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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1956
Page
6
The February meeting will feature Fathers founders night as the theme with a 6 30 dinner in the high school cafeteria. Mrs E Mullins is chairman. A separate note mentions cattle housing systems with reduced leg and udder injury risk.
At the annual Founders Day meeting the elementary PTA awarded lifetime memberships to Mrs. Toews and Stringham for long service. The event drew a large crowd as a review of PTA history and student health promotions was presented.
The article notes a large dollar amount and rising attendance while assessed valuation grows slower. With a 75 cent high school tax rate in place since 1917, the district faces a funding gap next year and must seek increased revenue to maintain current education standards.
Revell cites the committee will honor all prior groups by paying them for their decade of work on the scout hall project. R A Jacobsen funded the build. donations included numerous cotton remnants from named individuals and bales from Shafter groups to settle the debt.
Robert Gates uses bulletin boards and a large Civil War map to enliven history in Shafter High School. Reproductions of Bull Run Fredericksburg Gettysburg Appomattox and Lincoln documents set the scene. Whittier poem Barbara Frietchis and a flag-waving house accompany the exhibit. Gates notes Ford Foundation funding helped his work.
The district weighs a new high school in Bakersfield as Grant receives praise for five years of service at Shafter High and the community, while Theron McCuen faces a $1 fine at a Shafter Kiwanis meeting over taking Jensen.
The community court of honor in the Shafter area, directed by L. J. Woodard, recognized top scouts. Bobby Collins won the star award for earning five merit badges including two tied to standards of scouting.
The principal states Dr. Jensen and his four children Deanna 13 Karen 14 Judith 8 and Denny 5 will relocate to Bakersfield after the current school year ends.
Bruce M Crawford, superintendent of the gen district, chairs the Rio Ace study group on redistricting. Rio Bravo is one of seven areas chosen to study school reorganization. Richland board appointed Leonard Gaede to represent the local school at the meetings.
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