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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1946
Page
7
Saturday bridge luncheon at the home of Mrs J C Channe featured guests including J J Peters Ike J L Hill Harold Greene M L mas Dick Arnold John Jacobsen J H Puller Glen Crampton Gordon Haycock O T Olsen Sylvia Baughman T V Little Ed Brown and Floyd Cooper. The San Francisco Presidio spans 1542 acres.
Shafter High School journalism students begin printing a biweekly paper replacing the Commander. The first issue will be distributed to students and a subscription drive will start to cover expenses, with Miss Jeanette Wheeler as faculty sponsor.
Faculty basketball team defeated the Shafter High cage team 38 to 24 on Tuesday afternoon. The game raised 35.04 for the March of Dimes fund. Tom Letizia and Bob Gates led scoring, with solid support from Jack Hill Lowell Todd Burley Dooley and Holger Hansen.
Shafter high teams clash with Tehachapi in a Friday trio of games that shape Sierra League standings. Shafter A and B squads won their recent contests while Bakersfield High swept the locals, scoring 39 35 for A and 21 14 for B with C losing 38 6.
Bob Carlson of Bank of America urged Shafter Kiwanis Club members to make a will to safeguard survivors. He spoke Wednesday at noon, introduced by program chairman David Middlebrook.
The eight team boys basketball league in Richland enters its fourth week with the Wolves led by Tom Kelly winning seven straight. Richland Rats captained by John Kelly sit second after six wins and one loss. Scoring leader Paul Cato of the Yankees has 27 points, Jim Myrick 25, and Al Griffin and John Kelly 24 each.
Mikle Marsh the small son of Mr and Mrs Art Marsh of Shafter is slowly improving at Kern General Hospital in Bakersfield.
Andrew Barling 57 of Wasco died at Glendale Sanitarium on January 28. He leaves wife Mary three sons Nathaniel Samuel of Wasco and Harry of Bakersfield six daughters Mildred Honea Bernice Smith Florence Kirschenmann Helen Pasley Ellen Evans Lillian Barling five grandchildren eight sisters and two brothers. Funeral date not yet set.
Pearl Harbor veteran Pvt Roy McBroom of Shafter California is among 2000 high point Army men returning to the U S aboard the S S Devil from Yokohama Japan. The ship left January 11 and is due in Seattle around January 23. The Devil is one of many Navy and Maritime Commission ships aiding the Pacific war effort. Since 1849 San Francisco has stood as the West’s largest banking center outside Chicago.
At a special assembly Friday afternoon at Shafter High School student officers for the semester were installed. Charles Hitchcock became president, Jerry Mathis was installed as incident, Patricia Mettler Naeales took the vacated office, Edna Rodgers became social chairman, Barrie Burns was installed as secretary, and Holger Hansen explained and the student constitution amendment defining athletic award requirements was adopted. Coaches Lowell Todd and Tom Letizia announced starting lineups for basketball against Maricopa, ending with a pep rally.
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