Enter Queen Contest As Tickets Go On Sale
Six entries this week for the Cotton and Potato Queen contest are on record as entries close April 15. A bonus week offers a savings bond to the top ticket seller between April 1 and 6. Eligible entrants must sign up by tomorrow night with blanks at the chamber of commerce and Howell Studio. Current entrants include Ronnie Neighbors Doris Wilson Patricia Murphy and others. The winner reigns May 25 to 28 in Shafter with top prizes of 300 200 and 100 plus 20 percent of ticket proceeds. Portraits will be taken by Howell's Studio.
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Chamber of Commerce
Kirschenmann
Howell Studio
Ronnie Neighbors
Stone Avenue
Edna Giles
Cawelo Station
Barbara Coltran
Golden West
la Freda Bridges
State Street
Doris Wilson
Burbank Avenue
Patricia Murphy
Wasco
Shafter
Five SHS pupils reach top honor roll at SHS first six weeks
Shafter High School dean of girls Mrs Amelia Cornell announced that five students Gerald Bender Edna Crane Jimmy McClure Jack Robbins and Roger Tatum earned all A marks in the first six weeks of the spring semester. The full honor roll lists many students with B averages or higher and notes a C or below disqualifies.
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Gerald Bender
Edna Crane
Jimmy McClure
Jack Robbins
Roger Tatum
Shafter High School
Amelia Cornell
Sie School
Evee
Wea
Pauline Anderson
Adeliné Arreola
Richard Arreola
Henry Badgett
Don Beaver
Janis Beaver
Don Bender
Virginia Bender
Charles Bonham
Jesse Breadford
Louise Burrows
Carole Carthal
Patsy Cook
Wallace Cook
Patricia Cornell
Norma Craig
Bill Cummings
Don Deckert
Mary DeVincenzo
Marjorie Engel
Marlene Fons
Royce Eslick
JoAnn Fields
Sally Firkins
Dorthy Foster
Margaret Freedman
Louise Fuller
Bob Funk
Dennis Gacde
Olin Garrett
Loyce George
Carol Giesbrecht
Kathleen Giles
Charlie Glenn
Ken Burch to Receive Free Artificial Leg
Kenny Burch a 13 year old Richland student who had a leg amputated last year due to cancer is to receive a free artificial leg. The donor Medical Engineering Co of Bakersfield will provide one limb and braces after a meeting with Burch and his parents at the Shafter Press office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenny Burch
Richland
Shafter Press
Medical Engineering Company of
Bakersfield
Burch
Joint Sunrise Services Set For 5 30 April 10
The Shafter Ministerial Association announces Easter Sunrise Services at Memorial Park at 5 30 a m on Easter Sunday. Rev Mel Krug says ministers hope the unified service benefits the entire community and invites everyone to attend. Local service clubs donate help with program details and volunteers.
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Shafter Ministerial Association
Memorial Park
Mel Krug
United Church
Los Flojos Ride Scheduled This Weekend
Fifty men are expected for the annual Los Flojos ride sponsored by the Coberly West company. They will gather Thursday night at the Granite Station for the day ride.
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Los Flojos
Coberly West Company
Granite Station
Deeter Starts Six New Homes in Shafter
Deeter Construction began six new residences in Shafter this week. Building permits issued total $54,000 in valuation. The three bedroom homes will rise at 205 Elm, 215 Elm, 221 Elm, 229 Elm, 235 Elm and 688 Minter streets.
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Deeter Construction Company
Shafter
Elm Street
Minter Street
Rotary to Invite Foreign Students at Fresno State
The Shafter Rotary club decided to invite a group of foreign students attending Fresno State College. International chairman Don Ruggenberg said the weekend of April 31 and May 1 has been chosen. Each Rotarian will be an overnight host to one or more students.
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Shafter Rotary Club
Fresno State College
Don Ruggenberg
Former Queen's Mother Named Mrs Shafter of 1955
Mrs. Fred Neuman of Shafter was chosen Mrs. Shafter in a Kern County Mrs. America contest. She raised four children and baked cake to win. Her daughter Norma, a former Cotton n Potato Festival queen, kissed her in celebration as son Jimmy Neufeld returned from a Navy leave. She will compete for Mrs. Kern County in Wasco next Thursday.
