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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1957
Page
1
The contest kicks off with a brisk start as entrants vie for the $25 prize. A lively scene unfolds with spectators noting exciting pace and competition at a community event in Shafter.
This Saturday at noon the top seller among Boy Scout troops in Shafter Lerdo Maple and Rio Bravo will win 25 dollars while the front runner at contest close takes 100 dollars. A Schwinn bike goes to the second place finisher April 13 and prizes await the ten leading boys. Every entrant gets some prize and sponsors add 50 cents per subscription to each Scout troop. Weekly prizes spice the race with a 10 percent bonus for all who do not win.
Shafter High School student Pat Cornell won first place for an oratorical interpretation of The Unknown Soldier at the Sierra League Speech Contest held at North High School. Teammates Norma Graves and Mae Addington also performed. Pat received a trophy and the school a plaque. she advances to the semi final at Arvin High School and possibly the San Joaquin Valley Competition.
The Lyle Company of Bakersfield was the lowest of three bidders for a contract by the Shafter Public Utilities district to build sewer lines in the Siemens-Bartel track area along east Tulare Avenue.
Two 13 and 14 year old boys confessed to burglarizing three potato sheds in Shafter Saturday. They admitted stealing a 30-30 Winchester rifle and a 12 gauge automatic shotgun from the Handel shed while ransacking others. bicycles and tire prints linked them to the crime.
Maple school district trustees and Maple PTA plan a public dinner April 22 honoring Principal Ralph Gribble retiring after 35 years in education. The event at Richland school cafeteria will also recognize Mrs Gribble as a longtime teacher. Clyde C Johnston will replace Gribble as principal at Maple school.
In a note from SIDELINES, opening of the new auditorium slips as carpets arrive late and the sound system needs a part. The Renegade band March 22 and the following talent show move to the gym. Principal Art Johnson confirms the first public event will be in the gym. C. Raymond Howe chairs the 1957 Red Cross campaign for Shafter, with Ann Saunders and Velma Wesley as vice chairs. Howe, a Kern County Juvenile Home supervisor, leads volunteers to fund and aid services for families of deployed servicemen.
Richland School music earned high honors at the 18th Annual Music Festival in Bakersfield. Richland eighth grade girls and sixth grade mixed chorus both received superior ratings, while Richland orchestra earned an excellent rating. Shafter High Band won superior and string orchestra excellent. Choir results unavailable.
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson warned American farmers to avoid abuses that would turn the soil bank into a gimmick to drain government warehouses. He urged Kern County potato growers to limit production to what the market will absorb, noting the soil bank was reluctantly adopted to curb huge surpluses. Continued on Page 5.
A group of 30 Arkansas cotton growers will spend a day at the United States Cotton field station in Shafter. They fly from Fresno arriving about 10 30 a m, dine at the Triangle cafe, then tour the Experiment station for an intensive briefing on California cotton.
The Shafter Junior Women's club conducts a free dental survey for Richland school's intermediate children. Mrs Edythe Moziér dental hygienist leads the examination with parental notification if further care is needed per committee chair Mrs Fred Starrh.
Mrs Vernon Ross president announces Shafter High PTA annual barbecue on April 11 Frank Johnson will oversee the event Tickets priced 1 50 for adults 75c for students and 50c for children Tickets available from PTA board members ahead of the event
The Shafter Rotary club and Wasco join for a Monday noon meeting at West's dining room to hear Mohan Chandra Joshi of Banaras India a Rotary foundation fellow. Joshi is among 122 outstanding students from 32 countries awarded fellowships for 1956 57 study abroad and is studying psychology at Stanford. He was born in Almore Uttar Pradesh in 1933 and is single.
Mrs. James Gloeckler of 30140 Tulare avenue was elected president of the Richland school PTA, to take over at year end, succeeding Mrs. Ezra Suderman. New officers include Mrs. Lee Bergman, first vice president. Mrs. Marvin Hoover, second vice president. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Unruh, third vice president. Mrs. Fred Schardt, secretary. Mrs. John Stockton, financial secretary. Elmer Anderson, auditor. Mrs. Harlin Wilson, historian. and Mrs. Suderman, parliamentarian. The new president has six years’ PTA membership. Meanwhile Mrs. Rolf Jacobsen was chosen to head the Shafter High School PTA, with Mrs. Leonard Gaede as vice president and other officers named.
At Bakersfield fairgrounds the Annual Scouters Reception marked the 35th Kern Council Boy Scouts dinner with about 600 attendees. Leoniel Johnson Reuben Siemens Fred Mason and Leonard A Duck were among the 200 Kern County honorees as awards were presented to Siemens and Lewis Woodard. A large Shafter contingent joined in recognizing local adult leaders.
Vernon Linderman of Shaftge Nesday told the Shafter Kiwanis club that the country faces a moral decline. He urged tax payers to see the need for reform as he warned government integrity is eroding.
Ed Clendennen, manager of the Kern county fair association, told the Shafter chamber of commerce that the fair committee plans to expand agricultural exhibits and boost premiums next fall. He noted a revised judging method for community entries and urged early display intentions, saying the board will focus this year on the theme the Family in Kern county.
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