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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1955
Page
5
Wasco, vying for the district offices, has offered six sites as SWID expansion looms with a $10 million water district project. The board has not issued specifications on space needs, location, or lease or purchase plans.
Snow Gates and Valves are pitched as parkerized to resist rust and rot. The product claims rubberized packing seals weather leaks and long life, advertised by Snow Irrigation Supply.
Jensen reports six funding hurdles threaten the recreation program including Rio Bravo district withdrawal, inadequate Community Chest funds, rising youth served from 20,000 in 1946 to 82,000 eight years later, and weather reducing income. A policy committee led by Bruer Crawford and members Rhumkin O Neill and Jensen forms to push a tax district plan and future facilities.
The Shafter Kiwanis Club paid tribute to Mrs Effie Wedge librarian at the Kern County Library for 30 years of service. The club drafted a resolution praising her devotion to public library service and community intellectual development during Library Week.
County supervisors sought a 160 acre site five miles east and one mile north of Famoso after a land deal fell through. The golf corporation cites funds raised for improvements and potential relocation to another site miles east. Representatives cite the land company's option as favorable. In the 1850s, about 13 million feet of lumber was lightered to ships at Bolinas Lighter Wharf for San Francisco.
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