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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1955
Page
4
Mr and Mrs 8 P Long of Tulare avenue were dinner guests Sunday Father s day at the home of their daughter and family Mr and Mrs Jim Gloeckler. Dr and Mrs Pete Guenthers of Golden West avenue attended a chiropractors meeting in Santa Barbara Saturday and Sunday.
Shafter Recreation Commission reports 327 enrollments in Monday swimming lessons with 20 adults in the 9:30 to 10 am class. Evening family swims run 6 to 8 pm, while the adult 7:30 to 8 pm class seeks more participants. Crafts programs in Mannell park attract about 30 daily, featuring lanyard weaving, copper craft, and leather work. Quiet games cover 10 am to 4 pm for working families and child care while in fields.
The North camp at the recreation center draws over 100 children each day under Rev. and Mrs. Chris Ummel. Activities include crafts stories and playground games such as croquet ping pong and baseball.
Congressman Harlan Hagen announced in Benson's Washington, D.C. office that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson expressed pleasure and gratitude upon receiving a bag of Kern County long white potatoes. The shipment, flown from Bakersfield, also included potatoes for President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, and Senator Kuchel. Benson recalled his California ties and visits to all 58 counties while Hagen praised the Kern County potato industry as the nation's most progressive in production and packaging.
Cpl. Mayo S. Jennings 20, of Shafter Route 1, serves as communications chief in Company H of the 23rd Regiment in the 2nd Infantry Division at Fort Lewis Washington. His wife Betty and father Greely Jennings also reside in Shafter.
A new crafts program at Rio Bravo School runs Wednesdays from 2 30 to 4 p m directed by Fred Mason. Open to children eight and older with younger supervised by the instructor, the class offers lanyard weaving copper work clay ceramics bracelet leather and wood projects.
The Mannell park program led by Fred Mason averages over 30 attendees daily. This week features ping pong and badminton with eight elementary and two high school players in the first round. Enrollment continues with trophies for first place. The ping pong tourney runs two weeks. each contestant plays 30 games and the highest wins.
Watch the old tainted skin slough off leaving healthy, hard skin with T-4-L. Use the product for 3 to 5 days and if not satisfied you may get your 40c back at any drug store. Today at McClure Drug.
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