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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1961
Page
1
The Shafter Press launches a short campaign offering 750 dollars to the second prize winner with four additional cash awards. All active participants receive 20 percent of each five dollar entry week, and the contest aims to expand subscriber lists in a few weeks with no losers. BILL NIMMO DIRECTS CONTEST.
Richland PTA meeting on March 14 at 7 30 p m in the cafeteria featured a theme titled eautility duo BOE. The nominating committee presented a slate for next year with John H Turner Jr as president and Alice Brown as secretary among others. Welfare reports highlighted shoes clothing and lingerie donations to needy children and ongoing fabric sewing efforts by volunteers.
The Shafter Junior Women's Club will hold a bake sale on Saturday March 25 in front of Stringham's Drug Store. It starts at 10 am and continues until all baked goods are sold. Delicacies from local cooks include cakes pies cinnamon bread and nut bread.
The Linean family, newly arrived in Shafter with three children and five at 249 E Marengo, wins a bedroom set from Budget in a local contest or giveaway.
Shafter High School announces a Senior Ball on March 24 at Memorial Hall. Seniors will combine breakfast and banquet into a dance for seniors and guests with Easter motif decorations. Rebels provide the music. non dancers may enjoy games in a separate room.
E F Hutton & Company announces public open house for its new Kern County office at 1701 Chester Avenue Bakersfield on March 23. The facility offers instant NYSE quotes via electric boards and features a library surveys board room and broadcast prospects. Managers Fleming Crary Jr and Alec R Jack will greet attendees.
The St Therese's Altar Society sponsors a Spring Card Party and Luncheon on April 13 in the parish hall. Luncheon served at 12:30 p.m. Menu includes jam leaf salads rolls dessert and coffee. Table prizes and door prizes planned. Tickets two dollars per person, available from society members.
The Building Committee announces ticket sales for the annual Shafter Boy Scout Coffee Hour benefiting the Building Fund. Rotary Shafter Kiwanis and Shafter Lions sell tickets, with a bale of cotton donated by local cotton gins as the fundraiser. Proceeds support maintenance and repairs, and most coffee hour items are donated.
Special Holy Week services announced by Pastor Henry H. Dick of the Mennonite Brethren Church. The church choir, male quartet and other musical groups will perform with Palm Sunday sermons and evening concerts. Easter Sunday morning worship begins at 10 40 with a sermon and music by church groups.
A lighthearted item describes Budget giving away an 11 piece bedroom set and Food Banks Inc offering S H stamps this week. The story mentions a press office motif and hints at a contest or prize details for readers, with a spring awakening backdrop and references to March dates and the arrival of longer days.
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