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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1954
Page
9
Open on Friday the Future School hosts a Sponsor Beef Pre View at 2 pm. Students exhibit steers with prizes for best in each division. A display of the school's cattle and student farms shops will accompany a tour of feeding methods and equipment.
Galyen age 58 says he is in fine fettle and ready to lead a businesslike sheriffs department in Kern County. He cites thirty two years in law enforcement here and plans to surround himself with capable deputies while courting support from moral leaders and citizens across the county. He will campaign in the desert and mountain east Kern area this week.
The article lists H. P. Kliewer Gloeckler and Mr and Mrs PD Enns among those who traveled to Oregon for the Mennonite convention in fall 1925. They boarded the train together. Edwin Handel announced in early December 1937 his purchase of Walter Karber’s 40 acre ranch two and a half miles south of town and his plan to plant potatoes. A B McKinley spent August 1926 at Huntington Lake with his family while Mrs McKinley attended summer school there.
The U S Cotton Field Station two miles north of Shafter, founded in 1922, leads California cotton research. Aimed at increasing grower profits the team expands seed programs irrigation methods and pest control while advancing breeding strain testing and genetics to raise yield and fiber quality. Field days keep the public informed as researchers work to keep cotton king in California.
Richland Elementary hosts its annual Spring Concert Friday at 7:30 in Memorial Hall. The program highlights include the 6th grade mixed choir directed by Martha Gloeckler, the school band led by L. R. Snively, the Boys Chorus the Musketeers under Richard Southwick, the Kavaleers orchestra, and 7th 8th grade girls choirs with a combined group.
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