Larry Freeman elected first vice president of California publishers
The Delano Record editor Larry Freeman was elected first vice president of the California Newspaper Publishers Association at its Fresno convention. The piece lauds his leadership, town spirit, and potential rise to president, noting Delano’s growth and Freeman’s role in fostering community enterprise.
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Larry Freeman
Delano Record
California
Fresno
Larry
Record
Delano
Shafter
Newspaper Publishers Association
Pany
New Dr Voth Medical Building Opens Soon
Dr H W Voth will move into the nearly completed Stringham Medical Building at James Street and California Avenue next Monday. Dr Charles Hedlund will join Voth after leaving Anderson California, bringing emergency care capabilities including minor surgery X ray and transfusion services. Hedlund and his wife and their 6 year old son will relocate to Shafter once housing is found.
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H. W. Voth
Stringham Medical
James Street
California Avenue
Charles Hed“lund
Voth
Hedlund
Anderson
Calif
Redding
Los Angeles
Shafter
Seed Surplus Lets California Plant Entire Cotton Acreage
At a Tulare meeting the California Planting Cotton Seed Distributors set the 1949 price for Acala 4-42 planting seed at 131 per ton, with 25 000 tons stored enough to cover all California acreage. The 442 strain began in 1945 and is designed to supply planting seed statewide, at what growers consider a low cost.
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California
Tulare
H. L. Pomeroy
Bakersfield
U. S
Shafter
Arizona
Texas
Potato Seed and Potato Growers Association
University of California
Walter Ball
State Department of Agriculture
W. B. Lanham
James R. Burum
Tulare County
Circus themed charity dance by Junior Women’s Club
The Junior Women’s Club schedules a circus themed benefit at the Woman’s Club House on February 19. Proceeds go to Kern County Chapter National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. High school girls manage refreshments while Jack Bertrand’s Bakersfield orchestra plays from 10:00. Tickets cost 2.40 per couple.
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Kern County
National Foundation
Jack Bertrand
Orchestra
Bakersfield
Final Services For Bobby Wishon
Final services were held Sunday afternoon at the Pentecostal church for Bobby Ray Wishon who was accidentally killed at the S A Camp Cotton Seed Oil Mill in Cawelo. He was 19 and died when a pile of cotton seed caved in on him while working last Thursday. Burial was in Shafter Cemetery. He was born February 10 1929 in Aurora Missouri and resided with his parents J Wesley at 791 Gleynes Lane Shafter. Four brothers Bill Kenneth Gene and Bruce Wishon survive.
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Pentecostal Church
Bobby Ray Wishon
S. A. Camp
Cawelo
Wishon
J . Wesleyee
Gleynes Lane
Shafte
Fire Department Seeks Extinguishers Refill Day
Shafter Fire Department urged residents to bring all fire extinguishers to the station on Thursday February 3 for inspection and refilling. Officials said extinguishers could be picked up the next day after the checks are completed by on hand smoke-chasers.
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Shafter Fire Department
Shafter High Teachers Take Annual Holiday From Teaching
Shafter High School celebrates a teacher for a day event as selected students from the California Scholarship Federation occupy teacher roles. James Crabb leads as president substituting the principal, with Bonnie Williams as secretary. Various students teach English science math and trades, while some classes are canceled due to CSF member shortages.
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Shatter High School
Shafter
California Scholarship Federation
James Crabb
Jack M. Hill
Bonnie Williams
Barbara Wiedmann
Pat Kelly
Kay Raney
Betty Boyd
Ella Mae Starrh
Mar-Smithberg
Ruth Ilbert
Joe Bruner
John Kelly
Jim Wilson
Margie Liles
Dick Heber
Tom Kelly
Dan Bledsoe
Vivian Handel
Merle Hilbert
Bill Arnold
Tom Letizia
Robert Merz
Ed. Schacht
Jean Waffle
Ernest Graf
Lowell Todd
Theodora Richard
Burley Dooley
Holger Hansen
Glenn Nay
CSF
Noted Post Office Increase in Shafter in 1948
Postmaster Geo Guenther reports 1948 gross receipts at the Shafter office rose to 35845 16 from 32157 20 with most gains from stamp sales and box rents Domestic money orders totaled 579080 28 up 64143 59 from 1947 The office nears first class status and a 10 mile rural route extension to Chrome is proposed Office staff include clerks Roskam Sherwin Jenson Pearce Hamman McMillan Wedell and rural carrier Wedell
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Shafter
Geo. Guenther
Guenther
Santa Fe
Chrome
John F. Roskam
Wesley Sherwin
Marlen Jenson
Max Pearce
Russell Hamman
Robert McMillan
al Wedell
Students Attend Aviation Lecture at Bakersfield Airport
Twenty Shafter High School students and instructor Wes ley Linda attended a Bakersfield Airport meeting where William J. Konicek lectured on aviation. Konicek tours California with Link Mobile unit for Link Aviation to aid school and community aviation education through classroom airplane demonstrations and teaching materials.
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Shafter High School
Wesley Linda
Bakersfield
William J. Konicek
Konicek
California
Link
Link Aviation, Inc
Bird-Banding Talk Leads Rotary Meet in Shafter
Eliot McClure discussed the bird-banding system to identify birds and movements. He urged returning bands to authorities to aid research. Clarence Neuman spoke on the Phoenix Harness Racing night meet and its popularity. Eight visitors attended from Delano and Wasco, plus guests from Bakersfield and local doctors. Rotary President Glenn Nay presided.
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Eliot McClure
Shafter Rotarians
McClure
Clarence Neuman
Phoenix
Keith Musgrave
Rotary
Glenn Nay
Chemist Discusses Life Extension Study At Kiwanis Meeting
Biochemist William La Rosa spoke at the Shafter Kiwanis noon meeting on life extension research. He outlined work on replacing body parts to extend life, plus pneumonia germ studies and sulfa drug development during wartime. Guests and visiting Kiwanis members from Hanford Taft Bakersfield and Kern attended. Dan Lowen won the attendance prize.
