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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1958
Page
9
Shafter High School faculty wives gathered at the school home making room for an informal social evening last night hosted by Mrs Theodora Richard Mrs Lowell Todd Mrs Dan Bledsoe and Mrs Corpett. Guests enjoyed visiting followed by refreshments of apple pie and coffee.
Mr and Mrs John Dirck and their children Johnny and Laralee of Sedalia Missouri visited the Mouser home during the holidays. They also toured Disneyland and left for home on New Years Day.
A Kern County Home Advisor describes refinishing techniques for new and old furniture and touch up care for scratches and rings. Miss Jean Fritz announces resignation to marry, with no successor named yet. The report also covers a New Year’s wedding of Helen Kidd to Jim Engel at First Baptist Church in North Bakersfield.
Shafter High School students form a revision committee led by adviser Don Murfin after a Kern County workshop. The group aims to replace the outdated constitution with a new document governing the Associated Students of Shafter High School, including changes to voting and ExBoard selection. A first draft covers Articles I and II with proposals to drop the student body card requirement for voting, and Article III on ExBoard makeup. final adoption awaits full student body vote. The piece also notes the largest striped bass caught on hook and line, a 72-pound fish from August 7, 1913 near Vineyard Sound, Mass.
Eighth grade students from Richland Elementary Rio Bravo Buttonwillow and Lerdo schools will visit Shafter High School on January 20 as the first pre-registration activity for next year incoming freshmen. Principal Arthur Johnson announces the program includes music by the high school orchestra an organ number by Dennis Gaede and welcomes from Richard Lowder the student body president.
The article notes San Francisco as the hub of mercury distribution in the United States. It reports American households now get 64 cups of coffee per pound versus 48 cups earlier, per the Pan American Coffee Bureau.
Members of the Junior Women group vote to hold Operation Card Party a fundraising event. Five hostesses will open their homes for an evening of bridge and canasta next Tuesday, with additional attendees named from the community.
Bakersfield real estate and insurance firm listing includes Louis J. Brandt at 1414 18th St with phone FA 4 6786 and J C Penner Real Estate Notary Public Insurance at 248 Central Ave Shafter plus Acme Finance Co offering loans at 1219 18th St Bakersfield with free parking and phone FA 6795.
The principal mercury mines of California span a 350 mile belt along the Coast Range from central Lake County to southeastern Santa Barbara County, indicating a wide geographic distribution of mining sites.
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