shafter Club
W. W
Joe” Sears
Santa Barbara
Rotary
Clarence W. Peterson
Tracy
Wasco
H. G. Scaroni
Clarence Neuman
Bob Ford
Eleanor Clemens
Clarence Annin
Ray Tay
Ernest Panero
Art Clemens
Tom Comer
William Erickson
E. C. Eckmann
Clinton Fannin
Harold Grundt
W. M. Jacobson
Melvin McConnell
Melvin T. McDaniel
Max McKinley
Malcolm Nelson
E. J. Peters
Fred Pritschke
Harold Swain
Ira Unruh
Loren Voth
Robert Cleland
Byron P. Hovey
E. V. Spivey
Harold Britain
Herb Peters
Jon Unruh
Martin Wagner
Joe Sears
Pat Kelly
Pearl Jameson Dies in Wasco Family Obituary
A 5 year old Wasco resident Pearl Jameson died Monday. She is survived by her husband J M Jameson of Wasco and five sons William Jameson of Shafter and Clay Ebb Ted and Eeverett Jameson, all of Wasco.
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Pearl Jameson
Wasco
J. M. Jameson
William Jameson
Shafter
Clay, Ebb, Ted
Eeverett Jameson
Elliott Plans Tulare Meeting On Housing Needs
A caravan of fifty Shafter residents and local business and GI housing seekers will travel to Tulare Friday night for an 8 p.m. meeting at the Tulare Kings County Fair grounds office called by Congressman Alfred Elliott. Langdon W. Post of the FHA will attend.
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Shafter
Tulare
Alfred Elliott
Langdon W. Post
Federal Housing Administration
Elliott
Frank Shaw
Shafter Press
Tulare-Kings County Fairgrounds
City Hall
Shafter City Hall
G.I
Shafter Business Men’s Association
Congressman Elliott
Kiwanis Hear Stone Talk On Valley Water
Wayne Stone of Pacific Gas and Electric told Kiwanis at Cawelo Motel that Southern San Joaquin Valley irrigation pumps almost 3 million acre feet annually. He traced water history from 1865 canals to the Central Valley Project and listed dams and canals shaping future supply. Bakersfield visitors John Ware Dan Morgan Sam Hoff Keith McCormac and Shafter’s Paul Newell attended.
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San Joaquin Valley
Wayne Stone
Fresno
Pacific Gas and Electr Company
Kiwanis
Cawelo Motel
California
Stone
Central Valley
Kings River
Friant- Kern
Shasta
Friant
Contra- Costa Canal
Madera
John Ware
Dan Morgan
Sam Hoff
Keith McCormac
Bakersfield
Paul Newell
Shafter
Cancellation of Streamliner Stop Protests in Shafter
Protests to the Santa Fe Railway over dropping the late night Streamliner stop at Shafter were voiced to Bakersfield agent Charles Henry at a Shafter Business Men's Association meeting. Critics argue the stop aids travelers from San Francisco and north, and its loss harms the community and freight efficiency. Rancher Phil Channeson warned Santa Fe may incur freight losses without restoring the stop. Growers and shippers have sent letters to Santa Fe officials pleading reinstatement.
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Santa Fe Railway
Streamliner
Shafter
Charles Henry
Bakersfield
Shafter Business Men’s Association
Henry
San Francisco
Phil Channeson
Santa Fe
Mrs S A Davis Visits from Kansas
Mrs S A Davis arrived from Miltonvale Kansas to stay at the Phil Horwith home after Mrs Horwith returned from the hospital. Davis is Mrs Horwiths mother and is visiting in town.
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A. Davis
Miltonvale
Kansas
Phil Horwith
Horwith
Mrs. Davis
Services Held For Jacob Unruh 83
Services were held last Friday for Jacob J. Unruh 83 who died Tuesday at the Home for the Aged in Reedley. He lived in Kern county 26 years and worked as a farmer until retirement. He leaves two sons John J. Unruh and Jacob M. Unruh both of Bakersfield, three daughters and twenty grandchildren.
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Jacob J. Unruh
Reedley
Unruh
Kern County
John J. Unruh
Jacob M. Unruh
Bakersfield
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Ray Dempey
Delano Chamber of Commerce
Larry
Ren
Vulco
Low D.D.T
Leuman & Johnson
Somer Moe
Shafter- Wasco
Pps
Central Valley Project
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
McFarland
Arvin
Dinuba
Porterville
Visalia
Lindsay
Exeter
S. A. Davis
Jacob Unruh
Johnson-Neuman
Star Brand
Thorogood
Red Wing
OPA
Johnson-Neaman
Shafter, California
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