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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1956
Page
2
The First Baptist Church hosts a family style Italian dinner Friday at 7 p.m. in the church hall. Proceeds support church activities and community outreach.
A surprise housewarming for Dr and Mrs Russel Kodet at 429 Pine Street on March 24. Guests visited and played charades at the Kodet home, with breakfast served to Ernest Panero, Robert Bongberg, James Moquist, Orville Hunt, Arthur Brownell, and others.
Bruce Crawford district superintendent of Richland school act ed as moderator for a panel in Shafter. Attending from Shafter were O. Clay Hale upper grade elementary principal and Reg Hammond, intermediate school principal.
Five big reasons show Plymouth as the top value among low price cars. It features exclusive Touch a button control, the safest design, the largest size in its class, new styling, and strong safety and cost advantages that lower ownership expenses and boost resale.
Jeanette Wheeler was elected chairman of Section Four of the Professional Women's club on March 23 in Delano. She succeeds Wilma Kiesner of Oil City. Other officers include Lucille Pascoe Kern River Valley as vice chairman and Billie Logay Wasco as secretary and treasurer. Florence Smith presided, with Anabelle Brown and several Shafter members in attendance.
Forty women from local Mennonite Brethren churches traveled by chartered bus to a Fresno rally. Speakers included Anna Goertpen, a missionary to Africa, and Rubina Guenther, who has served elsewhere. H. H. Nikkel of Shafter is district secretary of the Women's Missionary Society of the West Coast.
Presbyterian minister Boyce Van Osdel spoke at the first annual Bosses Night banquet for Kern County American School Food Service in Richland school cafeteria on March 20. Attendees included 145 district superintendents and cafeteria managers from 23 towns and 35 schools, with Bruce Crawford as master of ceremonies and meals prepared by Sylia Baughman and assistants.
Douglas Peters married Donna Newfield in a double ring service in Santa Rosa Healdsburg with her father performing the ceremony Attendants included friends from the north and local men Glenn Peters served as best man Ushers were Vernon Isaac Bob Peters Joel Unruh and Victor Peters Candle lighters were Mrs Helena Loewen and Mrs Simone Peters A musical program featured violin by Miss Loewen a vocal quartet and piano by Donald Newfeld Highlights include relatives and Maple area residents from Shafter Fresno and nearby communities listed among guests and honorees.
The Shafter Woman's Club holds its April 25 meeting as part of a garden tour plan. Further announcements regarding the tour will be made later.
Mrs Sylvia Baughman of the cafeteria is in Los Angeles this week to attend a meeting of the American school food service. She will also visit her daughter in Santa Monica during the trip.
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