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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1946
Page
1
The Delano and Shafter towns are contrasted over growth wealth and development with editorials noting Delano’s rapid building and Shafter’s attempts at expansion. Shafter pitches in for the Victory Clothing Collection designating the local Fire House as depot with Mrs. T. P. Rogtes leading.
HERE Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Porter and party are in Shafter visiting relatives including Mrs. Dick Arnold. Mr. Porter has recently been discharged from service.
A coalition of Shafter civil and service clubs convened to push for a veterans memorial swimming pool under Richland School District trustees and for ongoing sewage disposal improvements by the Shafter Public Utility District. The committee includes representatives from the 20 80 Club American Legion Rotary Kiwanis and local women's and junior groups and the Kern County Recreation Commission.
Minter Field will be temporarily inactivated starting January 31, with official word from the public relations office. Opened in 1940, it became a leading Army Air Forces training base and trained many World War II aces. The field near Shafter had strong community ties and may be reactivated later. plans indicate a possible future return.
Local civic groups are urged to act as collection centers this week under J W Frizzell who chairs Shafter March of Dimes. Funds will support infant paralysis research and care with collection drives in schools and a special account opened at Bank of America branch.
The Bakersfield Community Theatre presents Blythe Spirit at the Shafter High School auditorium on February 13 under the Wednesday afternoon club. The troupe is regarded as a top little theater group in the state.
Monday court session in Shafter led by Judge Frank Shaw levying 480 dollars in fines on seven men. Two were charged with drunken driving, three with disturbing the peace, and two with drunkenness.
Kern County American Legion council and Auxiliary officers held a county wide meeting Sunday afternoon at the Legion Hall in Shafter.
A new 12000 dollar Goertzen Building at 515 Center Ave will be ready for occupancy around March 1. Shafter Car End Home Supply, a Goodyear Store, owned by William Gaertzen, backs the project built by Wake Klassen. Plans include a second, larger structure for a brake and tire shop and another building east of the Goertzen block. The Goodyear store will offer car accessories, sporting goods, home appliances, small hardware and garden tools.
Harold Miller has just received an honorable Navy discharge and is connected with R A Jacobsen in the Jacobsen farming operations centered here and extending through the area as part of the family business.
Jack Hill of Shafter High School named chairman as civic groups form a recreation commission. An executive committee with O. T. Olson, Mrs J L Hill, Marvin Neuman and Pat Kelly will work with Hill to outline plans for a summer play program and a permanent recreation organization.
The first of a twice monthly series promotes Shafter resources and advantages in the postwar era. Appearing on page six, the ad is sponsored by seventy local business houses and asks readers to clip and mail the pages to friends in other communities to show the town is active and ready to grow.
The Kern County Farm Bureau holds a Wednesday morning membership breakfast at Shafter Motel led by E. G. Buerkle president Frank Stockton county vice president and W. E. McLaughlin county field representative all stressing the bureau’s role in protecting and advancing agriculture. John DeVincenzo chaired the Shafter Farm Center meeting with attendees listing G. J. Siemen W. H. Hitchcock A W Eckmann Augusta Bender Otto Handel and George G. Badger of General Petroleum Company. Members and interested farmers urged renewal of $10 memberships to the county office in Bakersfield or via local members.
Camp Westhowe Ginning Company restarts Shafter Wasco and Rosedale gin operations after three years under Producers Cotton Oil Company. S A Camp and M B McFarland resume Camp Yd McFarland Gin ning in McFarland. De Vore Hadlock Hill McFarland to manage the four gins.
In 1946 the Central Valley Highway Association convenes in Hanford with members from Bakersfield Shafter Wasco Corcoran Alpaugh Hanford Selma and Fresno. The group formed in 1945 to push a first class highway along the Santa Fe corridor with county boards pledging priority in federal aid programs.
A Court of Honor for Shafter Boy Scout Troops 44 and 53 is set for Friday at 7:30 PM in the Richland School Cafeteria. Ted Kinman, chair of the Boy Scout Advancement Committee, announced that Bakersfield officials will attend.
A cow owned by Mrs. Sarah Foust was shot in the eye and died hours later in a pasture southwest of Shafter. Mrs. Foust suspects a cruel prank by youths in a black sedan who left pasture gates open. The same group is believed to have broken windows at the Dequine place on Scaroni road. sheriff deputies collected footprint photos and other identifications.
Lois Love has received her discharge on December 21 after serving in the Waves for 2% years. Last stationed at Long Beach she now works at McClure's Drug Store and is identified as Boots Perry's sister.
Charles Hitchcock, a senior, was elected president of the Shafter High student body in a Thursday run-off after a Wednesday regular election where no candidate won a majority. Gene Harless was runner up, with Elmer Mettler as third candidate. Jerry Mathis was named vice president, Edna Rodgers social chairman, and Barrie Burns secretary defeating Shirley Thomas.
Maps of the Potter tract, a new subdivision in the northern section of Shafter, were presented to the Shafter City Council by Monday night engineers Ernie White and Gene Harrison. The council did not act and will take up the plans at the next meeting. A business license was granted to J. L. James to operate an automotive service in the Posnoff garage.
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