Brighten Up Shafter Campaign Gains Local Backing
City-wide drive to clean streets and vacant lots launches with support from Mayor H. C. Neufeld Rotary Boy Scout Troop 53 Kiwanis Scout Troop 44 and Shafter High School. Residents pledge debris removal trash box adoption and landscaping to improve the town.
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Kiwanis Scout Troop
J. W. Frizzell
Shafter High School
Jack Battaglia
Bill Johnston
Ted Kinman
Helene Hobson
Brighten Up Shafter Drive Plans Big Clean Up
Shafter Fire Department promotes Brighten Up Shafter as it plans a March 24 cleanup. Citizens urged to clear yards and vacant lots, haul non combustible rubbish to dumps, gather tree trimmings at block central points for burning, and volunteer trucks. Chuck Christopher leads the department with P. V. McClure. Boy Scouts and students will assist with trucks to boost community cooperation.
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Shafter Fire Department
Shafter
Fire Department
Chuck
Christopher
P. V. McClure
State Medicine Drives Deep in California Politics
Governor Earl Warren and the CIO back a State Medicine bill, a wartime clash with doctors who warn it will erode medical independence. The piece argues doctors show heroism in war and criticize socialized medicine as a political trap amid a mass wartime absence.
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Earl Warren
C.so
Life
California
C.I.0
Scouts Advance at Court of Honor in Shafter Wasco District
Boy Scouts of the Shafter Wasco district will receive promotions at a Court of Honor on Wednesday March 7 at 730 p.m. in Richland School cafeteria. Awards include Tenderfoot Second Class First Class and Star Scout honors for Troops 44 and 53. Ceremony features Marion Crockett Rev Harper H W Kelly Chester Bartlett a Walt Disney film ice cream and cake.
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Shafter-Wasco
Richland School
A. J. Morss
Boy Scout Advancement Committee
Marion Crockett
Wm. S. Harper
Boy Scouts
Troop 44
Jack L. Anderson
Jackie Bayless
William Cho
Carl Brewer
Bill Crawford
John Crawford
James Rhoads
James Woolridge
George Hayworth
E. Badgley
G. D. Burns
Silis H. Scaggs
C. R. Howe
R. G. Wharton, Jr
Joe Haworth
Vernon Anderson
Everet
Byrand
Jimmie Janzen
Richard Morss
Jimmy Youell
Elmer Lee Wilson
Howard Crampton
John Kelly
Billy Joe Jeffcoat
Greg Channeson
Wilbur Gwin
Tom Kelly
Albert Hughes
Billy McQuilliams
Clyde Wilcoxon
Two Shafter Boys Wounded in Action In Europe
Pvt. Carl E. Ledbetter and Pvt. Lonzo Beam, both of Shafter, were wounded in action in the European theater, according to a War Department release through the Associated Press.
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Shafter Boys
Carl E. Ledbetter
Rose R. Ledbetter
Shafter
Lonzo Beam
War Department
Associated Presa
Kirkpatrick pleads guilty to assault with deadly weapon
Robert Kirkpatrick of 233 California Avenue Shafter pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon in a Bakersfield preliminary hearing before Judge Stewart Magee. He was bound over to Superior Court for trial after allegedly striking a young ranch girl with a ball peen hammer on February 10 and fleeing.
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Robert Kirkpatrick
California Avenue
Shafter
Stewart Magee
Bakersfield
Superior Court
Kirkpatrick
Hanley Witcher
Witcher
Straw Fire Destroys Baled Straw at Burns Ranch
The Shafter and Wasco fire crews fought a blaze at the C. H. Burns chicken ranch when children playing with matches ignited a pile of baled straw in a barn. Nine tons of straw valued at 162 dollars were destroyed.
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Shafter Fire Department
C. H- Burns
Shafter
Wasco
San Francisco Marriage Rate Rises Between 1935 and 1944
The report shows marriage rates in San Francisco County climbing from 9 percent in 1935 to 15 percent in 1944, reflecting postwar social changes and demographic shifts.
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San Francisco
Rooms for Returned Vets in Shafter Need Housing
A veteran urges Shafter residents to help returning servicemen and their families find rooms or small apartments near Minter Field. The Press office offers to act as a free clearing house for available rooms, contact 765 to list accommodations for veterans and their wives and children.
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North Africa
Sicily
Italy
Shafter
Minter Field
Brighten-Up Shafter Campaign Seeks March Participation
Community effort in Shafter invites residents to paint up plant flowers or trees during March to support the Brighten-Up Shafter campaign. Signed by organizers urging broad local involvement.