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la Rosa
Kiwanis Club
Canélé Motel
Paul V.mcchire
California Grape Producers
Delano
Rockefeller Institute
New York
Hanley Witcher
Hanford
Taft
Bakersfield
Kern
Bill Banks
Dan Loewen
Rotary Ladies' Night at Stockdale Feb 9
The Shafter Rotary club will host an annual Ladies' Night February 9 at Stockdale Country Club. It will be a dinner dance with Bob Sisson's orchestra providing music and entertainment. A short program will be presented, and the event doubles as that week's regular meeting with a round-table on Tuesday.
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Shafter Rotary Club
Stockdale Country Club
Bob Sisson
Air Marker Plans Approved by CAB for Shafter High
California Aeronautics Commission approved air marking plans for Shafter created by the high school aviation science class supervised by Wesley Linda. Warren E Careys Sacramento office said Civil Aeronautics Administration will supply paint and materials. The marker will be on the high school gym roof with latitude and longitude, a north arrow, and an arrow toward the nearest airport.
City Council Meetings Open to Public Says Russell
Frank Russell a Shafter City Council member told a Press representative that all meetings are open and no one will be excluded. He urged residents to attend ask questions or watch. The next regular meeting is Monday night February 7.
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Shafter City
Frank Russell
Russell
Council Proposes Green River Ordinance On Soliciting
The city council discussed the Green River Ordinance at the Monday meeting to ban soliciting by magazine and photography reps. Police attended to hear assurances that officers faced no hostility and that officials back the department, which has a strong record.
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Green River
Last Rites Today For Almanza Almanza 46 Dies in Bakersfield
Almanza Almanza Apolonio, 46, died Sunday in a Bakersfield hospital and lived at the South Shafter Labor camp. Requiem mass is at 10 a m today in St John’s church Wasco with Father Breslin. Rosary was recited Monday at Shafter Funeral Home. He was a railroad mechanic and had resided here 10 months. Survived by wife Juanna and 5 sons Sam J Pat Albert Abrzmmo and Peter and 7 daughters including Mary Light. Arrangements by Shafter Funeral Home.
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Apolonio Almanza
Bakersfield
South Shafter
St. John’s Catholic Church
Wasco
Father Breslin
Shafter Funeral
Almanza
Juanna Almanza
Sam J
L. A
Pat
Rosco
Albert
Shafter
Abrzmmo R
Germany
Peter
Los Angeles
Mary Light
Shafter Funeral Home
Free Photo Offer With Subscriptions At Shafter Press
Readers are directed to page 4 for the free photo offer tied to new or renewing subscriptions to the Shafter Press.
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Shafter Press
Voting Today for Irrigation District Board
Voters in the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District choose directors in three districts and a secretary-treasurer. All candidates run unopposed. incumbents Clarence R. Annin, Edward J. Peters, and Rolf A. Jacobsen seek reelection, along with M. Allan Johnston for the secretary-treasurer post. Polls open 12 noon to 6 pm on February 2 at designated precinct sites in Wasco and Shafter.
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Shafter - Wasco
Clarence R. Annin
Edward J. Peters
Rolf A. Jacobsen
M. Allan Johnston
Grange Hall
Wasco
8Th
F Streets
Shafter-Wasco Ginning Co
Bender Avenue
North Shafter
Santa Fe Way
Shafter
Bellow
Jackson Street
B and P W meeting set for Thursday night
The Shafter Business and Professional Women's Club will hold its next regular meeting Thursday night, February 3, at 7 o clock in Motel Canelo. An out of town speaker will discuss Income Tax and a Q&A will follow. Members should confirm attendance or cancel by Wednesday noon.
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Shafter Business & Professional Women’s Club
Former Shafter Resident Richard J. Carpenter Dies
Richard J. Carpenter a former Shafter North resident died January 15 in Vista California He had lived in Vista for seven years after leaving the district operating a tourist court and doing construction Carpenter born March 7 1884 in Hot Springs Arkansas is survived by his wife Josephine two sons Clayton San Francisco William Ancheage Alaska a daughter Audie Carpenter San Francisco and two granddaughters and two grandsons.
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Richard J. Carpenter
North Shafter
Vista
California
Carpenter
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Josephine Carpenter
Clayton
San Francisco
William
Ancheage
Alaska
Audie Carpenter
Rubber's role on farms highlighted at Shafter meeting
A Goodrich Company visit and the film Rubber Lends a Hand drew Shafter farmers, truckers and businesspeople to the Shafter Motel last Thursday. Officials from Goodrich spoke on rubber advances, farm tires, open tread, and nylon vs real rubber while a film demonstrated milking cups, boots, mats and rubber tracks for tractors.
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Goodrich
B. F. Goodrich Company
Shafter
Shafter Motel
Shafter Recap
Jimmie Hodges
Don Familton
Art Avery
Ralph Ernest
Dave Fleming
Familton
Fleming
Kern County
Wasco voters approve UK tax boost for high school
Wasco Union High School District voters approve raising the maximum tax rate from .75 to 1.20 per 100 assessed value on January 25 after two defeats. The district covers Wasco and Lost Hills Maple Wildwood Semitropic areas with no expansion planned. Final ballots show a strong Yes majority across three polling places.
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Wasco Union High School
Lester R. Smith
Wasco Union High
Lost Hills
Maple
Wildwood
Wasco
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Bobby Wishon
Shafter Kiwanis Club
William la Rosa
Stockdale
CAB
Irrigation District Board
Wasco Voters
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