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Fred Neuman
Riverside Street
Shafter
America
Norma
Shafter High School
Neuman
Jimmy Neufeld
Navy
Kern County
Wasco
Henry Neufeld
Center
Tony Brown
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
No More Used Buildings To Be Moved Into City
The Shafter City Council seeks an ordinance to ban transporting used buildings into the city. City Attorney Al Mortimore will draft the measure for the next meeting after a Bo nita Plaza protest about a Minter Village structure placed beside a $30 000 home at 665 Sycamore street. Neufeld says he would move the building if neighbors demand it. building inspector E. K. Grant confirms the permit was issued under an assumed plan to move a garage from a ranch. The council asked Grant to contact Neufeld to remove the building.
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Shafter City
al Mortimore
Bonita Plaza
Sycamore Street
Minter Village
Elmer
Lillian Neufeld
Neufeld
E. K. Grant
Grant
Kern County Legislators Targeted by Slanted Press Release
Kern County representatives in Sacramento Senator Jess R. Dorsey Assemblyman H W Pat Kelly and Assemblywoman Dorothy Donohoe faced a misleading campaign note that pressured support for the Trinity River Project while stressing their stance on the Feather River priority. Larry Bennett of the Kern County Economic Council contacted the lawmakers to clarify their position and counter the misrepresentation.
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Kern County
Sacramento
Jess R. Dorsey
H.W
Pat) Kelly
Dorothy Dondhoe
Ing
Feather River
Kern
Trinity River
San Luis Reservoir
Larry Bennett
Kern County Economic Council
Dorsey
Kelly
Donohoe
Shafter Chamber Launches 1955 Membership Drive
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture kicks off its 1955 membership drive on Friday April 8 with a 7 oclock breakfast kickoff. Chamber workers will canvass the town to recruit new members in one day offering half year memberships since the first quarter has passed.
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Shafter Chamber of Commerece and Agriculture
Paul Me
Chamber Direes
LERDO AVE CLOSURE FOR TWO WEEKS STARTING MONDAY
Lerde avenue will be closed from Shafter avenue to Valley street for two weeks starting Monday. Jack Harris, superintendent of streets, announced the barricade to allow workmen to complete a pavement fill and repair job.
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Lerdo Ave
Lerde Avenue
Shafter Avenue
Valley Street
Jack Harris
Harris
Banks To Lead GOC as Community Volunteers Sought
SHS pupil Leora Dillard won first in the County League speech in Taft with an oratorical interpretation of a 1943 speech by Madame and Kai-Shek. Her win advances her school to the Fresno Valley finals on April 12. Mayor Kirschenmann announces reactivating Shafter’s ground observer corps with Banks as post supervisor to recruit volunteers for sky watching beginning April 11.
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Leora Dillard
Shafter High School
Taft
Odile M. Stannard
Leora
Madame
Kai-Shek
China
Shafter
Fresno
Oeros Shafferent Valey
Ground Observer Corps
Adolph Kirschenmann
San Joaquin Valley
William Banks
Robert L. North
Bakersfield
South Shafter
Banks
United States
Air Defense Command
Corcoran man fined for driving while intoxicated
C. A. Mitchell, 55, of Corcoran, was fined 150 dollars after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated on Central Valley highway. He was arrested by Glenn Holt, deputy constable.
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C. A. Mitchell
Corcoran
Central Valley Highway
Glenn Holt
SHS Spring Concert Tonight Featuring Musical Flight
SHS presents the 17th annual Spring Band Concert at Shafter High School at 8 p.m. with the theme Musical Flight. Kenneth Fahs bender notes a world tour of moods and tunes from many countries, mixing marches, symphonies, novelties, and a Glenn Miller tribute in two parts.
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Shafter High School
Kenneth Fahsbender
House Numbers to be Painted on Shafter Curbs
The 20-30 club and Local Explorer scouts begin a curb painting project this Saturday led by Jimmy Paul. Numbers will be white on black, stenciled, with no set charges but donations accepted. The work, done in volunteers' spare time, will span several weeks with Don Zachary and Harvey Neuman on the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
Jimmy Paul
Paul
Don Zachary
Harvey Neuman
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Howell
Howell's
SHS
Ken Burch
Deeter
Ues
John Riley
Frank Rizzo
Bakersfiel
Ground Observer Corps Watch
Rotary
Shatter
Tl. B. Banks
Walters
Dvorak
Ketelby
Buchtel
Bach
Glenn Miller”-Gass
Londonderry
Foreman
Andetes
Memorial Hall
Joyce Nagey
Mary Lou Roeder
Dolores Meyer
Muriel Newcom
Pat Wilson
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