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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1959
Page
5
A friendly local Safeway manager in Shafter taps into community pride and shared profits from purchases. The author asks readers to consider how buying locally supports neighbors and asks whether the reader will invest in their own community. The piece closes with a social-ethics prompt and a smile motto.
Miss Merna Borrer and Mrs. Charlotte Buslaff led a July 15 session at the Veterans Memorial Building Wasco on home canning and preservation. Topics covered included peeling peaches with lye safe handling water bath processing and jars labeled with fruit variety date and method. The group also examined jams jellies and frozen produce for Kern County Fair entries with emphasis on quality indicators and proper sealing.
A delegation of Jehovah's Witnesses from Shafter returned Sunday from a four day convention at the Fresno District Fair grounds. The gathering drew 55 congregations from the central Joaquin Valley and northern Los Angeles area with 5 109 attendees. Delegates reported successful seminars aiding families and community service and will resume regular meetings this week.
Shafter Library adds a wide new fiction list led by Eagles Fly West by Ainsworth and Under the Triple Suns by Coblentz along with classics like Gone With the Wind and The Brothers Karamazov and nonfiction works on security etiquette and baseball. Crime data noting a 13 percent rise in aggravated assaults and mixed trends in robberies and murders is included in a separate report.
Mrs Irlene Williams accompanied Ted Garrison son of Mr and Mrs Tommy Garrison to the Pilgrim Pines Church Camp in the Yucaipa mountains near Red lands. The group spent one week at the camp during the outing.
Howard C. Shadwick intends to sell stock in trade fixtures equipment and goodwill of Howard's Service filling station at 326 E Lerdo Shafter Kern County California. Sale transfers and assignment occur at 10 00 A M Monday August 3 1959 at Community National Bank Shafter Kern County California.
The Potato Research Committee will meet on July 24 to discuss the potential of Long White potatoes for making potato flakes. Mr Eskew and Mr Cording from the Eastern Lab will report their findings and conclusions. All board members alternates and growers are invited to attend. Samples from the 1959 spring crop of Kern District Long Whites will be available at the meeting.
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