Shafter Building Permits Hit All-Time High in 1953
Editorial notes 1953 building permits in Shafter total $1,118,915 with significant contributions from Richland School at $559,800 and home building at $458,500. Despite agricultural adjustments, housing demand remains strong and FHA financing could spark a new boom, with SHafter High School planning a large construction program to boost local construction activity.
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Shafter
E.K. Grant
Richland
Home Talent Emphasis Drives 1954 Shafter Potato Festival
Shafter festival planners shift to budget friendly home talent shows for 1954. The Weils of Sprouse Reitz retire after years of community service, including Kiwanis leadership. The plan drops costly queen contests and beefy giveaways, focusing on neighborhood talent and communal boosting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Weil
Sprouse-Reitz Co
Shafter
Shaffer
Weils
Weil
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Jacobsen Shows Faith In Shafter Future
A new Union Oil service station at Central Valley Highway and State Street signals faith in Shafter's future. Constructed by property owner Rolf Jacobsen, the project joins local agribusiness leaders who invest in town growth, including the Neumans the Kirschenmanns and the Handels. The station sets a high standard for service station construction in Kern County.
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Shafter
Central Valley Highway
State Street
Union Oil
Rolf Jacobsen
Jacobsen
Neumans
Kirschenmanns
Handels
Navy Log Entry Celebrates New Year Poem Aboard Yarnall
A 1954 New Year poem written in the USS Yarnall log by Lt (Jg) Gregory S. Ohanneson notes a duty station in Sasebo Harbor with ComDesRon Fifteen and ComTask Force Ninety Two. Ships present include units of the U.S. PacFleet and UNN Force as they begin a year with hopes for peace and cheer.
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Shafter
Gregory S. Ohanneson
A. Peter Ohanneson
Merced Avenue
Yarnall
U.S. PacFleet
U.N.N. Force
Alec Templeton to Perform S W Concert at Wasco High
Pianist Alec Templeton appears at Wasco High School auditorium Tuesday at 8 15 p m marking the second Wasco Shafter Community Concerts program of the season. Ballots will be passed at intermission to elect five directors with Wasco and Shafter representatives. Templeton, born in Cardiff, Wales, studied at Royal College of Music and the London Academy of Music and has a varied career as pianist composer and radio star.
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al ‘Empleton
Wasco High School
Wasco-Shafter
Templeton
Wasco
Shafter
Cardiff
Wales
Alec Templeton
Margaret Humphrey
Humphrey
London
Royal College of Music
London Academy of Music
America
Jack Hylton
Standard Oil Company
United States
Chicago
Shestra Hall
Mr. Bach
Mozart
Scarlatti
Julie Barr
Greenwich
Conn
Louis Armstrong
Freet Minel
Nana
Kippi
Schubert
Coalinga Tops Shafter in Varsity and JV Basketball Scores
Coalinga varsity defeated Shafter 44 to 40 on Coalinga’s court as Shafter’s George Love led with 15 points and Jim Jue letho scored 18 for Coalinga. In C squad action Shafter won 32 to 20 with Bill Turner scoring 12.
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Coalinga
Shafter
George Love
Leroy Thompson
Jim Jue Letho
Shafter Colonels
Coalinga Tadpoles
Shafter’s
Bob Goossen
Colonels
Jack Boham
Dean Hearon Ae
Coal Star
Jim Morris
Trost
Shafter High Schol. Bucks
Bucks
Bill Turner
Jim Broom
Woody Wilson
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Shafter Press
Shafter Construction
FHA
Shafter High School
National
Lassbcharan
Paul C. Newell
Florence J. Newell
Jack Fleming
Lee
California
South Central Valley Highway
Kern County
Calif
Midwatch
Japan
Sasebo Harbor
ComDesRon Fifteen
U.S.S. Boyd
D.D. Five
ComTask Force Nine-Two
S-O-P-A
Hector
Boyd
Baker
Pacific Telephone
Greater
Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
American Medical Association
Bakersfield
Surgeons of the Osteopathic School of Medicine
For Medical
Physicians
D.O
Cali
Greater Bakersfield Memorial Hospital
M.d.’S
D.o.'s
Memorial Hospital
M.d.'s
D.o’s
M.D
Kern County Osteopathic Society
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