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1953 Shafter News Reflects Spud and Cotton Focus
The Shafter Press rundown chronicles 1953 community life with cotton and potato crops shaping headlines. Figures like Jim Jacobs and local officials steer the town through school bonds, city projects, and festival plans as residents unite for mutual growth.
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Shafter Press
Peters
Shafter- Wasco
S. A. Camp
S-W Hospital
Kern County
Knowland
Claude Mitchell
Plymouth
Solons
Bay
Edwin Wilson
Woodard
Kelly
Legion
General
Dimes
Tigers
Richland
Fleming
Chamber
Norma Neuman
E. A. Brown
Rotary
Swid Back Kelly
Barrier
Betty Grundy
Phyllis Hight
PTA
Red Cross
California
Sergeant Lopez
New Civic Center
GOC
Gary Wilson
Luciano Carrasco
W. L. Smith
Buttonwillow
New City Hall
James Sherrill
Darlene Gallagher
Queens
Spud Pix
SWID
Mary Margaret Reveil
Jack Stepp
Lions Club
Herb Schirmer
Highway Patrol
Blake Witcher
Richland School Board
Lee Thomas
Experiment Station
Spudmen
Warren
Okeh
Harrison
George
Mary Lou) Collins
C of C
Kern Assemblyman
Albert L. Suckitt
Shafter
X-farm
Valley
New Lerdo
Lerdo
Civic Center
Coberly-West
Arvin Bears
Douglas
Ned Smith
Merton Wiedmann
Og Viendo
Wilson
Recreation
Ith
Memorial Hall
Taft
Bledsoe
Farm Aide
McMahan
Furniture
Civic
Ronaldo
Waldo Unruh
Spud Association
Jim Jacobs
Douglas Aide
Merle Bartel
UC Fraternity
National Confab
Washington
Trotter
Pat Lee
Bob Bann
Santa Claus
Harry D. West
C.of C