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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1947
Page
1
The piece argues for higher gas taxes to fund California road improvements. It highlights Highway 99 as the priority four lane project from end to end, calling current sections deadly with rising traffic. It estimates a fifteen year timeline to finish the Central Valley corridor and urges legislative action.
Fourteen words condensed summary. The item notes newborns for the Hamman family and the Holquim family with scant details about birth dates and locations.
Central Valley Highway Association leaders from Corcoran Hanford and Bakersfield will meet Shafter and Wasco chambers next Friday at noon and 3 PM to discuss ag development and highway plans. The group cites bids for the first 5 mile Central Valley Highway unit Wasco north and a Selma to Bakersfield segment under the Federal Aid program with about 250000 dollars allocated.
Susie Vignolo screams Friday and tells her mother she bit the dog Wo-Wo. Mrs. Vignolo sees Susie’s mouth filled with dog hair, confirming the odd incident at their home.
Judge Shaw dealt with five defendants over the weekend. Paul Ruiz received 220 days in the road camp for drunken driving, and Thomas Vera 42 days in the road camp for the same offense. SHafter City Police made the arrests. Judge E K Grant presided Monday with Wesley Bramer sentenced to one year in jail with thirty days to serve and the remainder on probation. Virgil Trantham was fined 60 dollars and given a thirty day suspended sentence for one year on drunkenness charges.
Kern County Potato Growers Association hosts a banquet this evening featuring a top program. William Jeffers will deliver a direct radio broadcast address. The Tatans Joe and Eddie Dayton Armanda Leta John Gallus and The Rainbow Four perform with dancing to close the event.
Chowchilla hosted Charter Night for the Rotary Club with Shafter members in attendance. Attendees included Wes Kincannon Floyd Raney and other local Rotarians.
An automobile owned by P. J. Green of 146 West Orange Street was stolen Saturday evening from Munzer Street, recovered in Bakersfield at 1:30 a.m. Jose Salazar, 16, and Jose Gonzales, 18, were arrested. Judge Shaw certified the youths to juvenile authorities on a grand theft charge.
Sid B. Car- Mime, executive secretary-manager of the Kern County Potato Growers Association, reports reliable transportation sources indicate April June refrigerator car availability could be short. Carnine assures growers the association will strive to secure adequate car supply to alleviate the shortage.
Ed Warren reports three day Red Cross blitz deposits at Bank of America total 900 dollars. Less than half of chairmen have filed reports. District quotas of 3000 for Shafter Rio Bravo and Maple loom, urging completion of lists and deposits to finish drive this week.
Camp Fire Council met at Mrs. Lowell Todd’s home with chair Mrs. Phil Channeson presiding. April 8 set for the annual dinner at 6:30 p at Richland Cafeteria under Mrs. Sylvia Baughman supervision.
Mrs H Forrest Wood plans a Pan American flight from Los Angeles to Santiago Chile for a 48 hour flying segment with stops in Mexico City Balboa and Lima Peru She will join daughter and husband Reverend Everett Devine in Santiago and expects to return within six weeks The trip follows the arrival of Mr Stork at their home for their first child and first grandchild in a broad family narrative
Readers are invited to submit a single word to describe the contest highlighted by the Shafter Press. Entries must be received by a specified deadline and will be judged on relevance and creativity.
A freak 8:30 a.m. accident on the Shafter-Wasco highway sent 3 year old Jerry Wayne Knight to Mercy Hospital with serious internal injuries after a truck wheel rolled onto the road. The wheel knocked him 15 feet, but his cousin escaped unharmed. Jerry's family, recently moved from Smiths Corner, received aid from the Red Cross for clothing and living expenses.
Three youths were picked up Friday in Santa Paula for last Wednesday night’s robbery at the Shafter Theatre. William Oliver Covey T L Roper and Henry Bankston took candy, cigarettes and about $10, totaling $26.10. Covey and Roper are from Colusa with prior offenses. Bankston is a Shafter local making his first offense. The case is referred to juvenile authorities.
Smart and Final Co Ltd wholesale grocers will open a cash and carry store in Shafter on Thursday March 20 at 163 Santa Fe Way. The shop in the Christensen building will offer a full line of groceries tobacco candies and sun dried fruits serving Wasco Buttonwillow Rosedale Rio Bravo and areas along Highway 99 between Famosa and Lerdo. It is the eighth San Joaquin Valley location and part of 81 Southern California branches.
Richland Richland School Cafeteria hosted a Civic Banquet drawing several hundred attendees. Dr Theodore Palmquist spoke on atomic power with humorous asides and a call for peaceful use. musical numbers by The Songsters entertained after dinner.
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