Shafter Honor Roll List Highlights Local Servicemen
The Shafter Honor Roll features over 650 names of residents serving in the United States Armed Forces. Compiled with the courtesy of the Shafter American Legion, omissions should be reported to Stringham's Drug Store to ensure accuracy. News From Service Folk will resume next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
United States Armed Forces
Shofter American Legion
Legion
Stringham’s
Service Folk
Ed Brown
Thomas A Hanley Called by Death
Thomas A Hanley 70 longtime Bakersfield newspaper man died Saturday night after a short illness at his home 2201 B street He was news editor and reporter for the Californian for many years Survived by widow Grace and two sons David and George and several grandchildren Funeral services were private at the graveside
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Thomas A. Francis Hanley
B Street
Bakersfield
Hanley
Californian
Grace Hanley
David
George
Enduring belief in a united republic through early crisis
An editorial reflection on the founders faith in unifying the colonies after the Revolution, noting doubts during the Constitutional era and the necessity of union for freedom. The piece contrasts historic cynicism with the enduring success of the constitutional framework and its global significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States of America
United States
Second Ball Series Schedule Set For Shafter Baseball
Ralph Lachenmaier's Reds beat Wasco Bank of America 7 to 1 in a hot softball game at Shafter High. A second half schedule for baseball starts Monday with matches against Wasco Baptists, Shafter Whites, Wasco Eagles, and Bank of America, through August 6.
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Ralph Lachenmaier
Reds
Wasco Bank of American
Shafter High School
Bob Gates
Lachenmaier
Wasco Baptists
Shafter
Shafter Whites
Bank of America
Wasco
Shafter Blues
Wasco Eagles
Blues
Shafter Eagles
Baptists
Eagles
Lachenmaier Reds
Hamilton on Okinawa
Pfc Wade Hamilton is on Okinawa and writes to his parents Mr and Mrs Elza Hamilton He reports hearing radio programs from the states daily and notes seeing Junior Rogers from Shafter during his time overseas.
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Pfc
Wade Hamilton
Okinawa
Elza Hamilton
Junior Rogers
Shafter
Highway association meeting planned in Hanford
Directors from Shafter Wasco Bakersfield and other towns along the proposed Central Valley Highway will attend a meeting next Tuesday night at Paden's cafe in Hanford. Hanford Chamber of Commerce will host with Glenn Gustafson arranging. Delegates will travel to Hanford by Santa Fe stream liner.
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The
Highway Association
Paden’s
Hanford
Hanford Chamber of Commerce
Glenn Gustafson
Shafter
Wasco
Bakersfield
Santa Fe Streamliner
Russian Candor Is Praised at Shafter Rotary Club
L. G. Taggart county probation officer and former state VFW commander spoke at Shafter Motel praising Russian candor after attending the United Nations Conference in San Francisco. He said the conference was the most democratic international meeting and shared impressions from Molotov's interpreter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Taggart
Pat Kelly
Lee Thomas John Kelly
Ernest Panero
Reckless Driver Fined $100 in Shafter Court
J C Chesser, a truck driver, was fined $100 in Shafter Justice Court for reckless driving that injured a boy named Tom Woolf Jr. He received a 30 day sentence suspended if he pays bicycle repair costs.
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J.C. Chesser
Shafter Justice Court
Tom Woolf Jr
Chesser
Hill addresses Kiwanis on youth delinquency prevention
Jack Hill new Shafter High principal told Shafter Kiwanis Club that well planned recreation and work opportunities prevent juvenile delinquency. He praised Boy Scouts and the YMCA and described his work as county attendance officer. Program chairmen for coming weeks were announced.
