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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1945
Page
1
Invitation from Mayor Neufeld hints Shafter's potential for diversified industry. The city sits amid rich agriculture and nearby oil, on the transcontinental line, with small plants already producing farm equipment and a printing press facility. The piece argues for developing seasonal industries to retain workers year round.
Mrs Edith Hobson of Colton California spent last week in Shafter visiting her son Les Hobson.
The Richland School District runs a full time summer recreation program for children six and older under Shafter Recreation Commission head Mrs. J. W. Frizzell and director Bob Gates. Activities include singing crafts games stories and coloring daily 9 to 430 with a ten cent lunch. attendance flexible with parent consent. Opening date to be announced by handbills.
The North Kern Selective Service Board released the list of selectees this week. Included are Lawrence Iverson James Stinnett Jack Blair Birtle Ross Walter Chamberlain Michael Valenzuela Billy McNellie Joaquin Aguerria Andrew Trout Forrest Gravy Orvald Williams Alvin Smith Jordan Wells Edgar Wallace Julian Wren Cecil Stewart Melvin Klassen J Daniel Dunlap Willard Swarts Owen Humphrey Jr Frank Torrigiani Verya Bowles David Crawford James Wigington Raymond Pettus Ernest Arg as John McDonald Jose Arias Joe Baca Jack Shaffer James Morris Charlie Pineda Joseph Gerardin.
Charles M. Gammie was convicted in the local Justice Court on a petty theft charge and sentenced to 180 days at the road camp. He, a Santa Fe Depot employee, stole $155 and a watch from the safe, fled to San Francisco, and was arrested there by Constable Witcher and Ed C. Newton before being brought back for trial.
The Seaside Service Station at the corner of Pacific and Santa Fe has opened and will offer all day service. It will be operated by W. F. McQuilliams, a former Shafter businessman who is well known.
The Shafter City Council voted to annex the Santa Fe Railway land southeast of town including the potato sheds. The council granted a freighting business license to D A Manns but denied exclusive rights. They refunded taxi license fees to D G Bliss who lacked gas stamps. Ernest White will replace F C Curry as City Engineer at 25 dollars monthly. council named as Planning Commissioners for current and postwar plans. Mayor Neufeld led the vote with councilmembers Lachenmaier Nay Frizzell and Little.
Shafter officials praise Santa Fe Railway and invite the company to locate its machine shops in Shafter. The move follows a June telegram from Mayor H. C. Neufeld and a prompt reply from F. G. Gurley. Shafter stresses its potato industry ties and cooperation with the railroad amidst Bakersfield franchise issues and proposed yard consolidations.
Kern County war bond event titled Here is Your Infantry will feature a real shooting war pageant by Infantrymen with real guns. It will be at Kern County Fairgrounds Bakersfield at 8 p m on June 26. Tickets obtainable via war bond purchases at Shafter Bank of America. E F and G bonds sold to individuals. one ticket per bond except high bracket bonds may use more than one. Grandstand seats $25 to $500. boxes six seats $100 to $1 000 per seat.
Historical note shows Uruguay claimed as a province by both Argentina and Brazil, underscoring 19th century regional rivalries. The competing claims reflect shifting borders and political pressures in the Río de la Plata region.
The Sears Roebuck Foundation will fund Shafter High School’s new purebred Hereford cattle program with 1000 dollars yearly for three years. Glenn O Nay leads the effort and plans to provide two heifers per Future Farmer participant with the first calf to the school. several ranches including Rio Bravo Ranch offer stock for the project.
Thirty five youngsters attended the Story Hour at the Woman's Clubhouse. They enjoyed requested stories. Sponsored by the Wednesday Afternoon Club with Mrs Hansen in charge. All elementary children may attend.
Smoke seen in the Spud Cafe kitchen vent prompted a fire alarm. Fire crews found the smoke from a blow torch used by Dan Loewen while installing a roof cooler on the cafe.
Lieut P B Trumbull, back from eleven months in Europe and seventy one fighter missions, was a Kiwanis guest at Shafter Motel. He attended Shafter High School and earned enough credits to earn a diploma. Other guests included J S Tufts of Rascoe Store Shafter and Walter Lord, former Rasco manager now in San Luis Obispo.
Glenn A. Reich and RMC 2/e Leon H. Reich came home on ten day leave from service. They spent the visit with their father Ernst Reich in Shafter while Major Reich is in San Francisco awaiting transfer near Fresno. Leon Reich has served in the South Pacific.
S.A. Camp Horse captured first place in the free-for-all ace at Tulare fairgrounds harness races. Calumet Darnel owned by Johnnie Miller of Corcoran took second, Mark Leaf of Neuman and Crawford of Shafter third, and Bill Lachenmaier's Jessica Scott fourth. In slow class, Kern Abbe finished second to Chief Yakama. Shafter horses boosted by the meet with several moving to Long Island. Robert Neuman and Jack Crawford traveled to buy colt Red Streak, a 26 class pacer, who will be stabled with Lachenmaier and worked Sundays.
Cpl. Allan Gorsching, stationed at Waycross Georgia, is on furlough in Shafter visiting his wife and young son. He reports that Dick Harris of Shafter is also at Waycross.
Howard Kimmel seven months old, son of Mr and Mrs Elden Kimmel, died Tuesday evening in a Bakersfield hospital. Survived by two brothers and seven sisters, two grandparents from Shafter, and a Wisconsin grandmother. Funeral Friday at 2 PM at Janzen Funeral Home with Rev F Ummel, burial in Shafter Cemetery.
Miss Doris Unruh leaves Tuesday for Los Angeles to undertake Nurse's Aide training. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs W W Unruh of Shafter.
Mrs Edna McCormick of Modesto visits the home of Sgt and Mrs Osborn. The Osborns spent a weekend in Los Angeles with friends and the prior weekend in Santa Barbara.
Shafter faces three weeks left in the Seventh War Loan drive with only 60 000 raised, 12 percent of a 430 000 quota. Chairs Glenn O Nay and Pat Kelly say large purchases of large denom C Bonds are expected as potato season ends, with a contact committee formed to push sales in the final two weeks.
In Shafter the Seventh War Loan drive shows store clerks selling KE bands. Lydia Bender leads with 10,250 dollars in war bond sales, Alberta Spencer follows with 4,525, and Harry Nutt sits in third as John Kelly reports 17,700. War Bond Chairman Glenn O Nay urges purchases through clerks to hit the 430,000 dollar quota.
Nine carloads of onions and 179 carloads of potatoes left Shafter, bringing totals to 49 carloads of onions and 1 479 carloads of potatoes for rail. Truck shipments to West Coast markets and Army Navy out of San Pedro and San Francisco matched. Season seen as about halfway done with two weeks to go. Late diggings yield strong, some better than last year. Government rule to load 400 sacks per car noted. Shafter spud season crowds and bakery traffic described, commerce high but prices press merchants.
Seven arrests were made in Shafter over the week-end for drunkenness. With one exception, sentences were suspended and the offender given 60 days on the industrial farm.
Mrs. Rose M. Willis will depart Bakersfield on the Streamliner Sunday morning to attend the Institute of International Relations at Mills College. She will reside on campus during the academic term.
A teen-age dance opens the summer series at the Woman's Clubhouse this Saturday night. Mrs. Charles Brown and Mrs. J. T. Hill lead, sponsored by the Wednesday Afternoon Club. The local high school orchestra will supply music and all teenagers are invited.
A Singspiration will be held Sunday at 9 15 a m at the First Baptist Church in Shafter. The meeting is sponsored by the community churches and the public is invited to attend.
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