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Shafter
Name Councilmen to Public Utility Board
Shafter Public Utility District unifies with the city as two district directors resign to allow City Council members to join the board. Mayor Neu feld becomes president and Frincell secretary. headquarters set at City Hall from March 1. The move, praised by the Business Men's Association, aims to guide rapid development.
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Shafter
Midgley
Public “Utility Board
William Lachenmaier
Mond Utility District
Neufeld
Frizzell
Shafter Business Mef
Business Men's Association
Business Men’s Association
Hitchcock and Midgley
Public Utility Board
Shafter Red Cross War Fund Chair Sets 1945 Goal
H. W. Pat Kelly announced the Shafter quota for the 1945 Red Cross War Fund at 5500 dollars after Ray Taylor Kern County Chairman notified the district. The drive will start in a week to ten days, with early contributions accepted at the Bank of America in Shafter. Committee membership will be announced next week in the Press.
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H. W
Pat” Kelly
Shafter
Red Cross
Ray Taylor
Kern County
Kelly
Bank of America
Red Cross War Fund Committee
Harry Shultz Killed in Luzon Battle During War
War Department reports Pfc. Harry Shultz 30 of Shafter killed in action January 27 on Luzon. He attended Shafter schools and farmed before joining in June 1941. Survived by four sisters Alvina Warkentine Bakersfield Mabel Martens Encino Rabena Shultz Oakland Lena Kinni cut Shafter and two brothers Johnny Ferndale Wash Bill Shultz Shafter.
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War Department
Harry Shultz
John P. Shultz
Shafter
Luzon
Pvt
Shultz
Alvina Warkentine
Bakersfield
Mabel Martens
Encino
Rabena Shultz
Oakland
Lena Kinnicut
Curfew Violators Reprimanded by Judge Shaw
Several Shafter youth were arrested last Sunday night for curfew violations. They were reprimanded by Judge Shaw and placed on probation.
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Shafter J
Shaw
Scouts Pass Cook Test at City Hall
Twenty Boy Scouts of Troop 53 accompanied by Scoutmaster Marion Crockett and Assistant Scoutmaster Kenneth Pipkin spent last evening at the city hall completing cooking and fire building tests. Each boy built a fire with two matches and no paper and cooked steak stew fried bacon and eggs. Assistant Scoutmaster Pipkin reports all the boys did a good job and ate everything they cooked. Mrs. Bill Stoller attended as the only Scout parent.
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Boy Scouts
Rotary Troop
Marion Crockett
Kenneth Pipkin
Pipkin
Bill Stoller
Dinner Honors Student Body Officers With Spanish Pot-Luck
Nadalene Alexander and fellow officers attended a Spanish pot-luck dinner at the Shafter Motel Monday evening at 6 30. About 25 students shared tilled dishes and dessert, then danced as Maxi Bright won a musical chair game with Maxine Albright serving as social chairman.
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Nadalene Alexander
Herbert Spitzer
Clive Hamlin
Chuck Thomas
Harold Gipson
Marjorie Olson
Shafter Motel
Maxibright
Maxine Albright
DeWitt Transferred Between Shafter Wasco Departments
V H DeWitt engineer for the County Fire Department in Shafter is moved to Wasco. C C Robinson of Delano replaces DeWitt in Shafter. Also notes Iceland’s Althing dates from 930 and is believed the oldest parliament.
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Dewitt
WASCO
County Fire Department
Shafter
Wasco Department
C. C. Robinson
Delano
Iceland
Housewives urge dog control to brighten Shafter
Several local housewives told the Press this week that stray and unleashed dogs ruin the town. They urge a high powered drive to corral dogs and keep them from neighbors yards. A systematic pickup of loose dogs was proposed.
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Shafter
Smart Boys These Yanks In France Sock Warmth From Weasel Skins
Pvt. John Ohanneson letters his father from France describing cold conditions. He reports that to keep feet warm they shot weasels and made socks from the skins. He also notes friends found a cow and had warm milk.
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Shafter
Pvt
John Ohanneson
Phil Ohaneson
Ohanneson
France
Richland Teachers Civic Banquet Set for March 20
The Richland Teachers Club will host its annual spring banquet March 20 at 6 30 p.m. in the Richland cafeteria with Dr Hubert Phillips of Fresno State College as guest speaker on Russia s Source of Strength Tickets are 1 365 each and available from any teacher starting March 1. Enlisted soldiers are excluded from the franchise in Brazil under its present government.
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Richland
Richland Teachers Club
Hubert Phillips
Fresno State College
Russia
Brazil
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Cantry
Brighte
Shafter Drive
Helen Comfort
H. C. Neufeld
Rotary Boy
Abach
By Paul Newell
U.10
Scouts
Straw Burns
Burns Ranch
Harry Schultz
Chland
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