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Jack Hill
New Shafter High School
Shafter Kiwanis Club
Shafter Motel
Hill
Boy Scouts
Kern County Union High School
J. W. Frizzell
Denver Middlebrook
Bill Johnston
Elza Hamilton
George Guenther
Earl Weil
Alan Anderson
Ted Kinman
Harry Wilkinson
Beet Sugar Labor Saving Program Announced
The domestic beet sugar industry plans a major expansion of labor-saving research through the Beet Sugar Development Foundation, a Denver nonprofit formed to coordinate mechanization, agronomic research, and by-product utilization across 18 states. It will support member companies Holly Sugar and Spreckels, and collaborate with the Agriculture Department, state experiment stations and agricultural colleges to reduce beet culture labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Holly Sugar Corporation
Spreckels Sugar Company
Beet Sugar Development Foundation
Denver
Colo
Department of Agriculture
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Robert Anderson
Victor Alexander Herbert Akins
James Albright
Elmer M. Anderson
Donald H. Anderson
Victor Anderson
Hiram Anderson
Elvin
Leroy Allen
Johnnie Almarez
Lito Almarez
Julian Almarez Myron Annis Durward Annis Merle Annis Arnot M. Annis
Joe Aguilar
Ralph Aguilar
Raymond Aguilar
Spurgeon
Cecil Avants
Oliver Avants
William Ashmore
Jim B. Ball
George Baerg
James S. Bailey
Joseph M. Bailey
Franklin M
John E. Carter
Donald Christensen Nelson Clement P. Cotton Edwin W. C. Cagle
Ted Collins’ Bill Collins
Maurice Connell
William P. Cornell
Roy A. Contreras
Luther F. Cornelius Harold Cornelius
Paul Enns
Louis C. Epp
Alvin Epp
Arthur Epp
Ernest Ehrhardt
Edwin Evans
Ernest L. Evans
Murray Evans
Milard J. Erwin
Eugene P, Enns
Raymond Fast
A. H. Fash
David Fadenrecht
Abraham Fadenrecht
Olin Fenderson
Arthur Fenderson
Paul Ferrell
Glenn Ferrell
Herman Ferguson
Jimmy Forbes
Calvin Y. Fowler
Roy Fowler
Ernest Fleischauer
Elmer Friesen
Alfred Friesen
Harold Friesen
Orlando J. Friesen
Carland Friesen
Joseph W. Frizzell, Jr
Walker Fry
Wm. Wayne Guenther
William A. Gilstrap
Wesley Gorsching Allen Gorsching
Hugh C. Henderson
Henry C. Hight
Virgil Hamlin Ewald Handel Dewey .W. Hopkins
Phil Haag John J. Hare Otha Alton Havins
A.D. Havins
Harvey Lenfilly Havins
Ellis Hamilton Wade Hamilton Carrol M. Hansen, Delmar Hearn
Robert L. Hearn James J. Hearn
Walter
Alvin E, Howard Paul Harris Dillard C
James Jones
Kenneth Jackson
Robert J. Janzen
Emmett C. Jackett
Rehard
B. Jordan
William Jordan
Clarence Kattenhorn
Lawrence Kattenhorn
Erdie Keihm
Ivan Keihm
Warren. Kiltredge
Walter Kirschenmann
James Klassen
Harold H. Klassen
John Kliewer
Ben Kliewer
William Kliewer
Dn Kliewer Laverne Kliewer Wilbert Kirschenmann
Jake Kliewer
Lawrence Klewer
H. Robert Klassen
Bernie
Emmett C. Lachett
William H. Long Otto J. Learcy Ray Mays
Paul Martines
Johnnie Mendoza
Gideon Mettler
Ruben Mettler Rayne Mettler
Orin Mettler
Elmer Mettler
Ernest Merkel
Ed Merkel
James O. McCafferty
Richard Re Douglas: McGlain
William T. McClain
Richard C. McCombs
Wilbur McDonald
Elmer McDonald
Ray McDonald Powell McCoy
J. B. Miller
Buel Mouser
Arnold Morse
Robert McMillan William Lloyd Muse
Doyle Muse
Jack Muse Elden
Rick Harvey Myrick Myron Myrick Floyd A. Mitchell Arthur L. Mairel Nathan Maire
Larnce M. Mendenhall
Glyn Martin Delmar Mettler Odell Mitchell
Ivan C. Mettler
Albert L. McKenney Lee M. McHenry
Bob
Charles Potter
Joe E. Pulcher
John F. Parks Elray J. Penner
Jessie K. Penner
John L. Penner
John C. Parsons
Ray Rosse
Harry I. Rice Lester M. Ramsey
Robert A. Raper
Raymond Raper
Ruben B. Rohrback
Harold M. Rohrback
Calvin Rains Alas Fay Rains Raymond Rolland Rains
Homer F. Ray Paul Ratzlaff
Ray Ratzlaff
Daniel Ratzlaff
Wilbur Ratzlaff
Milton Bill Reed
Henry C. Regehr
Emil
Thomas A. Hanley
Robert M. Stockton
Gene W. Steward Edor Etreyle Gideon Sperling
James Sterlingson
Oras Sullivan Albert Lloyd Suckut
Paul Swenson Quinto Sheppard
Jack Sheppard Hubert Salee Cleo Sanders Elmo R. Awld Wilber Steward John Stelcup
Harold L. Schwaidt Virgil D. Spohn
Chester V. Smart W.M. Steele Marvin H. Sexton Ernest J. Sexton
Wendell H. Tate
Robert Tatum
Robert Teague
Duane ‘Thompson
Gordon Tohn
Ralph Tucker
Tommie Tucker Orville Trubey
Philadelphia
Arthur Whitecotton
Harry H. Wilson
Blake Witcher
P Tcher Vernon Witcher
GA. Whittmayer
Rudolph Wittenberg
Leland Wood
Jack Wood
Bill J. Wishon
Arthur H. Weddel
Anthony W. Wells
Jordan Wells
Phillip L. Wells
Albert Walk Wilson T. Wells
Carrol Warren Enns ‘Warren
Robert Young Willis Zumwalt
Hugo Zimmyerman
Mary Ellen Hansen
Denna Gorsching Stoddard
Hamilton ON
Highway Group
Parrett
Melvin Parrett
Chuck Christopher
Frank Russell
P. V. McClure
Shafter Police Department
Battaglia-Hare and Company
O.P.A
Johnsonneuman CO
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