New Shafter industry eyed near town with big payroll
A letter to the Chamber of Commerce hints at a forthcoming industry choosing Shafter as its home. Peak payroll could reach $110000 weekly with $190000 monthly in material use, suggesting about 1000 jobs at peak. The columnist also reflects on local humor and Nellie Lassiter of Ted’s Bakery.
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Shafter
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Nellie Lassiter
Taylor's Bakery
Ted
Nellie
Church of Christ in Shafter to dedicate new house of worship
After 33 years of growth the Church of Christ in Shafter will dedicate a new concrete block A frame meeting house on Lerdo Highway Minter Avenue and Beech Avenue. E W Metheny supervised construction and will deliver the dedication address with Porterville minister Carrol Davis taking part.
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Shafter
Church of Christ
Santa Fe
Central Valley Highway
E. W. Metheny
Cannie Mil
Lerdo Hichway
Minter Avenue
Beech Avenue
Carrol Davis
Porterville
Kern County City Population Figures Revealed in Census
Preliminary census data list Bakersfield as the largest city with 56 145 residents and Shafter at 5 004. The eight incorporated Kern cities total 90 989 people while unincorporated areas hold 202 484. Final counts may revise slightly, with year-end figures expected.
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Kern County
Washington
U.S. Bureau of the Census
Howard G. Brunsman
Kern
Bakersfield Re
Mains
Delano
Wasco
Shafter
Taft
McFarland
Tehachapi
Maricopa
Airepair to Begin Overhaul at Minter Field This Week
Airepair plans full operations at Minter Field after consolidating Stockton and Sylmar facilities. President Richard B. Rooker says two Army aircraft will be flown in for overhaul as hiring expands locally. The firm, active since 1950, aims to boost Kern County and Shafter economy and will seek local housing, tax, and license guidance from the Chamber of Commerce.
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Airepair
Air Dollar
Stockton
Sylmar
Calif
Minter Field
Richard B
Ben) Rooker
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Shafter
Rooker
Equippe Sat Eee
Ad Cat
Booker
Airepair of
Stockton, Inc
Kern County
Air Force
Exany
Chamber of Commerce
Shafter Highway Re-routing Meeting Planned For Monday
William Welch state highway engineer will attend a Shafter Chamber gathering at Veterans Memorial Hall at 8 p.m. to discuss Central Valley Highway re routing. Harold Greene says invitations went to members and prospects as the group studies two look a like routes and potential traffic increases toward Wasco in five years.
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William Welch
Shafter
Harold Greene
Chamber
Chamber of Commerce
Here
Wasco
California Division of Highways
Welch
Greene
Veterans Building
Shafter Merchants Offer Free One Year Subscriptions
Subscriptions extend to all Shafter Merchants and Airepair employees as a community news initiative. The plan provides a full year of the Shafter Press to each participant to keep them informed and connected with city happenings.
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Shafter
Airepair
Shafter Press
Airepair shifts workforce after Kern County move
Airepair cut back all orders and reduced staff after moving to Kern County. Peak employment reached about 1200 in 1958 with weekly payroll near 110000. Material expenditures ran about 190000 monthly over a year. Now the firm salvages an Army H 21 helicopter from a Washington mountain fortress near the Canadian border, a project once deemed unrecoverable by Army officials.
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Kern County
Airepair
Washington
Army
Booker
Foreign visitors boost Kern County Museum June tally
More than 8,000 visitors toured the Kern County Museum and Pioneer Village in June. Representatives from Bolivia Colombia Germany Sweden and Venezuela were among the foreign guests. Bailey cited 30 U S. states represented and ahead attendance versus last year. Pioneer Village restoration work on the Bella Union Hotel and saloon is slated for completion in early fall.
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Kern County Museum
Pioneer Village
Richard Bailey
Bolivia
Colombia
Germany
Sweden
Venezuela
Museum Register
United States
Bakersfield
Bailey
Bella Union
Shafter merchants urge flat license rate of ten dollars
A vocal group of eleven Shafter merchants urged the City Council to adopt a flat ten dollar per quarter license, forty dollars yearly, as a fair licensing method. They argued the license should primarily control business activity and not serve as revenue, citing current licenses and expected revenue from the new ordinance. The council emphasized a careful, unrushed approach with study before any change, noting current revenue and prior billing figures.
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Shafter
of Commerce
al Finkbeiner
Elmer Anderson
Wayne Wood
Merchants Division
Bill Johnston
Wood
Johnston
Ben Grundy
Grundy
Council OK Some Purchases
Shafter city council approves merchant funded Christmas decorations upgrade and purchase of an automatic billing machine and a turret gun for the fire department. They delay hiring a new fireman until 1961 and plan half funding for street decorations with the Chamber of Commerce.
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Shafter
Merchants Division
Chamber of Money
Chamber of Commerce
Bill Johnston
James Stone Joins Harvard Yearlong Science Program
James H. Stone of Shafter California joins fifty teachers from 23 states and two countries at Harvard University for the fourth Academic Year Institute for High School Teachers of Science and Mathematics. Courses cover physics biology mathematics and chemistry as he teaches biology at Shafter High School. He received the am
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Germany
Japan
Harvard University
Harvard
James H. Stone
Cc Avenue
Shafter
California
Shafter High School
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