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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1963
Page
5
The Chamber of Commerce announces new flags arrive for the Golden Anniversary celebration. The city will install brackets for the flags on light poles along Central Avenue. The American Legion plans a flag burning ceremony to retire old flags and will announce the date and time.
Joseph Earl Smith paid an $88 fine in Shafter justice court for drag racing on Cherry Avenue Los Angeles and Riverside. Other boys were involved in the racing.
Bully Gene Pitts of Tule Lake California was taken to North Kern Hospital and then Kern County General Hospital after his car struck a power pole on South Shafter avenue between Ash and Orange. He was accompanied by Wilma Viola Gray of Shafter who wasUninjured.
The county surveyors in Shafter have spent weeks locating monument markers lost to paving or neglect. Locating these original survey markers is expected to save money by easing future boundary searches.
CH Hammes and Edythe Hammes of 188 Golden West Avenue Shafter CA intend to sell to Carl Welly and Peggy Kelly of 301 Atlantic Avenue Shafter CA all stock in trade fixtures and equipment described as personal property under California Civil Code section 3440.1.
Judge Fred Pritschke sentences Sanders to 180 days in jail after a guilty plea to stealing 2 tons of corn, breaking and entering a dwelling, and draining a 55 gallon oil tank at the Newman Ranch.
The Shafter Public Utility District invites sealed bids for materials and construction of Reiker Tract Sanitary Sewer Mains and System in Shafter California. Bids due at 1:30 PM in Shafter City Council Chambers. District will supply asbestos cement pipe and related items at site.
A fragment listing city financial items includes percentages or values for penalties, interest and other expenditures, payment on bonded indebtedness, bond interest, and civil defense costs. The readable text suggests a concise ledger of municipal outlays without full context or dates.
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