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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
7
A catalog entry outlines lesson topics and scripture passages chosen for March 31. The selections are part of a religious education program and list the topics and cited verses for study.
A dramatization of Edward Eggleston’s The Hoosier Schoolmaster will be offered April 5 at the Shafter high school auditorium. Curtain at 8 15, cast rehearsing for weeks with stage arrangements and dress rehearsals midweek. The plot centers on 1870s child labor practices and a romance between Hannah Thompson and Ralph Hartsook.
Coach Bill White foresees record-breaking performances at Shafter High in the interclass track and field meet with 18 events on the slate. Athletes from four classes compete for top points, with four places scoring in each event across A B and C divisions.
At Kern County farm group meeting the Associated Farmers of Kern County Inc agreed to start a membership campaign to double local members. L E Plymale of Shafter leads the drive with C B Crawford L W Dennen W A Eardly and J E Regan on the committee. A members barbecue is planned with Harold Pomeroy heading the organizing group and Charley Castro to cook the meat at Kern County Park on May 4.
Shafter high school buys new track suits for A team. Gold pants and blue shirts with a winged S designated for all squad members. Last season’s A pants reallocated to B and C squads while all competitors receive new shirts.
N P Thompson of Bakersfield told Shafter Business Men's Association the slogan Call Of The Open Road has spread from the club’s seventh annual outing show to the southern state area. Los Angeles merchants asked to use it, posters may be distributed without charge, and ads will link the slogan to outing equipment and sport goods displays. The group also voted $13 for wildflower publicity in the Los Angeles News, and then toured the Siemens Hitchock warehouse for the Shafter Poultry Rabbit and Small Stock show preparations. George F H Sears of the Bakersfield club office attended with Thompson.
A sow owned by Henry Holterman of Wasco High School Future Farmer farrowed a litter of 18 pigs last week. The sow is a Berkshire Duroc Jersey Hampshire triple cross and has produced 54 pigs over four litters. Press advertising pays.
Shafter high school students Ruben Mettler Louise Livers and Hattie Mecham enter the California Bankers association speaking contest on civic values Local elim ination decides county April 2 Bakersfield for county title and regional hopes First prize is a trip to Honolulu Second place earns a week at Aetna Springs in Napa County All participants receive handsome honor awards Final held May 17 in San Francisco with Chief Justice William H Waste presiding
Five candidates Rohna Mettler Hattie Mecham Norma Neufeld Vera Pearl Harrison and Vivian Barnes vie for Shafter High School campus queen. Fans donate pennies in bottles with each name in the front corridor. final selection tomorrow funds go to the Girls' Letter club.
Financial experts anticipate further expansion in United States refined sugar exports as global demand climbs. Analysts cite policy shifts and market dynamics boosting shipments, with producers eyeing new trade routes and expanded contracts to meet rising consumption.
A Shafter high school track team will enter Kern Relays in Bakersfield on April 6, announced by Coach Bill White. The meet features Merwin Olson against Bob Waters in the 100-yard dash and includes relays, high jump, shot put, and discus events with multiple Shafter athletes across A and B classes.
The record lists entrants in class C and medley relay alternates. Stewart, Daniels and Bagley compete in broad jump and pole vault along with Eldon Myrick and Merle Annis. Pyle Gaede Durham Elkins and Alexander feature in broad jump high jump shot discuss and 75 yard dash with Durham Elkins as alternates in the medley relay.
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