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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1955
Page
6
Jim Grumbies, discharged from the Navy December 8 after a four year tour, had four fingers severed on his right hand when it was caught in a machine at the L A Camp Oil Mill on Lerdo Ave. He returned home from the hospital Sunday and his return to work is uncertain, according to his wife Betty.
The Generals split a weekend schedule with a 42 to 44 league loss to Exeter Monarchs and a 52 to 28 non conference win over McFarland. Shafter's B and C teams posted 35 to 22 and 33 to 22 victories respectively while the main squad used second string players in the Saturday triumph.
Shafter High School students will play a charity basketball game against a teachers’ all star team next Monday to raise funds for the March of Dimes. The California Scholarship Federation sponsors the event with about eight to ten student players drawn from intra mural squads and reserves from the A’s and B’s. Several teachers listed to attend include Moroski Pare Murfin Bledsoe Foreman Williams Cresswell Easterbrook Todd Tyner Galante Fahrbender McCaulay Stone Jensen Hill. Betty Wilson, daughter of Mrs Loretta Wilson, now lives with Mr and Roy Pasley and attends Shafter High as a sophomore.
Twenty one Richland pupils earned the blue and gold letter R on Monday January 24 for outstanding athletic achievement. Honorees include Verne Boney Betty Brown Dolly Begley Ronald Blumkin Duncan Brad Lewis George Carol Hooks Dorothy Hood Shirley Mettler Jonnie Johnson Pat Kirschenman William Parker Jery Ragsdale Donna Reynolds Jim Reynolds Carol Tiberghien Frank Ware Carol Lasharon. Letters reflect participation as players officials and monitors in Richland intramural sports.
Lloyd Robertson of Shafter has been elected vice president in charge of farming operations for M. L. Dudley and Company. He will oversee farming operations exceeding ten thousand acres.
Highway Patrolman D J Bell said a hay truck driven by Martin Malan 28 of Buttonwillow stalled on railroad tracks. The train clipped the truck and pushed it off the rails, causing a jackknife into the trailer. Debris wrapped around a wheel, signaling cable damaged, engine dented, track owned by Stockton Estates declared total loss. Engineer Gene Blumfield of Bakersfield were aboard.
A new air defense filter center in Bakersfield is set to open at midnight February 12 with lines switching from Pasadena. Public observance is planned for February 20. The opening follows a Wednesday morning meeting with military and civil defense officials from Pacific Telephone and Telegraph and the Ground Observer Corps.
Private Harold 4 Nixon, a 1954 Shafter High School graduate, has returned to Fort Manneth in New Jersey after spending 14 cars here in Shafter with family and friends. He was active in sports during school.
Six Kern county schools were first to install Bells and Light Warning Systems and receive state reimbursements covering half the cost. Superintendent Jesse D. Stockton and civil defense director Charles Pierce facilitated state cooperation. The initial payout goes to Greenfield, Standard, and other districts that already paid in full. Twenty five installations exist in Kern county with more planned in Taft through Kerr Mutual Telephone.
Airman Wayman Kirkpatrick, son of Mr and Mrs Hubert Kirkpatrick of Shafter California, is assigned to Amarillo Air Force Base Texas as a student of Medium Jet Bomber Brig General Walter R Agee Base Commander announced Kirkpatrick transferred from Parks AFB California He attended Shafter High School
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