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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1957
Page
8
Willie Badgett spent a weekend in Laguna Beach with Mr and Mrs Harvey Neuman and family. He unexpectedly met Harriett and Ozzie Nelson during the visit.
Cali fornia Chapters C E S seeks volunteers for a cancer dressing station established at the Fort in Taft. County supervisors approved its rural service. Volunteers meet Mondays 10 a m to 3 p m, bring scissors, and donate worn sheets for dressings. Contact Velma Guenther at Pioneer 6 4012 for details.
Ray Hearon son of Mr and Mrs J B Heaton of Shafter has accepted a faculty position at McFarland High School teaching social studies and serving as track and basketball coach. He is a Maple School graduate and UC alumnus. Two showers honored Miss Carol Giesbrecht bride elect of George Love with gifts, refreshments, and a scrapbook party.
Six Shafter High School students join attendees from Arvin Bakersfield Delano East Bakersfield Garces Kern Valley Maricopa McFarland North Shafter South Taft Tehachapi Wasco at Camp Condor near Taft August 21 22 23 for the Kern County Association of Student Representatives summer workshop. Don Murfin guides sessions on school spirit and student government with experts highlighting finances club activities and standards. Verna Peters of Shafter serves as KCASA secretary and students from Shafter hold key roles including Richard Sowder Bonner Boel Beverly Tatum Mark Freedman and Ray Villalvazo.
A combined group of volunteer firemen and American Legion members went deep sea fishing in Morro Bay. Attendees include Wes Gorsching Pat Bradshaw Don Bellows Mel Parrett Don Little Jack Janzen Mark and Roy Packard Frank Contreras Ralph Baehr Melvin Vaux George Vine Gene Guenther Claude Camp John T Everett Floyd Heinlein George Guenther Chuck Willis Lloyd Oxford Steve Lopez Cecil Armstrong and Elmer Ziemke. Mrs Ted Smith and her young daughter Dawn Lynette are now at home. the child born weighing four and one half pounds is doing nicely.
Western rail carriers won a freight rate increase costing Central and Southern California potato growers about 1.5 million dollars, said Francis Pusateri of Kern County Potato Growers Association. He noted the rise adds to last winter’s interim increase and will squeeze producers more than consumers, prompting talks of curtailing shipments and seeking a solution within 30 days.
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