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Shafter Progress Through 1951 Highlights
A yearlong chronicle from the Shafter Press recalls weekly notes on civic projects, school expansions, public works, awards, and local leadership from January through June. Key items include irrigation district actions, Richland School additions, cemetery plans, new council and chamber efforts, awards to locals, and community growth efforts in Shafter and Lerdo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Press
Chronicle
Shafter- Wasco Irrigation District
First Bureau of Reclamation
Jim Taylor
Merchant's
Disaster Corps
City Heldan
Richland
Shafter Avenue
Chamber
Lerdo
P. C. Clarkin
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Baltazar M. Lopez
Shafter
Korea
Lions
O. D. Handel
Spudmen
Sol A
Emil Bender
Phil Channeson
Kern County Union High School District Board of Directors
Shafter High School
Loren Voth
Wasco
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District Board of Directors
Public
C. B. Crawford
Pioneer
Buttonwillow
Kern
Vanity Tone
T i Jain
West Coast Defense Command
Shafter-Minter Field
Dorothy Gaede
Roy Farrell
Council
Utility District Board
Harry West
Will Marshal
California Public
Kiwanis Club
Shafter-Wasco
New Congregational Church
Betty Stringer
Jimmie Faye Witcher
Spud
Connie Pelosi
St. Therese's Catholic Church
Betty Jane Stringer
David Muir
Leonard Gaede
Richland School Board
Wanda Mary Horne
Ivan L. Bartel
Tary
Richland School
American Legion
Claude Camp
Vivian Handel
Batth of America
Kay Raney
PTA
Public Utility District
Central Valley
Shafter Wasco
Roy Woollames
Jack Harris
Central Valley Highway
George Harrison
National Magazine
Roberts
Gir