Shafter to Stage Large Fireworks Display This Evening
Shafter honors the Declaration with a night sky show directed by the department. A team led by Wes Gort Russ Mars and Pat Brad will launch 16 inch shells and a 28 report shell to trigger storms of color. A colorful array of 10 and 13 inch shells follows, with names like Silver Cloudburst and Emerald Spider. Local service organizations contributed to the event and youngsters may light their own fireworks under supervision after the main program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter American Legion
Wes Gort Russ Mars
Pat Bradarray
Ingra Falls
Garden of Allah
Shafter
Bender
Championship Playoffs Set For Tuesday Evening Showdowns
Championship playoffs are scheduled for Tuesday evening in the Low Pee Wee and Wee divisions on July 6. The American Legion and Maxwary Service nines lead their leagues with 5 wins and no losses. If they win the second half title after already securing the first, the Star series of three games will replace the championship playoffs. The Legion defeated Cody West 29 to 2 and Maple Leaf 8 to 4, then beat L. A. Camp 23 to 2. Jolina Farms beat King and Vine 12 to 3 but lost 22 to 3 to Maple Leaf Farms. In Pee Wee, Stringham Drug finally won their first game of the season 8 to 7 over Woodard Rockets, then 8 to 2 over Shamrock Cleaners, with a forfeit from Woodard Rockets. Maxberry’s Service remains undefeated, 8 to 0 over Lions Club and 8 to 2 over Arrow Furniture, plus a forfeit from Woodard Rockets. Arrow Furniture beat Rio Bravo 13 to 12 in a nine inning thriller, then downed Shamrock Cleaners 20 to 14, while Shamrock Cleaners won 16 to 6 over Rio Bravo. Junior League play continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Legion
Maxwry Service
Maple Leaf Farms
Stringham Drug
Woodard Rockets
Shamrock Cleaners
Arrow Furniture
Rio Bravo
Shamrock
Shafter Mercantile Marks 40th Anniversary at West Store
The Shafter Mercantile celebrates forty years since 1914 marking the town’s growth from a one store settlement to today’s budding Kern County scene. The piece recalls early Shafter life from the first store, post office, and notable managers including ShoMate and Art Hemingson.
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After
Onomate
Shafter
Shomaté
Herbert Midgley
Shomate
Art Hemingson
Shafter Mercantile
Kern County
Charlie Shomate's
Shafter Mercantile Store
New Resident Engineer Named for Farm Experimental Station
Harold S. Stanton of Fayetteville Ark arrives as resident engineer at the U S Farm Experimental Station to replace Herbert F Miller who leaves for Washington D C Stanton plans cotton mechanization work and has published four technical papers and one bulletin He holds a B S in Engineering 1950 and a 1953 M S from Kansas State College Miller has led cotton mechanization projects at the station since May 1952 and contributed to several publications on cotton machinery and farming tools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold S. Stanton
Herbert F. Miller
U.S. Farm
Miller
Washington, D.C
Aew
U. S
Phulnceree Research
Stanton
Fayetteville
Ark
Kansas State College
Manhattan
Kan
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Arkansas
Dallas
Tex
University
J. R. Tavernetti
University of California At Davis
Shafter
Phoenix
Riz
Memphis
Tenn
North Kern Golf Site Funded In Delano Shafter Corridor
The Kern County Board of Supervisors allocates 10000 to acquire a 160 acre site for a golf and recreation area to serve Delano Shafter Wasco and McFarland. Plans call for a midway location with undeveloped rolling land and a 30 day land ownership check. Members and residents may contact local association officers to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Kern Golf Association
C. A. James
Kern County
Wasco
W. D. Gaskill
Lee
John Hourigan
Board of Supervisors
Lance Hopper
Kern County Park Department
Mr. James
Delano
Shafter
McFarland
James
Hopper
Phil Clarkin
Association
Bank of America
Earl Cometta
J. C
Penney Co
Bill Gaskill
Haberfelde’s
Kern County Potato Growers Plan 1955 Convention
The Eleventh Annual Convention of the Kern County Potato Growers Association will be at the Bakersfield Inn on March 21 and 22, 1955. The Board announced the date to facilitate plans for attracting national figures from industry and government to the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County
Ex-Korean POW Olivette recalls harrowing Korea imprisonment
Ralph Olivette told Shafter Chamber members of 15 months as a prisoner during the Korean War. He served from 1951 to 1952 with the 45th Infantry Division and endured harsh conditions, limited medical care, and internment near the Yalu River. John Peters discussed Central Valley Project water distribution plans and a district contract funded by a potential federal program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber*of Commerce
Bob Bann
Ralph Olivette
Ralph
Korea
John Peters
Shafter-Wasco
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Olivette
45Th Infantry
Diemail Semonthe
Nally
Yalu
Shafter- Wasco
Central Valley Project
Shafter High Agriculture Program Teaches By Doing
Glenn O. Nay reports 93 students in 1953-54 at Shafter High School engaged in hands on agriculture. Projects covered beef cattle swine cotton and field corn with farm lab activities feeding showcasing animals and field crops and constructing corrals water lines trailers gates and machinery repairs. Students also exhibited at Kern County Fair and Great Western Livestock Show earning premiums and sales revenue while learning through livestock and field crop projects and farm mechanics work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Glenn O. Nay
Los Angeles
School Farm
Nay
le Teen
Library Receives Past Resident's Literary Effort
Maude A Fox former Shafter resident and former president of the Wednesday Afternoon Club presented the Shafter library with her book Both Sides of the Mountain. The work covers the Yuapa Valley and reflects her journalism background with contributions to the Shafter Progress and Los Angeles Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude A Fox
Maude Sure
Shafter Library
Teen Age Dance at School Patio This Friday
The Shafter Recreation program hosts the second Teen Age Dance of the summer this Friday from 8 30 to 11 at the school patio. Dances will run every Friday for the next five weeks.
