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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1945
Page
1
The American Legion in Shafter leads a community effort to organize employment and business opportunities for returning service members. Leaders urge other local groups to assist and stress the importance of proactive action despite economic uncertainties to build confidence and national resilience.
American Legion in Shafter forms a community committee led by Commander J. B. Henderson to create a full employment program for returning veterans. Members Glenn Cramp ton Earl Johnson P C Guenther and Jack Hare assist as service groups are urged to cooperate. Henderson notes more than 650 Shafter servicemen are serving and stresses securing jobs for their return.
Summer night ball games organized in Shafter and Wasco with three teams from each town. Teams include Reds Whites Blues from Shafter and First Baptist Bank of America Eagles from Wasco. Players report to managers for tryouts and the first half schedule runs July 2 to July 16 with Mondays and Fridays set for matches.
Fifteen tons of books and related material for POW use are enroute to Vladivostok from War Prisoners Aid. The cargo, including equipment and musical instruments, will be picked up by Japanese vessels and sent to prison camps. Reports come from American POWs released in the Philippines confirming delivery is underway.
The Department of Motor Vehicles announces an allocation of 1010.87 to Shafter for July 1, 1944 to March 31, 1945 and 83724.55 to Kern County for the same period. Other county and city apportionments follow a 10,699,762.02 fund split with 2,139,952 to the State General Fund and 4,279,904 to both cities and counties after deductions from support funds and retirement obligations.
A driverless green Chevrolet plowed into the rear of a parked sedan and burst through the City Barber Shop front, smashing glass and the door. Barber Jake Neufeld and a customer escaped injury as 200 bystanders gathered while Police Chief Reily and Constable Witcher redirected traffic.
Canned fruits will use sugar only for high standard quality to stretch scarce supplies. Heavier syrups will be reduced while color and flavor are preserved. Sugar will also be limited for other industrial users to spread the shortage and protect civilian needs.
Reporting from Shafter and Kern County areas the potato season ends with late yields improving overall despite early poor quality. New Kern County Land Company plots near Shafter report up to 599 sacks per acre, while rail shipments accelerate after the holiday as onion shipments continue at a steady pace through early July.
Jack Manweiler, long time director of the Shafter Farm Workers Camp, now leads twelve camps in the San Joaquin Valley with headquarters in Shafter. Camps include Shafter Wasco Wesley Ceres Reedley Tulare Woodville Delano Arvin Arvin Mobile and Edison Mobile. The Shafter Camp comprises 240 cabins and 64 homes. Dennis Barnard runs the Shafter Camp.
The fine Peck meeting of the Cub Scouts will be held at 5 p.m. on July 1, 1945, at the Hish School with a pot luck supper. A full attendance is urged. All Cub Scouts bring families and attend.
Sebastopol derives from the Crimean port name. Tehachapi from an Indian tribe meaning land of plentiful acorns and good water. Willows from willows by a creek. Folsom honors Captain Joseph T. Folsom. Terra Bella means beautiful land in Spanish. Reedley names Thomas L. Reed, site owner.
Shafter received approval for 35 privately financed houses using H-2 priorities. Builders may apply through the FHA office in Los Angeles. Maximum sales price set at 7900 dollars for a three bedroom home. Fifteen houses allotted for Wasco and Arvin.
An ordinance requiring a $20 permit fee and public hearing for locating camp grounds or tent spaces in the city was presented to the council. Health inspections, drainage, water supply, toilet and garbage provisions, and sewer connections are required. The council also granted a drainage business license, approved drainage on the Kirschenmann tract, and raised the street sweeper pay to 75 dollars monthly while allowing higher garbage collection charges for some customers.
Dr. William C. Buss urged caution as California bans collecting mussels from coastal waters this summer after a cooling poison outbreak in San Francisco. The quarantine runs May 1 to October 31 or longer if tests show danger, with last year causing illness and two deaths.
Herbert Midgley returned home this week from a business trip to Glendale and Long Beach California. Al Eckmann and his wife have been ill with the flu for ten days.
Shafter store clerks have sold $55,250 in war bonds by yesterday noon with one week left in the drive toward a $430,000 quota. Lydia Bender leads at $11,775, while John Kelly surged to $7,750 and Alberta Spencer to $6,300. The community aims to reach the top by July 7 as total subscriptions reach $240,000, about half the goal.
Theron L. McCuen will succeed Dr. Thomas L. Nelson as district superintendent of Kern County Union High School starting July 1. Nelson departs to head Berkeley City schools and McCuen, long in Bakersfield education, has overseen business affairs and ties to Bakersfield High School and Junior College since 1929.
Guests in the Gribbles home include J. R. Wright and his wife from Whittier California with their son and also W. R. Wright and his son from Fort Dodge Iowa. The Wright brothers are siblings of Mrs. Gribble.
A Shafter Business Men’s Association committee led by Mayor H. C. Neufeld is planning financing for the city’s share of an airport site. County Airport Superintendent Cecil Meadows outlined a county offer to pay two thirds of land costs for the port a mile north of the city. The Board of Supervisors has appropriated 9 600 dollars, leaving 6 000 dollars for Shafter to raise.
Mr. and Mrs. Dave J. Oblander learn their son Chester is in Germany and has 135 points. He expects to return home in the next two months. Guests at the Le Doux home include Mt. Angel Oregon visitors Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Le Doux and Lt. Joe Le Doux with Mrs. Joe Aldrich. Lt. Le Doux, a South Pacific fighter pilot with the 13th Air Force, on leave and due back to Santa Ana Air Base.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gwin are spending the week in Sacramento searching for a suitable business location.
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