14 Feb 1962
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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1962
Page
1
Red Cross announces a March campaign labeled Roll Call to rally support and raise funds. The notice mentions organizing cities and regions to participate and emphasizes cooperation with local chapters.
A fragmented report notes fog and rain delaying a visit by Shefter and Seann during coverage of The American Legion event. The garbled lines reference weather and a brief pause in activities.
Fifteen Shafter High School musicians join the Kern County Honor Orchestra and festival featuring about 300 student musicians. Guest conductor Charles Mateski leads the program with support from the Compton City Schools music staff and county education officials.
Public invited to a Roast Beef dinner by Starlight Circle Wasco Chapter 489 of the Order of the Eastern Star. The event runs 5 to 8 pm at the Masonic Lodge dining room Wasco 7th Street and Broadway. Adults 2.00 children under 12 0.75. Tickets from Eastern Star members or at the door.
The Chamber opens its annual Your Help drive with a theme promising an outstanding year. Reports from about 25 local businessmen cover ticket sales for the March 4 installation banquet, membership aims, the Potato and Cotton Festival, DMV office status, Man or Woman of the Year honors, the 1962 Fair Booth, brochures, city trash receptacles, and a new organizational setup.
Shafter Campfire board met at the Duck home to launch the annual Peanut Sale set for February 9 to 19. Blue Birds Campfire and Horizon Club girls in 20 local groups will sell peanuts as the sole fundraiser of the year under chair Mrs. Russell Paul and regional coordinator Mrs. Mary Actis.
Vicki Lynn Laverty, 17, Bakersfield Shafter High School senior, crowned Cotton Princess for 1962 and to serve as special attendant to Penny Percy, Maid of Cotton, who will visit Bakersfield March 15 and 16. Cheri Slikker, 17, and Brenda Byrd Delano also noted as senior participants.
Retired Arizona jurist M. T. Phelps of Phoenix, Vanderbilt graduate and former Arizona Supreme Court associate, outlines his commitment to preserving constitutional government in a letter to Grady Bartlett Americanism Chairman. Additional celebration details and speaker lineups will follow.
A head on collision fifteen miles west of Wasco on Highway 466 left one man dead and four others seriously injured. Robert Pullin of Shreveport Louisiana died en route to Wasco Community Hospital. Injured parties included a Fair Wasco resident named Anderson who walked into the hospital.
W L Welch district highway engineer rejected flashing light signals at Central Valley highway intersections with Lerdo Central and Shafter avenues. The city will pursue improved signing and a larger 35 mile per hour sign instead to warn northbound drivers. The note also mentions the U S Government cotton field station designation and traffic warning changes in the area.
A commemorative dinner planned for February 22 features Prof Bundy as principal speaker. The Shafter Study Group, formed in 1961, with over 3,000 enrollments, aims to inform and spur constructive civic action through bi monthly meetings covering social moral political economic and spiritual topics. Tickets cost 1.50 and are available from Mrs. Dorothy Eckman or at Shafter Drug Store. dinner is arranged by Mrs. Fedra Miller and Mrs. Dorothy Whistler with Don Camp and Robert Gates on the program committee.
Jane Whitson, chief clerk at the Shafter office, is named assistant cashier of Community National Bank. She has served since the bank opened in 1958 and remains chief clerk, now with officer duties. A. G. Whitson, two children Judy and Seed17, reside in Shafter area.
At presstime ten nominee sets reported. City treasurer seeks reelection to post he holds. Incumbents face four year terms if reelected. The write in method could unseat incumbents if no last minute filings arrive. A complete candidate listing will appear in subsequent Shafter Press issues.
Candidates are sought to represent the Shafter area in the Miss Kern County Pageant to be held at Harvey Auditorium May 12. Brenda Bird, last year’s Miss Kern County, is noted. The winner will go on to Miss California in Santa Cruz and then Miss America in Atlantic City with prizes including a $1,000 scholarship and a South and Western tour. Applicants must be single, 18 to 28 by September 1, and provide name, address, age, height, hair color, and contact details.
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