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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1946
Page
1
The passage argues Americans must blend idealism with realism, upholding individual rights and government by the people. It cautions against surrendering freedoms for power, insists on freedom of speech and religion, and calls for a strong, proactive role in world affairs to resist coercion and atomic threats.
Shafter welcomes a new Western Auto Store at Central Avenue and Munzer under Art Brownell. The large outlet advertises extensive wartime and postwar merchandise, including scarce items, with local staff and a Grand Opening Weekend sale featuring Supreme Motor Oil at special prices.
Local softball schedule shows junior and peewee games against out of town teams. The Shafter Press junior champions meet Bakersfield’s Michener’s Drive-in at 7 00 p m with a follow up Recap game at 8 15 p m.
Efin Effseaf of Wasco was fined 350 dollars in a County Court hearing before Judge E. K. Grant for not paying potato workers promptly. The ruling found Effseaf guilty and equaled one day’s wages for each worker in back pay.
Judge E. K. Grant heard two speeding cases at the county building. Calvin Coolidge and Oh Bee Goode were cited by the state highway patrol and each fined ten dollars.
A 1945 46 budget report shows General Fund Col 1 actual figures and Col 2 projections for area schools. It includes average daily attendance across all grades and highlights lowest and highest figures by year.
The Richland Elementary School District and Ernest J. Kump Company propose a modern public pool with 60 by 110 feet main pool, shallow and deep ends for racing and springboard diving, a 10 by 50 feet wading pool with a sloping bottom and 18 inch max depth, fountain sprays, raised pool edge with surrounding decks, slip-proof finishes, and underwater lighting for safety and aesthetics. The design emphasizes sanitation with white cement plaster finish and terra cotta scum gutter, and includes adjustable diving boards, traversing decks, ample drainage, and a full filtration and disinfection system. separate facilities aim to minimize interference between children and adults.
Readers are urged to approve a Richland school bond next Tuesday financing a community swimming pool and classrooms. Advocates praise swimming as exercise and recreation, noting safety through filtration lifeguards and showers while suggesting nominal admission covers upkeep and reduces delinquency.
Shafter debuts The Hut drive-in at Pacific and James streets across from the State theatre. Arnold Heffley owns the clean new facility staffed for quick car service. F. E. Woodruff travels from Los Angeles to install a doughnut machine, offering fresh in town pastries. Heffley family notes include two sons in the U. S. Marines with Wayne in China and Carl recently returned from Miramar.
Frank Johnson, Shafter Kiwanis member and former Food Town meat market head, spoke on his overseas service with American occupation forces in Berlin from December to recently. He described postwar Berlin and the local outlook, and expects to return to his market job soon. Art Brownell of San Fernando, now in Shafter, attended and will manage the Western Auto store. Bakersfield Kiwanis members E C Boydston John L Compton Ben Stinson Dan Morgan and Walter F E Peterson also attended.
The water is returned to the opposite end of the pool for re use. By constant recycling the heat cost is reduced as little heat is lost and the filters remove cloudiness and discoloration caused by algae growth.
Residents will vote on a $150,000 bond to build classrooms and a modern swimming pool. The election runs 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the Richland Music Room, backed by local civic leaders after two years of discussion. If approved, current debt of $12,000 will be retired in three years.
Hi Y leads the Men's league with Mc Clure Drug and Rio Bravo tied for second one game back. In the Girls league Food Town tops McFarland. Junior and Peewee leagues finished. Shafter Press won the Junior pennant while Mann & Brown clinched the Peewee title.
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