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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1943
Page
5
Postwar plans for Shafter focus on growth and jobs
Wartime reflection outlines postwar goals for Shafter including more farmland and jobs in carpentry and trucking. Proposals urge parks, street repairs, evening schools, hospitals, recreational facilities, entertainment venues, housing reform, sanitary improvements, and new churches to support returning servicemen and rebuild the town.
Sacramento and Monterey in California's early capital saga
The piece traces Sacramento as California's fifth capital with ties to Monterey San Jose Vallejo and Benicia. It notes 1849 offers of 1 million dollars to become capital, Sutter and New Helvetia, the gold rush's impact, Marhsall Brannan and street naming, Pony Express station era, Tremont hotel gold dust gambling, City hotel parties, Brannan's restaurant lineage, early four storekeepers forming the Big Four, Judah's transcontinental railroad vision, and a note on Mt. Davidson in San Francisco.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
California
Monterey
San Jose
Vallejo
Benicia
Presidio
Jose
Joaquin Moraga
John Sutter
Sam Brannan
San Francisco
Pony Express
Tremont Hotel
Brannan
All Sacramentans
2Nd Street
Central Pacific
Southern Pacific
Theodore D. Judah
Sacramento Valley
Folsome
Students Awarded for Cotton Pick at Shafter High
Shafter High School announces U S Crop Corps certificates for fall 1943 cotton harvest participants. Notables include Elvina Avants, Howard Bailin, Elsie Brown, Carol Clark, Mildred Cronin, Norma Doyle, William Evans, Helen Guenther, LaVern Hamilton, Carl Heffley, Albert Hughes, Raymond Massey, Robert Peters, Aline Potts, Robert Roscamp, Ollie Scaggs, Dick Homer Thomas, Bill Unsoeld, John Hampton, Jim Moore, Myrtle Morrs, Mary Contraras, Norma Irwin, Ellen Gilstrap, Billy Blizard, Harvey Reimer, Ann Ellis, Asa Massey, L. V. th, Everett Elms, Doyle Fenton, Ofrey Neiman, Bill Cody, Louis Meeks, Dale Voth, Max Wiles, Jeane Schreiner, Bud Anderson, Virginia Anderson, Erma Beese, Roy Brockett, Kenneth Buller, Wayne Estes, Erma Cook, Billy Farmer, Richard Fast, Calvin Goehring, Clifford Guenther, Gerene Hatcher, Reginald Hight, Ida Rosenman, Charles Tackett, Irene Talbert, George Trout, Roxie Scaggs, Barbara Sly, Herbert Spitzer, Gene Peters, George Willey, Bill Cotton, Neva Helsley, Mary Lou Gwin, Myrle Royal, Vernna Royal, Mrs A Cornell, Gerald Smith, George Cooper, Roy Contreras, Nerva Mizell, Leon Shepard, Bud Janzen, Elmer Mettler, Robert Warren, Kenneth Melvin, Billy Jeffcoat, Marceline Schriener, Roy Schaeffer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
U. S.crop Corps
Elvina_ Avants
Howard Bailin
Elsie Brown
Carol Clark
Mildred Cronin
Norma Doyle
William Evans
Helen Guenther
LaVern Hamilton
Carl Heffley
Albert Hughes
Raymond Massey
Robert Peters
Aline Potts
Robert Roscamp
Ollie Scaggs
Dick Homer Thomas
Bill Unsoeld
John Hampton
Erma Cook
Billy Farmer
Richard Fast
Calvin Goehring
Clarice Guenther
Gerene Hatcher
Reginald Hight
Ida Rosenman
Charles Tackett
Irene Talbert
George Trout
Roxie Scaggs
Barbara Sly
Herbert Spitzer
Gene Peters
George Willey
Bill Cotton
Neva Helsley
Mary Lou Gwin
Myrle Royal
Vernna Royal
Mrs. A. Cornell
Gerald Smith
George Cooper
Roy Contreras
Nerva Mizell
Leon Shepard
Bud Janzen
Elmer Mettler
Robert Warren
Kenneth Melvin
Billy Jeffcoat
Marceline Schriener
Roy Schaeffer
Claudine Albright
Maxine Albright
Joe Billy Allen
G. W. Allen
Maude Anderson
Annie, Bailey
Nathan Bailey
Marine Beach
Joanne Becker
Jackie Black
Dona Lee Beese
Ted Brown
Raymond Browner
Bill Cody
Marvin Dirksen
Lillie Early
Doy Fenton
Junior Foster
Don Gaede
John Hamlin
Irene Hamilton
Elmer Hammit
Eugene Harless
Nadean Harless
Third Prize Winners in Freshman and Sophomore Divisions
Barrie Burns named third prize winner in the Freshman and Sophomore divisions. The article urges community planning for postwar Shafter including roads, a municipal auditorium, a park with facilities, and more permanent churches. Emphasizes foreseeing needs to ensure safer travel and orderly growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barrie Burns
Shafter Women's Club
Christmas Holidays In Fresno Visit Highlights
Mrs Laura Hare has been confined to her bed with flu for a week while Mrs R E Gribble substitutes at the school. In Fresno for Christmas Holidays Mr and Mrs Floyd Leach and family visit friends and relatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laura Hare
R. E. Gribble
Fresno
Floyd Leach
J . Ceason
St. Nicholas
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Lisbon
Shafter
Jeane Schreiner
Bakersfield
Wasco
Mercy Christmas
Max
Clement Clarke Moore
Zeman’s
Central Avenue
Santa Fe
Wasco Highway
J. W. Gwin
Sheller
Spud
Sacks Conietora
Wishi
Shafter Sheet Metal Works
Mt. Davidson
Petroleum Distributing CO
W. C. Fillmore
Shafter, California
Che
Jake Neufeld
Merry
Try
Tion
Maxine
Yuletide
Art’s
Gilmore
Hitchcock's Auto Supply Shafter
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