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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1955
Page
7
The Bakersfield Indians Baseball Club calls for a surge in attendance at Sam Lynn Park to keep a home owned professional team in Bakersfield and Kern County. The appeal stresses immediate action to prevent the club from leaving.
Funeral rites were held for former Shafter High School principal Mr. Hill who died last Friday at his home after a heart attack. He served as Shafter principal from 1945 to 1951 before leading Olldale school and was active in the community.
Kern county and Bakersfield announce the seventh annual Recreation Institute to be held June 3 4 5 at Camp Yenus Hante on Greenhorn Mountain. Herman W Riese and Don Driggs say the three day clinic draws recreation professionals volunteers and committee members to shape summer programs with over a hundred leaders already reserving spots. Directors from District VIT California Recreation Society Fresno Tulare Hanford Sanger Visalia and Kern will attend.
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District will hold its regular monthly meeting next Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the district offices on Central Valley Highway. John J. Peters Jr., chairman, announced the schedule.
Obituary notes civic work as Shafter Kiwanis club president. Born December 14, 1906 in Marysville Missouri, he attended Pomona schools and graduated from the University of California. Survivors include Blanche his widow two sons Terry and Steven two brothers Mason Whitier Vance Pomona and sister Mrs Helen Woodbury Delano.
In California the long white potato gains praise in a dual House and Senate celebration. Assemblyman H W Pat Kelly of Shafter introduced a resolution congratulating potato growers for boosting California to second in national production and forecasting a strong June harvest. Governor Knight proclaimed June harvest time, and Kelly handed out ten pound potato bags to lawmakers. House Resolution No 166 cites quality regulations and farm value growth from 13 million bags in 1954, and commends growers and the California Long White Potato Advisory Board president Arnold Kirschenmann of Bakersfield.
Kern County probation officers Clifton Morris and Clyde Brite discuss juvenile delinquency causes in 1954. Most offenses were traffic violations. home conditions, parental alcoholism, and seeking thrills are cited. Examples include runaways, group therapy, and foster- home placements. costs of institutions are cited and prevention urged.
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