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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1940
Page
1
P J Peltier says the first annual Shafter Central Valley Poultry Rabbit and Small Stock show will feature the finest middleweight class on the Pacific coast. March 27 to 31. Entries expect strong interest from northern California and Hollywood studios with 100 to 125 birds from Maywood Pens and other breeders. Local business leaders back the event and a Shafter Business Men's luncheon may host Peltier.
Capt John S Stinhauer of the state education bureau taught Shafter VFD members salvage operations at the Legion hall. The demo covered salvage covers and the cover throw and fold. Stinhauer noted 75 percent of 1937 fire losses were salvageable as about 15 firemen attended locally with Wasco Chief Jack Bennett present.
The Rio Bravo Union school board met last Monday in the school auditorium. Architect J. P. Perrien discussed building problems while work on the new building proceeds and an office building has been completed. Insurance agent A. W. Kincaid spoke on insurance and traffic concerns, with signs to be posted on school grounds.
The Shafter Press and Pacific Rural Press host a three day home craft institute at the Wednesday Afternoon clubhouse beginning with J ane Barton leading demonstrations on western arts wreath weaving didg dish meals and crochet patterns. Tomorrow features native Pacific arts a Hawaiian luncheon and a Guittard chocolate giveaway as Emil Stoller of Home Appliance Co presents a prize set and Miss Saylor offers candy sifts. Exhibitors include Wasco Hardware Shafter Mercantile King Lumber P G & E and Globe A 1 flour with recipe books and samples provided to attendees.
Robert H. Young of Bakersfield Junior College spoke at Shafter High School on the Far East crisis. He outlined three factors fear, food and face shaping Japanese policy, discussed American investments in China and trade imbalances, and offered three future scenarios from war to shifts in alliances depending on U S policy.
Lemual Robbins of eight miles west of Shafter arrives with wife Mrs. Robbins at Strauss maternity home just after 5 am to welcome an eight and a half pound girl named Jennie May. Dr. A W Gaede assisted. mother and baby reported doing nicely.
Workmen at Standard Oil's KCL 12-8 well in the North Greeley field pulled back to 5 feet to straighten the hole. The hole has reached 6,942 feet and drilling continues at a steady pace after spudding several weeks ago.
The Shafter Camp Fire Girls will sell doughnuts at Central Market to raise funds for sending the girls to summer camp and for guardians to attend training schools. Proceeds come from ticketed doughnut sales presented at the market.
William Van Ewert of Bakersfield speaks at Shafter High School auditorium on The Balkans. The 8 oclock public forum covers a historical review and future developments with Q A period to follow. Attendance reached 150.
February 29 is the deadline to register for the Shafter city election on April 9 under sixth class city election laws. Voters who kept the same precinct after the last general election need not re register, but movers must file a change of address with registrar Frank Shaw at city hall to be eligible to vote. Shaw is also organizing voter address updates in the Shafter area after being sworn in as registrar last week.
The Maple wildcat known as Continental Oil Company's Community No 1 reached over 900 feet this week, totaling 9 225 feet. Workers expect a crucial depth near 12 000 feet before determining best or worst results.
Union Oil reports reaching 8 265 feet in the 56 27 well in section 27 28 25 north Shafter field with the well spudded Feb 2. At 21 34 a shoe tests at 11 192 feet while progress slowed weeks earlier due to a casing blowout.
Five construction projects are underway in Shafter including the county office building on Pacific avenue and the John Lachenmaier and H B Morris structures on Lerdo and Central avenues. A new D F Myrick grocery is rising north of town and a James street facility will house Pacific Telephone and Telegraph equipment. The county project advances brick walls. Lachenmaier’s tire recap shop nears opening. additional spaces for three businesses are rising. Myrick adds a plaster and stucco building with 40 by 40 retail space. work aims to clear highway right of way before March.
Tentative plans discuss continuing the Shafter recreation program with J W Wilson and the local recreation committee negotiating with Bakersfield WPA officials. If reopened, labor credit from WPA and local in kind contributions would be available. The program aimed for 600 participants in activities including baseball sewing model airplanes and playground games with voluntary attendance.
D F Myrick moved his store to clear the new right of way as state officials announced widening the Wasco highway near Shafter. Plans were made last year and several buildings have already been moved back to accommodate the project likely starting at the beginning of the month.
Americans drank almost 10 million more gallons of California wine in 939 than in 1938, reflecting rising demand and shifting consumer tastes across the era.
Shafter city council on Tuesday directed Chief Murray Arnold to bar trucks from Central avenues and route commercial loading to alleys. Officials reviewed double parking limits of 18 foot trucks and discussed stop signs at Walker street. The meeting also addressed butane station permits, Pacific avenue opening, lighting on Faber street, and a single space zone in front of the Midgley hotel. The council canvassed votes on the Mannel tract annexation and filed a sidewalk petition on Lerdo road.
The Shafter Central Valley Poultry Rabbit and Small Stock show to be held March 27 to 31 received official city support after the council voted to place a full page ad in the show's premium book. The action followed remarks that the event is a local venture attracting breeders from across the nation.
Mrs J J Peters Jr offered vocal selections and Miss Norma Neufeld performed accordion pieces on KERN yesterday as the Wednesday Afternoon club presented the program. Radio chairman is Mrs A B McKinvy.
Rapid progress is reported in relocating railway tracks at the Shasta Dam site as part of the Central Valley Project. The work focuses on moving lines to accommodate dam construction and improve alignment for future operations.
General Petroleum reports Farrand No 1 in the North Greeley field cemented at 11340 feet with production sand penetration planned and completion in about 10 days. A fishing job for a lost drill collar at 11230 feet was finished with no serious results. Other wells Sullivan No 2 and Oughton No 1 show activity but no production yet amid a North Greeley boom with three GP projects and wells by Standard and Superior.
Y M C A Leaders Fellowship breakfast at Shafter High School outlined plans for the annual Younger Boys track meet in East Bakers, with James Tinkle and I K Vandam chosen to arrange details. Attendees included Huntley Webb as president, Rev Alfred T Chandler, and county Y M C A secretary R M Ford. breakfast served by local students.
Committees reported on the progress of the first annual Shafter Central Valley Poultry Rabbit and Small Stock show to be held in Shafter from March 27 through March 31. Jake Siemens said display space sales are brisk and ads are being prepared for the premium list. P J Peltier, show superintendent, is expected in Shafter this week after touring northern California to contact poultrymen. The Rev Al Chandler reported state permission for an evening banquet during the show.
Superior Oil announces three new locations in the Shafter field Weber No. 2 Smith No. 2 and Smith No. 3. Weber No. 2 has a completed derrick and equipment being set with spudding likely next week. Smith No. 2 will start after Roe No. 1, located 330 ft south and 990 ft east of the NW corner of Sec 34 28-25. Smith No. 3 lies west of Smith No. 1 in Sec 34 and may not be drilled immediately. Drilling progress reports: Roe No. 1 reached 11132 ft with oil sand expected soon and Rudnick No. ? at 10822 ft.
Judge F. E Manuel recounts a Cape Town to Australia voyage aboard a dynamite cargo ship that listed after storms. He also describes Australia tent shows horse races rabbits for England, the Orient, and witnessing shelling in the Philippine Islands during the Spanish American War. He returned in 1889 and settled in Kern County that October.
A car belonging to Sol Camp was stolen in Bakersfield Sunday evening and recovered undamaged the same evening in East Bakersfield.
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