Water Turned On April 15 for Shafter-Wasco Irrigation
The first trickle of water from the Central Valley project will flow into the $10 million Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District system on April 15. Robert Diltz, secretary manager, says district orders for water run April 1 to 10 and a government cutback reduces class two water to 1510 acre feet the first year. Rates are set at 4.50 per acre foot and up to 150 applications are expected from local farmers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Diltz
Shafter-Wasco
Diltz
SWID
Missing Smithson Family Spur Postal Box Hint
Report details a family named Smithson elusive to phone, directory, and post office records until a post office box at Shafter gives a lead. A note left Tuesday yields no response, followed by a Tuesday afternoon phone call from Mrs LaVerne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithsons
Arthur Smithson
Bakersfield
Smithson
Shafter
North Kern Golf Link Dedication Set for Fall
Bus Payton Wasco coordinator for donors announced the North Kern Golf Link dedication will occur in late fall with nine holes opening. The Northern Golf Association has 10000 more to raise and donors include Robert Neuman Sons Farms Allen Equipment Co D M Bryant and others. Directors listed include John Hourigan Woody Lindsay Delano Fred Haas Owen Lisenbee McFarland Luke Albert Bus Payton Phil Clarkin Ben Laverty Lloyd Huffman and Lee Wagner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bus Payton
Wasco
Clifton Clemens
Harry Rinker
H. W. Rinker Farms
Payton
Robert Neuman & Sonser Farms
Allen Equipment Co
D. M. Bryant
Pond
Northern Golf Association
John Hourigan
Woody Lindsay
Delano
Fred Haas
Owen Lisenbee
McFarland
Luke Albert
Phil Clarkin
Ben Laverty
Shafter
Lloyd Huffman
Lee Wagner
Bakersfield
Oildale
NEA Centennial Banquet Seeks 300 Attendees
An estimated 300 people are expected at the National Education Association Centennial banquet on Thursday April 4 at 6 45 p m in the Richland Elementary school cafeteria. Tickets are sold at Shafter High School and Richland Elementary School or through faculty members. Eighth grade girls from Richland School will serve dinner under Miss Burns Morris supervision. The event honors the NEA and its hundred year contribution to U S schools and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Ae Ee
Shafter High School
Richland School
Burns Morris
National Education Association
Red Cross Class To Start Tuesday At Shafter High
The first session of a 12 hour advanced first aid class will be held 7 p.m. on April 2 in the Shafter High school cafeteria. Instructor Gaylen Wood said the class will run for four weeks under sponsorship of the American Red Cross.
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Shafter High School
Gaylen Wood
American Red Cross
Richland School
Wall Street
Voth
Woods
Slagher
F Man
Jacobus
Kodet
Ril
Ohlsson
Bobby Collins Wins First Week's Press Contest
Bobby Collins won the first week’s Shafter Press subscription contest earning a 25 dollar prize. About 40 contestants were in the running with several front runners named including Steve Ruggenberg and others as the contest moves toward the April 13 finale.
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Bobby Collins
Shafter
Steve Ruggenberg
Schwinn
Garry Bailey
Lowell Parrett
David Wray
Kenneth Johnson
Cooper Wins Bid to Landscape Bakersfield College Campus
Cooper's Nursery of Shafter received a low bid of 13299 to plant lawns trees and shrubs on Bakersfield College campus. The district board awarded the contract after competitive bidding from eight firms. Plans were prepared by the district engineer with Ralph Cornell Beverly Hills as master site planning consultant. The work continues site development begun last summer by Griffith Company and W D Foote. Completion is slated for thirty days.
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Cooper’s Nursery
Bakersfield College
Shafter Nursery
Kern County Union High School and Junior College District Board of Trustees
Ralph Cornell
Beverly Hills
Griffith Company
Shafter Man Hurt In Fatal Highway Crash
Kenneth Melvin aged 27 of 144 S. Orange Avenue remained in serious condition in a Bakersfield hospital after a Saturday night crash on Highway 142 near Isabella Lake. Two men, Wayne Meske 24 and Salvern Kriutsen, both of Bakersfield, were killed when the car ran off the road and overturned.
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Kenneth Melvin
S. Orange Avenue
Bakersfield
Highway Patrol
Isabella Lake
Wayne Meske
Salvern Kriutsen
Advance Sale of Tickets to PTA Barbecue Good
The PTA barbecue at Shafter High School shows strong advance ticket sales said by Mrs Ver non Ross PTA president. The event is April 11 from 6 30 to 8 p m at the school with Frank Johnson in charge and Herman Rains barbecuing. A mountain haul committee led by Vernon Ross supplies the fuel and Harlin Wilson handles tickets.
