New High School Staff Adds Full Time Music Plan
Shafter High School announces new staff for the upcoming year. Ernest Graf will lead the expanded music program teaching band orchestra glee club and individual instruction daily across two periods. Barbara Lee becomes girls physical education instructor. Cecil Rivoads handles wood shop and drawing and assists coaching. Theodora Walther is appointed head librarian. Enrollment is expected to rise about twenty percent.
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University of Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Ernest Graf
San Jose State
Glee Club
Will
Barbara Lee
el Segundo
Girls Athletic Association
Cecil Rivoads
Kansas University
Theodora Walther
Southeast Missouri Teachers College
Missouri University
DeSoto High
DeSoto
Missouri
Hill
Proctor and Matheson Net Six Coons in Shafter Hunt
Ray Proctor of Rays Grocery at Smiths Corner and C H Red Matheson returned Friday night with six coons. Proctor has since bought another coon and cat dog, signaling more hunts from the Shafter pair.
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Ray Proctor
Ray
Smith’s Corner
C. H
Red” Matheson
Proctor
Mrs. Magdalena Schnaidt Dies at 79 in Shafter
Services were held Tuesday at the Reformed Church in Shafter for Mrs. Magdalena Schnaidt who died Saturday at age 79. She lived in Shafter 26 years and in California 46. Survived by husband Frederick Schnaidt three sons and six daughters, plus brothers, sisters, 26 grandchildren and 20 great grandchildren.
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Reformed Church
Shafter
Magdalena Schnaidt
Lodi
Katherine Mettler
Beverly Hills
Adolph Kirschenmann
Ben J. Stoller
Calvin Mettler
Jacob Mettler
August Mettler
Fred Reich
John Huber
Menno
South Dakota
John Schnaidt
Father of Local Man Robbed and Beaten
John W. McAllister a 61 year old father of Joe W. McAllister of Shafter was held up robbed and beaten by a man and a woman he gave a ride from Muskogee Oklahoma en route to visit his son in town They knocked him unconscious robbed his car and money and dumped him in a ditch He was found by motorists and treated for a brain concussion at a Belen hospital.
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John W. McAllister
Joe W. McAllister
Shafter
Muskogee
Oklahoma
McAllister
Belen
New Mexico
Mrs Hemingson Returns Home From Nebraska
After a three month absence Mrs. A J Hemingson returned to Shafter on Sunday. She had been in Polk Nebraska in May due to her mother Mrs Henry Sandells illness. Mrs Sandell is recovering well and hopes to visit Shafter for the winter.
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A. J. Hemingson
Shafter
Happiness in Children Reflects Diverse Enjoyments
A Public Health pamphlet discussion explains how parents misread a child’s happiness when tastes differ from their own. It notes quiet children may be labeled lazy and dramatic youngsters mocked, urging parents to support each child’s chosen activities while guiding balance.
Terminal Leave Pay Blanks Available For Shafter Vets
Terminal leave forms for discharged enlisted men are now available at the Shafter post office and the Shafter Veterans Service Center at Battaglia & Hare on Central Avenue. The American Legion posts offer free processing and volunteers will aid ex-GIs in filing claims to be sent to Washington.
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Shafter Veterans Service Center
Battaglia & Hare
Central Avenue
Santa Fe
American Legion
Shafter
Washington
Cently
Henderson
Legion
Bakersfield couple weds at Judge Grant’s home
Miss Lola Smith and Hal Briggs of Bakersfield united in marriage by Judge E K Grant at eight Saturday evening. Bride is daughter of Chester Hamilton and granddaughter of Mike Poznoff. maid of honor Nellie Papoff. best man Joe Briggs. Cake, reception at the Duerksen home on California Street. about thirty five guests.
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E. K. Grant
Lola Smith
Hal Briggs
Bakersfield
Grant
Miss Smith
Chester Hamilton
Mike Poznoff
Shafter High School
Merchants Association of
A L Rogers Feted On Golden Wedding Anniversary
A L Rogers celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with a pot luck dinner at their home west of Shafter last Friday evening August 23. Surrounded by family including three married sons and daughter, twenty grandchildren and nine great grandchildren, friends, and relatives, the event honored Mr and Mrs Rogers and featured numerous gifts.
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Shafter
R. W. Rogers
C. M. Rogers
W. A. Rogers
Wasco
A. Brooks
Paso Robles
Annual Veterans Barbecue at Kern County Park
Thousands expected to attend the annual veterans barbecue at Kern County Park on Sunday September 1. Charlie Castro leads the barbecue crew with Frank Loustalot chairing the serving team. Tickets cost adults one dollar and children fifty cents, with 300 prizes donated by local businesses.
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Kern County
Charlie Castro
Frank Loustalot
Busi
Attendance of Students Is Up to Parents
With the opening of school authorities remind parents of their responsibility under state school attendance laws. California law requires all children under eighteen to attend school. Some cases allow sixteen year olds to obtain work permits to leave school for work, issued with school authority approval. The revised law places attendance responsibility on parents. questions should be directed to school authorities.
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California
Ohlsson Addresses Chicago Rotary Club Visit
Dr. O G Ohlsson spoke to Shafter Rotarians about his trip to the Number 1 U S Rotary Club in Chicago where about 800 of the club’s 1200 to 1400 members attended the noon meeting. Al Ingraham summarized the housing conference with Congressman Alfred Elliott in Tulare and urged action to loosen home priority rules for Shafter veterans. Clarence Neuman chaired.
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O. G. Ohlsson
Shafter Rotarians
U. S
Rotary Club
Chicago
Rotary
Dr. Ohlsson
al Ingraham
Alfred Elliott
Tulare
Shafter
Clarence Neuman
Shafter adopts ordinance on building setback and rear clearance
The City of Shafter enacts Ordinance No. 56 mandating a ten foot clearance from street-adjacent buildings along Manuel Ave Lerdo Highway and Shafter Avenue and a ten foot rear clearance for buildings facing alleys or lacking alleys. It prohibits construction that blocks access to the rear of adjoining properties and requires a twenty foot rear clearance where no alley exists.
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City OF
Shafter
Manuel Ave
Lerdo Highway
Shafter Avenue
Shafter Ordinance on Building Placement and Alley Access
City of Shafter enacts rules to ensure new structures have 14 foot rear easement to alleys and a 20 foot rear clearance if no alley exists. Ordinance aims to provide free ingress for adjacent properties, garbage disposal, fire equipment access, and loading space, with council power to reject building applications.
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City of
Shafter
Ordinance for Public Peace in Shafter Alley Restrictions
The city council of Shafter adopts Ordinance No. 56 to regulate alleyways amid growing building construction. The ordinance aims to preserve public peace and safety and will be published in the Shafter Press with council vote details. The City Clerk attests the ordinance was introduced and passed in late August 1946 with all present voting aye.
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City of
Shafter
Shafter Press
State of California
I. G. Shaw
Ett
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Mrs. Hemingson
Nebraska
Catherine Conrad Edwards
U.S. Children’s Bureau
A. L. Rogers
Ford Tractor
Earth
Ford
Chester Ave
Ohlsson
J.W. Frizzell
Na ‘Lachenmaier
Kirschenmann
Lure
Frizzell
F. G. Shaw
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