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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1949
Page
1
The chamber of commerce aims to make the Shafter Potato Festival an annual event to boost local publicity and unite the community. The festival would showcase Shafter’s famed potato industry, include an airshow and aquatic center activities, and feature strong school participation for a vibrant parade.
Dr. George W. Collins moves from Reseda to join Dr. Keith Musgrave in Shafter optometry. A Los Angeles School of Optometry graduate with Army air corps service, Collins has long resided in Fresno and San Joaquin Valley. The couple, with two children, will live at 268 Sunset in Shafter.
The ten day Evangelistic Crusade at the First Baptist Church draws good crowds and high spirit. Rev. Siemens of Whittier preaches popular old time gospel. Public invited to Wednesday 7 30 pm service with special music. Crusade closes Sunday February 20 with evening service.
The Shafter Polio Fund drive ends over the weekend with a benefit dance by the Junior Women's Club Saturday night. Drive chairman Joe Frizzell collected counter containers from local stores last Friday and Saturday. A final total will be released next week after the dance ends local fundraising. A $41 contribution came from a high school benefit basketball game last Tuesday between faculty and varsity players.
Body of Private First Class Gerald Griggs Musick, killed in action in Europe March 1945, returned to Shafter. He served with the First Armored Division, 6th Infantry Battalion, Company C, enlisted November 17, 1943. Burial planned at Shafter Cemetery with surviving brother Bonner Musick, sister Ruby Musick, Lorene Walker, and grandfather J. S. Smith.
Three Shafter High School seniors Betty Wilcoxon Pat Kelly and Bonnie Williams earned life membership in the California Scholarship Federation announced by Miss Cornell the chapter advisor. Life membership is a high scholastic honor and pins will be presented by the local student body. date pending. Last year Leland Kroeker also became a C S F life member.
Graveside services were held at two o'clock yesterday in Shafter Cemetery for Claudette Larsune Hammond five month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Clyde Hammond of Rt 1 Wasco. The infant passed away Friday of last week at Wasco. It was ae September.
At Shafter High School the adult night programs show a rising total with 110 enrolled across three classes 86 currently active after 24 dropouts. Classes cover ceramics and leather craft physical education shop and a planned advanced bookkeeping group with instructor Thomas Letizia.
Mr and Mrs J B Honey welcome a new baby born February 5 with the family listing the health and name details not provided. The notice records a joyful addition to the household and the couple's names.
A seven member Potato Festival Committee was named to decide the annual event to be held on the third Saturday of May. Plans aim for statewide publicity and heavy local participation with free activities, food stands, and educational displays. Committees led by Bill StoHer, Orvin Mettler, Clarence Neuman, and others will organize finance, parade, concessions, entertainment, traffic, and publicity.
Maple Troop No. 77 observed Scout Week with a parade entry showing scouts giving first aid to auto wreck victims under the motto Duty to Others. Members Wayland Sturges Donald Isaac Bobby Strauss Norman Buller Carl Brock rode the float while W E Nicol and Vernon Isaac drove the trailer and Keith Mixon led ahead.
A local merchant plans a publicity stunt dropping vouchers from an airplane this Sunday. The cards promise $1 worth of service with a $5 purchase or cash values from $1 to $5, with some vouchers offering straight cash. Cards redeemable at the distributing store for merchandise, service, or cash.
The Junior Women's Club sponsors a benefit dance in Shafter at the Woman's Club House to raise funds for the March of Dimes campaign. The event features "the circus" theme with amusements, a food stand serving hot dogs and drinks, and music by Jack Bertrands orchestra from 10 p m to 1 a m. General chairman is Pat Neuman with committees for food tickets ring toss and dart throwing.
A Kern County Tuberculosis and Health Association mobile X-ray unit operates in Shafter through the week. It starts at Shafter High School, then Richland Grammar School, and the County Building. Free chest X-rays are offered to residents with afternoon and evening hours, with visits to Lerdo Maple and Kern Academy students and South Shafter on Friday at Pablé's Grocery Store.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown during the arrival and reburial of our beloved son. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hobbe and children.
Shafter-Wasco irrigation district learns Friant Kern canal water will go first to this district while unallocated. Fresno CVP officials say contracts, not rights, govern allocations, with 40 year terms and potential for future distribution by the government.
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