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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1946
Page
1
In California the housing shortage worsens as population surges after the war. Kern County reports 50 percent growth with a widespread lack of decent shelter for farm workers and rural residents. Proposals include boundary camping grounds with facilities, securing surplus army buildings for temporary housing, and seeking financing to accelerate construction.
Yesterday's gathering at Cawelo Motel featured singing led by Joe Frizzell and attendance from Kiwanis Club members including Mrs. Glenn Putman. The event included guests and relatives such as Mr. Miller, with brief, uncertain remarks about the potato duration.
A street dance and celebration precede the long awaited American Legion car awarding on June 20. Earl Johnson leads a committee planning the program with a band for dancing and entertainment. Tickets cost 1.00 each and benefit the Shafter post building fund for a new hall.
The Central Valley Highway Association will hold its June dinner meeting in the Palm Room at Bakersfield Inn on Wednesday night June 19. Nominations for officers will be taken and session topics include relief for the overcrowded highway from Bakersfield to Selma via Shafter Wasco Corcoran and Hanford. Dick Leask, Bakersfield Chamber secretary manager, leads arrangements and 7:30 p.m. start time is set.
Halfway through the summer season local leagues show Shafter Billiards atop Pee Wee, Kiwanis girls leading the girls division, and Johnson-Neuman tied with Shafter Press in the Junior league. Tonight at 8 Johnson-Neuman meets Shafter Press to decide Junior leadership after 2-2 head to head.
Two young Peruvians, G. Rizo- Patron and Eduardo Rivero, visited Shafter to learn California potato and farming techniques. The Peruvians, who cultivate cotton and sugar cane, toured potato sheds and fields with Orvin Mettler, noting similar irrigation and climate in the Lima area. They aim to obtain potato seed from California for experiments and to adapt Kern County growing and harvesting methods.
Ed Warren and Rolf Jacobsen announced the purchase of 125 acres of E. H. Mettler and Sons land adjoining the Experimental Farm. Sam Lachenmaier handled the sale.
Mrs Arthur Bristow of Alam eda is visiting Shafter for two weeks to stay with her aunt Mrs Phil Ohanneson.
Starting with next Thursday's issue, the Shafter Press will add a comic section featuring Matt and Jeff Reg' ler Fellows Virgil Silent Sam and Little Reggie. The paper will increase in size with more columns and features beyond the comics.
Shafter area growers report two thirds of the crop harvested amid a chaotic Eastern market with U S No 1 potatoes around 2 per hundred. Government purchases cover roughly 65 percent of the crop at 1.65 to 1.75 per hundred while car shortages hinder shipments to dehydration plants and distillers.
Harold M. Rohrbach of Shafter California received personal thanks and a gift from Motoko Urakata the Empresses sister during a site visit in Osaka Japan where the 65th Engineers of the 25th Infantry Division used a bulldozer to clear ruins. The work paves the way for a future playground for Japanese children.
Competition tightens in Shafter's summer recreation softball. Roy Farrell, Richland School PE director, oversees three leagues: Junior for ages 13 to 15, Pee Wee for ages 9 to 12, and a girls league open to any age. Current standings are listed.
A Shafter couple newly arrived on Semi-tropic ridge west of Shafter faces pneumonia and San Joaquin fever. They seek a dependable man to lead 50 acres of corn planting and a helper. Call Wasco 4087 or visit Mrs. Olds at her sister’s Wasco residence on Prospect Avenue between Central and Magnolia.
The Daigh & Stewart softball squad, unbeaten this season and boasting six straight wins, travels to Shafter to face the Recaps at Primary Diamond at 8 15 p m. The Bakersfield powerhouse, representing Daigh & Stewart Trucking, aims for another win before a July Los Angeles trip to face the Bob Hope comedian team amid strong Recaps defense led by Jonsont.
Roy Farrell reports increasing interest in the Richland school summer recreation program run daily in the main building. A shuffleboard tournament saw Harvey Mizell and Donald Day as top scorers, while Tuesday featured bicycle races in two divisions with Russ Grisso winning the large boys race, Donald Day second, and Bill Xinman third. details for the smaller boys division incomplete.
South Shafter and North Shafter worker camps are full with applicants being turned away at a rate of 50 daily, says camp manager Jack Manweiler. Last week 70 units at South Shafter were claimed between 4 30 and 6 30 am after an announcement.
Job's Daughters planned a swimming party Monday night at the John Peters school then attend the year end meeting at the Masonic Temple in Wasco.
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