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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1945
Page
1
The column urges individual postwar plans alongside wartime duties. It stresses winning the Seventh War Loan, aiding returning service members to secure jobs or farming opportunities, supporting wounded veterans, and fighting racial hatred. It calls readers to think beyond personal enterprise to global responsibility and communal well being.
Shafter retailers meet at the Woman's Clubhouse to boost the Seventh War Loan quota of 430000. A larger Dard Brentfast is planned at the Shafter Motel, with prizes for top bond sellers and a four day visit by a mysterious Mr. X offering a $1000 bond.
Shafter markets see heavy potato shipments by rail and truck as vendor activity swells. Expectation of 25 carloads daily by weekend and widespread shortages nationwide contrast with some fields yielding near normal per acre despite frost and cold.
Santa Fe files requests to annex property southeast of town to the city and to Shafter Public Utility District. Petitions are being prepared while the district approves an emergency ordinance outlining rates and rules for industries.
Merrick W. Creagh of Wasco joins Peter A. Chan eson of Shatter in the law firm of Chan eson and Creagh. Creagh will maintain the Wasco office while spending at least three days weekly in Chan eson's office in Shatter. Creagh, a former Pittsburg mayor and Kern County attorney, studied at Stanford Law and previously ran offices in Pittsburg and Concord. Chan eson, Shafter City Attorney and civic leader, introduced the partnership at a Shafter Business Men's Association meeting last Friday.
At a Thursday night meeting at the Woman's Clubhouse the Community Council planned a summer program for Shafter youths to start June 4. Alec Smith and Mrs. Irvin Randolph joined ten local groups plus Wasco representatives to outline activities including handcraft and cookery for girls and raffia clay modeling for boys. Instruction for mothers will run May 31 and June 2 with sessions at the clubhouse.
The sentence asserts that Santiago, Chile, is older than any city in the United States, highlighting its historic status among global capitals.
Sunday afternoon the Honor Roll on the American Legion grounds in Shafter was dedicated at 3 00 pm with band selections by Shafter High School under P L Arnold Rev Wm S Harper opened with prayer Post Commander J P Hansen introduced J B Henderson who led the effort to place about 650 names on the roll and add gold stars for service members who sacrificed their lives The dedication included national anthem remarks by Chaplain Miller and praise for Mrs J B Henderson Byron Rightmire who painted the roll and others who contributed
The forthcoming Gus Tire Shop will recap, repair, and sell new and used tires from a building that was once a lumber yard headquarters at the corner of Tichwo and Stone Street.
The dining room of the Shafter Motel switches to new management effective May 30. Joe Haupt and B E Treanor assume ownership and will operate three meals daily starting with breakfast at 8:00 a.m.
Wasco Grange No 545 passes a resolution urging the Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District to promptly petition the Bureau of Reclamation for a district wide water survey. The aim is to determine irrigation needs to secure a contract for a sufficient supply amid receding water levels and expanding cultivated area. The effort calls for support from farm groups and civic organizations. Grange Resolution Committee Madeline V. Nicol John Nale Ruth Anderson
A blaze early Sunday morning destroyed the Lawson L. Lowe potato shed at Cawelo with estimated damage between 75 000 and 100 000 dollars. W H Brown Lowe employee reported it 7 43 am to the Shafter Kern County Fire Department. Fire engines from Shafter Wasco McFarland Bakersfield and Minter Field helped extinguish. Debris removal began Monday to resume work and plans for a new building are underway.
A wartime appeal urges readers to buy bonds as a patriotic investment. The piece frames bond purchases as support for national production, veterans, and home front unity, highlighting the financial role of citizens in war effort.
Shafter High School prepares to award diplomas at 8 o'clock in the gymnasium for 53 graduates, 10 serving in the armed forces. The ceremony includes color posting, band selections, an invocation, and addresses by senior leaders and Betty Wells. Lt. Edy Merkel, held since February 1944, has been liberated from a German prison camp.
Twenty four electors in the Edwards tract asked the Shafter city council to annex the tract to the city. Protesters Robert Harry Childs and T. A Potts spoke against the move. The council accepted the petition and referred signatures to City Clerk Frank Shaw for verification. Mayor H. C. Neufeld and four council members attended the meeting.
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