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Shafter
B P W Meeting Held at Vannatta Home
Members of the BFW gather for a Thursday July 1 pot luck dinner at 7 PM in Leona Vannatta’s Cross Street residence with Mrs Lorene Hill co hosting.
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B.F.W
Leona Vannatta
Cross Street
Lorene Hill
Vannatta
Girls State Briefing Before Sacramento Trip
Girl State representatives from the district were briefed at a Bakersfield Inn brunch. Attendees from Shafter High School and several Bakersfield area schools prepared to depart to Sacramento aboard special trains, guided by former participant Patty Bellamy and district chaperones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Bakersfield Inn
LaVida Yeargan
Mary DeVincenzo
Shafter High School
Maricopa
Taft
East Bakersfield
Wasco
Bakersfield
Patty Bellamy
Lerdo Road resurfacing bid awarded to Dicco
A $24 050 bid won by Dicco Incorporated of Bakersfield was accepted by the county supervisors for resurfacing 5 miles of the Lerdo biway near Shafter. The county estimated the job at $25,500 and road commissioner Vern Smith quickly recommended the award. Work will run from Shafter west city limits to Palm Avenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Dicco, Incorporated
Bakersfield
Vern Smith
Dicco
Palm Avenue
Funeral Rites Held for Mrs Opal Poznoff in Bakersfield
Funeral services were conducted June 29 for 39 year old Opal Poznoff of Shafter who died last Sunday in a Bakersfield hospital after a brief illness. Rev Sam Rebin led the service with burial at Greenlawn Memorial Park. Born in Russia October 16 1885 she lived in Shafter since 1915. Survived by husband Mike Poznoff three daughters Mrs C J Sunday Bakersfield Mrs L J Brigante and Mrs Johnny Duerksen both of Shafter a son Tim Poznoff Fresno three brothers John Papoff Bakersfield James Papoff San Pedro Walter Papoff Tulock and two sisters Vera Shipoff and Ann Farley of Stockton plus ten grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opal Poanoff
Beth Eden
Bakersfield
Sam Rebin
Greenlawn Memorial Park
Russia
Poznoff
Shafter
Mike Poznoff
C. J. Sunday
L. J. Brigante
Johnny Duerksen
Tim Poznoff
Fresno
John Papoff
James Papoff
San Pedro
Walter Papoff
Turlock
Vera Shiphoff
Ann Farley
Stockton
Cranachiaren
Traveling photo exhibit at Shafter Library showcases county high schools
A traveling photo exhibit is on display at the Shafter Library as part of county high schools photography efforts. It runs until July 5 per librarian Mrs. Wedge and features Shafter High School images such as Arlene Neuman's Under the Fallen Log and Marion Mettler's Composition With Shadows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Library
Wedge
Shafter
Shafter High School
Arlene Neuman
Marion Mettler
Ellen de Loach
Barbara Wroton
Ellen “de Loach
Barbara Wroten
County
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Delano and
Dick Zenk
A.G. Mortimore
Merwin Voth
Bob Nispel
John Drake
al Castro
Chamber
Reclamation Bureau
Bureau
Shafter High
Ting
B.P.W. Meeting
Miss. DeVincenzo
John DeVincenzo
Jack—Avenue
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