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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1952
Page
4
Red Cross drive in Shafter approaches $1700 with donations and advance gifts. Airman Bruce Crawford reports the community has turned funds into the Bank of America for the 1952 campaign. Ray Duersken leads the advance gift collections.
Upper grade students at Rio Bravo viewed a travelogue of colored slides from Glenda Liddell Kern County schools consultant. A display of authentic materials and souvenirs accompanied the talk including visits to homes and schools of native villagers with firsthand notes on customs and histories. Mrs. W C Northam returned from Amarillo Texas after visiting her critically ill father.
The Maple PTA plans its March meeting at the school on Tuesday Tot. Wasco's police chief will speak on In Our Safekeeping. Officers for the coming year will be elected from a nominating slate with floor nominations.
Justice of the Peace E. K. Grant is expected to address Shafter Credit Association members on April 8 about debt collection through the court. Secretary Barbara Wiedmann said the group will hold its regular meeting at 10 a.m. on the second Tuesday of each month.
The 20-30 Club and Maple Leaf Industries lead the event with Ei L Draper and the Watsonville Deane Chamber. City cooperation sets May 12 to 18 as festival week with a parade along California Avenue and California block closures from James to Central Valley Highway for kiddie rides and concessions sponsored by local groups.
Florence Rowlands 84 died Friday at San Joaquin hospital Bakersfield services were held Tuesday at Armstrong Flickinger chapel Bakersfield Born in Newberry Ohio she moved to Idaho then Long Beach where she lived 16 years active in Eastern Star and Presbyterian circles She is survived by daughter Mrs W R Staudacher of Shafter son Liew Rowlands of Hilo Hawaii two sisters Mrs Ramsay M Walker Coeur dAlene Idaho and Mrs Earl Crocker Spokane Washington The body was shipped to Coeur dAlene for burial Mrs Staudacher accompanied the remains to the Idaho city
Ed G Kolbenstetter a 70 year old pioneer potato grower who settled in the Shafter area in 1923 died at a sanitarium near Tujunga He had retired five years ago and married Lulu Hughes after his first wife died in 1935 Survivors include two brothers Charles and Lee a sister Mrs Louise Curtis a stepdaughter Sandra Jean Vitovich and a stepson J W Sanderson Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 1 30 p m at the Heather Chapel.
Uniformity Dery notes city aims for a four door deluxe model to cut installation costs for nonstandard features. Using the 1950 two door as trade in, council and utility district board plan to buy an air compressor at about 1750 each. Councilmen Grundy Kirschenmann Russell and City Attorney Mortimore plan to attend the March 28 League of California Cities meeting in Visalia.
The Association of Casualty and Surety Companies urges local police to enforce speeding and drunk driving laws aggressively to reduce highway fatalities. The group says nonserious violations should still be enforced, while targeting drivers who cause most deadly crashes.
The Rev. Waldo Wiebe departs tomorrow for Buhler Kansas to lead a two week evangelical meeting from March 16 to 30. He is invited by the Rev. J. J. Toews of the Mennonite Brethren Church in Buhler who served in Shafter in 1945 and 1946. In his absence D. W. Nikkel will oversee church affairs as deacons chair. Different speakers will occupy the pulpit.
The Shafter Dance Club plans a Saturday night party at the Women's Clubhouse. Mr and Mrs Harry Thompson chair the event with gay colors and comical dummies for decorations. Committee members include H W Kelly M L Thomas J Vignolo Earl Ditmore Kenneth Howell Art Brownell Herb Neuman and Marvin Neuman.
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