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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1939
Page
5
The Rev. Alfred T. Chandler returned yesterday from the county Y M C A camp where he spent the past week as camp chaplain.
Mr and Mrs Al Anderson returned Saturday from a five day vacation and business trip to southern California They visited in Los Angeles and spent considerable time on southern beaches A card from Bill White a high school instructor touring Germany notes his group of 35 students with one enjoying the trip Miss Phyllis Prieve arrives in Shafter Minnesota to settle with aunt Edna Prieve and attend junior college.
Mr and Mrs P M Coubrough stay with Mrs Martha and are spending several days in San Francisco this week to visit the fair. Mrs Coubrough is the daughter of Mrs Hampton.
Agricultural financier and insurance executive Guy Greenleaf, 40, was killed Saturday in an automobile accident near the Western Waterworks corner on Taft highway. He had offices in Bakersfield Taft and Shafter and was the son of Lincoln Greenleaf, a pioneer oil operator, who resides in the field.
Otis Fay Bandy, 29, was sentenced to 90 days in the county road camp by Police Judge F. E. Manne after pleading guilty to driving an automobile while under the influence. He was arrested Sunday evening by local officers.
Shafter Kiwanis and Rotary sponsored junior team lost 15 to 5 to Bakersfield Civilian juniors coached by Kern County Sheriff John Lousalet. Ray Poston started, Elmer Unruh, Ben Myers finished. Bakersfield built leads with timely hits and errors, while Shafter rallied briefly in the fifth.
Curbs and sidewalks are being poured and installed along Wall Street between Beth Eden Lerdo and Golden West with walks on the west side. Walks completed on Golden West sections and on Lerdo Munzer and Grant streets. Preliminary grading on the west side of Shafter highway from T V s corner to Santa Fe way.
Woods Stone of Shafter placed nine cows on the Kern County Cow Testing Association honor roll for June, led by Ug Sandrini with Pat producing 130 pounds of butterfat and Josephine at 80.2 pounds. Stone’s herd showed butterfat records up to 65.1 pounds for Morgan.
At a Friday noon meeting of the Shafter Business Men's Association at Cafe Neuman, progress on Belridge road was noted with a call for directional signs. The group opposed future potato dehydration plants in city limits and planned a September 30 Dollar Day. They acknowledged potatoes sent to Watsonville for the Fourth of July and discussed future community broadcasting. A condolence resolution was adopted for Uncle Dick Stansbury, a Shafter pioneer who died Thursday after health-related travel.
Here Yesterday Larry King, president of the Bakersfield Kiwanis club, spoke at a regular neon luncheon meeting. He described the Boston Kiwanis convention, noted California Nevada district’s large delegation, and emphasized the boys work program. King and his family spent 25 days touring the East and attending a Boston game.
July 27 has been set as the date of the final hearing of the case of Louis Kenather who was arrested weeks ago by Constable John Reily on a charge of short hanging. Justice H A Rightmire set the date at a preliminary hearing with Rightmire as acting justice of the seventeenth township. the case will be heard in the seventeenth township court. Kenather was arrested after he allegedly short changed a waitress at the Town Hall in the Shafter oil field.
Secretary Edson Abel of the state agricultural prorate commission met informally with Shafter local prorate committee members last evening. The group discussed workings during official action and anticipated a report on the just finished season.
Funeral services were held at Janzen Funeral Home for Charles Walton Lewis 58 who died Tuesday at Kern General Hospital Bakersfield. The body was later cremated in Bakersfield. He had lived with his family at the William Lachenmater ranch south of Shafter for about a year, breaking and training horses and supervising the stables. Born in Louisville Kentucky he began stock work as a boy and came to Shafter from Delano where he worked for Roye Boone. He is survived by his widow Gladys and two sons Stanley and Jack.
Funeral services for Isaac B. Friesen 73 will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at the First Mennonite Church in Shafter with Rev. P. N. Hiebert of Bakersfield officiating. Burial will follow at Greenlawn Cemetery in Bakersfield. Friesen died at home Monday after a two week illness. A native of Russia he came to America as a child and lived in Shafter with his wife for about three years after moving from Bakersfield where he had lived 13 years. He is survived by his widow Elizabeth Friesen three daughters Marie Krause of Shafter Elizabeth Eitzen and Anna Fidler of Bakersfield and eight grandchildren.
Kern county Chamber of Commerce lists Shafter among five county stops on a bulletin driven itinerary. The tour travels from oil fields to Taft model schools natatorium therapy plunge Sutter's fort replica modern homes Caneras rocks Devil's Den Buena Vista lake Tupman and Wasco with Mt Abel sports area near Taft mentioned as part of the potato empire claim.
Union Congregational Church schedules a full day with a summer program and classes at 10 am. an 7 pm youth discussion led by Louise Livers. 8 pm service with Last Supper and new members, sermon by Mr. Chandler and guest pianist Richard Hetz. First Baptist Church in Wasco lists 10 am Bible school, 11 am sermon, 7 pm prayer and youth groups, 8 pm sermon on repentance, with midweek prayer on Wednesday. St John’s Catholic Church in Wasco offers 6:30 am and 8:30 am Sunday Masses with confessions on Saturday at 2 pm.
The world’s largest underground canal extends from the port of Marseilles in France to Port de Bone. It is stated as 4 percent miles long with a width of 72 feet, marking a monumental engineering feat.
Lost Hills, led by Red Howard, edged the Shafter Merchants 3 2 as Howard struck out 18, allowed six hits, and hit a eighth inning home run. Wasco and Lost Hills share first half lead with a three way tie. second half starts tomorrow.
C B Yates, prominent Shafter turkey raiser, manages about 4000 young birds on his ranch west of town for Thanksgiving and Christmas markets. Turkeys age three months to a few weeks, with 600 hens saved from last year's flock of 3500. Brooders on hardware cloth keep the houses clean as Yates incubates eggs and feeds mash grain and alfalfa. Daily feed averages half a ton now and will exceed 1.5 tons as birds grow. Last year turkeys weighed 20 to 30 pounds, with one hen dressing over 31 pounds and breeding stock over 20 pounds.
Merchants resume north county league play tomorrow evening hosting the Wasco 20-30 club under the lights. They seek to snap a three-game losing streak by one run in each setback.
Manager G. J. Rieker likely starts Ernie Neufeld on the mound with Janzen catching, following Walt Kirschenmann’s relief appearance against Lost Hills. Upcoming games list Lost Hills Tuesday, Shafter vs Wasco at Wasco August 1 and Lost Hills vs Shafter at Shafter August 4.
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