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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1954
Page
9
A Richland School speech correction class led by Mr. Frank Bortz helps six fourth graders improve voices and eliminate lisps mumbling and L sound errors. Activities include a playlet Our Daily Bread and a lamp shaped card game using a flannelboard to reinforce articulation.
Education today surveys show about 90 percent of U S schools use printscript in first and second grades with Richland pairing printstyle to third grade then cursive. Studies in 1953 Morrisett at Richland found 71 percent of students moderately good or better, none non-writers, and only 5 percent rated poor.
Graveside services were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Shafter Cemetery for William H Worthey 52 a farm laborer who died February 27 in his Shafter area home The Rev Ernest Schroeder officiated Armstrong Mortuary of Shafter handled arrangements He was a native of Arkansas and had lived in Kern County four years Survivors include two sons William H Worthey Jr of Shafter and Steve Worthey of Fort Collins Col and a sister Anna Bruce of Oregon
Thanksgiving Day celebration at the Ben Stoller residence honored the birthday of Emil Stoller. Guests included Mrs. Calvin Mettler with Jo Ann, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Stoller, Dr. and Mrs. P. C. Guenther, and Phyllis Stoller visiting from college for the holiday weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Gale Kern of Wall Street hosted Thanksgiving guests including Mr. and Mrs. Roy Pasley with Ronnie and Danny, Mr. and Mrs. James Flannigan and Mike, Mr. Leroy Pasley with daughter Sharon, and Mrs. Kern's sister Mr. and Mrs. Roy Shively of Hayward California.
Eight, baby white rats delight Mrs. Lois Murfin's first grade class as Thanksgiving break ends. Don Murfin, her husband, also teaches at Shafter High and coaches basketball. The Murfin family came from Colorado with roots in Adams City and Denver area.
Kern County families are invited to Harvey Auditorium for A Family Christmas In Song performed by Bakersfield Shafter and Wasco Mothersingers. Ninety five Mothersingers from Bakersfield and twenty two from Shafter Wasco will participate with a program of living pictures harp solo and a children's chorus.
Shafter High School forms an awards board to ensure only deserving students receive honors. The board, led by Mrs Amelia Cornell dean of girls, adjusts membership by prize type with faculty members handling noncash awards and collaboration with scholarship donors for monetary awards. Additional permanent faculty on the awards committee include Mrs Theodora Richard librarian Dan Bledsoe dean of science Don Murfin and Hall Williams.
David Anderson celebrated his birthday with a family gathering at his home on Monday. Guests included his wife Mary and children IEEE me and Michael, plus relatives and friends such as Mr. and Mrs. Phil Channeson, Mrs. Horace Gray, and Miss Elsepet ger. Elam family visitors from Modesto, Karen Linda, spent the weekend with Mrs Elam’s relatives. Osborne family hosted the Elams and others for Sunday dinner.
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