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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1955
Page
6
Softball schedule shows weekly league matchups with July dates. Pairs include A Camp vs Stringham Drug and Dutch Boy vs Rotary, Becker Insurance vs Carolina Farms, Shafco vs Dutch Boy, and Rotary vs Becker Insurance. Rootes & Channeson are listed in addition to these fixtures.
Wasco Bobs defeated Buttonwillow Legion 9 to 1 while North Camp beat Lost Hills 16 to 7. Wasco Bucs routed Buttonwillow 0 to 7 in another game. Playoffs listed with team matchups and scores across multiple leagues including Girls League and PEE WEE, with final results and standings for Stringhams and Minter Field in various divisions.
Shafter swimmers dominated the North Kern district qualifying meet at Richland pool sweeping Wasco Delano and McFarland. Four new marks were set by Delano and Shafter athletes with multiple two first place scorers including Carol Witcher Verna Peters Don Blumkin Leroy Moser. Finals are slated for July 29 at Lakeside with top two finishers in each event advancing.
Great Nature Boy Buddy Rogers returns to Bakersfield’s field arena to face Ray Stern in a best two of three falls within an hour. Scot and Bockwinkel collide in a two of three falls semmi match. Skippy Jackson battles Dutch Hefner in a one fall 30 minute bout. John Demchuck faces Jude Jack Terry in the 20 minute opener.
The Department of Fish and Game releases archery rules for deer and bear from July 23 to August 1 on the coast. Valid license and deer tags required. two bucks and two bears allowed. No dogs, crossbows, or bows with stocks. no firearms during archery season. Prime hunting areas include Mt Abel, Brush Mt, Grouse, Sawmill, Pines Mt, Pine Valley and Cuyama Valley elevations 4500 to 8000 feet.
Victorine Bair narrates a Nature Nook session with new members. The group plans a Saturday insect dig near the park, catching butterflies and dragonflies, while observing praying mantises and their catlike cleaning, hunting, and breeding habits. Eggs hatch in spring, nymphs resemble adults.
Neumann now over 72 will receive monthly social security checks for himself and his wife. Retroactive increases from January 1955 raise total payments to 514.80 with future hikes projected to about 120.00 monthly. Neumann, a 39-year Shafter area farmer nicknamed Coyote, helps mark a new era of economic protection for self employed farmers in the nation.
Edna Janzen of Shafter attended Cal Poly’s second annual school lunch workshop drawing about 125 representatives from across the state. Participants stayed in Mountain Dorms and enrolled in beginning and advanced menu planning and nutrition courses.
Highway patrolmen may arrest motorists who discard trash from vehicles. Citizens are urged to keep roadsides clean by carrying a trash bag in their automobile.
Jim Crawford son of Mrs Lu cille Harris of Pacific avenue has returned home for a few days from Fort Miles Hospital San Francisco where he has been with a leg injury since May. The injury occurred in a motorcycle accident near San Mateo in May. He is walking on crutches and was to have a checkup yesterday at the hospital.
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