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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1953
Page
7
120 Shafter High students joined a 42-bus caravan to Pasadena for the Jr. Rose Bowl game against Northeast Oklahoma A and M. The Renegades won 13 to 6 as bands, marching units, and halftime shows entertained the crowd.
Sophomores in Gaye Pare’s world history class at Shafter High School acted out historic figures Francis Bacon Galileo and Isaac Newton. Jack Ogle played Newton and demonstrated gravity while Bob Grainger portrayed Galileo showing equal fall rates. The exercise highlights individuals who shaped modern history.
Claude M. Haney 22 received a 50 day jail term for borrowing an automobile without permission. Arrested by the California Highway Patrol at Pumpkin Center he appeared before Judge E K Grant in Shafter and admitted taking a car belonging to Trini Rodriguez parked at Smith's Corner. Unable to pay the $100 fine he was sent to Kern County Jail in Bakersfield to serve the term.
Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Ortner and Zoann of Shafter left yesterday for the Christmas holidays. They will visit his daughter at Okeene Oklahoma and his son in Dallas Texas. They plan to return after January 1, traveling the southern route.
Multiple churches announce Christmas services with pageants cantatas and baptisms. The North Shafter Chapel, Grace Mennonite Brethren, Union Congregational, Ebenezer Reformed, Mennonite Brethren, First Mennonite and First Baptist churches all schedule Eve and Day programs, caroling, films and special sermons led by Rev. Ummel Rev. Jost Rev. Baker Rev. Grossmann Rev. Wiebe Rev. Schroeder and others.
Kern county cotton growers voted 733 to 136 in favor of federal marketing quotas with 32 challenge votes. The quota keeps 90 percent parity supports as law requires after 1953 production exceeded limits. California farmers seek Congress action to boost acreage by 200000 to counter revenue loss. In the interim CSS assigns 30 to 35 percent of the 1953 crop to 290 area growers including Page Atwater.
A surprise housewarming was held Tuesday evening at the new Cross Street home of Mr. and Mrs. George Harrison. Christmas motif refreshments were served and the couple received a gift. Attending were Mrs. Horace Gray and Mesdames M. L. Thomas, Charles Burns, T. P. Rootes, Phil Ohanneson, Henry Neufeld, and A. P. Ohanneson. Mr. and Mrs. John J. Peters were unable to attend.
A visit by Mrs. Elizabeth Ortner of Pacific Grove to her son Ezra Ortner on Marengo street sparked a busy weekend with relatives including Floyd Hoeger, William Schneider families, Alvin Schneider, Isaac Schneider and the Ortners daughter Zoann. The article notes the 1952 tuna canning industry produced a record 9,239,275 cases.
Postmaster George Guenther expects a rush as holiday mail grows with packages cards and greetings. Extra helpers will aid in dispatching local mail and organizing incoming gifts for delivery. Citizens can speed things by addressing packages correctly and avoiding common mailing mistakes such as tags inner letters and seals on addresses and shipping perishable items.
In Shafter area supporters push for additional signatures to a petition urging passage of the Bricker Amendment. Twelve representatives have canvassed the city and still need a few more signatures. Contact Mrs. E. C. Eckmann at 356 Mannel Ave to sign.
Bosses at Feed Employes at Shafter Pump and Machine honored their bosses at a special dinner at Estrada's Spanish Kitchen last Friday night. Honored were G. D. Prather and C. W. Christopher. Master of ceremonies was Bill Shute. Attendees included Darrell Buckland Joe Carrasco Herbert Chaney Earl Dechert Claude Ferguson Pete Gonzales C. W. Jennings Arthur Cooper Dean Musick Phil Nunez Yael Nye Aaron Thorrington and L. A. Wagner.
Birthday greetings are extended to Mrs. Chris Johnson Mrs. T. V. Little Martha Schneider Mrs. Helen Froese E. A. Ed Brown and Mrs. R. W. Rodgers Ruth Wedel Margaret Strauss in a community note celebrating residents.
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