Shafter Chamber Leads With Local Civic Initiatives
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce under President Phil Clarkin launched several community projects this year in cooperation with Wasco. The joint hospital survey and road improvements along Lerdo Road and Central Valley Highway position Shafter for future growth. Activities included Potato and Cotton Festival and George Harrison Day, plus Dollar Days merchandising efforts. The group also cleaned the Santa Fe Lerdo railroad corner and erected a service club sign. The year ending sees strong progress and momentum for Northern Kern County’s business center.
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Football Banquet Outstanding Success Shafter
The Shafter Civic Football Banquet committee led by Harvey Gaede organized a banquet with top speaker Lynn Waldorf of the University of California. The event drew over 300 attendees including players, fathers, and service club members, and fostered strong community-student leadership bonds.
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Shafter Civic
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Rion
Lynn
Pappy” Waldorf
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California Grid
Shafter
Entry Sign at Shafter Welcomes Visitors
The chamber of commerce has installed an attractive sign at the South entrance of Shafter. A north entrance sign will be erected soon. Dirt around the south sign is graded but landscaping remains to be done. Shrubbery and lawn are urged to complete the project.
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Shafter
Chamber of Commerce Committee
Real Hero Bobby Holmes Rescue Shafter Baby
Bobby Holmes a 15 year old from Shafter bursts into a smoke filled room to save a six week old baby. The act is praised as community pride and a display of young courage under stress, comparing it to battlefield valor.
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Bobby Holmes
Shafter Aer
Friends Seek Rotary Honor for Stringham in Shafter
Friends in the Shafter district note E B Stringham is being considered for district governor of Rotary International. He is a charter member and former president of the local Rotary Club and would be the second Rotary district governor from the area if elected.
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E. B. Stringham
Shafter
Rotary International
Doc” Stringham
Rotary Club
Rotary Evences
Rotary
H. W
Pat) Kelly
United Doctor Support Urged for Hospital in District
Phil Channeson, Shafter pioneer and first mayor, urged at the chamber of commerce meeting that a tax funded hospital is opposed while a privately financed hospital for the Shafter Wasco area could work. He said cross community doctor leadership and subscriptions could fund and lead it, meeting local needs without a tax.
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Shafter
Chamber of Commerce
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Kelly to Seek State Action on Shafter Intersections
The City of Shafter seeks state action to install islands and yellow light blinkers at two dangerous Central Valley Highway intersections Lerdo and Central Valley and Shafter Highway and Central Valley. Assemblyman H W Kelly will contact the division of highways to push for immediate action on these traffic hazards.
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Cancer cures warnings issued by Kern County ACS officials
Kern County American Cancer Society officials warn against false and untimely cancer cure claims. Dr. Carl L. Moore reports six inquiries, cites California Medical Association Cancer Commission statement, and urges reliance on surgical or radiological treatment while tests are pursued by recognized groups.
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National Research Council
Peru Farm Labor Shortage Prompts Machinery Focus
Peru faces farm labor shortages as growers turn to advanced machinery. Jose Carlos Barrio, Peru’s farm machinery chief for the Inter-American Cooperative Service, visits the UC Davis College of Agriculture under the Point IV program to study equipment and methods for expanding Peruvian agriculture.
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Food Production
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State Department
Lake Tahoe water could cover Texas eight inches deep
The claim states Lake Tahoe holds enough water to cover the state of Texas to a depth of eight inches, illustrating vast reservoir capacity. The statement emphasizes scale rather than a verifiable scientific figure, without detailing measurement sources or context.
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State of
Texas
Nurse in Korea Reports Hemorrhagic Fever Toll
Captain Gladys Mandaville, daughter of E. K. Grant, stationed at an Army hospital in Osaki Japan, describes an epidemic of hemorrhagic fever among troops in Korea. She notes 83 patients with two deaths in a recent period. The nurse previously served with an Army unit in Korea.
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Shafter
Osaki
Japan
Gladys Mandaville
Justice of the Peace
E. K. Grant
CSF Holds Potluck Initiation at Shafter High
Shafter High School's chapter of the California Scholarship Federation staged its potluck initiation in the home economics room. Initiates named include Donna Weitz Grethel Crawford Jan Gibson Bill Higbee Betty Howard Donna Johnson Robert Mettler David Muir Shirley Prickett Alfred Schmidt Mary Stephens Elaine Stoller Garry Weyand and Lucille Wiebe.
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Shafter High School
California Scholarship Federation
Donna Weitz
Grethel Crawford
Jan Gibson
Bill Higbee
Betty Howard
Donna Johnson
Robert Mettler
David Muir
Shirley Prickett
Alfred Schmidt
Mary Stephens
Elaine Stoller
Garry Weyand
Lucille Wiebe
General Electric Opens Kern Branch Office
General Electric Supply Corporation establishes a Bakersfield branch to serve dealers in Kern and San Luis Obispo counties. District manager W L Duncan says Jack Thornell at 116 Wilson Ave is operating manager and the office at 1134 33rd St. will handle Shafter dealers Schneider Wikoff Central Hardware Home Appliance Co and Shafter Pump and Machine Works.
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General Electric Supply Corporation
Bakersfield
W.L. Duncan
Jack Thornell
Wilson Ave
33Rd St
Kern
San Luis Obispo
Shafter
Schneider and Wikoff
Central Hardware, Home Appliance Company
Shafter Pump and Machine Works
Buttonwillow School Board Approves Playground Equipment
The Buttonwillow district school board met in regular session and approved purchasing 100 folding charts to supplement inadequate stock. New playground equipment planned includes a climbing gym a primary slide and tether ball poles.
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Buttonwillow
Shorthorn Plan Backed For Nebraska Bull Testing
The American Shorthorn Association backs a Nebraska bull testing trial measuring average daily gain. Range animals receive a corn cob linseed oil feed mix with 12 pounds daily. The top daily gain recorded reaches 3.75 pounds, with performance tested bulls to be sold.
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American Shorthorn Association
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