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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1948
Page
8
The Shafter Branch of Kern County Free Library conducts summer story hour twice weekly. Mrs. Thomas Wedge and Mrs. Hanley Witcher supervise sessions from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. on Tuesdays for third grade and younger and Fridays for fourth grade and up.
Zimmerman plans eight added apartments at Pacific and Kern Streets per building inspector E. K. Grant. The sixteen units should be ready for occupancy by Fall. The James Street Schirmer store building, stalled for girders, is moving to completion with steel arriving. Fike garage at Lerdo and Central Valley Highway has brick and concrete work finished and steel girders to start this week.
The notice urges readers to subscribe to the Shafter Press offering a twice weekly edition. Aimed at steady readership, it promotes ongoing delivery and access to local news. Domestic readers are encouraged to sign up for regular paper copies.
In Pee-Wee softball Brown and Bryant host Central Market on Thursday at 7 15 p m at the Primary school field. Both teams remain undefeated as they vie for the first half crown. Other standings note the end of first halves in Men Women Junior and Pee-Wee leagues comes Friday or Tuesday with second halves to follow and a first versus second half final to crown champions.
Local column notes a move to 354 Euclid Street and jokes about neighbor reactions and a rumored NYT editorial offer. It also teases Pee-Wee softball matchups Brown & Bryant vs Central Market and a upcoming Men’s league game, plus a Plymouth giveaway on July 4.
In our town ex-GIs treated their wives to a social evening with ham burger sandwiches and ice cold beer. To accommodate tastes some served chicken sandwiches and cake with cider. Most wives preferred the ham burger and beer combo before ending with a game after the meal.
Both players are developing into outstanding junior softball pitchers. The league will wrap its first half this week and begin the second half slate next Monday.
Job ad seeking a man for lubrication and service department duties at Richland Chevrolet located at 511 Central Ave. Salary open.
Battalion Chief Art Craig warns the public about fatal gasoline accidents at a Kern County laundry in Delano. A mother cleaning with gasoline ignited vapors from a water heater and washing machine motor, causing a lethal blast that left a family widowed and a child motherless. The fire dept quickly controlled the blaze with little building damage.
About 3200 USC seniors celebrated the largest Trojan class in history in a Los Angeles Coliseum ceremony. The report notes a fatal fire elsewhere, warning on gasoline use for cleaning and urging public safety.
At the campus ceremony in the Coliseum a procession led by the Trojan Band saluted graduates from forty one programs. Five degrees were conferred including Mar and BA. Navy Plaque recipients from the Southern Edison Company and Shafter were honored as the long cap and gown rite closed.
Mr and Mrs Roberts returned from a trip that moved along the coast from Carmel and Monterey to Pismo Beach where they met Mrs McClain and Ruth Ingalls during their coastal journey.
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