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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1951
Page
6
Wallace Department to feature Korean babies in display with a king and queen honored winners. Entrants must be submitted by Monday and can be obtained by calling 2663. Play centers on Uncle Billy Watson station master of Hometown USA retiring after 50 years.
Guest writer Robert Butler details TALOA flight training progress at Shafter Airport. 59 of 60 Indonesian cadets have solo hours, language hurdles are overcome, instructors praised for patient methods. Butler notes program success and thanks Shafter hosts as he leaves TALOA.
Richland prepares to add a new school auditorium to ease crowding at Veteran Memorial Hall. The administrative unit will house the superintendent and secretary offices, curriculum director, teachers’ room, and health program areas. Bids for maintenance warehouse buildings are rereadvertised. trustees will open sealed bids February 9.
Keith Burnquist among youths departing Bakersfield Monday bound for Navy service. Son of Mrs. Stella Burnquist he was a prominent figure at Shafter High School and in the Future Farmers of America group.
Members of the Shafter American Legion post announce a Kern county council meeting in the Veterans Memorial Hall on February 10 with about 15 posts expected. They also plan weekly teenage dances ending with a name band if successful, and seek a social section for veterans from the cemetery district board. Townsend leads the publicity committee.
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