Shafter Bowl Extends Lead in Mixed Doubles League
Shafter Bowl maintained the lead in the Sportsman's Bowl mixed doubles league as Sports Man's Cafe won 2 games to 1 in a match at ing Alley. Motel topped the three game series with 1776 total pins while the top single game scores reached 604. Erle Bailey and Wikoff both posted 549 pins for three games. Grady Bartlett had 195 in the solo. Evelyn Tiberghien led the women with 493 pins for the three game championship.
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Sportsman's Bowling Alley
Lester Reeves
SportsMan's Cafe
Wikoff
Shafter Motel
Reeves
Motel
Erle Bailey
Schneider and
Grady Bartlett
Ledger
Evelyn Tiberghien
Indivi
Shafter Chamber Banquet Features Guest Speaker and Acts
The Shafter Chamber Commerce schedules its annual banquet with guest speaker Story Gange from Lindsay. A piano solo by Bob Haag, vocalists Martha Jeffcoat Jan Gibson and Jorgeé Bartel perform, a pantomime by Joan Beckmann and Verna Peters, starting at 7 30 p m in the Shafter High School cafeteria.
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Shafter Chamber « Commerce
Ernie Hofman
Lindsay
Story Gange
Bob Haag
Martha Jeffcoat
Jan Gibson
Jorgeé Bartel
Mus
Joan Beckmann
Verna Peters
Shafter High School
Cpl Ross Smith Returns Home From Korea
Cpl Ross Smith 23, son of Mr and Mrs Allen Smith of Shafter returns from 18 months overseas with the engineers in Korea. He landed in San Francisco and awaits discharge at Fort Ord. A dinner in his honor was given by his parents with relatives present. He is a Shafter High School graduate.
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Korea
Cpl
Ross Smith
Allen Smith
North Shafter
Engineers
Smith
San Francisco
Fort Ord
Roy Smith
Buena’ Park
James Smith
Co. N
Buddy) Bozarth
Caroline Lee
Shafter
Corporal
Shafter High School
El Rancho Vegas Visit From Local Couples
Mr and Mrs Marshall Unruh of Central Avenue and Mr and Mrs Reuben Rohrbach of Arvin spent four days at El Rancho Vegas in Las Vegas recently.
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Marshall Unruh
Central Avenue
Reuben Rohrbach
Arvin
el Rancho Vegas
Las Vegas
X Farm Men Will On Ay Panel
Two agricultural experts from the Shafter Experiment Station will take active part in the National Defoliation Conference in Memphis Tennessee this weekend. George J Harrison agronomist for the Norhia Cotton Seed Distributors and Marvin Hoover of the University of California extension service will discuss cultural practices affecting defoliation and participate in two panel discussions on defoliation effects on harvesting costs and grower instruction.
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Shafter Experiment Station
Memphis
Tenn
George J. Harrison
Norhia Cotton Seed Distributors
Marvin ‘Hoover
University of California Extension Service
Harrison
Hoover
Tennessee
Confab
National Cotton Council
Advisers Review Graduation Records at Shafter High
Shafter High School advisers are checking student records before next week’s end of semester to adjust schedules for graduation requirements. Three one semester courses are offered including coeducational cooking taught by Miss Beverly Gist, a beginners typing course arranged by mas Letizia, and a gardening and landscaping course by Elliott Garrison open to both boys and girls.
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Shafter High School
Beverly Gist
Mas Letizia
Elliott Garrison
Policemen Hunt Teenage Escapee From Lunchtime Run
Herbert Dean Burton an 18 year old AWOL Navy recruit escaped while officers fed him at a downtown cafe last Friday night. He fled through the back of the Sportsmans Bowling Alley and remains at large. Burton faced 45 days in jail with 45 suspended for threatening a deadly weapon entering a private home and disturbing the peace.
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Herbert Dean Burton
Judicial Township Court
Shafter
John Reily
Claude Mitchell
Sportsmans Bowling Alley
Blake Witcher
Grady Travis
Terra Vista Lane
E. K. Grant
Burton
Generals Claim Top Record in Cage Contests
The Shafter Generals sit atop Valley cage standings with seven wins and one loss after beating Taft twice, scoring 240 points for an average 10 above their opponents. Dale Scales leads with 12 points in nine games as Harold’s average rises to nine. In their first win over the Drillers 58 to 40, Shafter shows strong form as Gaede Thompson and Broom post solid averages.
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Shafter Generals
Leemoore
Bakersfield
Taft
Farin
Dale Scales
Harold Weekend
Drillers
Generals
Shafter
Gaede
Thompson
Broom
Wasco
Coalinga
Wasco. Tigers
Students Map Plan to Keep Campus Clean
Seniors of Shafter High School launch the Keep-the-Campus-Clean campaign under Elaine Stoller with executive board approval. Over the next three weeks juniors and freshmen will follow, as seniors post notices, monitor hallways, and promote cleanup through assemblies and bulletin boards.
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Shafter High School
Elaine Stoller
Generals Sweep Wasco Tigers and Horntoads in League Night
The Shafter Generals routed Wasco Tigers 60 to 35 and beat Coalinga Horntoads 57 to 46 in a South Sequoia League doubleheader. Key contributions came from John Notley Harold Gaede Jim Broom Leroy Thompson Dale Seales and Scales. The team improved to eight wins in nine games with strong rebounding and free-throw execution despite high foul totals.
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Dick Smith
Leorn
Tiger
John Notley
Harold Gaede
Wasco Tiger
Generals
Ter
Tigers
Coalinga
Horntoads
Scales
Gaede
Shafter
Gee
Land Leveling Crew Tool Theft Targets Bakersfield Worker
C G Bud Wells of Bakersfield reported to Constable Blake Witcher that a toolbox with about 250 dollars in essential equipment was stolen from the Jeffreys Farms leveling job off Central Valley Highway, south of Shafter. Wells will guard his tools more closely after the incident.
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Shafter
C. G
Bud) Wells
Bakersfield
Blake Witcher
Wells
Jeffrey
Central Valley Highway
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