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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1956
Page
8
The piece outlines major word study skills taught to students, including phonetic, wordbuilding, dictionary, handling special difficulties, and general English spelling. It notes phonetics as most useful, with emphasis on sounds, blends, vowels, and rhymes. It covers word formation, dictionary use, and rules, plus capitalization and punctuation considerations.
Shafter High School and Arvin High School presented a February 8 exchange assembly featuring Barrie’s The Twelve Pound Look with Dorothy Weitz Royce Eslick Barbara Jobe and Ed Chilla in the cast directed by Miss Marlene Hoffman Mary Brown assisted. The program also included four band numbers led by Kenneth Fahsbender and a pantomime by Verna Peters Jean Thomas and Kay Duerksen plus an a cappella chorus under Miss Evelyn Micheletti performing Ser serenade Country Style and Praise Ye the Lord. Ed Chilla served as master of ceremonies with Jim Broom supervising the event. In a separate note Mr and Mrs Jake Neufeld Mr and Mrs Henry Gaede and Mrs Elizabeth Neumann visited Reedley and Clovis families last week.
A gardening column describes efforts to breed a true white marigold called Man in the Moon and notes other new varieties such as Blue Peony asters Pinocchio petunias and a giant gold zinnia. It also explains seedling damping off caused by fungi and methods to sterilize soil including oven heating and formaldehyde guidance via nurseries.
Nelda Pearson and Kenneth Kroeker led a Saturday training meeting at the observation post with students and staff discussing duties and 24 hour coverage. A February 14 pot luck dinner at Memorial Hall promotes community involvement and features a film on the atomic bomb impact, with posters placed in local drugstores and food stores inviting public attendance.
February 12 13 14 15 and 17 1956 list names Leonard Gaede W J Suckut Eva Lynn Clement Ben Stoller Lydia Fast Grace Tatum Bert Ware Catherine Rewell Al Sleven Glen Handel Marjorie Wilson Jay Rowell Mrs Roy Paslay Mrs Paul Dirksen Mrs Mabel Ashmore La Verne Avant Arras Wilson William Bestwater John Siemens Portsmouth Plaza once centered San Francisco community life.
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