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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1946
Page
8
Mrs Dore Rene announces the engagement of her daughter Frances Leister to Dr. B Bell. Both are from Los Angeles with Leister formerly from Shafter and Eldorado Oklahoma, arriving in 1941.
A Monday evening dinner hosted by Miss Phyllis Peters honored Miss Vera Wedel of Huntington Beach and Mr. Robert Neaman of Reedley, cousins of Miss Peters. Guests included Miss Barrie Burns, Miss Margaret Murphy, Greg Channeson, and house guest A. P. Channeson.
In Looking Ahead, city leaders discuss a sales tax on all merchandise to boost revenues while merchants resist. The piece mentions Lost Hills metrics and a butter and egg dealer’s warning about census pressures, and ends with taunts about Delano and local towns.
Entries opened for the tenth Kern County Fair with 20000 to 25000 dollars in premiums. A S Goode of Bakersfield president of the Fifteenth District Agricultural Association announced the six day event September 24 to 29 at the new 120000 dollar fairgrounds south of Bakersfield. The 1946 premium book lists prizes and rules and introduces a turnstile to count daily attendance.
Three big days of rodeo dances and Labor Day activities begin Saturday August 31 with a Cowboy Dance at the 178 Club in Isabella. Sunday features the Sierra Round up Rodeo at Scavern Hot Springs directed by Cecil Pascoe of Kernville. Labor Day Monday September 2 offers a country fair barbecue and starlight dance at Walkers Basin Via Caliente.
Reginald C. Hight was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy on August 14, 1946, at Terminal Island. He is the son of Cecil B. Hight of Shafter and a graduate of Shafter High School.
Mr Henry Goertzen brother of Mrs John Peters of this city is visiting this week in Huntington Beach.
Jack Tufts and his family took a break from work at Rasco's store and spent time in the Lake Tahoe area.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Bender and their son Howard spent a week visiting Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Crampton in Santa Cruz. The party traveled from Shafter to Santa Barbara and Santa Monica on a ten day coastal motor trip. The Benders asked friends to remember them and hoped others would visit while on the coast.
Lester Jennison, former co proprietor with Bill Rodgers of the Shafter Studio, visited Shafter this week. He has just received his honorable discharge from the army and plans to locate in Fresno.
USDA reports show about 11.3 million bags of green coffee bought through June 17 under the amended subsidy plan. The purchases total roughly 85 percent of the 13.5 million bags authorized by the Office of Economic Stabilization.
Mr and Mrs Oscar Wiedmann plan a family reunion inviting their son Clark Wiedmann and his wife from Miami Florida. Clark, a Pan American Airways pilot, is a local school graduate and met his wife while she served. she is from Long Beach.
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