Back to School Dollar Days Kick Off in Shafter
Shafter merchants launch a two day Dollar Days event to boost fall shopping as families prepare for the new school year. The sale features school supplies and bargains across categories from garden and household goods to seasonal offers. A. G. Whitson, president of the Shafter Chamber of Commerce merchants division, predicts a strong autumn with ample savings and restocked cupboards.
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Shafter
SkKafter
A. G. Whitson
Merchants Division
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Shafter Merchant Association
Richland School Reopens Sept 8 With 1550 Pupils
Richland pupils will return to classes September 8 with about 1550 students and 77 teachers. Kindergarten will operate double sessions for another year while first grade enrollment grows. registration starts 8 a.m. and classes at 9. Birth certificates needed. four kindergarten units and four first grade groups ready for the opening.
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Richland School
Bruce M. Crawford
Crawford
Richland
Overhaul at Shafter cotton gins aids 1953 harvest delay
Shafter agricultural district gins prepare for the 1953 harvest with major overhaul at Coberly West Co. on Central Valley Highway and new equipment. Defoliation planned mid September as 36,000 acres of cotton await harvest, slowed by cool season start but aided by warm June weather. migratory labor expected after mid September, with fewer workers due to mechanization.
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Shafter
Coberly West Co
Central Valley Highway
Ter
McCoy Checks Hall Blueprints For Shafter City Hall
McCoy revises blueprints for Shafter City Hall with architect Ernest J. M. Goy of Bakersfield. City Attorney A G Mortimore states corrections will be sent to Sacramento for final processing once completed. The state will advertise the contract, with about 60 dollars set aside on a lease rental basis.
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Shafter City Hall
Ernest J. M.goy
Bakersfield
A. G. Mortimore
Shafter City
McCoy
Heat threat looms over 1953 San Joaquin cotton crop
George J. Harrison warned hundreds at the California Planting Cotton See Distributors Field Day in Shafter that rising heat could impair this year’s harvest. He urged conservative irrigation and cautioned the Valley may see hotter weather in September to make up drought.
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San Joaquin Valley
George J. Harrison
California
Shafter Experiment Station
Shafter
Harrison
Shafter High School
Richland School Staff Panel Opens New Year Prep
A two day program for Richland School District staff begins next Thursday with an orientation for 16 new teachers. Friday features a panel led by Jesse Stockton to discuss how district personnel can sustain community support, with members from local chambers, PTAs, media, and the Shafter Press.
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Richland
Bruce Crawford
Jesse D. Stockton
Kern County
L. J
Lou) Woodard
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Grant Jensen
Richland School Parent-Teachers Association
Robert Bann
Shafter
KWSO
Jack Fleming
Shafter Press
Crawford
Richland Teachers Club
John Lackey
Frank Bortz
Shafter Conamity
Raisin Workers Set Five Cent Daily Rate
The farm industry pegged the going rate for raisin workers at five cents per day this week. Agricultural workers are busy in Thompson seedless raisins in the Shafter area at present.
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Shafter
Registration and new classes at Shafter High School
Shafter High School sets student registration in the cafeteria on September 4 from 9 to 5 and September 5 from 9 to 12. Principal Grant Jensen notes spring schedules were refined in summer. school opens September 8 at 8:30 a.m. New courses include physics by Don Murfin, world science for sophomores, expanded art and music departments, and a photography class by Miss Jeanette Wheeler.
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Don Murfin
Jensen
Jeanette Wheeler
New Principal To Assume Post At Richland Upper Grades
Clay Hale, 47, educator, will become principal of the Richland School upper grades on Sept. 8 as announced by Superintendent Bruce M. Crawford. Hale has 21 years in education, started after a bachelor from Southwestern State University Oklahoma, earned a master’s in administration at UC Berkeley, and moved to California from Texas in 1943.
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Clay Hale
Richland
Bruce M. Crawford
Rodeo
Contra Costa County
Hale
Southwestern State University
Okla
University of California At Berkeley
California
Texas
New Mentors for H S Teams at Shafter High
Shafter High School adds twelve new teachers for the fall term opening September 8. Principal Grant W. Jensen announced a total staff of 31 to greet about 600 students with 25 more expected enrollments. The new staff includes Pauline Witner English and Mary Elizabeth Simmons homemaking among others.
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Shafter High School
Grant W. Jensen
Pauline Witner
David Marsh
Henry Moroski
Don McCauley
Don Murfin
Thelma Painter
Merlin Hanchett
Kenneth Faband
Gaye H. Pare
Virginia Reese
Darlene Ludtke
Mary Elizabeth Simmons
Grace Packard
Jeanette Wheeler
Tom Oury
Amelia Cornell
Bob Gates
Harlan Hill
Sidney Ottman
Jim Wilson
Hall Williams
Bledsoe Stays with Varsity as Generals Face 53 Frays
Shafter High football faces an unsettled season as Dan Bledsoe returns to coach the Generals with a new aide Gaye Hugh Pare. The staff shifts send Dusty Rhoads to North High while Turk Eliades moves to North High to lead the Colonels, reshaping the coaching lineup and expectations for the fall.
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Bledsoe
Varsity
Frays
Dan Bledsoe
Tulare High School
Generals
Colonels
Washington
Gaye Hugh Pare
C. C
Dusty) Rhoads
North High
Jordan
Turk) Eliades
Don McCauley
Shafter
Sao” ‘Sona
Aera
Eis Wes Sateen
Gridders Open 1953 Season Against Desert Team
Shafter High School announces its football opener against the Desert team on September 25 with practice starting September 8. The season schedule includes games at Taft Arvin Tulare Exeter Coalinga Lemoore Corcoran Wasco through November 20, with league play after October 23.
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Shafter High School
Desert
Burroughs High School
Dan Bledsoe
Taft
Arvin
Shafter
Tulare
Exeter
Coalinga
Lemoore
Corcoran
Men jailed after Bible swap for drinks near county bars
Two men held 12 days in county jail for drunkenness after attempting to trade a Holy Bible for drinks at bars. Judge E K Grant, unaware of the Bible exchange at sentencing, learned of the motive too late. identities of the pair are not disclosed.
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E. K. Grant
Chamber Opens Season Plans Fair Exhibit
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce announces the autumn season kickoff on September 11 at Lee's Dining Room with an expected October event. New members will be selected weekly for a special salute, continuing a summer innovation as weekly meetings resume.
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Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Ernie Hofman
Lee's
Captain Completes Summer Training at Presidio
Captain Herbert F. Miller of 245 Golden West completed summer training at the 6227th U S Army Reserve School at the Presidio of San Francisco. He studied ordnance equipment and received field training including a trip to Benicia Arsenal to observe repair of heavy equipment. Miller served with ordnance units in Europe during World War II and is a graduate of Texas A and M.
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Herbert F. Miller
Golden West
U.S. Army Reserve
Presidio
San Francisco
Benicia Arsenal
Miller
Europe
Tex- Sita Aomaest
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