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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1953
Page
8
Area residents and relatives are listed visiting and staying with families across Shafter and nearby towns. Mentions include Emil Stolcrs, Oscar Slifer, Frank Pruitt, Alan Osborn, C W Cox, Gordon Baker, E G Kruger, Fred Luders, Homer Stiner, Nellie Lassiter, George Guenther, and many others visiting, hosting, or traveling from places like Bakersfield, Los Angeles, Fresno, Portland, and San Francisco. Bear Flag monument noted.
Mr and Mrs Noel Finney and their sons Ronnie Johnny and Donald spent two weeks visiting relatives in Arkansas. They saw Mrs Sarah Finney in Boonsville and No land family at Fort Smith and met Mrs Finney s father in Ione. They also visited Mrs Lucy Pennington in a sanitarium and stopped at Boulder Dam on the return trip.
California processors report plans to handle about 28 100 acres of Green Lima beans in 1953 the largest acreage on record. Acreage is 27 percent above 1952 and more than double the 10 year average. Plantings of Fordhooks and Baby Limas rise with biggest gains in the South Coast area.
A brief note describes a trip with the Finneys who reside at the Woods Stone ranch, indicating a visit or journey connected to that property.
Entries for baked goods and candy classes are due by September 1 with judging for handicrafts needlework jams jellies preserves and canned fruits set for August 22 to 24. Baked goods and candies are judged September 2 with $507 in cash awards for best pies cakes cookies breads and candies. Entrants may submit 12 distinct pie sections with various flavors and any fruit pie is acceptable including chocolate custard mincemeat and pumpkin.
Ruth and Diane Martin of West Lerdo Highway drove to Fresno Sunday after receiving an emergency call from her father Herman Janzen who is hospitalized. Dennis Heinz is spending 10 days at Wawona where the Seventh Day Adventist Junior Camp is in progress.
Kern farmers abandon portions of acreages as shiploads of potatoes move at disastrously low f.o.b. prices. USDA reports 5.8 million bushels of potatoes exported in 1952 with Canada and Cuba top destinations. Other importers include Mexico, Netherlands West Indies, Panama, Venezuela, and the Philippines.
Charles W. Hitchcock and his son L. Charles Hitchcock came back Saturday from a ten day fishing voyage to Trinidad Oregon with a full catch of tanned, smoked and fresh salmon. They fished aboard Joe Neuman's boat and hauled 325 pounds of Chinook and Silver Streak salmon over six days. The heaviest fish weighed 16 pounds. Neuman plans to stay another month guiding Shafter residents on open sea trips.
Notary services advertised for a real estate business located at 248 Central Ave. Includes a brief note on professional guide listing and contact emphasis for property transactions.
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