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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1959
Page
11
Kids are invited to enter the Easter coloring contest for cash prizes of 10, 5, or 3 dollars. Read the rules on the contest page and submit entries to the named stores before noon on Thursday March 26. Eligible participants are under 12, and each animal page listing must be colored and returned to the correct merchant.
Chairman Art announced the annual Boy Scout Coffee Hour will be held April 11 at the Veterans Memorial. The event starts at 11 00 am on Saturday. Scouts are selling tickets for a bale of cotton to raise funds for Scouting in the Shaffer area. Tickets cost zero cents each, and contributors need not be present to win.
Camp Fire Girls in Shafter observe a birthday week honoring the founders UT ana ms Luther Halsey Gulick and the organization’s 49th anniversary. Nineteen groups pause activities. the movement began in 1939 after a local troop disbanded and girls formed Camp Fire Girls.
Jonas Nickel a Maple district farmer filed papers to run for the Maple Elementary School board with his name on the May 19 special election ballot. He would join Herb Loewen who seeks Wasco High School board and as of now no other Maple Elementary candidate has entered.
Willam Clanin, seventh grade teacher at Richland School, earned a Science Scholarship from the National Science Foundation through Humboldt State College. He also won the Miniatures Precision Bearings Miniaturization Award for Vacuum Bell Jars and proposed making them small for classroom use.
Mrs. Ed Nikkel was reelected president of the Richland PTA for the 1959 60 term at a March meeting. Other officers named include Red Renn tet as vice president, Mrs Jim Klassen as second vice president, Mr and Mrs Art Penner as third vice presidents, Mrs Verne Smith secretary, Vince Sakowski treasurer, Dr Leonard Duck auditor and Mrs Lee Bergman historian.
Richland School enrollments rose to an all time high of 1979 students, about 120 more than last year. At the March 9 regular board meeting the Richland Board reviewed population charts and projected enrollment figures and discussed building needs for continued growth. The trustees see a future program ask for district support.
Kern County American Red Cross will launch its 1959 fund raising Saturday March 21 in Shafter with a one day Bucks for the Buckets drive to raise 1300 toward an overall county goal of 85971. Mrs Velma Wesley will lead downtown solicitation and Shirley Holman will cover residential areas with many volunteers for a successful campaign.
Public invited to a sacred cantata The Cruci fiction by John Staner to be performed March 22 at 7 00 p m by the Mennonite Brethren Church Choir A meditation on the sacred passion of the Holy Redeemer with mixed chorus soloists tenor soprano bass and organ accompaniment Directed by Lowell Bergman with Mrs Elmer Unruh as organist Bass soloists Frank Martens Gene Enns Leo Hein richstenor and Mrs Harold Wiens soprano None
Sixty Richland School instrumental students joined East Bakersfield High School for the Central California Music Festival. The Richland Elementary Orchestra led by Dick Southwick earned Excellent for three numbers. The group plus a Superior rating for two pieces, while soloist Tom Ware, an eighth grader, earned Superior for bassoon pieces. Marcia Craig accompanied.
Ten Richland faculty wives held an annual gathering at the Mexicali on Saturday March 14. After dinner they attended Bakersfield Community Theater's production of The Time of Those Enjoying an Easter Egg Roll planned for children and husbands on Saturday March 28 at 3 30 in Manuel Park.
All plans are set for the 3rd Annual Sportsman Award Dinner on March 23 at the Otis Verue Memorial Building in Norris. Kern County officials and federation members will salute Janis Camp for his support of wildlife resources while paying tribute to Ralph L. Smith Jr. and James Trino as prior honorees. A social hour runs 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. with dinner following.
A humorous reminiscence recalls school days when a teacher stamped a brownie on the hand for good work. The author jokes about family life, gardening woes, and a running gag of “Brownie Buttons” amid snails and backaches, with neighbor Bill Irvin mentioned.
The Camp Fire Girls organization marks a long history since 1910 with nationwide reach in 3,000 communities. The piece salutes the group as a home and family centered youth program for girls ages seven to eighteen.
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