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Shafter High School
PTA
Vernon Ross
Frank Johnson
Herman Rains
Harlin Wilson
Local Farmer John Dollinger to Be Buried Friday
Funeral services for John Dollinger 86 of 30174 Riverside Drive will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at the Seventh Day Adventist church with Elder Harvey Retzer officiating. Interment follows in the family plot at Shafter cemetery. Armstrong Mortuary handling arrangements. Dollinger was born February 27 1871 in Russia and died March 25 at home after a lengthy illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seventh- Day Adventist Church
John Dollinger
Riverside Drive
Harvey Retzer
Shafter Cemetery
Armstrong Mortuary
Mr. Dollinger
Russia
Shafter Junior Talent Show March 29 at School Gymnasium
The Shafter High School junior class and Shafter Exchange Club sponsor a talent show on Friday March 29 at 8:00 p.m. in the S H S gym. Admission 75 cents for adults 50 cents for high school students 25 cents for elementary students. Winners advance to Bakersfield April 26 at Harvey Auditorium with three schools already signaled including Richland Mc Farland and Shafter High.
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Shafter High School
Shafter Exchange Club
Dennis Foreman
Foreman
Bakersfield
Harvey Auditorium
Fresno
Shafter
Richland Elementary
McFarland Elementary School
Buttonwillow
Exchange Club
Ken
Fahsbender
Shafter High
Paula, Mc
Rose Guenther
Margaret Jarneke
Dennis Baits
Janet Chapman
Health Educator To Speak Monday At Chamber Meeting
Dr. Thomas DeHaven of the Kern County Health department will address the Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture at its semi monthly meeting Monday noon at the Triangle restaurant. He plans to show a film titled Community Health in which he explains the functions of a public health department.
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Thomas DeHaven
Kern County Health Department
Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Triangle
DeHaven
Red Cross Drive Aims For $1200 In Shafter
The 1957 Howe reports note the Red Cross solicitation under way in Shafter with a $1200 goal. Forty five volunteers, led by Howe and two aides, canvass homes and businesses to raise funds. Names include Mmes Hoover Walker Spohn and Lefty El-
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RED Cross
Shafter
Howe
Mmes
Marvin Hoover
Walker
Virgil Spohn
Lefty el
Shatterites Seek Shelter in Texas Snowbound Farmhouse
Dorothy Smithson described a weekend spent with her husband A J Smithson and their four month old Virginia among 90 stranded travelers in the Andrew Brown farmhouse 17 miles north of Clarendon Texas. Red Cross delivered food as the storm trapped two busloads of passengers and 34 motorists and 11 truck drivers in the Panhandle retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Dorothy Smithson
Howard Bullock
A. J. Smithson
Virginia
Smithsons
Shafter
Oklahoma
Andrew Brown
Clarendon
Texas Panhandle
Shafter Considers Dog Control Law After Petitions
City council studies dog control measures amid petitions signed by 221 residents and support from Richland school district superintendent Bruce Crawford. Officials will review ordinances from similar towns before two week delay to brief themselves on possible action.
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Shafter
Bruce Grawford
Richland
Crawford
Shafter Kiwanians Plan Wasco Kiwanis Club Start
Shafter Kiwanis members moved to organize a Wasco Kiwanis club. A 24 attendee meeting at Wells restaurant included Shafter Wasco Oildale and Bakersfield volunteers with Art Hemingson speaking. Don Klingenberg leads Wasco group. progress meeting set for April 5 at Wests.
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Shafter Kiwanis Club
Wasco
Wasco Kiwanis Club
Wells Restaurant
Shafter
Oildale
Bakersfield
Robert Bann
Shafter Group
Art Hemingson
Waco Club
Don Klingenberg
On Leaf Enterprises
Wests
Wasco Club
Delano Club
Arkansas Cotton Growers Learn From US Field Station Visit
Twenty top Arkansas cotton growers on the Irrigation Study Committee toured the Shafter Experiment Station. They received intensive briefings from USDA scientists on irrigation water management and said the day offered the most productive field trip in five years.
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Agricultural Council of Arkansas
Shafter Experiment Station
United States Department of Agriculture
Arkansas
Irrigation Study Committee
County Chambers Approve Industrial Survey Proposal
Kern fount Council of Chambers of Commerce endorsed a Greater Bakersfield Chamber plan for a Kern County industrial survey. The $27,000 project will be funded equally by Bakersfield, the city, and Kern County. A nominating committee was named for the vacant secretary post, to be decided at the April meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern Fount Council of Chambers of Commerce
Greater Bakersfield
Chambers
Ed Soderberg
Delano
Merchants to Meet Thursday in Easter Promotion Talks
The Merchants division of the Shaf Agriculture will meet Thursday April 4 at 7 p.m. in McMahani's furniture store. President Clay Burnette announced the meeting to discuss the proposed Easter promotion program.
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Merchants Division
Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
McMahani
Clay Burnette
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