Generals Open Baseball Season Clash With Bakersfield
Shafter High varsity Generals start the 1949 season with a 3:30 p.m. home opener against Bakersfield there. JV also plays KC. Coach Dick Hebert names Ever Ett Eyraud Tom Kelly Glyn Scales Clarence Bender Mickey Hair Alfred Paloma Bob Burns as starters with Houston and Rice sharing pitching duties. Schedule lists 20 games through May 20 including non league tests vs Delano McFarland Wasco Taft and the Delano Invitational.
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Shafter High
Bakersfield
Dick Hebert
Everett Eyraud
Tom Kelly
Glyn Scales
Clarence Bender
Mickey Hair
Alfred Paloma
Bob Burns
Heber
Fred Houston
Henry Rice
Generals
Wasco
McFarland
E. B
Taft
Delano
Electric lab tests guard against costly power failures
P.G. and E. conducts laboratory lightning tests to ensure insulators withstand high voltages and arc correctly. If the insulator fails to hold or the flash occurs too early at too low a voltage, the item is rejected to keep electric bills low and prevent breakdowns.
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P. G
Bureau of Tests and Inspection
Shafter Enters County Wide Marble Tourney
Shafter enters the county wide marble tournament with Lon Vossler in the A division and James Hiler in the B section representing Richland Elementary. The event is managed by Kern County Schools with the Kern County Recreation and Cultural Commission and runs March 1 to 25, with Delano, Wasco, Lamont, and several other districts competing.
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Shafter
Lon Vossler
James Hiler
Richland
Kern
Delano
Vossler
Hiler
Louis Leoin
Kern County
Kern County Recreation and Cultural Commission
Wasco
Lakeside
Lamont
Mt. View
Sunset-Vineland
Maricopa
Beardsley
Ridgecrest
Rosamond
Muroc
Greeley
Rosedale
Shafter High Opens Inter scholastic Track Season
Shafter High starts its interscholastic track and field season with a Wasco lanes meet tomorrow afternoon. Coach Lowell Todd expects a representative team after a recent inter-class trial, with returning lettermen Roy Packard James Crabb Dwayne Neufeld and El dean Boése.
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Shafter High
Wasco
Lowell Todd
Roy Packard
James Crabb
Dwayne Neufeld
Eldean Boése
Paul Cato
Bob Baze
Cato
Baze
Kern
Bakersfield
Tulare
Shafter
All-American Red Heads Visit Shafter 2030 Benefit Cage Tilt
The Shafter 20-30 Club sponsors host a basketball charity tonight featuring the All-American Famous Red Heads touring women squad against a local men’s town team in the high school gym. Ed DeMello and Lowell Todd oversee arrangements. tickets cost 50 to 75 cents with receipts funding a local scholarship.
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Cage Tilt
Red Heads
Shafter Neufeld
Ed DeMello
Shafter 20
Lowell Todd
Cassville
Missouri
Delano
Casaba
Harlem Globe Trotters
Tony Magee
Red Mason
Harvey Gaede
Ed Schacht
Dusty Rhoads
Todd
Service Group
Neufeld
Auto Parts
Shafter Gym
Lil Wallace
Cage Play Returns In Wasco Loop Monday Night
Wasco City Night league resumes Monday with two games: Lost Hills Oilers vs Wasco Trojans at seven, and Shafter Neufelds vs Maple Leaf at eight. Supremacy hinges on next Wednesday’s Stewards vs Crawfords clash. four missed games to be made up. Shafter Maple Leaf game pending reschedule. Standings show Crawfords 4 0 1000, Soo seated 2 4 500, Wasco 2 2 .500, Trojans 1 2 .333, Maple Leaf 0 2 .000.
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Wasco
Shafter
Maple Leaf
Pet. Crawfords
Isis
Soo
Wasco News
Livestock Prices Seen Steady Through Spring Outlook
The Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce reports a calmer outlook for livestock prices after February sags. Heavy marketing eased, mid month shipments declined, and prices stiffened as Roy M. Hagen notes expectations of reduced winter-fed cattle supply and continued light sheep and lamb supplies.
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Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Agriculture Committee
Roy M. Hagen
Chamber
Hagen
Shafter Players Earn Third All-Star Honor in Valley Cage Ball
Shafter High School basketball players Roy Packard and Paul Cato earned honorable mention on the All-Southern San Joaquin Valley cage squad last weekend. Packard joins a five man group for honors with prior Sierra league and Kern league recognitions, while Cato gains a second team Kern and Sierra center nods. The All-Southern first string includes Zaninovich, Riley, Lampe, Donkersly, and Gleason with Comasco and Hi noted among others for centers and guards.
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Roy Packard
Paul Cato
Packard
Cato
Kern Loop
San Joaquin
George Zaninovich
Delano
Jim Riley
East Bakersfield
Tommy Lampe
Tulare
Robert Donkersly
Visalia
Don Gleason
Taft
Patance Hones
Obby Comasco
Gene Hi
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New Motors
V. S
Start Motor Rebuilders Inc
22Nd Street
Calif
Shafter Press
Jack Dempsey
Golden Terror
Atlanta
Dempsey
Meg
Bill” Young
P.G
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Dial Cleaners
Les Hobson
Dial
Pao
Lil ‘Wallace
Shafter Cagers
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